September 2023 West Chart Incident

## West Chart Incident

Aftermath of the event captured by an unnamed urban explorer. The entrance to Holding Cell #458B is offscreen to the right.

### Performers

**The Harmonic Collective****The Designer *(possibly)***

### Date

Sun, September 24, 2023 (09:30:10 GMT-0400)

### Location

**45°08'06.3"N 62°17'38.4"W**

*`"If you're alive, and.. this place.. if this place isn't dust.. And, and.. and they say things went well.. they didn't. They'll, they'll, they'll.. **scrub** this..  from the history of this place. They'll say.. They'll say they "handled it in minutes". That it was a "momentary disruption".. I can't work here anymore. I can't sit here, and let these, these.. **terrors**.. (...)"`*

**— The Narrator**

The **September 2023 West Chart Incident**, sometimes referred to simply as **The Incident**, was an event that transpired on September 24th, 2023, at the **Collective West Chart Facility** in the Canadian woodlands. It was the leading cause of the West Chart shutdown later that month, and an event that had a heavy impact on Collective safety regulations and precautions. The incident would be infamous for it's perceived carelessness and easy preventability.

## Background

On October 22, 2022, Collective officials would successfully detain and capture semi-planal entity Subject 37 from the Himalayan Mountains after an episodic investigation and hunt lasting almost 3 years. Shortly after the conclusion of primary experimentation and analysis, Subject 37 would be brought to the **West Chart Research Extensive Facility** in Nova Scotia, Canada, and "securely" stored in **East-Wing Holding Cell #458BB**, kept passive via impact-and-heartrate-sensitive shock-collars attached around the subject's arms and legs. For unknown reasons, the decision was made to have the shock-collar primary enabling and disabling systems linked to the same systems powering the safety guards of the holding cell—a decision that would prove ultimately fatal later on.

On September 24th, 2023, at 9:30 PM, several of the safety guards in the West Chart Facility **Holding Cell #458B** preventing the release of Subject 37 from it's primary holding cell suffered a spontaneous and catastrophic failure, causing the main security door of the chamber to open and resulting in the direct release and escape of the entity. Due to the linking of the collars and the guard-systems, the shock-collars attached to the subject would be rendered inoperable the second the doors opened. Upon release, Subject 37 would begin a complete and total massacre of the entire facility, wildly scrambling throughout the building and obliterating anyone and anything in it's path.

Collective employees and high-ranking officials would be ordered to evacuate the building, commencing a failed mass-escortation and mad dash to the exit of the building. The building was secured with a solid-steel air-lock (which required almost half-an-hour to open for the sanitization and rail systems). The facility was ultimately absent of any reliable emergency exits, with some employees resorting to attempting to shatter the bulletproof glass windows in the offices and cafeteria by throwing objects or pounding on the windows themselves in an effort to escape.

The subject would travel at almost **60 mph *(96.5 km/h)*** across the facility, utterly demolishing all static objects and beings attempting to hinder it. Presumably with the sole directive of destroying every living being within the facility, Subject 37 would being smashing through the solid brick walls and pillars of the facility, causing uncountable amounts of structural and budgetary damage.