Item	ID	Acquisition Date	Containment Location
The Oscillator	AI3-KE	07/28/1954	Panopticon – Floor 01, Unit 15
Game Hammer	AI5-BE	11/02/1959	Panopticon – Floor 01, Unit 16
Waist Mannequin	AI7-KE	12/23/1967	Panopticon – Floor 04, Unit 11
Arctic Queen	AI10-KE	11/18/1974	Panopticon – Floor 04, Unit 15
Ocelot’s Anchor	AI11-UE	09/28/1976	Panopticon – Floor 03, Unit 07
Smoking Pram	AI13-KE	08/05/1979	Panopticon – Floor 02, Unit 11
Holiday Memories Tree	AI14-AE	06/02/1980	Panopticon – Floor 02, Unit 06
Swan Boat	AI19-KE	06/24/1983	Panopticon – Floor 05, Unit 10
Jasper Post Box	AI31-PE	06/15/1986	Panopticon – Floor 01, Unit 13
Jukebox	AI37	Pending	Altered Item 37 Storage Area, Executive Sector
Guru Surfboard	AI43-PE	07/03/1994	Panopticon – Floor 03, Unit 05
Pink Flamingo	AI46-KE	08/12/1997	Panopticon – Floor 04, Unit 16
Red Light	AI49-KE	05/16/1999	Panopticon – Floor 04, Unit 10
Rubber Duck	AI52-AE	01/02/2001	Panopticon – Floor 03, Unit 06
Simulacrum	AI53-KE	09/03/2001	Panopticon – Floor 05, Unit 11
Bremen Basket	AI54-UE	04/23/2002	Panopticon – Floor 01, Unit 14
”Get Well Soon” Balloon	AI58-KE	03/22/2004	Panopticon – Floor 05, Unit 09
Victorian Mirror	AI60-UE	07/15/2005	Synchronicity Lab, Research Sector
Human Hand Chair	AI63-KE	02/10/2006	Panopticon – Floor 04, Unit 12
Ramen Lantern	AI69-KE	03/01/2008	Panopticon – Floor 04, Unit 13
Wolff Globe	AI72-PE	04/12/2010	Panopticon – Floor 02, Unit 09
Oh Deer Diner Coffee Thermos	AI73-UE	09/20/2010	Panopticon – Floor 05, Unit 05
Moving Letters	AI77-KE	10/13/2014	Panopticon – Floor 04, Unit 09
Typewritten Page	AI83-KE	08/27/2019	Panopticon – Floor 05, Unit 06

Altered Items (AIs) are archetypal objects acted upon by paranatural forces during Altered World Events, resulting in the development of unique and sometimes dangerous properties. One of the goals of the Federal Bureau of Control is to contain and study Altered Items and their paranatural properties. Certain Altered Items, known as Objects of Power, possess the capability of granting certain individuals (known as parautilitarians) paranatural abilities, and appear to share a connection to the Astral Plane. Many Altered Items are contained in the Panopticon in the Containment Sector of the Oldest House, but countless others are housed in facilities across the United States.

Nature

Altered Items are often created during Altered World Events, events wherein forces from other dimensions intrude upon ordinary reality. These paranatural forces are affected by the human mind and collective unconscious, and as a result, they gravitate toward objects which represent archetypes (implicitly Jungian), universal symbols ubiquitous in human culture. The inception of Altered Items is in their representation of these archetypes. As implied by Bureau research findings, Altered Items do not possess sentience, but some degree of “programming,” and are used to being “worshiped” by humanity. As a result, the Bureau contains and “tames” Altered Items by placing them on totem-like pedestals within the Panopticon and elsewhere and adapting to their anomalous effects and volatile natures.

The connection between Altered Items and their inferred archetypal origins is not clear. Based on their nature, it is possible that the paranatural properties of Altered Items always correlate to the archetypes they represent. However, this is not always the case.

Altered Items can also be possessed or influenced by extradimensional beings, and bound to the will of powerful parautilitarians; such Altered Items are known as Objects of Power. While OoPs appear to be mainly distinguished by their connection to the Astral Plane specifically, non-OoP Altered Items can also fall under paranatural influences, as seen when █████████████████████ ███████ ██████████████ , suggesting that simply a connection to the Astral Plane is not the only factor distinguishing Altered Items from Objects of Power.