Project Seeming

Project Seeming took place in the years following the events at the Knopf House. The purpose of the project is supposedly to examine subjects who have been exposed to a biosafety level four para-natural pathogen.

## People

### Case Officer Isaacs

Isaacs is the man who brought Bug, Frost and Applewhite into the project.

### Captain Jimenez

The officer who Frost reports to. He is aware that Frost recognized SEE-018 as Billy, but he overlooks it.

## Test Subjects

### SEE-001

An unkempt man in his mid-40s with an Appalachian accent. He claims he's a farmer, but he has a tattoo on his shoulder that indicates he's in the Marine Corps special ops. He is in very good health for a man his age. His muscles are gym muscles not farm muscles.

Bug is told to examine him because he has been potentially exposed to a level 4 para-natural pathogen. The man seems unaware of where he is or why. He is not in any amount of pain.

When being interviewed he seems to e watching Bug when he thinks she's not looking.

When interviewed by Frost he seems suspicious of her and keeps shooting her looks when he thinks she won't notice.

### SEE-002

Dead from a gunshot when presented to Bug. All the hallmarks of what the media considers hillfolk, poor overall health, poor medical care, poor hygiene and institutional poverty. Most assuredly dead, but activity on the cellular level.

### SEE-003

Dead from a gunshot when presented to Bug. Same otherwise as SEE-002.

### SEE-004

Dead from a gunshot when presented to Bug. Same otherwise as 002 and 003.

### SEE-005 - Nancy

She and Applewhite get along. She disappears before being presented to Bug.

### SEE-006

Male, dead from a gunshot wound when presented to Bug.

### SEE-016

In the Ε - dimension, after being experimented on suffered a complete cascade failure of their internal systems and turned into a cellular slurry

### SEE-017

Turned into a ghoul. Seen so far only in Ε - dimension

### SEE-018 - Billy Mullens

Frost doesn't immediately recognize him, since he is in his twenties when she first sees him and she believes he died when they were twelve.

## Locations

### Forward Operating Base Grove

A collection of mobile shelters set up around a helipad. Frost estimates their location to be somewhere in the WV/VA area in the mountains.

### Orchard

Two clicks from the base, the Orchard is located in a valley, which Frost later is able to see from Roan Mountain. It appears to be an old farm surrounded by a ring of electrified cyclone fence topped with razor wire. The total space is about two square miles. The following rules are given:

* Do not enter the Orchard after dark.
* Do not enter the Orchard without a Hammer Suit (type of HAZMAT gear)
* Do not enter the Orchard alone
* Do not enter the Orchard without a weapon
* If you see anything weird whether or not its trying to kill you, get a sample for Agent Frost.

Most electronic gear does not work within the bounds of the Orchard. When Frost watches the Security Division operatives enter the Orchard, they appear to simply vanish.

The Orchard is where the subjects for the project are retrieved.

### 33 Thomas Street

The place where we all reported for duty at Project Seeming, but not where we worked. It wasn't until later in the project that Bug discovered a state of the art medical facility in the building. In her second year with the program, Bug was given access to the entire office floor, the armory, records archive and medical facility.

### Unnamed Black Site

Her first year with the project, Bug was driven in a SUV with blacked out windows to an undisclosed site. She was subject to pat down and body scans on entry and exit. No recording devices were allowed.

## Agent's Roles

### Bug

Bug joined Project: Seeming unofficially in 2011 with a tryout that involved a deep interview and medical profile with a subject called only SEE-001. This first subject appeared to be a man in his mid-40s with shaggy brown hair and an Appalachian accent. His ill-kept bead and reek of body odor lent credibility to the claim that he was a dirt farmer. he doesn't know where he is or why he's here.

They told Bug that the subjects were infected, possibly with a para-natural pathogen and drive her to and from the site daily with blacked out windows. Bug is subjected to a full body scan as enters and leaves the facility. They told her all the subjects would be disposed of, for safety purposes, after she was done with them. She thought that meant they would all be dead already.

SEE-001 is very much alive. His muscles are gym muscles, not work muscle, and he has a tattoo on his shoulder that makes her think special ops. But he also seems scared, confused and not all that bright, except when she catches him watching her out of the corner of his eye. Bug spends weeks evaluating him, running every test every heard of and then concludes that he's some sort of special ops in deep cover and says as much.

Case Officer Isaacs listens to the report and then lets an older Black woman in a suit make the decision. Deputy Director Compton officially welcomes Bug to Project Seeming.

For the next year, Bug is in fact looking at bodies, SEE-002, 003, and 004. SEE-005 is missing, never presented. They just skip to SEE-006 and tell her he's next in the rotation. Every one of them died from a bullet wound to the head, like from an M4 rifle like her security escort has. They also all have continued activity postmortem at the cellular level. It is in varied places but very strong.

Part way through the year, Dr. Martha Jackson and her entire staff are killed in a workplace accident, officially an explosion. None of them actually died from an explosion. They appear to have been killed as part of static protocol, either through self-inflicted means, murder at the hands of a co-worker, or termination by the Program. All of them are infected with the same type of cellular activity as the subjects in Project Seeming except that this seems to be more widespread but much, much weaker. Worst of all is Bug's friend Dr. Jackson who has no visible injuries, no cause of death. She could be sleeping if not for the fact that she is most assuredly infected.

Director Compton said she could not let Bug see any video footage of the lab, personal or professional recovered effects.

The next logical step to find out more would be human trials, but Bug couldn't bring herself to suggest it and instead Case Officer Isaacs suggested a sabbatical. When she returned from the time off, she was told her time with Project: Seeming was done.

### Frost

In 2011 Frost gets a phone call from Case Officer Isaacs and comes to his office at 33 Thomas Street in Manhattan. Here she examines SEE-001 and writes up a report about him, and following that is admitted into Project Seeming. She's sent out to the field to work out of Forward Operating Base Grove in the Lab.

Though she interacts directly with the subjects being brought out of the Orchard, she is never allowed inside (presumably due to the dangers of the Orchard and Frost being too valuable an agent). She follows her orders well until she meets SEE-018, who she recognizes as Billy, her childhood friend who she witnessed grabbed by some mysterious thing in the forest. Though Captain Jimenez tells her off for breaking protocol, he doesn't ultimately write her up for it.