The Liability and Nongeneric Injuries Department

Summary:

"Have you been injured by a rogue item? An escaping Prisoner of War? Well, do we have the Chaos Insurgency department for you!"

The Liability and Nongeneric Injuries Department

DoctorLilithSophia 17 Oct 2023 22:23

The LNI are the solution to all of your workplace problems!

The Liability and Nongeneric Injuries Department is a manifestation within certain Chaos Insurgency sites. It acts as a cognitohazard to the permanent staff in that site, specifically making them believe that the LNI are a proper department within the Chaos Insurgency. Any attempt by outsiders to interact with the entities that manifest with the LNI offices in affected sites will be met by complete and utter gibberish, making it hard to make verbal arrangements with them. The most effective solutions are to either purge the department and use memory altering items to make them forget about the department, or just ignore them. The general narrative of the item goes from purging protocols to at the end a proposal to delete the page from the item arsenal due to inaccurate information and the LNI not being anything more than a worker's compensation department. Essentially, it's implied all if not most sites will have been affected due to reports I'll put in the middle about happier workers.

Re: The Liability and Nongeneric Injuries Department

Zesc 18 Oct 2023 19:06

Items usually tend to have some use for the Insurgency, else such things tend not to be around for long. Also, compare out other non existing departments. (And mind SCHEMA … if you can.)

So an approach for this concept would be flipping it be useful in some way — mayhaps to simply /dev/null/ compensation claims and sand bag any external recourse (I know a rather litigous god or two).

Other questions that can help you find ideas:

1. Does it also affect other organizations? If not, what makes the Insurgency special?
2. If these are "entities" which "manifest", where do they come from? Can we use this as a source of disposable bodies?
3. There is no such thing as gibberish. What can we do to try an understand them? Is it dangerous to try that?
4. How are we certain they aren't a proper department and not a normal department that got partly erased from memory/reality?
5. If you can just ignore them, why do we even bother with purging?

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Eschew elucidation, espouse obfuscation.

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Re: The Liability and Nongeneric Injuries Department

DoctorLilithSophia 18 Oct 2023 23:31

Oh, that's a rather fun way to flip on my idea without changing it too much!

With the flip to the format, I'm going to say that it affects other organizations as well, though it initially infected almost the entire insurgency before it was discovered they were essentially harmless. The entities are unable to be used as extra bodies to be thrown at threats outside of emergencies to their sites due to their dedication to their position at the LNI. It's unknown where they come from, though scans of the area using reality manipulation detection devices (I will have to find the proper term, I cannot conjure it currently), it spikes when one appears. If you are outside of the effect of the item, the words of manifested entities prove to just be jumbles of unrelated and impossible for humans to produce sounds. When a translator who is under the effect is present, the same "word" in the entity's "language" proves to be different every time. We can't be sure they aren't just wiped out of the general Insurgency mind due to antimemetics. The attempted purging of the department is only due to the initial perceived threat, and it is later discovered they are harmless. If you were a high ranking member in a militaristic organization and a department just manifests out of nowhere, what would you do? Frankly, I would attempt to kill them.

Anyways, thank you for the criticism!

Re: The Liability and Nongeneric Injuries Department

Zesc 20 Oct 2023 15:26

Extra Bodies:

Well, there are extra bodies, and then there are extra bodies. If some Aztec Sun God wants a still beating heart for a sacrifice and these guys are around, you'd be forgiven if you cocked you gun whilst saying "let's be liable for some non-generic injuries".

Reality Manipulation Detection Devices:

Somewhere amongst my sandboxed drafts is the concept of a "Mandela Canary", an unspecified measure by which alterations to the timeline can be detected. The name, naturally, refers both to the Mandela Effect and the security meaning of Canary. These might be fun to play with, considering they only tell you a change happened, but not what it was. _{(I'm sure the SCP community would have immediately techno-babbled a whole textbook on these magical, "fix my flawed writing" devices which handwave away all their problems and imply such a deep understanding that the "anomaly" would be, in fact, thoroughly explained. But alas…)}

Language

Interesting, though this doesn't seem like something a linguist would give up over, I mean... If they are a department, they most certainly also produce paperwork, huh? Is the writing similarily weird?

Killing

Going directly for the kill seems brash, and brash doesn't live long. Especially if they trickle in gradually. One guy working a job you never heard about is something you can accept.¹ One more in his department? Sure. But there will come the point where you wonder if something is fishy (hold on, can it be used for infiltration tasks) and by that time, you rather lean back and observe some more. If said high-ranking member is somebody competent, they will certain know that anomalies hardly ever are what they seem at first.

Footnotes

1. If you are ever bored, check the Wikipedia list of your country's federal agencies and services. Chances are there are entire, thousands-strong bureaucracies you never knew existed before. Now why.

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Eschew elucidation, espouse obfuscation.

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Re: The Liability and Nongeneric Injuries Department

DoctorLilithSophia 20 Oct 2023 18:54

Again, thank you so much for more criticism!

Yeah, the kill might be a bit much. I'll workshop that. Maybe something like trying to nonviolently evacuate them before realizing the benefit. As for the paperwork, they do infact produce it. They are thick documents of legalese, full of latin phrases that actual lawyers have never heard of, and averaging about 500 or so pages. People afflicted by the item seem to understand it completely. Also, I do think I'll be incorporating the Mandela Canary, if not here, then some other item.

Thank you, again! I got a good laugh from that comic. I'm not proud to admit that.

Re: The Liability and Nongeneric Injuries Department

Meta Wonderrat 22 Oct 2023 02:55

Do you have a working draft?
Also, is that language just a good rotating cypher? If things change their meaning and the same sounds mean different things my mind goes to Enigma encryption, with sounds instead of letters.

A full new branch of Legalese? I believe we can scam people with that.

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Fighting Monsters and Language since 2016.

Re: The Liability and Nongeneric Injuries Department

DoctorLilithSophia 22 Oct 2023 22:31

I do not have a working draft yet I was not sure if the concept was fleshed out enough to start on one.
Also, if it was, it would be a very complex one. Sounds have never been repeated in the same meaning.
Scam time! Insurgency legal firm, perhaps.