Question

In a disastrous experiment by this organization, people with riot shields herded 2000 white rabbits to try to overload a certain mechanism. This organization employed (15[1])the linguist Jessica Hsyu to analyze a mysterious sermon written by Saul Evans. Grace Stevenson, this group’s assistant director, later lived on Failure Island where she met the doppelganger Ghost Bird and this group’s final director, nicknamed Control. The Eleventh (*) Expedition sent (-5[1])by this organization used exclusively male teams, who returned with no memories of the experience and quickly died of cancer. This organization was founded to research the transformation of the Forgotten Coast into an isolated anomalous region that it named Area X. For 10 points, name this agency whose director attempted to kill the biologist using the implanted hypnotic code word “Annihilation”. ■END■ (10[1]0[13])

ANSWER: The Southern Reach [prompt on “Central” with “what organization is overseen by Central?”; prompt on “Area X” before read with “what is the name of the organization that studies Area X?”]
<Literature | Southern Reach/Jeff VanderMeer | LZ>
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TournamentEditionExact Match?TUHConv. %Power %Neg %Average Buzz
Lore Dump: EU Online 201/05/2025Y20%0%0%
Lore Dump: EU at Waterloo08/04/2024Y425%0%25%129.00
Lore Dump: EU Online09/07/2024Y520%20%0%24.00