In which Ruiz Duchamp dies, dies, and dies again.
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Threat Entity Database Entry
Partial human remains recovered from MANIF event.
Threat ID: KTO-4485-Pygmalion-Warhol ("The Duchamp Collaborative")
Authorized Response Level: 4 (Severe Threat)
Description: Known Threat Organization-4485-Pygmalion-Warhol is a subgroup of the anartist collective Are We Cool Yet? composed entirely of individuals operating under the pseudonym "Ruiz Duchamp". No communications among members of KTO-4485 have been found, but their behavior suggests a degree of coordination.
Whenever a member of KTO-4485 dies, a MANIF event1 will occur elsewhere in the world 391 hours later.
Rules of Engagement: Agents stationed in anomalous and nonanomalous art communities are to report all artwork published under the pseudonym "Ruiz Duchamp" to their supervisor. In the event that the artwork's creator is identified, they are to be apprehended by Strike Team 0092 "Ice Cold" and detained indefinitely under suicide watch. Due to their variable nature, liquidation procedures for individual MANIF events are to be determined as each develop.
PHYSICS Records
To date, one member of KTO-4485 has surfaced within two years of each Sommes-Nous Devenus Magnifiques?2 showing. The following is an abridged list of all known members. To access the full list, please refer to the attached document.
Name: Unknown
Gender: Male
Nationality: French
Cause of Death: Stepped into a hydrochloric acid shower that he'd been displaying at the first Sommes-Nous Devenus Magnifiques? exhibition.
MANIF Date: February 2nd, 1874
MANIF Description: Manifestation of a four-dimensional "Rubik's cube" 1.2 km above Paris, France, resulting in minor disruptions to local spacetime.3
Name: Rosa Burgos
Gender: Female
Nationality: Spanish
Cause of Death: Ingested several parapharmaceutical compounds that induce the rapid formation of large mycelial structures within various vital organs and across the surface of the skin, resulting in immediate heart failure. Her body was then, at her prior request, placed on display as an art exhibit.
MANIF Date: July 9th, 1893
MANIF Description: Mass reanimation of "exquisite corpses" across Europe.
Name: Viktor Ernst
Gender: Male
Nationality: German
Cause of Death: Eaten by an animate absence in the shape of a shoal of piranhas inside a glass tank in the center of the Louvre.
MANIF Date: April 23rd, 1915
MANIF Description: Manifestation of twelve instances of I've Been Working On This Bullshit For Ten Days Straight And I Don't Know What To Call It So I'm Just Calling It This Yes Literally This Stop Asking Me Already4 across various major European cities.
Name: Unknown
Gender: Indeterminate
Nationality: Moldovan
Cause of Death: Played the leading role in a production of The Noose Lord's Misfortune, which ended in the mass hanging of its cast and crew.
MANIF Date: December 15th, 1954
MANIF Description: Manifestation of an infectious language that, upon being learned, gradually fills the subject's airways with paper cutouts of individual letters.
Name: Sadie Freeman
Gender: Female
Nationality: American
Cause of Death: Suicide by drowning, along with the rest of Kirk Lonwood High's marching band. Music could be heard coming from [COGNITOHAZARD EXPUNGED] for the following three days.
MANIF Date: [COGNITOHAZARD EXPUNGED]
MANIF Description: KTO-1833-Pygmalion-Entente ("Syncope Symphony") is founded.
Name: Minh Nguyen
Gender: Male
Nationality: Vietnamese
Cause of Death: Ingested the cyanide capsule implanted in Strike Team 0092 leader Agent Capello's molar.
MANIF Date: May 6th, 1993
MANIF Description: Segments of Agent Capello's corpse are found in art installations around the world, each newly possessing cognitohazardous attributes. Notably, her jaw has not yet been recovered.
Name: Luisa Asenov
Gender: Female
Nationality: Unknown
Cause of Death: Exsanguination from carnomantic performance art.
MANIF Date: TBD
MANIF Description: As Asenov's death has only just been discovered, her associated MANIF event is currently under investigation.
