ISLES-094

PREPARED FOR

Kostis ██████, Crown Intelligence, Research and Development, Field Studies & Surveying

The WHISPERS department has received substantial intelligence on a potential new occurrence of ██████ somewhere on the southern end of the holy isles. Local reports mention a “wellspring of vitality/youth”. Particulars of nearby town are shaky. The closest analysts have reached is some combination of a mammal and a common noun (ex: Squirrel Hollow).

Your orders are as follows. Report initially to Site 4 (see ATTACHMENT-01) to pick up assets. Afterwards travel overland to Porto Ibenza De Barille. Make contact with agent █████¹ for papers on transport across the channel to Cobh. From there out use your discretion to find the source of this so called “well spring”. Standard operating procedures for artifacts (ATTACHMENT-02) apply.

You are assigned two external sentient assets for this mission. Your director has deemed them crucial to its success. In order to keep them on a tight leash, they have undergone hypnotic conditioning. The following phrases may be used:

TODAY IS GOING TO BE A GOOD DAY

Induce general mood and energy improvements / stabilizations.

CALMLY CONSIDER doing ____

General and gentle compulsion. Will help decide an argument but not overcome resistance.

The MEASURE OF MAN is ____

Inspire blind courage towards a short term goal. Completely suppresses self-preservation instinct.

REMEMBER OUR DAYS TOGETHER

Promotes a strong sense of personal attachment towards the handler.

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMT OF FALLING INTO A STARLESS SKY?

USE WITH CAUTION USE WITH CAUTION

Induce psychosis and rapid personality divestment

USE WITH CAUTION USE WITH CAUTION

ISLES-094.ASSET-01

CLASSIFICATION

Human/Arcanist

ALIASES

Nadja

Gunrr

ORIGIN

██████████, ██████████ (see NREACH-219.)

TREAT WITH CAUTION, A-01 is unstable. Initial psychoanalysis indicates advanced dissociative identity disorder, with the secondary personality of Gunrr demonstrating elevated levels of aggression (compared to arcanist baselines established in ████).

A-01 was found unconscious approximately 14 ft north-west of the crater formed during the █████ event. Whispers department analysis suggests that she may have provided primary ignition toward that event, though experts disagree on her capacities. Arcanomenter readings reached +████ which is theoretically impossible for such a young subject. Since her discovery A-01 has been under a persistent induced trance, for a period lasting approximately 2 months leading up to this document.

A-01’s dominant identity, Nadja, meets baseline for a 16 year old’s openness to hypnotic suggestion. The secondary personality, Gunnr, is far less susceptible. Handlers are advised to use caution with this second identity.

████ was successful in conditioning extra control phrases specific to A-01’s DID. These should be used only when absolutely necessary, as they are more likely to reveal their own use:

MAKE YOUR MOTHER PROUD

Induce a transition towards the Gunnr identity.

SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES

Induce a transition towards the Nadja identity.

Under hypnotic trance, A-01 appears to have a irregularly comfortable knowledge of conversational arcane linguistics. How a girl this young picked up such knowledge has not been ascertained.

ISLES-094.ASSET-02

CLASSIFICATION

Human(?)/Attachment

ALIASES

Halcya

ORIGIN

Nomadic, picked up from caravan traveling north from █████

these are more filled out, but I haven’t gotten through them yet

ISLES-094.ATTACHMENT-01

you have a small portion of the cover sheet for this document, which mostly lists its title and repeats BURN AFTER READING until it reaches a crisped edge. you vaguely remember burning it but not why you kept this remnant

ISLES-094.ATTACHMENT-02

CROWN INTELLIGENCE ASSET OF INTEREST ACQUISITION ADDENDUM FOR CONTESTED AND HOSTILE LANDS

Proper procedures must be followed when dealing with and acquiring new assets of interest to Crown Intelligence. The following order of precedence should be observed at all times when in areas outside of direct control:

1. Acquire & Extract
   Removal of the asset from foreign lands is always preferred. If you can carry the asset with you without risk of it being seized by a foreign power, do so.
2. Acquire & Stash
   If removal of the asset is in some way blocked (diligent borders / too large / etc) but you can reposition it such that foreign chances of discovery are reduced, do so.
3. Obscure & Return
   If moving the asset at all is not possible but the area it resides in can be obscured to reduce changed of foreign discovery, do so.
4. Destroy & Inform
   If the asset is at immediate risk of foreign discovery and no other option is available, destroy the asset.
5. Inform
   As a last resort, learn what you can about the asset. Document thoroughly.