NICONET COLLECTION

Special Investigations

Carved animals, rolling procedures and other evidence that resisted ordinary filing.

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The Nico Archive · Departmental records

Stories recovered from the permanent collection

Unverified Species — Local fauna raised procedural questions.Plate 01

Special InvestigationsRecord NCA-CUR-001

Record NCA-CUR-001

Unverified Species

Nico encountered several animals during the documented period that were unusually still, oddly textured and completely unwilling to smell like a normal dog.

The Archive can now confirm that at least some of these witnesses were carved from wood or stone. Nico’s willingness to pose beside them remains unexplained.

No interspecies agreement was reached.

SPECIESUnverified

MOVEMENTNone

MATERIALSuspicious

NICOPresent

“A witness does not become credible merely because it is taller than you.”— The Nico Archive

Ground-Contact Research — A repeated programme of full-body surface testing.Plate 02

Applied Surface ScienceRecord NCA-CUR-002

Record NCA-CUR-002

Ground-Contact Research

Grass and sand repeatedly triggered the same response: drop, roll, invert, continue until the surface has been tested with an unreasonable percentage of the body.

The research programme produced no written findings. It did produce several photographs of Nico upside down with all four legs pointing in directions that do not suggest dignity.

The work appears to have been personally rewarding.

SURFACESGrass / sand

METHODFull contact

DIGNITYOptional

REPEATABILITYHigh

“If a surface is worth testing, it is worth testing with your entire back.”— The Nico Archive

The Masking Incident — Visual access briefly suspended.Plate 03

Special InvestigationsRecord NCA-CUR-003

Record NCA-CUR-003

The Masking Incident

At some point a soft purple sleep mask shaped like a cat was placed over Nico’s face. The object itself has eyes. Nico, temporarily, does not.

There is no sensible institutional explanation for this photograph, which is precisely why it belongs here.

The subject was later restored to normal visibility.

OBJECTSleep mask

DESIGNCat

VISIONTemporarily unavailable

CASEClosed

“Some evidence does not improve with context.”— The Nico Archive

“The archive makes no claims. It only preserves the evidence.”

The Nico Archive

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