FDG FIELD REPORT
File No: MM-22-RA
Classification: Mirecourt Flora Event – Spontaneous Bloom Site
Codename: Mire Bloom at Rainham Marsh
Location: Rainham Marshes, Kent
Date of Incident: July 9, 2022
Status: Archive Flag: Red – Field Agent AWOL
Initial Summary
Following sustained heavy rainfall in early July 2022, a 12-square metre area of Rainham Marshes experienced an unprompted eruption of non-native flora, now confirmed as originating from Mirecourt biome strains.
FDG drone reconnaissance and on-site sample retrieval confirmed:
- Reedwraiths (full vocal cycle, active)
- Tarnberry clusters (some burst prematurely, affecting small mammal test subjects)
- One Croakcap ring, emitting bioresonant pulses for approx. 19 hours
No local flora survived within the perimeter.
Birdsong ceased. Mammals avoided the area entirely.
Casualties and Anomalies
Civilian Casualty:
- One civilian gardener, name withheld per family request, was discovered at the bloom perimeter:
- Covered head to toe in peat and river-mud
- Speaking a dialect not matched to any known Kentish, Brythonic, Saxon, or Romani linguistic archive
- Vocal samples recorded—phonetics match Mirecourt echo-speak fragments previously noted in Reedwraith fog-choruses
- Civilian was hospitalised and later transferred to private care. Speech patterns continue, but patient unresponsive to translation attempts. Draws concentric spirals compulsively in condensation or dirt.
Animal Incident:
- Domestic dog belonging to a local jogger went missing during the bloom.
- Found 36 hours later in owner’s garden, muddy, uninjured, but completely blind
- Vet examination revealed small eel scales lining the stomach lining, though no wounds were present and the dog had not ingested any food during the period
- Dog remains alive and highly alert—but reportedly barks at mirrors and puddles
Agent’s Account:
Junior Field Agent J. Elspeth, on solo patrol during the event, recorded the following audio log (transcribed from recorder found at the scene):
“I walked toward the bloom and the sound faded. Even my own steps. The fog rolled in—dry, not wet. There was a woman. Made of fog, I think. No feet. She smiled like she’d buried something sweet.
She gave me a stone. It beat. Like a heart. I don’t remember putting it down.”
Agent Elspeth failed to report back to HQ following initial contact. Her gear was recovered; she was not. Status: AWOL – Presumed Taken.
Containment and Public Cover
- FDG intervention unit executed rapid salt-burn protocol to sterilise area
- Croakcap ring was neutralised with iron-scorch solution
- All Reedwraiths destroyed—final audio: “We are not the first song.”
- Tarnberries incinerated; spores collected for deep lab isolation
- Local press briefed on “contaminated compost from foreign imports” as the cause of the anomaly
- Civilian accounts minimised or redirected toward garden pesticide conspiracy theories
Notes and Recommendations
- The appearance of multiple distinct Mirecourt species simultaneously suggests either:
- A failed boundary merge, or
- Deliberate flora seeding by Mirecourt agents
- Agent Elspeth’s final description matches unconfirmed references to The Fog-Wife, a suspected emissary or boundary-keeper affiliated with Lady Wyr’s deeper pactlines
- The presence of eel scales and spiral compulsions indicates the potential overlap of Watcher Underneath markers at the bloom site—though no direct pit or laughing phenomena were observed
Quote from On-Site Report, Unit 3:
“It didn’t grow out of the earth. It replaced it. Like the real ground was peeled back, and this came up from beneath.”
—Field Tech Quinton R., Containment Burn Lead
File Status:
🔴 High Risk Event – Class C Breach Contained
🟠 Agent Status: AWOL – Subject of internal review
⚠️ Bloom Pattern Recurrence Likely – Recommend marsh monitoring in 2025–2027 wet season cycles
Filed by:
Operative V. Lockhart, FDG Mire Division
Approved by:
Director Evelyn Thorne
Filed: 17 July 2022
Reviewed: May 2025
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