Kopfberg Historical Archive

Operation Nightshade
Subject "Lesser"
Contact 3, 14 Dec 2017


	   For further information on procedures, refer to 23J-ARD.

[TECH] - Technicians
[OP4]  - Operative #4 
[OP6]  - Operative #6
[DZC]  - Bartholomew Dziec 
[LIAS] - FBI Liaison
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[TECH] Ready to begin?
[TECH] Hold on, just connecting -- it came loose here.
[TECH] Okay, I see. Hold on.
[OP6]  Are we ready?
[TECH] Okay, hold on for diagnostics, and, uh --
[DZC]  We're okay. Just a routine hookup; the ___________ came lose.
[LIAS] Uh-huh.
[TECH] Right, we're clear. Phase one?
[DZC]  Go for it.
[TECH] Right. Starting the ARD.
[TECH] _________: Check.  
       _________: Check. 
       _________: Check.

[TECH] Attention Operatives.  I will read to you your instructions as
       specified in in Procedural Document 23J-ARD: ARD Location Protocol. It
       is important that you remain physically comfortable for the duration of
       your mission.  If you are not, please notify us immediately.

       You will now attempt to locate the target known to you as LESSER.  You
       will remain in contact with that target for as long a duration of time
       as you able, without allowing your identity to be damaged.  You will 
       operate according to the ARD procedural documents, which have been
       designed for your safety, in order to minimize the danger of mental
       collapse.  Do not deviate from these procedures.

[LIAS] Think it's today?
[DZC]  (Laughs) You never know! 

[TECH] This mission is critical for National Security. Millions depend upon
       you.  Good luck, gentleman --

[TECH] It's taking effect...
[DZC]  Activating... in three. Two. One.

[OP6]  I! I'm! No such never take me home I never meant to survive no mind no
       mind no mind no mind --
[OP4]  Switching points, slipping grasping minds, minds, soul.  This one!
       This. No --

[TECH] Focusing. Using previous coordinates for LESSER.
[TECH] We're getting a lock...

[OP4]  Aspects, degree with another unless come for attacking refined unlikely
       assemblage not to not to not to no to --
[OP6]  Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. --

[DZC]  Tighten the profile.

[OP4]  My exile my death my resignation my hate         -- (moans)
[OP6]  My love my dear dreamy love my country my health -- (moans)

[LIAS] Well?
[DZC]  They're closing in!

[OP4]  ...but I shall never again see them unless we are successful. Speak for
       them? Then I must walk among them. Never happen. Won't. They'll
       persecute me with idiotic lies and keep us away from our land and drive
       us from truth and take what's ours and... (unintelligible)

[DZC]  It's him! He's beck!

[OP6]  --Augusta, my love! Prejudiced uncultured fools! What will they do with
       your gifts if they do not pass through my hands? Won't.  If I
       (unintelligible).  Hold me now. I need you like water needs land or
       shadow needs like.  Do not be -- No, understand me! I didn't mean to --
[OP4]  --Hold her and tell her. Tell her we're going back; they know the
       papers and promises are here.  Allies at the top... Rollins out of 
       office. Sanity's here. The thieves are caving in, any day now--

[LIAS] Rollins? What's he talking about?
[DZC]  Sort it out later.

[OP6]  --Believe me, my heart! I have tasted false hopes and these are not of
       the same cup! I have drunk of emptiness, but these are full rich!  Over
       soon! The will speak!  They must speak!  All because of your--
[OP4]  --Hold her and tell her. Thank you.  All you've done.  Held me together
       and desperately spoke of the world we'd have someday and told them,
       wrote our promise to the world.  Can't have it be a woman's hand!
       Morons.  Priestly-idolators, never understand what she's done for the --

[DZC]  She wrote it? But why wouldn't they --
[LIAS] She couldn't have. He did. We _know_.
[DZC]  How do you --
[LIAS] Classified.
[DZC]  Like this isn't?

[OP6]  -- Bring us from this hole, now!  Not homelike, but the future of my
       home if the thieves have their way, metal and concrete and glass and 
       tile and dirt and jealousy and hatred and abuse and poverty and legions
       and murder and battle and theft and decaying and poverty and abandonment
       and --
[OP4]  -- Sssss.  Sssss, my heart.  For them, we hide. From them, we hide.
       We can leave, once they'll talk to us.  Soon? No. Climates. Political 
       climates. There is a tide in our affairs, the ebb is over.  Or will be. 
       Soon? No. Climates --
[OP6]  -- and locking and shutting and barring and closing and choking and 
       guarding and watching and alarming.  Hundreds of cars!  Thousands!
       Dead city, yes? Ha ha ha.  Different one, of course, but Eliot still 
       applies, my heart.

[LIAS] Eliot? He's in _London?_
[DZC]  No, he said a different one, and --
[LIAS] But how'd he get out of San Corenzo?

[OP4]  ... Soon, love. Soon, love.  Soon, love.  Soon, love...
[OP6]  -- Attending perseverance.  Again and again, but one day no longer 
       "again."  Nothing is killing us.  We have not yet come alive. Heaven 
       has not yet sent the miracle that will keep us alive.
[OP4]  Soon enough. Soon enough. I will still love you.
[OP6]  Alive. Live. I live to love you. For you alone I'd do it all, over all
       the people. I love you as I live. I love to live in love. For you.
       For you. With me. My wife... ah...
[OP4]  Ah....haaah! Ha-ha! Never trying to abrogate individual assessments of
       neonatal if you sometimes it's a liability for third dial --

[LIAS] He's fading out!
[DZC]  Refocus! Keep him in focus! We still don't know --
[TECH] (Unintelligible) Too late; he's ____________.

[OP6]  --It just ends off the list and the others and-or telling us to come
       home--
[OP4]  --To your scattered doorsteps. Come forth, O Lazlarus, O Angel! 
[OP6]  Know, likely to handle (unintelligible), taking from the sources. Read
       the key ring, it.
[OP4]  At--
[OP6]  (Unintelligible)
[OP4]  --Home. My angel.

(Long pause)
[LIAS] Nothing. (Unintelligible)!
[DZC]  Keep it calm, he's off the island and he must have made it to a city.
[LIAS] We (unintelligible) think he's in a city. We have no way of knowing
       that. He could be anywhere.  Heck, he could be dead! What's that he
       said about Angles?  The (unintelligible) must be in heaven!
[DZC]  He said he's in a city.  Here, let's rewind...

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