Here's one that I just knocked out. Probably not scary enough directly, but I think the indirect kind of works. Keep in mind that some portions of the log might not make sense - this is just what was written. EXSURGENT VIRUS FILE VECTOR: NANOVIRUS (PRIMARY) / NANOPLAGUE (SECONDARY) CLASS: XENOMORPH STRAIN:[i]DONAUGH-CAITLIN[/i] INFECTION RISK: MODERATE/DISPUTED XENOSPECIES NAME: IRISH QUEEN SAPIENT: YES [i] //SELECT_LOGS/EXSURGENT/EIRE/ROSCOMMON/DONAUGH-CAITLIN_FIRST_REPORT// RELEASE DATE 04-15-09 AF Dr. Donaugh Brennan, MD/NA (Nano Analysis), Holy-Eire Medical Center of Greater Roscommon, Reporting ENTRY 0 - Subject brought to hospital within 4 hours of infection, at 06:15 AM Local. Subject is a Splicer Female (Natural Body), Caucasian, Brown Hair, Blue Eyes, with ravenous hunger and cancerous growths. [u]+INITIAL CHART+[/u] ENTRY 1 - Initial Infection Point 4 Hours (APPROXIMATE) Subject's appetite has increased massively, with no waste products being produced. It appears that the undigested materials are being placed into cancerous growths, which we are removing and analyzing. ENTRY 2 - Initial Infection Point 6 Hours, Secondary Infection Point 0:15 Hours Bad idea on analyzing the growths. Two of them infected my helpers, Fearghal Quinlan and Ellis Nic Dierdre-O'Casey, who have quarantined themselves. They are currently self-reporting on the changes, with Ellis transcribing the voices she is currently hearing... The parts that speak in English and Gaelic are extremely disturbing, and describe high-end mathematics that none of us have seen before... Initial Subject has been identified as Caitlin Curren, age 18, of Mote Park. Caitlin is mostly unresponsive to others except to seek food. For the safety of the staff and patients, I have banned all attempts to feed her. [u]+ELLIS_NIC_DIERDRE_INFECTION_TRANSCRIPTION+[/u] ENTRY 3 - Initial Infection Point 6:30 Hours, Secondary 0:45 Hours (EXACT) Official Orders WERE to feed Caitlin and see how the infection develops. Then she killed the orderly and started eating it... Ellis and Fearghal have been helpful in tracking the infection in their bodies. We have never seen anything like this virus, with its twists and turns that seem to... Ellis has stated that she wishes to see if she and Caitlin would either help each other attempt to feed, or if they will fight instead. Either way, neither will be let loose. The changes in Caitlin are startling now that she has been fed. I believe that those are budding limbs below her shoulder blades, and indirect ultrasounds are indicating new organs. What ever this virus is, I fear the worse should it be released into the general population. The problem is, Caitlin is most probably not the only case... ENTRY 4 - Initial Infection Point 7 Hours, Secondary 1:15 Hours Fearghal attempted a short ancestor ritual to comfort himself. Whatever happened, he quickly attempted to kill himself. He was sedated after he started screaming that he "and all the other infected are better off dead! You'll be safer then!". Ellis agrees with him. Caitlin has finished growing her new limbs, with the torso lengthening to accommodate the new sockets. Two support structures have been created to maintain a new trio of semi-floating short-range pincers, and a new pair of smaller arms has grown just behind and below her orginal arms. Of her original limbs, the legs are currently useless as they finish reforming, while one arm has tripled in length and joints and has begun growing a set of claws - the other has only increased by a factor of 1.5, but with growths that remind me of fencing daggers - the optimization for attack and defense is obvious. While her face has begun changes to its structure, those have stopped due to a lack of materials. The result is rather horrifying, but intriguing in the fractal patterns shown in the bone structure. UPDATE - NANO IMMUNOLOGY LABS - VIRUS RESPONDS TO ALL ATTEMPTS TO DEFEAT IT. MANNER OF RESPONSE SIMILAR TO VARIOUS OTHER VIRUS SAMPLES SENT TO US. POSSIBLE ALL VIRII ARE FROM SAME MANUFACTURER. SUGGEST QUARANTINE, WITH EXTERMINATION OPTION. ENTRY 5 - Initial Infection 7:15 Hours, Secondary 1:30 Hours Caitlin has become responsive, but with apparent severe personality changes. She demands food, referring to herself as a "Queen", and has stated to a few orderlies that they "would make good mates". She has just begun attempting to gain food by promising sexual favors to anybody that passes by. Nobody has taken her up on the offer. As for the "mates' part, Ellis has flat-out stated that the "new personality" in her head agrees with, and this a direct quotation, "Fellow-Queen Caitlin". Her eyes have changed significantly, more than Caitlin's. Ellis' eyes now appear to have one faceted, with remnants of her previous green cat eyes present. The other eye has remained normal. ANNOTATION ENTRY 5: Ellis has told me that she will never cooperate with Caitlin, stating that both of them are Queens, and will therefore fight to establish dominance. I just wish that she would tell me more about what sort of species she is apparently turning into. If I can establish the primary social changes, we can pinpoint what post-human extremist terrorist group has created this. ENTRY 6 - Initial 8:42 Hours, Secondary 2:57 Hours Fearghal has demanded again that we kill him. Ellis is ambivalent about dieing, stating that the changes are fascinating. Caitlin has been fed again, this time with corpses. We are thinking about feeding the other two the same diet. Currently, her changes are almost complete, with very few incomplete parts showing. Indirect ultrasound has shown no interior organ changes for almost 32 minutes. Facial structure is now very predatory, with an elongated mouth, and cheeks formed of 12 claw-tipped fingers that have 6 joints each. Legs have increased in length, gaining spikes and blades, with 4 joints that swap their direction of bend. Interestingly, she has also just defecated by releasing the growths from her body. The virus has probably gained enough materials. ENTRY 7 - Initial 9 Hours, Secondary 3:15 Hours. Fearghal just managed to kill himself. We have no idea how he got the accelerants required to immolate himself, as all electrical devices around him failed for two minutes prior to the start of the fire. He had yet to go through any changes. Ellis is happily eating at a pile of bodies. Those poor souls never stood a chance when the riot squads opened fire. The same changes that began in Caitlin are beginning in her, starting with the statement "The old Ellis is gone. The old Queen is gone. Ellis-Queen begins now, Doctor. I will consume you last, after saving you by the best means possible". The official response is "That's creepy. Kinda sweet, but still creepy." Caitlin has attempted to form a nest, and is demanding mates. Well, we guess she wants mates. The facial structure makes it hard to tell what she's saying when it mangles Gaelic like that. ENTRY FINAL - Initial 10:45 Hours, Secondary 5 Hours. Ellis has finished her transformation. She just broke out of quarantine and demanded that we upload ourselves to various stations. She stated "The attack is coming, get out now." before doing something to me that could be termed sexual assault. Still not sure how to feel about that, especially since I had given her permission previously to save me as she saw fit. She then killed Caitlin, who had just broken out of her own quarantine. We're uploading as many people as possible, since that's our best chance to help avoid spreading the contamination. I don't know how many people we're going to save, but that's our job. Eire go Brach, Donaugh Brennan. ANNOTATION - 2 days later Uploading failed. I have no idea what Ellis is doing, although reports that the Exsurgents are turning against each other gives me some hope in the matter. We're making our way to an physical evac point, since the TITANs can't hack what has computers too primitive for them to conceive of. {FIREWALL NOTE} It is known that the TITANS can hack into most primitive computers, as long as they have a connection method. The Irish government of the time either did not know, or lied to prevent panic over the possibility of the transports being hacked {/FIREWALL NOTE} ANNOTATION - 3AF I just saw her name on a passenger manifest. Ellis-Banrion inion Fathaigh, onboard the [/i]Angel Tiger[i], lost with all 6 hands and 124 passengers four months ago. The name she whispered in my ears those years ago. I don't know what to say, especially after I had to squat in a asteroid miner's shack after running away with the daughter she got me pregnant with. My little Queen, Eire-Banrion inion Ellis... [u]+EIRE_BANRION_BABY_PICTURES+[/u] [/i] Named after its first known victim and the doctor that calmly reported what was going on (right up until the end, as evidenced by the annotation she added to the log that she distributed), the Donaugh-Caitlin strain is a typical xenomorph class Exsurgent virus in that the virus forces the victim to eat large amounts in an attempt to gain the materials required to create a physical and psychological change. Unlike other strains, it is directly mentally resistible in some forms, until the virus grows frustrated and causes immolation of the patient. Also, it appears that the goal of the virus is the perpetuation of the species it creates, commonly called the IRISH QUEEN, leading many in Firewall to believe that it is possible to coexist with it, as it focuses primarily on infecting only enough hosts to create a genetically diverse population. The main issue of coexistence arises from the fact that only 15% of all IRISH QUEENS are capable of coherent communication - the rest regard us as servants, food sources, and/or kidnappers (as evidenced by 45% of all attacks by them - the attackers start screaming about kidnappers in their native tongue while attempting to kill everything). At least one experiment in coexistence has been performed, but increasing tensions between the competing psychologies lead the station into warfare, exacerbated by the communicative IRISH QUEENS being split between culling both populations of aggressive individuals and abandoning the project station. At least 5 Queens escaped, with no leads of where they went. The psychology of the IRISH QUEEN is, according to many experts, "fascinating". It is primarily understandable in that the IRISH QUEEN has similar needs - food, shelter, water, air, and sex. The primary difference is in the entertainment that they prefer, which is nigh-incomprehensible to ordinary transhumans, with the exception of some poetry. A few sculpture pieces have sold for large sums recently. The IRISH QUEEN appears to have four biological sexes - Male, Female, Drone, and Queen, but the difference between DRONE and the sexes of MALE and FEMALE is disputed. Currently, the virus creates only QUEENS, who are functional hermaphrodites and can give birth to the other sexes. The physical form is based around a near quadrupedal form, optimized for crawling through large tunnels. The torso is 1.25 to 2.5 meters long, with two pairs of primary arms behind the skull, a trio of short-length (15cm to 45cm) climbing arms in the middle, and the end pelvic region has two legs. The skull is set inline with the spine, with asymmetric eyes (one is the same as the infected morph's original eyes, the other is two to three times as large, with faceting) and a 10-15cm jaw, with cheeks formed of 12 "fingers" (6 per side of jaw) with 6 joints each, ending in claws. The primary arms are split into two pairs - fighting and manipulator. The manipulator set are similar to normal Transhuman arms, with a second elbow, greater rotation in the wrists, and a second thumb. Length is comparable to normal Transhuman arms (approx. 75-115cm). The fighting set is asymmetric, with the asymmetry depending on the specimen. One arm is 225-345cm long, with 9 high flexibility joints, and ends with 4 blade-like claws. The other is 150-230cm long, and covered in bony growths optimized for stopping melee attacks. The climbing arms have 3 ball-and-socket joints each, with a crude, but high strength, hand at the end of them. The legs (have four joints, which alternate the direction of bend. The legs end in a highly prehensile two-ended foot, which can either fold to grasp items or supports, or can fold out to support the body in a semi-upright position. (Which some fans of a very old game series have described as "standing like a chocobo with scary arms welded on. Those who have seen pictures of the reference agree) FILE INCOMPLETE - SEARCHING FOR MISSING PORTIONS