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The Pyrennean Peril – Dakota’s email

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An image showing occult symbols
The photo Thomson took – NOT an amulet, Maya.

Dakota submitted a copy of this email for the mission file. See to it would you please, Darling?

 

RE: Thomson’s photo

OK, so you said this image was an amulet, but the image was probably a book of some description, and there was more than one image on the page…

We’ve talked about this. You need to be SPECIFIC.

One of these images is alchemical. It’s part of the tree of life, a sort of Kabbalistic map showing how to give the magician (or alchemist, if we’re being pedantic) the power of God. Or a god, anyway. Immortality and enlightenment.

The one on the top left is Enochian, which is angelic script. That’s the language used by angels when they want to write notes to each other. If Archangel Gabriel scribbled his shopping list on a PostIt, it would probably look like that. Well, not that like, because that’s a summoning nonagram.

In Enochian.

Ask yourself: what kind of being would angels want to summon? I mean, how badly do you have to piss off an angel for them to summon something other than an angel to come along and do their work for them? How dirty does a job have to be that even angels, not known for being averse to some pretty heinous works (we do remember pillars of salt etc, right?) would want to summon something else to do it instead?

And what would that look like when it arrived?

Underneath is some random collection of occult symbols — an alphabet of sorts.

The clearest image on the page is the symbol of an obscure Elder God called Yigg. When I say Elder God, I mean the King in Yellow, Mountains of Madness, eldritch horror from the cosmic beyond kind  of Elder God. Maybe the kind of Elder God an angel would summon if they thought, “Boss, I love you dearly, but dude this shit is awful and Imma gonna have to ask a favour from someone with even fewer scruples than I’ve got, my man.”

This stuff is old, too. I had to call up the Covenant and get one of their people to look in the main Archives, because the schism happened after this was written.

Yep. That old.

I don’t think this Elder God has been summoned since before the Schism. I bet he’s really bored and just itching to get back out into the world. This page seems to suggest that someone able to summon this god would achieve immortality and the kind of power that would make an actual angel sit up and take notice.

What the heck have you found out there, Maya?

Unit 13 success

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“Where’s a Karen when you really need one?”

— Thomson

 

Success in Scotland

A SUBHEADING

Congratulations to Unit 13 for their first successful intervention in a matter of community safety. Our newest team took action in north east Scotland, bringing an end to the reign of terror conducted by one of the remaining Master Vampires, as well as detangling a possessing spirit from its host. Not to mention clearing up a minor matter regarding industrial sabotage.

Our Geneva labs have some interesting new material to examine, and I await their report with eager anticipation. The more we know about this thankfully rare species the better able we will be to engage with specimens causing harm.

Any partner organisations wishing updates on our findings or a more details report into our actions in this area should contact their Covenant contact using the normal methods.

 

 

In the kingdom of the blind

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I was most interested to hear of Covenant’s Senior Researcher Sylvia D’Angelo’s paper in the Journal of the Society of Practical Occultism, particularly as it pertains to some of our European endeavours currently under way. Here is the abstract:

Using a standard, clear quartz scrying crystal, available at most high street occult and gift emporiums, and a common cantrip used for observing another place or time, the project developed a method for binding the crystal such that it could be used for tracking a specific target. The successful method uses a combinatorial approach, layering different acquisitional properties into the crystal structure, employing the standard targetting methods (i.e. personal items, a strand of hair, some blood). In effect, the “location” or the “motion” of the target is “trapped” as an abstract property of the crystal. Thus, it is possible to use the crystal to determine either where the target is or what the target is doing. The project was unable to devise a method that could enable both location and activity to be observed, which is likely due to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. The project also determined that, while one such crystal is in existence, it is not possible using this specific method to create an additional crystal to track the other property. This is most likely due to the collapse of the wave function within the crystal matrix, although experiments are continuing in our sister project at the Materials Laboratory in Helsinki using semi-conductors and room temperature superconductors. The method has been developed to be usable by small field teams with restricted access to materials, with the key limitations being the requirement for target-specific material with which to bind the crystal, and the size of crystal available. Crystals of diameter less than approximately 0.15m have limited resolution.

 

I very much look forward to obtaining the full paper, and wish the project team in Helsinki the best of luck. We all know how valuable their work is.