It appeared at the beginning of the week. It produces a low to moderate level of paranoia in which one feels as though you're being watched. That paranoia is increased if you come into skin-to-skin contact with it, plus you're afflicted with terrible nightmares. Nobody has yet identified what it's made out of, or what the shadows on its surface means. At 1:32 am, it blasts a loud sound along with a great puff of unidentified ash; that time being precisely when the campus "resets", taking it and everybody to a different location.
[Private] I arrived in attending the funeral.
You missed Tony by about a week and a half. He was from before he'd even been introduced to the Avengers, and did not know what his future held. I was warned, early on, to careful not to bring it up. It's safe to always check before having a conversation with anybody.