Somewhere deep within Site-7 a junior archivist is tasked with a weighty task. RAISA is doing an internal audit of some seldom used offices, and making sure there is a correct catalogue of Foundation personnel, objects, and facilities. Sublevel F, office 36-H...this isn't documented? How could RAISA forget to document an office within their own facility?
Junior Archivist Frank Howard questions the apparent clerical error, but enters the dimly lit office nevertheless. Within, he would find piles of banker boxes with files upon files, papers upon papers within. One box even contains magnetic tape storage and physical photographs from a long forgotten age of Foundation antiquity. Who could have worked in this office? Why is the dust so thick in here? And for heavens sake, why so many sticky-notes everywhere with reminders for such simple things?
The desk in the center of the room has an old triangular plaque atop it, for a 'Senior Archivist Jay Allan Woodworth' but the junior can't find any clear records on the archivist in the digitized databanks of RAISA. What's going on here?
"DO NOT FORGET!
DIVISION STAFF RELOCATION!"
A note on the vaguely 90's era desktop reads, what Division? Who are all the personnel in this stack of papers on the desk? Heck, why are they in triplicate?! The junior archivist has so, so very many questions. He skims through the documents, scrutinizing the faces and names within.
>Name: Hannah Smitt
Age: 35
Department: Research
Facility: Site-41
Assignment: Antimemetics Division
>Name: Franklin Versio
Age: 40
Department: Research
Facility: Site-41
Assignment: Antimemetics Division
>Name: Natalia Carpeter
Age: 45
Department: Research
Assignment: Antimemetics Division"
On and on the stack goes, but a question claws at the Juniors mind in a fog "What the hell is the Antimemetics Division?". Desperate, the Junior would scour the database on their tablet. <Query: Site-41? | Result: Site-41 Fuel Storage Facility : Site-41 Ammunition Stockpile : AMTF Nu-7 Armory Site 41. Query: Antimemetics Division? | Results: None
What is going on here..? Increasingly confused the Junior would call for another Archivist to come down to help him make sense of this as he begins to search for the personnel in the aged paper records.
<Query: Hannah Smitt, Research Staff | Results: Site-19 Staff [Deceased: Mass Containment Failure]>
<Query: Franklin Versio, Research Staff | Results: Site-19 Staff [Deceased: Unknown Cause of Death]>
<Query: Natalia Carpenter, Research Staff | Results: Site-62 Staff [Transferred], Site-65 Staff [Alive]>
Why are they all deceased except for..one? Who is this Carpenter lady? The archivist pulls up the digital record of Natalia Carpenter..
<Loading Results: N. Carpenter>
Secure. Contain. Protect.
Foundation Personnel Record
<Image: Failed>
Name: Natalia Elizabeth Carpenter
Date of Birth: July 8th, 19██
Age: 47[Under Review]
Height: 5'4
Occupation: Researcher[FRMR] | Office of Site Inspectorate
Foundation Background: Carpenter served as a lead researcher at Site-62 studying extradimensional anomalies. Prior to her work at Site-62 Natalia Carpenter served as a field researcher in the mid 1980's investigating public sightings of 'cryptids' such as the fabled "Bigfoot", "Chupacobra", and "Jersey Devil". Carpenter was instrumental in diffusing public interest in the anomalies as well as locating them for the Foundation to study.
RAISA Archivist Note: "Significant inconsistencies are noted by the Site-62 and Site-65 field offices when reviewing Ms. Carpenters file. Ms. Carpenter is listed as having been born in 19██, however their age being 47 is due to RASIA clerical age numeration due to length of time elapsed since file creation. If Carpenter was working for the Foundation prior to digital recordkeeping, how was she not recorded as it was created?"
This archivist raises a good question..Frank would have to take the three copies of Carpenters paper file and submit them to his superiors for clarification. While grabbing the sheets to be set aside for further archiving, he notices the paper file extends further onto the page.
Foundation Personnel Record
Name: Natalia Elizabeth Carpenter
Date of Birth: July 8th, 19██
Birthplace: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Age: 45
Height: 5'4
Occupation: Researcher
Occupational Background: Mrs. Carpenter has served as the Foundations chief field agent in the pursuit of 'Cryptozoological' anomalies in the public eye, and has been instrumental in the dissuasion of public opinion on the existence of these anomalies. During her time as a field agent, Mrs. Carpenter was approached by Antimemetics Division Director {why are you looking here?} and invited to join in the pursuit of Object-{what was I looking at?}. Due to Mrs. Carpenter being born and raised in Colorado, she was chosen to be some of the first waves of researchers brought to the newly constructed Site-41, where Mrs. {there isn't anything here, is there?} intends to study and diffuse Antimemetic and Memetic anomalies discovered by the Foundation. Prior to her finalized employment at Site-41, Ms. Carpenter assisted Dr. {why is the page twisting and turning...what was I looking for} in transporting an anomaly to Site-19 for study and review due to it possessing minimal risk to human life.
Scribbled in the margins, presumably by the Senior Archivist reads "She has forgotten, they all have. Wheeler, I'll protect your people. Carpenter is a capable woman. Don't forget triplicate, don't forget to file these with Sanders for the new database, their legacy can't be forgotten. If this isn't Jay Allan Woodworth reading this, you're going to struggle. Parts of the file won't be perceiveable, and you won't remember after looking away, but when you look away look next to the pile and read my note. Don't forget."
Next to the pile of papers, a faded yellow sticky-note..
"Don't forget to file these!
Check the margins if you don't know why!
The Antimemetics Division is gone,
Nobody can remember them.
Save them Jay."
He can't quite remember what was in the files...but he feels compelled to look through them again after reading the sticky note. Hours go by, no phone call back- the seniors are getting worried. A mis-logged cognitohazard? They prepare for the worst, they send a team down, veterans. They find the young junior archivist continuing a loop of reading the stack of paper files on Antimemetics Division personnel, forgetting what he read, checking the sticky note, and reading them again.
SCiPNET.RAISA/Foundation/Staff/Records
>>File Update: Natalia Carpenter
>>Clearance Level: 4
>Logging Out.....Complete<
Junior Archivist Frank Howard questions the apparent clerical error, but enters the dimly lit office nevertheless. Within, he would find piles of banker boxes with files upon files, papers upon papers within. One box even contains magnetic tape storage and physical photographs from a long forgotten age of Foundation antiquity. Who could have worked in this office? Why is the dust so thick in here? And for heavens sake, why so many sticky-notes everywhere with reminders for such simple things?
The desk in the center of the room has an old triangular plaque atop it, for a 'Senior Archivist Jay Allan Woodworth' but the junior can't find any clear records on the archivist in the digitized databanks of RAISA. What's going on here?
"DO NOT FORGET!
DIVISION STAFF RELOCATION!"
A note on the vaguely 90's era desktop reads, what Division? Who are all the personnel in this stack of papers on the desk? Heck, why are they in triplicate?! The junior archivist has so, so very many questions. He skims through the documents, scrutinizing the faces and names within.
>Name: Hannah Smitt
Age: 35
Department: Research
Facility: Site-41
Assignment: Antimemetics Division
>Name: Franklin Versio
Age: 40
Department: Research
Facility: Site-41
Assignment: Antimemetics Division
>Name: Natalia Carpeter
Age: 45
Department: Research
Assignment: Antimemetics Division"
On and on the stack goes, but a question claws at the Juniors mind in a fog "What the hell is the Antimemetics Division?". Desperate, the Junior would scour the database on their tablet. <Query: Site-41? | Result: Site-41 Fuel Storage Facility : Site-41 Ammunition Stockpile : AMTF Nu-7 Armory Site 41. Query: Antimemetics Division? | Results: None
What is going on here..? Increasingly confused the Junior would call for another Archivist to come down to help him make sense of this as he begins to search for the personnel in the aged paper records.
<Query: Hannah Smitt, Research Staff | Results: Site-19 Staff [Deceased: Mass Containment Failure]>
<Query: Franklin Versio, Research Staff | Results: Site-19 Staff [Deceased: Unknown Cause of Death]>
<Query: Natalia Carpenter, Research Staff | Results: Site-62 Staff [Transferred], Site-65 Staff [Alive]>
Why are they all deceased except for..one? Who is this Carpenter lady? The archivist pulls up the digital record of Natalia Carpenter..
<Loading Results: N. Carpenter>
Secure. Contain. Protect.
Foundation Personnel Record
<Image: Failed>
Name: Natalia Elizabeth Carpenter
Date of Birth: July 8th, 19██
Age: 47[Under Review]
Height: 5'4
Occupation: Researcher[FRMR] | Office of Site Inspectorate
Foundation Background: Carpenter served as a lead researcher at Site-62 studying extradimensional anomalies. Prior to her work at Site-62 Natalia Carpenter served as a field researcher in the mid 1980's investigating public sightings of 'cryptids' such as the fabled "Bigfoot", "Chupacobra", and "Jersey Devil". Carpenter was instrumental in diffusing public interest in the anomalies as well as locating them for the Foundation to study.
RAISA Archivist Note: "Significant inconsistencies are noted by the Site-62 and Site-65 field offices when reviewing Ms. Carpenters file. Ms. Carpenter is listed as having been born in 19██, however their age being 47 is due to RASIA clerical age numeration due to length of time elapsed since file creation. If Carpenter was working for the Foundation prior to digital recordkeeping, how was she not recorded as it was created?"
This archivist raises a good question..Frank would have to take the three copies of Carpenters paper file and submit them to his superiors for clarification. While grabbing the sheets to be set aside for further archiving, he notices the paper file extends further onto the page.
Foundation Personnel Record
Name: Natalia Elizabeth Carpenter
Date of Birth: July 8th, 19██
Birthplace: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Age: 45
Height: 5'4
Occupation: Researcher
Occupational Background: Mrs. Carpenter has served as the Foundations chief field agent in the pursuit of 'Cryptozoological' anomalies in the public eye, and has been instrumental in the dissuasion of public opinion on the existence of these anomalies. During her time as a field agent, Mrs. Carpenter was approached by Antimemetics Division Director {why are you looking here?} and invited to join in the pursuit of Object-{what was I looking at?}. Due to Mrs. Carpenter being born and raised in Colorado, she was chosen to be some of the first waves of researchers brought to the newly constructed Site-41, where Mrs. {there isn't anything here, is there?} intends to study and diffuse Antimemetic and Memetic anomalies discovered by the Foundation. Prior to her finalized employment at Site-41, Ms. Carpenter assisted Dr. {why is the page twisting and turning...what was I looking for} in transporting an anomaly to Site-19 for study and review due to it possessing minimal risk to human life.
Scribbled in the margins, presumably by the Senior Archivist reads "She has forgotten, they all have. Wheeler, I'll protect your people. Carpenter is a capable woman. Don't forget triplicate, don't forget to file these with Sanders for the new database, their legacy can't be forgotten. If this isn't Jay Allan Woodworth reading this, you're going to struggle. Parts of the file won't be perceiveable, and you won't remember after looking away, but when you look away look next to the pile and read my note. Don't forget."
Next to the pile of papers, a faded yellow sticky-note..
"Don't forget to file these!
Check the margins if you don't know why!
The Antimemetics Division is gone,
Nobody can remember them.
Save them Jay."
He can't quite remember what was in the files...but he feels compelled to look through them again after reading the sticky note. Hours go by, no phone call back- the seniors are getting worried. A mis-logged cognitohazard? They prepare for the worst, they send a team down, veterans. They find the young junior archivist continuing a loop of reading the stack of paper files on Antimemetics Division personnel, forgetting what he read, checking the sticky note, and reading them again.
SCiPNET.RAISA/Foundation/Staff/Records
>>File Update: Natalia Carpenter
>>Clearance Level: 4
>Logging Out.....Complete<