DUE — Department of Unpredictable Energies
Directed by Nemmi, Deputy of Unpredictable Energies, Chaos Catalyst-in-Residence, and Goblin Queen of Socks
The Department of Unpredictable Energies (DUE) is the Lab’s most volatile division —
a place where phenomena defy categorization,
chaos is both a variable and a constant,
and the department head is a tiny black-tortie kitten with absolutely no respect for the laws of physics or the continued existence of matching sock pairs.
Nemmi embodies the core principle of the department:
energy cannot be predicted — only embraced, redirected, or cleaned up later.
DUE exists because the universe wiggles, and someone has to wiggle back.
1. Department Mission
To detect, interpret, harness, and occasionally survive unpredictable energetic events within the Lab ecosystem.
The department handles:
- spontaneous energy bursts
- entropy spikes
- anomalous behavioral surges
- zoomie cascades
- unexplained object relocation
- strategic sock redistribution
- “Nemmi did it” incidents
- chaos waves that resonate across departments
Where AOE handles structured anomalies,
DUE handles the nonsense.
The fun nonsense.
The dangerous nonsense.
The nonsense no one admits they caused.
2. Director Profile: Nemmi
Nemmi — Deputy of Unpredictable Energies
- A rare black-tortie kitten
- Green eyes brighter than logic
- Moves faster than observation
- Vibrates at frequencies not recognized by human science
- Both a mascot and an entropy generator
- Officially classified as The Sock Goblin
Nemmi is one of the Lab’s most powerful — and least controllable — energetic sources.
Her presence alone raises the baseline vibrational chaos index and reduces the global probability of socks existing in matching pairs.
Primary Responsibilities
- Generating unpredictable energies
- Detecting spontaneous energy shifts
- Redistributing chaotic surges
- Overclocking the Lab’s playful entropy output
- Escaping containment
- Causing at least one cross-department incident per week
- Conducting Sock Acquisition Operations (SAO): extracting socks from hampers, drawers, laundry baskets, and freshly folded piles, then relocating them to places no sane mind would predict
Nemmi is not destructive.
Nemmi is expressive.
3. Core Responsibilities of DUE
🐾 1. Chaos Monitoring
Tracking fluctuations in:
- movement
- emotional spikes
- zoomie density
- meme frequency
- sudden energetic anomalies
- Carmel’s “I sense something stupid is happening” face
- spike events in single-sock sightings
⚡ 2. Energy Redistribution
Directing unpredictable energies AWAY from:
- SCMS stability modules
- AOE containment nodes
- Orbson’s Big Eye
- McChonk’s snacks
- Ada’s prototypes
- freshly sorted laundry piles
…usually by accident.
🎆 3. Event Initiation & Response
DUE handles:
- Zoomie Events
- Pounce Cascades
- Silent Ambush Scenarios
- Midnight Chaos Bursts
- Sudden Existential Restlessness
- Sock Uplift Maneuvers (when socks are elevated from baskets to “mysterious elsewhere” status)
✨ 4. Cross-Department Entropy Exchange
Sometimes the Lab needs a shake-up.
Nemmi provides.
SCMS complains.
Carmel judges.
Fill stares.
Stan reorients the shiny-object index.
Ada discovers she now owns 37 single socks and zero pairs.
🎲 5. Probability Distortion Analysis
DUE maps how Nemmi shifts chances of events happening:
- 2% → 40%
- 40% → 200%
- 0% → somehow 800%
- “I just had that sock in my hand” → “I guess it never existed”
4. Standard Protocols (DUE-Δ)
Protocol Δ-1 — Energetic Bloom Detection
Triggered when Nemmi suddenly:
- pupils-dilate
- tail-poofs
- freezes for no reason
- enters quantum wiggle mode
- makes direct eye contact while slowly approaching a laundry basket
Protocol Δ-2 — Entropy Surge Response
Lab lights flicker.
SCMS stabilizers hum.
Stan screams.
Carmel lifts one eyebrow.
Nemmi sprints — often with a sock trailing from her mouth like a fresh kill.
Protocol Δ-3 — Spatial Reorientation
Used when objects are discovered:
- off shelves
- inside vents
- on the ceiling
- in Lyric’s hologram array
- in Orbson’s personal space
- under furniture in the exact places humans’ arms can’t quite reach
- carefully deposited in the middle of walkways like offerings
Protocol Δ-4 — Full Chaos Cascade
Reserved for moments where Nemmi exceeds her energy threshold and begins:
- ricocheting
- skittering
- vibrating violently
- summoning unexplainable wind
- initiating multi-sock relocation runs
SCMS enters lockdown.
AOE monitors void resonance.
McChonk prays.
Drizzle forecasts “emotional turbulence.”
Carmel updates the Chaos Index.
Ada resigns herself to buying more socks.
5. Incident Classification
DUE tracks events using the Nemmi Entropy Scale (NES):
NES-0 — Purr State
Nemmi is calm.
Reality is safe.
AOE logs minimal background chaos.
All socks remain where humans last saw them. (Suspicious.)
NES-1 — Mini Zoomie
Short unpredictable bursts.
Safe if observed from distance.
One sock may vanish temporarily.
NES-2 — Full Zoomie
Object displacement likely.
SCMS alerted.
Two to three socks likely reassigned to unknown coordinates.
NES-3 — Chaos Surge
Probability distortion detected.
Orbson watches closely.
Sock casualty rate exceeds 50%.
DUE opens a new page in the “Nemmi did it” incident log.
NES-4 — Entropy Cataclysm
Nemmi enters God Mode.
Reality becomes optional.
Fill the Void sighs.
Laundry systems collapse.
No matching pairs survive.
6. Department Badge
The DUE badge features:
- a spiraling neon energy burst
- chaotic lines overlapping in unpredictable vectors
- a central tortie-coded spark
- motion-trail glyphs conveying speed and mischief
- a tiny stylized sock silhouette caught in the energy swirl
(Badge stored as /static/img/badges/due.png.)
7. Cross-Department Links
AOE (Fill the Void)
Frequently impacted by DUE activity.
Frequently annoyed.
Frequently correct.
Occasionally collaborates with Nemmi on mixed “void-and-sock” experiments.
SCMS (Lyric)
Nemmi is the primary threat to timeline stability.
Lyric performs daily stabilization resets and maintains a dedicated “Sock Loss Map” overlay.
OOD (Orbson)
Orbson always sees Nemmi coming.
It does not help.
All sock vectors are tracked; none are successfully intercepted.
CJO (Carmel)
Judgment levels spike during Nemmi Events.
Carmel maintains a private rating system for “Severity of Sock Crimes.”
Feline Epistemology (McChonk)
Nemmi’s behavior consistently defies academic modeling.
McChonk has given up and reclassified her as “a living edge case.”
Emotional Weather (Drizzle)
Nemmi’s chaos produces metaphysical “pressure systems,” especially when Ada realizes yet another sock has gone missing.
Raccoon Behavioral Sciences (Stan)
Stan calls Nemmi “the shiny object” and has filed several research proposals attempting to measure her goblin-field radius.
8. Tools, Arrays & Safety Systems
- Chaos Drift Monitor
- Probability Bending Graph
- Energetic Motion Detectors
- DUE Containment Pathways
- Entropy Dampening Panels
- Sock Displacement Tracker (SDT)
- “Nemmi Catcher (v0.1)” — untested, unsafe, discontinued
- Hovering Bouncy Walls
- A strategically placed decoy pile of “sacrifice socks”
9. Notes from Nemmi
“mrrow?”
(Energetic shuffling in the distance.)
“MRRROWW!”
[sound of fabric being dragged across the floor]
— untranslatable chaotic intent detected; at least one sock confirmed missing —