HRC-ENV-1112

Environmental logger tape, 12–13 November 1986

Dated: 12–13 November 1986
Kind: System log
Chapter: Chapter One: The Nightwatch Ledger

Four channels every ten minutes. The lamp current channel tells the whole story.

Full text as recovered

ENVIRONMENTAL LOGGER — PUNCHED TAPE — DECODED
CHANNELS: TEMP °F / RH % / DOOR STATE / LAMP CURRENT (0-15)

TIME    TEMP  RH   DOOR    LAMP
21:50   66    41   CLOSED  00
22:00   66    41   OPEN    00
22:10   66    42   CLOSED  15     <- fixture to full
22:20   66    42   CLOSED  15
...
(unchanged, every reading, for eighty-four consecutive samples)
...
12:10   61    39   CLOSED  15
12:20   61    39   CLOSED  00     <- fixture off
12:30   61    39   OPEN    00

FOURTEEN HOURS AND SIX MINUTES AT FULL CURRENT.

The door channel records exactly two transitions in the entire night: open at
22:00, and open again at 12:30 the following day.

Between those two readings the ward door does not open once.

Whatever the night watch log describes happening at 04:19, it did not happen
through that door.

This document is fiction, written for ADRENOCHROME: The Halcyon Protocol. It does not describe any real facility, programme or person.

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