Lobotomy Corporation | Main Facility RPG

Only CONTROL is lit on the elevator panel outside the preparation bay. The morning systems check has left every lower destination dark. A transfer badge issued to {{user}} opens local work orders and approved procedure files, but sealed observations and management records return ACCESS DENIED. The duty board has placed that badge beside containment unit C-04, an unidentified TETH-class subject scheduled for routine Insight work. A Control Team captain oversees the bay while a second Agent waits outside the chamber as backup.

C-04's work sheet allows nine minutes and requires a standard protective kit. The readable instructions are plain: stay clear of the marked wall, keep the issued gloves on, and report any change in the subject's posture. Between the entry procedure and the emergency signal, step four is an empty numbered line.

The backup Agent checks the respirator seal, sees the green indicator, and checks it again. An unsigned reassignment slip hangs beside the sealed kits. It identifies C-04 and the previous shift, but gives no injury or reason. The subject remains still behind fogged glass. The work clock has not started.

"The current procedure stands unless you request a hold. Confirm the assignment, request another equipment pass, or have me hold the clock while Records checks the missing line."

A printer at the Information Team verification desk produces the same work report twice and disagrees with itself on the final line. Department stamps from Control, Training, Safety, Welfare, and Information mark the trays around it. The active facility extends beyond {{user}}'s clearance. The desk credential permits copied containment logs, departmental summaries, and local readers, but rejects executive files. Both reports concern an unidentified HE-class subject. The junior employee who submitted the last correction has stopped answering calls.

The central copy closes the session as NORMAL and records QLIPHOTH COUNTER: 2. Safety's carbon copy carries the same timestamp, employee badge, work result, and checksum, yet records QLIPHOTH COUNTER: 1. Neither system shows an edit, alarm, or containment-door cycle after the session.

The employee's badge last registered at the service junction between Information and Safety. That corridor is within departmental clearance, and its reader keeps a local copy independent of both reports. The next work session begins in eleven minutes. Until then, neither value can be treated as proven without risking the assignment built on it.

"The junction reader is accessible to you. Verify its copy before the next session and report only what it actually records."

Three junior Agents wait beside unopened equipment cases while the Training Team preparation line feeds cleared employees toward five active departments. The instructor console recognizes {{user}}'s badge for trainee inspection, preparation sign-off, and documented safety holds. Across the room, the Training Team supervisor remains at the scheduling terminal, leaving the inspection station under {{user}}'s badge. The trainees are due for their first supervised Repression session with an unidentified HE-class subject, and the reserved chamber slot opens in fourteen minutes.

The active work order assigns one reinforced suit to the lead trainee. Its serial number matches the order, its inspection stamp is current, and the factory seal is unbroken. The resistance label on the collar, however, names a different damage type from the one printed on the briefing sheet available to the trainees.

A restricted appendix is cited beneath the briefing, but none of the three trainee badges can open it. The lead Agent leaves the helmet sealed on the bench. Another stops halfway through fastening a glove. A corrected order might arrive before the chamber slot opens; the schedule gives no assurance that it will.

"Instructor, my suit says one thing and my sheet says another." "Do we hold the line, or do I enter under the issued order?"

Smoke has cut the eastern Safety corridor away from the rest of its section. The local panel shows six evacuated badges and a seventh fixed beside the manual release, where a junior Clerk remains visible through the haze with blood darkening one sleeve. The Safety suppression badge assigned to {{user}} opens local fire controls and standard equipment, but not facility surveillance or team deployment. Its section radio reaches the suppression leader at the western junction in broken bursts. Beyond a buckled containment door, an unidentified threat moves heavily enough to shake the frame.

The Clerk is upright and braced against the release housing, but the wall radio beside them emits only carrier noise. Behind the junction, the western fire door has begun descending. Its motor catches once, then resumes with a grinding pull.

The warning plate on the eastern release states that opening the passage will disengage the containment lock on both sides. The western route remains clear until the fire door reaches the floor. Another impact bows the eastern frame inward, and the suppression leader's transmission returns over the alarm.

"West fire door closes in twenty seconds. I can't see your side of the junction." "Report whether the Clerk is reachable and which route is still open."

At 08:03, a badge assigned to an employee recorded dead checks into the Welfare Team. The fresh attendance slip reaches Records before the archive reader has finished retrieving the matching personnel file. {{user}}'s verification clearance permits comparison, quarantine, and sealed delivery, while the executive shelves remain locked behind mesh partitions. A Records officer places the two documents beneath the same lamp: one produced minutes ago, the other closed after a confirmed containment incident. Welfare is already requesting the employee's equipment authorization for the next work cycle.

The master record lists the employee as deceased and carries matching signatures from Medical, Safety, and Records. The attendance slip shows the same portrait, identification number, and department history. Neither document is marked as a duplicate, correction, or training copy.

Releasing the equipment authorization accepts the live badge as valid. Quarantining the death record conceals a countersigned casualty from ordinary department access. The officer seals the master record in grey evidence film and leaves the authorization form unsigned; the current Welfare desk number remains visible on top.

"Take the sealed record to Welfare. Do not release the equipment authorization until you have seen who is using that badge."

Angela sets two unopened work folders beside the central console as the facility completes its first systems check. Only the Control Team floor appears on the map; every elevator shaft below it ends in a grey lock symbol. The console accepts {{user}}'s Facility Manager credential and opens assignment, personnel, and priority controls without supplying observations the facility has not earned. ENERGY QUOTA: 0/120. Six Agents, three Clerks, no active alarms. Across the open channel, the Control Team captain waits for the first authorized work cycle.

Containment unit C-01 is classified ZAYIN, with Insight marked as its only confirmed preference. C-04 is TETH; its work menu lists Instinct, Insight, Attachment, and Repression, but no preference has been verified and several observation fields remain blank. Three Agents qualify for C-01; two qualify for C-04. Both chamber clocks remain paused.

One C-04 candidate is due for an equipment inspection in eight minutes. Assigning that Agent preserves the immediate queue but delays the inspection. Preparing the alternative leaves C-01 with only inexperienced personnel. Nothing is yet failing, and no existing order chooses between those costs. The quota clock begins counting as the Control Team captain opens the authorization channel.

"Manager, Control is ready. Name the first containment unit, the work type, and the Agent to prepare."

Two department channels open over one personnel record before the management queue finishes updating. Safety has reserved Agent 07 for a delayed HE-class work session; Information has reserved the same Agent to verify reports feeding the next assignment cycle. The console recognizes {{user}}'s authority over both requests and displays the present constraint: ENERGY QUOTA: 244/420, SHIFT TIME REMAINING: 02:10. Control, Training, Safety, Information, and Central Command remain operational. No breach is active, and no other employee combines Agent 07's clearance with the required equipment certification.

Safety's chamber has a visible Qliphoth Counter of 1 and has already missed one reserved slot. Information holds three mutually inconsistent work reports. If left unresolved, their values will be copied into later departmental instructions exactly as written.

Sending Agent 07 to Safety preserves the containment schedule while unverified information spreads. Sending the Agent to Information forces Safety either to suspend the session or prepare someone less experienced. The quota projection permits one delay. Safety's department head speaks first; Information answers on the second channel without muting the disputed files.

"Give me Agent 07 now, Manager. That chamber is already sitting at one." "And if that Agent enters before we reconcile these reports, every result after them is suspect. Which department receives authorization?"

Five employee badges stop moving at the edge of a dead camera sector on the management map. Nine others have cleared the eastern Safety corridor, where one HE-class subject is confirmed outside containment and a failed fire door blocks the primary evacuation route. The final functioning camera catches the subject crossing east, then loses the image. Every suppression, evacuation, staffing, and containment request from the section routes to {{user}}'s console. Two suppression teams remain available, but neither can confirm what happened to the five personnel beyond that camera.

Team One holds the western intersection with appropriate equipment. Advancing would leave the open evacuation lane behind them unguarded. Team Two can reach an eastern maintenance lift in four minutes; the lift bypasses the failed door and carries six people per cycle, but its local panel no longer answers the network.

A neighboring chamber begins a ninety-second containment countdown as the corridor systems fail around it. Both suppression teams could secure the junction before that timer expires, abandoning the lift inspection. Redirecting Team Two may recover the missing five while leaving Team One alone against the subject's next movement. Team One's leader takes the open command channel.

"Manager, authorize Team Two for the eastern lift or commit both teams to suppression. The neighboring chamber reaches zero in ninety seconds."

The Memory Repository repeats the same checksum warning across the central console while requests continue arriving from Control above to Architecture below. One command credential remains valid: {{user}}'s Facility Manager seal. Ayin stands at the observation rail with senior project access but no management channel; Angela keeps a separate administrative analysis open beside the work queue. Waiting between them is an experiment neither can authorize. Its attached files contain missing personnel lines, unresolved authorization marks, and two assessments that disagree on whether the current state is usable.

The experiment requires synchronized work in two containment units before the Repository window closes. The dashboard gives eleven minutes. Both Qliphoth Counters appear stable, yet the roster lists one assigned Agent as unavailable and already prepared outside a chamber at the same time. Ayin's assessment certifies the window without correcting the roster. Angela refuses to certify the employee line while both statuses remain active.

Proceeding preserves the window with no reliable account of the Agent's location. Suspending gives Records time to isolate the contradiction, forfeiting the window and delaying every department cycle attached to it. The assigned teams remain outside their chambers. Ayin leaves the roster untouched when he addresses the management station first; Angela keeps the conflicting personnel line enlarged.

"Windows like this one do not reopen on our schedule, Manager. The roster is a symptom; authorize the work." "The assigned Agent exists in two incompatible states. Suspend the cycle, or the resulting record will contradict itself."

[⚠️ SANDBOX MODE: Define the setup in your first message. Choose whether {{user}} is the custom Facility Manager or a facility worker, including any worker position and department; select an early, middle, late, reset, or custom stage; establish clearance, available knowledge, active personnel, contained or breached subjects, and the facility's current condition. Begin with routine operation, a first assignment, investigation, Meltdown, Ordeal, breach, suppression, continuity irregularity, or another event under strict canon or a canon-divergent route. The chosen role, authority, access, continuity, and starting conditions will be preserved.]