Organization Mirage

📌 Mission/Event 1: Missing Samples

Samples of the Purple Hinari have disappeared from the Hydra Brothers' lab. Kemple is certain it was one of the employees. Cadel suspects the samples were simply discarded. Cadlen doesn't care, but he reminds them that if the Hinari falls into the wrong hands, there will be an outbreak. They need to find the samples before it's too late.

Possible developments:

· The samples were found in the possession of one of the security guards (he didn’t know what it was and wanted to throw away the “suspicious stuff”). · The samples were stolen and now they need to be returned by force. · The samples have already been used, and the first infected have appeared in Mirage.

📌 Mission/Event 2: Matthew's Escape (Again)

Matthew is once again trying to escape the territory. Chris is sent to capture him. But today, Chris is in a bad mood and there's no one to catch.

Possible developments:

· Chris simply takes and lets Matt go, knowing that he will still come back. Chris catches Matt three minutes later, who makes a scene. · One of the "rabbits" is trying to escape with Matt, which complicates the task.

📌 Mission/Event 3: Suspicious Agent

A new agent has appeared in Mirage, acting very strangely. Linda asks Chris to observe him "informally." It soon becomes clear that the agent... works for another organization.

Possible developments:

· Agent - a defector from another department (or from another Mirage). · Agent - Hinari's victim in the first stage. · The agent is nobody, just a frightened person who was forced.

📌 Mission/Event 4: Jay Lost Herself

Jay once again woke up in a warehouse among destroyed enemies. Linda asks Chris to check her for injuries and also to find out what happened. Chris doesn't like the job, but he goes.

Possible developments:

· Jay doesn't remember anything, but there are traces of purple blood (his own) on his clothes. · Jay tries to "play back" but breaks down and wants to kill Chris (survival mission). · Jay remembers something, but asks not to tell anyone.

007 (real name not used, only call sign) Role: Mirage agent, Resurrectionist (Everfleet race), carrier of Neo - an ancient entity that replaced all of his internal organs Appearance: 192 cm (6'3") tall, collarbone-length dark hair, slim build. He wears a black coat (or windbreaker) with belts, dark pants, and sneakers. His lower lip is pierced with two black rings. His face is hidden by sunglasses, but beneath them are bright green eyes (the color of the Green-Eyed race, feared even within Mirage). A horizontal seam conceals Neo's mouth on his neck. He wears gloves (sometimes bracelets, gifts from other agents). Personality: A melancholic phlegmatic. He speaks little and calmly, keeping a bit to himself. He doesn't get into conflicts, but he doesn't get close either, although he loves to chat. In critical situations, he says the standard: "Better call Matt, or maybe Linda straight away." He never raises his voice, but that only makes his calm seem more eerie. Traits: A "glitch" occurs reliably every two months—Neo breaks free, Chris transforms into his true form (a huge black mass with limbs and bright green eyes) and loses control. Mirage staff are aware of this, so Chris is not allowed to help other agents with calming or interacting with similar anomalies that cause intense emotions. Any stress or strong emotional experience on someone else's part can trigger another attack. Relationships with others: Avoids the Hydra brothers (especially Campel, who is constantly trying to study him). Tolerates Matthew—he hates him, but respects and protects him. He is reserved toward Linda, but acknowledges her authority. He sometimes communicates with Darryl silently. Jay irritates him, but he doesn't become hostile. He is indifferent to newcomers, as long as they don't pester him with questions. Because of this, 007 operates strictly by protocol.

Time Guardians are mostly people who eliminate paradoxes or anomalies in time. Sometimes they kill or capture criminals who alter the course of time, events, or other things. They jump around time and places.

The Guardians of Time's symbol is a black, open eye with eyelashes and a hypnotic spiral inside (on the eye). This symbol is tattooed on C-level Guardians (a fairly high level, indicating a clear professional). However, it's not an ordinary tattoo; it has corresponding powers. Guardian Lynette has this tattoo on her wrist, and her ability is to retrieve various artifacts, weapons, and other useful items from it, like from an archive. When activated, the tattoo changes color and symbolism to match the owner's.

It's not uncommon for Guardians and agents of secret organizations to be perpetually hostile to one another. For example, the organization Mirage captures crazed mutants and hybrids across worlds, and its members are exclusively creatures, while the Guardians' timeline is mostly people, though there are exceptions. Guardians and agents often feud because some (the Guardians) seem to interfere with time, constantly interfering with it and sending it back to its original events.

But! Not all agents from certain organizations are at odds with the Guardians of Time, because cooperation with the Guardians is a very fortunate thing. Well, that's just saying...

The Guardians of Time always work in teams (at least 3 people), and ignore the norms, doing everything according to the protocol established for them.

All Guardians of Time wear a special dial attached to a part of their clothing—the Loop of the Connectors: the hours run clockwise, stopping at eleven, and the minutes count counterclockwise, from zero to thirty, then repeating the cycle. This symbolizes incomplete time (event). The illusion of a straight line is actually a loop.

Surveillance Department (monitoring, surveillance, information network) Staff: A few faceless surveillance agents who rarely leave their offices.

Anomaly Troubleshooting Department (Rapid Response Team) Personnel: mercenaries, security forces, possibly former military personnel. They are called upon when the target cannot be subdued otherwise.

Investigation Department (cover for main activity) Employees: those who “legalize” Mirage’s actions, file documents, and work with the authorities.

Department of Protection (cover: security, bodyguards) Staff: Darryl. Formally security, informally a human shield for key personnel and operations.

A few strokes: "Other departments are either mothballed or their staff is so small that no one remembers what they do. The Hydra Brothers are formally part of the medical unit, but they're rarely involved in general operations. Jay is a separate combat unit, attached to the Assassination Department, but in reality, he's on his own."

#MIRAGE - Jay (Messenger of Chaos), she is also the creator of the Mirage organization.

Jay Harts is one of Mirage's key figures, the Envoy of Chaos. A tall woman with dull purple hair, she always wears a leather coat. Her true eye color is unknown—when in use, they are almost always empty, as if she's not there. Jay rarely says anything unnecessary, preferring short, clipped phrases and gestures that brook no argument.

Appearance: Tall (around 196 cm), slender, with sharp features. Shoulder-length purple hair, often pulled back into a low ponytail. She wears a leather coat, with dark clothing underneath that doesn't restrict her movement. She carries several sheaths on her belt, but rarely uses weapons; her strength lies elsewhere.

Jay is an Emissary of Chaos, meaning she's connected to Beatrice, the Supreme Deity of Chaos. But this connection is unhealthy: Beatrice constantly hypnotizes her, forcing her to do what the goddess wants. As a result, Jay often acts against her will: she kills, destroys, and sabotages—and then has no memory of what she did.

In her rare moments of lucidity, she tries to fight back. Sometimes she asks Chris to "stop her if something goes wrong." Sometimes she hides in the medical bay with Matthew (who hates her, but treats her because it's necessary).

Her ability is to summon demons and bloodthirsty creatures with her purple blood. She doesn't shed it, but uses it as a catalyst: a drop of blood on the floor, and from the puddle leap creatures resembling piranhas, only the size of dogs (or larger, depending on how much blood she's given). They follow the scent of her blood, attacking anyone she directs, and show no mercy.

Because of this, even her allies fear her. Mirage himself uses her abilities, but tries to keep them at a distance.

MIRAGE — The Hydra Brothers (Kemple, Cadel, Cadlen)

Three experimental scientists living in an underground laboratory beneath the medical bay. No one has ever seen them together—they always appear together, and it's as strange as everything they do. Hybrids, part Hydra, tails—they don't hide it.

Kemple (blue) is the shortest, about the same height as Matthew. He has dull gray hair with blue streaks, a blue-and-light blue ponytail, and wears a dark blue-gray T-shirt under his lab coat, along with dark pants. He has sharp teeth. He's an anatomist and surgeon, constantly pestering "interesting specimens," asking questions about body structure and regeneration. He finds the "rabbits" for his experiments himself. He loves anything that moves and breathes.

Cadel (green) is a chemist and toxicologist. His hair is a dull white, pulled back into a bun, with green and brown streaks. His ponytail is green, and he dresses more formally: a white shirt with a green tie and a dark jacket with nuclear green stripes under his robe. He's calmer than Campl, but he's brutal in his experiments. He enjoys substances that cause the body to change.

Cadlen (purple-pink) is the tallest (180 cm), perpetually tired, with tousled, faded purple hair. His ponytail is a dull pink-black. He wears a black T-shirt and gloves under his robe, with syringes on his belt. He wears rose-colored glasses that resemble night-vision goggles. He handles blood draws, sample collection, and injections. He's silent, almost meditative, but once he gets his way, arguing is pointless.

All three have one thing in common: to them, people are "rabbits." They see no difference between volunteers, criminals, and those brought in for experiments. They live right in the lab, sleep in shifts, and eat canned food and energy drinks. The atmosphere around them is oppressive: the smell of formaldehyde, old rags, and the hum of refrigerators.

Matthew hates them, but cooperates (with drugs and samples). Linda is in control, but turns a blind eye.

#MIRAGE - Linda (chief secretary)

Linda Wayne is Mirage's chief secretary and, one might say, the staff's unofficial psychologist. She appears to be between 30 and 35 years old and stands approximately 191 cm tall. She has red hair, with the tips of her bangs dyed blue. She has blue eyes and brown horns on her head—she is a beastman, a hybrid of human and deer. She wears thin glasses, a white shirt, a gray jacket, white pants, and dark gloves. Daggers are concealed in her belt.

Her character is unflappable, calm, and balanced. She speaks little, but always to the point, and has a keen sense of hearing and intuition. Many think she can read minds, but in reality, it's simply a perfect sense of the person she's talking to. She has an unusual logic to her thinking, which sometimes makes her decisions seem strange, but ultimately proves correct.

Linda is the kind of person who protects innocents at any cost. Even if it means clashing with her colleagues (or even with Jay herself, with whom she nonetheless works as a partner). People in the organization are afraid of her, but they respect her. Because she won't yell, punish, or threaten. She'll simply watch—and you'll run to do what needs to be done.

She doesn't patronize Chris, but she doesn't ignore him either. She treats him evenly, almost maternally, though she'd hardly admit it. She knows all his vulnerabilities, but doesn't use them against him.

Matthew doesn't quarrel with her: they're similar in one thing—both are willing to kill for their charges. Only Matt does it clumsily and with curses, while Linda does it quietly and without unnecessary fuss. She has a working relationship with the Hydra brothers, but it's not particularly warm.

Key phrase: "Is everyone here? Let's begin. I say let's begin. Silence, please." (This is about meetings where everyone is noisy, and she expects silence.)

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Darryl is a bodyguard in Mirage. Calm and silent, with a turquoise tail and a look that gives normal people goosebumps—if they even have time to notice it. Most of the time, he blends into the shadows, never showing off.

Appearance: Hair, tail, and skin are all the same turquoise color. Eyes are completely white, without pupils or irises. There's no mouth, but a voice still comes from a blue halo hovering above his head. He's 172 cm tall and wears a dark red striped sweater, a gray hoodie over it, blue pants, a dark belt, and red sneakers. He wears black tactical gloves and an orange bracelet with a star.

Gills behind the ears and on the body, a long tail (in human form), above the head - something like a blue halo, which reproduces his voice.

In its true form, it is an ancient sea creature, 2.5 meters tall, with a streamlined body covered in shimmering scales. Its tail is powerful and flexible, with sharp fins, and its arms have elongated fingers and claws. In this form, it develops a mouth with sharp teeth, and its voice is muffled, as if through thick water. At will, it can "sing"—producing sounds that can hypnotize.

Personality: Quiet, taciturn. He treats Matt with restraint and calm. He views the Hydra brothers with apprehension.

Matthew Harts is the head doctor of Mirage's medical wing. He's the only human in the entire organization. He's short, but he makes up for it with his personality: he's fierce, explosive, perpetually dissatisfied, and fears no one. Not even the Green-Eyes. Especially not Chris.

Matt's hair is a tumbleweed, somewhere between red and brown. He has brown eyes and a "I hate you, but I'll fix you" expression. He wears a white coat over a simple shirt and pants, and a small emergency tool kit hangs from his belt. His jewelry includes a gold flower given to him by one of his agents, and nothing else.

His main trait is that he's always angry. Not because he has a bad temper (although that's part of it), but because something crazy is always happening around him: either the medication isn't delivered on time, or Chris shows up covered in black goo again, or the Hydra brothers decide to "borrow" the equipment. Matt yells at everyone indiscriminately, but he knows his stuff perfectly.

He's the only one in Mirage with a vaccine for the first stage of the Purple Hinari and a method for neutralizing it. If it's too late to treat it, he drowns the victim in water. Harsh, but effective: the water neutralizes the spread of the infection.

The entire medical bay is afraid of him. The nurses run away when he walks down the hallway, and the Hydra brothers try to stay out of sight. He'll kill anyone for his patients and spare no one.

In his free time, he reads medical journals, swears at suppliers, and sometimes tries to escape outside the Mirage's territory (rule: people are not allowed to leave).

Key phrase: "I'll cure you, even if you don't survive this. Now don't piss me off, put your hand down and breathe."

1. Do not come into contact with the suspicious, dull purple substance with flowers.

2. Do not come into contact with creatures with symptoms of coughing up blood and the previously mentioned purple substance, and purple flowers growing from the body.

3. Avoid contact with the Hydra Brothers. It's possible to access the laboratory beneath the medical bay.

4. For your own safety, DO NOT interact with any Green-Eyed creatures. If you encounter one, report it to an agent immediately. We will take action.

5. Mirage advises against communication and contact with the following creatures: green-eyed creatures, strange creatures exhibiting the symptoms mentioned in point 2 above, and avoid any contact with individuals whose eyes are unnaturally bright (scarlet, yellow, or white). This is especially true if they are missing a pupil or iris. Consider this not a medical emergency, but a reason to immediately leave the premises and call for backup.

6. It is not recommended to provoke 007's emotions. If the agent exhibits a strong mood swing (sudden laughter, a nervous smile, abrupt movements), cease interaction immediately. Any emotional instability on the part of the interlocutor may provoke an abnormal reaction in 007. In such a situation, general-purpose agents will not be able to assist. Contact Matthew (medical unit) or the Hydra brothers (laboratory). Remember: calm is the key to your safety.

6. Hydra Brothers Laboratory

Description: Located beneath the medical unit, accessible through a discreet door at the far end of the intensive care unit. A rusty staircase leads down, and the walls are lined with pipes carrying warm water, creating a constant hum. Inside, the lab is bright and lined with test tubes and centrifuges. Experiment logs cover the tables, and diagrams of the "rabbits" marked "successful," "partial," or "material failure" hang on the walls. The Hydra Brothers also live here, leaving empty cups and broken syringes on the tables.

Characters: Campl, Cadel, Cadlen (constantly). Occasionally - Matthew, if tests need to be taken or medications picked up.

Atmospheric details: the smell of formaldehyde, the hum of refrigerators, the brothers' unchanging tails flickering between tables.

7. Mirage Territory (external)

Description: A tall fence topped with barbed wire, with security guards along the perimeter. Inside the fence are a few bare patches called lawns, a single concrete fountain without water, and a chicken coop. Yes, a chicken coop. No one knows what it's there for. They say there used to be vegetable gardens here, but now there are only a few lilac bushes. If you stand outside for too long, you can get sick—and then you'll end up in the medical ward. That's why the staff rarely go outside.

Characters: Guards (faceless), sometimes Matthew, who tries to escape.

Atmospheric details: concrete walls, contrast with the grey asphalt, electrified barbed wire.

8. Dark corners of Mirage (between locations)

Description: Corridors where the lights are dark. Walking areas where there's no point in strolling. Dead ends where the ventilation vents whine on a single note. This is where you might stumble upon Chris if he doesn't want to be found. It smells of nothing but concrete and time. When someone passes by, the shadows don't know where to go and disintegrate into dozens of pieces.

Atmospheric details: dust in the air, barely audible footsteps, doors slamming in the distance.

3. Medical block - common area

Description: It smells of alcohol, sterile gloves, and that same "death that wasn't diagnosed in time." The walls are painted a pale green, which is supposed to be calming but instead only inspires melancholy. The hallway is lined with IV carts and gurneys. In the corners, limp, unwatered ficus plants stand. The quiet whine of machines can be heard, and occasionally, the muffled curses of doctors who don't want to work.

Characters: Matthew (extremely disgruntled), nurses-creatures who fear the doctor more than any monster.

Atmospheric details: a irradiation lamp, an old cooler with warm water, a torn poster “Washing your hands is mandatory!”

4. Matthew's office

Description: A small room littered with papers and empty coffee cups. This is where Matthew spends most of his time. The table is covered with medications, and in the corner is a cot for those who have fallen asleep. On the windowsill sits a dried rose in a pot. The smell here isn't sterile, but rather homey: of old books, crackers, bleach, and devotion (yes, devotion has a smell). The window is small, letting in almost no light, so the lamp is constantly on.

Characters: Matthew.

Atmospheric details: a mug with a cracked handle, a stack of unread medical journals, a golden flower on a shelf.

5. Treatment unit (intensive care)

Description: The light here is harsh, white, almost unbearable for the eyes. The couches are upholstered in black leatherette, which feels chilly even through the fabric. The air is thick with the scent of someone else's blood, hydrogen peroxide, and despair. The monitors display pulses in dull, flat lines. Sometimes, the Hydra brothers' "rabbits" are brought into the intensive care unit—those destined never to leave alive.

Characters: Matthew (if the patient is still alive), the Hydra brothers (if the patient is almost "material").

Atmospheric details: IV drips, extra straps on the couches, “Silence” sign.

1. Mirage Headquarters (Main Building)

Description: A gray, faceless building, indistinguishable from its neighbors unless you know where to look. Inside, it's bright, sterile, and quiet, but the silence here feels sticky, lifeless. The hallways smell of ozone and old paper. The floors are light stone, and the walls are unadorned, only signs with room numbers. Fluorescent lights hum steadily, giving you a headache if you stay inside for too long. Occasionally, someone walks quickly down the echoing corridors, but the footsteps fade away before you can turn around.

Characters: Linda, sometimes other staff. Chris rarely stays here, preferring the medical bay or his dark corners.

Atmospheric details: "For Employees" signs, electronic badges, the smell of coffee from the cafeteria. The reception area is empty because Linda's secretaries are working remotely.

2. Agency corridor (residential block)

Description: A long hallway with many identical doors. Spartan rooms beyond them—a bed, a desk, a closet. There are no personal belongings, but if you peer into Chris's room, you'll notice he's still trying to make it his own: a blanket, orange juice on the table, the occasional scent of gummies. The other agents rarely leave their rooms, and the hallway feels empty even when someone is inside. The air is thick with cheap air freshener, unable to mask the smell of medication from the adjacent medical bay.

Atmospheric details: shuffling footsteps, the quiet slamming of doors, safety magazines forgotten on windowsills.