Box of Shadows
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Item#011: Box of Shadows 2 C
Size 20cm x30cm x20cm. Type Artefacto/Entidad Incorporea.
Living Yes Conscious Yes
Hazards Loss of operating personnel. Gear ShADES Standard Combat Suits and Ultra Violet Triggers.
Location Base Seven, Warehouse for Anomalous Weaponry. Anomaly Umbrakinesis.
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The article during its delivery.

Usage

The item must be taken to the areas assigned by the Item Deployment Operations through the Special Container assigned to the area. Operatives will be escorted by at least two Special Teams, both groups will be equipped with ShADES Ultra-Violet Triggers. Once the article is placed in the assigned place, the area is evacuated in an area of at least 20m.

Once the target, or targets, are within the Activation Area, the Special Container will be opened by means of a remote control mechanism, freeing the Delta-Black Entity.

After Delta-Black eliminates the targets, staff must use the ShADES Ultra-Violet Triggers to make Delta-Black return to the box, the container will be closed, the item will be returned to a safe area and the area will be cleaned.

Report

The item is an ancient black box dating from the year 19██. It shows signs of deterioration due to the passage of time and contains certain arcane symbols engraved on the interior wall, which have been degraded making its proper translation impossible. The box is opened by means of a lid on the upper surface, which contains a now broken lock. The box appears to be indestructible or at least immune to any type of weaponry.

Delta-Black is the designation given to a non-etherogenic mass polymorphic organism whose nature is poorly understood. The entity appears as a mass of shadows1 with its own locomotion that is capable to a certain degree of knowing. Delta-Black can only manifest itself indoors with shade or at night. Delta-Black has been seen to have a greater range of action and faster reflexes at night than during the day. When a living human or animal organism enters the range of the box (20m) Delta-Black will rush to said organism, covering it completely until it assimilates its shape, which will be reduced until it is completely consumed by Delta-Black. It should be taken into account that the fact that if the target is obstructed by any kind of obstacles, whether barriers or walls, Delta-Black is capable of "traveling" through the surfaces of these, even sideways by the walls and even the ceiling itself.

Experimentation with the entity and the box itself has shown that Delta-Black cannot separate itself from the box beyond the 20 meter range, just as it is not possible to attack any living being beyond that range. Delta-Black itself appears to be repelled by UV rays, especially from the sun. It is theorized that prolonged exposure could neutralize the bank entity, however due to the risk of losing the entity, tests have been suspended to confirm these suspicions.

Appendix

The box containing the entity was acquired by the Insurgency through an exchange of goods with GoI-███: Black Box, this being the first anomalous item purchased from this Interest Group to be used for military purposes. As expected the descriptions of the contents of the box were quite vague by the messengers of the GoI, simply ensuring that the article conformed to the specifications of the Insurgency, without adding more context. The Insurgency took the item only after appealing to the reasonable price and warranty provided by Black Box.

During the initial opening of the article, 4 members of the investigation staff and two guards were assimilated, having to seal the room that contained the box, until the entity began to leak through the ventilation of the place. The emergency breach alarm was activated and Cell █ of Base Seven had to be evacuated.

Two hours later the Department of Thaumatology and Hidden Artifacts discovered similarities of the entity with other mythological precedents and devised the use of various reflectors and light grenades to drive the entity back to its place of origin. The procedure was successful and the box was closed and secured, at a cost of ██ staff members killed in total and █████ $ in loss of infrastructure and materials.

Insurgency engineers together with the help of scientists from ShaDES Technologies created the prototype of the Ultra-Violet ShADES Triggers for exclusive use in Delta-Black in case of another breach and later they were applied in the deployment specifications for their use in mission.