ProvisionalProvisional record. Compiled from after-action reporting pending confirmation by the agent.
Background
Academic. Ritual practice, comparative liturgy, and the specific problem of dead languages that are not as dead as the literature holds. Consulted for the Program before being read into it, which is the usual order of things and rarely a happy one.
Gutter Key established something the cell would rather not have learned: the hazard was not the sound. CODEX began to deteriorate at the point of understanding. Bilateral otorrhagia presented with no pressure event, no blast, and no acoustic source sufficient to explain it. The mechanism appears to have been comprehension.
The operational conclusion in the report is uncomfortable and specific — operators with linguistic or occult expertise are at greater risk from this material, not less. The people best equipped to tell the cell what a ritual is for are the people it damages first.
Responded to 2 mg haloperidol IM and was fit to move inside ten minutes. Then crossed the facility and put a fire extinguisher through a guard who had another operator pinned, which is not in the skill set on file.
Audiological and neurological assessment recommended before reactivation. The reporting agent has separately flagged the pharmacological response as something to watch.