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Mad LAD #2744

FILE 02744

LAB REPORT
SPECIMEN
GALAXY
CLASSIFICATION
THE FALLEN STAR
TEMPERAMENT
FARAWAY
CONTAINMENT
ATTEMPTED ONCE

FURTHER OBSERVATION RECOMMENDED.

“COSMIC PROBLEM DETECTED.”

The Miami coat belongs to someone else, and all of the Smoke knows it. He says so, if asked, and says nothing more.

THE MIAMI COAT BELONGS TO SOMEONE ELSE.

HE HAS NEVER SAID WHO.

OBSERVATION

He answers questions a few seconds late, as if the signal has a long way to travel. Subject is known for staring at the Dome every night like it owes him money. Behavioural note: he has had the Miami coat mended so many times that nothing of the original is left.

EVIDENCE

PROPERTY RECORDREF · MIAMI COAT
ITEMMIAMI COAT
HELD BYLANTERN COMET
STATUSOWNED
OWNERLANTERN COMET

SPECIMEN DETAIL

Detail of Mad LAD #2744

The Miami coat.

He has always said it belongs to someone else.

HISTORY

He fell through the crack in the Dome one winter night and landed, unhurt, in the Smoke, under the gas lamps that only work out of spite, asking for directions.

ANOMALY

The night he first arrived in , he left the Miami coat with the landlady overnight and asked for a receipt made out in someone else's name.

CONCLUSION

He has learned to cook one local dish. He cooks it every night and is delighted every time. Observation continues.

ACCESS TO THIS OBSERVATION IS RESTRICTED.

RESTRICTED MATERIAL · SEALED BY THE LABFILE 02744 · RM-01

WHERE THE MIAMI COAT REALLY CAME FROM.

STATUSOWNED

PULL THE SEAL ALONG THE TAPE — OR BREAK IT.
PERSONAL ACCESS · CHANGES NOTHING IN THE ARCHIVE

CONCLUSION WITHDRAWN

The Archive no longer stands by its finding. The status entry in the record stays as it is, unsigned.

END OF FILE

ARCHIVE RECORD CLOSED

FILE 02744 · OPENED BY THE COMMUNITY · 9 OCT 2026

Fiction from the Lab's archive, written from these traits. Not Mad Lads canon. Not on-chain history.