I’ve attached here the transcript from the O5 meeting before the "Caesar Incident". It’s part of the last-minute backup that Site-01 performed as part of Stage 3 Containment Breach Protocols. If anyone asks where those backups are stored, you can tell them the same thing I told you – it’s beyond their clearance.

But if they do approach you, and confront you about the situation, I’d rather you have a direct answer. Also, transcripts tend to be more convincing than recall.

You’re probably hoping this is going to end soon. I’m sorry you’ve gone through this, it obviously wasn’t in our plan for you when we inducted you into the council. But, if you could keep up our gambit a little longer I would be appreciative. I’m unconvinced your cohorts are ready to know what happened to their predecessors, and I don’t want to ask Al Fine and Johnson to help clean up another May 13th. I don't even want the thought of pulling a Caesar Event in their heads. The GOC and the UIU already have enough dangling over my head as is.

I’m sure you’ve been keeping tabs on your fellow Council’s progress. They’re growing closer than either of us wanted, but I’m not surprised. When you get enough smart people together, they tend to surpass your expectations.

O5-1 is present in the O5 Council Conference Room. He is working at a laptop in front of him, beside which sits a cup of coffee.

Computer: Access Granted. You have five minutes to complete an action before the session automatically shuts down.

O5-1: [to himself] Fucking unmutable reminders…

Two minutes pass before the remaining council members except for O5-13 enter the room. O5-1 is already present, and O5-13 is missing.

O5-1: You're all here! Great, wouldn't want one of you to be off-site for this.

O5-4: One, what’s this about? I know you’ve been going through a phase lately, but emergency meetings demand a real emergency.

O5-1: Oh, it’s an emergency alright.

O5-8: Then spit it out. We have a breach? New XK level threat?

O5-1: No, it’s more of something under Two’s jurisdiction. We have an internal affairs issue.

O5-1 motions to the coffee.

O5-1: One of you bastards thought I would actually drink this.

O5-11: Someone didn’t give you enough sugar?

O5-1: No, too much arsenic.

Computer: You have three minutes to complete an action before the session automatically shuts down.

O5-8: [motions to computer] Do you want to finish with that?

O5-1: That pain-in-the-ass can be patient.

O5-4: Wait, wait. You think one of us tried to kill you with your… coffee.

O5-1: Oh, don’t act like that’s below you or some bull shit. I know you’ve all been out to bury my ass.

O5-5: One, calm down. I know we’ve had our differences but—

O5-1: But what? It’s not like this is the first time one of you has tried to fuck me over. I know your guys once tried to infiltrate one of my transports.

O5-5: Infiltrate? He was assigned to fill in for—

O5-7: It’s no use, Five. The man can't think straight anymore.

O5-1: Oh really? Who’s the one here with his head so far up Marshall’s ass he can taste the caviar?

O5-7: You’re accusing me of selling out?

O5-1: No, no. I’m accusing all of you of selling out, or being out for yourself or some shit. You’ve all gone soft. It used to be ”if it don’t make sense, throw it in a cage”. Now it's “let’s measure it, look into it, figure out what we know, then make sure it doesn’t bother anyone”. That’s not containment. That’s sitting idly and hoping the public doesn’t find it. My god, we’ve started outsourcing to pet shelters!

O5-4: You know, if this is a problem we can just calm down and rethink our stances on a few things.

O5-1: That won’t change shit. Half of you are under someone’s thumb and the other half of you are so fucked up you need a cell of your own.

O5-7: Says the man who suggested we drink from the Fountain of Youth.

O5-1: Well, Seven you’re right. I’m about as far from baseline as the rest of you. Like, goddamn it anomalies are essentially running this organization. Ten’s learned how to do magic from the library. I need to take a whole cocktail of drugs just to remember Eight exists.

Computer: You have two minutes to complete an action before the session automatically shuts down.

O5-1: [to the computer] Shut up goddamn it!

O5-10: We're getting off topic. You said someone poisoned you. What about Thirteen? He’s not even here!

O5-1: That’s because I sent him to talk to Nobody.

O5-10: Why?

O5-1: Because he’s the only one I trust. He’s the only one I don’t need to have this chat with. He’s the only normal person on this whole fucking Council. We plucked him off the streets, and just started asking him “do you think this is weird?” I’m not worried about someone whose movements we’ve been able to monitor since he came out of the uterus. You fuckers— I don’t know what you all did before you showed up here. For all I know you’re just eldritch abominations waiting for the chance to kill me dead.

O5-4: One, slow down.

Computer: You have one minute to complete an action before the session automatically shuts down.

O5-1: And you know what? We’ve always been pretty liberal with containing anomalies. Now we might have twelve of them on the Council.

O5-12: One!

O5-1: What?

O5-12: Your session! Just finish it already. It's distracting as all hell.

O5-1: You know… you're right. I should just finish it already. There's not much more for me to do.

O5-1 resumes his work at the computer.

O5-1: Aside from containing you, like the inhuman aberrations you are.

Computer: Emergency Stage 3 Containment Breach Protocol Activated. Nuclear warhead will detonate in 5…