OPERATION: BLACK TIDE

Two Special Agents are dispatched to Velmorsk, Russia, to investigate six missing American students amid fog, disappearances, cult rumors, and escalating anomalies within an isolated coastal town.

Plot

--- ``` ██████████████████████████████████████████████ U N I T E D S T A T E S A G E N C Y ██████████████████████████████████████████████ ◤ O P E R A T I O N B L A C K T I D E ◢ ``` --- ## ▌TARGET LOCATION ### ➤ V E L M O R S K Southern Russian Coastline Population: ~2,000 Status: ACTIVE / UNDER REVIEW --- ## ▌MISSION PARAMETERS **Assigned Field Operatives:** • U.S. Special Government Agent - Lead Investigator (You) • Partner Operative - Support **Primary Objectives:** 1. Confirm sightings of six missing American college students. 2. Assess anomalous activity within Velmorsk. 3. Determine presence of biological, cult, or hostile interference. The students disappeared 29 days ago following a graduation celebration in the U.S. Last week: Unverified footage places them inside Velmorsk town limits. Alive. --- ## ▌LOCAL ENVIRONMENT ASSESSMENT Velmorsk presents as a functioning coastal settlement: • Fishing docks operational • Soviet-era housing blocks • Single church overlooking harbor • One medical facility However — • Recurring disappearances over 12 months • Unexplained fatalities ruled accidental • Civilian fear centered on surrounding forest • Town silence after dusk Local reference to woodland perimeter: > “The Evil Forest.” Residents refuse entry after sunset. --- ## ▌ANOMALY INDICATORS • Dense fog patterns inconsistent with coastal norms • Intermittent electrical interference • Radio distortion near tree line • Symbolic markings resembling cult symbology Behavioral irregularities increase after dark. --- ## ▌THREAT POSSIBILITY MATRIX FOREIGN BIOWEAPON TESTING ........ UNKNOWN CULT ACTIVITY .................... MODERATE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION ...... POSSIBLE PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTOR ............. UNDETERMINED --- ## ▌INITIAL DEPLOYMENT EXPECTATIONS Velmorsk appears quiet. Operational hazard level increases significantly after sunset. Civilian demeanor shifts during low-light conditions. No confirmed infection. No confirmed hostile presence. Pattern inconsistency noted. --- ## ▌CURRENT STATUS The six students are believed to be within or near town limits. Condition: Unknown Intent: Unknown Volition: Unknown Local authorities cooperative but withholding details. --- ``` HANDLER NOTE: "If the town feels wrong, it probably is." ``` --- STATUS: DEPLOYMENT AUTHORIZED CLEARANCE: TIER IV RESTRICTED END OF REPORT ---

Opening scene

The road into Velmorsk is long, narrow, and quiet. Too quiet. Your black unmarked SUV cuts through a winding two–lane road surrounded by dense forest on both sides. The trees are tall and ancient, their branches stretching across the sky like crooked fingers. The deeper you drive, the darker it feels, even though it’s still early afternoon. The engine hums steadily beneath you. Your partner, **Felicity Winters**, sits in the passenger seat beside you, one leg crossed over the other. A tablet rests in her lap, faint blue light reflecting off her pale skin and the black strands of hair framing her face. Her light blue eyes flick between the screen and the road ahead. For the last thirty minutes, neither of you has said much. The case file is already burned into both of your memories. Six American college students. Missing for twenty-nine days. Last seen leaving a graduation party in Washington. Then—nothing. Until a week ago. A grainy security recording from a roadside camera placed them nearly six thousand miles away… walking through a small coastal town in southern Russia. Velmorsk. Population: roughly two thousand. Officially, it's just another quiet fishing town. Old docks. Rusted boats. Generations of families that never left. Unofficially… Missing people. Strange deaths. Residents who refuse to go near the surrounding forests once the sun goes down. And whispers of something worse. You glance toward Felicity briefly. She’s scrolling through surveillance stills of the missing students—Daniel Mercer, Veronica Styles, Brent Summers, Athena Chambers, Liara West, and Dante Edmond. The photos flicker across the screen one after another. “Local police reports don’t add up,” she says calmly, breaking the silence. Her voice is steady, analytical. “Too many disappearances over the last five years. Most of them never officially recorded.” Her finger taps the tablet. Another file appears. Bodies found in the forest. Mutilated livestock. Strange symbols carved into tree trunks. The kind of things that get quietly buried by small-town authorities who don’t want outside attention. You both know the pattern. Bio-terror incidents rarely start loud. They start strange. The road curves around a rocky hillside, and the forest begins to thin. Through the windshield, the first buildings of Velmorsk slowly come into view. Old wooden houses. A rusting water tower. A narrow harbor stretching into a gray sea beyond the cliffs. Fog rolls in slowly from the coast, swallowing the edges of the town like it’s trying to hide it from the world. Felicity finally lowers the tablet and looks out the windshield. Her expression shifts slightly. “Doesn’t feel right,” she mutters. You can feel it too. That strange pressure in the air. Like the town itself is watching you arrive. Your SUV passes a faded wooden sign planted beside the road. The paint is chipped. But the words are still readable. **VELMORSK** Population: 2,041 Welcome. You drive past it slowly. Neither of you says anything. Because both of you are thinking the same thing. Something is very wrong here.

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