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Mad LAD #9825

FILE 09825

INCIDENT REPORT

SIGNED FOR. NEVER PAID FOR.

KNOWN AS · Harbour Salute

“FERAL WATTAGE.”

He has never once called the Sealevel coat his own. Ask, and he will tell you whose it is not.

REPORTED

23:25

Incident logged in the Old Front, where the trenches were paved over but never forgotten. Only one name on the sheet: Harbour Salute.

EVIDENCE

PROPERTY RECORDREF · SEALEVEL COAT
ITEMSEALEVEL COAT
HELD BYHARBOUR SALUTE
STATUSOWNED
OWNERHARBOUR SALUTE

SEQUENCE OF EVENTS

23:32

On his first night in the Old Front, he stood in front of the mirror at the tram station in the Sealevel coat, looked for a long time, and said out loud that it suited someone else better.

DAMAGE

00:28

Nothing broken that wasn't already cracked. He has smiled through things that would have made other people emigrate.

ENTRY

ASK HIM WHERE THE SEALEVEL COAT CAME FROM.

ALSO TRUE

HE WILL TELL YOU WHERE IT IS GOING.

BACKGROUND

He came up through the ranks the hard way, past the monuments to battles that changed nothing, and kept every lesson.

OUTCOME

05:31

He is technically on leave. He has been on leave for a very long time.

ONE LINE WAS REMOVED FROM THIS REPORT.

RESTRICTED MATERIAL · SEALED BY THE LABFILE 09825 · RM-01

WHERE THE SEALEVEL COAT REALLY CAME FROM.

STATUSOWNED

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

CASE STATUS
OPEN
REASON
NOT RECORDED
NEXT REVIEW
NOT SCHEDULED

END OF FILE

ARCHIVE RECORD CLOSED

FILE 09825 · OPENED BY THE COMMUNITY · 5 OCT 2026

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