ARG contract terminal // site selection

Voidharrow Extraction

Six entered. One record returned.

Review the posted AM-1 recovery contracts. Select a site. Read the record before you sign.

Open the incident record Review contract doctrine

SITE RX-11 // Derelict ReactorPOSTED

Residual charge // hard cover attested

Single contractor beacon at the reactor spine, stationary, eleven days. Vitals feed reads seated, calm, and cleaning a weapon. Recovery is to be attempted with appropriate caution and, per Psychological Services, appropriate expectations.

ARG CONTRACTS // contract briefing

Recovered audio // Derelict Reactor

CORMORANT-2 Cormorant-2. Day one. Reactor's been cold for years but the warning lights still cycle — Vey says residual charge, I say nothing down here should still be deciding to warn anybody. We hold at the spine tonight. Tell the next rotation the hard cover's real. Use it.

CORMORANT-2 // recovered audio log

SITE CV-07 // Cryo VaultPOSTED

Climate-shelter recovery inside a decommissioned cryogenic vault ring. Occupancy registers disagree with observed pod states; contractors are advised to log both and proceed on the register that pays them. Shelter value: high.

ARG CONTRACTS // contract briefing

Recovered audio // Cryo Vault

CORMORANT-3 Cormorant-3. We sheltered from the whiteout in the vault ring. Sasha swears one of the pods fogged from the inside while she watched. Occupancy register says the pods have been empty since decommission. The register also says we checked in yesterday. We arrived today.

CORMORANT-3 // recovered audio log

SITE SF-02 // Sandstorm FlatsACTIVE

Visibility windows // narrowing

Surface recovery across exposed flats subject to periodic particulate bands. Movement between hard points is to be timed against visibility windows. Contact reports filed during whiteout conditions remain unverified and, accordingly, unpaid.

ARG CONTRACTS // contract briefing

Recovered audio // Sandstorm Flats

CORMORANT-1 Cormorant-1. Visibility's ten meters when the bands come through. We move post to post between them. Something's moving with the bands. Not in them — with them. It waits out the clear spells same as us.

CORMORANT-1 // recovered audio log

SITE AC-09 // Arid Canyon CavesPOSTED

Acoustic carry // sixty meters

Subsurface recovery through a connected canyon cave system with favorable acoustic carry. Audio discipline is contractually mandated. The acoustics are favorable to all parties present.

ARG CONTRACTS // contract briefing

Recovered audio // Arid Canyon Caves

CORMORANT-4 Cormorant-4, sound check. If you can hear this, the caves carry voice about sixty meters. Which is a problem, because we've been hearing sound checks all day and I only started recording an hour ago.

CORMORANT-4 // recovered audio log

SITE RD-05 // Refinery DepotACTIVE

Junction activity // recurring

Recovery along the primary fuel-transfer loop of a decommissioned refinery. Route markings recovered from prior contractor material are not ARG guidance and should not be treated as predictive. The objective loop is rated passable.

ARG CONTRACTS // contract briefing

Recovered survey note // Refinery Depot

FIELD SURVEY A body folded into a pipe alley alcove with a fuel-transfer schematic clutched against its chest — a route through the objective loop marked in grease pencil, with one junction circled and the words CORMORANT WAS RIGHT scratched beside it. The circled junction is where the bursts always start.

FIELD SURVEY // recovered survey material

SITE CRM-06 // Void-Bloom SpireDEFERRED

Site deferred // relay still transmitting

Aphelion Recovery Group returns compromised industrial assets to human use. Six contractors entered Site CRM-06 under an ordinary recovery contract. The site is deferred. The team is non-recovered. Their record is public now — read it before you sign.

Final-phase extraction from a deferred site, reopened by client demand. Team Cormorant's route markers remain valid to level three. ARG thanks Team Cormorant for their contribution and reminds all contractors that site markers found above level three were not placed by us.

ARG CONTRACTS // contract briefing

Contract: Recovery // CRM-06
Team: Six contractors
Status: Non-recovered
Site: Deferred

Final recovered entry // deferred site

CORMORANT-1 Cormorant-1, last entry. It's not a nest. Nests hold young. This holds drafts. Every level up, the shapes get closer to right. We found suits from teams ARG never listed on level three — and level four is wearing them better. Vey and Sasha stopped answering an hour ago, but I can still hear them. They're rehearsing. If ARG sends anyone else: the extraction bonus is not. Worth. The—

The recording continues for nine minutes. The voice does too, but the words stop being his.

CORMORANT-1 // recovered audio log

ARG relay beacon // official reply, still transmitting

ARG RELAY MSG RECEIVED CORMORANT-1. STATUS UPDATED: TEAM CORMORANT — NON-RECOVERED. SITE STATUS: DEFERRED. BONUS CLAUSE: VOID. RELAY WILL REPEAT THIS MESSAGE UNTIL ACKNOWLEDGED.

ARG RELAY // recovered terminal record

02Contract doctrine

The five-phase recovery loop: deploy, recover, decide, endure, withdraw.

Open record 03Site advisories

Recovered behavioural analysis of the organisms that watch before they hunt.

Open record 04Contractor registry

Seven specializations. Coverage doctrine for a six-contractor formation.

Open record 05Issued systems

Requisition doctrine for primary, defensive, utility, and recovery hardware.

Open record 07Transmissions

Official development updates, verified, logged, and archived for transparency.

Open record