Mission Log: ILLUM PX - 006

=Mission Log: ILLUM PX – 006=

Self-selected mission file report of Agent Sepp “Pixie” for {redacted}, a citizen working at a steel mill in {redacted}. {redacted} contacted Agent Sepp on {redacted}'s recommendation due to events in ILLUM PX – 003. Senior agents felt the job best performed by someone with more experience, Agent Sepp refused any aid from New York headquarters.

Initial Reports
An employee of {redacted}, {redacted} suffered from burns due to a spilled crucible at 2:17 PM. Employee's description of the events on the incident report form are as follows.

I was following procedure. {redacted} and {redacted} could see me, but were not touching anything attached to the crucible. Suddenly, like a pint of the metal inside flew out. I swear, it just launched itself somehow out of the crucible and splattered all over me. I didn't believe the rumors about this place, but these crucibles are fucked up.

Employee {redacted}'s incident report is identical to reports from sixteen other workers. See appendices 1b through 1q. Behavior began on {redacted} after re-modeling of the employer's central crucibles. {redacted} contacted Agent Sepp to analyze why crucible's seemed to be “spitting” at fellow employees. Agent Sepp was contacted after {redacted} suffered severe facial burns costing {redacted} several hundred thousand in worker's compensation. Employer could not be reached for comment.

Investigation
Agent Sepp performed initial location reports on re-modelled crucibles.

'''Log One ''' These things are big. No idea what the hell I'm looking for. Okay, they look like the picture except for some cool metal designs on the sides. Photographs attached.

Log Three {redacted} industries installed the new crucibles. I've interviewed the sixteen workers on that job. One of them, {redacted} seemed edgy about the whole situation. In order to get him to open up some I took him out for drinks and we made a night of it. The next morning he was happy to tell me everything I wanted to know. He was paid by an unknown contractor to put certain objects on some of the crucibles. Most of them were metal sculptures of some sort. He felt that this was odd, but didn't think much of it until one of the crucibles reacted when he installed the statue. Crucible #4, the same one that had been causing burns. When he placed the metal sculpture on it, it briefly flashed a golden colour. I need to investigate this further.

Log Seven I've found the sculpture that {redacted} mentioned. The object used for the fourth crucible is not the same as the one for all the others. {redacted} claims to not know why this one is different looking than the others. I believe him. I've attached a photo of the object. It seems to be made out of a peculiar silver-alloy that mixes in titanium and iron. I've never even heard of anyone doing anything like this, much less why. After removal of the object, the situation with the crucible seems to have calmed down.

Appendum
Agent Pixie attempted to delve further into this object by requesting Acquistion Log: ILLUM 412 However, acquisition logs between 400 and 450 have been filed as confidential to only senior agents. The object was stored in Vault {redacted} located in {redacted}.