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FEDERAL BUREAU OF CONTROL
NOTICE!
By order of Dr. Darling, all work in the Ordinary Dump is to stop effective immediately. Resources will be allocated to the Dimensional Research department. Details will be forthcoming.
This area will be sealed at the end of the month. Please remove all personal effects before that time.
Any photographic slides (the type used in slide projectors) found in the area should be delivered to Dr. Darling immediately.


ID
Wolff Globe (AI72-PE)
ACQUISITION DATE
04/12/2010
CONTAINMENT LOCATION
Panopticon — Floor 02, Unit 09

Wolff Globe (AI72-PE)
BACKGROUND:
The item was found in the penthouse suite at this address, Toronto belonging to David Wolff, who was being investigated for illegally dealing in altered materials (see case 13-HQ-37). Bureau agents raided his penthouse and found numerous paranatural belongings, including probably stuff we haven't heard of and this item. Mr. Wolff was arrested.
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS:
(article from the Toronto Daily)
"So why would a 36-year-old Bay Street investment trader, filthy rich, married to a model, disappear overnight? That's the question that's kept Toronto high society up at night this past week. Police say it's being looked into, some nut job radio show in the States claims he disappeared to join the Illuminati, but it's this reporter's opinion that Mr. Wolff, bored of his job, sick of his family, left it all behind to retire in some remote beach paradise. Now he's sipping Mai Tais while the world thinks he's dead."


ORDINARY AWE: STAGE 1.B - DUMP
WITNESS TESTIMONIES
"The second slide we called the 'Meadow' but... it was really just an empty lot with a bunch of weeds. There was a shack and a phoneline. It smelled like flowers there. It was powerful, intoxicating. We had crazy dreams there. It must have been because of the smell. I didn't like it. Didn't like losing control. In the dreams everything was melting, and then, when we'd come out, everything had melted around the projector." — J.F. (therapy session, 2010)
"Neil was really into it. We found out he'd been coming there more and more on his own. Then Tom beat the secret out of Neil and found [the projector]. He and his goons took it." — J.F. (therapy session, 2010)
"We thought Neil had got lost inside the 'Meadow' when Tom changed the slide. But that's not what happened." — D.F. (interview, 2002)
EXTRAPOLATED INFORMATION:
Unconfirmed existence of additional slide, designation: "Meadow".


ORDINARY AWE: STAGE 3 - PUBLIC SCHOOL
WITNESS TESTIMONIES
"Tom and the others had gotten worse. Scarier. The math teacher, Mrs. Chester, tried to make them listen and... they pushed over a piano on her... broke her legs. Then Tom bashed her head in. Bye-bye, Mrs. Chester. I always liked her. I liked math." — D.F. (interview, 2002)
"That was the tipping point. It was 'Lord of the Flies' level bad. The grown-ups realized something was wrong. The police came and literally dragged Tom and Hugo and the others away. Tom was screaming that [the Not-Mother] would make them all go away. They enacted a curfew for every kid in Ordinary. Mom and dad were pissed, asking us about the dump, about everything. I remember wanting them gone like Tom had said. When we woke up the next morning, pretty much all the adults had just... vanished. Was I responsible? Did I... I don't know." — J.F. (therapy session, 2010)
EXTRAPOLATED INFORMATION:
Disappearance of majority of Ordinary's population confirmed to result from Slide Projector-related AWE.


ORDINARY AWE: STAGE 4.B - TOWN PROPER
WITNESS TESTIMONIES
"We went in and met [Polaris]... like a star. She told us we were special. She made us special. It felt like being born, or reborn, the world fading in for the first time. Familiar, but somehow different." — J.F. (therapy session, 2010)
"[Polaris] told us how to turn off the projector. The Dung Monkeys and the Not-Mother were coming straight at us. Dylan was crying. I turned it off and... they were gone. It was over. I took all the slides and burned them. All of them except "Hand". — J.F. (therapy session, 2010)
EXTRAPOLATED INFORMATION:
Unconfirmed existence of paranatural entity, designation: "Polaris" (EID-19929).


ID
AWE-24
EVENT DATE
08/30/2002 - 09/14/2002
EVENT LOCATION
Ordinary, Maine

Ordinary (AWE-24)
DETAILS:
Details are largely based on interviews conducted with Dylan Faden (see interviews some number and number for relevant information) and the obtained therapy sessions of Jesse Faden, as well as circumstantial evidence found at the Ordinary site. Note that accounts provided by all three sources contain conflicting data. Example: D.F. claims there were eight slides for the projector. J.F. mentioned nine slides. The Bureau found one intact slide (designation: 36) and the burnt remains of six others. Unfortunately, these slides are too badly damaged to be used in the Projector.
Jesse Faden is believed to be the individual responsible for burning the slides.
NOTES:
Dr. Darling has ordered that the entirety of the Ordinary town dump be brought to the Bureau for examination and analysis, with the hopes of finding additional slides or other altered materials.
Due to the limited space in the Investigations Sector, this AWE will be investigated in the Containment Sector.