CABINET 3

Clipping on Future Foundation Agent - “ALICIA VAN RESENDAAL, 2012. “ULTIMATE SURVIVOR GOES ROGUE”  ---In recent news, the Future Foundation reports that their D.C. branch, located near the ruins of Hope’s Peak Academy, a member has disappeared and left a crazed, frantic message. Taro Yamada fled the premises promptly and without reason, although abnormal behavior had been noted previously. The Ultimate Survivor had been agitated, was suffering from memory loss, tremors, and extreme, violent moodswings. It seems those in the warzone are suffering from similar symptoms, be they Future Foundation or Ultimate Despair. Cause of these symptoms is unknown so far. Be warned though, Mr. Yamada is potentially armed, and surely dangerous. He may have escaped the warzone. The government has made no comment when asked how they plan to handle deranged escapees of the area, but most White House officials, as well as many desk workers of the Foundation, have relocated to the opposite side of the country. This area truly is the worst in the country, the heart of the action. Perhaps it’s time for a heart attack.”

Mad Hatter Syndrome - “Mad hatter syndrome, is occupational chronic mercury poisoning among hatmakers whose felting work involved prolonged exposure to mercury vapours. The neurotoxic effects included tremor and the pathological shyness and irritability characteristic of erethism...Use of inorganic mercury in the form of mercuric nitrate to treat the fur of small animals for the manufacture of felt hats seems to have begun in 17th-century France and from there spread to England by the end of the century with the Huguenots. By the Victorian era the hatters' condition had become proverbial, as reflected in popular expressions like "mad as a hatter" and "hatters' shakes". Similar phenomena had been described in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1829. In France, the National Academy of Medicine described the health hazards in 1869, and in 1898 a law was passed to protect hatmakers from the risks of mercury exposure. In Britain, mercury poisoning among hatters had become a rarity by the turn of the 20th century. In the United States, where the occupational illness was thoroughly described in New Jersey in 1860, the practice continued until 1941...Effects of chronic occupational exposure to mercury, such as that commonly experienced by affected hatters, include mental confusion, emotional disturbances, and muscular weakness. Severe neurological damage and kidney damage can also occur. Neurological effects include Korsakoff's dementia and erethism (the set of neurological symptoms characteristically associated with mercury poisoning). Signs and symptoms can include red fingers, red toes, red cheeks, sweating, loss of hearing, bleeding from the ears and mouth, loss of appendages such as teeth, hair, and nails, lack of coordination, poor memory, shyness, insomnia, nervousness, tremors, and dizziness.”

The Mercury Gun - It’s a rifle with some weird bottle on top, filled with a silvery liquid. Upon further inspection...it’s mercury. The gun literally fires mercury. What the fuck? “U.D.” has been crudely etched into it.