HRC-CS-GEL
Gel rack, catalogue 105–124
Twenty sleeves. Nineteen full. One present and empty.
Full text as recovered
COLD STORE SECTION B — LIGHTING GEL, FILED BY CATALOGUE NUMBER 105 AMBER PALE full 106 AMBER full 107 AMBER DEEP full 108 STRAW full 109 GOLD full 110 FLAME full 111 ORANGE full 112 SCARLET full 113 CRIMSON full 114 ADRENOCHROME SLEEVE PRESENT — EMPTY 115 RUBY full 116 BLOOD full 117 PLUM full 118 MAGENTA full 119 LAVENDER full 120 CYCLORAMA BLUE full 121 STEEL full 122 SURPRISE PINK full 123 MOONLIGHT full 124 NEUTRAL DENSITY full Twenty theatrical lighting gels, kept at minus twenty-two degrees, filed with the tissue samples, in a cold store nobody could enter without a punched card. They are gels. They are sheets of dyed polyester. There is no reason on earth to refrigerate them and no reason at all to restrict access to them. 114 is a manufacturer's catalogue name for a deep amber-red. That is all it is. That is all it has ever been. The sleeve is here. The sheet is not.
This document is fiction, written for ADRENOCHROME: The Halcyon Protocol. It does not describe any real facility, programme or person.