Where?
Programme GC-1 will take place in the outskirts of Grand Cove, a town pertaining to the Canadian province of Ontario, currently unceded Ojibwe land. The area is home to Foundation R&C Site-43, as well as a population of First Nation peoples in Lambton County. The North American Board of Manna were alerted to a calamity occurring at R&C Site-43 by the Foundation's External Communication Leader, Doctor Rex Alces.
Doctor Alces advised discretion, as to not beak the Veil as upheld by the Foundation. The nearby town of Grand Cove believes R&C Site-43 to be a mere water processing plant, and while the location does engage in its cover activity, most of its function has been rendered inert due to an attack recently befalling the Site.
Our point of contact at in-situ will be the revered Doctor Jay Everwood, previous Foundation External Communications Leader for the Foundation.
Why?
- Unstable structural stability of Site.
- Inadequate and poor quality basic services.
- Search and rescue in order to retrieve deceased and missing individuals.
- Necessary re initiation of water processing plant.
When?
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Mission Dossier: Grand Cove and Site-43
The humanitarian situation in Lambton County is an emergent situation necessitating the deployment of aid to the area. According to in-situ contact Doctor Jay Everwood, Site-43 was attacked by an unknown group and enabled the breach of containment of two dangerous anomalies. Doctor Everwood has assured us that both are no longer in the area, so no volunteers will be in danger.
Due to the dangers contained within many of their Sites, the Foundation employs multiple fail-safe measures in the event of an attack, many of which can be explosive in nature. These measures were deployed during the attack to prevent further breaches and limit human loss. According to Doctor Jay Everwood, bear-shaped wooden structures manifested within the Site to protect from complete structural collapse and protecting many individuals.
The explosions rendered a few areas of Site-43 inaccessible, and cut off supplies from those stranded below. There is also a considerable amount of injuries reported, however, most of the major injuries have been attended to by on-site medical staff.
If you wish to know more about the Site-43 Mission, refer to the Mission Watch Report below these lines.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Mission Work Group
The Opal-1 Mission Work Group is the only dedicated MWG assigned to this programme. This group is composed of:
- Six Executive Members.
- Thirteen Trained Volunteers.
- Three Health and Prevention Specialists.
- Four Infrastructures and Development Specialists.
- Three Rescue and Intervention (Security) Specialists.
And is equipped with:
- Three adapted transport and utility semitrailers.
- Three dedicated MSU.1
- Six pickup trucks and two four wheel drive vehicles of different make.
- Non-disposable medical equipment and gear.
- Two months' worth of medical supplies, including disposable and normal-abnormal materials, adjusted to predicted rate of activity.
- Two crops-per-inhabitant worth of normal-abnormal Myrmidon Crop seeds.
- Three full body bio-hazard protective suits.
- Bio-hazard gear.
- Training material (bibliography, practice material; normal-abnormal assets related in complete equipment manifest).
Abnormal Assets
Five abnormal assets have been deployed with the Garnet-1 Mission Work Group:
- Third Vesta Donation, to provide fast structural development to the area and provide local headquarters and medical facilities for the Work Group.
- First CETRes Donation, to warrant a continuous supply of clean, drinkable water to both MCF facilities and IDP camps in the area.
- Fifth Global Occult Coalition Donation, to ensure rapid and discreet deployment of TVD-pre-synthesized facilities and other large loads.
- Third Professor Funtastic Donation, to warrant a reliable supply of food — broccoli pizza to be specific. It may not be the healthiest and may bbe perhaps even considered stale, but it does increase morale.
- Second Phoenix Technologies Donation, to assist in locating the lost.
Mission Watch Additional Report - VIOLENCE CONCERN : "THE OSAT"
Of Concern: VIOLENCE CONCERN, POSSIBLY ABNORMAL, North America, human aggression, REGIONAL.
Concern Summary: Conclusions of an article about the Rupertine disease. Written by Dr. Sarah Desjeux, Health and Prevention Field Executive member.
The Sour is an emergent epidemic first identified in IDP camps in Niger, where UN-OCHA work clusters first encountered it. MCF personnel from the Ruperts-1 Work Group established a local Research-Health Programme with the approval of local authorities and African Union2, GOC3 and UN-OCHA4 support. It has been repeatedly called since 'the Rupertine' or 'Rupert's disease" by the local media and scientific bulletins emitted from both GOC and MCF internal editorials, but in truth it should be called by the names the affected communities have given it, as they are much more descriptive.
The Sour, also called the Milking Maggots disease, is caused by a virus which can be caught from infected humans. It is transmitted mostly through skin contact. It has been theorized that its etiologic agent, a virus possibly pertaining to the Herpesviridae family, is capable of surviving in contaminated water by infecting Giardia lamblia, a very common free-life protozoan. This makes clean water supply a priority for any Mission dispatched to areas affected by it, and immensely complicates Concern management.
When they woke me up, I was sure I had gotten blind because of that car that hit me, but then they said I had been down with the Sour. I had been playing with my brothers in the brook a couple of days before, and at first I thought we were just fine.
One day, I woke up seeing all those dead people around, like corpses, only covered with white writings, and they chanted 'drink, drink the maggots' milk, so they can feed their ilk' all the time. One of them looked like my mother, I thought she was my mother; my brothers were like them, too, so I run and got run by a car. My legs were bleeding a lot, but it did not hurt, so I run away from them.
I hid for a while, I do not know for how long. I started to bleed white from my legs, and I got thirsty, so I did as the chanting said and I drank it. I also ate the maggots. It tasted bad, like milk gone bad, but at the same time it was good, felt good.
Later, it started to hurt, so I went out and looked for help. The only person I found in the village was a tall stranger, a man from MCF. The man told me to stop running, to calm down, and gave something for my pain, then took me here, to the clinic.
They say I will be fine, but other people in the village are sick now, and I'm afraid my mother and brothers got the Sour too. I do not care if they lose their legs too, I just want to see them.
Daouda was one of the many children from a small village near Arlit, Niger, affected by the Third Sour Outbreak. While the village is now defunct, more than thirty percent of its population was safely evacuated and treated by the Geraldine-2 Mission Work Group.
The Sour doesn't have early onset symptoms. However, after an incubation period of ten to twelve days after infection, all patients will suddenly suffer from acute psychotic disorders which mainly involve psychotic clinical and radically altered behavior. They will be followed by a secondary phase in which self-inflicted injuries and/or severe trauma due to reckless demeanor are frequent.
A key symptom present in Sour patients is that most injuries occurred during this period will not heal nor bleed, releasing instead a pus-like white substance of a slightly floral smell and, reportedly, very sour taste. This usually dehydrates the subject, who quickly enters a state of passivity and delirium that may be accompanied by fever. Blood analysis has confirmed the presence of the likely etiologic agent in the bloodstream, but no satisfactory explanation for the apparent transmutation it undergoes when exiting the blood vessels due to traumatic injury larger than a pinprick.
It is infrequent, but not exceptional, to find small worm-like tumors in the edges of injuries suffered by the subjects; these characteristic growths give the Sour its other name, the Milking Maggot disease.
Normally, these symptoms should subside in ten to thirteen weeks of natural development, provided the patient survives the behavioral alteration phase. After this, normal healing processes resumes; however, chronic pain and/or general loss of health are frequent after the illness has run its course, due to major scarification and internal injuries — it is frequent to find injuries so complicated and/or extensive that normal healing processes cannot handle them.
Currently, early diagnosis of this disease is considered difficult even with access to laboratory conditions. Focus on contagion prevention measures and isolation of known patients should be absolute priorities to all Work Groups.
However, the agent has proven to be sensitive to a combined treatment of generic Aciclovir and Prometerine — see attached field manuals for dosage and viable administration routes, necessary material for the inoculation and possible alter-scientific uses —, and may be used as primary prevention, entirely stopping the development of the disease with an estimated 98% efficacy. Finally, if properly addressed and treated, the infection can be stopped in its early stages; actually, when combined with isolation and support measures to counteract the loss of fluids, even patients in deteriorated phases may survive!
To sum it up, the Sour has proven to be a highly infectious process, a dangerous threat to human life and an extremely distressing phenomenon to behold, both for relatives of its victims, first responders and NGO workers. The Manna Charitable Foundation possesses the means, the experience and the on-site assets to respond to this health concern in a comprehensive, complete capacity.
With a new possible outbreak in Sool, we stand on the brink of a potentially catastrophic deterioration in the state of humanitarian concerns of the area and the permanent destabilization of its already suffering societies. I, with the full support of my team, motion that we intervene immediately.
Dr. Sarah "Opal" Desjeux is a forty-nine years old Health and Prevention Field Executive member and has worked as such for thirty-one years, making her one of the most veteran field workers in the Manna Charitable Foundation. She worked as a volunteer for three years and has been a Mission Work Group Operation Leader for ten.
Programme Priority: Medium-High. All deployed personnel must be on the lookout for new outbreaks. Mission Watch will elevate Programme Priority accordingly to increases in rate of infection and mortality rates or new clinical presentations.
Safety Concerns: Strictly restricted to trained volunteers, specialists and Executive members. Engage only in optimal gear and deployment conditions. If detected, warn a) Mission Watch, b) Mission Branch Health and Prevention Directorate, c) the pertinent Continental Branch Secretariat and d) the UN-OCHA.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Occult and Supernatural Activity Taskforce (RCMP OSAT) keeps harassing MCF and telling them to gtfo.
Everwood is like "yeah, we didnt invite them on purpose."