Spectral Grenade

Item#016: Spectral Grenade			,
Size	146 mm.	Type	Hand grenade.
Living	No.	Conscious	Si.
Hazards	Bodily injury and violent death.	Gear	None, handling similar to that of a common grenade.
Location	Base Seven, Warehouse for Anomalous Weaponry.	Anomaly	Incorporeal entities.

Article instances.

Usage

The Item should be used only as a counter offensive or in attacks in order to reduce the number of enemy forces but it is not completely useful to completely incapacitate them. Each Special Team that obtains permission to use the item will only be allowed one box with six (6) units. It is recommended to use the item only on human targets without abnormal abilities, as well as avoid its use against humanoids and thaumaturges.

Report

The Item consists of a series of 350 gram ANM18 smoke grenades made of black plastic coated steel, with four smoke emitters and a safety on the top. The grenade can be activated like a regular smoke grenade and users are not exposed to any kind of abnormal danger while holding it.

When the safety of the grenade is removed, its anomalous properties will be activated. The grenade will then release a torrent of smoke from its four emitters with a range of three (3) meters at the time of its activation to seven (7) meters after two minutes. Smoke contains a mixture of phosphorus and ash that has the same effect on humans as a regular smoke grenade.

After the first minute of being activated, a series of entities, from now on designated Gray-Alpha, will manifest in the area exposed to the smoke of the article. These entities manifest themselves in a number of between three and four per unit¹ as humanoid silhouettes made of smoke that usually appear as a human torso with arms and head without indistinguishable faces or features, which appear to float or fly through the smoke. Some instances can grow to a full body² and on rare occasions they have skeletal features³.

Gray-Alpha entity during a test demonstration.

The Gray-Alpha entities will attack all living things in and around the smoke exposure area. His attacks consist of direct attacks with his limbs that appear to cause moderate physical damage despite consisting of the same mass of smoke. The attacks can be violent and savage or even visceral, even damaging the clothing and equipment used by those attacked, even if they consist of protective suits made of special materials.

After a lapse of four minutes the smoke clears and the Alpha-Gray instances will disappear. Alpha-Gray instances are immune to physical attacks of any kind including firearms.

Only weapons with anomalous qualities can harm them, and the Department of Thaumaturgy and Hidden Artifacts has shown that instances can be repelled through thaumaturgical work.

Appendix: Anomaly of Interest #53

Anomaly of Interest #53.

The creation of the article was carried out through the use of Article of Interest# 53 - Oriental Jar. The Item of Interest was obtained by the Insurgency through a barter with GoI-132: Marshall, Carter, & Dark Ltd. The item consists of a bowl made of a paste made of quartz and bone ash, with Chinese designs and illustrations.

The main anomaly of the article is activated when the ashes of a deceased are placed in the vase mixed with white powder or phosphorus and the vase is lit. It manifests a humanoid entity made of smoke that manifests itself with the same physiological characteristics of the corpse from which the ashes.

The entity will be passive but will become hostile if provoked and will vanish after four minutes. The Department of Thaumaturgy and Hidden Artifacts discovered a means of refining the vase mixture and preserving its effects through a thaumaturgical ritual. This in combination with [DATA EXPUNGED] allowed the researchers to channel the entities into the smoke grenades for their use already described.

[+] Notice to Insurgent Personnel

Due to the great utility of the article and its surprising performance in open combat, authorization for its mass production has been given: At least ██ dozens of units before the end of the year.

We are aware that the use of the ashes of stolen urns and burned corpses from desecrated graves is no longer working, not to mention that it draws a lot of attention from the authorities. The use of test subjects and prisoners has been helpful, but they don't exactly grow on trees. However I have noticed that all the Alpha-Gray instances that belonged to units made of prisoners' ash were much more aggressive than the average entities. I have done some research and it seems that the more stress and pain the deceased had during the last moments of his death, the more aggressive the Gray-Alpha entities that emerge from his ashes will be, to the point that two and even one can do the better the job that four. It's no secret that most of our prisoners are put under the "Closed Door Interrogation" procedure, so the connection is pretty obvious .

Taking this into account, I propose to create a specific procedure for these subjects that will give us more deadly Gray-Alpha entities and save the Insurgency a fortune in resources and money.

- Doctor Enzy, Item Specialist

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Original: Granada Espectral
Date: 3 Aug 2019
Author: Yorick1
Translator: Yorick1

Footnotes

1. Although there have been cases of up to seven or eight instances appearing in a single activated article.

2. In 21% of cases.

3. In 13% of the cases.