【MTF】指挥官课堂：行动暗码

  士兵们，你们好，我们又见面了。

  上节课我给你们讲了机动特遣队，那么这节课就讲机动特遣队的行动暗码。我这里的版本是英文原版和其他译本整合出来的，所以和你们之前看到的的某些可能不太一样。

  为了方便对照，我将采用一段中文，一段英文的形式来整合这些知识。

    下面，正文开始。

  行动暗码源于古老的流浪汉符号和小偷标记，用于提醒他人该区域内的危险、标志和障碍物。许多机动特遣队拥有他们自己的一套暗码，包括一些专用于他们一般任务的特殊符号。已经有至少一组机动特遣队将他们的暗码改造为他们自己的语言，能够通过添加或更改几个笔画来传达多个细节。

  重要的是，请记住在处理异常的工作中，我们永远不知道自己面对的是什么。现实扭曲者和超自然现象可以将进入不利环境的混乱里外翻转、上下颠倒。每周我都会读到这样的报告：一些小队被派遣执行日常的探索任务，却发现自己迷失在了一个平行世界中，那里有时空扭曲的房子以及由疯子和异常艺术家们建造的死亡机器。

  你会和指挥部失去联系。设备会失去作用。房间会被移动。小队将会被分散。你的队友可能会被其他东西顶替。不未雨绸缪就是自杀行为，它已经导致了许多男男女女的死亡。我们应永远铭记他们。

  在确定符号及其意义时，重要的是小队一致同意符号的意义，并且使符号的设计简单，比如一个脸上画着×的火柴人、两个用线连接起来的圆圈、以两条平行线结束的半圆。在紧急情况下，不论是用粉笔、记号笔或用血涂画，符号都应易于几笔画成。你可能需要在你冲出房间之前画好，或是用你剩下的一只手完成它。

  没有关于行动暗码的中心数据库。各小队最好形成自己的符号，并随时间更改它们的设计。一些新手常指出，“标志失效”是最可怕的符号，“不要被活捉”也是。尽管一些威胁可以深入人心并使你理解这些符号的含义，但这样的威胁少之又少。要是遇到这些威胁，从各种意义上你都已经完蛋了。

  大多数异常和敌人没有那么高的智力和能力。有些甚至不把我们当做有感知力的生物。我们只不过是食物或可以做成食物的材料。即使是一个在阴影中窥伺的拥有智能的SCP，也很难看到这些符号并正确地推测出它们背后的意思。最坏的情况，它会复制它们看到的符号企图混淆视听，但因为它不理解符号背后的含义，这种企图很容易被发现。

  代表“房间已清理”、“保持安静”、“奇异现象”的符号可以被广泛使用。“不要跟着小女孩”的标志带有玩笑的意味，让人想起可怖的、在废宅中游荡的小女孩，她们在阴影里发出笑声，邀请人们和她们一起玩。事实上，这个标志更准确的意思是“小心诱饵”。猎食性异常经常利用或伪装成遭遇困境的人来吸引队员脱离大部队。如果某人出现得不合时宜，或轻易地被发现，你很有可能正在踏进一个陷阱。

  以下是一组可供小队参考的符号。尽管所有的潜在威胁和可能的情景无法用几行符号简单概括，但花些时间为行动中可能出现的异常或常见的障碍确定一个代表符可以挽救生命。提早准备行动暗码可以使我们在压倒性的不利环境中取得战略上的优势。

  Field codes were adopted from old hobo signs and thief symbols used to alert others in the know of dangers, marks, and obstacles in the area. Many Foundation task forces have their own set, with symbols unique to their usual assignments. At least one has refined their code to such a degree it's practically a language on its own, able to communicate multiple details with a few strokes added or changed.

  It's important to keep in mind that in the field when dealing with anomalies, we never know exactly what will have to be dealt with. Reality benders and paranatural phenomena turn the chaos of entering a hostile environment inside out and upside down. Every week I read reports of teams sent on routine exploration missions only for them to wander into alternate realities, houses with warped space-time and death machines built by madmen and anartists.

  Contact with command will be lost. Technology will fail. Rooms will shift. Teams will be split up. Imposters will try to pass as teammates. To not be prepared for the unexpected is suicidal and has lead to the deaths of more men and women than we have any right to forget.

  When choosing symbols and what they represent, it is important for teams to agree upon their meaning together and to keep the designs simple. A stick figure with an X over its face. Two circles next to each other with a line connecting them. A half-circle ending in two parallel lines. Signs should be easy to draw in as few strokes as possible under stressful circumstances. Whether drawn in chalk, marker or blood. You may need to draw it before sprinting out of the room or with your one remaining hand.

  There is no central database of field codes. It is considered best practice for teams to come up with their own symbols and to change the designs as time goes on. A lot of rookies like to point out the "symbols have been compromised," sign being the scariest to see, right along with, "do not be taken alive." While there are threats that can reach into the mind and glean the meaning of the symbols, those are few and far between. You face something like that, you're already fucked more ways to Sunday.

  Most anomalies and hostile environments don't have that level of intelligence or ability. Some don't even register us as sentient beings. We're nothing more than food or material to them. Even a sentient skip watching from the shadows will be hardpressed to see a symbol and correctly assume the meaning left behind. At best they might copy what they see drawn, but without the proper understanding of the meaning, it can be easy enough to spot when a copycat is trying to sow confusion.

  Signs for cleared rooms, staying quiet, strange phenomena can have wide application. The, "do not follow the little girl," symbol is a bit of a tongue in cheek joke about how many creepy little girls seem to hang out in abandoned mansions, laughing from the shadows and asking people to play with them. In actuality, the symbol is more properly explained as, "do not follow the obvious bait." Predatory anomalies often use humans or the pretense of a human in distress to lure personnel into dangerous situations and away from the main group. If someone seems out of place or is too conveniently found, there's a good chance you're walking into a trap.

  Attached below is a set of codes for use as a reference by teams. While every potential threat and possible scenario can't be planned for and expressed with a few lines, taking the time to draw up shorthand for expected anomalies or common obstacles in the field can save lives. Established ahead of time, field codes bring a strategical advantage in otherwise overwhelming hostile environments.

  行动暗码

  FLELD CODES

  在观察，收容，回收，探索的行动中及紧急情况下，若无法使用一般的交流手段，行动暗码可用于他人可能存在的危险

  Provided for personnel to visually alert others in the field of potential hazards during observation,containment，retrieval，exploration and emergency situations involving ▇▇▇s when typical methods of communication are obstructed.

  注：此处列出的并非标准暗码，推荐机动特遣队编写自己的专用暗码表，以更好适应任务。

  Note：Symbold represcented here are nonstandare and task forces and strongly encouraged to adapt their own code to better sult their assignments.

  那么就讲到这里，下课。