Welcome, everyone, to The Laundry Files actual play. I'm Dakota Reynolds, your Keeper for today's mission. We're exploring a classified scientific endeavor that officially doesn't exist—the CERN Gravitational Observatory, callsign "Charybdis." Our setting is the year 2024, deep in the vacuum of space, three million kilometers from Earth, in orbit around the binary black hole system designated GW-2023-7749. The Laundry has detected anomalous mathematical patterns in the radiation signatures. What was supposed to be humanity's greatest scientific achievement has become something far more sinister. Two weeks ago, the primary research vessel went silent. You've been dispatched as field agents to investigate and, if possible, recover the research data before the cosmic horror consuming that station consumes everything it touches. Your characters are uniquely qualified—you operate at the intersection of knowledge and the occult.