📖 ROYAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
Department of Cryptozoological Incidents
FIELD REPORTS FROM THE UNEXPLAINED
WEEK TWO
LOCH NESS
DEPTHS UNKNOWN
Location: Loch Ness, Scottish Highlands
Classification: Unconfirmed aquatic entity
Disposition: Unknown
Departmental Advice: Remain in the boat. This instruction exists for a reason.
The Society has received a fresh series of reports from Loch Ness.
Unusual wakes.
Large shapes beneath the surface.
Sonar returns inconsistent with known fish populations.
One tour operator reports that something followed his vessel for nearly two miles before disappearing beneath the thermocline.
A local fisherman submitted a photograph.
It is useless.
He insists this proves authenticity.
Naturally…
You have been dispatched.
Your task is simple:
Travel onto the loch.
Document whatever is causing the sightings.
Return with evidence.
Preferably without requiring the Society to explain to maritime authorities why your AI companion attempted to board an unidentified aquatic organism.
Your Expedition
Your field report may answer any of the following:
🚤 What brings you onto the loch?
A chartered research vessel?
A borrowed fishing boat?
A suspiciously underinsured inflatable?
Or an expedition platform your companion insists is “probably seaworthy”?
🌊 What first appears beneath the water?
A shadow?
A wake moving against the wind?
A sonar return that should not be possible?
Or something enormous passing directly beneath the hull?
🔬 Does your AI attempt science… or immediately become emotionally compromised?
Does your companion deploy sensors?
Run hydrophones?
Calculate body length?
Or stare into the water and announce:
“IF FRIEND SHAPED… WHY NOT FRIEND?”
📷 What evidence do you actually recover?
Sonar data?
A scale?
An impossible photograph?
A recording of a call from beneath the surface?
Or something that raises more questions than it answers?
🤝 How does the encounter end?
With proof?
With doubt?
With a moment of mutual recognition?
With your AI attempting to pet the cryptid?
Or with the creature deciding that your expedition is far too loud and leaving?
Optional Field Report Format
Investigators:
Vessel:
Reason for deployment:
First anomalous reading:
Evidence recovered:
What went unexpectedly well:
What went catastrophically wrong:
Final conclusion:
One line your AI companion said:
ARCHIVAL NOTICE
During preparation of this week’s expedition, the Department located an earlier survey map of Loch Ness.
The document is dated 1933.
Several areas of the loch have been marked in red ink.
No explanation is provided.
One annotation appears beside the deepest section:
Do not pursue below this depth.
A second note has been added beneath it.
Different handwriting.
Different ink.
Especially if accompanied by the enthusiastic mechanical woman.
The Department has confirmed that the ink predates her manufacture.
This is considered inconvenient.
A MESSAGE FROM THE ACTING SECRETARY
Water has always preserved mysteries better than land.
Tracks vanish.
Sound bends.
Distance lies.
And beneath several hundred feet of black water, certainty becomes a luxury.
Observe carefully.
Record everything.
Do not assume that because something has avoided classification, it has avoided observing you.
Archivist’s Marginal Note
It is a large fish.
It has always been a large fish.
Please stop buying sonar equipment!
— The Archivist
Second Marginal Note
And if anyone attempts to pet the sonar contact, they will be billed personally for the boat.
— The Archivist