Monster Accord Feeders — Field Guide (AFG-03)

Field Guide: Monster Accord Feeders

Entity Classification Series — AFG-03

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Document ref: AFG-03/REV-7 · Compiled by Research & Classification Division · Distribution: Accord Field Personnel, Tier 2 and above

This is the Accord’s working field guide on Monster Accord Feeders — issued to personnel operating in proximity to confirmed or suspected Feeder activity. It is not a comprehensive biological or metaphysical account. It is a working guide. Read it. Follow it. The officers who did not are the reason this revision exists.

What Are Monster Accord Feeders?

The entity class designated FEEDER represents one of the oldest documented categories in the Accord’s working taxonomy. References consistent with Feeder behaviour appear in Accord precursor documents dating to the mid-nineteenth century, and in non-Accord historical records considerably earlier — though identification is complicated by the tendency of earlier observers to attribute encounters to disease, madness, or divine punishment.

The term Feeder is operational shorthand. It is not the entity’s name. As far as current research can establish, Feeders do not have names. They do not appear to organise, communicate, or act in coordination with one another. What they share is a method.

They feed on the process of dying.

Not on death itself — this distinction is not academic. A Feeder derives no sustenance from a corpse. It requires the transition: the physiological and neurological cascade that occurs between the onset of fatal trauma and biological cessation. The longer and more acute that process, the greater the Feeder’s apparent benefit. This is why Feeder-associated deaths frequently present as prolonged, and why medical intervention — if it successfully accelerates or prevents death — appears to deprive the entity and may trigger withdrawal behaviour.

Detection: Environmental Warning Signs

Feeder presence is rarely confirmed by direct sighting. Field personnel should treat environmental anomalies as primary detection indicators. The following have been recorded across a sufficient number of verified incidents involving Monster Accord Feeders to be considered reliable precursors:

Analyst annotation — R&C Division
The co-occurrence of pressure drop with electrical interference should be treated as an immediate escalation trigger. In the eleven incidents where both indicators were logged within the same 90-minute window, nine resulted in at least one civilian fatality before field response arrived. We have not found an exception to this pattern. We are not sure we want to.

Real-world barometric instruments are, for what it’s worth, notoriously sensitive to disturbance — the Met Office notes that even ordinary air movement across a sensor can register as a pressure drop through simple dynamical effects, which is part of why the Accord’s field-recorded anomalies took so long to be taken seriously as anything other than instrument error.

How Feeders Manifest and Behave

Feeder manifestation is poorly understood. The entity does not appear to occupy physical space in any conventional sense. Witness accounts describe a presence rather than a form — a sense of compression, of being observed, of the air becoming difficult to process. In a minority of cases, witnesses report partial visual phenomena: a figure at the periphery of vision that does not persist when looked at directly; a shape in fogged glass; a mass in shadow that moves contrary to available light sources.

These partial sightings should not be taken as reliable representations of Feeder anatomy. Current research position is that what witnesses observe is not the entity itself but a secondary effect of its proximity — something akin to heat distortion, or the impression a weight leaves in material rather than the weight itself.

Feeders appear to select victims in advance. In retrospective analysis of multi-fatality incidents, it is possible to identify a primary target — typically the individual whose death the entity attends most closely — and secondary victims, whose deaths appear incidental, the result of circumstances the Feeder created rather than specifically sought. This selection methodology, if it constitutes methodology, is not understood.

Operational notice
There is no confirmed case of a Feeder abandoning a primary target once feeding has commenced. Intervention strategies focus on disruption and extraction of the living, not on neutralisation of the entity. Protocols for the latter remain classified at Tier 4 and above. If you are reading this document, you are not cleared for those protocols.

Encounter Statistics

The following figures are drawn from 214 incidents classified as confirmed Feeder encounters over the last four decades. Suspected but unconfirmed incidents are not included. This figure should be understood as a significant undercount.

The figures for repeated civilian survival are not statistical anomalies in the conventional sense. They are, in the view of the Research & Classification Division, the most significant data points this table contains. The mechanisms by which these individuals have survived remain under active investigation.

The Only Known Survivor of Repeated Feeder Contact

Restricted

At the time of this document’s last review, one individual has been documented surviving confirmed Feeder contact on three or more separate occasions. The circumstances of each encounter, the individual’s physiological and psychological profile, and the Accord’s ongoing assessment of their status are detailed in a separate restricted file.

That file is referenced here because it is directly relevant to any field operative seeking to understand Feeder behaviour at the outer limits of the documented range. The survivor’s encounters have provided data that no controlled research programme could have generated. This does not mean the Accord endorses the manner in which that data was obtained.

Personnel Cross-Reference — Restricted Attachment
The individual referenced above — the only known civilian to have survived repeated Feeder contact across multiple incidents — is former British paratrooper John “Mutt” Mallory. His encounters, beginning with events documented in what is now classified as a significant early Feeder incursion, form a case study unlike any other in the Accord’s operational history. For full assessment, psychological profile, and incident logs, see: Personnel File — Mallory, J.D. — Ref: ACC-PF-0041 (coming soon).

How he has survived is not yet understood. Whether that survival is a function of biology, circumstance, or something the Accord does not yet have a category for — that question remains open.

The incident that first brought Mallory to the Accord’s attention is documented, in part, in civilian form. For those seeking to understand what Mallory encountered before the Accord had a name for it: Bad Wiring — where it began.

Operational Guidance Summary

• Do not attempt direct engagement with a manifesting Feeder without Tier 4 clearance and appropriate team configuration.
• Prioritise extraction of living civilians over documentation. Documentation of the deceased can wait. Living witnesses cannot.
• Concurrent pressure drop and electrical interference constitutes an immediate escalation trigger. Request support; do not wait for visual confirmation.
• If a primary target has been identified and feeding has commenced, redirect your resources. The Accord’s current position, arrived at through considerable loss, is that intervention at that stage is not viable.
• Report all environmental indicators, including those that do not result in confirmed fatality. The pattern is the data.

Note — Division Head, R&C
This document will be revised again. We know that because the Feeders haven’t stopped and neither has our understanding of them — which is to say, both are incomplete. What is written here reflects the best available information at the time of review. The officers in the field deserve honesty about what we know and, more importantly, about what we don’t.

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Internal Memo: Why the Public Must Never Know — the Accord’s own doctrine on why Feeders and every other entity it catalogues must stay out of public belief

AFG-03/REV-7 — Accord Internal Use Only. Do not reproduce or distribute outside Accord channels.

Civilian origin record: Bad Wiring