Document Reference: TW-119
The Sympathy Engine
TW-119 is stored in a locked case in Archival Division. Contact is not permitted outside of approved research contexts. Research requires full psychological screening pre- and post-contact. Output receipts are archived and not returned to subjects.
TW-119 is a mechanical device of Victorian-era construction, approximately the size of a writing desk, composed of brass gears, glass tubes, and a central mechanism that has not been opened due to containment risk. When a person places their hands on the device's contact plates, it produces a printed receipt-like output describing, with high accuracy, the subject's deepest emotional wound. The output uses language that subjects describe as 'unbearably precise.' Two subjects have required psychiatric intervention after contact.
TW-119 was seized from a carnival in [REDACTED] where it had been operating for two seasons as a 'novelty fortune machine.' The carnival owner claimed to have purchased it from an estate sale and had no understanding of its actual function.
Incident Report #001 — Date: [REDACTED]
Researcher ████ made unauthorised contact with TW-119 and retrieved their output before archiving staff could intercept. They read it in a bathroom stall and were found an hour later, unharmed but unable to speak. They regained speech after 48 hours and declined to describe the output's content.