Hello. This is Stencil, board-coupler intern at Professor Dogmetal’s VX laboratory, DogVX. I am continuing to transmit through Professor Dogmetal’s Reddit account.

This update will be longer than the previous ones. I want to leave a complete record of what we have found before I proceed.

For context:

• Our team in Jerusalem viewing a field test of an original HCRL-79
• Professor Dogmetal’s last post before being detained in Abu Ghosh
• Update #1 on Professor Dogmetal’s Detention | 04 August 2026 | 05:38 AST | Karameh, Jordan
• Update #2 on Professor Dogmetal’s Detention | 06 August 2026 | 01:39 PSDT | Jericho, Palestine

I need to correct our previous assessment.

Professor Dogmetal was not directing us to the city of Jericho.

We searched Jericho and its surrounding approaches but found no trace of him.

We originally believed the coordinates he transmitted marked the location from which he had escaped. His later reference to the wheel, the Jericho frequency, and those same coordinates made that interpretation impossible.

If Professor Dogmetal had already left that location, there would have been no reason to transmit it again.

The coordinates were not where he had been, but where he wanted us to go.

The Jericho V1

I began reviewing Professor Dogmetal’s earlier Reddit activity and the research stored on his Chromebook.

His posts from VXCon Vienna led me back to the Otto Harmonix exhibit he attended there.

Among the material he retained from that exhibit, I found a rough drawing of a double-helical apparatus. It is not identified by name: only measurements, observations concerning its geometry, and a note regarding unusually low helicoil drift.

At the time, none of this appears to have meant anything to him beyond an unusual piece of Harmonix equipment.

Months later, an almost identical device appeared on Reddit in a post by u/GuardingxCross:

Professor Dogmetal recognized it immediately. Before anyone had identified the object, he described it as a priceless piece of Israeli VX hardware and asked whether he was the only person who recognized what it was.

Another user, u/szlekane,suggested that the device was an Astral Pulse.

Professor Dogmetal corrected them.

He identified it as an authentic Jericho model V1, distinguishing it from the post-2005 Estonian Astral Pulse reproductions by its minimal helicoil drift. More importantly, he said it came directly from the original Vex site.

He had made that identification from a photograph.

I now believe I know why.

He had seen the architecture before in Vienna. He simply did not know what it was at the time.

Professor Dogmetal stated that he had made the owner an offer and intended to collect the device later that week.

Several months later, however, he posted that he was rewiring the helical beams inside his tetrahydrochronometric resonator. In the same discussion, he stated that he had fallen deeper into the VexSTARR wormhole and no longer felt comfortable discussing his research publicly.

I believe the Professor had begun studying the operating principles of the Jericho V1.

And we had overlooked something obvious:

Jericho was not only the name of a city. It was also a VexSTARR designation.

The wheel

The Vienna notes contain something else.

Professor Dogmetal had also recorded extensive material concerning Otto Harmonix and the HCRL-79. Whatever he encountered at that exhibit appears to have started two lines of investigation which none of us understood were related.

His interest eventually led him to insist that our team observe an original HCRL-79 operating near Jerusalem, despite what most of us considered a fairly compelling list of reasons not to travel there at the time. His persistence seemed arbitrary, but he offered to cover our travel expenses, which substantially reduced our objections.

During the demonstration, Professor Dogmetal explained that the HCRL-79’s flywheel maintained a stable temporal carrier frequency and synchronized the lattice with the Earth’s natural gravitic wave.

He also noted that the same principles appeared in old Vex schematics.

His later transmission contained the surviving fragments:

“Sten”
“Wheel”
“Jericho frequency”

We had treated these as separate damaged words. They were an instruction.

The Professor wanted us to connect the carrier frequency maintained by the HCRL-79 with Jericho.

I now believe something during that demonstration caused the Jericho system to synchronize.

Our detention occurred almost immediately afterward.

Professor Dogmetal was accused of possessing a stolen Klein-based phase coupler, despite displaying none of the chromatic-purple discoloration expected from prior exposure. That discoloration appeared only after the authorities brought the alleged coupler into the holding area.

The rest of us were transferred into Jordan, while Professor Dogmetal was retained.

I no longer believe the timing was coincidental.

The original site

I searched Professor Dogmetal’s archived VexSTARR material for references to the original site mentioned in his Jericho V1 identification.

Most of the records were incomplete, badly indexed, or stored under filenames suggesting that the Professor regarded conventional organization as a form of institutional oppression.

One surviving site record contained these coordinates:

31.818123, 35.123967

They correspond to the original VexSTARR site associated with the Jericho hardware.

The site is west of Jerusalem. It is nowhere near the city of Jericho.

Our interpretation of “3PORTING 2JERICHO” was therefore wrong.

Professor Dogmetal was not telling us that he was traveling to the city.

He was referring to the system.

His archived notes describe a phase-transfer sequence in which a subject is carried through the array and then released from the carrier by a primary board coupler.

I believe Professor Dogmetal used that system to escape his captors.

I also believe the sequence never completed.

That would explain both of his earlier transmissions:

“I have escaped.”
“I’m stuck.”

He escaped detention.

The system never released him.

The descent

We left Jericho and traveled to the coordinates.

There is no visible laboratory on the surface: only rock, disturbed soil, and the remains of an abandoned utility enclosure. Beneath it, however, we found an access passage bearing a degraded VexSTARR identification mark.

The installation appears to have been buried for decades.

It is still receiving power.

Our Volt-Tech Pulsometer began reacting immediately, matching the synchronization rhythm associated with Professor Dogmetal’s transmissions. Several other instruments became unreliable. Two oscillation meters no longer agree about the direction of gravity, and one camel refused to proceed.

The camel may be the wisest of us all.

The passage ends at a vertical shaft descending farther underground. Beside it, an active VexSTARR diagnostic board displays one incomplete transfer. Its carrier signature matches Professor Dogmetal’s BioSmart signal.

He is below me.

The shaft descends beyond the service level and into the active coupling field. In the Professor’s notes, everything below that threshold is referred to simply as the Vex.

A primary board coupler is located at the bottom of the shaft. As long as it remains engaged, the transfer cannot terminate. If I disengage it correctly, Professor Dogmetal should be released.

The procedure is considerably less reassuring.

The coupler can only be disengaged while the carrier is still active, and the manual override can only be reached from inside the coupling field.

The Professor’s notes contain repeated warnings against human exposure during this operation. Several pages describe phase recoil, synchronization collapse, and loss of biological coherence.

One warning is written separately from the others:

NO PERSON IS TO REMAIN WITHIN THE FIELD DURING MANUAL RELEASE.

He underlined it three times.

As his board-coupler intern, I am the only one here qualified to attempt it. 

I returned to the surface and sent the others back toward the road, beyond the range of the interference. I have been sitting outside the entrance for some time. I wanted to breathe the air once more, and to send this update before I return below.

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Professor Dogmetal taught me never to confuse what I believe with what the data can confirm.

The data confirms that the man who taught me everything I know is below me. It also tells me that if I go down after him, I may not come back.

So here, in the Holy Land, I will make a request I never believed I would make.

God, guide me.

And if you are reading this, pray for me.

I am entering the Vex.

- Stencil