Beacon's Experimental Studies

Beacon studied infohazards and psykers with great intensity, of which three are primarily known about. These include:

## Varriks

Sustainable borderline psyker aware of his
present condition.  While his memories
remain clear, he seems to lack conscious control over his powers.  He was always a helpful lad, keen to
ingratiate himself on his captors, yet always looking for an opportunity for
freedom.  When he was younger he would be
allowed to roam the facility on occasion, under escort, but as his psyker
abilities developed they started keeping a closer eye on him.  He kept talking about his brother, Dante, who
wasn’t his brother at all but the only fellow survivor of the same psychic
research program being given the same drug cocktails and infohazard
exposure.  To him, that meant they were
family.  Weirdly enough no one in Beacon
had ever told them about each other.

## Mother

The most powerful
psyker in the Lobetful Research Facility who is likely responsible for much of
what happened had been quiet and unchanging for decades.  She was their school teacher who had taken
them on a school trip and it turned out she was 12
weeks pregnant when the apocalypse happened.
She went upstairs while they were all waiting in the basement and
glimpsed the sky through a window, before becoming paralysed.  After the incident, the students collected
her and attempted to administer first aid with a few of the other adults who
still remained (they later died as more minor exposures slowly writhed through
their heads -- only the children were kept free of exposures).  A couple decades ago, her pregnancy suddenly
accelerated and she began to age.  They
performed a caesarean to get the baby girl out.
She seemed outwardly human but at the age of 2, the other Beaconites
suggested killing and autopsying her.
The Assistant Director Estelle Pennington was a big proponent of
this.  Dr. Jaxon Adelaide and Emerson Fairfield provided the opportunities and hidden suggestions to a couple Jenny's
to sneak off with the little girl (Lily) into the tunnels.  They never found the little girl, or her
parents, ever again.

## Shadowfox

Dante aka
Shadowfox. One of Dr. Jaxon's
experiments who was allowed to remain with his family in a subway station
protected by a singing fence that ensured psykers wouldn't be automatically
drawn to such a large population of 25+ individuals.  Sustainable borderline psyker unaware of his
present condition.  His memories tend to
fade over time which is likely a protective mechanism designed to allow him to
survive any minor cascades that may occur.
More recent psi-rig scans of his brain by Beacon suggests he has some
control of his neural outcomes and slowly unwrites the effects of infohazards
over time.  There's something unusual
about his brain chemistry that may also be providing a mild repressitol-like
effect without the significant side effects and with a gentler and more
prolonged memory loss.

## Blackwood

13th March. Installed third improved psi-rig with additional
modifications.  Psi-rig is now too large
and heavy to be supported by the human neck.
Psionic signals have returned to normal and deterioration has
slowed.  Subject won't be able to safely
leave the VR school.  No further signs of
neurological cascades detected.  Life
signs stable within clone life support unit.

External surveillance advised.  School routines must remain stable to prevent
further deterioration.  Kinetic powers
have grown stable but still retain potency compared to other kinetic
subjects.  Subject cannot be retrieved
until he accepts retrieval -- which will likely result in immediate
neurological cascade.

No signs of infohazards generated by subject.  Life signs of students and school monitors
remain positive.  No unusual brain
activity detected.  No unusual VR
activities detected.  Project appears to
be a success.

Blackwood's Maintenance Logs.

Beacon Discussing Blackwood.