LIGHTNING ROD

Document Text:
2/8/84
Ad Hoc Incident Report:
Junior Analyst Marcia Pearson – CIA Office of Requiem

Dimensional Rupture: Los Angeles Fast-Rail Station.
Situation ongoing. Sheltering in train car, memorializing events in case I’m KIA.

NOTE: I am here on courier assignment, hand-delivering sample of refined
Aetherium for study at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Covert transport via public transportation sanctioned by DoD.

Debarked arriving train 11:58 AM when portable containment case began to vibrate. Paused to inspect and heard shrieking sound as dimensional rift opened inside terminal. Outbreak event unfolding as previous ones have. Necrotized humans. Hostiles emerging from Dark Aether. Breach remains open.

Repeat: I felt a strong vibration in the Aetherium crystal just as
dimensional membrane ruptured. It may only be cross-dimensional harmonic
resonance, but I can’t stop wondering: did the crystal I’m transporting
cause this? Did it act like some sort of Dark Aether lightning rod?

I have been briefed extensively re: Aetherium, but I am an Intelligence
Analyst, not a scientist. Whether or not I survive, Energy Research Division
must examine my sample and determine if my presence here somehow triggered the outbreak.

Should this prove to be the case, tell the victims’ families I’m sorry.