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ID
Ashtray and Cigarette (OOP11-KE)
ACQUISITION DATE
02/08/1989
CONTAINMENT LOCATION
[REDACTED]
Ashtray and Cigarette (OOP11-KE)
CONTAINMENT PROCEDURE:
No unique procedures required.
DESCRIPTION/PARAUTILITY:
The object is a steel ashtray with a maze engraved on its bottom. An ever-burning cigarette rests in it.
When bound, the object allows parautilitarians to create a maze of shifting corridors without adjusting the dimensions of the space around it. This maze forms wherever the object is placed. Only the binder can navigate the maze, though they may allow others through.
The object is currently bound to Director Trench.
BACKGROUND:
The object was discovered at the place where it was by a team of Rangers sent to a care facility for the elderly that had become the center of numerous missing persons reports. Local authorities also disappeared inside after responding to reports.
Agent Theseus discovered the object in a giant maze?, which indicates it was the source of the disappearances. The whereabouts of the missing persons are still unknown, though they are presumed to be lost in the Maze.
COMPILED BY
Dr. Casper Darling, Head of Research
BY ORDER OF
n/a
HEDRON CONTAINMENT AND SIPHONING PRACTICES
--CONFIDENTIAL--
SUMMARY:
Hedron and the Hedron Resonance are arguably the greatest assets this Bureau has ever possessed. The security of Hedron is unspeakably vital, which is why we have kept its existence a secret from the majority of Bureau employees.
This report details the containment procedures required for the Hedron containment chamber, including details on the liquified Black Rock? being pumped into the containment cell, mechanical upkeep of the resonance siphons, and the arrangement of the acoustic pillars to dampen or amplify the sonic range of the chamber.
(NOTE: For more information on the proper operational procedures of the resonance siphons, an additional report is coming soon.)
Refer to file 7-31-1830 for full report.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF CONTROL
Has anyone else seen that janitor mopping up around here? Isn't this is a restricted access area? Who gave him permission to come in here?
And how the fuck did he get through the Maze?
- Dr. Tan
FEDERAL BUREAU OF CONTROL
To ALL Dimensional Research staff,
I've heard that numerous people have been complaining about the sand piled up around Dimensional Research. This sand is precious research material from a foreign dimension and will be examined more thoroughly when I have the time. If you attempt to clean or dispose of this sand, I will bar you from any future research endeavor! You will spend the rest of your career licking envelopes in a cubicle staring at a cat poster!
DO NOT TOUCH MY SAND!
-Dr. Darling
FEDERAL BUREAU OF CONTROL
The Slide Projector only works with Slide 36. Logically this means the slide itself is a part of the Object of Power, or a distinct Altered Item. But of course I had to make sure no other slides worked. I had to try. I thought maybe emotion had something to do with it. Connection. History. Love.
I brought in my parents' old slides. Birthday parties, vacations to Niagara Falls, my first day of high school, that kind of thing. There were two box's worth. I had to dig around the garage for an hour to find them. Never once thought of looking at them since they passed.
I tried them all. I waited until all the staff left for the night. I stayed up in that booth for hours, trying every one. Projector off, slide out, slide in, Projector on. Nothing happens. Projector off, slide out, slide in, Projector on. Nothing happens.
Love wasn't the common factor. There's no correlation that I can see. Maybe the slide itself is the Object of Power. Maybe the Projector's just an accessory. Maybe it doesn't matter.
Why'd that fucking kid have to burn the other slides?