Journal Pages

**Journal Pages** are notes found in several places in INSOMNIA: The Ark. They give XP when read, as usual, but are particularly worth reading because they discuss the treatment of patients with somnia.

## Description

Thick sheets of paper that is clearly not made from cheap crioma cellulose. You can even see something written in a slanted handwriting. Whoever wrote this really pressed on their pen.

## Notes

The various Journal Pages give varying amounts of XP, but are fortunately weightless, and have a zero price.

## Contents

The contents of the Journal Notes is given here in date order. You may not find them in this order, of course, as this depends on the path you take through the game.

### 4/9/398 (20 XP)

The new work year began with major changes. They closed down two projects that I was part of and changed the Windmill Program's supervisor. They replaced T. with B.—an ex-committee chancellor, a real bureaucratic virtuoso. He and R., who prefers a more liberal approach to his work, got off to a bad start right away, clashing at every turn.

B. showed his grit on the third day: a new soperate from his team brought in two new candidates after a month of no news—a girl, very young, fourteen years old, and a woman of thirty-four years. Both had their NK-levels holding steady between nine and twelve. The girl was entirely conscious, scared, and despondent. The woman gave us a rough night—she demanded legal representation and a phone call. We'll see what we can do.
### 17/9/398 (30 XP)

B. sent two more candidates. Neither of the young men passed their Strock testing. One still hadn't completely recovered, the second was absolutely panicked, producing electromagnetic failures and occasionally falling into S-state. Neither [looks] stable.

Neither of the two previous patients seem very promising either. Young KT1002 displays intense CNS suppression, her NK-level hovering around eight. The woman, JS0515, also shows a low NK-level, as well as apathy and sleepiness... It looks like she's in the final stages of becoming catatonic. They brought in several delicious pies to the department today for the holiday, but nearly everyone refused to eat. The overall mood is not a happy one.

B. is an incredibly picky sort. R. thinks that he only gives promising leads to the people on his own team and deliberately gives the old agents busy work. Still, I am grateful to B. for one thing: he's taken away half of my reports, which gives me the ability to organize my own undertakings.
### 23/10/398 (20 XP)

I have become very interested in that female medical technician, JS0515. Her condition has stabilized: incredible somnic resistance. Chaotic hallucinations with attempts at interaction. Perhaps the woman meets the criteria for my project after all. I wrote her up as a comatose patient for applied research and set her up in a chamber in the maintenance wing on the lower level of Limb—far away from curious eyes. Only P. and K. know about her, but I can trust them.

I am continuing to test the new modification to the delta module. An amazing creature from a somnic projection named U. continues to introduce me to his habitat. One of these locations is very similar to the now abandoned sector N.
### 1/12/398 (20 XP)

That week I had a serious conversation with Kira Ange—that's what they call JS0515. She agreed with my reasoning and decided to participate in the delta sessions. The first sessions have yielded some interesting results. The JS0515's consciousness, having encountered somnic space, simulates locations from the abandoned Teina Nui—a coast, a forest, a desert...

JS0515 meets these so-called "shadows" in her travels, some of which share "strange stories" with her. Working in the Windmill Program, I came upon a similar kind of hallucination relatively frequently. I'm inclined to believe that her underlying interpretation of transcendental phenomena, which are incomprehensible to the observer, is relevant here. R. protests, reminding me of recent studies: Somnia, according to him, "has a weakness for" events related to the Last War, which is often observed in the visions of patients. Anyway, R. has always leaned towards mysticism when it came to studying Somnia.
### 2/12/403 (20 XP)

Continuing my "field" research: the creature U. has been showing me his habitat with much enthusiasm. It looks like a sort of psychic symbiosis. Research in this field could lead to a revolution in psychiatric therapy and, unfortunately, I don't have the time to do it.

I think yesterday was the fifth anniversary of my work with Kira Ange. Over the years we've grown rather close, though, naturally, she finds her condition depressingly prisoner-like. I still find working with her immensely pleasant. Ange is very enthusiastic: she expertly navigates S-space, and despite her unstable psionic emissions, she's quite good at controlling her state—I hardly ever hear her complaining. I always try to improve her surroundings, so as not to feel like one of those doctors from the SORG concentration camps. The only thing that worries me is [...] P. [...] wants to know why I'm so interested in the "hopeless" and B. asks way too many questions.
### 25/1/405 (20 XP)

One of B.'s people brought me my first gift from U. in the form of "pseudo" tissue—as this form of life is known. I didn't think it would be so hard to keep my amazement secret from my colleagues. While studying the sample, I had the impression that this creature is a product of randomly and rapidly developing artificial evolution that is searching for a more advantageous form to inhabit. It found its ideal form in humans, which it replicates quite heedlessly, not understanding that something isn't right. It's hard to resist poetic metaphors, but didn't Somnia itself breathe life into these creatures?

Got in touch with U. again. To my surprise, he showed me a laboratory in zone H-27/55 that we abandoned after a tragic event. Now it is once again inhabited.
### 11/3/411 (20 XP)

Yesterday, R. got into a really bad argument with B. again and was temporarily suspended. This is a great turn of events for me—it's obvious that R. has suspected something for a while, which made it very difficult to use any equipment. Modifications to pseudo tissue yield a particular outcome, but mentally JS0515 is getting worse, and it's hard to continue delta sessions. I have to use neuroleptics, but won't risk using A-meson because it could harm her striking ability to interact with Somnia.

All of the samples that U. sends me help me complete one or other aspect of the project. However, I came to the conclusion that the brain tissue of a human being doesn't resist S-frequencies very well. It seems that you need something bigger than that. If I manage to stop the degradation process while preserving her abilities, I will have achieved my goal.
### [undated, but presumably the last entry] (10 XP)

I've received several packages from U., but working with the samples takes quite a bit of time. The results of my analysis were rather on the edge of absurdity; the creature's tissue is made of Teonan, a biosynthetic strain developed by SORG that is now being used in closed-off projects in Laboratory 6. Beside that, the sample had a somnic background of 14 on the Neimark scale, and yet somehow the tissue was not damaged. This could be a real breakthrough if similar tissues can withstand such a high load. I can use this in my work with unsleepers and, in particular, with JS0515.