It's called "pal3.pdf" and it's a file over Lily.
This is a little longer, at 3 pages, and a paragraph after. The first page is the cover page, the rest is writing. Here's what it said:
PROJECT ASSEMBLY LINE
SUBJECT #3: LILY BOYCE
Marionettes recreation of her last staff photo, circa March 26th, 2006.
"NAME: LILY BOYCE
STATION: #48
POSITION: CAMERA GRIP
Lily Boyce was hired on November 8th, 2002 as a camera grip for Station 48. She was bouncing around jobs when she caught the ad on the news; Upstaged Communications offered a training program to anyone who wished to join the station. She took the job, despite her lack of interest, because she needed the money. Her landlord was starting to get antsy about late payments.
The job was simple in concept, but difficult in execution. She was part of a team of two responsible for the camera. Not just turning it on and off, but positioning it, while maintaining all the equipment that kept it in place. Tripods, dollies, cranes--it was all handled by the two of them. She was barely trained by the time her coworker left, leaving her as the only grip. It was a hard job, one that should've been shared, but the company refused to hire more. Claimed it'd just be a waste of money. So she worked.
Given how much was put on her, it was no surprise that she turned to outside sources to help herself. Both men and substances. It was a poorly kept secret, which is why nobody believed her when she said she saw something, on the camera. A signal intrusion, but one that wasn't recorded, despite being shown on the screen. It showed her a strange symbol of a dead tree, stripped of all leaves, that was glitching. Nobody else saw it, so they brushed it aside, while the board warned her against talking about it again, as it was supposedly causing a distraction. In order to buy her silence, they gave her the day after off, with Riley Donnelly substituting from Station 85.
When she didn't tell anyone is that it spoke, too. The intrusion said: "SIGNAL FREQUENCY 22.22 RECEIVER POINT NULL PENDANT INACTIVE," which left her concerned. What was it talking about? What pendant? Was someone planning to hijack the station?
Given that she couldn't talk about what she saw, she decided to search through the Marionettes video archives, in an attempt to see if this had ever happened before. To her surprise, results turned up--she found a video in Marionettes, which showed a strange, distorted rainbow, with the same dead tree symbol on it. The video name was an encoded form of the word SIGNAL. She also found an image of a strange pendant, which had a similar symbol to the image labeled SIGNAL. It was at this point that Lily knew something was wrong at Upstaged, given that they had records of a hijacker, knew whomever it was may return, and yet did nothing to stop it. Whatever was going to happen was intended by the company. This much she knew.
That's why she was prepared when the world fell apart. The Signal began to bleed out, and one by one, people fell to it, the pendant transferred between people like a virus. Lily, however, was able to recognize it, and avoided all employees that tried to pin her down, eventually falling into Station 85 due to the structural fluctuations. There, she found Edward, who told her of a plan to save them all from the horrible fate the company had wrought upon all of its employees. She was one of the eight that survived the events that began October 17th, 2006.
Just like with Thomas and Joshua, she was free once the Signal was trapped. Her memory suffered significant damage, however; she did not remember how the company closed, only that there was more to it than the official statement. She could not remember all the despicable deeds she performed to end it. When the Signal started back up in 2016, she was called back. She was sent a package on October 1st, 2018 and received it on October 3rd, 2018. She received it the same day as Thomas, Joshua, Nashiko, and Wyatt.
She was the first receiver the Signal was able to capture in 2018. There is no longer a Lily Boyce."
That's the end of the file.
The company knew that something was going to happen with the Signal. The people in charge of it, at least; the board told her not to talk about it anymore, so I'm guessing it was them specifically. A consistent thing between all three files thus far is Edward saying that the company wrought some horrible fate upon all of its employees. What did the company want to do to its employees? What was its plan with the Signal? And how did Edward get involved?
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