Lee Edwards: Training for Anomaly Containment and First Mission

Unexpected Recruitment and Training

• 💡 Lee Edwards receives an unexpected promotion and is recruited as a Containment Team Lead for KF-based anomalies.
• 🚀 He is sent to a secret facility in Switzerland, informally known as the Thunderdome, for specialized training.
• 👥 Edwards joins a team of recruits (Thatcher, Miller, Dwire, Homegrren), each having survived direct field exposure to anomalies.

Understanding the Curier Field

• 🧠 Dr. Krueger introduces "resonance literacy" and the Curier field (KF), describing it as a living entity that reacts to conviction and belief.
• 🔬 Experiments demonstrate the KF's responsiveness to various inputs, forming harmonized wave patterns with belief.

Specialized Tools: The Wand

• 🛠️ Recruits are issued the KF-DND Mark 5 "wand," a multi-functional tool for detecting, nullifying, and destabilizing the Curier field.
• ⚡ The wand's burst function can rapidly heal wounds at low settings or level buildings at high settings, though it is initially set to training mode.
• ⚠️ The null function can perform "exorcisms" on possessed hosts (with risks), provide cloaking against NCEs, and act as a shield for up to two hours.

Entity Classification and Wand Application

• 📚 Entities are classified into Non-Corporeal Entities (NCEs), Corporeal Entities (CEs) Type A (concentrated KF energy), and Type B (NCEs possessing hosts).
• 🚫 The burst function is explicitly forbidden on Type A CEs as it would supercharge them, making them more powerful.
• ✅ For Type B CEs, using the burst function requires immediate shield activation to prevent the NCE from escaping to another host.

Additional Equipment and First Mission

• 💳 Other tools include a matte black card for protection, tracking, and mobile KF sensing, and a "field sphere" for creating protected zones and generating power for forward operating bases.
• 🚨 The team, now designated QRCT-US-13, is unexpectedly activated for an urgent mission in Georgia involving KF anomalies, unlawful human experimentation, and ties to "Penumbra."
• 🎯 Objectives include capturing or neutralizing the operator, securing subjects, triaging Type B CEs, isolating NCEs, and maintaining the veil of secrecy.