Blackwood's Maintenance Logs.

The Triway children have even decided about a school anthem:
"Ghost of a Rose."  Lyrics are
attached in an attached file.  The other
children are less certain but have begun to adjust.

The Triway children have also created a mythos surrounding
their home where the "Sentinels of the Three Pillars" (see attached
file) will come and rescue them.  The
children seem to draw solemn comfort from this story and all older children
seem to know its meaning.  It is assumed
that this story is based around the Sentinel Core Propulsion System and perhaps
the belief that the alien ancestors who created the ship might return for them.

We have kept watch on Triway Peak to see if any unusual
signal broadcasts are made.  None
have.  I believe we can all rest in our
beds knowing that no S.O.S. to an alien armada is about to begin over a few children.

We entered the school one week after their entry.  They were afraid and attempted to hide so we
had to pull them to a common room -- the school restaurant.  We explained what was happening to them and
that we would occasionally present ourselves to teach them personally.  We also reinforced to the Triway children
that we are protecting them.

After all, with the new residents at Triway Peak and the
history of the Core's mutagenic signals causing NACC to Trent William's two
children (see Glitch and Circuit Williams files at HQ), it is important to keep
the children safe.

...

The Triway children didn't believe us.

...

Since every hour spent in VR is equivalent to 3 hours in the
Real, we have found that we can provide some structured lesson planning for the
children.  Some of the staff have found
this soothing, particularly myself.  I
had always wanted to be a teacher.
Unfortunately, the accelerated rate of "dream-consciousness"
allowed in VR does not allow for rest so one cannot use their time in VR in
place of sleep.  Still it does allow
foure hours of Real-Time to pass for nine hours within.

No one reads these things.
No one cares for I.T. support.
Perhaps I should use this as a diary of sorts?

...

The addition of growth accelerants to the children's life
support systems has allowed their growth to match their mental maturity and their
appear to be no terrible side effects.
This seems to provide a welcome alternative to raising children in this
horror show.  Humans (unmodified and
nano) can be raised to maturity within 6 years in a safe environment where they
can be taught necessary skills and slowly introduced to the perils of Hope in a
secure manner.

I wonder if the other settlements might be interested in
this technology.  Considering we only
have a few decades left on our tickets, so to speak, presuming we live to our
maximum lifespan, we should probably consider the future of our legacy.  I know the others believe that these Code
White events will unlock a method of transportation home -- safe from any
infohazardous exposure to the Writhing One -- but I have long since given up on
the idea of finding any form of safety.

...

This prison is our home.

This purgatory is our home.

We would recognise no other.

But perhaps, with technology like this, we could ease the
burden on our students to come.

And yet … I know that few of the others would ever conceive
of sharing this technology with those who didn't have to suffer as we have
suffered.  They see this place as a mere
holding pen for their hostages.  A place
to retrieve children to be brutally executed or used as science experiments should
their parents fail to obey.

At least Dr. Kara Hyung is interested in this growth
technology.  She should be able to help
persuade the others to avoid damaging the experiment.  And I know Dr. Jaxon Adelaide and Dr. Emerson Fairfield support this ongoing experiment.
So long as there are tunnel rat children for them to test their theories
of psychic expansion and neurological cascade prevention, they should not turn
their eyes here.

The others, though.

I must watch the others.

...

We have introduced an alien school teacher to our VR
school.  Better here than in those
cages.  How quaint, though!  She's positively Victorian -- except without
the cruelties and petty-mindedness of that era.

My exposures have grown too great.  I can feel it scratching around in my
mind.  I feel the edges of technology now
-- of EMF readings suggestive of electrical activity -- of the binary code that
stretches through machines.  Typically
one's psionic development does not move in lines connected to one's trade but
in my case it appears to have made an exception.  The neurological cascade has not truly begun
but I am most assuredly borderline.

Dr. Jaxon Adelaide had a suggestion.  The stable situation within the school should
allow my mind to remain soothed so long as the right alterations are made to
the psi-rig to prevent a cascade.  And
yet I fear for the students….  I know
they have begun compiling code to escape.
I know they have hidden these little code files around the place.  They just fear our guards….  I fear them as well.

I will establish a node.
A way out.  The students, if they
really join their wills against me, should be able to utilise it if they really
need to escape.

I hope, though, I can continue a school in a manner that
will make them wish to stay.

I don't wish to be alone but once I enter the VR school I
can never leave or a true psyker I will become.