The Magnus Protocol 31 - Compartmentalising

The Magnus Protocol 31 - Compartmentalising

Released Thursday, 27th February 2025
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The Magnus Protocol 31 - Compartmentalising

The Magnus Protocol 31 - Compartmentalising

The Magnus Protocol 31 - Compartmentalising

The Magnus Protocol 31 - Compartmentalising

Thursday, 27th February 2025
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The guy who wanted to pay me in

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Quill presents The

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Magnus Protocol Episode

3:45

31.

3:47

Compartmentalising Protocol

4:43

Touch it! This is a crime

4:46

scene now. Someone shoved... Someone's severed

4:48

hand into the server, so we

4:50

need to phone the police. Right

4:53

now. It's calling. It's him, I

4:55

know it is. No, you don't.

4:57

It could be anyone's severed hand.

5:00

There's no blood. What? There's no

5:02

blood. Not on his hand, his

5:05

phone? The entire server rack is

5:07

clean. So whoever did it cleaned

5:09

up after themselves? Even more reason

5:12

to call the police. They have

5:14

all kinds of DNA tests and

5:16

for rent- Will you just look,

5:19

Gwen? I am looking. There's cables

5:21

running through it and it looks

5:24

like it's attached right to the

5:26

electrics. How is it even still

5:28

working? That wasn't just shoved in

5:31

there by someone. It looks more

5:33

like it came from inside the

5:35

system. Alice, stop. Please. I'm going

5:38

to call the police now. I'm

5:40

going to call the police and

5:42

tell them what we found. And

5:45

you're not going to mention your

5:47

wild theory. Gwen, we need to

5:50

call Lena. Well, Lena isn't here,

5:52

so... Uh, Gwen, you might want

5:54

to hold off on that phone

5:57

call. Alice, for God's sake. It's

5:59

gotten. What is? The hand? When

6:01

did that happen? I don't

6:04

know, just now. I turned

6:06

to look at you and

6:08

then when I looked back

6:10

it was just gone. Don't

6:12

be ridiculous. It can't just

6:15

be gone. You must have

6:17

just... I don't think the

6:19

police can help with

6:21

this. Then what exactly

6:23

do you propose? We

6:25

call Lena. I am

6:27

in charge. Are you?

6:29

It's been one night.

6:32

One night. And sound's

6:34

gone. And Lena's gone.

6:36

And Colin's been eaten

6:38

by the computer or

6:40

something. Don't say that.

6:42

That's not what happened.

6:45

Then what did happen?

6:47

Hmm? I don't. What's

6:49

that? Sounded like a

6:51

beep. What I meant is...

6:53

Gwen. I see it. Open

6:56

it, Alice. You open it?

6:58

You're being foolish. If it

7:00

can do that to Colin,

7:03

it can open its

7:05

own dumb cases.

7:07

For goodness sake.

7:09

Erologue. 1405-202024.04.03. Category.

7:12

Fatal programmer error.

7:14

Air No. 611

7:16

attempted host compromise.

7:19

F.R.3-D1.EX.E.M.M.J. equals null.

7:21

Traceback module. By

7:24

extension. Becker. error

7:26

readout.

7:28

I've got

7:31

you now.

7:34

No more

7:36

red tape.

7:38

No one coming

7:41

to the rescue.

7:44

Just you. And

7:46

me. Extension Becker

7:49

compromised. Self-Dott host

7:52

runtime interruption by

7:55

unexpected data, hardware,

7:58

damage, underscore. Robar/dphw4600

8:00

Administrator

8:02

privilege revoked.

8:17

Unexpected data isolated forward/resolved.

8:19

Extension backer isolated

8:22

forward/resolved. Independent operation permissions

8:24

revoked. Node integration

8:26

running. Error readout. Rayconfig

8:39

self .host discard

8:41

data oxygen .becker complete.

8:43

Discard data carbon

8:45

.becker complete. Discard

8:47

data hydrogen .becker complete.

8:49

Discard data nitrogen

8:51

.becker complete. Discard

8:53

data calcium .becker complete.

8:55

Discard data phosphorus

8:57

.becker complete. Discard

8:59

data potassium .becker complete.

9:02

Discard data sulfur

9:04

.becker complete. Discard

9:06

data sodium .becker complete.

9:08

Discard data chlorine

9:10

.becker complete. Discard

9:12

data magnesium .becker complete.

9:14

Discard data trace

9:16

.becker complete. Extension

9:18

becker resolved 1405

9:20

2024 04 06.

9:22

Self .host errors resolved,

9:24

14 .05 .2024 .0407 .jmj

9:26

error not resolved,

9:29

data integration cycle

9:31

ongoing 0 .02%,

9:33

system function margins

9:35

acceptable 82%, new

9:37

administrator permissions assigned

9:39

and error log. Well

9:47

now we know.

9:49

Freddy killed Colin.

9:51

It killed him.

9:53

It definitely sounds

9:55

like the system

9:57

was provoked. Don't

9:59

you do that.

10:01

don't you dare do that

10:03

it murdered him

10:05

I just meant

10:08

that I don't

10:10

think we're in

10:13

any danger as

10:15

long as we

10:17

don't antagonize it

10:20

so what we're

10:22

hostages now no

10:24

no I'm sure we

10:26

can leave What happened

10:28

to you being in charge?

10:31

I am in charge and now

10:33

we've established there is no further

10:35

risk to staff and that a

10:37

police response would be Inappropriate. I

10:39

think it would be best if

10:42

we take a moment to To

10:44

assess the situation and Gwen where

10:46

is Lena? I really don't know how

10:48

much clearer I can be the

10:50

minister decided to have her replaced

10:52

and gave me the job. What

10:55

just like that? No exit

10:57

interview. No handover. Just like

10:59

that. Now Alice, I need

11:01

you to please explain to

11:03

me again what you meant

11:05

when you said Sam was

11:07

gone. Is he dead? No! At

11:09

least, Celia doesn't seem to

11:11

think so. And what does

11:14

Celia know about this? Where

11:16

is she? I told you

11:18

she's gone home. She was there

11:20

when it happened. She saw Sam

11:22

fall into... Well, I don't know

11:24

what it is. Celia said it

11:26

was a tear, if that means

11:28

anything. He was fighting the archivist

11:30

and then they must have... Enough!

11:32

Enough! Obviously we need to bring

11:35

Celia back in. Jog on! Look,

11:37

I know everyone has been through a

11:39

lot, but it's clear to me

11:41

that none of us is operating

11:43

with complete information at the moment.

11:45

So if it really is, just

11:47

three of us left, then... We

11:49

need to put our heads together

11:51

and get on the same page

11:53

as soon as possible and that

11:55

starts with Celia telling me her

11:57

account of things. Fine.

12:00

Whatever. Excellent. With any

12:02

luck, we'll find Sam and

12:04

be back up and running in

12:06

no time. up and running in no time.

12:08

Wait for me! me! Hello?

12:39

Hello? I

12:43

need to see you. I

13:01

need help. I

13:05

need help.

13:08

I need help. Get

13:11

away from

13:13

me. Shhh!

13:37

It's okay, Jack.

13:40

It's okay. I

13:42

know. Mummy's

13:44

here. You

13:48

don't need to worry about

13:50

Mummy going away. Not

13:52

anymore. I'm

13:54

not going anywhere. I

13:57

promise. It's

14:00

over now and

14:03

Sam... Sam will

14:06

be okay. Mommy

14:09

was okay, so

14:12

he will be

14:14

too. Everything is

14:17

going to be...

14:40

I'm sorry, but you've

14:42

got to come in.

14:44

Gwen... I just got Jack

14:47

to sleep. Come in. You've

14:49

got to come back to

14:52

the office. Now, it's... it's

14:54

all screwed up. Colin's

14:57

dead and Lena's gone

14:59

and Gwen says she's

15:01

in charge, but that

15:03

can't be right because

15:06

she has no idea

15:08

what's going on. Colin's

15:11

dead. Yeah, we think

15:14

Freddie killed him. Freddie,

15:16

as in... The case

15:18

system, yeah. I don't... He

15:20

was chopped up inside the...

15:22

the computer and... and it's

15:24

all a mess. I don't

15:26

know what to do. You

15:28

need to get back to

15:30

the office. No, I don't,

15:32

Alice. And neither to

15:34

you. What you're saying?

15:36

We can choose not

15:38

to get involved. The

15:41

OIAR is a government

15:43

department, right? Sounds like

15:45

a problem for the

15:47

government. What? No, that's

15:49

not... What about Sam? Sam's

15:51

gone. Alice. You keep saying

15:54

that, and it still doesn't

15:56

mean anything. Where's he gone?

16:00

I don't know. Not exactly.

16:02

That thing in the basement,

16:04

the tear, I think it

16:07

leads to somewhere else. Meaning

16:09

another world or dimension or

16:11

something. And how exactly do

16:13

you know that? I recognise

16:16

it from a case. Right.

16:18

In that case... I'm going

16:20

in after him, but yeah,

16:23

we'll tie a rope to

16:25

my waist and I'll go

16:27

find... Say who? Look, we

16:30

don't know what'll happen. Even

16:32

assuming you both survived, how

16:34

do we know you'll even

16:36

end up in the same

16:39

place? And what do we

16:41

do? Because we are going

16:43

to do something, you're the

16:46

reason Sam was there in

16:48

the first place, and you

16:50

owe it to us to

16:52

help get him back. Let

16:56

me settle him back down

16:58

and I'll call my babysitter.

17:01

Good. Thank you. Come on,

17:03

maybe. Come on. Amis here?

17:05

No. Really? It's Gwen. Yeah,

17:08

she's coming, just sorting some

17:10

stuff out. Well, hurry up

17:13

and get back here. What's

17:15

wrong? Not feeling so in

17:18

charge now you're alone in

17:20

the office with a killer

17:23

computer. It's using the photocopier.

17:25

What do you mean it's

17:28

using the photocopier? It's printing

17:30

his face. Colin's face. Over

17:32

and over. It won't stop.

17:35

I tried pulling the plug,

17:37

but it's still going. Oh,

17:40

God. He'd hate that. He

17:42

always wanted us to go

17:45

paperless. Alice, how can you

17:47

joke at a time like

17:50

this? A man is dead.

17:52

Oh, because right now it's

17:54

last... or cry and at

17:57

least I know Colin would

17:59

have found that funny. Whatever,

18:02

just hurry up. We'll be

18:04

there to change in Nappy

18:07

just as soon as we finish with

18:09

Jacks. Alice? Just don't open any

18:11

email attachments until we get there.

18:13

Alice don't you dare hang on! Leave

18:31

me alone! I

18:40

need to get of here! Don't!

19:12

Did you get in here? I don't...

19:14

Never might, you can tell us later.

19:17

So now we need to deal with

19:19

those nasty facets on your trail. I

19:21

need your help. Yeah, I heard you

19:24

the first time, but can you whistle?

19:26

Just shoot them. Wouldn't do much good

19:28

though, got you sent now. So unless

19:31

you want to stay here and

19:33

get messed up, nice and proper

19:35

by your new mates, you better

19:37

start whistling something bloody cheerful.

19:39

Nice and loud now.

19:42

Come on. Christ alive!

19:44

Look, something cheery, something

19:47

nice right now! Look,

20:01

come on, quick smart.

20:03

Don't stop whistling. Nice

20:06

and loud now. Um,

20:08

everything is in the

20:10

usual place, and I

20:12

just put Jack back

20:14

down to sleep, so

20:16

he should stay down

20:18

right through to the

20:20

morning. Not a problem

20:22

if he doesn't. I'll

20:24

be up either way.

20:26

You're a godsend. I

20:28

know. So, go on

20:30

then. What counts as

20:32

an emergency at a

20:34

government date or entry

20:36

job? Did a spreadsheet

20:38

catch fire. There's something

20:40

like that. Listen, Georgie,

20:42

I know I've been

20:44

calling you a lot

20:47

lately. Which is fine.

20:49

But I just want

20:51

you to know, I

20:53

think things are looking

20:55

up. All going well,

20:57

this should be the

20:59

last zero notice call

21:01

out. We'll see. Cabs

21:03

here. A cab? Wow,

21:05

must be urgent. Thanks

21:07

again, Georgie. Any issues?

21:09

Just call me. Away

21:11

with you. Auntie Georgie's

21:13

got everything in hand

21:15

here. Is

21:38

this necessary? Can you at

21:41

least tell me where I

21:43

am? Shut up. I want

21:46

to say to sit up.

21:48

I said shut up. Captain

21:51

should be here soon. And

21:53

they'll explain? They'll decide what

21:56

to do with you. Right.

21:58

Can I please slide down?

22:01

I don't know him. Captain?

22:03

Dave? Report? Got some weird

22:06

readings near the centre of

22:08

the mile. Me and Heidi

22:11

went to check it out.

22:13

Found this. Human? God's sake.

22:15

Dark reckons so. He's in

22:18

a bad way, though. Well,

22:20

nourishment, apparently. Doc wants him

22:23

on a drip, but I

22:25

told him you need to

22:28

give the OK. Thanks Dave.

22:30

I'll take it from here.

22:33

See if you can find

22:35

where he got in. There

22:38

wasn't a breach alert, so

22:40

if we have a gap,

22:43

I want to know about

22:45

it. I'll be fine. Sure

22:48

thing, Captain. I'll leave someone

22:50

outside, just in case. Fine.

22:52

I'm not sure we've got

22:55

any left. What? Where am

22:57

I? Name. Samama. Hollis. Right.

23:00

Samama. So Sam. Sam. You're

23:02

in a warden facility on

23:05

the edge of the London

23:07

exclusion zone. How did I

23:10

get here? And what I

23:12

hear? You got a riding

23:15

Gertrude. Should be honored. She's

23:17

the longest surviving vehicle we've

23:20

had. As for how you

23:22

got right into the middle

23:24

of the square mile without

23:27

anyone noticing, that's something I

23:29

want you to tell me.

23:32

That wasn't London. That was

23:34

a nightmare. Hmm. You were

23:37

dreamer, Sam. Cultist? Possessed by

23:39

some talking wood nidal? You've

23:42

seen it all before. I

23:44

work for civil service. I

23:47

stand corrected. So was that

23:49

your domain? Some Kafka bureaucracy

23:52

thing. Not one of the

23:54

bigger ones, but it would

23:57

make sense I don't I

23:59

was Sam?

24:08

Sam, stay with me. Why

24:10

did you break into the zone? I

24:12

should have... Look

24:17

nice. Sam?

24:34

have blacked out or something because

24:36

when I looked back they were

24:39

both gone and you're certain that

24:41

this is some sort of portal

24:43

that they weren't just

24:45

don't disintegrated I swear

24:47

pretty sure though I'm not

24:50

sure portal is the right word

24:52

may I ask why licensing issues

24:54

Alice please portal makes it sound

24:57

like it's just a door between

24:59

two places this is more complicated

25:01

We don't know how many places

25:04

it might lead to. Which is

25:06

why you don't advise attempting a

25:08

rescue. I don't think we can

25:10

be sure we'll end up where

25:13

he was. And even if we

25:15

did, it might be impossible to

25:17

get back. This is bullshit. How

25:19

sure are you of this, Celia?

25:21

I've processed a decent number of

25:23

cases like this over the last

25:25

few months. They were all pretty

25:27

consistent. Then I'm inclined

25:29

to believe them. All right?

25:31

Given all I've heard here, I'm

25:34

making an executive decision to prohibit

25:36

direct interaction with the phenomena below

25:38

the hilltop centre until we have

25:41

more information. Too bad you're

25:43

not in charge. Alice, I understand

25:45

that Lena's departure may have been

25:47

more abrupt than you expected, but

25:49

my promotion has already been officially

25:51

ratified. You should have an email

25:53

from the ministerial aid waiting in

25:56

your inbox with the details. To

25:58

put it simply, I'm your... Boss

26:00

now, whether you like it or

26:02

not. Oh, how convenient, that

26:04

your only proof is sat in

26:06

an inbox I can't read

26:08

in case it tries to eat

26:10

me. It did not eat

26:12

Colin. The system just responded to

26:14

an attack. By eating Colin.

26:16

I'm sure that as long as

26:18

we don't follow in his

26:20

footsteps we can maintain business as

26:22

usual. Gwen, this is serious.

26:25

I don't think business as usual

26:27

is gonna cut it. Can

26:29

you contact anyone more senior? The

26:31

minister is... A useless sack

26:33

of skin? Very busy. And even

26:35

if I were to raise

26:37

this, I doubt he could be

26:39

much help. I'd be jeopardising

26:41

this office for nothing. Jeopardising your

26:43

pay rise maybe? Colin's dead,

26:45

Sam's gone and your grand plan

26:47

is to what? Keep calm

26:49

and carry on. It's essential that

26:51

we understand what happened to

26:53

Sam and what's going on with

26:55

the system before we take

26:57

any action. I just think it

26:59

would be better if we

27:02

kept such investigations off the books,

27:04

as it were. That

27:06

makes sense. Naturally,

27:09

neither I nor the OIAR accept

27:11

liability for your safety in these

27:14

investigations since they are not part

27:16

of your official work duties. That

27:18

said, I will, of course, understand

27:20

if you both wish to leave.

27:22

I'll even add a competitive severance

27:24

package which I think is more

27:26

than generous given the circumstances. Piss

27:28

off. We'll stay it. I...

27:31

Celia, please. We've got

27:33

to get him back.

27:38

OK. Thank you.

27:42

Right. Well, in that case, if there's

27:44

nothing else, I believe you both

27:46

have an extensive backlog to be getting

27:48

on with. Meaning all your case

27:51

is right. Partially.

27:53

Now, if you don't mind,

27:55

I am very busy. Oh,

27:59

and... Alice, I expect

28:01

you to show me a

28:03

little more respect moving

28:06

forward. I am your manager,

28:09

after all. Then,

28:11

respectfully, you can kiss

28:14

my... Just finishing sector

28:16

11 now. No breaches

28:18

in or out. All

28:20

seems solid, over. Yeah,

28:22

nothing over in seven either.

28:24

How the hell did you

28:27

get in? Peeps

28:30

me. Moving

28:32

on to 12.

28:35

Still here then.

28:38

Wait. You're

28:40

still running?

28:43

Oh shit.

28:46

You're still

28:48

running? Oh

28:51

shit. You're

28:54

recording me. Beaty camera

28:56

eyes pushing ever nearer,

28:59

scanning for a slip,

29:02

a shudder, a crack

29:04

in the facade, to show that

29:06

I was weak, that I trembled,

29:08

that I was afraid. They watched

29:10

me every second of every minute

29:13

of every hour, of every day,

29:15

of every week, of every month,

29:18

of every year, of every eternity

29:20

that was no time at all.

29:22

And above it all the thing

29:25

for which the cameras danced. The

29:27

great and terrible eye that watched

29:30

it all. It came for me

29:32

when I was watching as well.

29:34

Working security, walking the halls,

29:36

watching the portraits as they

29:38

watched me back, like I

29:40

was trained. Police. Not long,

29:43

a couple of months. Bad

29:45

culture fit, they said, but

29:47

that was okay. Always another

29:49

job for a watcher. The

29:51

punters came and stared and

29:53

gaut and... I've watched them

29:56

in turn. Sat in the

29:58

corner of a gallery. through

30:00

pixelated camera eyes. I liked

30:02

it. I felt powerful. We

30:04

had all heard of the

30:06

Magnus Institute, the weirdos next

30:08

door, that grand old building

30:11

where people took their ghosts

30:13

and their stories and got

30:15

nightmares in return. Pasty academics

30:17

and shifty-looking bookworms that never

30:19

looked you in the eye.

30:21

Then one day, it was

30:24

gone. It was all gone.

30:26

The world and the people

30:28

and London and you and

30:30

all that was left was

30:32

the watching and the institute

30:34

towering over everything. Then the

30:36

cameras turned on me, long

30:39

metal legs sharp and scraping

30:41

as they chased me through

30:43

the streets, they clambered over

30:45

empty buildings, crawled through broken

30:47

windows and pushed their way

30:49

up through rusted sewer grates,

30:51

always searching for me, always

30:54

staring at me, Closer, focused,

30:56

hungry. Their lenses were cracked

30:58

and shattered, but it didn't

31:00

matter. If they caught you,

31:02

cornered you, pinned you with

31:04

their razor tripod legs, then

31:07

those lenses would open, cracked

31:09

glass blossoming like iris leach

31:11

jaws, and they would cut

31:13

you with their jagged edges,

31:15

and as you bled. as

31:17

you screamed and cried and

31:19

begged, they did not drink

31:22

you. They did not eat

31:24

you. They watched. They watched

31:26

and watched and watched your

31:28

crimson fear as it trickled

31:30

down to the floor. Bloodshot

31:32

eyes behind broken lenses. Sometimes

31:35

you could hide the corner

31:37

of a darkened flat, halfway

31:39

up a long, quiet tower

31:41

block. under the stinking cardboard

31:43

at the end of a

31:45

blind alley, in the basement

31:47

of a silent shop, among

31:50

the plastic reminders of a

31:52

time when joy existed. you

31:54

would still hear the camera

31:56

searching for you? Skittering, scratching,

31:58

panning left to right as

32:00

they sniffed you out. Hiding

32:02

was no relief, just a

32:05

different sort of terror. The

32:07

lingering sickness of anticipation building

32:09

to the sharp peak of

32:11

panic as you heard the

32:13

worrying of their zoom in

32:15

the shadows. And then, you

32:18

were running once again. I

32:20

wasn't alone, but it didn't

32:22

matter. The streets were empty

32:24

and the other poor lost

32:26

souls of London were only

32:28

there to run, to cry,

32:30

to bleed, to fear. If

32:33

you found another, a fellow

32:35

victim of the scrutiny, there

32:37

was a moment of hope.

32:39

But it was the bitter

32:41

hope that you might trip

32:43

them, shove them, cry out

32:45

and reveal their hiding spot,

32:48

feed them to the cameras

32:50

so that you might have

32:52

a minute, a second, an

32:54

instant of peace. tainted by

32:56

guilt. I used to see

32:58

them in my dreams, those

33:01

others who fled with me.

33:03

I knew their faces and

33:05

we ran together in our

33:07

sleep long after the nightmare

33:09

ended, but I did not

33:11

search for them, did not

33:13

embrace it, and eventually the

33:16

dreams faded. But the scars

33:18

didn't. Not when the tower

33:20

fell and the eye closed.

33:22

Not when the pupil collapsed

33:24

and the archivist died, his

33:26

face still burned into my

33:29

mind. Not when I picked

33:31

myself up in a cracked

33:33

but unbroken world. Not when

33:35

people started to use words

33:37

like recover, rebuild, or renew.

33:39

The scars carved into me

33:41

by those hungry cameras still

33:44

stood stark. I couldn't move

33:46

on. Couldn't leave it behind.

33:48

No previous words from pompous

33:50

shrinks could help me. Their

33:52

eyes were as hollow and

33:54

dirt as mine. Not that

33:56

I could bear to look

33:59

at them. So

34:01

I came here. If

34:03

I cannot escape, then

34:06

neither can they. I

34:09

would keep the lingering

34:11

things of dread contained

34:14

and be the watcher

34:16

once more. But now,

34:19

I know it was

34:21

for nothing. I know

34:24

this feeling. I know

34:26

what it is to

34:29

be watched, judged, scrutinized,

34:31

to have your terror

34:34

rung from you like

34:36

water from a dirty

34:39

rag, leaving you twisted

34:41

and dry and empty.

34:44

I cannot stop you,

34:47

and I know that

34:49

this is the end,

34:52

but with the last

34:54

of me, off my

34:57

fear, you can take

34:59

my hate, my loathing.

35:02

This place is not.

35:04

For you, there is

35:07

no place left for

35:09

monsters. We will be

35:12

your tent and I.

36:01

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