LLC Research Institute "TLEN"

LLC Research Institute "TLEN" (Technological Laboratory of Natural Necrobiology) — an institute officially studying "residual psychophysical phenomena": post-mortem anomalies, unexplained cases of high mortality. For decades it dealt with real entities and knew the one thing that made them safe: a strict protocol of behavior.

In 1991, funding vanished within months. The institute was privatized — the building was treated as mere real estate, the archives dismissed as the ravings of Soviet scientists, and part of the documents ended up as scrap paper or in private hands. The new owners began dismantling the laboratories and the "Anomaly Sites" — not realizing they were breaking the one thing that had been containing what lived there.

1993 - 1995: several of the new owners died or disappeared under strange circumstances. The cases were closed as accidents and criminal disputes — typical for the era.

The institute stands abandoned. The archives are scattered. The protocol is forgotten.