Mischa let out a faint sigh as she walked down the sidewalk. She hadn't really had much luck today... or this month, really. Job hunting was always stressful and unnerving to her... she really didn't have the confidence to sell herself in a job position. The money from her last temp job was starting to run low. After another frustrating day of dead ends, however, she really wanted to just take a break from everything. Letting out another sigh, she paused to glance around the street. It was starting to get late... but there was still an hour or two left before the shops closed up. Maybe she should treat herself to something? And then her gaze fell on the most unusual sight among the generic urban architecture... a building that looked like nothing more than a rustic witch's hut! The two-story building was decorated like a log cabin, with a quirky roof and vines crawling up the walls. She was pretty sure that it had been an empty lot for the longest time... but apparently someone had
TDB Files: Cartoon Balloons by heliumgirl77, literature
Literature
TDB Files: Cartoon Balloons
TDB REF: Cartoon Balloons Serial Number : 1500(A) and (B) Internment Information: At 4:18PM on the 27th of August 1999, Mexican Television station Canal 5 in the Guadalajara region interrupted a showing of "Animaniacs" to begin broadcasting an unscheduled TV advertisement. The advertisement showed a packet of 10 balloons as described below on a pink field with the following voice over. [trans.] "Hey Kids and Big Kids! Don't you wish things had a little more Wooosh and a bit less Pffffgh? Try New and Improved Cartoon balloons to put the lift back in your life! Free packet with this advert and also available in all good toy shops!" [end] At this point, viewers perceived the packet displayed on screen rapidly gained a 3-dimensional appearance and within 3 seconds was fully formed on the surface of the TV screens before falling to the floor. Over the following months multiple aerial recoveries of ascended civilians were realised in the region (see description below). 1500(B) was
TDB Files: Micro-Sizing Balloons by heliumgirl77, literature
Literature
TDB Files: Micro-Sizing Balloons
TDB REF: Micro-Sizing Balloons (MSB).
Serial Number: 15212 (Nominal)
Internment Information: None active currently in containment. There are 30 recorded instances of artefact activation, most recently at Nantes (Fr) in Jul 2018 and Johannesburg (SA) in Feb 2020. 9 and 5 x inactive remnants recovered from previous incidents are available for study at Johannesburg and Los Angeles branches respectively.
Containment protocols: If active examples should be recovered by field teams, they are to be placed within a Faraday cage of not less than 2m radius and surrounded with argon gas pending further assessment and disposal. No personnel is to hand