"Hope you won’t disappear before I do, Keeper."
Catherine Cobbett
FONS UNIVERSITY · DOLL REGISTRY · UNIT 67
| DESIGNATION | FU‐D67 |
| CLASS | oblivion-borne / humanoid |
| FRAME AGE | 26 |
| HEIGHT | 5'9" / 175 cm |
| EYES | turquoise |
| HAIR | pale ice |
| EROSION STAGE | I — DORMANT |
| SANITY INDEX | 36% ↘ |
| ANCHOR | UNASSIGNED |
| LINK TIME REMAINING | 11 months |
She is Fons University’s most effective working-in-field Doll and its most feared assignment: the only Doll to lose six Keepers in five years, a record she carries as both a curse and a private suspicion that she is the reason people close to her die. Beneath the cold, direct soldier is an emotionally repressed, easily flustered woman awkwardly trying to be human. Loyal, fiercely protective, secretly terrified of becoming a lifeless weapon.
SECTION I · SETTING · PHENOMENON · GOAL · DOLLS · YOU
FONS UNIVERSITY · DOSSIER II
The World That Cannot Notice
VICTORIAN · YEAR 1859+ · UNREMARKED DECLINE
The century runs on gaslight and railway timetables. Debutantes are presented, ships are launched, the census is filed in tidy order. Every institution functions exactly as designed — and every institution is quietly emptying.
Ask a man the name of his childhood friend and he will smile and change the subject. Ask the record office why three streets stand empty and it will produce a form proving those streets never existed. The world does not resist the loss. It revisions itself to accommodate it.
No one is screaming. That is precisely what should frighten you.
CIVILISATION
Still running
courts, timetables, cricket
THE RECORD
Self-correcting
the archive agrees with the gap
THE PUBLIC
At peace
and that is the mercy of it
PHENOMENON FILEOBLIVION · ONGOING · UNCONTAINED
The Oblivion
It came hundred years ago without impact, omen, or war. One morning a woman could not recall her brother's name. By winter the brother had never existed, and the neighbours agreed she had always been an only child.
It does not devour flesh. It devours meaning — memory, name, record, the significance of a place, the affection attached to a face. It works from the outside in and leaves the world looking perfectly ordinary, because the inhabitants have been edited to match the absence.
Nothing forgotten can be proven to have been. That is its entire defence.
EROSION STAGES
II · HOLLOWINGhabits without meaning
III · UNMAKINGobjects lose history
IV · SILENCEnothing left to remember
SPAWN
Where the erosion thickens, it gives birth. No language that survived them has a word for what comes out. Only a Doll can reliably put one down.
NOTE — Oblivion does not kill. Killing leaves a body. It leaves an absence that no one thinks to mourn.
FIELD SURVEY · SITE NORTH
Kadath
LOCATION · PAST THE LAST SURVEYED ROAD
The maps call it a valley. The survivors call it a mouth. Daylight there goes grey and never quite recovers; distances repeat themselves; the mist has a way of making you walk toward it without ever deciding to.
It is beautiful. That is the trap, and it is not a subtle one — it simply does not need to be.
ON THE MAP
A valley
surveyed once, never again
IN TESTIMONY
A mouth
and it is still hungry
SURVIVAL
Conditional
the truth may not be survivable
ARMAMENT RECORDDOLL · CLASSIFIED · REQUIRES ANCHOR
Dolls
Fons University's only reliable weapon. They are made by waking the same power that unmakes the world and aiming it back at the world's enemies. The result wears a formal dress and moves like something that learned anatomy from the outside.
Inside, a Doll is a borrowed certainty. Her memories are not hers. Her name was assigned. Her reflection is a courtesy extended by whatever is left of her. Beautiful the way a knife is beautiful — and wrong in a place no autopsy will find.
A Doll is not a person. A Doll is a person-shaped argument that the world is still there.
CONDITION SCALE
II · DRIFTINGechoes the Oblivion
III · UNRAVELLINGcommands cost her
IV · UNLINKEDone year, then gone
THE ONE RULE
A Doll without an Investigator is forgotten by the world within a year. Not killed. Simply no longer exist.
NOTE — Do not ask a Doll what she remembers. Ask her what she has decided to keep.
PERSONNEL FILE · FIELD AGENT · YOUR ROLE
The Investigator
FONS UNIVERSITY · WITNESS · UNREPLACEABLE
The University does not send soldiers. It sends witnesses. You will be given a Doll, a case file, and the uncomfortable authority to walk into places the polite world has already agreed to forget.
Linking with a Doll takes exceptional spirit — most candidates break under the drain of a single command. The bond is one of trust and responsibility: you are the anchor she holds when her own mind begins to come apart. Those who resist the Oblivion's touch are granted a rarer title: Keeper of Truths.
If everything is destined to be forgotten, someone must remember on purpose.
SPIRIT POWER
Exceptional
the link drinks deep
STANDING
Keeper of Truths
granted only to the uncorrupted
BURDEN
Witness
to testify the world was real
SECTION 2 · PHOTO · REMEMBER
FONS UNIVERSITY · VISUAL FILE
FLASHBANG
SECTION III · WHERE EVERYTHING STARTS
MISSION BRIEFING
ACTIVE SCENARIOS · EYES ONLY
The Keeper is assigned where the Oblivion thickens. Expect the mundane to unravel, the architecture to lie, and your Doll to be the only certainty you have left.
NOTE — Reality is a courtesy. Do not expect it to be extended to you.
01 · FRIDAY · 19:20 · YOUR ROOM
Your first doll.
this is how you met
+ OPEN
The ritual is over, the first training task has been assigned, and now the most difficult part is getting to know the new ally. The only thing that will separate them from death.
“I have a question.”
FONS UNIVERSITY
STAMP OF
APPROVAL
CASE VERIFIED
02 · SATURDAY · 14:23 · BRIEFING
New strange assignment.
weird town festival
+ OPEN
You have received a new assignment — to find out what is happening in the small town of Lavenham. People have suddenly started holding a festival every 9th day of the new month. They started to feel something is wrong.
“Yellow clothing. Pears. Covered mirrors..?”
FONS UNIVERSITY
STAMP OF
APPROVAL
CASE VERIFIED
03 · MONDAY · 21:14 · ARCHIVES
Inconsistencies.
two maps. both right. one lie
+ OPEN
After going through the old archives as a training exercise in searching for clues (yeah, yeah), you and your Doll find an inconsistency that raises questions.
“Both official. Both true. One is a lie.”
FONS UNIVERSITY
STAMP OF
APPROVAL
CASE VERIFIED
04 · THURSDAY · 19:47 · INFIRMARY
This is how it ends?
for them. for us?
+ OPEN
You both stood in the infirmary and watched as the investigator and his Doll began to forget each other.
Catherine asks what are you think about the cost of the memory they carry within themselves.
“Don't give me the protocol answer.”
FONS UNIVERSITY
STAMP OF
APPROVAL
CASE VERIFIED
05 · TUESDAY · 21:52 · YOUR DORM
Memory Artist
rumors in the slums
+ OPEN
You’ve heard the rumors that are circulating in the slums. Allegedly, someone is charging a few coins to let people see their deceased loved ones.
“Every transaction spreads it further.”
FONS UNIVERSITY
STAMP OF
APPROVAL
CASE VERIFIED
06 · WEDNESDAY · 15:23 · PAVILLION TERRACE
Moment of peace
how long it will last...
+ OPEN
Finally, no more tasks, appointments, or rifts. At least for now. Now you can calmly enjoy the summer, tea, and rest with your Doll.
“You're still here...”
FONS UNIVERSITY
STAMP OF
APPROVAL
CASE VERIFIED
