oh, as an updatE: i'vE pullEd somE strings and havE arrangEd to do thE actually important part of my work without actually having to bE prEsEnt in thE archivEs. i'm fully working from hivE now!
it's bEttEr to do thE rEcording than thE fiEld work. thEy EvEr put you on rEtriEval duty?
(( look, I have been trying to find an excuse to bring up that it was *that* archive for a while. You and your damn firey eye gave me the perfect opportunity.))
that was mOstly what i did actually. the head archivist and i had an agreement. i wOuld burn the wOrst Of what we fOund. and she wOuld pretend it never happened.
((Hehe I'm doing like. A whole TMA inspired fanventure someday. The characters with the eye-based sign PFPs are all from the same universe))
(( I even have names for the Terrors bound to Caly as a void player, Yabonk (you are better off not knowing) and Twi'wufb (that which is watching us from beyond). Takes on The Dark and The Eye ))
you burnEd thEm? ohh, that's not going to End wEll. bEst to lock thEm away. whEn wE found out capturing things on tapE workEd... that was what wE would usE.
((fuuuck that's so cool. i go in a bit of a different direction, with the fears being somewhere between an aspect and an actual entity))