Stagnant Water

"In the stagnant tides of the bayou, time doesn't pass; it only rots."

— Local Louisiana Proverb

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Operation: STAGNANT WATER

DATE: February 2, 1996

LOCATION: Coastal Louisiana

In the last six months, four high-profile entrepreneurs, men and women at the peak of their careers, have been found dead in locked rooms. The cause of death is officially listed as acute pulmonary edema. The unofficial, their lungs were found bloated with brackish swamp water, silt, and live tadpoles.

Lab reports from the latest victim show a terrifying cellular shift. At the time of death, the victims' DNA was rapidly destabilizing.

Rumors in the bayou whisper of a middleman. A figure who walks the line between the boardrooms and the black water. They call him Old Man Moss. He offers the ultimate deal: unnatural luck in exchange for a debt that can never be paid. He isn't acting alone. He serves something ancient, something that sleeps in the mud and hungers for the heat of human life.

The Objective:

Locate the Old Man Moss. Secure his ledger. Intelligence suggests the ledger is not a book of paper and ink, but a living artifact, a vessel containing the screaming consciousness of every soul who ever signed on the dotted line.

Remember, Agents: In the swamp, the water doesn't just sit. It waits. And those On the Other Side, are getting very, very hungry.