Why this story is told on paper
The records office, the day book, and the difference between a record and a system
Halcyon kept eight separate paper systems that were never designed to be read against each other. That is exactly why they can be.
adrenochrome.org
Case files
Background on the Halcyon Research Complex, the people who worked there, and the programme that ran on its sub-level. Everything in this section is fiction written for the game.
Who was in the building on 12 November 1986
Four people were on shift that night. Four faces have been scored out of the staff photograph.
The duty roster, the time cards, the visitor register and the night watch log all name the same four people. So does the damage to a framed photograph in the locker room.
The observation protocol, in plain language
What a night at Halcyon actually consisted of, from admission to the morning interview
Eight hours, one fixture, one observer, one chart. The procedure was simple enough to fit on a card, which is what makes the deviations from it so easy to see.
Colour designation 114
What "adrenochrome" means inside this story, and what it does not
In this game the word is the catalogue name of a lighting gel and nothing else. Here is the in-world provenance of that name, why the programme used it, and why one sleeve in the vault is empty.
The Halcyon Research Complex
What was built on the headland at Cold Harbor, and what each floor of it was for
Four floors, two of them below the waterline, built for a sleep laboratory that ran for eight years and closed in a fortnight. A plain description of the building the game takes place in.