INF-001

"First in the Phone Book"

**WARNING: THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS CONSIDERED A MEMETIC COGNITOHAZARD. PROCEED WITH AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION.**

## Containment Procedures

INF-001 is currently uncontainable, and any and all reports of INF-001 are to be reported to the nearest Nero agent with ORANGE-level containment clearance. All portable instances are to be contained under ORANGE level restriction.

Civilian subjects who are exposed to INF-001 are to be sedated, brought to the closest Nero facility, and placed under the effects of an INF-001-E subject, or terminated if this does not reverse the effects.

Any cases of INF-001 on a person are to be reported directly to command, who will the prepare the termination of said person. Any remaining evidence of INF-001 on the person is to removed as well (i.e pictures, depictions, and references in scripture).

## Description

INF-001 is a reoccurring instance of the phrase “A-1” seen written in various places throughout the globe, often written on sides of buildings, appearing inside books, and countless other places. INF-001 does not appear to be written by any one creature, and INF-001 seemingly only appear in areas where no video recording of it would ever be present, such as the sides of vacant buildings and abandoned vehicles.

INF-001 is target-specific, in the sense that when one person sees it, they will see INF-001 more often throughout their life in countless other places. The more they witness INF-001, the more suicidal tendencies said person will experience. It is unknown what the average threshold of INF-001 sightings a person can withstand, as this heavily differs per person. The most common, however, is a recorded 35 times, though the lowest recorded was 4.

Subjects who are exposed to INF-001 have a 43.5% chance of attempting to expose others to the cognitohazard, often by sending letters, text messages, or writing it on random items.

Simply writing “A-1” on something does not count as a memetic cognitohazard, and only writing that is meant to reference INF-001 can be considered anomalous.

INF-001 was first recorded on 20.2.1951, where it was found by agent [REDACTED], while they were off duty walking through the city of Denver, Colorado. After the initial witness, they reportedly saw the cognitohazard 6 time in the same day, and 20 times that week. However, before more research could be done to them, agent [REDACTED] committed suicide by [DATA EXPUNGED].

Roughly 43 cases of INF-001-related deaths have occurred within the ranks of Nero since then, and countless others have been terminated due to exposure to INF-001.

However, there is a way to reverse the effects, although it is only experimental and does not work on every occasion. INF-001-E is a memetic agent consisting of 734 letters and numbers in an order that appears to reverse the effects of INF-001. Subjects exposed to INF-001 are shown a scrolling image of INF-001-E on a computer screen and are run through it for 1 hour. 4 out of 10 tests have shown that this not only frees the subject from their suicidal actions, but also permanently lowers their probability of sighting INF-001 again. The meaning behind this code has been left out of this article by order of Doctor O'leary.

See *Interview INF-00101* for the initial interview with Agent [REDACTED] on INF-001's discovery.

## Related Casualties

It is currently unknown how many civilians have taken their lives due to the effects of INF-001. There have been 143 cases of INF-001-related deaths among Nero staff, 250 among CTS units, and 1453 among civilians (most of which were confirmed by Nero scientists).