The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Paranormal Research Confidential Division has completed the report of compiled documents regarding the incident involving the "House of Flies", and is summed up in the following:

  Re: House of Flies

  Completed documentation preceding.

  THE HOUSE OF FLIES INCIDENT WAS CAREFULLY MONITORED BY THOSE INVOLVED. ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED WAS REMOEVD FROM THE CAMERA DEVICE FOUND WITH THE FOUR INDIVIDUALS IN QUESTION AT THE EDGE OF TOWN, FOLLOWING THE COLLAPSE OF THE UNNAMED FORCES HALTING FBI:PR INVOLVEMENT.

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  I've tried to type up this document as best I could for hours. I've followed protocol on the heading, and I just can't seem to get my brain to accept that protocol is good enough to contain all of my feelings on what we've just spent the past God knows how many days and nights pouring over those video files as a team.

  This is probably the biggest Event that we've dealt with since- well, frankly, since the initial Grantham incident. Agent Jakub Bartosz was released by the FBI, but was unfairly dismissed by higher ups at the PR division for the following decade-and-a-half. If we'd recruited the bastard, there's a chance we could've avoided the entire fiasco that coincided with the subpar, barebones investigation he was forced into conducting. I mean, seriously, hairspray cans as weapons against demon fly swarms? I'm not even suggesting that's unbelievable- we've seen similar before- but he went up against that with cans of hairspray.

  Unbelievable. I've already scheduled a hearing with the bureaucratic assholes who let him slip through the cracks. You'd better believe their assholes are going to be fried.

  I know you'll want some kind of official report following the "capture" of the survivors of the incident, but you're just going to have to make do with what you get, because I'm running off no sleep and 18 cups of coffee.

  They handled collection outside city limits well. If anything, they seemed relieved to see us. Blaine [REDACTED] surrendered the camera immediately, and requested that before questioning commence, he be allowed to shower, as, and I quote, "I'm covered in my own rotting guts". I was on scene for this, and was also present for the hysterical laughter that this sent Jakub Bartosz into.

  Alex [REDACTED] will need a psych evaluation and a more in-depth analysis of what he recalls from his time with the video game he completed. During his preliminary interview, he explained his bravery as a "sudden understanding of why he'd been spared at all, this time". He believed it was his holy duty to destroy the creature the cult worshipped as a deity, as it was initially the one that was supposed to kill him.

  Emma [REDACTED] refused answers until she was able to hear about the status of her family. Thanks to the efforts of Alois Brigette, however, her family was safely recovered from a maximum quarantine situation; the house was completely unsalvageable, but her efforts were able to save Emma's entire family. Following questions, she simply explained that she felt that the existence of the "other journal"- which we have confiscated, before you ask- seemed to compound on the idea that "this Blaine" was to be trusted. I have never encountered someone so... oddly firm. I have suggested an evaluation of her psychic abilities; she has shown no physical reaction to any hidden stimuli presented, but there's something about her that suggests these potential "iterations" have not left nothing behind on her. It is my professional opinion that we keep an eye on her.

  As for Blaine [REDACTED], that should go without saying. The logic he suggested during his interview was that his powers within the other "iterations" were gifted to him by the murder of Emma [REDACTED], kickstarting the end of the world in each and every scenario with a 0% deviation rate, apart from minor variables. In this iteration, for whatever reason, a previous "other Blaine" changed. The "other" suggests that this is simply because he became bored, but there is no other data to suggest otherwise, so we're at a bit of a standstill there. We can't fathom the sudden change after so many repeated iterations in which total annihilation was achieved without fail.

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  We also can't explain how these iterations existed at all. It's unclear if we ever will. Obviously, something triggered a sort of loop- a time loop?- in which these events played out again and again. It was apparently the belief of both Weiss and Grantham that these events were on repeat for the sake of repeated suffering, but Alex is under the impression that the loop was created as an attempt at allowing us to try again.

  And I quote, directly from his recorded interview:

  "He can't do things Himself. He can't change anything directly. Everything has to be done by us. It all makes so much sense to me. He wanted us to fix things. He couldn't stop Blaine, or Weiss, or Grantham... but He did still bend the rules of reality. There's so many implications of just that- I can't help but wonder if He made a mistake. But surely... God never makes mistakes, right?"

  Obviously, we're science and evidence based here, but I figured we can't rule out his input. This whole situation is beyond the ken of our department, even with all we've seen and done. Someone could come in here and suggest leprechauns were behind the entire thing, and I'd consider it.

  Which brings me back to Blaine.

  Blaine has definitely been impacted by the event, and I'm not talking about a psych eval. Under close observation, we've noticed he seems to be reacting to something we can't see in his vicinity. Cameras don't capture anything, but at the same time, the cameras were behaving oddly whenever it came to him. We swapped him between rooms, but still, footage was... odd. It's not even simple to put to words. Blaine seemed capable of spotting all of the cameras- yes, even the hidden ones- upon entry of any room we settled him into. This seemed at first to be subconscious, but as we moved him between rooms, Blaine became more aware of this "ability" of his. On a whim, I moved him into a room with Emma, and after a small exchange, Blaine suggested that he knew why we had placed them together. He pointed up at a camera, and once Emma was looking, he dragged his finger in a direction. The camera followed it, physically, by twisting in its sockets.

  This suggests that Blaine has gained some sort of ability from the destruction of his "other self", but we're going to have to run tests to see just how far these abilities run. Emma was unsurprised, to say the least, which is another point of interest we need to keep in mind.

  While I understand your sentiments in allowing Jim Anders and Jakub Bartosz to retire with sizable pensions, I believe it more prudent to offer them positions within the PR Division. Bartosz has shown unbelievable foresight and immense resilience to have survived over the course of 15 years, when so many of his peers did not. At the very least, I suggest this because setting him free might ultimately be his undoing. Bartosz has not been still or relaxed for over 15 years. Sudden freedom could be detrimental to his life, and I'm not being dramatic.

  Jim Anders, similarly, showcased exceptional loyalty and mental fortitude throughout the entire series of events. Despite a lack of any inherently exceptional qualities, the man was a solid, intelligent entity in these events; his ability to think on his feet shouldn't be dismissed. I consider him less of a danger to himself than Bartosz, but only minimally- he is still what they called a "Lost One". One can only guess at how the sudden closure of events surrounding Jake Grantham will affect him.

  We will have to be careful how we proceed with Emma. Her family has been questioning her retention- obviously, they seemed to have figured out that their daughter was not on the scenic romp across the country that she had initially suggested she was going on, but there is only so much we- and she- can tell them, particularly if we plan to hold her for testing. Considering Blaine's dependence and possessive nature toward her, which has not abated since the destruction of the entity coded "The Others", we need to progress very carefully. If Blaine has even an iota of the control I'm beginning to guess at, then he could be a considerably powerful ally, or a highly dangerous enemy. My hunch is that this will be determined by our treatment toward Emma. At the very least, while she's been staying in our facilities, he has shown zero inclination toward leaving on his own.

  That about sums up my experience so far with these events. You'll receive the dossier of transcripts, along with all of the files themselves, by hand, including recordings of all of the interviews.

  Let me know what your decision is. While I trust your judgement, I really, really think we need to be very, very careful when it comes to Blaine [REDACTED]. We don't want him to be another [REDACTED].

  Scott [REDACTED]

  Deputy Director

  Federal Bureau of Investigation

  Paranormal Research Division