Link to Animation on E621: https://e621.net/posts/3906827
Griffin’s Journal, Officially Day one of the Deep Blue Release Case.
After today, I have decided to write down everything I learn about this case. It may be the first day, but I can already feel that reaching the last may require me to go down some paths I may not return from. So let’s begin with how I came to that conclusion.
Shortly after noon today I sat in my office, going through police records to find out more about a strange EAS broadcast that occurred the night before; Hopefully by the time this document is needed that will be digitized, but during my search, one of my firm’s assistants entered my office. The conversation ended up going something like this:
“Well Griffin, as of today you may have a new case. I got good news and bad news about that scientist interview we had recently.” The assistant had a smug look on his face, because he knew I was going to be infatuated by this case.
“As always, start with the bad news. Gotta know if this destroys one of my cases or not,” I said with an annoyed grumble.
“Oh trust me, this one is just the start. Remember that crazy wolf scientist we interviewed? The one rambling about fluid cats or something. Well, he was just added to the ever-growing missing persons list. That’s at least 15 in the last few months,” he said, that smug look making it clear he hadn’t told me the ‘best’ part yet.
“So what, he was crazy and ran off? Unless you’re going to tell me there’s suspected foul play involved.” My brain already started turning at this point, I correctly assumed this was his lead-in to the good news.
“Foul play wasn’t ruled out, and the reason for that is the first part of the good news. They found paw prints and dried splatterings of strange black oil, similar to the kind our guy described in the interview. Only catch was the paw prints, there were both canine and feline prints in the oil.” He described all of this like it was part of an episode of one of his drama shows again.
“So possible second person, unless this crazy guy is somehow right about there being liquid cat creatures in that pathogen escape we had heard about,” I said, almost giggling at how crazy it sounded. “It’s clearly just him going nuts about some essential oils or something with a pal of theirs. I’m sure they’re just out in the woods high as a kite. Why are you even entertaining this idea?” I was almost annoyed that this conversation was taking my attention away from more important investigations. But then he produced a D-VHS tape and a note.
“They found this while searching his residence, in a box meant to be shipped. Addressed to our office, more specifically one Griffin Osborne.” His smile was gigantic at this point. “Evidence had to take a peek to inventory it. At a quick glance they assume it has to be doctored, so they want it back for verification. But from what I heard, you’ll want to see this. I’ll leave you to it.” Before I could even object he sprinted out of the room, seemingly more into this case than I am. I looked over the evidence. The tape had a special label, seemingly produced by Deep Blue with a section for a hand written Title, “Project RCI: Manufactured Fluid Ingestion”. I got a D-VHS player set up and took a look at the note, which read:
“To Mr. Osborne,
I’m sure you think I’m crazy, I could see it on your face during the interview. Hopefully this will prove my words had more merit. This is one of their internal tapes I had in my possession after being fired. It was for a project named ‘Rubber Catalyst Infection’, part of the Invent and Cure government contract. For this we were told they were willing test subjects, but the fact they got off the local county prison bus and placed in restraints makes me think otherwise. This subject was named ‘Sock’ and I wheeled him into the testing room myself, while another colleague got a barrel of fluid set up, the same kind I described the cat putting on and in me.
Watch it and contact me ASAP if you now believe me, you still have my number on file.”
With that strange note, I put in the tape.
Been a while since I have done an animation, here is a loop I made while testing out a bunch of tools and techniques.
Boi in the chair is a feline’d version of my friend Sockfox!
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