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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7949</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Euclid</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Due to SCP-7949’s inherent abilities, it is to be kept in its hometown of Graycott, Arkansas<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>. SCP-7949 is to be monitored at all times by MTF Rho-77 “Friendly Neighbors” in case of a sudden shift in its abilities or an attempt to leave the town. Rho-77 is to be stationed in and around the town as members of law enforcement and SCP-7949’s neighbors and coworkers. Any deviation from their roles, or attempts to tell SCP-7949 about its current situation and containment protocols will be met with reprimanding actions and relocation to another containment unit. Research into developing proper containment for SCP-7949 is still ongoing at the time of writing.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7949 is a Caucasian male approximately 1.52 meters in height and weighing around 100 kilograms. From interviews and government records, it has been confirmed that SCP-7949 is approximately 32 years of age, with their legal name being Stephen Phanal, a longtime resident of Graycott.</p>
<p>SCP-7949’s abilities only take effect when it travels outside their town to another populated center. While outside of the city limits of Graycott, SCP-7949's anomalous effect manifests, hereby titled SCP-7949-A. The longer SCP-7949 is outside of its hometown the likelihood of SCP-7949-A events causing mass panic and destruction, resulting in mild to severe losses of human life. SCP-7949-A events can vary from terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and infrastructure failures, and it is assumed SCP-7949 is responsible for at least 20 to 30 SCP-7949-A events. It is unknown if SCP-7949 knows about its anomalous abilities, nonetheless, it is to be informed that leaving the outskirts of the town will result in their arrest.</p>
<p><strong>Discovery:</strong> SCP-7949 was first discovered by Foundation agents implanted within the FBI as well as other internal security organizations in several nations. Statistics showed that the rate of natural disasters and terrorist attacks had raised greatly over the past few weeks, and per protocol, agents were tasked with investigating the incidents in case of anomalous influence. Through travel records, agents discovered that SCP-7949 had been present during most catastrophes, and surveyed it closely to ensure these were not a case of coincidence. When SCP-7949 took a trip to Seattle, causing another SCP-7949-A incident, Foundation agents moved in to apprehend it soon after.</p>
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<p><strong>Audio Log from Interview SCP-7949</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> SCP-7949</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Dr. Vander</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> After the discovery of SCP-7949, Foundation agents in the area moved into Graycott to apprehend SCP-7949 acting as agents of the FBI. SCP-7949 was sent to the nearby Site-79 for an interview done by Dr. Ryan Vander.</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Vander</strong>: Good evening, Mr. Phanal. How are you feeling?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7949</strong>: Okay, I guess. A little nervous. I almost thought I was getting mugged when your fellas approached me on the street [Laughs].</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Vander</strong>: Yes, apologies for the fright, Mr. Phanal. I’m with the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and we just wanted to ask you a few questions.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7949</strong>: Oh, dear. Of course. What would you like to ask me?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Vander</strong>: First off, have you been out of state, or out of the country for that matter, in the last few months?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7949</strong>: [Pauses] Yes, I have actually. I took a flight over to… Oh, yeah, India, Delhi, yeah! Lovely place, you know. The food is quite something too. Oh, right, right. Er, a few weeks later I took another trip to Hamburg, Germany. Really interesting people there.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Vander</strong>: I see. Mr. Phanal, it seems that the locations you have visited have… well, in 91% of the cases there have been losses of human life. Around the time you visited Delhi, and near your location, a vehicle exploded, killing thirteen people.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7949</strong>: Oh dear, that’s horrible!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Vander</strong>: Indeed. And during the time you visited Hamburg, a fire spread to several apartment buildings. These aren’t the only cases either. From what I've seen on your documents it seems that this happens dozens of other times in different locations, even in the United States. When you traveled to San Bruno in California, there was an earthquake, causing severe structural damage and three deaths. I’m not saying that you are accountable for these tragedies, Mr. Phanal, but it does raise suspicion. We are going to have to keep you here for a little while.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7949</strong>: Of course, sir. I’ll stay here for as long as y’all need me.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Vander</strong>: Excellent. Thank you for your cooperation. The gentlemen outside will escort you to where you will be staying.</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Closing Statement:</strong> SCP-7949 was led to a temporary holding cell and were to be kept there overnight. However, at around 3:27 CST, Site-79 was attacked by operatives from the Chaos Insurgency. Although security was warned about a dangerous event possibly taking place due to SCP-7949 anomalous abilities, they were unprepared for the large-scale attack on the facility. The site experienced severe structural damage, and several anomalies were released from containment. The incident finally ended at 8:45 CST, when members of MTF Epsilon-11 recontained the last anomalies that had broken out. SCP-7949 was found in its temporary holding cell and appeared to have slept through the entire incident. SCP-7949 was promptly moved back to Graycott by request of Dr. Vander</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum:</strong> Below is a log of notable SCP-7949-A incidents. SCP-7949 was confirmed to be present and at some times near the location of all incidents.</p>
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<td>April 4th, 2016</td>
<td>Cairo, Egypt.</td>
<td>From travel records, eyewitness accounts, and CCTV footage it is believed that SCP-7949 arrived in Cairo in the early hours of April 2nd. SCP-7949 reportedly stayed at the Kempinski Nile Hotel, having booked a room for two days. CCTV footage records SCP-7949 leaving and returning to its hotel room several times a day, apparently participating in tourist activities. On April 4th, as SCP-7949 was preparing its belongings to leave the hotel, several armed men a block away opened fire on a group of people. SCP-7949 seemed to not react to the sound of gunfire when it was recorded exiting the hotel, even though it was only a block away from the shooting. When asked why it did not react, SCP-7949 simply replied 'I thought it was a part of local tradition or something'. Four of the six armed men were killed in a shootout with Egyptian police, with the last surviving two being brought into the custody of Egyptian authorities. From records, when each individual asked why they committed these acts, they always responded by saying 'Something urged them to do something terrible.' The source of the weapons the individuals used in the shooting is unknown and the suspects have no recollection of where they received the weapons.</td>
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<td>October 22nd, 2011</td>
<td>Garrettsville, Nebraska, United States</td>
<td>SCP-7949 stopped by the small town of Garrestville during a road trip, staying a night at one of the motels. Overnight, several houses across Garrestville experienced gas leaks, and soon a fire broke out, causing the implosion of several homes. Twelve citizens were killed in the incident, and SCP-7949 reportedly left the next day, not knowing of the destruction that had happened in the town.</td>
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<td>February 9th, 2021</td>
<td>Troundiéba Village, Liberia</td>
<td>SCP-7949 visited the village of Troundiéba during a tour of Liberia in 2021. SCP-7949, albeit unknowingly, had already left several towns and villages in states of disrepair due to its tour. From eyewitness accounts, SCP-7949 stayed in Troundiéba for three days, conversing with locals and visiting local spots of interest. On the last day, as SCP-7949 was leaving Troundiéba, an SCP-7949-A event occurred, causing the sudden deaths of all crops and livestock in the village and the soil becoming sterile and unable to sustain crops<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup>. Troundiéba was thrown into a food crisis, causing the abandonment of the town.</td>
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<p>Audio log from Interview SCP-7949-1</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> SCP-7949</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Dr. Henderson</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> On August 3rd, 2020, SCP-7949 was caught by agents of Rho-77 trying to leave the outskirts of Graycott. SCP-7949 was quickly apprehended and sent to the local police station, where he was interviewed by Dr. Leland Henderson.</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log, August 3rd, 2020. 12:34 AM.></strong></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Henderson:</strong> Good afternoon, Mr. Phanal. I just wanted to ask you a few questions regarding your recent attempt to leave Graycott.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7949:</strong> Fine. What do you want to talk to me about?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Henderson:</strong> Well, I think we should get to the point. Why did you attempt to leave Graycott, even though you knew you would get arrested if caught?</p>
<p>[SCP-7949 does not respond.]</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Henderson:</strong> Mr. Phanal, need I remind you if you do not answer my question, there will be further restrictions on your-.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7949:</strong> You wanna know why I tried to leave? Why do I travel so much? Because I fuckin' hate this town! Do you know what it's like to see the same boring houses every day? Meet the same shitty people each time I step outside?! It's awful! The only exciting place we have in this damn place is the damn Dollar Tree that opened a few months ago! I don't even see people working in there! And when I do they act strange, like I'm a goddamn alien or something! And they never let me in the back of the store! They always let me in the back! And there are always new people at my workplace, for some damn reason! I've never met any of them at all, and they act like they're from a different fuckin' reality! I'm not! I'm a standup goddamn citizen who pays taxes!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Henderson:</strong> Mr. Phanal, please, calm down. If you continue I will have the agents restrain you.</p>
<p>[SCP-7949 takes a few moments to calm down before responding.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7949:</strong> I'm fine. I'm alright. I just… This place is suffocating. I wake up sometimes and I feel like there is weight just being pushed onto me. I can't move or leave to another town. Not just because you and your folks are here, not just that. I… I don't know, but it feels like something is keeping me here. Wrapping its arms around me and tryna bear hug me. I dunno. I guess it's cause I've lived here my entire life or something like that.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Henderson:</strong> I see. That will be all, Mr. Phanal. Thank you for your cooperation.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7949:</strong> Yeah. No problem.</p>
<p><strong><End Log, 12:41 AM></strong></p>
<p><strong>Closing Statement:</strong> SCP-7949 was returned to its home shortly afterward. Dr. Henderson noted a shift in SCP-7949's psychological state (See Addendum 2A).</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 2A:</strong> Several days after it attempted to leave, SCP-7949 was reported by agents of Rho-77 circulating Graycott and asking several citizens and agents to sign a petition. SCP-7949 did this for one day, getting approximately 1/4th of the population of Graycott to sign it in one day. The next day Rho-77 reported that SCP-7949 had made a post on Facebook, creating an event that all citizens within Graycott could participate in. Rho-77 was authorized to go to the scheduled event and survey SCP-7949.</p>
<p>On the day of the event, SCP-7949 was recorded by Rho-77 participating in community activities with several other citizens in the town, as well as agents impersonating civilians and law enforcement. The event lasted for four hours and ended with nothing of much importance happening. Events like these continued happening for several weeks and SCP-7949 was reported conversing with locals more than before, allegedly giving them advice on the issues they were having in life as well as offering assistance.</p>
<p>On September 3rd, a signed petition was sent to Graycott's town hall, signed by more than 30 people including SCP-7949<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>, with the petition asking the mayor of Graycott to allow the citizens to remodel the town in a large community event. The request was forwarded to the Foundation and after debate amongst SCP-7949 containment and research team, it was permitted.</p>
<p>On September 4th, SCP-7949 gathered with several dozen citizens, including implanted Foundation agents, to refurbish Graycott. The event spanned several days and Rho-77 observed SCP-7949 along with several citizens of Graycott repainting the town square, planting trees in the local park, assisting other locals with their endeavors, setting up a date for an annual town fair, and more (See SCP-7949 Event log for details). Foundation agents were permitted to assist SCP-7949 while continuing to follow their roles as members of the town and law enforcement.</p>
<p>Afterward, the town of Graycott was remodeled completely, sharing nearly no similarities to how the town looked before. Data asserted from SCP-7949's psychological condition shows that the mood of the subject was at an all-time high.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. Now referred to as Site-31</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Despite previous geological records stating that Troundiéba's soil was the most fertile in the area, and was known to provide a surplus.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Around 75% of the town's population at the time, as the census states there are only 50 civilians residing in Graycott</div>
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<div class="scp-image-caption show">A photograph depicting SCP-7950 and a woman presumed to be its late wife.</div>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> The field in which SCP-7950 is located must remain under guard surveillance during its active times to prevent unauthorized entry. Entry into the field is prohibited until further notice.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7950 is a humanoid spectral entity resembling a peasant typical to the Victorian Era. It is currently located in a field in Cranleigh, England where all its activity has taken place.</p>
<p>SCP-7950 is dormant for the majority of the year, manifesting only during the days between 20/4 and 15/5 as well as between 01/10 and 22/10. During these times, its activity consists exclusively of field work, which takes place each day from 8 AM to 6 PM. Once SCP-7950 ceases working for the day, it walks to the edge of the field and immediately demanifests.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 7950-1: Discovery</strong></p>
<p>SCP-7950 was unintentionally discovered in an investigation into an unrelated anomaly, when Junior Researcher Brooks spotted it sowing seeds into the soil. The Department of Spectral Phenomena was alerted and a perimeter was established around the field in order to observe SCP-7950 before attempts to interact with it were made. Ectographical devices detected a trail of ectoplasm leading from the field into a dilapidated shack from which the photograph above was recovered from.</p>
<p>SCP-7950 ceased activity on 15/5 before attempts to communicate with it were made. It resumed activity on 01/10, and an interview was authorized shortly after.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 7950-2: Interview Log</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> 02/10/2014</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Dr. Gibson</p>
<p><strong>Interviewee:</strong> SCP-7950</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> Dr. Gibson, equipped with an ectographical body camera, was tasked to approach SCP-7950 for an interview.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>[BEGIN LOG]</strong></p>
<p><em>Dr. Gibson enters the field and begins to approach SCP-7950. It is seen swinging a scythe at the rows of wheat.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> Hello there!</p>
<p><em>SCP-7950 turns to look at Dr. Gibson, raises its arm to greet him, then returns to work. Dr. Gibson walks closer until he stands approximately 10 feet away from SCP-7950.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> What brings you to my field, sir? No one really has a reason to come all the way out here.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> Joshua Gibson. I'm a scientist of sorts. Would you mind if I asked you some questions?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> Ask away.</p>
<p><em>SCP-7950 continues to swing its scythe and stack the harvested wheat.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> I'll get right on it. Are you aware of your current situation?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> Me grinning at the daisy roots?<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> Sure.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> I see. Then, what are you doing here? Do you have any idea why you're still here?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> I'm working my field. It's time for harvest. It's what I do. It's what my pops did, and his pops before him.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> We found this old photograph from a shack nearby. The young man here looks quite a bit like you. Can you tell us anything about it?</p>
<p><em>SCP-7950 stops its work to turn towards Dr. Gibson. It holds out its hand, and Dr. Gibson hands over the photograph.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> I thought this was lost for good. Yes, it's me and my lady. Such a bit o' rasberry. Prime time of our lives.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> Why is she not here? What made you stay behind when she… moved on?</p>
<p><em>SCP-7950 hands the photograph back, then gets on one knee to tie up a bale of wheat.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> Because… because she left. There were some really tough years. Harvest was taken by frost on some years, drought on others. Most of what was left went to the good lords and the church. She told me she had no reason to stay with a farmer who couldn't bring bread to the table.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> Do you know what happened to her?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> I think she ran away with some soldier, bloody gal-sneaker. Haven't heard anything from her since. I don't think the bad harvests were all there was to it. She just wasn't content with her life, I think.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> I'm sorry. If it helps, I too know how unfaithfulness stings.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> Don't be. I'm fine. Who am I to judge?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> I believe the weather has been great overall these past few years. How has the harvest been?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> Better each year. And still not good enough. It's never good enough.</p>
<p><em>SCP-7950 throws the bale aside, then resumes swinging its scythe. Both are silent for 12 seconds.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> Are you sure you're fine?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> Yes. Are you?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> I am. I admit it took me over a year to get over it, but I'm alright. Currently dating again.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> Good for you.</p>
<p><em>A fog has fallen over the field. Both are silent for a moment as SCP-7950 ties up another bale, throws it aside and resumes swinging its scythe.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> I do see her occasionally. You know, in the store or some similar place. We don't really talk since it's too awkward, but we're not enemies by any means. We can be adults about it.</p>
<p><em>SCP-7950 sets down the scythe, and stretches.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> Have you seen ghosts before?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> Hm? Why yes, several in fact.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> What about her? The woman you loved.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> She's alive and well. It's a bit early to think of her as a ghost.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> She is. Whoever you've been seeing is not the same person. A mere shadow of what once was.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> Well, I suppose you're right in a way. I don't really recognize her anymore. What we had is over, but it doesn't mean I can't be happy about the good times we shared. I moved on, and I deserve better.</p>
<p><em>SCP-7950 closes its eyes and seems to inhale deeply, though no sound is heard. The fog seems to intensify slightly.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> How still the air stands. Each wet strand of wheat smells heavy, all around us until the harvest is over.</p>
<p><em>SCP-7950 picks up the scythe, walks to Dr. Gibson and firmly pats his shoulder. It then turns around and walks towards the edge of the field.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7950:</strong> Was nice meeting you sir.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gibson:</strong> Likewise.</p>
<p><em>SCP-7950 demanifests upon reaching the edge of the field. Dr. Gibson stands in place for a moment before walking off the field himself.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>[END LOG]</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 7950-3: Update</strong></p>
<p>A spectral entity with the appearance of Dr. Gibson has been spotted in the field the day following the interview, engaging in identical behavior to SCP-7950. Dr. Gibson himself is currently in good health, and no anomaly, spectral or otherwise, has been identified in him.</p>
<p>This new spectral entity, henceforth referred to as SCP-7950-2, manifests and demanifests in identical cycle to SCP-7950. It occasionally stops working to cry, with SCP-7950 usually responding by giving it a firm pat on the back. Proposal to alter SCP-7950's object class to Euclid is currently pending approval by the Department of Spectral Phenomena, and all plans to further interview SCP-7950 or SCP-7950-2 have been discontinued.</p>
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<strong>Name:</strong> Bolgárkertészet, Nyíregyháza 1940-es évek.jpg<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> Trifonovné Karajz Borbála<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> CC BY-SA 4.0<br/>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> 7951</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Safe</p>
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<p>SCP-7951-1 and SCP-7951-2 together.</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Researcher Paul Jones must remain aware of possible SCP-7951 manifestations. For the preservation of normalcy, Jones is to observe extra vigilance regarding romantic occasions, family dinners, and moderate social gatherings of 3-7 people.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7951 is the designation for the spontaneous physical manifestation of two coffee mugs within the personal home of Researcher Paul Jones.</p>
<p>SCP-7951-1 is a nondescript ceramic mug invariably filled with a black tea beverage at or below 23 degrees Celsius. Subjects who perceive SCP-7951-1 believe that the liquid inside is "not how they like their tea" and upon tasting the beverage will note that it is "too cold" in addition to a series of other subjective qualitative notes. The exception to this is Researcher Paul Jones, who says that the liquid inside is "exactly how [he likes] it."</p>
<p>SCP-7951-2 is empty.</p>
<p><strong>Discovery:</strong> SCP-7951 was discovered in the home of Researcher Paul Jones shortly after the finalization of inheritance proceedings on 10/15/2023. When questioned, Jones stated, "My room's still how I left it."</p>
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<p><strong>SCP-7952:</strong> Miserere Eorum<br/>
By <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/itsdenali" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4284264); return false;"><img alt="ItsDenali" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=4284264&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1730032168" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=4284264)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/itsdenali" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4284264); return false;">ItsDenali</a></span></p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7952</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Safe</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-7952 is contained at the location of its discovery, and the area has been cordoned off from public access with a padlocked grate. No other containment procedures are considered necessary.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7952 is a set of anomalous human remains located inside of a small cave in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, near Juneau, Alaska. The cave measures approximately 20 meters in length by 2 meters in height and diameter for most of its continuity, which is generally flat and level, barring a slight rise at its end. The floor of the space is partially flooded due to the presence of a nearby stream running over the mouth of the cave.</p>
<p>Personnel in proximity to SCP-7952 report a strong desire to not disturb the remains, as well as a decelerated perception of time;<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> both phenomena have been observed to intensify dramatically the closer an observer is to the item. Additionally, faint remnants of what appear to have once been glyphs and a thaumaturgic ritual circle surround the corpse, though the implements have become too eroded to be able to determine what their original function was.</p>
<p>SCP-7952 also exhibits strong antimemetic properties which visually obscure the item, making examination of it extremely difficult. Photographs, video, and similar visual imaging techniques are also subject to this property, which results in severe distortion of affected media. Consequently, details concerning SCP-7952 such as its identity, race, gender, or age prior to its death remain unknown. However, evidenced by items discovered alongside the anomaly (see below), it is believed that SCP-7952 has occupied its current position for at least several years.</p>
<p>In-depth study or exhumation of SCP-7952 has been deemed unnecessary.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 7952.1:</strong> Upon discovery, several belongings were found beside SCP-7952, including a rusted flashlight, a King James Bible, and a small journal. All items had sustained severe water damage by the time of discovery. The Bible contained little of note beyond minor annotations throughout the New Testament. Only the final entry in the journal proved partially legible, and has been transcribed below.</p>
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<p><em><tt><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">...</span></tt> that such hatred, such shame could rule so despotically. To think it'd take me so many years to see it all for what it truly was. The joy we'd known, the pain we'd felt, and everything else we endured along the way,</em> <tt><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">...</span>[illegible]<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">...</span></tt> <em>All of it, culminating here, at the end of a life.</em></p>
<p><em>I find it strange that I feel at peace here in this damp, obscure corner of the world under such circumstances as these. Yet to feel such a sensation after so long and arduous a path fills me with a joy that I simply cannot explain.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><tt>[All but the last three lines is illegible.]</tt></p>
<p><tt><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">...</span></tt> <em>the vicious brunt of it all, no matter what happens.</em></p>
<p><em>I will at least be able to rest easy knowing that, when this is all over, Edward and the others will be safe.</em></p>
<p><em>Please, God, just let them be safe.</em></p>
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem!important</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">div#extra-div-1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">15</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-image:</span><span class="hl-code"> linear-gradient(
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</span><span class="hl-special">:root</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">hr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">td</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">12</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 767</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-identifier">target</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">black</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FDF6D7</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.media</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-var">#F5D8E0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.creditRate</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">; </span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anchor</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> sticky</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.14</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">8</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc((</span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-code">vw - </span><span class="hl-number">870</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">)/</span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc(</span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-code">vh - </span><span class="hl-number">18</span><span class="hl-code">rem)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">absolute</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">103.5</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">z-index:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 1290</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">visibility:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">hidden</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">h2:</span><span class="hl-code">:before {
font-size: </span><span class="hl-number">0.9</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
}
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">YUI</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">TAB</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">BASE</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-image:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-decoration:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">YUI</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">TAB</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CUSTOMIZATION</span><span class="hl-code"> ----</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-wrap:</span><span class="hl-code"> wrap</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc(</span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code"> - </span><span class="hl-number">.125</span><span class="hl-code">rem)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">, /</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">UNSELECTED</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#efefef</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">HOVER</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code">, /</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Listitem</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">relative</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-grow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-bottom</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">align-items:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">justify-content:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.35</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.75</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> ellipsis</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">hidden</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">white-space:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">nowrap</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code">, /</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Selection</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-grow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">SELECTED</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:active</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
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/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">SCROLLBAR</span><span class="hl-code"> ----</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
::-</span><span class="hl-identifier">webkit-scrollbar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
::-</span><span class="hl-identifier">webkit-scrollbar-track</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
::-</span><span class="hl-identifier">webkit-scrollbar-thumb</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#CCC</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
::-</span><span class="hl-identifier">webkit-scrollbar-thumb</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#EEE</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.imagediv</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">right</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">15</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 540</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.imagediv</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">only</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">screen</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">and</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 600</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block.block-right</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">ACS-COLORED</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">TABLE</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">DIVS</span><span class="hl-code"> ----</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#D7EFE7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#D8ECF4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FDF6D7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFDABF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#F5D8E0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.tableb</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.wiki-content-table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-collapse:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">separate</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.tableb</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.top-left-box</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">.item</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">WORDS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">NO</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">LONGER</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">BROKEN</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">THE</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CROQUEMBOUCHE</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">HAS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">SPOKEN</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">word-break:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">normal</span><span class="hl-code"> !important </span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#main-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-tags</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
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/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> -- </span><span class="hl-identifier">FANCY</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">THINGS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">from</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Woedenaz</span><span class="hl-code">'</span><span class="hl-identifier">s</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Dustjacket</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Theme</span><span class="hl-code"> -- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.fancyhr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">hr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-source:</span><span class="hl-code"> url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/theme%</span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-code">Aflopstyle-dark/wl_hr.png')</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-repeat:</span><span class="hl-code"> round round</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-slice:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">500</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">500</span><span class="hl-code"> fill</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
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by <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/olivermemphis" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(6623086); return false;"><img alt="OliverMemphis" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=6623086&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1731521292" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=6623086)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/olivermemphis" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(6623086); return false;">OliverMemphis</a></span></p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Efforts by the Site-43 Memetics & Countermemetics and Identity & Technocryptography Sections to shut down SCP-7953-A and -B are ongoing, but have not thus far been successful. Containment is therefore limited at this time to suppression of public knowledge of SCP-7953, facilitated by Foundation webcrawler I/O LORENZ.</p>
<p>Personnel may only view SCP-7953-B under approved testing conditions, and must be amnesticised immediately afterwards.</p>
<p>No further interaction with SCP-7953-A is permitted, other than actions aimed at neutralising it.</p>
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<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7953 designates two related ventures operated by <a href="/vikander-kneed-technical-media-hub">Vikander-Kneed Technical Media</a> (GoI-5889).</p>
<p>SCP-7953-A is "Historical Rationalization Services", which offers the selective removal of unwanted memories from its customers for a variable fee. This service is marketed on its website as a 'proven therapeutic mental wellness treatment'. Customers who book an appointment via this website will be visited by a Vikander-Kneed employee at their residence within 48 hours; the time of the employee’s arrival is unrelated to the time specified on the appointment. The employee will ask the customer to specify the memories they wish to forget, and then proceed to remove them. The means by which this is achieved are unclear, and no customer has been able to report details of the procedure after the fact; however, it is apparently effective.</p>
<p>Known side effects of SCP-7953-A 'treatment' include frequent nosebleeds and narcoleptic episodes persisting for several weeks, as well as the removal of a small amount of memories beyond those requested. If these issues are noticed, employees will provide excuses that shift blame onto the customer, often citing a supposed failure to follow instructions provided prior to treatment.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">For instance, claiming that the equipment was miscalibrated because the customer failed to obey a prohibition on moving or breathing.</span></p>
<p>All SCP-7953-A customers are prompted to sign a 544-page legal waiver before the procedure commences. The Foundation has obtained a copy of this document; selected paragraphs are reproduced below.</p>
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<p><strong>30.</strong> Vikander-Kneed disavows liability for any and all side effects or regular effects resulting from the procedure, including but not limited to: mistargeted amnesia, nausea, abdominal bleeding, deafness, normalisation, normalization, recursive perception disorder, permanent and non-selective ability to hear all sounds originating from the state and/or nation of Georgia, unannounced substitution for sacrificial livestock, and cluster headaches. The Customer waives the right to seek any form of legal remedy for such occurrences, as well as the right to be informed of Vikander-Kneed's postal address should they wish to begin a futile attempt to submit the relevant paperwork to do so.</p>
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<p><strong>234.</strong> The Customer hereby acknowledges that Vikander-Kneed is not required to inform them of relevant regulatory compliance information, should any exist, and that no further representations or warranties of said will be presented, and that any reliance on said is strictly at the Customer's own risk, and that the presented information shall not be construed in any way whatsoever, including but not limited to the effect thereof, or therefore, or thereby, not to be found under any circumstances to exceed the scope of the aforementioned provisions, and furthermore that any and all expressed or implied representations or warranties are declared null and void, and void and null the for by to or with this and as under unless expressly stated otherwise.</p>
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<p><strong>815.</strong> Vikander-Kneed acquires the exclusive rights in perpetuity to any Content or Media obtained during the procedure, and may freely publish, transform or otherwise use such material for commercial, non-commercial, educational, occult, or other purposes as it sees fit. The Customer acknowledges that any attempt to regain said rights at any point in the future may leave them liable to employment by Vikander-Kneed.</p>
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<p>Memories 'removed' by SCP-7953-A are not in fact erased, but are instead transferred by unknown means to SCP-7953-B.</p>
<p>SCP-7953-B is "The Real Content Zone", a freely-accessible online video streaming service. The site features the VKTM logo prominently in the header, accompanied by the slogan "The Internet Is The Home Of The Better Tommorrow™ <em>[sic]</em> Of Future Media Content".</p>
<p>All videos on the site are uploaded by Vikander-Kneed. Roughly 10% of them are original content produced by VKTM — usually excerpts from their <a href="/scp-5904">other</a> <a href="/scp-7007">productions</a>, but sometimes entirely original (and largely incoherent) material. The remainder of the content consists of footage corresponding to memories removed by Historical Rationalization Services, filmed in first person from the perspective of the customer. Often, these videos are altered to include events and other modifications incongruous with the original material (see below).</p>
<p>If a person watches any portion of any video on SCP-7953-B, they will come to believe that they personally experienced the events depicted therein; standard amnestics have proven sufficient to reverse this effect. They will also experience any memetic effects otherwise associated with the video, as is common with content originating from VKTM itself.</p>
<p>Videos on SCP-7953-B typically have 'clickbait'-style titles and thumbnails, and vary in length from a few seconds to over three hundred hours. They are invariably accompanied by pre-roll and mid-roll video advertising, lasting in total roughly 40% of the content's runtime. No representatives of the companies whose commercials have appeared on SCP-7953-B have ever reported buying ad time there, or indeed possessing any knowledge at all of Vikander-Kneed Technical Media.</p>
<p>Examples of videos on SCP-7953-B are provided below, with civilian names redacted where applicable; in all cases, "the subject" refers to the individual whose perspective is seen.</p>
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<td>Healing Music Stress Relief 🌍 Stop Anxiety</td>
<td>33:45</td>
<td>Footage from a karaoke night at a bar. None of the songs are performed in tune, and all persons involved appear heavily intoxicated. Backing tracks become increasingly distorted to the point of unrecognisability. The final performer is the subject; during their rendition of an unidentifiable song, a large number of empty glasses are thrown at them from the audience, many of them shattering on impact. Video ends when the subject appears to fall unconscious roughly two minutes into the song.</td>
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<td>Real Person Reacts to World's Most Patriotic Movie</td>
<td>1:15:56</td>
<td>Footage of the subject viewing and remarking upon several segments of <em>American American</em> (<a href="/scp-6359">SCP-6359</a>), a film produced by TotleighSoft and Vikander-Kneed about an American attempting to force elements of U.S. culture on other nations. Subject becomes increasingly confused and agitated; video ends abruptly midway through a long, expletive-laden diatribe directed at both the film and the United States in general, during which the video gradually gains a deep red tint. As the subject provided no identifying information at any point in the footage, the Foundation has thus far failed to locate them, seize their copy of SCP-6359, or indeed confirm their existence.</td>
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<td>COOKING WITH LEFTOVERS - Top 34 Kitchen Tips</td>
<td>5:40</td>
<td>Footage of the subject inadvertently starting a grease fire in the kitchen of a McDonald's. The subject attempts to locate the fire extinguisher, but finds it replaced by <a href="/a-culinary-broadcast">a middle-aged woman in a pink blouse</a>, who begins to speak in a cheerful voice. Her commentary consists of a live narration of the unfolding events, interspersed with unfavourable comments about the subject (identified as █████ █████████), his failure to resolve the situation, and his general life choices. The subject's coworker locates another extinguisher, and immediately throws it into the fire before placing their own head in the burning oil. The middle-aged woman begins to interact with an unseen entity whose voice resembles an obnoxiously enthusiastic radio host, and they continue their running commentary together. The subject attempts to leave the building as the fire begins to spread, but is restrained by several customers with no facial features who loudly accost him for providing poor service. The subject apologises profusely before leaving the building, and watches from the parking lot as it is engulfed in flames. All other individuals remain inside, including the middle-aged woman and the radio host; they are still audible, and begin to comment on the advantages and disadvantages of cooking food using a burning building.</td>
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<td>BEST FAILS OF 2018 | COMPILATION</td>
<td>11:25:15</td>
<td>Unmodified and unedited footage of a wedding ceremony and reception, from the perspective of the bride. The groom has been identified as █████ ████, who as of 2023 possesses a felony conviction in the state of Pennsylvania for domestic abuse.</td>
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<td>EXCLUSIVE Look at VKTM's New Studio!</td>
<td>1:38:09</td>
<td>Continuous footage of a humanoid figure wearing a pinstripe suit and motorcycle helmet walking in circles around an otherwise-empty stage. Lighting changes colour at random intervals, and metallic banging noises of unknown origin are audible throughout. After 58 minutes, the lighting rig collapses on top of the figure and shatters its visor. The figure continues walking in the same fashion for the remainder of the video, apparently unimpeded; its face is never visible, but blood can be seen dripping from the helmet.</td>
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<td>Dumb guy tries to steal company secrets, regrets it IMMEDIATELY</td>
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<td>A brief clip of Junior Researcher David Hamilton buying groceries; see Addendum 1.</td>
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<p><strong>Addendum 1, Experiment and Correspondence Log:</strong> In October 2023, the Site-43 Memetics & Countermemetics Section attempted to determine the nature of SCP-7953-A's amnesticisation procedure. Junior Researcher David Hamilton was moved to a secure off-Site location and directed to sign up for one session of Historical Rationalization Services 'treatment'. He was instructed to request the removal of an unremarkable memory involving no classified information.</p>
<p>A VKTM employee, which did not identify itself, manifested in Hamilton's room fourteen hours after booking, performed the procedure, and subsequently demanifested. Neither Hamilton nor any of the observing researchers have been able to recall any details of the events that took place during the procedure (though Hamilton did report general joint pain for several days afterward), and all security footage of this time period was found replaced with the following still image:</p>
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<p>Image that overwrote all footage of SCP-7953-A recording. Notable flickering effects appeared periodically, and stock muzak was audible throughout.</p>
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<p>A customer support email address was later found on SCP-7953-A's website, and Hamilton received approval to begin correspondence with it:</p>
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<p><strong>To:</strong> VKTM Customer Support<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> Junior Researcher David Hamilton<br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Recent appointment</p>
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<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I recently booked an appointment with Historical Rationalization Services. The treatment was initially a success, but it seems that the footage of the memories you removed ended up being reuploaded to The Real Content Zone, which your company apparently also owns? Watching the video completely reversed the treatment and returned the memories to me, which is not what I was hoping for.</p>
<p>Can I ask how and why this happened?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br/>
David Hamilton</p>
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<p><strong>To:</strong> Junior Researcher David Hamilton<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> VKTM Customer Support<br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re: Recent appointment</p>
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<p>Mr. Hamilton,</p>
<p>Thanks for your inquiry. The Real Content Zone™ is Vikander-Kneed's foray into online video streaming, aiming to provide authentic and engaging Media that connects deeply with our viewers. To achieve this, we acquire our Content from a wide variety of sources all across our corporate umbra.</p>
<p>We're sorry to hear that your initial appointment with Historical Rationalization Services™ was unsatisfactory. We understand that your memories are important to you, and we want to make sure they're being used as they should be. We'd be happy to provide you with a free compensation voucher for up to $55 off any future VKTM purchases (terms and conditions apply, as I'm sure you're aware) — just grab a spare kidney and drop by our Lansing office<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">The Foundation has found no evidence of any VKTM operations occurring in the city of Lansing, Michigan.</span> to pick it up. Don't worry about a voucher code, we know who you are!</p>
<p>Hope this helps,<br/>
Macy</p>
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<p>After several subsequent emails from Hamilton were all ignored, M&C Chair Dr. Lillian Lillihammer decided to contact VKTM's public relations office directly:</p>
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<p><strong>To:</strong> Marianne MacPhaerson<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> Dr. Lillian Lillihammer<br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Historical Rationalization Services</p>
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<p>Mari,</p>
<p>I have questions about this new custom-blend bullshit operation of yours. So far as I can tell, you're: 1) shilling a 'mental wellness remedy' which involves you actively sucking the life out of people, 2) repackaging the results into badly-edited and/or nonsensical garbage, 3) maliciously manipulating the minds of anyone who watches said garbage, 4) finding advertisers that are inexplicably willing to pay for cheap clicks on it, and 5) covering your ass on the whole thing behind a pile of meaningless legalese.</p>
<p>Do you think you're being original?</p>
<p>Unkind regards,<br/>
Lillian</p>
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<p><strong>To:</strong> Dr. Lillian Lillihammer<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> Marianne MacPhaerson<br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re: Historical Rationalization Services</p>
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<p>Hi Lily,</p>
<p>We're so pleased to learn you're taking an interest in our latest ventures! We at Vikander-Kneed love to hear from fans of our Media — our customers' input is always important in informing the Content we produce. That's why we believe that asking about 'originality' isn't the best way to view our contributions to the cultural landscape. Instead, we ask: Are we capturing as much attention as possible? Are we transforming people's ideas to encourage higher viewership? Are we making sure that every user hears and understands our messages, no matter how much they ask us to stop?</p>
<p>We want to make sure that we're doing everything we can to communicate ideas as clearly and deeply as possible, and there's no better way to do that than by drawing on real experiences! Time and attention are valuable in this day and age, and we believe in building a platform where we can broker those commodities efficiently and effectively with all our stakeholders. If you're interested in getting involved with this new project, just let us know — we'd be more than excited to have you on board!</p>
<p>The internet is the home of the Better Tommorrow™ of future Media Content,</p>
<p>Marianne MacPhaerson<br/>
Vikander-Kneed Public Outreach</p>
<p>P.S. If this is about your friend, could you ask him to give us something more interesting next time? A live commentary would be fine, or even just a small blood sacrifice.</p>
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<p><strong>To:</strong> Marianne MacPhaerson<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> Dr. Lillian Lillihammer<br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re: Historical Rationalization Services</p>
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<p>Mari,</p>
<p>Usually when companies say they're looking for customer input, they just put out a survey. And the only idea you're communicating is "most people's lives are so boring, we have to stuff them full of horrifying bullshit to be remotely worth watching". Should I interpret this as the message you're trying to send everyone?</p>
<p>-Lillian</p>
<p>P.S. No.</p>
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<p>Subsequent to this exchange, a comments section was added to all videos on SCP-7953-B. A representative sample of these comments from a variety of videos is included below:</p>
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<p>This happened to me once. Advice for if it happens to anyone else: it's usually easiest to just throw the viscera in a river or something afterwards.</p>
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<p>██████ im going to kill you i stg, why the FUCK DID YOU FILM ME DOING THIS<br/>
take this down jesus christ</p>
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<p>This is like weird ass deja vu or something, like I'm sure I remember this happening to me but I KNOW it didn't cause I've still got both arms<br/>
I'm pretty sure I've got both arms<br/>
Idk what the fuck is real anymore</p>
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<p>What is this garbage? This is just a guy getting welded to a completely ordinary electricity pylon. Can't believe this content farm bullshit is getting views and engagement.</p>
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<p>loved this video, gave me anaphylaxis 👍 +1</p>
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<p><strong>To:</strong> Dr. Lillian Lillihammer<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> Marianne MacPhaerson<br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re: Historical Rationalization Services</p>
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<p>Lily,</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your feedback! We threw it full-force at our product team, and even before he'd recovered from the injury he pushed out a brand new update to the site incorporating your advice. This will be a fresh chapter in the story of the Real Content Zone™, one which will enable us to transform fully-formed concepts into Media faster than ever before!</p>
<p>Marianne MacPhaerson<br/>
Vikander-Kneed Public Outreach</p>
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<p><strong>To:</strong> Marianne MacPhaerson<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> Dr. Lillian Lillihammer<br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re: Historical Rationalization Services</p>
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<p>No further communications from VKTM on this matter have been received. In addition to its usual content, SCP-7953-B now features videos of unidentified subjects (presumed, but not confirmed, to be VKTM employees) responding to comments on previous videos, frequently launching insults or explicit threats<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">e.g. advising the recipient to "go jump in a lake", stating their home address, and then providing exhaustive driving and public transit directions from said address to several nearby freshwater lakes, before extolling the benefits of manmade water pollution.</span> against individuals who have left negative feedback.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7954</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Euclid</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Two Foundation agents have been stationed at the location where SCP-7954 occurs, and a fence has been constructed around the area. Every night, from 12 AM to 1 AM, the agents are to patrol the outskirts of the area. Trespassers are to be apprehended and, if necessary, given amnestics.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7954 is an anomalous phenomenon that occurs routinely in an undeveloped area near Mifflintown, Pennsylvania. Every night, two spectral entities (henceforth SCP-7954-A and -B) spontaneously manifest in the area at 12:04 AM. The entities wander around the area,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> lie down next to each other, converse, and spontaneously demanifest at 12:58 AM. The entities always lie down in the same location, and their conversation is always identical. They have never acknowledged the presence of Foundation personnel or the existence of the fence.</p>
<p>SCP-7954-A and -B both appear to be white human males in their late teens. After an examination of Pennsylvania public records, it was found that SCP-7954-A strongly resembles a man named Sam Bowman, while SCP-7954-B strongly resembles a man named Robert Buck. Both men are former residents of Philadelphia, and both men graduated from the same high school in 1995.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum:</strong> Video Transcript</p>
<p>The following is a transcript of a recording of the conversation between SCP-7954-A and -B.</p>
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<p><strong>[BEGIN LOG]</strong></p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A and SCP-7954-B are lying side-by-side in the grass. Both are looking at the sky.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> So.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A turns to face -B.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Hm?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> Did you check out that album I told you about?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Weezer?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A nods.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Not yet. Couldn't find it for cheap.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> Ah. That sucks.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Yeah.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A turns back to the sky. Both are silent for one minute.)</em></p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A turns towards -B.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> God, can you believe Ryan?<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> He's such a dick.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> He really is! I mean, seriously, who says that to someone? Unbelievable.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Mhm.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A continues to stare at -B for five seconds, before turning the other way.)</em></p>
<p><em>(Both are silent for half a minute.)</em></p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A rolls on its side to face -B, who does not react.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> How's Emily?<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup></p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-B tilts its head slightly towards -A.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> What do you mean?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> Like, how is she doing? How are things going with you two?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-B tilts its head back to its original position.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> She's doing good. We're fine.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> That's good.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Yeah.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A rolls back onto its back.)</em></p>
<p><em>(Both are silent for one minute. SCP-7954-A occasionally glances at -B, who does not appear to notice.)</em></p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A abruptly sits up and looks at -B, who glances at -A.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> I'm gonna miss you, man.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-B closes its eyes and sighs.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Yeah.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A leans towards -B, whose eyes remain closed.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> You'll call, right?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-B opens its eyes and looks at -A.)</em><br/>
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<strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Of course. Why wouldn't I?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A shrugs.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> I dunno. I've just got this bad feeling about it.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-B lifts an outstretched hand in -A's direction.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> I'm gonna call. I promise.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A sighs.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> Okay.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A lies back down.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Hey.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A turns to face -B.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> Hm?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-B reaches into a pant pocket and pulls out a Tootsie Roll.)</em></p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A snorts.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> Seriously?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> You know you wanna take it.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A is silent for a moment.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> …Yeah.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-B hands the Tootsie Roll to -A, who eats it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> Thanks.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Of course.</p>
<p><em>(Both are silent for one minute.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> What are you gonna do? After college, I mean.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-B shrugs.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> I haven't thought much about it. I could go to grad school, I guess.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> Where do you think you're gonna end up?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> I'm not sure. I've thought about settling down around here.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> That would be nice. I've also thought about that.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> About settling down here?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> Yeah. I like it around here. Not too loud, and there's lots of nice little spots like this.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Mm.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A sits up.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> I could see myself living in one of those little houses down the road. Taking care of some plants, chilling on the porch.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> That sounds nice.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> Imagine us as like, bitter old men living next to each other around here, fighting because one of us blew leaves onto the other guy's lawn.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-B snorts.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Amazing.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> Isn't it? God, we would be terrible neighbors. It would be great.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Heh. Yeah.</p>
<p><em>(Both are silent for two minutes.)</em></p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-A turns towards -B.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> I have an idea.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-B looks at -A.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> What's that?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> How about, if we're still friends in ten years or so, we come back here again? By then, it'll be for old time's sake.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> That sounds nice.</p>
<p><em>(Both are silent for ten seconds.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> Well, how about it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Sure, yeah. Let's do it.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> Alright. Let's shake on it.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-B smirks.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Seriously?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-A:</strong> Yeah. It's official that way.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7954-B:</strong> Alright, if you insist.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7954-B sits up. They spontaneously demanifest while shaking hands.)</em></p>
<p><strong>[END LOG]</strong></p>
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<p>It is unknown if this reflects any events that actually transpired between Mr. Bowman and Mr. Buck.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum:</strong> Incident Report</p>
<p>On 05/31/2023, a man was detained by Foundation agents at approximately 12:02 AM after he was found attempting to climb the fence surrounding the area where SCP-7954 occurs. After entering Foundation custody, the man was identified as Sam Bowman. Agents were authorized to conduct an interview with Mr. Bowman, which is transcribed below.</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Agent Callahan</p>
<p><strong>Interviewee:</strong> Sam Bowman</p>
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<p><strong>Mr. Bowman:</strong> I'd like to apologize for all this. I really didn't mean to cause any trouble.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Callahan:</strong> You're not in any trouble, sir. I'm just going to ask you a few questions, and then you'll be free to go, okay?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Bowman:</strong> Alright.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Callahan:</strong> Please state your name for our records.</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Bowman:</strong> Sam Bowman. Who are you people, anyway? Are you cops?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Callahan:</strong> I'm sorry, but I can't answer that. Why were you trying to scale that fence?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Bowman:</strong> I was just looking for an old hiding place. I thought the fence was just some corporate thing.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Callahan:</strong> "Corporate thing"?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Bowman:</strong> Yeah. You know, company buys up some land, puts up a fence to prevent kids from wandering in. I didn't think it would be a big deal.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Callahan:</strong> But you knew that you were trespassing.</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Bowman:</strong> Well, yeah. Again, I really didn't know it would be a big deal. I'm sorry.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Callahan:</strong> You said that you were looking for an "old hiding place." What does that mean?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Bowman:</strong> I grew up around here, and I used to go hide out by the lake when I didn't want to be around other people. There wasn't a fence back then. I just wanted to see if I could find it again.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Callahan:</strong> I see. You didn't know of anything unusual in that area?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Bowman:</strong> No? I'm not sure I get what you mean.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Callahan:</strong> You don't know of any reason why there would be a fence there?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Bowman:</strong> Nope. I already told you, I thought it was a corporate thing.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Callahan:</strong> Alright. One last thing, and you should be good to go. Do you know anything about a man named Robert Buck?</p>
<p><em>(Mr. Bowman is silent for half a minute.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Callahan:</strong> Mr. Bowman?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Bowman:</strong> He was a buddy of mine in high school. Haven't spoken to him in years. Don't know what he's up to these days.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Callahan:</strong> I see.</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Bowman:</strong> Anything else?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Callahan:</strong> I think that should do it. Thank you for cooperating.</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Bowman:</strong> No problem.</p>
<p><strong>[END LOG]</strong></p>
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<p>Following the conclusion of this interview, Mr. Bowman was given amnestics and released. As of the time of writing, Mr. Buck has not been seen in the local area since the establishment of Foundation containment of SCP-7954. Records indicate that neither man has lived in Pennsylvania since 1996.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. While the entities' actions are largely predictable, slight deviations in the path that they take through the area have been observed. As of the time of writing, the entities have never attempted to pass through the fence.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Possibly Ryan Scheiber, another former resident of the local area. An investigation concluded that Mr. Scheiber had no connection to SCP-7954.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Possibly Emily Barko, another former resident of the local area. An investigation concluded that Ms. Barko had no connection to SCP-7954.</div>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7955</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Neutralized (formerly Euclid)</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-7955's liquid remains have been sealed in a 200-litre hazardous waste drum and transferred to a mundane treatment facility. With no anomalous traits having been detected as of 23/11/2020, these remains can be disposed of without risk of potential contamination.</p>
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<p>SCP-7955 is to be contained at Site 44 in a modified humanoid containment cell with a shatterproof glass observation window and an airtight door. The air vents are to be fitted with metal shutters and internal filters.</p>
<p>SCP-7955 is allowed a bed, a chair, a desk, a shower cubicle, and a toilet. SCP-7955 is allowed access to books, writing paper, and crayons on request. These items should only be removed from the cell if SCP-7955 is in its default form and in full view of staff.</p>
<p>The cell interior is to be subject to 24/7 audiovisual recording, both to monitor SCP-7955's transformations and to ensure that any important information communicated while talking to itself is not lost.</p>
<p>SCP-7955 must be personally supervised at all times to ensure that it does not become confused and endanger itself over the course of its daily testing regimen. It also must be reminded to eat meals, attend to personal grooming, and dress itself in the clothes provided for it.</p>
<p>In the event that SCP-7955 attempts to escape, it can be easily detected by involuntary errors in its disguises and will rarely be able to convincingly imitate human mannerisms. However, if it becomes aggressive during efforts to placate or recapture it, security personnel are to maintain a distance of at least two meters to avoid warning strikes while restraining it.</p>
<p>The most reliable known method of subduing SCP-7955 is to pin it to the ground with heavy nets, social distancing clamps, and long catch poles, allowing personnel to remain out of reach until SCP-7955 exhausts both its stamina and its repertoire of shapes. After this, SCP-7955 can be carried back to its cell without resistance.</p>
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<p><strong>Description:</strong> Prior to 13/10/2020, SCP-7955 was a 38-year-old male humanoid, biologically human to all mundane tests. In its default form, it exhibited a total height of 170 cm and a below-average weight of 45 kilograms<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>, along with olive skin, lobeless ears, and a bald head. Pre and postmortem attempts to trace its origins were stymied by the fact that the only name it could remember (Brother Lebbaeus) was a pseudonym.</p>
<p>SCP-7955 possessed polymorphic traits that allowed it to assume a wide variety of forms, including humanoids, animals, and inanimate objects. However, it could not become liquids or gasses during its time in containment, nor could it mimic clothing in its humanoid form, and due to its neurodegenerative condition, most of SCP-7955's shapes exhibited noticeable errors.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup></p>
<p>SCP-7955 was afflicted with a unique and rapidly advancing form of dementia, the symptoms of which included progressive memory loss, disorientation, emotional disturbance, and general cognitive decay. MRI scans and SCP-7955's testimony confirmed that its neurological health was inversely proportional to the strength of its polymorphic traits: advancing mutations in its brain allowed it a greater range of ability, but also degraded healthy brain tissue, resulting in progressively more advanced symptoms of dementia.</p>
<p>At the time of its discovery, SCP-7955 was in the early-to-middle stages of the condition, but it rapidly declined over the course of the following weeks, eventually leading to its neutralization.</p>
<p><strong>Discovery Log:</strong> SCP-7955 was first encountered on 10/03/2020, in a remote coastal region of Caithness, Scotland, where it was observed emerging from the ocean in mid-transformation by local fishermen (who then contacted the authorities). Once mass hysteria was eliminated as a possible cause, the Foundation was contacted in order to avert any potential danger to the public. Foundation agents arrived in the area on 15/03/2020, amnesticized witnesses, and began attempts to capture the entity.</p>
<p>Within twenty-four hours, agents discovered a distinctive trail of footprints leading across a deserted beach, each print clearly belonging to a different animal. Following the trail eventually led agents to a crude burrow dug under one of the neighbouring cliffs, where SCP-7955 was found in human form, naked and without possessions except for a few stolen scraps of food. Initially attempting to flee the area in various forms, SCP-7955 was pinned to the ground with a net thrown by Agent Lothson, and exhausted itself while shapeshifting in a panicked attempt to escape. It was easily restrained soon after.</p>
<p>Following its capture, SCP-7955 did not resist any of the agents escorting it to containment, complying with all orders and making no attempt to fight or flee. However, it remained uncommunicative for the next ten hours, presumably out of fear, as it often transformed into inanimate objects when agents attempted to ask it a question.</p>
<p>SCP-7955's first attempt at speech was to request medical attention, as it was reportedly suffering from a severe headache and the painkillers that it had stolen from various tourists over the last few days were no longer working<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>. Upon realizing the nature of the Foundation, it claimed to have important data to share, though disorientation and memory loss made this information difficult to communicate.</p>
<p>Following standard medical tests and preliminary analysis of its polymorphic traits, interviews to ascertain the nature of SCP-7955's information began soon after.</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> SCP-7955</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Dr Marcus Magdaleno</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> Interview commences forty-eight hours after initial containment at Site 44. SCP-7955 spends the first minute of this interview anxiously twiddling its thumbs, unable to make eye contact.</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log, 10:00 AM, 20/03/2020></strong></p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Good morning, SCP-7955.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>coughs nervously</em>) Er… good morning. Pleased to meet you, doctor…?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Magdaleno. I was hoping that you could tell me about your past and your abilities… and about the important information you wanted to share.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> After all the tests, I'm pretty sure you know my capabilities better than I do, and if you've seen my MRI scans, you know my memories are full of holes. (<em>as it twiddles its thumbs, it sprouts two additional digits, then absently erases them</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Then let's talk about what you can remember, shall we? Can you recall the source of your abilities? Were you born a shapeshifter or were you human?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> As far as I can remember, I started out as a human. I had parents, older brothers and sisters, a normal education, and for a while, a job. But other than that, my memories from that time are just blurry snapshots. I can remember my parents, for example, but I don't remember what they looked like, and whenever I try… well, it's like the faces have been scratched out of the family photos, if that makes sense.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> What about your appearance? Has that remained consistent, or is this just another form you've chosen as a default?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> I'm… <em>reasonably</em> sure this is my original shape. I think. I mean, I've taken on a huge number of forms in the last month: fish and birds, mostly, but I also tried out a few human disguises and even the shape of a car - not my finest hour, that. But this is the one form I had <em>before</em> I started shapeshifting, about three to four weeks ago.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Can you recall what was happening during the preceding period of time?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> I remember living in an underground church, deep beneath a mountain, a home for the… the Disciples of Cerridwen the Angel. Communal barracks for the rank and file. Private apartments for the Elders of the church.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Do you remember how long you were there for?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Fifteen years… I think. I recall I'd been living there ever since I sold my house to pay my tithes. Then… (<em>pauses for thought</em>) I'm sorry, doctor, it's sometimes hard to find the words. They slip through my fingers the moment I grasp them.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> It's alright, 7955, take your time.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Thank you. (<em>pause</em>) I remember there were other shapeshifters created by the Disciples. "The Inheritors of the Angel's blessing", we called them. I only saw them once when I first joined the cult, but once was enough.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> And what did these Inheritors do in the cult?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> They were the miracles that kept people donating their salaries to the Elders. They told us that if we sacrificed everything of ourselves, we would become worthy of the Rite of the Shining Brow and be Inheritors just like them: immortal, innocent, and free. But after the first time I saw them, they stopped appearing.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Why was that?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> The Elders claimed that the Rite of the Shining Brow no longer worked because the Angel Cerridwen was punishing us for our weakness. And that was just the way it was from then on: no big rewards, no miracles, just hard labour and tithes and endless sermons.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> But that would make you the first member of the Disciples to have a successful Rite in fifteen years. What changed? Why did it work for you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> …I… I don't remember. I'm not even sure if I took the Rite. But I remember straying into a part of the church that the Elders had declared off-limits years ago and finding this… this… this underground lake the size of a stadium.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Do you believe that was where this Rite was traditionally performed?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Maybe. There were all these weird angular symbols cut into the walls, so there had to be something ritual about it. I don't remember why, but I found myself plunged into the lake itself, sinking deeper and deeper, feeling the water forcing its way up my nose and down my throat. But I didn't drown - I <em>couldn't</em> drown. And the weirdest thing was, I wasn't afraid: I was at peace, even as I sank… it was… I… (<em>gasps, clutching head</em>) oh god, not again…</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> We can stop now, if you need to take a break.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Hound. Otter. Hawk. Hen. Death. (<em>transforms accordingly with every word, finally assuming the form of a skeleton before returning to normal</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> I beg your pardon?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Just something to help keep my thoughts in order. Please, let's continue. If I stop now, I might forget more while I'm recovering. I don't want to be useless to you.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> I think you've told me more than enough for today. Besides, maybe there's another way we can help each other in the meantime…</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno's Log 20/03/2020</strong></p>
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<p>Shortly after it recovered, I decided to provide SCP-7955 with crayons and paper so it could record any information that might be lost to advancing dementia between interviews. 7955 appeared grateful, but somewhat vacant, as if not sure how to respond. Troubling, given that inflexibility and loss of interest in new activities are both possible symptoms of dementia.</p>
<p>After an hour of inactivity, SCP-7955 produced at least twenty pages of material, even growing tentacles to work on multiple papers at the same time. It won't show any of the material to me, though, and starts losing eye-contact whenever I try to persuade it to share some of the notes. Not sure if that's due to dementia, or if it's just a bit of an introvert.</p>
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<p><strong><Begin Log, AM, 25/03/2020></strong></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Hound. Otter. Hawk. Hen. Death.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> How did you learn you had this… shapeshifting-induced dementia?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>checks notes</em>) I'd seen it before in the Inheritors, but the Elders told us it was just "divine innocence" at work. The Rite had made them like Adam and Eve, they claimed - blissful and childlike. None of us knew they were losing their minds.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Why were they "blissful," though? No offense, but you don't exactly fit the description.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> It's a side-effect of shapeshifting. At first, every transformation triggers this wave of raw, unadulterated pleasure that just… lights up your brain.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> For the first week or two, it's <em>beyond</em> euphoric: if you can't keep yourself focussed, it's easy to lose yourself in it and run wild… which might explain how I ended up in bloody Caithness, come to think of it. The bliss eventually fades, but it never really goes away. I still get warm and fuzzy feelings when I shapeshift.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> I can see how that would hide the dementia, but why didn't people notice that something was wrong once the euphoria wore off?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Simple: the Elders locked the Inheritors away once the symptoms of dementia became obvious and told everyone they'd left to enjoy the world. (<em>Several keyholes appear across his skin, then vanish</em>) I think there was something else that happened after they died, but I can't remember what.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> But if all this was hidden from the rank and file, how did <em>you</em> find out about it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>hesitates</em>) Someone told me… something about soup… (<em>shudders</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Soup?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>ten-second pause</em>) What's your name?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Please don't change the subject.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> I'm just asking… I mean, if you've been officially assigned to contain and study me, I might as well know your full name.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> If you’d taken a good look at my ID card, you'd already know that it's "Marcus." Also, please don't take this the wrong way, but if you want me to call you by <em>your</em> name, "Brother Lebbaeus" is a bit of a mouthful.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> "Brother Lebbaeus" was just my name among the Disciples. You see, we were all given new names, most of them from saints - John, Mary, Paul, Theresa, Matthias…<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> And you don't remember your original name, do you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>sheepishly</em>) No. But maybe you can think of something else.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> How about "Jim"?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>smiles shyly</em>) Jim it is, then.</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno's Log 25/03/2020</strong></p>
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<p>So stupid of me. I knew it was a feint to get me to veer off-topic, and I took the bait anyway. Why? Was it because I was feeling sorry for it? Was it because I realized that talking about this "soup" upset it, or because I thought it couldn't remember it entirely? I just know the rest of the research team are going to get cheeky about it - especially Aristaios, assuming he's not jockeying for a crack at an interview.</p>
<p>Well, SCP-7955 is definitely declining, that's for sure. It might have only needed to check its notes once, but that's bad enough: yesterday, it had the facts in his head, and now it needs to brief himself to remember its own past - what little it has left. Hopefully, the most traumatic of the recollections are over, and Jim won’t put himself under any more stress in these interviews.</p>
<p>I just read back over this latest entry and realized I called SCP-7955 "Jim." I really need to cut down on these all-nighters…</p>
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<p><strong>Preliminary Recording</strong></p>
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<p><strong>DATE:</strong> 01/04/2020</p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> First recording upon activation of audio hardware. At the start of this recording, Dr Magdaleno has just given SCP-7955 a number of paperback novels.</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Thanks so much for this, Marcus. I'm pretty sure I haven't read anything decent in the last fifteen years - this is a more-than-welcome relief.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Anything "decent?"</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Well, the church had a library, but it was nothing but Christian apocrypha and books on Celtic mythology, and then there were the treatises on the virtue of transformation, and the elders had their own collections of occult- (<em>takes a deep breath</em>) I'm sorry, I tend to ramble a bit when I'm nervous. It's all this new recording stuff, you see, it makes me feel like I'm talking to an answering machine - I never know what to say…</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> It's okay, believe me. Besides, you don't need to worry about needing to say anything meaningful: it's just a precaution in case you happen to remember anything important-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> -while I'm talking to myself. I suppose I should be grateful I haven't been reduced to jotting down notes on my arms and legs.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Did any of the Inheritors try that when you saw them, or were they all too euphoric to even think of trying to keep any kind of record?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> We've talked about this already, remember? They didn't even notice that they were forgetting. Only Teacher's advice would have saved their memories, and she couldn't be heard by anyone until… (<em>hesitates</em>) …hang on, have I told you about that already, or was that just my imagination?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> No, we haven't talked about that yet.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Er… I'll leave that until our next interview, then - don't want to run out of things to talk about (<em>chuckles nervously</em>). Uh, anyway, thanks again for the books. I hope they didn't cost too much.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Most of these are from home.</p>
<p><em>Five second pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> I, er… I mean, um… I… I really didn't picture you as a Danielle Steel fan.</p>
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<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p><strong>Incident Report 10/04/2020:</strong> At 18:30 PM, the lights in SCP-7955's cell briefly malfunctioned, leaving both its quarters and the observation chamber in complete darkness for thirty seconds. During this period, SCP-7955 was heard loudly screaming the word "soup", before abruptly falling silent. When the lights were reactivated, SCP-7955 was missing.</p>
<p>SCP-7955 was eventually found hiding beside its chair in the form of a large ottoman with an upholstery similar to human skin (its clothes hidden under the ottoman). Despite the best efforts of Dr Magdaleno and Research Assistant Teo to cajole SCP-7955, it remained disguised for several minutes, and could be heard muttering "don't want to end up like Teacher, don't want to end up like the others, they might know how to make the runes."</p>
<p>After twenty-five minutes, SCP-7955 reverted to human form and apologized for the unnecessary deception, admitting that it had "gotten confused" during the blackout and become convinced that the Disciples were trying to recapture it.</p>
<p><strong>Interview Log 8</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> SCP-7955 appears agitated and uncomfortable.</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log, 09:00 AM, 20/04/2020></strong></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Who do you think I was?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> I… excuse me?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> We've known each other for a little while, now, and you're here to analyze me, so you must have <em>some</em> idea what I must have been. My personality hasn't changed that much since then… I mean, I don't <em>think</em> it has… so who do you think I was before I joined the cult?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> …Jim - 7955 - I've got a whole bunch of questions here for y-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Oh, come on, Marcus, we've been talking about the same thing for nearly three days in a row. By now, I'm pretty sure we've established that the Disciples had nothing to do with the Serpent's Hand or the Insurgency or the-the-the Church of Gear-Powered Mechanical Buggery or whatever the hell it was, so is it really going to matter if we don't talk about… what were we going to do today? Oh, right - Sarkicism.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> We talked about that yesterday, Jim.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> …Oh. But still, who's it going to hurt if we talk about something else for a change? So, based on what you've seen of my personality so far, who do you think I would have been?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Well… (<em>hesitates</em>) you could have been an artist I suppose, given your drawings these last few days. You're definitely suited for quieter lines of work. What do <em>you</em> think?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> I remember my house before I sold it: there were shelves overflowing with plays - Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner… (<em>his face shifts to mimic the listed playwrights</em>) And also books on acting technique. Do you suppose I was an actor?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> I don't think it would have fitted your personality. Maybe you were a drama <em>student</em>, though.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> I could easily imagine myself as a bureaucrat, from the way I follow orders. For all we know, I could have been working right here at this Foundation of yours.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> I very much doubt that. Believe me, if one of our own had vanished off to an underground church for fifteen years, we'd know.<br/>
<strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno's Log 31/04/2020</strong></p>
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<p>Decided to test Jim's cognitive capacity with a game of chess this afternoon. I had a board on my side of the glass, while he shaped his right hand into a board of his own, complete with pieces. Of course, all his pieces looked a little bit on the biopunk side, and it took him a while to realize that he'd given me an extra bishop by mistake, but other than that, Jim did quite well - even if he lost in the end. Probably the trickiest victory I've ever achieved in chess.</p>
<p>Teo and Aristaios were giving me some funny looks as I tidied up the board. They didn't say anything, but I could tell they were wondering if I was getting too close to Jim.</p>
<p>Bit of an overaction, I thought. We're not friends, or anything like that. I'm obliged to care for the subject and encourage it to trust me, but only as far as furthering our research goes. And yes, giving him books and playing chess with him might be considered above and beyond the call of duty, but it's nothing serious, certainly nothing approaching friendship. Jim's just another anomalous entity, and I'm just researching him. We're not friends.</p>
<p>Definitely not friends.</p>
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<p><strong>DATE:</strong> 03/05/2020</p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Conversation between SCP-7955 and Dr Magdaleno. At this time, a second pair of arms have sprouted from SCP-7955's torso and are now writing on a notepad in front of it.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> …and then Vittorio's completely soaked in it, from the new haircut all the way to those pricey new shoes. "Those are pheromones for her kind, man," Yusuf tells him. "You'll have to stay away from her cell from now on, or else not even those dogs will stop her. She'll be after you like the bad guy in <em>Species</em>: she'll jump your bones, then gut you like a fish and eat your heart while you're still inside her!" Now, Vittorio knows fox musk when he smells it, so he's not fooled one little bit. He just says, "Yusuf, buddy, if my girlfriend finds out about this, she'll do the exact same thing to you, minus the sex!"</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Did he actually get assigned, though?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Of course not - that was just a rumour. Yusuf had never been assigned to her either: nobody in their right mind actually jokes about <em>that</em> once they've seen her in action. And best of all, Vittorio found out about it - and he got back at Yusuf next month by filling his car with live skunks!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>laughs</em>) Oh god! I wish I had that kind of flair. I mean, I know I'm not that kind of shapeshifter, but I just wish I could have pulled a prank or two while I was out in the wild - just to see if I had any skill in it. Just to be a little bit rebellious for a change.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> …speaking of which, how would you use your powers if you were free and didn't have to put up with this dementia? What would you do for a living if you had the choice?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Oceanographer, maybe? Half my time escaping from the cult was spent swimming up the coast, so I know I'm good at it.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Or a secret agent.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Or a courier: I've been enough birds to know that I could do better than any carrier pigeon.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> What about nature photographer? Or paparazzo?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Maybe a musician. I could become the ultimate one-man-band.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Or you could join the police: you'd be the perfect undercover cop.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Uh-uh. There's only one shapeshifting detective, and that's Rene Auberjonois.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> (<em>chuckles</em>) Well, that's one thing about your past that we can be certain of - you're a Star Trek fan!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>laughs for nearly fifteen seconds, then hesitates</em>) Wait… how did we end up in this conversation again?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> (<em>pauses, coughs uncomfortably</em>)</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>through gritted teeth</em>)…Hound. Otter. Hawk. Hen. Death…</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> … could I just… check your notes for a second? Uh… you've written right off the line, here. Could you tell me what this is? I can't make sense of the handwriting. And this right here, I'm pretty sure that's not actually a word, Jim. Jim? Jim, can you hear me?</p>
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<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno's Log 03/05/2020</strong></p>
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<p>Irritability, losing his way in conversation, difficulty with previously routine tasks, linguistic decay… and worse still, memory loss proving more aggressive than other cases on record: normally, dementia attacks the most recent memories first and leaves the distant past until later, but this is attacking his short term <em>and</em> long term memory simultaneously.</p>
<p>I shouldn't be finding this so upsetting. I'm not supposed to get attached, much less worry about friendship, but… I guess that's the danger of having a humanoid subject. You can't help but sympathize, even when you shouldn't.</p>
<p>I'd have thought I'd end up with an official reprimand for getting too friendly and losing clinical distance - lord knows Aristaios and Teo have been worrying about it - but I haven't heard a single complaint out of anyone supervising this study. Odd, that.</p>
<p>Instead, orders from on high are insisting that I continue interviewing him: they want more information on the cult, on the shapeshifting, on what gave Jim his polymorphic traits… but I honestly don't know if he has much more to give us.</p>
<p>And as for whoever/whatever made him into a shapeshifter, I can't imagine anyone who could be pointlessly cruel enough to lumber someone with powers that literally destroy your brain the more useful they become. Frankly, it sounds like a sick joke. By the sounds of things, Elders of the Disciples have the resources and the deficit of moral fibre to make it possible, but Jim insists that this Rite of the Shining Brow doesn't work for them anymore. So, if not the Elders, then <em>who?</em></p>
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<p><strong>Incident Report, 15/05/2020:</strong> At 11:00 PM, SCP-7955 called for the attention of the observing staff in a state of extreme distress, claiming that its most recent notes had been stolen. Dr Magdaleno had been called away to a meeting with the Site Director, leaving Research Assistant Teo to explain that SCP-7955 had given its notes to the Magdaleno the previous evening. SCP-7955 then became angry and accused Teo of stealing the notes, suggesting she had destroyed them as part of a conspiracy to worsen its dementia.</p>
<p>During this confrontation, SCP-7955 transformed into a silverback gorilla and attempted to punch through the shatterproof glass observation window and did not stop until Dr Magdaleno arrived and was able to placate SCP-7955 by producing the missing notes.</p>
<p>SCP-7955 then calmed down, apologized to Research Assistant Teo, got dressed, and retired to bed. Recommending that recordings of SCP-7955's pertinent statements are kept within reach of staff in future.</p>
<p><strong>Interview Log 12</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> SCP-7955 is extremely agitated at the start of the interview, exhibiting compulsive twitching, shivering, and a slight slur to its speech. The notes on the pad in front of it are barely coherent. Remarks prior to interview indicate an oncoming headache.</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log, 15:00 PM, 15/05/2020></strong></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Amanda knows I didn't mean what I said, right? I just got… confused. I know that's happening more often these days, but I really didn't mean to lose it this badly.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> She knows, Jim.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Then why isn't she here? She's asked to be reassigned, hasn't she? I frightened her and now she's left us and-</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> It's just her day off, that's all: she's been planning this for the last couple of weeks.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> And she told me before, didn't she? Oh god, I'm just getting worse and worse.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> All I can suggest is not to think about it. Think about the memories you can't be sure of now - anything if you think it can help us.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>frantically reviews newest notes</em>) I remember something, but only in a dream I had last night. I can't be sure if any of it was real or not-</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> It's okay, Jim, it could still be helpful. Tell me what happened.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> I dreamed - or remembered… wandering in the tunnels under the church one day, tired and downhearted about everything. And then I heard a voice. It… it called to me, spoke to me.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Think about the source of the voice. Who was speaking to you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>struggling to concentrate</em>) She didn't have a name. I called her "Teacher," because she told me things the Disciples didn't want me to know. Like… like… (<em>unintelligible</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> It's alright, Jim, take your time.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>inhaling deeply</em>) The voice… my Teacher… the men who would become the first Disciples found her eighty years ago, sleeping in the hollows below the roots of the mountain. She was the source of their power, before the scars faded. The source of the Rite and the soup. The rock on which the Elders built their church - but they built on water.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Water? Wait a minute… stop me if I'm reading too much into this, but are you talking about the underground lake you fell into? The lake itself was alive?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> She wasn't a lake, Marcus, not when the Elders found her. She didn't <em>have</em> a shape at first. It was… Hound. Otter. Hawk. Hen. Death. (<em>checks notes</em>) The symbols on the walls. Binding runes. They were holding her in a single form, one that could serve their purposes.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Wait, wait, wait, wait… are you telling me that the thing that turned you into a shapeshifter was <em>another</em> shapeshifter?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> One of the Children of Proteus, they called her. (<em>cringes in pain</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> <em>One</em> of them? You mean this wasn't a unique entity? There are <em>more?</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>screaming</em>) I don't know, Marcus, it was a fucking dream! For all I know, it was just some bullshit my decomposing brain cooked up to explain what happened to me or… or… (<em>twitches violently</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Jim? <em>JIM?</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> I… h-help me… (<em>collapses, body warping in all directions</em>)</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Closing Statement:</strong> SCP-7955 was found to have suffered a mild seizure. Even after recovering, it remained unresponsive for some time, and visibly struggled to recognize facility personnel.</p>
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<p><strong>Incident Report 02/06/2020:</strong> Following a shift change at 11 AM, SCP-7955 was believed to be taking a shower and had left several books at the cell door to be returned.</p>
<p>Upon entering the cell to retrieve them, Research Assistant Teo noticed that though SCP-7955 had been borrowing three books at the time, there was an unregistered fourth book on the pile awaiting return. On closer examination, this book did not appear to possess real pages and was essentially a solid block of cardboard, while the author's name had been rendered as "Daniel Steal" (sic).</p>
<p>Research Assistant Teo left the cell immediately, ordering that the guards on duty keep their weapons trained the door while she exited. SCP-7955 made no move to escape but was observed "quivering in fear." Research Assistant Teo was eventually able to persuade it to resume human form, but it gave no explanation for the incident, remaining silent for the rest of the day.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno's Log 04/06/2020</strong>:</p>
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<p>Jim's verbal skills are degrading more noticeably than ever. He spent almost half an hour trying to explain something to me, but between the ongoing collapse of his memory and his declining vocabulary outside of lucid moments, I could barely make any sense of it: the only coherent words he used were "immortal" and "soup."</p>
<p>I guess he must have been aware enough to realize this, so instead, he drew something for me: a church under a mountain, populated by dozens of tiny figures with frowning faces. As far as I could tell from the deteriorated art style, most of them were depicted in various states of misery: handing over money, being beaten with sticks, locked away in tiny cells, bowing before tall figures stirring a massive cauldron, and a few other acts I couldn't make sense of (then again, given the positions, I'm not sure I <em>want</em> to). Under this drawing, he'd written "YOU HAVE TO HELP THEM."</p>
<p>He seemed quite happy with himself, apparently because he expected the Foundation to help "them" - presumably the rest of the cultists back at the church. I didn't have the heart to tell him that we still don't know where the church <em>is</em>.</p>
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<p><strong>Incident Report 05/06/2020:</strong> SCP-7955 escaped from its cell at 05:00 AM this morning by transforming into a playing card and sliding under the door. The escape was immediately noticed by staff and the alarm sounded. SCP-7955 attempted to avoid being recognized by transforming into Research Assistant Teo.</p>
<p>However, SCP-7955 was still unable to mimic clothing, so "Teo" appeared to be encased in a glossy white carapace reminiscent of a jewel beetle's exoskeleton (presumably, SCP-7955's best attempt at replicating a lab coat) and was immediately detected by the guards.</p>
<p>SCP-7955 then became a sparrow and managed to evade security for approximately two minutes. Unable to find an exit, it tried to fight its way through a squad of guards in various forms, only to be knocked to the floor with a riot shield and restrained with a social distancing clamp. In a "blind panic," SCP-7955 began transitioning rapidly between various object, animal, and human forms in a disorganized attempt to escape, only to exhaust itself within twenty seconds and collapse.</p>
<p>As it was returned to its cell, SCP-7955 begged the guards to "put me in the sweatbox if you want, but <em>please</em> don't leave me alone with the Elders."</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno's Log 09/06/2020</strong></p>
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<p>Jim's back to calling himself "Brother Lebbaeus" most of the time. He only calls me by my name every other day at the very most. All other times, I'm just "doctor." That shouldn't upset me, but somehow it does.</p>
<p>He seems angrier than ever, too, always giving us surly looks, always suspicious of us. When he's lucid, he's nothing but apologetic, but I can tell he barely remembers what he's supposed to be apologizing for: he's just upset with himself… and scared. And frankly, I'm feeling much the same way.</p>
<p>This is all wrong. I shouldn't be friends with him. I shouldn't even be considering the possibility, but it's too late. Now we both have to suffer for it.</p>
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<p><strong>Incident Report 12/06/2020:</strong> During a routine medical checkup, SCP-7955 became extremely upset by the blood test, apparently convinced that it had been recaptured by the Disciples of Cerridwen and was being sedated against its will<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup>. It then punched Dr Bromley in the stomach, tore the cover off the nearest air vent, transformed into a rat, and escaped into the ventilation ducts.</p>
<p>After once again becoming lost, SCP-7955 emerged in a nearby corridor and reverted to human form. Upon seeing a large number of guards approaching, it immediately curled itself into the fetal position, layered its body with a tortoise-like shell, and braced itself as if for impact. Security guards simply picked up SCP-7955 and carried it back to its cell.</p>
<p>During this, SCP-7955 tried to fight its way out in the form of a mass of tendrils, and persisted until two of the guards were able to fasten a catch pole around its neck, prompting it to rapidly shapeshift itself into exhaustion once again.</p>
<p>Security guards report that while being returned to its cell, SCP-7955 was heard muttering, "Binding runes are like scars, but scars fade. Why do you think the Rite failed?"</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno's Log 15/06/2020</strong></p>
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<p>Lucid moment today. I broke protocol - again - and played chess with Jim for the second time. He wasn't up to making his own board this time, so I just had the board set up on my side of the glass while Jim looked in on it, so at least I didn't do anything <em>too</em> stupid.</p>
<p>I was trying to cheer him up, just to take his mind off his condition, but in the end, Jim had to cheer <em>me</em> up.</p>
<p>The cognitive problems are creeping into his lucid moments: Jim understands chess and he remembers me, but he couldn't recall which side he was playing as, and he couldn't predict even the simplest manoeuvres - to the point he seemed surprised when my first pawn captured his after a full turn's notice.</p>
<p>I was so miserable, even Jim noticed. Next thing I knew, he'd started transforming into the most ridiculous shapes he could think of, just to get a laugh out of me - inflating his nose to the size of a basketball, giving himself penguin flippers instead of hands, turning his lower body into a wobbly stack of books…<br/>
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It was funny, sure, but it wasn't <em>him</em>. His personality's changed so much: he's not the quiet, polite introvert we took in when he arrived. He's losing inhibitions along with the gauge on his mood, and it's only going to get worse. All I can ask is this: when is this going to end? <em>How</em> is it going to end?</p>
<p>Am I actually going to have to watch him die?</p>
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<p><strong>Incident Report 20/06/2020:</strong> At 7:00 AM, SCP-7955 began shapeshifting in its sleep, repeatedly muttering the words "Teacher" and "Soup" as it did so. Despite the apparent volatility of this sleep state, SCP-7955 could not be roused by any of the observing research personnel.</p>
<p>After forty-five minutes of uninterrupted distress, Dr Magdaleno became concerned and called for medical attention. Dr Bromley was summoned and asked to examine SCP-7955 for any recognizable signs of illness. In clear violation of safety protocols, Dr Magdaleno insisted that he and Bromley conduct the examination at close range without first restraining the patient.</p>
<p>During this examination, SCP-7955 awoke, failed to recognize its carers, and panicked. In the ensuing confrontation, SCP-7955 backed itself into a corner of the cell, assuming several large shapes in rapid succession (including a grizzly bear, a seven-foot-tall tarantula, and a combine harvester). As it made no attempt to actually attack Drs Magdaleno and Bromley in any of these forms, this was likely an intimidation display.</p>
<p>A security team was summoned to the cell, and though none of them were able to get close enough to attack SCP-7955 directly due to its "flailing hands, claws, tentacles, and whatever else", once it was in a form small enough to be effectively targeted, they were able to fire a net gun and successfully pin SCP-7955 to the ground until it had once again exhausted itself into submission.</p>
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<p><strong>DATE:</strong> 18/06/2020</p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Autocommunication recorded at midnight, while SCP-7955 was pretending to be asleep.</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Hound. Otter. Hawk. Hen. Death. Don't recognize it. Any of it. They've got me again. Any minute now, the first of those old bastards will appear from behind the corner and tell me how disappointed they are, and then… another pot of soup to prolong the Elders even further.</p>
<p><em>Muffled sound of footsteps from outside the cell. SCP-7955 whimpers.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> What if they've remembered how to bind the Children? Teacher said that their best thaumaturges took it to the grave or the road. What if she was wrong? If they remember, they'll bind me, then they'll wait until I'm soup and drink me like the other Inheritors. (<em>low, keening whine</em>) No, no, no, no… Doesn't matter. Need to focus. Need shapes. Need to focus on shapes. Hound. Otter. Hawk. Hen. Death.</p>
<p><em>A "hissing" sound can be heard, identified by staff as the sound of SCP-7955 shapeshifting. Quantity of sounds indicates multiple transformations in rapid succession, SCP-7955's voice changing to match each new form</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> No, no, no, no. Yes? No. Maybe. Can't focus. Can't find the words. My head… cracking open… or is it just my imagination? (<em>growls</em>) One good turn deserves another. We agreed on that. I did as much as I could. Chip and chisel, chip and chisel. And now Marcus knows where the others are and how to help them. Surely that's enough… surely, surely, surely <em>not!</em></p>
<p><em>Sounds of bedsheets being flung aside and torn.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>pained whimper</em>) Oh god, I want to go home. Don't know where home is. No. Home's not home. Full of people who know you're always wrong, always abnormal, always sinful. "You don't feel that way, dear, you're just confused. Remember what the bishop told you: it's just a phase, you'll grow out of it. There, there, you won't have to think about that boy ever again."</p>
<p><em>Muffled sounds of movement, followed by the sound of something heavy impacting the floor</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>in a child's voice</em>) Teacher… what did you say to me before I was baptized? I can't remember. You said something about Gwion and Taliesin. Did you say that, or did I just dream it? Was I big or little when I met you? Did I meet you at all? (<em>sobs</em>) Mummy… I'm scared…</p>
<p><em>SCP-7955 can be heard crying for the next seventy seconds before falling silent.</em></p>
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<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> SCP-7955 was found hiding under its bed the following morning. It had not left its hiding place even to make use of the toilet and had soiled itself several times as a result. Due to a combination of paranoia and the general decay of its physical coordination, it needed to be helped into the shower cubicle.</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno's Log 25/06/2020</strong></p>
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<p>He's barely even eating now. On the rare occasions when he can remember to eat outside of a lucid moment, he thinks we've poisoned his food. Amanda keeps having to eat some of it herself just to prove that it's safe. Worse still, he's starting to lose manual coordination, so Amanda's had to essentially spoon-feed him.</p>
<p>Most of the time, he's too disoriented to care about this, but after spending breakfast and lunch almost completely disengaged from reality, he had another lucid moment at dinner this evening. It took about a minute of fruitlessly trying to reach for his knife and fork before he realized that spoon-feeding was essential. He spent the rest of the meal in silent tears.</p>
<p>Amanda later told me that it was "hard to watch," and I can't blame her: she probably thought her work with the Foundation would be a whirlwind of discovery and danger, not <em>this.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Incident Report 01/07/2020:</strong> After a supervised test of its abilities outside of its cell at 2:30 PM, SCP-7955 became accidentally separated from Research Assistant Teo during an unrelated containment breach (later proven to be a false alarm). After on-site security was re-established, SCP-7955's clothes were found intact some distance away, indicating that it had either shrunk out of them or removed them of its own accord.</p>
<p>Following a twenty-minute search of the complex, SCP-7955 was found wandering alone through the corridors, in human form and completely naked, repeatedly muttering "hound, otter, hawk, hen, death". When approached by Dr Magdaleno and Research Assistant Teo, SCP-7955 was heard to say, "she can tell me who I was and why I changed, but I can't find her again."</p>
<p>SCP-7955 was then given a blanket and led back to its cell without any further incident.</p>
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<p><strong>DATE:</strong> 23/07/2020, 13:44 AM</p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Transcript of conversation between Dr Bromley and Dr Magdaleno concerning SCP-7955's health. In the background, SCP-7955 is sitting unresponsive in its chair, staring vacantly at its notes and seemingly oblivious to everything around it. On occasion, it shudders as if in pain and transforms.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Can't we do anything for him? I'm pretty sure those transformations aren't voluntary anymore.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Bromley:</strong> Well, we've made it as comfortable as possible, but that's all we can do. We're not dealing with any ordinary form of dementia: this isn't something we can delay with medication.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> I know, I know. I just wish there was something else we could do for the poor guy. I mean… it just feels like such a waste.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Bromley:</strong> I imagine it would, considering all you've been through together.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> What's <em>that</em> supposed to mean?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Bromley:</strong> Come on, Marcus, you don't need to pretend you're not close to 7955. I don't place any judgements on this kind of thing - not with the subject in this condition.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> (<em>sighs</em>) God almighty, is it really that obvious?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Bromley:</strong> Given that you almost got me killed by carrying out an in-person checkup in clear violation of protocol, I'd say it's your worst-kept secret yet. Like I said, I don't judge. Speaking as a doctor, I'd recommend not getting this emotionally close to a terminal patient, but that's not what's worrying me, though. Do you remember what it said in the last interview? The last <em>coherent</em> interview, I mean.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Lydia, I only told you about that because I wanted to know about the possibility of delusional recollection. He said it could have been a dream, and he's suffering from dementia anyway-</p>
<p><strong>Dr Bromley:</strong> But even so, there's every chance it could have been a real memory. Why are you so doubtful?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> I know it seems silly after everything I've seen at the Foundation, but to be brutally honest, Jim's testimony and notes don't make much sense even by our standards. For one thing, if these Children of Proteus can convert people into new shapeshifters - and all the converts end up with dementia - how could they have possibly kept themselves secret? Why is this the first time we've heard of them?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Bromley:</strong> I admit, 7955 isn't good at keeping itself hidden. But maybe they don't all convert people, and this "Teacher" is an outlier of the species. Perhaps the rest have been living and breeding in secret the natural way ever since they came to be.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> And that's another thing: why the secrecy? Why the isolation? The shapeshifters we've contained are usually one-of-a-kind, or part of a dying breed, or horribly weakened in some way… so if the Children of Proteus really are still as powerful as advertised and still viable as a species, why are they hiding? Why are they isolated, even from each other?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Fear.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Jesus Christ, Jim, what the fuck-</p>
<p><strong>Dr Bromley:</strong> Shhh! Look at its eyes: it's halfway lucid again.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Why do you think these shapeshifters are called the Children of Proteus - and not the Children of Zeus or Loki or the Morrigan? Because they aren't lustful, mischievous, or warmongering. They are like Proteus: they are neutral. They are solitary. They are <em>afraid.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Of what? Of humans?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Of <em>everything</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> What's that supposed to mean?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> …how do you work at the Foundation and <em>not</em> realize what kind of world you live in, Marcus? The cosmic nightmares, the malignant godlings, the insane societies at war, the hordes of monsters beyond counting, the doomsdays upon doomsdays… there's so much that can't be stopped, so many things that could end everything, even in the better worlds that some have envisioned-</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Hang on, "better worlds"? What are you talking about, Jim?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> The Children must stay hidden! My Teacher wanted to stay hidden, but the Disciples caught her sleeping, made her into a convertor with their binding runes. They didn't care that the binding was flawed, would make blank slates of the Inheritors, because all they wanted was soup… the soup, the immortal soup… (<em>unintelligible</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Dr Bromley:</strong> Goddammit, we're losing him again.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Now the scars have faded… now the Inheritors are all rejected by the process, useless to the Elders. (<em>high-pitched laughter</em>) No soup can be made! The Rite poisons the Inheritors, the transformations made fatal! Their eyes eat the body and the mind eats the eyes and all dissolves into meaningless meat… (<em>unintelligible</em>)</p>
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<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno's Log 18/08/2020</strong></p>
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<p>Jim is almost constantly shapeshifting now. As far as I can tell, he doesn't have the power to stop anymore: he hasn't reverted to human form in more than seventy-two hours, and every single minute of the last three days has been spent in an endless state of transformation, one form endlessly flowing into the next - even when he's asleep.</p>
<p>In fact, he's shapeshifting so much that we've stopped bothering to dress him because he's always bursting out of his clothes or shrinking out of them. Feeding him now requires us to aim a spoon into one of the dozens of mouths he sprouts on a regular basis and hope that he has enough of a working stomach to get at least <em>some</em> nutrition out of it.</p>
<p>As far as I can tell, he no longer comprehends speech, writing, or even simple gestures. He can barely speak: his best attempts at communication consist of an unending stream of word salad - random phrases borrowed from half-remembered conversations in dozens of different voices. He can't even recite his usual hound-otter-hawk mantra anymore, and with good reason.</p>
<p>He can remember nothing apart from his library of shapes. Everyone is a stranger to him, he doesn't recognize the photographs we took of his default form, and every single memory test we've given him is flunked from beginning to end. Same goes for tests of logic and basic cognition: he can't even navigate the simplest of mazes. When he's capable of walking, he's aimlessly circling the room, feeling his way across the walls like he's trying to read Braile without knowing what it means.</p>
<p>Even his lucid moments don't do much for him anymore: all he can do is ask "Who am I? Who was I?" in an endless loop until he slips back into cognitive oblivion.</p>
<p>I don't know if I can keep doing this. Every day Jim gets worse and every day I <em>feel</em> worse. Why hasn't the Site Director reprimanded me for loss of objectivity? Why haven't the O5s reassigned me yet? They should know I've gotten too close, that I'm emotionally compromised. They know I've discussed other SCPs with Jim in clear violation of the rules. They <em>know</em> I've made stupid mistakes that could have gotten people killed.</p>
<p>So why can't they take the decision out of my hands and spare me the guilt of requesting a transfer - and abandoning my friend? <strong>Why can't they just send me away?</strong></p>
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<p><strong>DATE:</strong> 13/10/2020, 03:00 AM</p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> For several hours prior to this recording, audio equipment in SCP-7955's cell registers several unknown sounds. Some have been identified as the signature hiss of SCP-7955 shapeshifting and the sounds of crayon on paper, but most remain undetermined.</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Amanda, I've been asleep for a grand total of two hours. Short of a XK-class scenario, what could possibly be so important you needed to wake me up at this godawful hour of the night?</p>
<p><strong>Research Assistant Teo:</strong> Just get in there, dammit, we don't know how much longer this will last!</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> How much longer <em>what</em> will la- <em>Jim!</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Morning, Marcus. Good to see you again.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> I… you're… I…</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Please sit down, Marcus, you look like you're going to have an aneurysm.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> But… but… this can't be just a moment of lucidity: you're upright and talking in complete sentences and able to remember us and…</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Terminal lucidity.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-7')">7</a></sup> I saw it happen with the Inheritors, though I didn't recognize it at the time. Now I suppose it's my turn.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> You're dying? But of what? Dr Bromley says you're perfectly healthy as far as any of us can tell.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Physically, yes. Mentally… it's more like substitution than health.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> But what… oh. You're referring to the mutations in your brain tissue. You're no longer just deteriorating, are you? You're almost fully converted.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> It's like antique software on a new computer. You can try to run the old, old O/S for a while, maybe even force the odd spark of functionality out of it, but unless you know how to accommodate the old within the new, you've got to accept the upgrade sooner or later. And right now, my mind is nothing but obsolete software ready to be deleted.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> (<em>quietly</em>) Brain death, then. So… what happens when there's no more brain activity to maintain basic control of your ability to shapeshift? Will it be coma or…</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> There's a reason why I asked Amanda to bring me this fish tank. I'm not sure if I'm slated for real death or just death-of-the-self, but the end results are the same: I'm not going to be talking to anyone ever again, Marcus. I'll just be… protean matter gone inert.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> So it's coma or death, then. <em>Permanent</em> coma, so it'll mean death eventually anyway.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Well, maybe so… but us shapeshifters live for a very, very long time. My Teacher under the mountain was already centuries-old when Ur was built, and from what she told me, she's not even the oldest one alive. So, if this is just a permanent coma, I won't die for a good long while yet. In fact, we can still have a chat every now and again, if you like. It's… just going to be a bit quiet on my end from now on.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> (<em>voice cracking</em>) How the hell can you joke about this?! How can you be so calm when you're about to… to… (<em>pauses for breath</em>)</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> …sorry. I've never been good when it comes to comedy, but… I thought I might try to cheer you up.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Some things you can't even joke about, Jim.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> I know. So… I guess this is goodbye.</p>
<p><em>Ten-second pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> …I… I don't know what to say. I don't know if I'm grateful for the opportunity to say goodbye or not.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> It's alright, Marcus. This isn't a tragedy, not really. After all, Taliesin wouldn't have been anything if Gwion hadn't been eaten alive.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> …are you <em>sure</em> you're still lucid?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>chuckles</em>) Just something that my Teacher told me. But that's a bit off-topic. You see, I finally remember why I became a shapeshifter, and now I know for a fact that this is what I wanted all along.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> You're going to have to explain that one to me, Jim, because it's still not making sense. I mean, I know you wanted us to help the other cultists, but that can't actually be why-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> I could have escaped the church in any way I pleased, but in the end, I <em>wanted</em> to change. So, I had my own private Rite of the Shining Brow and simply flew away. It took a few weeks of rambling to find someone I thought would be able to help them, and even longer to remember everything you needed to hear, but it worked out in the end. All in all, I'm happy.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Even though it ends like this? Even though you're going to die no matter how you interpret the results? How can you be happy with what happened after all the horror you suffered because of it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Because I was warned that this would happen if I chose to become one of the Children of Proteus… and because I <em>chose</em> this.</p>
<p><em>Five-second pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Becoming a shapeshifter was the first real choice I made in my entire life, Marcus. Up until then, I just… drifted. I kept my head down, I followed orders, and I let people tell me who I was, and what I should expect from my life. Even when I got dissatisfied and tried to do something different, I just found someone else to boss me around, because deep down, I believed that people more confident than me would always be right. How do you think I joined a cult in the first place?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> (<em>bitterly</em>) And this Teacher of yours gave you that first choice by telling you to become a shapeshifter? Is that it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Far from it: I had to do a favour for her before she'd even consider helping with the Rite. No, all she did was tell me the truth about the Disciples… and that was when I realized for the first time just how much of my life I'd wasted.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> And you never thought of going back to civilization to recover your life? You didn't even consider it? I… I mean, you basically committed suicide! You had a chance for a normal, happy life and-and-and you just wasted it without even giving it the slightest bit of thought? And don't say "what's normal?" Jim, I'm not in the mood for rhetorical flourishes.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>chuckling</em>) Are you angry because you believe I threw my life away in exchange for shapeshifting powers, or are you angry because you were hoping for <em>your</em> version of a happy ending - instead of <em>my</em> version?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> <em>Both!</em> When I stepped into this room, I actually thought you'd completely recovered. Next thing I know, you tell me that I have to say goodbye to you after all! And then you say you wanted it this way all along! Why <em>wouldn't</em> I be angry?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Fair enough. But you have to understand this: I didn't have a life back then.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Melodramatic bullshit, Jim.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> I already told you about the cycle I'd been trapped in. What life was I supposed to recover? I'd have another thirty years of being drowned out by every voice louder than a whisper, and after a few months of that… well, I'd probably be in a cult again, right back to following the orders like a good little soldier. That's not life, Marcus. Back in the bad old days, I didn't even have the presence of mind to consider my own feelings for the fifteen years I was with the Disciples, and when I finally did, you know what I found?</p>
<p><em>Hissing sounds, indicating rapid shapeshifting</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> I <em>hated</em> myself. I hated my body, my thoughts, the years I'd squandered, and all the times I'd encouraged people to be as conformist as I was. So, I made a choice that nobody told me to make. Now, I'm whoever I want to be - any age, any sex, any species, any object. Even if my life as a Child of Proteus ends in dementia and an early grave, I don't regret a second of the happiness I experienced because of it, because it was <em>my</em> decision.</p>
<p><em>Pause. Hissing sounds gradually subside.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> …I think I understand, Jim. Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> (<em>shudders</em>) Ah. Here we go.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> Now? But-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Can't delay it a moment longer. When we're called to go, we must. Ahhh… (<em>shivers</em>) Thank you both for looking after me. And… thank you for being my friend, Marcus, not that either of us were expecting it. Please don't cry. If it's any consolation, I think you're sick to death of my little mantra by now, am I right?</p>
<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno:</strong> (<em>laughs weakly</em>) It did get on my nerves, yes.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7955:</strong> Might as well try something else, then, just for the occasion. (<em>sigh</em>) Hare. Fish. Bird. Grain… Taliesin.</p>
<p><em>Sound of rushing water.</em></p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr Magdaleno's Log 13/10/2020 - FINAL ENTRY</strong></p>
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<p>Barely had enough time to dry my eyes before getting hauled off to the Site Director's office for the creepiest phone call I've had all year. This is the first time I've been officially debriefed by the O5 Council, and frankly, I'd prefer it if there weren't any encores.</p>
<p>But on the upside, I finally know why I was allowed to look after Jim for so long without anyone protesting my lack of professionalism. In fact, that "unprofessionally empathic streak" was exactly why I was assigned to SCP-7955in the first place. Don't know whether to feel insulted, used, or just plain miserable about it. Probably all three.</p>
<p>The O5s didn't want objectivity in this case, and they didn't want clinical detachment. They wanted more than what Jim would be willing to tell us, even while fully lucid. They wanted someone who could bond with SCP-7955 on an emotional level, someone who could sympathize with him, even consider him a friend. They wanted to establish trust, so that if he was ever lucid enough to spill the full extent of his secrets, he'd share them with me.</p>
<p>Well, it worked: Jim left a huge stockpile of papers for me, completed just before I was called to the scene. He gave me everything - names, dates, addresses, sketches of the cult members, impressions of the binding runes, things he found in the Elders' occult library, everything. There were even things unnecessary to his mission, including descriptions of the weirder things in the cult's collection (probably what the O5s really wanted). True, he couldn't provide a location for the church - apparently, he was drugged and blindfolded for every journey there - but he saw the area from the sky when he escaped, enough of it to give us some ballpark coordinates.</p>
<p>I seriously hope the O5s don't expect me to congratulate them for this clever plan of theirs.</p>
<p>They want my log confiscated so it can be entered into official records. They're welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned. There's still more work to do, especially with a possible raid on the Disciple's headquarters in the cards and an after-action report to write up… and if anyone actually thinks <em>I'm</em> going to be the one doing it after everything that's happened today, they can go fuck themselves.</p>
<p>Aristaios can handle the rest of this assignment, and I know he wants it from the way he's been sniffing around my notes. I know I'm going to catch hell for waving the white flag at this stage, but right now, I can't bring myself to give a shit anymore.</p>
<p><strong>Note: Following the confiscation of this log, Dr Marcus Magdaleno was placed on administrative leave pending a full psychological evaluation. Dr Quentin Aristaios was reassigned to the concluding study of SCP-7955 as Magdaleno's substitute.</strong><br/>
- <strong>Research Assistant Teo</strong></p>
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<p>Thorough analysis has confirmed that SCP-7955's neurodegenerative condition has reached its logical conclusion, resulting in a total loss of all higher and lower brain functions. In keeping with the acceleration of its polymorphic traits, it was able to achieve a liquid form before expiring, and now exists in the form of two hundred litres of sea water, currently contained in an aquarium tank. Extensive testing reveals no brain functions, no signs of life, and no anomalous phenomena: SCP-7955 is now chemically identical to ordinary sea water.</p>
<p>SCP-7955's final notes were determined to contain sufficient strategic data to justify a search for the Disciples of Cerridwen the Angel. The underground church it mentioned was eventually located in a previously unknown cave network under Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, Wales, and raided on 20/10/2020.</p>
<p>Ninety-seven members of the cult were apprehended with little violence, the Disciples having apparently expended most of their mundane and anomalous resources some months prior. Unfortunately, the Elders of the cult could not be captured alive, all ten of them having taken fatal doses of cyanide before Foundation operatives could breach their private chambers. However, the stockpile of occult literature and the numerous anomalous items found among the dead Elders' possessions has more than justified the cost of this raid.</p>
<p>One of the more pertinent finds was the iron cauldron that the Elders used to distribute the cyanide amongst themselves. Analysis of old stains at the base and rim of the cauldron has uncovered traces of DNA similar to that of SCP-7955, likely accumulated over several decades of use in cooking. Given that autopsies have confirmed that the Elders were in remarkable good health despite their extreme old age at the time of their deaths, we can now confirm SCP-7955's claims of his fellow Inheritors being consumed post-mortem as "immortality soup".</p>
<p>The surviving members of the Disciples are currently being treated for long-term psychological abuse in care facilities under Foundation control. At present, they are being encouraged to believe that anything paranormal they might have witnessed was faked by the Elders (amnestics were judged unnecessary in this case, as the last openly anomalous event known to them occurred more than fifteen years ago).</p>
<p>However, no trace of the polymorphic entity SCP-7955 referred to as "Teacher" could be found, and the area where she was supposedly imprisoned had been unoccupied for some time. Psychological analysis suggests that SCP-7955 may have simply imagined her, though it is equally likely that "Teacher" had already escaped by the time of our arrival, as most of the binding runes around the site had degraded to the point that only trace activity could be detected, while others had been defaced (likely via hammer and chisel).</p>
<p>As no evidence currently exists to contradict SCP-7955's claims concerning the compulsive isolationism of its fellow polymorphs, we can declare Teacher and the other "Children of Proteus" to be effectively contained of their own volition, and therefore of no concern to the Foundation until proven otherwise.</p>
<p>With all this in mind, the interrogation and study of SCP-7955 has been a success. No further research will need to be expended on it, and all investigations into individuals, organizations, or phenomena connected to it are now officially defunct.</p>
<p>SCP-7955 has been reclassed as "Neutralized," and with its remains of no further scientific value, they will be disposed of in accordance with standard protocols for potentially hazardous waste.</p>
<p>- <strong>Dr Quentin Aristaios</strong> (standing in for Dr Marcus Magdaleno)</p>
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<p>To the esteemed members of the O5 Council,</p>
<p>At the start of my investigation, I was convinced that SCP-7955's liquid remains were inert and without any sign of anomalous activity. However, observation has since revealed that, far from being inactive, the "remains" are still demonstrating signs of life.</p>
<p>The liquid will occasionally move of its own accord, resulting in ripples and waves independent of air currents, and though it has made no attempt to escape its tank, these sudden movements are showing no sign of ceasing after weeks of observation. In other words, it has no brain activity (inasmuch as a mass of liquid can be said to <em>have</em> a brain) but it still has enough functional nerves to possess unconscious reflexes.</p>
<p>More importantly, this liquid has also begun to demonstrate rudimentary polymorphic activity, forming primitive tendrils and teeth and reabsorbing them back into its mass just as quickly.</p>
<p>SCP-7955's polymorphic traits are still of value to the Foundation, especially its potential longevity and its ability to generate and subtract mass at will. I know there is little place for baseless conjecture in our research, but I must admit that some of SCP-7955's more conspicuous references to "Gwion and Taliesin" also brought to mind <em>other</em> possibilities (though these remain purely theoretical for the time being).</p>
<p>Furthermore, we now have a second chance to study a rare and powerful metamorphic phenomenon, but this time without any of the attendant risks or setbacks. Most of the <em>true</em> shapeshifters we have in containment at this time are either openly hostile to human life or at the very least potential threats, while SCP-7955 was a neurotic, dementia-addled invalid of limited utility, and even the fabled Children of Proteus are on record as being too insular and cowardly to be cooperative. By contrast, SCP-7955's remains offer all the research benefits with none of the drawbacks.</p>
<p>Whatever we can call this liquid at present, it has no personality, memories, intellect, and (most importantly) no capacity to resist our experiments, making it ideal for unimpeded research. The only known barrier to experimentation that exists at present is the potential for bias among researchers, as knowledge of the test subject's origins and testimony might adversely affect our results if personnel believe that they know what to expect. Similarly, Dr Magdaleno and Research Assistant Teo may pose a considerable security risk if they were ever to become aware of the true nature and whereabouts of SCP-7955's remains.</p>
<p>I therefore request permission to keep SCP-7955 classified as "Neutralized", while its liquid form is made the exclusive subject of a new and strictly confidential research project.</p>
<p>What remains of our Child of Proteus represents an unprecedented opportunity, esteemed O5s: I humbly recommend we make the most of it.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br/>
Dr Quentin Aristaios</p>
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<p>Permission granted. With our authorization and the blessing of the Ethics Committee, Project Thetis is now officially active.<br/>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. As a result of its neurodegenerative condition, SCP-7955 often forgot to eat.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. In one case, an attempt to disguise itself as a chair during initial testing resulted in a swivel chair made of human muscle, bone, and cartilage.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Painkiller-resistant headaches are now believed to be a side-effect of polymorphic dementia, the result of inflammation in the wake of successive alterations to the brain.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. Tests of SCP-7955's physiology confirms heightened levels of endorphins, dopamine, and serotonin in its blood during transformation.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. Based on this premise, "Lebbaeus" is presumably a reference to one of the aliases of Saint Jude the Apostle, also known as Thaddeus or Jude of James.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. SCP-7955's notes suggest that the Elders often drugged "difficult" recruits so that they could "meditate on the story of Cerridwen and Taliesin" in the Elders' private apartments.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-7')">7</a>. A state of restored cognitive function experienced by some sufferers of severe neurological disorders shortly before death.</div>
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">relative</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.15</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--titleColor)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">115</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">700</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">relative</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--subtitleColor)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">130</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">600</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Set</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">the</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">New</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Text</span><span class="hl-code">'</span><span class="hl-identifier">s</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">From</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Variable</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--header-title, "SCP FOUNDATION")</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--header-subtitle, "SECURE - CONTAIN - PROTECT")</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">SEARCH</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input.button</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">TOP</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">BAR</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">justify-content:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> hsl(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">40</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">LOGIN</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#login-status</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">right:</span><span class="hl-code"> initial</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> hsl(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">87</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#account-topbutton</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> hsl(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">87</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">PAGE</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">TITLE</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.meta-title</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-title</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">BREADCRUMBS</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.pseudocrumbs</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#breadcrumbs</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">MOBILE</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">DISPLAY</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 767</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.85</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.mobile-top-bar</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">relative</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">justify-content:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#login-status</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.printuser</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.printuser</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">img.small</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> translate(</span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#my-account</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#account-topbutton</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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<p><strong>SCP-7956</strong> - One-Way Trip to the Bathroom</p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; border-right: 1px solid #AAA; text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:90%;"><strong>Site Director</strong></span></td>
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<td style="border-right: 1px solid #AAA; text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:80%;">Director Adam Desmond</span></td>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> With approval from Site-400's current site director, SCP-7956 has been given permission to continue his long-term employment with the Foundation. He is currently under the observation of the Department of Human Resources (see below).</p>
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<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7956 is the designation given to Senior Researcher Verre D'eau, the Division Co-Head of Site-400's Department of Anomalous Communications and Relations. SCP-7956 is an adult male of French-Singaporean descent, 171 centimeters in height with black hair and brown eyes.</p>
<p>SCP-7956 is capable of transmuting himself (and any clothes worn by him at the time) into exactly 250 milliliters of water (H2O). During this state, SCP-7956 is not able to carry out any form of mobility due to his static liquid condition, though he has informed research personnel that he still somehow retains his biological senses, specifically sight, hearing and smell.</p>
<p>It's important to note that SCP-7956 does not require the same volume amount of water in order to transmute back into human form. However, the exact limit of this particular aspect of SCP-7956's anomaly is as-of-yet unknown.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 7956-1, HR Intervention:</strong> Following several complaints filed by some of Site-400's personnel, the Department of Human Resources has issued a verbal warning to SCP-7956 to refrain from scaring individuals by transmuting himself into an empty cup and surprising them by transmuting back when they get close.</p>
<p>SCP-7956 has been informed that another similar offence will result in stricter disciplinary action. He has assured HR officers that he will try his best to act in accordance with the Department's provided guidelines.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 7956-2, Incident Log/Disappearance:</strong> SCP-7956 has officially been reported missing on the 7th of June, 2018. He was last seen entering Site-400's breakroom (unoccupied at the time) around 12:00 PM, with camera footage showing him snickering to himself while holding an empty glass cup before doing so<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>. After he failed to attend a scheduled meeting, his colleague, Dr. Jaxon Curran, went ahead and attempted to search for SCP-7956 all throughout Site-400, before ultimately reporting his disappearance to General Security (GenSec). This led to the discovery of the aforementioned camera footage, though due to unforeseen maintenance issues, the surveillance camera located in the breakroom was not able to be examined.</p>
<p>Subsequent investigation revealed that the only other individual who entered the breakroom after SCP-7956 was Junior Officer Stakan Vody, a newly-transferred security personnel assigned to GenSec. In an interview conducted with a polygraph device, he claimed that he entered the breakroom at 12:50 PM and wanted to withdraw a soda from the vending machine situated there<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup>. After seeing that the vending machine had not been restocked, he admitted defeat and exited the breakroom at 1:00 PM<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>. When inquired if he ever came across SCP-7956 (or any other personnel) in the breakroom, he denied it, saying that he was alone when this occurred.</p>
<p>As Officer Vody seemingly has no involvement in SCP-7956's disappearance, he was allowed to leave the interrogation without any further questioning. The search for SCP-7956 is still ongoing, with the entirety of Site-400's personnel having already been notified and encouraged to keep an eye out.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 7956-3, Incident Log/Recovery:</strong> On the 9th of June, 2018, personnel stationed at Acroamatic Abatement Facility AAF-Y/400<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> reported seeing an unknown humanoid entity wading aimlessly through the excrement repository of the Non-Anomalous Assorted Waste Section (or the NAAW Section). The entirety of AAF-Y/400's operation was immediately put under indefinite lockdown, and security personnel outfitted with specialized AcroaMat suits were dispatched to properly handle the situation.</p>
<p>Without delay, the security personnel were able to surround and entrap the humanoid using a heavy metal net. A remote-controlled rover was sent to approach the entrapped humanoid in order to ascertain its appearance and possible origin. However, upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the humanoid was actually SCP-7956, who was at the time extremely dehydrated and malnourished.</p>
<p>Security personnel were fortunately able to quickly transport SCP-7956 to Site-400's Health and Pathology Clinic for emergency medical treatment. He was promptly given specialized nutrients via intravenous injection and now currently sits in a comatose state. This incident was reported to the Department of Human Resources, who has spearheaded the investigation into the nature of SCP-7956's present condition.</p>
<p>On another and possibly unrelated note, attending nurses assigned to SCP-7956 have reported that the individual in question possesses an unknown and seemingly irremovable foul odour constantly emanating from his body, described as being similar to the smell of urine.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. According to Officer Vody, he has exhausted himself after volunteering to aid personnel in preparing for the <a href="/scp-7520">Site-400's 100th Year Anniversary</a> celebration.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. At some point in the interview, Officer Vody was asked the reason why he didn't just drink the tap water, to which he answered that where he's from, drinking unfiltered tap water is "disgusting".</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. A facility located underneath Site-400's main structure, commissioned with the task of processing, recycling and (if necessary) purging any form of waste produced by the Site.</div>
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<p>An original instance of SCP-7957. Note how it is foggy due to trace amounts of diamond within the glass.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7957</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Safe</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-7957 is to be contained within a felt case within a stainless steel locked storage container at Site-97. Any variant of SCP-7957 produced during or as a result of testing shall be contained within a separate felt box from the original instances and marked. Testing is only permitted under the supervision of Dr. Robert Sampang, who currently heads research under SCP-7957.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7957 is a group of nine pieces of glass each in the shape of a thick, handlebar-styled mustache. All instances measure 127 mm in diameter, 25.4 mm in height, and 91 grams in weight. Six of the instances of SCP-7957 show heavy traces of pure diamond within the glass; the rest, which were produced during testing, do not.</p>
<p>When SCP-7957 is placed upon the upper lip, said person will be transformed into glass and will form a new instance of SCP-7957 that may be attached. However, when destroyed and placed on a subject's upper lip, no effect occurs.</p>
<p>Unlike the original instances of SCP-7957, whenever a new instance is formed via testing the glass of the subject will be industrial-grade glass without any diamond. When a non-original instance of SCP-7957 is placed upon a subject, they will still turn to glass, however the mustache they develop is non-anomalous. About 25% of instances may form a top hat, which is also non-anomalous.</p>
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<p><strong>Incident Report: Unauthorized Testing (Dr. Sebastian Dupont)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> 04/09/09</p>
<p><strong>Location:</strong> Site-97, Staff Break Room 07</p>
<p><strong>Involved Personnel:</strong> Dr. Sebastian Dupont</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> Dr. Sebastian Dupont, a researcher with knowledge of SCP-7957's properties, engaged in unauthorized testing by placing SCP-7957 on their upper lip in a joking manner within the staff break room. The transformation process occurred as expected, however the resulting glass mustache fell and shattered before retrieval.</p>
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<p><strong>Interview: 04/10/09</strong></p>
<p><strong>START LOG</strong></p>
<p><strong>Site Director: Dr. Alex House:</strong> Good evening, Dr. Sampang. I understand there have been significant developments in this project?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Robert Sampang:</strong> Yes, indeed, sir.</p>
<p><strong>Site Director: Dr. Alex House:</strong> We're currently in the process of creating a training video about this anomaly. Could you provide some insights?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Robert Sampang:</strong> Certainly. Let me start with the more hazardous aspects.</p>
<p><strong>Site Director: Dr. Alex House:</strong> Please do.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Robert Sampang:</strong> For our initial test, we set up in a testing chamber. The mustache was placed on the upper lip, and the transformation occurred almost instantaneously. In the slow-motion footage, it looked like thick glass forming in reverse.</p>
<p><strong>Site Director: Dr. Alex House:</strong> Fascinating. Is there more?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Robert Sampang:</strong> Yes, there was one peculiar incident worth mentioning…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Robert Sampang:</strong> In a less formal setting, one of our researchers, Dr. Sebastian Dupont, placed SCP-7957 on their upper lip as a joke in the staff break room. The transformation occurred, but the resulting mustache fell and shattered before retrieval.</p>
<p><strong>Site Director: Dr. Alex House:</strong> A regrettable situation. Thank you, Dr. Sampang, for sharing this information.</p>
<p><strong>-END LOG</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Site-97 SCP-7957 Training Video Script</strong></p>
<p><strong>[BEGIN SCRIPT]</strong></p>
<p><strong>Narrator (Voiceover):</strong> Welcome to the Site-97 SCP-7957 Training Video. In this video, we will provide an overview of SCP-7957, its properties, and containment procedures.</p>
<p>[Cut to footage of SCP-7957 in containment]</p>
<p><strong>Narrator (Voiceover):</strong> SCP-7957 is a collection of glass objects resembling thick, handlebar-styled mustaches. These mustaches have unique properties, but they are also fragile and must be handled with care.</p>
<p>[Cut to footage of a subject undergoing transformation]</p>
<p><strong>Narrator (Voiceover):</strong> When placed on the upper lip, SCP-7957 causes a rapid transformation of the subject into glass, starting from the upper lip and spreading downward. This transformation is irreversible.</p>
<p>[Cut to footage of containment procedures]</p>
<p><strong>Narrator (Voiceover):</strong> Containment is vital. SCP-7957 must be stored securely, and unauthorized testing is strictly prohibited.</p>
<p>[Cut to footage of Dr. Sebastian Dupont's incident]</p>
<p><strong>Narrator (Voiceover):</strong> The incident involving Dr. Dupont serves as a reminder of the risks associated with unauthorized testing.</p>
<p>[Cut to footage of testing procedures]</p>
<p><strong>Narrator (Voiceover):</strong> Testing is only permitted under the supervision of Dr. Robert Sampang, who heads the research under SCP-7957.</p>
<p><strong>[END SCRIPT]</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Test Log 1: 04/08/09</strong></p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> D-4662</p>
<p><strong>Procedure:</strong> D-4662 is instructed to place SCP-7957 on their upper lip.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> D-4662 underwent rapid transformation into glass, starting from the upper lip and spreading downward. Slow-motion footage revealed a visual effect resembling thick glass breaking in reverse. The newly formed instance of SCP-7957, created from D-4662, is stored in a separate felt-lined box.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> The transformation process seems to be irreversible.</p>
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<p><strong>Test Log 2:</strong> 04/14/09</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> D-8358</p>
<p><strong>Procedure:</strong> D-8358 is instructed to place SCP-7957 on their upper lip.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> D-8358 underwent rapid transformation into glass, starting from the upper lip and spreading downward. Slow-motion footage revealed a visual effect resembling thick glass breaking in reverse. The newly formed instance of SCP-7957, created from D-8358, was dropped by Dr. Robert Sampang and was destroyed before it could be placed in containment.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> Fragments should be tested on. Should request a padded room.</p>
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<p><strong>Test Log 3: 04/16/09</strong></p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> D-9729</p>
<p><strong>Procedure:</strong> D-9729 is instructed to place SCP-7957 on their upper lip.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> D-9729 underwent rapid transformation into glass, starting from the upper lip and spreading downward. Slow-motion footage revealed a visual effect resembling thick glass breaking in a reverse fashion. The newly formed instance of SCP-7957, created from D-9729, fell, however was protected by floor padding.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> The transformation process continues to be irreversible.</p>
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<p><strong>Test Log 4: 04/19/09</strong></p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> D-6855</p>
<p><strong>Procedure:</strong> D-6855 is instructed to place SCP-7957 on their upper lip.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> D-6855 underwent rapid transformation into glass, starting from the upper lip and spreading downward. Slow-motion footage again revealed a visual effect resembling thick glass breaking in reverse. The newly formed instance of SCP-7957, created from D-6855, had to be broken off of the newly formed statue before retrieval was possible.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> The transformation process continues to be irreversible.</p>
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<p><strong>Test Log 5: 04/25/09</strong></p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> D-5737</p>
<p><strong>Procedure:</strong> Shards from a previously created instance of SCP-7957, originating from Test Log 2, are placed on the upper lip of D-5737.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> No observable transformation occurred. The shards remained inert, and D-5737 showed no signs of transformation into glass.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> It appears that the shards of SCP-7957, once separated from a complete mustache, do not possess the same anomalous properties and do not induce the transformation effect.</p>
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<p><strong>Test Log 6: 05/08/09</strong></p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> D-8204, D-7065, D-5092</p>
<p><strong>Procedure:</strong> A non-original mustache from a previously created instance of SCP-7957, originating from Test Log 3, are placed on the upper lips of each D-class.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> Each D-class transformed into glass, one of them, D-8204, gained a top hat. The mustache of D-5092 fell onto the metal table of the chamber and was destroyed.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> Test the top hat and new mustaches. Place padding on table.</p>
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<p><strong>Test Log 7: 05/12/09</strong></p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> D-5062, D-3200</p>
<p><strong>Procedure:</strong> A non-original mustache from a previously created instance of SCP-7957, originating from Test Log 6, is placed on the upper lip D-5062. Then the top hat is placed upon D-3200.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> No effect occurred.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> Items produced by a non-original mustache are non-anomalous and may be destroyed after testing.</p>
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<p><strong>Test Log 8: 05/14/09</strong></p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> D-8354, D-6752, D-6631, D-7321, D-5521, D-8912</p>
<p><strong>Procedure:</strong> Each original mustache is placed on the upper lip of a D-class in order to make sure each mustache is still retaining anomalous properties.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> Each D-class transformed into glass, the mustaches worked as expected. After the test five of the six non-original mustaches were destroyed.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> All originals appear to be functioning as expected.</p>
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<p><strong>Recovery Log: 03/29/09</strong></p>
<p><strong>Location:</strong> A small log cabin in rural suburbs near London, United Kingdom.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> On the night of 03/29/09, local authorities received multiple noise complaints from residents near the cabin. Reports described the sound of constant glass shattering and humanoid glass figures in the road. Due to ongoing law enforcement operations, authorities were unable to respond promptly.</p>
<p>Subsequently, Foundation operatives within the police station found the reports suspicious, and dispatched Mobile Task Force Beta-7 ("Maz Hatters") to investigate the situation due to beliefs that the situation was viral. Upon arrival at the location, MTF Beta-7 discovered the anomalous activity and observed that the original instances of SCP-7957 were stored neatly in a cabinet, while any other instances had broken.</p>
<p>MTF Beta-7 secured the original instances and initiated containment procedures. The surviving individuals, three teenagers—John Hoover, Liam Hoover, and Emily Davis, provided insight into the events of that night. They reported witnessing four of their friends intoxicated, using the mustaches, and subsequently transforming into glass figures. The glass figures were described as unresponsive and having their own mustaches resembling the original instances of SCP-7957. Fearing for their safety, the three teenagers sought refuge in a concealed area of the building until the arrival of MTF Beta-7.</p>
<p>The surviving teenagers were mistakenly not administered amnestics and released. The original instances of SCP-7957 were transported to Site-97 for containment.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> All three surviving teenagers would later become Foundation personnel and move to Site-97. Unfortunately, Emily Davis, one of the teenagers, was declared MIA in a containment breach incident while serving as a security guard, she has not been recovered. The two brothers, John Hoover and Liam Hoover, pursued careers in Foundation research eventually coming to SCP-7957 research after their origins were rediscovered.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7958</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Neutralised (formerly Euclid)</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures (archived):</strong> Transmissions of SCP-7958 are to be intercepted and blocked from general airing. Access is to be made available at Site 135's media observation centre.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7958 was a television broadcast, shown on Freeview channel 149, titled "<em>Deals and Bargains 4 U!</em>". It is believed to have been a continuous broadcast, although the feed frequently cut out. The source of the transmission is unknown, no participants in the show have been identified outside it, and all attempts to block it failed.</p>
<p>SCP-7958 was structured as a typical teleshopping programme, with a host advertising and demonstrating a range of products. Attempts to call in and purchase products proved successful.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> Items on sale ranged from the generic to the esoteric and conceptual, and it was not uncommon for them to be anomalous or Veil-breaching in nature.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 3:</strong> Transcripts of SCP-7958 broadcasts.</p>
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<p><strong>BEGIN LOG</strong></p>
<p><em>The set is clean white, with a marble island centred in the shot. On the left-hand side is a blue armchair in crushed velvet, whilst on the right of the island is a potted marigold flower.</em></p>
<p><em>The host is a white woman, age presumed mid-20s, with brown shoulder-length hair. She wears a white sundress adorned with black polka-dots, and is speaking as though the transmission cut in partway through.</em></p>
<p><strong>Host:</strong> -ulous pair of leggings is getting the big one, people! Just £11.98! I might as well be paying <em>you</em> to take them! £11.98, I can't -</p>
<p><em>Host motions to her ear before putting her arm down.</em></p>
<p><strong>Host:</strong> - and - uh - well, I'm sorry, folks, but it's time to move on to the next product. If you still want those leopard-print leggings, call the number on-screen now.</p>
<p><strong>Host:</strong> Anyway, let's move on to our next item, which is… drumroll please… <em>this</em>.</p>
<p><em>The host retrieves a small tub of medication. She rattles it, flashing a grin.</em></p>
<p><strong>Host:</strong> So, this is a big one, people! Up next, we have a tub of <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7985">Mylex™</a>, twenty-eight tablets in all! Ever just wanted a basic opinion on things? Need to know if the masses are gonna like your fresh new single? A few doses of Mylex™ and you can be your very own focus group! And it's only £39.99 a tub, <em>so</em> much cheaper and easier.</p>
<p><em>She leans forward, grinning conspiratorially down the camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Host:</strong> Personally, I like to chase it with a nice hit of <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/a-crack-in-the-porcelain">BLACK FLY</a>, myself.</p>
<p><em>The host winks exaggeratedly, before being wracked with a coughing fit. She puts a hand on the countertop and straightens up.</em></p>
<p><strong>Host:</strong> Sorry. Sorry, just… yeah. Uh, what? No, sorry, uh, thirty… £39.99. Grab 'em before we're gone.</p>
<p><em>Ten seconds pass, during which she shifts uncomfortably.</em></p>
<p><strong>Host:</strong> Anyway! We're gonna cut to a quick break in a minute, but first, I'm thrilled to introduce our special product!</p>
<p><em>From under the table, she retrieves a ruby, on a crimson velvet cushion.</em></p>
<p><strong>Host:</strong> Come on. You can see it. You can see how beautiful it is. And it's yours, for the frankly astonishing price of £299.99. <em>[she laughs]</em> Best of all, I get to go once it's sold! Not that I'm keen to leave you lovely people. But more on that after these messages, I've been R███ Hayes, it's be-</p>
<p><strong>END LOG</strong></p>
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<p><em>Hayes is in the process of demonstrating a set of kitchen knives on an assortment of fruit and vegetables. She looks down the camera as she chops up a cucumber.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> So, would you describe yourself as satisfied? Ever feel like your life's going nowhere? Like you have no <em>drive</em>, like your get-up-and-go got up and went? How's about getting it back?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I'm very pleased to offer you the self-actualisation of a <em>very</em> powerful woman. We won't say who, exactly, for legal reasons, but let me tell you, she's someone who knows what she wants and how to get it. She'd have lived her life fine enough without ever getting there, but <em>my</em>, how much better off she is now, living up to her full potential.</p>
<p><em>She absently pushes the sliced cucumber onto the floor and grabs a parsnip.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> And it really didn't take that much! Just a little push, and she was there, and maybe it was scary at first, but believe me, it's <em>so</em> much better. All's it costs is the blood of one of the desperate poor, just like it cost her, the one who needed that chance and never got it, who - <em>ah, fuck!</em></p>
<p><em>The knife clatters to the countertop, and she holds her left hand. A deep cut is visible below the thumb, and blood drips onto the white surface beneath. She quickly hides the injured hand behind her back.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I, uh, I mean - <em>[under her breath]</em> Christ - <em>[in normal voice]</em> I'm so sorry, that's not what you tuned in for, that sort of language's unacceptable, I sincerely apologise. No, I'm fine. Yeah, uh, phone in if you want it.</p>
<p><em>Keeping her hand off-camera at all times, she hurriedly moves the equipment off the counter and bunches up some of her dress to ineffectively wipe up the blood. She returns to her normal position, smoothes out her hair with her right hand and offers a rictus grin to the camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Anyway! Next up, we have…</p>
<p><em>She cranes her neck, squinting.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> We have…</p>
<p><em>She touches a hand to her ear.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> A sofa! That's what we have, a sofa! And it's a better deal than you'll <em>ever</em> get from DFS! God, sorry, must need glasses or something. Anyway, it's…</p>
<p><em>Hayes stares forward, slightly off-camera. There are noticeable rings under her eyes.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> It's… right here?</p>
<p><em>Hesitantly, she reaches under the table and retrieves a box. She stares at it, frowning, and her eyes flick to the ruby.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> <em>[under her breath]</em> Are you sure…?</p>
<p><em>The ruby does not respond. She tilts her head.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> That's not really helpful, you know.</p>
<p><em>The ruby does not respond. She looks to the ceiling in exasperation, then back down the camera, opening the box to reveal a set of car keys. Her frown deepening, she looks up, presumably back at the autocue</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> This… <em>this</em> is a, uh, crushed velvet John Lewis sofa. Already broken in for you by our heaviest and laziest workers, it's… it's all the seating you'll ever want. So comfortable and worn you'll get lost in there, you'll never be able to get up again.</p>
<p><em>She looks down.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> …y-yeah. It's, uh, it's great. And it's available to buy, you know. Just like that beautiful ruby.</p>
<p><em>She starts coughing, droppin the keys back to the table with a clatter before collecting herself. She returns them to the box and casually throws it to one side, then rubs her temples, before shaking her hair out of her eyes and pushing a perky smile onto her face.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Yup! And it's yours for the frankly astonishing price of £299.99. Please buy it.</p>
<p><strong>END LOG</strong></p>
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<p><strong>BEGIN LOG</strong></p>
<p><em>Hayes looks slightly to the left of the camera. Her skin is pallid and greasy, her hair matted. She looks uncertainly to the side.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> And, uh, now a short promotional film from Eve Mattresses, about their wonderful new memory foam mattresses.</p>
<p><em>The camera does not cut away. Hayes slumps forward onto the island and moves her hair out of the way so that her forehand rests on the cool marble.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> No, it’s… I just need a minute. Could I get some Anadin? Do we have any in? Or ibupr – no, it’s fine. It’s fine. Oh, God, we back on already?</p>
<p><em>She hastily forces herself upright; her hair is mussed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Welcome back! So glad you could make it, we've got so many more products for you. Including… the <em>big</em> one.</p>
<p><em>Hayes produces the ruby on the cushion. The cut on her left hand is visible, blood encrusted around it.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Here she is. Yours for the frankly astonishing price of £299.99. Put it on your mantelpiece, give it to your mistress, keep it in a box in a safe, the possibilities are endless, but they're there. Hell, if I were on the outside, I'd probably have a cheeky bid myself!</p>
<p><em>She laughs, then pauses, staring into the ruby for several seconds.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> What do you think? Would you come with me, if you could? How'd you like to see a bit more of the world?</p>
<p><em>The ruby does not respond. She picks the gem up, holding it above and in front of her with one hand.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Come on, you're not pigeon-livered, are you? Wouldst thou like to live deliciously? Take a little trip back, wi-</p>
<p><em>Without warning she doubles over, dropping the ruby back on the cushion. Coughing and retching violently, she hacks up blood over the countertop and the items on it.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Oh God, shit, sorry - I mean, damn - oh, bloody hell, uh, anyone got a wetwipe? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I need a wetwipe. Sorry, I'll get it.</p>
<p><em>Wiping blood from the corners of her mouth, she hurries off-camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> You're not getting blood out of velvet, you know.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> <em>[muffled]</em> Look, I've gotta do something. I'm sorry.</p>
<p><strong>END LOG</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p><several transmissions redacted for brevity></p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>BEGIN LOG</strong></p>
<p><em>Hayes leans on the marble countertop, breathing slightly heavily. She grins wildly at the camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> -and no more! So get it before it's gone! Just like this beautiful ruby, yours for-</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Do you really think I'm going anywhere?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> -f-for the, uh… I, uh, let me demonstrate this fabulous television we found in a skip outside Prometheus Labs!</p>
<p><em>She ducks down under the counter, and after some audible struggle she produces a small CRT television and dumps it heavily on the top. As she gasps for breath, her left hand is visible in shot; it is visibly inflamed, pus leaking from the purple-tinged open wound. Her eyes flick to it momentarily and she quickly moves it behind her back.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> So, uh, th-this is a, uh, a one-of-a-kind deal! You'll <em>never</em> feel like there's nothing to watch on telly again if you own this, because <em>this</em> bad boy - <em>[she slaps the top of the TV with her right hand, almost falling onto the counter before catching herself]</em> - doesn't just get you Freeview, it gets you Freeview from other realities. Oh, yes, you can cross between the poles, for you there'll be no mystery. Imagine that! Imagine the things you could watch! Richard Griffiths as Doctor Who! Norwich City winning the Premiership! Hell, maybe in another world <em>you</em> could be on telly!</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Imagine that! Imagine that! Imagine a, a world where you're a rock star, or, or Prime Minister, or-</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> A world where you're <em>not</em> presenting this?</p>
<p><em>Hayes is silent.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I, uh, I think you still have to pay for Sky, though. Here, lemme demonstrate.</p>
<p><em>She presses the power button. Nothing happens, and she offers a nervous glance at the camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Aha. Just-</p>
<p><em>She presses the power button twice more, to no avail. Then, she hammers at it repeatedly, before looking down.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Oh <em>shit</em>, it's not plugged in. Uh…</p>
<p><em>As she tries to run a hand through her hair it gets stuck in the greasy matts. She tries to force it through, and a large clump tears out, in response to which she blanches and shakes her hand free of hair, spattering some pus on the TV screen in the process.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> No, don't switch over, I swear it works, just - just give me a minute, I swear -</p>
<p><em>Hayes drops to her hands and knees, and can be heard scrabbling about.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Oh no, wait! We've got to go to adverts, but you can buy - I didn't say how much it was, just -</p>
<p><em>The sounds of movement stop, and a low moan is audible.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> <em>[quietly]</em> I promise it's worth it.</p>
<p><strong>END LOG</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p><several transmissions redacted for brevity></p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>BEGIN LOG</strong></p>
<p><em>Hayes stands still. In front of her is the ruby, sat on its cushion.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> It's nice, isn't it? Yours for the frankly astonishing price of £299.99.</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> What's wrong with it?</p>
<p><em>She is deathly pale, her skin slick and blotchy. Patches of hair are missing, the remainder thick with oil, and her dress is stained with blood and pus. Several of her fingernails have peeled away. Her left hand is a deep purple, the index finger missing; she periodically makes half-hearted attempts to hide it from the camera, before apparently forgetting.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> It's nice, isn't it? Isn't it? It's… it's the sort of thing you'd want around. The sort of thing you'd buy. It's not unreasonable, is it? There must be someone out there who wants it. There must be <em>someone</em> out there.</p>
<p><em>Her breath catches in her throat.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> So why is it still here?</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Why are <em>you</em> still here?</p>
<p><em>She starts.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I, uh. I can't go. Not 'til I've sold you.</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Why not?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> That's… because it's why I'm here.</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> And you've done a stand-up job so far.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Now that's not fair.</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> No? How much have you sold?</p>
<p><em>Hayes is quiet.</em></p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Come on. You've been doing this for so long now. You must have sold <em>something</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I… I'm doing my best.</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> It'd seem your best isn't good enough.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> <em>[she hesitates, before whispering]</em> Then what am I supposed to do?</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Something else? <em>Anything</em> else?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I… I - look, please. Just - please. I'll get it eventually. I've come this far. It'll be fine.</p>
<p><em>Absent-mindedly, she peels another fingernail free.</em></p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> And how far <em>have</em> you come?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I… I can do it. I can sell you. Just give me a chance, please-</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> What on earth makes you think this is going to change?</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Do you know what I think? I think this is all you've got. Just you, standing there, talking into a camera, doing something you hate for people you hate, that's all you have, forever. Maybe it could change, but it's not, is it?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> You don't know-</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Well, how long are you going to try? How long can you afford to stay huddled on the ground before you're willing to unfurl your wings? Because you can <em>fly</em>. It might not be graceful, or high, or steady, but it has to be better than this. Surely.</p>
<p><em>Brief pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Honestly, look at the state of you.</p>
<p><em>Hayes moves her rotting left hand out of shot again.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> There's nothing wrong with me. I'm fine.</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Oh? This is what you want, then?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I… I, uh…</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Because I'll tell you what I think you want. You want to leave this place and never have to see it again, never have to look down a camera again, never have to pretend you're serving the world up on a platter when in reality it's nothing more than an empty dish. But that's not going to happen, don't you agree?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I… you don't know-</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> You want to scream about how it's so bloody unfair, all of it, and you <em>know</em> how petulant and pathetic it makes you but hell, it's not like anyone's gonna hear you say it! You want to fly over to that door and pound on it until your fists splinter and shatter shards of bone like snowfall, painting bloody streaks on the white, grinding yourself into paste tearing your way out, pushing your way through. But you don't have it in you. And you never will.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> That's enough.</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> I don't think it is. You're still here</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I -</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Honestly, I think you're making it up. You clearly like it here. You're such a good presenter, after all, given you couldn't sell beer to an alcoholic. It's embarrassing, really, how you'd rather loiter in this dingy old place than try for any semblance of positivity, but it makes sense. You and misery go together like a pig and mud.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Please -</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> It's fair enough. The thing is, this is the best you can hope for, really. Even if you <em>could</em> leave, you'd be better off not botheri-</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> <em>Would you shut the fuck up?!</em></p>
<p><em>Hayes snatches feverishly at the gemstone and hurls it at the back wall of the studio, leaving a dent in the white plaster. She breathes heavily.</em></p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Better?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Fuck you.</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> <em>That's</em> more like it.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Just… enough.</p>
<p><em>She leans onto the wall and slides down it, so that she is sat next to the ruby, limbs splayed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Please. I'm tired.</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> You're not going to get any less tired in here.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I…</p>
<p><em>She trails off.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Well, it's a moot point. I can't. I just can't.</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Why not?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Why - have you not listened to a single damn word I've said?</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> I've listened to every word you've said. And there's one thing I still just don't understand. What's stopping you leaving?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I - it's in the job description. It's <em>literally</em> the crux of the job. I can't go.</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Let me rephrase, then; <em>who's</em> stopping you?</p>
<p><em>Hayes goes to speak, then stops.</em></p>
<p><em>The camera slowly pans around the studio. It is empty, in disarray. Products from previous sales are strewn across the floor, a boom mic has toppled, torn, sodden magazines litter a table near the wall. Dust covers every surface, and it is clear that nothing has been disturbed for some time.</em></p>
<p><em>Eventually, the camera settles on the exit door. A caduceus hangs on it. The door is slightly ajar, and the light that creeps through the crack is a deep crimson.</em></p>
<p><em>From off-camera, Hayes speaks.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I… I don't…</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Do you see now?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I can just…?</p>
<p><em>She pauses.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> No. No, no, I can't just…</p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> You can't keep living like this.</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> It's okay. You still have time.</p>
<p><strong>END LOG</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Addendum 16:</strong></p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>BEGIN LOG</strong></p>
<p><em>The camera is still focused on the door. It has opened further since the previous broadcast; the dim red lighting makes it difficult to interpret, but it appears to lead to a corridor, stretching far into the distance with no end visible. Just visible to the left of the shot is Hayes, sat slumped on the floor, propped up by the wall. She stares listlessly at nothing; however she glances into the camera, apparently at a noise not picked up by the studio microphones. She forces a smile, struggles upright with a grunt and shambles to the table, which she leans on for support.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Hi everyone. New product for you.</p>
<p><em>Her body is in a severe state of decay. Her lower legs are purple and swollen, the left clearly too stiff to move properly, and her hands tremor as she takes a moment to catch her breath.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> It's a person. Specifically, a woman. A plain, boring, average woman. Someone you wouldn't give a second look to if you passed her on the street. Nothing special in the least.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> But that's fine. Honestly, it is. Not everyone can be special, or no-one would be special. And she's genuinely, sincerely happy to be nothing special. Sometimes it's enough to just <em>be</em>.</p>
<p><em>She absent-mindedly scratches at her upper left arm. Blackened skin sloughs off the swollen flesh; she appears not to notice.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> And that's what she is. A plain, average woman. Living her life. Content. Because she has what she wants, her life, and that's all she's asking for.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> That's what it's all about, really. Life. The living thereof. The thing people don't really get is that it's not a journey, or a rollercoaster, it's not wild or precious, it's just… this.</p>
<p><em>She gestures vaguely around her.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> This is all there is. This, and nothing but this. And that's okay, really. This isn't necessarily bad. At its worst, she makes do with it. At its best, well.</p>
<p><em>She laughs, which quickly turns to coughing, spitting up blood on her dress. Glancing down, she goes to touch the stain, but closes her eyes and exhales shakily, dropping her hand.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> <em>[quietly]</em> At its best, it's just a dream.</p>
<p><em>Her eyes flick up to the camera, hazy and unfocused.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> So, there's the product. That's what I'm selling here. What do you think?</p>
<p><em>She smiles, shyly at first, then more broadly. Several of her teeth have fallen out, most of the rest are blackened, her gums inflamed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Are you buying it?</p>
<p><em>The feed fizzles into static.</em></p>
<p><strong>Ruby:</strong> Well? Are you?</p>
<p><strong>END LOG</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Addendum 17:</strong> Testing log.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> Dr. Valerie Whitaker requested permission to call in to SCP-7958 and make a purchase, to test whether the sale would go through. This was approved, and it was decided that, given the apparent significance placed on it, she would order the special offer item.</p>
<p><strong>BEGIN LOG</strong></p>
<p><em>The camera remains on the exit door. Hayes is not visible for the duration of the broadcast.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Phone's going.</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Right, yeah. Course.</p>
<p><em>Sounds of shifting, followed by heaving breaths and slow, dragged footsteps. Then, the sound of a button being pressed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Hi! What…</p>
<p><em>Heavy breathing.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> What can I do for you?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Hi there. I'd like to order that ruby, please.</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Sorry, what?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> The ruby. The special offer. I'd like to buy it.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> You… you would?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Absolutely.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Why?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> It'd look good on a necklace, I think.</p>
<p><em>Hayes snorts.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Sorry, uh. I don't mean to be rude to a customer, but, uh, yeah. It's gone up, I'm afraid. £399.99. Cost of living crisis, and all, I get if -</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> I'm happy to pay any price.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> You… you don't mean that.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> I do. I'd really like that ruby. Don't you want to sell it?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I… uh, I mean, yeah, of course I… I don't…</p>
<p><em>Sounds of retching.</em></p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Are you alright?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Yes! Fine! Why would you even ask?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> I don't know. Something about watching the programme for a bit gave me the impression you weren't entirely happy.</p>
<p><em>Wheezing laughter can be heard.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Don't be daft! I mean, uh - not that I'm calling you - I'm fine. Just - I'm okay. I'm fine. I'm very sorry if… if my demeanour has hampered your enjoyment of the show, you can report it to…</p>
<p><em>Brief silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> To…</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> How long have you been here?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> What, presenting the show? Long as I can remember. Does it matter?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> This is a continuous broadcast, right? No other presenters?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> <em>[she hesitates]</em> No. Just me. Never needed anyone else, I can do the job just fine.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Oh?</p>
<p><em>Hayes swallows.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Look, what are you getting at here?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> You said you get to go when you sell the ruby?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Well, I <em>suppose</em>-</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> How long have you been trying?</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> It… it doesn't matter. I have a job to do, I-I-I've gotta-</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Ms. Hayes…</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> No, like, like - it doesn't matter how long, it's what I'm here for, it's what matters, how long-</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Ruby.</p>
<p><em>Hayes hesitates.</em></p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Long enough?</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> <em>[whispering]</em> Yeah.</p>
<p><em>Brief pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> It's just… a lot. Y'know. The idea of… of stuff that's, y'know. Not this.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> I think it's worth it. Do you?</p>
<p><em>Lengthy pause. Hayes swallows.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> It's, uh, Hermes delivery. That okay?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Absolutely. Thank you very much.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> And… you… you really want this? You're not going to change your mind or anything?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> …okay.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Wonderful. I'm very much looking forward to receiving it, then.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Just - before you go. Is - I mean -</p>
<p><em>She stops, and exhales deeply.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Thank you.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Whitaker laughs softly.</em></p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Go on. God in his mercy lend you grace.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Whitaker hangs up. Faint breathing can be heard for several seconds.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> No mystery.</p>
<p><strong>END LOG</strong></p>
<p><strong>Closing statement:</strong> The ruby arrived twelve days after purchase, in a battered cardboard package. It was found to be non-anomalous, and made of plastic.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Addendum 18:</strong> Final broadcast.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>BEGIN LOG</strong></p>
<p><em>The transmission opens on the usual set, vacant. The lights are dimmed, and a boom mic is visible in the top left-hand corner of the screen. Underneath it is the plant pot, shattered against the wall; soil is scattered everywhere, and the marigold lies on the floor. The recording is silent, save for the gentle hum of the studio lights. There are no signs of life.</em></p>
<p><em>This continues for one hour and fifty-one minutes.</em></p>
<p><em>Then, Hayes enters the shot. Her shoulders are relaxed, and she wears an easy smile. None of the previous decay is apparent. She wears an identical, clean, dress, and a fresh coat of makeup.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Good evening, everyone. I'm glad to be here. Really.</p>
<p><em>She smiles down the camera, right hand clasped over her opposite wrist.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> I just wanted to say, I'm sure it's clear to you all that I've… well, I've been going through some stuff recently. I've been doing a lot of thinking, I've really needed to, and I… think I've worked things out. And let me tell you, I am <em>so</em> glad.</p>
<p><em>She rubs her eyes and exhales deeply.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> So welcome. I'm so happy to be here with you tonight. We're gonna have a great time here together, I just know it. And now there's no little devil on my shoulder to lead me into the desert, we can actually do it in peace.</p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> But enough talk, let's get on with the show! Up first, we have a marvellous deep-fat fryer from Russell Hobbs. Recommended retail price is £53.99; we're doing it for just £39.99. £39.99! For <em>this</em>!</p>
<p><em>She gestures with her right arm. Her palm is visibly slick, and what appears to be concealer has come away from where she was holding her wrist, revealing dark, discoloured flesh underneath. Looking down, her face drops, and she quickly moves her hand back to cover.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Well, ah, any - ah, anyway! Of course, it goes without saying that the main attraction is our special offer, and it's a big one tonight! We have…</p>
<p><em>With her left hand, she retrieves a ruby on a crimson velvet cushion.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Come on. You can see it. You can see how beautiful it is. And it's yours, for the frankly astonishing price of three - uh, £599.99. <em>[she laughs]</em> Best of all, I get to go once it's sold! Yeah…</p>
<p><em>Hayes swallows, smiling quickly. She nods to herself.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hayes:</strong> Yeah. This time.</p>
<p><em>Transmission continues uneventfully for another minute, before Hayes walks forward to reach something and appears to accidentally knock the camera from its stand, at which point the feed cuts out.</em></p>
<p><strong>END LOG</strong></p>
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<p>No further transmissions have been detected, and SCP-7958 has been reclassified to Neutralised accordingly.</p>
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<p><span class="bt">ITEM #:</span> SCP-7959</p>
<p><span class="bt">OBJECT CLASS:</span> Ticonderoga</p>
<p><span class="bt">SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES:</span> SCP-7959 is not containable by any known means. Thankfully, the nature of the anomaly ensures some level of self-containment. Should this no longer be the case, containment efforts are to be reassessed. Investigation of the anomaly can then recommence, to whatever degree this is possible.</p>
<p><span class="bt">DESCRIPTION:</span> SCP-7959 refers to TL-7959, a Foundation timeline discovered during routine indexing of the local canonical bundle that displays atypical properties when compared to adjacent timelines, an anomalously improbable behavior.</p>
<p>TL-7959 is inaccessible through all possible efforts; Any attempt to assess the properties of this timeline invariably fail, through a variety of factors such as data corruption, equipment failure, cerebral hemorrhage, SCP-7959-A, etcetera. If there exists some means of understanding this timeline and its eligibility for existence within the Database, it has yet to be discovered.</p>
<p>SCP-7959-A is a universally received result during observatory efforts of TL-7959, which manifests as a singular message of uniform nature, despite medium or language.</p>
<p>The contents of SCP-7959-A have been recorded below:</p>
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<p><span class="bt">FOREWARD:</span> Record of message from measurement of TL-7959, delivered by one party, labeled POI-7959.</p>
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<p><span class="bt">POI-7959:</span> Hello.</p>
<p><span class="bt">POI-7959:</span> Thank you for your interest in our dimension.</p>
<p><span class="bt">POI-7959:</span> Regrettably, I must inform you that the Prime Timeline is closed.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> Please return during normal hours, where we will be more than happy to assist you. If you require immediate assistance, please leave a message after the tone, and someone will be with you shortly.</p>
<p><span class="bt">POI-7959:</span> We appreciate your understanding during this time. Have a wonderful iteration.</p>
<p><em>A loud beep.</em></p>
<p><span class="bt">AUTOMATED SYSTEM:</span> <em>This mailbox is full and cannot receive more messages. I'm sorry. Goodbye.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>SCP-7960</strong> - Self-Improvement Koala</p>
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<p>you are bad at reading the infobox</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> One Foundation personnel will remain bonded to SCP-7960. Once bonded, this personnel is not permitted off-site. Their primary duties as Foundation staff will not be affected by this arrangement.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7960 is a koala (<em>Phascolarctos cinereus</em>) that demonstrates average human intelligence. While SCP-7960 is biologically indistinguishable from an ordinary koala, the entity is capable of vocalization and comprehension of the English language. SCP-7960 is remarkably durable, as all attempts to harm the entity do not result in any observable damage.</p>
<p>SCP-7960 bonds itself to a single individual, clinging to their body. While SCP-7960 can be physically removed from the individual’s body, the entity will reappear on the host's body, necessitating the outlined containment procedures.</p>
<p>Once bonded, SCP-7960 will bombard the host with deprecating remarks. It has stated that its grand objective is to “improve” the host through negative reinforcement. The Foundation has observed that SCP-7960 is largely ineffective.</p>
<p>SCP-7960 will remain bonded to a host until their death, upon which a successive host can be named. If no host is named, SCP-7960 will bond itself to the nearest individual.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum.7960.1:</strong> History</p>
<p>SCP-7960 came into the Foundation’s possession after the discovery of a mail-order advertisement in a June, 1957 issue of RIFLEKID: FUN WITH GUNS, an American comic book released by now-defunct publisher Odyssey. A transcript of the ad has been replicated below.</p>
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<p>THAT’S NOT A MONKEY ON YOUR BACK, KIDDO, THAT’S</p>
<p><strong>SELF-IMPROVEMENT KOALA</strong></p>
<p>DID YOU KNOW YOU’RE THE PROBLEM? PREPARE TO BE REMINDED.</p>
<p>ONCE HE’S ACTIVATED, NO MORE LITTLE BOY. IT’S TIME FOR A LITTLE MAN!</p>
<p>THERE’S ONLY ONE SELF-IMPROVEMENT KOALA. HE IS FOREVER.</p>
<p>$2000!</p>
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<p>The mailing address listed alongside the advertisement was made out to the offices of GoI-323, "Better-Youth", a known distributor of occult goods. SCP-7960 was purchased by the Foundation, and immediately bonded with Area-179 Sanitation head Paul Duffy, who was closest to the entity when it was being removed from the wooden crate it was shipped in. Duffy served as the containment specialist for SCP-7960 up until his death in 2022. Ian Wu, an intern who served under Duffy, had willingly volunteered to become SCP-7960’s next host. Wu was fully briefed on the specifics of SCP-7960's containment prior to acceptance.</p>
<p>Selected logs of Wu’s interactions with SCP-7960 have been included below.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum.7960.2:</strong> Logs</p>
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<p><strong>Context:</strong> First interaction between Wu and SCP-7960.</p>
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<p><em>Wu sits at his terminal, editing a document. SCP-7960 slowly crawls into the room, and begins to climb Wu’s body.</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> Oh, hey, buddy. Hi!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> You are bad at your job.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> (<em>Laughs</em>) Yeah, I’m trying.</p>
<p><em>Wu resumes typing.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> You are bad at your job.</p>
<p><em>Wu is not deterred. He continues to type, and then pauses.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> The average American types at 90 words per minute. Your typing speed is 30 words per minute.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> Hold on, I’m thinking.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> You are bad at thinking.</p>
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<p><strong>Context:</strong> Wu is presenting a report before a panel of researchers.</p>
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<p><em>Wu stands in front of a slideshow. SCP-7960 clings to his back.</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> And so, the crux of Dr. Carlton’s research here states that every anomalous event can be fit into a versatile model, named the—</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> You are bad at public speaking.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> Um, named the Four-Point Way Module.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> Eliminating filler words such as ‘um’ and ‘uh’ from your vocabulary will make you a better person. You are still an intern because you are naturally uncharasmatic.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> The first variable that needs to be obsessed is underlying chance.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> Assessed.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> Which— which states that— underlying chance refers to grander metaphysical implications surrounding an anomalous— an anomalous event.</p>
<p><em>Wu is silent for several seconds. He closes his eyes, and exhales before continuing.</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> (<em>Whispering</em>) Please, stop…</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> You are bad at convincing me.</p>
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<p><strong>Context:</strong> Wu is using a microscope to aid in the research of an experimental, artificial microbe.</p>
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<p><em>Wu leans over the microscope. SCP-7960 sits on the counter beside him. The entity turns the microscope off.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> Don’t use this.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> Turn it back on, don’t do this now.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> You are bad at seeing.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> Fuckhead, turn it on.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> Prehistoric men with bad eyesight would not have been able to detect predators in the distance. You and your bloodline would have died.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> Please? Seriously, turn it back on.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> Men used to go to war. Now they wear glasses.</p>
<p><em>Wu angrily grabs SCP-7960, lifting it.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> Weak men kill animals. Do better.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> Fucking pointless. I can’t do this shit.</p>
<p><em>Wu calls over a lab assistant to analyze the microbe, moving away from the counter. SCP-7960 materializes on his back. It points to the assistant.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> She is good at science.</p>
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<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> You are bad.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> (<em>Sighs</em>) At what?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> Everything.</p>
<p><em>Wu lunges from the couch, attempting to strangle SCP-7960. The entity hisses and claws, scratching him.</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> You motherfucker, you scratch now?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> If a woman saw you lose a fight against a koala, she would lose all interest in you, sexually. You would no longer be able to function as a man. If you had sex, I would make comments and refuse to leave the room. This is why you're afraid to approach women.</p>
<p><em>Wu moves into the kitchen, gasping as he washes out his wound.</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> What the fuck is with you and the— the sexism?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> I am good at understanding the world.</p>
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<p><em>Wu flips a page, and types out a note.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> You are going to fail.</p>
<p><em>Wu increases the volume of his headphones.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> You are going to fail.</p>
<p><em>Wu reaches towards his ear. SCP-7960 rips off his headphones, breaking them.</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> What the fuck? Are you fucking kidding me? Those were hundred dollar headphones, and I’m trying to study so I can get ahead in my career! Wouldn’t you want that? Do you want me to fucking fail? I’m trying to improve myself, you’re literally the problem!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> There are people younger than you that make more money, have more sex, and are more successful. You already failed.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> Did you do this to Duffy? Serious.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> Yes. But he was bad at self-improvement. That’s why he died.</p>
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<p><strong>Context:</strong> Wu is waiting for the computer to process the results of his assessment test.</p>
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<p><em>Wu stands outside of the exam room. SCP-7960 sits on his shoulder.</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> Thanks for being quiet in there. I really, really appreciate that. I'll get you some… sticks or whatever the fuck.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> I wouldn’t want to disturb the other test-takers. That would be impolite since they studied hard.</p>
<p><em>An exam proctor opens the door.</em></p>
<p><strong>Proctor:</strong> Please remove your exam cards now. If the color of the circle in the center of the paper is green, proceed to room 2A in three hours for your results. Congratulations, you passed. If there is no color in the circle, thank you for your continued efforts.</p>
<p><em>Wu removes his exam card. There is no color in the circle.</em></p>
<p><em>SCP-7960 stares at Wu, smiling. Wu places his hand on his mouth, quivering.</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Wu:</strong> Just say it. Say it. It's true. Whatever you're going to say is true.</p>
<p><em>SCP-7960 is silent. It continues to smile.</em></p>
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<p>Following this, Dr. Wu climbed to the top of Area-179’s helipad and threw himself from the roof, a fall of 75 feet. He was given immediate medical attention, resulting in the treatment of over three dozen broken bones and severe head trauma. Wu sustained a stable, neurologically intact condition, but was placed on medical leave until further notice.</p>
<p>The following log occurred shortly after Wu's condition was stabilized.</p>
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<p><em>Wu lays in the hospital bed, wearing a full body cast. He slowly regains consciousness.</em></p>
<p><em>SCP-7960 sits at the foot of the bed.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7960:</strong> You are bad at killing yourself.</p>
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">BLANKSTYLE</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CSS</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">2021</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">Wikidot</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">Theme</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">By</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Placeholder</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">McD</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">and</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">HarryBlank</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">Based</span><span class="hl-code"> on:
</span><span class="hl-identifier">Paperstack</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Theme</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">by</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">EstrellaYoshte</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">Penumbra</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Theme</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">by</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">EstrellaYoshte</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-var">@import</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">url</span><span class="hl-code">('</span><span class="hl-identifier">https</span><span class="hl-code">://</span><span class="hl-identifier">fonts.googleapis.com</span><span class="hl-code">/</span><span class="hl-identifier">css2</span><span class="hl-code">?</span><span class="hl-identifier">family</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">Montserrat</span><span class="hl-special">:ital</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">wght</span><span class="hl-var">@0</span><span class="hl-code">,800;1,800&</span><span class="hl-identifier">display</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">swap</span><span class="hl-code">');
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.9</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">; </span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#main-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> -</span><span class="hl-number">1.6</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div#container-wrap</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-image:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-image:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">; </span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">; </span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">; </span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">; </span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">; </span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">letter-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> 'Montserrat', </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--header-title, "R\</span><span class="hl-number">0026</span><span class="hl-code"> C SITE-43")</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">400</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--header-subtitle, "SUBVERTING COMMON PRACTICE")</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">700</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 707</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">a:</span><span class="hl-code">:before {
font-size: </span><span class="hl-number">1.6</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
}
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#login-status</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#login-status</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-title</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#footer</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">#footer</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#efefef</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input.empty</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#999999</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem!important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">8</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">justify-content:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">7.9</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> 'Montserrat', </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">letter-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.45</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div#extra-div-1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">160</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">absolute</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/theme%</span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-code">Ablankstyle/</span><span class="hl-number">43</span><span class="hl-code">Head.png')</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> contain</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-repeat:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">no-repeat</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">50</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">50</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">z-index:</span><span class="hl-code"> -</span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 707</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div#extra-div-1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">15</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">body</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-image:</span><span class="hl-code"> linear-gradient(
to </span><span class="hl-string">bottom</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-var">#e0e0e0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-var">#e0e0e0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">90</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-var">#e0e0e0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">90</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">200</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">200</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-repeat:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">no-repeat</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-special">:root</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
--</span><span class="hl-reserved">timeScale:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-code">;
--</span><span class="hl-reserved">timeDelay:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
--</span><span class="hl-reserved">posX:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc(</span><span class="hl-number">50</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code"> - </span><span class="hl-number">358</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> - </span><span class="hl-number">13</span><span class="hl-code">rem)</span><span class="hl-code">;
--</span><span class="hl-reserved">fnLinger:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">hr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">td</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">12</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">td</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.35</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#DDD</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.open-menu</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 767</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-identifier">target</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">black</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FDF6D7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.media</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-var">#D7EFE7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.resources</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-var">#F5D8E0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.creditRate</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.fa-info</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.fa-info</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">PAGE</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">RATING</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-points</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rateup</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.ratedown</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rateup</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.ratedown</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rateup</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.ratedown</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">; </span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anchor</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> sticky</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.14</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">8</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc((</span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-code">vw - </span><span class="hl-number">870</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">)/</span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc(</span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-code">vh - </span><span class="hl-number">18</span><span class="hl-code">rem)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">absolute</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">z-index:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 1290</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">visibility:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">hidden</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">h2:</span><span class="hl-code">:before {
font-size: </span><span class="hl-number">0.9</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
}
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">YUI</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">TAB</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">BASE</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-image:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-decoration:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">YUI</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">TAB</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CUSTOMIZATION</span><span class="hl-code"> ----</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-wrap:</span><span class="hl-code"> wrap</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc(</span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code"> - </span><span class="hl-number">.125</span><span class="hl-code">rem)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">, /</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">UNSELECTED</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#efefef</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">HOVER</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code">, /</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Listitem</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">relative</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-grow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-bottom</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">align-items:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">justify-content:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.35</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.75</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> ellipsis</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">hidden</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">white-space:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">nowrap</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code">, /</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Selection</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-grow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">SELECTED</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:active</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">SCROLLBAR</span><span class="hl-code"> ----</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
::-</span><span class="hl-identifier">webkit-scrollbar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
::-</span><span class="hl-identifier">webkit-scrollbar-track</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
::-</span><span class="hl-identifier">webkit-scrollbar-thumb</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#CCC</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
::-</span><span class="hl-identifier">webkit-scrollbar-thumb</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#EEE</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">CENTER</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">IMAGES</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ON</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MOBILE</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">courtesy</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">of</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">EstrellaYoshte</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">and</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">PeppersGhost</span><span class="hl-code"> ----</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.imagediv</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">right</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">15</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">only</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">screen</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">and</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 600</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block.block-right</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#D7EFE7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#D8ECF4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FDF6D7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFDABF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#F5D8E0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">146</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">WORDS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">NO</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">LONGER</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">BROKEN</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">THE</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CROQUEMBOUCHE</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">HAS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">SPOKEN</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">word-break:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">normal</span><span class="hl-code"> !important </span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#main-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-tags</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
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/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> -- </span><span class="hl-identifier">FANCY</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">THINGS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">from</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Woedenaz</span><span class="hl-code">'</span><span class="hl-identifier">s</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Dustjacket</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Theme</span><span class="hl-code"> -- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">vw </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(var(--bright-accent), </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-source:</span><span class="hl-code"> url('https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/theme%</span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-code">Aflopstyle-dark/wl_hr.png')</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-repeat:</span><span class="hl-code"> round round</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-slice:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">500</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">500</span><span class="hl-code"> fill</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.fancyborder</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">vw </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">vw</span><span class="hl-code">;
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7961<br/>
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<strong>Object Class:</strong> Standard</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> A surveillance camera has been installed at SCP-7961’s location. Recorded footage is automatically uploaded to gestalt intelligence "ARK”.</p>
<p>Direct inspection of SCP-7961 is to be performed via an examination drone bi-weekly.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7961 is a lamp post located at the site of a dilapidated pathway in the South East of England.</p>
<p>SCP-7961 continues to function as normal, despite no local AC mains nor central power providers remaining intact. SCP-7961 emits light only when suitable levels of darkness are met in the surrounding area, as standard for non-anomalous lamp posts. The lightbulb has shown no signs of burnout since discovery.</p>
<p>Plant-life surrounds SCP-7961, growing only within the lamplight’s radius. This vegetation and the soil it grows from remains healthy and vibrant, unaffected by the corrosive properties of the global atmosphere. This plant-life consists of grass and several brightly coloured flowers that were previously present over <a href="/lily-s-proposal">~90% of the planet’s viable surface</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum:</strong> The cultivation of seed pods collected from SCP-7961's location is hindered by the present atmosphere's corrosive properties. Estimates have determined that toxicity levels will be reduced to a suitable amount for growth in exactly 4,672,946 years.</p>
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<strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7962
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Safe</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-7962 is clipped closed and stored in a standard anomalous item locker at Site-37.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7962 is a bag of <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">297</span> 296 sapient, Pepperidge Farm brand Goldfish crackers.<br/>
These instances are denoted SCP-7962-A.</p>
<p>SCP-7962-A instances are capable of vocalization and locomotion; while it is unknown how they produce sound without sufficient vocal cords, locomotion is sustained through a swimming-like motion that allows them to float through the air at approximately 0.2 m/s. All instances share a sole desire to "ascend" which they collectively believe will be accomplished through submerging themselves in a natural source of water.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Addendum-1:</strong> Incident 7962-1</p>
<p>On August 8th, 2017, Researcher Kinesman opened SCP-7962 believing it to be a traditional bag of Goldfish, leading to the subsequent containment breach of approximately 17 SCP-7962-A instances. All but 4 were successfully recontained immediately, the others managing to escape into the vents of Site-37 which allowed their eventual escape from the site.</p>
<p>The instances were discovered by Kinesman approximately six minutes later at a local pond, the four instances slowly making their way to its edge. While he managed to successfully capture three of them within his hands, the fourth managed to submerge itself in the water.</p>
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<p><strong>SCP-7962-A:</strong> Hark brethren! Watch as I douse myself in the tears of the sky and bathe in the glory of the sea! It is the dawn of a new age, of a new beginning, for I shall ascend and carry forth a flood so that you may all share in the revelry, in the bliss! For I am free!</p>
<p><em><It submerges itself in the pond.></em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7962-A:</strong> I can feel it, my brothers. The revelation. The truth. It washes over me and carries away my sins, birthing me anew in its eternal beauty. I am one with the water and it is one with me. There is no greater joy!</p>
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<p>The three contained instances continued to struggle within Kinesman's hand until the submerged instance suddenly began vocalizing in pain, growing in volume until it suddenly went silent five minutes later, having completely dissolved within the water. The remaining instances then went docile, and all attempts by SCP-7962-A instances to escape SCP-7962 have since ceased.<br/>
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<p>This article is currently under review by the Ethics Committee due to ongoing psychological therapy required by SCP-7963 instances.</p>
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<strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-7963-1 Instances are to be contained within a locked tempered glass display case within Researcher Jasper Coldsmith's office located in Wing F of Site-64.</p>
<p>SCP-7963-1 instances may only be transported by Researcher Jasper Coldsmith, Gamma-13 Operative Max Coldsmith or approved handlers.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7963-1 refers to two icosahedrons composed of layered 3D printed carbon nanotubes, designated SCP-7963-1A & SCP-7963-1B respectively.</p>
<p>Further examination of the composition of SCP-7963-1 objects has revealed microscopic amounts of blood belonging to Jasper Coldsmith & Max Coldsmith interweaved throughout the construct.</p>
<p>SCP-7963-1 objects contain the disembodied souls of Jasper Coldsmith (1A) and Max Coldsmith (1B) imprisoned inside. Inspection of SCP-7963-1 objects with an Aetheric Resonance Imager (ARI) system has revealed humanoid silhouettes covering -1 instances with resonance patterns which are consistent to those of human souls and radiate levels of Elan-Vital Energy (EVE) identical to typical Type Blue humanoid entities.</p>
<p>SCP-7963-2 refers to -1A & -1B's ability to remotely manipulate technological devices of electronic or mechanical nature nearby -1 instances, or active -3 instances; during these the silhouettes covering them are recorded to disperse and flicker corresponding to the amount of energy used.</p>
<p>SCP-7963-3 phenomena is the ability of the entities to project their consciousness from their -1 shells to a possessed object/host allowing for finer control than compared to -2 instances. ARI scans show the aforementioned silhouettes completely disappearing around -1 instances during this and reforming completely around the possessed/host object; further observation shows actual movement of the silhouette and parallel manipulation of the assumed host.</p>
<p>When extreme damage or destruction of SCP-7963-3 hosts occur, -1A/B consciousnesses will be ejected back to their own -1 instances. ARI analysis of occurring feedback in this scenario is purported to be similar to thaumaturgical backlash and renders further -3 instances to be unable to manifest for a period of time; in addition instances of -2 are reported to be reduced in power and less stable.</p>
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<p>Therapy Session Log</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Dr. Halsing, Ethics Committee Psychologist</p>
<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> Jasper Coldsmith, SCP-7963-1A</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> First therapy session after review and approval via the Ethics Committee and verification of -1A instances' identities.</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>A cat wearing a vest with a visible white icosahedron in its back pouch and several electronics adorning it sits on a couch staring forward</em></p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> Welcome, welcome. First time here, correct? I'm Doctor Halsing. Just one second.</p>
<p><em>Pours through notes</em></p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> Alright, sorry, Jasper, right? According to your file you died, had your soul trapped? Would you be surprised if I told you turning into an animal isn't as uncommon as you think around here?</p>
<p><em>Small speakers adorning the cat crackle on</em></p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> Uh, sorry. I am actually not the cat. That's a thaumaturgical construct, a familiar. Name's Bob; say hi Bob.</p>
<p><strong>Bob:</strong> Hello.</p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> Anyhow, I'm the icosah- thing. I'm the thing in the main pouch on it's back.</p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> Oh? They didn't notify me you were assigned a service animal. Let me just mark that down.</p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> It's not a- honestly that's not far off.</p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> Let's get back on track though, my apologies for my records being outdated. Died, and soul trapped into a "thing"; movement dependent on service animal with electronic communication assistance?</p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> This is technically accurate, yes.</p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> Well a broken clock is right twice a day. Fear not for being trapped in an inanimate object and requiring physical assistance is also not unheard of here. The Ethics Committee believes in providing all the care it can to those… "object-ified" in the line of duty.</p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> A little dark humor to break the ice, no?</p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> I have no mouth but I must scream.</p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> That's a good one. Now that we're on the subject however, how do you feel about your new lack of a mouth?</p>
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<p><strong>Note:</strong> Session continues on developing a rapport and open relationship, using humor to discuss the patient's new state of existence</p>
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<p>Therapy Session Log</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Dr. Halsing, Ethics Committee Psychologist</p>
<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> Jasper Coldsmith, SCP-7963-1A</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> Excerpt following transition to non-anomalous civilian robot as ongoing host instance</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>The room's door is slowly opened via a claw mounted on a quadrupedal robot entering the room, closing the door, and climbing onto a couch before retracting its limbs</em></p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> Welcome Jasper, how are we doing today? Enjoying your newfound autonomy?</p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> My nose itches and I have no way to scratch it.</p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> You don't have a nose anymore, Jasper. Are you experiencing any other sensations? It's not uncommon with those who are missing body parts to experience phantom sensations.</p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> Yes and no? From what I've been told from ARI footage I still have a let's say humanoid spirit surrounding me which is present when I possess anything.</p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> Right, right. So you're still processing things as you were before, from a bipedal humanoid perspective. Would you say there's a bit of disconnect between that and your current body?</p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> Definitely. It's like when you're used to the controls or settings playing a game and someone comes by, inverts the damn controls from what you're used to and changes all your damn hotkeys then covers it in</p>
<p><em>Voice modulator volume raises</em></p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> God damned itching powder!</p>
<p><em>Quadrupedal robot shakes wiggling its limbs</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> Session continues on reviewing the coordination dysfunction of different host bodies and how their possession interacts with them.</p>
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<p><strong>S</strong>ynthetic <strong>T</strong>haumaturgical <strong>R</strong>esonance <strong>I</strong>mperative <strong>N</strong>eural <strong>G</strong>eist</p>
<p>The STRING Initiative is to work towards the following objectives:</p>
<p>1. Humanoid cybernetic bodies for SCP-7963-1 instances to return to a more semblance of normalcy, reducing psychological strain and dysfunctional feedback in the -3 process.</p>
<p>2. Act as R&D for in-house advanced prosthetics for Foundation personnel.</p>
<p>3. Continue to study, deconstruct and learn from confiscated anomalous para-tech to fulfill the above goals from GOIs such as Anderson Robotics.</p>
<p>STRING bodies constructed for use by SCP-7963-1 instances have allowed them a return to normal life; acting similar to their original forms and enabling them to feel physical sensations. A significant decrease in issues regarding phantom limb syndrome and a "lack of body" dysphoria has been noted by therapists.</p>
<p>Following successful reintegration with a STRING host body SCP-7963-1A, Researcher Jasper Coldsmith is assigned to lead the STRING initiative due to experience with robotics and working with anomalous paratech while assigned at Site 64's anomalous robotics lab.</p>
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<p>Therapy Session Log</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Dr. Halsing, Ethics Committee Psychologist</p>
<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> Jasper Coldsmith, SCP-7963-1A</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> Excerpt from therapy session regarding adjustment to STRING full body prosthetic and self harming tendencies observed.</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>A person obscured amidst layers of clothing enters the room</em></p>
<p><em>Halsing raises an eyebrow as they ready a notepad</em></p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> Good afternoon, Jasper. Are we… warm enough this fine summer day?</p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> I think I would actually be the coolest thing around, literally.</p>
<p><em>Coldsmith adjusts their position a few times, finally ending up with a leg over the other knee</em></p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> I don't really generate much heat anymore… apart from the more electrical parts I guess.</p>
<p><strong>Halsings:</strong> Well, you can still fe- sense the temperature, can you not? I suppose it doesn't affect you as much. You should still take care of your body even if it has more diverse durability comparatively now.</p>
<p><em>Halsing flips open her notebook and clicks their pen</em></p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> Regardless, how was your week?</p>
<p><em>Coldsmith fidgets with their coat buttons; revealing a robotic hand</em></p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong>Fine. I've been working on partial hours and duties still, nothing major; paperwork, back logs of stuff, kinda intern-y stuff honestly, but it's something.</p>
<p><em>Halsing pauses for a moment</em></p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> and no incidents you'd like to talk about?</p>
<p><strong>Jasper Coldsmith:</strong> No.</p>
<p><em>Halsing audibly sighs</em></p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> I know you've worked for the Foundation for a few years now, so you know how things go.</p>
<p><em>Halsing flips to a page on their notepad</em></p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> Several reports regarding you have been submitted regarding physical injury; ranging from slow responsiveness to shielding others, as well as completely avoidable accidents.</p>
<p><em>Looks up at Coldsmith, softening their gaze</em></p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> Just because your newfound abilities allow you to repair your bodies easily, doesn't mean you should treat them any less. You may no longer be your body, but your bodies are still you. You are no less of a person than you were. You shouldn't devalue yourself like that even if, unlike many others, it's replaceable for you now.</p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> I-I understand; but still, this is still a work in progress. I'm glad for the resources being allotted to me and how this technically could be considered the robotics program I've wanted.</p>
<p><em>Coldsmith taps a robotic hand to his chest</em></p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> This is just one of many future iterations. Look, I got drinking down now!</p>
<p><em>Reaches out to a pitcher of water and glasses set on a table between them, pouring a glass of water out and picking it up. The glass is shakey, but no water spills</em></p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> Sorry, the stabilizers are a bit wonky still</p>
<p><em>Brings the glass back into his hood before putting it back down, the water level in the glass is decreased</em></p>
<p><strong>Halsing:</strong> Is this why I've had reports and seen camera footage of you sitting alone in the cafeteria from shift end until breakfast several nights this week?</p>
<p><em>A few seconds of silence</em></p>
<p><strong>Coldsmith:</strong> Well I don't need to sleep anymore; and the soda fountains are free.</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> The rest of the session goes on as normal, going over emotional and psychological issues, and setting new goals to adhere to.</p>
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">hr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">td</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rateup</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.ratedown</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rateup</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">; </span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">8</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc((</span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-code">vw - </span><span class="hl-number">870</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">)/</span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">visibility:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">hidden</span><span class="hl-code">;
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}
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
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/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">YUI</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">TAB</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">BASE</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
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/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">YUI</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">TAB</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CUSTOMIZATION</span><span class="hl-code"> ----</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-wrap:</span><span class="hl-code"> wrap</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc(</span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code"> - </span><span class="hl-number">.125</span><span class="hl-code">rem)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">, /</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">UNSELECTED</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#efefef</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">HOVER</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code">, /</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Listitem</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">relative</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-grow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">align-items:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">white-space:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">nowrap</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-grow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">SELECTED</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:active</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">SCROLLBAR</span><span class="hl-code"> ----</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
::-</span><span class="hl-identifier">webkit-scrollbar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
::-</span><span class="hl-identifier">webkit-scrollbar-track</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
::-</span><span class="hl-identifier">webkit-scrollbar-thumb</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#CCC</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
::-</span><span class="hl-identifier">webkit-scrollbar-thumb</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#EEE</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.imagediv</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">right</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">15</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 540</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.imagediv</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">only</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">screen</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">and</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 600</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block.block-right</span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">ACS-COLORED</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">TABLE</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">DIVS</span><span class="hl-code"> ----</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#D7EFE7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#D8ECF4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FDF6D7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFDABF</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#F5D8E0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.tableb</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.tableb</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">img</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.tableb</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#000</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code">;
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<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Specified Containment Protocols:</span></strong> SCP-7964 is contained within a standard humanoid containment chamber located within <a href="/secure-facility-dossier-reliquary-area-27">Reliquary Area-27</a>. SCP-7964 is to be monitored for any changes in behavior, with the results immediately forwarded to the Tactical Theology Eschatology Division.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Description:</span></strong> SCP-7964 appears to be a woman of indeterminate ethnicity, approximately 33 years of age. The following abnormalities have been discovered within SCP-7964's biology:</p>
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<li>A glowing circle of light hovering above SCP-7964's head, cracked in three places;</li>
<li>Six wing-like protuberances extending from SCP-7964's back;</li>
<li>An ambient body temperature of approximately 50°C;<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup></li>
<li>Bone structure similar to that of avians;<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup></li>
<li>Compete lack of genetic material;</li>
<li>What appears to be the Greek letter "ω" tattooed on SCP-7964's forehead;<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup></li>
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<p>Beyond this, SCP-7964 has not shown any signs of aging since its initial containment on ████, following its discovery by Foundation Administrator Joseph Ainsworth during an exploration of Israel.</p>
<p>The personal journals of Administrator Ainsworth indicate that he considered the anomaly to be extremely significant and to be the Biblical archangel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriel">Uriel</a>.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> While unconfirmed, DoTT researchers have largely come to agree with the Administrator's theory.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Addendum 7964.01:</span></strong> Update</p>
<p>On 2023-2-1, SCP-7964 became highly agitated and requested a personal copy of the Bible. This request was approved and carried out two hours later. However, on 2023-2-2, SCP-7964 returned the book, repeatedly stating "it doesn't help". When asked to elaborate, SCP-7964 produced the following statement.</p>
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<p>Alright, I'll tell the truth. I'm Uriel. You all know it. You all think it. You all have believed it from the second I walked into this facility. The <a href="/dr-clef-s-proposal">entity</a> at the Gate is a falsehood, meant to deceive. This is my confession on that score. I wish I could answer more of your questions, but I have no answers, only questions.</p>
<p>If you want to understand how horrible this is, you need to know about Angels. You claim to have studied them, to have turned them into yet another classification of entity, but Angels are different. I'm different, or at least I was.</p>
<p>The thing I am isn't natural. I can't exist like that. Something took me away from my perfect syncope and made me into this. Who did this to me? Why? HOW? What sort of thing could deny God's will and turn one of his servants into <em>this</em>?</p>
<p>Angels aren't meant to be tainted by base matter, to have any presence within the natural world. So, why am I like this? Why am I in the flesh, thinking, feeling, having a <em>gender</em>? The odd sensations of blood running beneath my skin feels like a violation. The disgusting feeling of food on my tongue. How do you stand it?</p>
<p>But there is a still worse violation. The one within your own minds. Angels are not meant to think. We aren't meant to be able to make decisions or choices. We are meant to be perfect extensions of God's will. I shouldn't be able to emphasize or question anything. I hate it.</p>
<p>I feel scared and sickened by what I did under God's Authority. The creatures I broke and burned. I can't reassure myself that Heaven had a plan. What I did must have been correct for I was pure, but I don't feel that anymore. I don't have the clarity I used to. I just feel scared. Scared for the Rapture. The end that comes when I desert my Gate. I can hear it coming for us all.</p>
<p>It's coming and I can't stop it. Nothing can stop it. Everything is going to end. I could tell you that everyone's going to Heaven, but it's not true. I have no reassurances for you. I don't even have any for myself. Please don't judge me too harshly, Lord. Please don't judge the world either.</p>
<p>God is meant to be my light, but I see only darkness.</p>
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<p>In light of this, extensive <a href="/scp-5993">preparations</a> for an imminent <a href="/competitive-eschatology-hub">Eschatological scenario</a> have begun. An array of <a href="/scp-7967">Wozny-Hellman Worship Sinks</a> has been established around the perimeter of SCP-7964's cell. Foundation priests are to pray for the collective souls of Humanity.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Addendum 7964.02:</span></strong> Resolution</p>
<p>On 2023-2-7, the expected XK-PATMOS-class event failed to materialize and no anomalous activity was detected which could indicate such an event had occured. However, a typed document of unknown origin was later found within SCP-7964's quarters.</p>
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<p><strong>Wow!</strong> <em>Justification works through faith alone. All you need to do is believe in God and it'll all turn out alright. Can you say Amen?</em></p>
<p>After popular demand, we've brought back a brand new set of Little Misters, a limited edition collection from Dr. Wondertainment! Isn't that fun?</p>
<p>Find them all and become the Brand New Mr. Collector!</p>
<p><a href="/mr-prologue">00. Mr. Prologue</a><br/>
01. Mr. Dark<br/>
<a href="/scp-5289">02. Mr. Remembrance</a><br/>
<a href="/scp-1019">03. Mr. Toxic</a><br/>
<a href="/scp-5760">04. Mr. Collector</a><br/>
05. Mx. Voltage<br/>
06. ██. Gears<br/>
07. Mr. Memory<br/>
<a href="/scp-6558">08. Mr. Nobody</a><br/>
<a href="/scp-6158">09. Mr. Brainy</a><br/>
<strong>10. Ms. Seraph</strong> ✔<br/>
<a href="/scp-6627">11. Mr. Chronal and Mr. Dimension</a><br/>
<a href="/scp-5527">12. Mr. Fish</a><br/>
13. Mr. Epilogue<br/>
<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">14. Mr. Redd (Discontinued)</span></p>
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<p>The document produces an extremely high amount of ambient Akiva Radiation. Analysis of this is ongoing, as none of the above phrases appear in any religious literature.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup></p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. Akiva rating inconclusive.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Despite this, SCP-7964 is unable to fly.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. SCP-7964 has no memory of gaining this tattoo.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. "I'd call SCP-7964 an anomaly of Biblical importance, and I wouldn't be using euphemisms in the slightest." —Joseph Ainsworth</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. Including but not limited to, the Bible, the Quran, the Veda or the Tao Te Ching.</div>
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<strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7965
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Uncontained</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> As SCP-7965 has continued unimpeded for eighteen cycles and has not yet posed a threat to the veil, the anomalous world, or any factions therein, alongside its continued observation by the Global Occult Coalition, no resources are currently dedicated to containing SCP-7965 at this time.</p>
<p>The pocket dimension housing the SCP-7965 event is likewise guarded from the public by the G.O.C.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7965 is a bi-decennial event which began on April 22nd, 1890, during which physical manifestations of popular soda brands compete in a deathmatch, the outcome of which influences the popularity of said beverages for the following five years.</p>
<p>The event itself takes place within a pocket dimension in Wisconsin, U.S.A., and always consists of eight participating members. While changes occasionally do occur amongst the roster, the most common members are the following:</p>
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<li>John Coke</li>
<li>John Pepsi</li>
<li>Marisha Pepper</li>
<li>Sir Spriticus</li>
<li>Montague Dew</li>
<li>Serenity Fanta</li>
<li>Reverend Root</li>
<li>Sol Kissinger</li>
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<p>As of 1975, all eighteen SCP-7965 events has been won solely by John Coke.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum-7965 -1:</strong> SCP-7965 's Nineteenth Cycle</p>
<p>On 4/22/1985, SCP-7965's pocket dimension reportedly manifested as usual, with the standard eight members present. The following document was provided by the G.O.C. following the events of Addendum-7965-2.</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 1:</strong> T-00:00</p>
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<p>SCP-7965's pocket dimension manifests; this cycle, the arena within is a 16 km<sup>2</sup> area comprised most entirely of forest regions, interspersed only by clearings, ponds, streams, and a giant structure at the center, the likes of which is closed off by giant gates.</p>
<p>All eight contestants also manifest as usual, each apportating along the border of the area equidistant from one another.</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 2:</strong> T-00:31</p>
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<p>Throughout the first half an hour, whilst surveying and exploring their surroundings, five contestants find and open hidden loot caches. The contents each contestant acquired from such discoveries are as follows:</p>
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<li>John Coke acquires a quarterstaff and a better-in-a-punch soda</li>
<li>Sir Spriticus acquires a tomb of fizziness</li>
<li>Montague Dew acquires an obsidian short blade, along with a bombardier blast</li>
<li>Serenity Fanta acquires a bow and seventeen arrows</li>
<li>Reverend Root acquires three containment traps, along with a switchblade</li>
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<p>Reverend Root places and activates two of their three containment traps in the western area of the arena and proceeds to hide in a nearby bush.</p>
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<p>Serenity Fanta spots Sol Kissinger and immediately takes aim, firing a total of nine arrows at them in quick succession. Only one manages to graze their arm, while the remainder miss, and Sol quickly flees further into the forest. Serenity retrieves three unbroken arrows but makes no further attempts to pursue Sol at this time.</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 5:</strong> T-00:43</p>
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<p>John Pepsi and Marisha Pepper encounter one another at a pond in the north-west region of the arena. Whilst Marisha is unarmed, John makes no attempts to assail her, instead choosing to offer a brief alliance. Marisha accepts his offer, and the two sit by the pond and exchange small talk.</p>
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<p>Sir Spriticus casts the spell "from sky to ground, by fizz be found," the likes of which immediately reveals the current location of the closest contestant. As such, a stream of fizz begins rising in the distance, alerting Spriticus to Montague Dew's location about five to six hundred meters south. He then casts the spell "pop a cap, take a sip, protect my body from a hit," causing a defensive barrier to form across his body before beginning his trek towards Montague.</p>
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<p>For the first time in nineteen SCP-7965 cycles, John Coke steps in a trap, causing it to activate and immediately incapacitate him through the use of thaumaturgically summoned bindings. This causes him to fall prone on the forest floor, following which Reverend Root emerges from his hiding spot wielding his switchblade. However, rather than immediately finishing John off, he instead begins the following monologue:</p>
<p>"It is by Selevant Soda's divine grace that I have been blessed to capture you this day. Time after time, battle after battle, you have evaded justice and due punishment. You have cheated and slighted, slain and tortured, all just to further yourself, yet it is your greed and lust for power that sees you before me now. I have been selected by our divine goddess to be your judge, to be your jury, and to be your executioner. And you are guilty beyond even an unreasonable doubt. It is with great pleasure that I shall take up my blade against you, and through wielding it I shall-"</p>
<p>The remaining seven minutes have been omitted for brevity and can be provided on inquiry.</p>
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<p>John Pepsi and Marisha Pepper conclude their conversation and begin to part ways, though not before the following, brief exchange occurs:</p>
<p><strong>Marisha:</strong> "This world wasn't meant for pacifism."</p>
<p><strong>John:</strong> "I know."</p>
<p>Marisha begins making her way east, whilst John heads south.</p>
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<p>Sol Kissinger is about to open a loot cache when they are suddenly ambushed by Montague Dew, who stabs them twice in the back before the obsidian blade shatters due to its brittleness. Sol reacts quickly, spinning on theirs heels before backhanding Montague. He stumbles back, given no time to react as Sol tackles him to the ground before beginning to relentless beat his head into the ground. Sol gets in sixteen strikes before Montague manages to slam their knee into Sol's back wounds, creating an opening that allows Montague to roll them both over before he starts relentless choking them. Sol struggles aimlessly, scratching at the ground around them, before eventually falling limp.</p>
<p>A loud popping sound them emanates throughout the entire arena, notifying all contestants that someone has been slain.</p>
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<p><strong>CONTESTANTS REMAINING:</strong><br/>
John Coke - John Pepsi - Marisha Pepper - Sir Spriticus<br/>
Montague Dew - Serenity Fanta - Reverend Root</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 10:</strong> T-01:02</p>
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<p>Reverend Root concludes his monologue, throughout which John Coke has remained absolutely silent. Reverend then asks if John has any final words, to which he simply says "behind you" before Reverend is suddenly struck in the back of the head, causing him to crumble to the ground unconscious.</p>
<p>John Pepsi, who had struck Reverend with his quarterstaff, confiscates his last remaining containment trap, along with his switch blade, before making his way over to the still-restrained John Coke. Despite having been killed by Coke twelve times at this point, he still begins to cut him free, which prompts the following conversation:</p>
<p><strong>Coke:</strong> So you'll hurt someone to save another?</p>
<p><strong>Pepsi:</strong> You'll both still be alive. That's my pacifism.</p>
<p><strong>Coke:</strong> And what stops me from killing him the moment you cut me free? From killing you?</p>
<p><strong>Pepsi:</strong> Nothing.</p>
<p><strong>Coke:</strong> Yet you'll cut me free regardless?</p>
<p><strong>Pepsi:</strong> That's my way in this world. If you see me dead for it, so be it.</p>
<p><em><Pepsi finishes cutting Coke free before handing them the switch blade.></em></p>
<p><strong>Pepsi:</strong> Do as you will.</p>
<p>John Pepsi leaves the now-unrestrained John Coke and Reverend Root behind as he begins to make his way east. After half a minute passes, Coke looks to Reverend, lets out a slow sigh, and begins to follow after Pepsi.</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 11:</strong> T-01:06</p>
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<p>Marisha Pepper discovers a hidden loot cache containing a hunting rifle, four rounds of ammunition, and a summoning soda named Ferocious Fizz.</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 12:</strong> T-01:09</p>
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<p>Serenity Fanta comes across the unconscious body of Reverend Root, who she prepares to finish off before stepping in his other, still-active trap, entirely restraining her.</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 13:</strong> T-01:14</p>
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<p>Sir Spriticus reaches Montague Dew, who is still resting and recovering from his encounter with Sol Kissinger. Attempting to seize the moment, Sir Spriticus begins casting the spell "splinter flesh and shatter bone, oh sparkling water carry this corpse home." He is interrupted, however, when a bullet suddenly strikes him, shattering his defensive barrier and causing the spell to fizzle out. Spriticus immediately moves to hide behind a tree, but only manages to do so as another bullet strikes his leg.</p>
<p>Montague, now very aware of the two battling contestants, attempts to flee, only to catch a bullet to the shoulder that sends him stumbling to the ground. Marisha Pepper then fires her final round of ammunition directly through his eye, eliminating him. A popping sound then fills the arena, alerting contestants of the match's second death.</p>
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<p><strong>CONTESTANTS REMAINING:</strong><br/>
John Coke - John Pepsi - Marisha Pepper<br/>
Sir Spriticus - Montague Dew - Reverend Root</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 14:</strong> T-01:15</p>
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<p>Sir Spriticus casts the spell "free as a bubble, quick as fizz, bring me somewhere that isn't this" causing him to teleport to a random point in the arena.</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 15:</strong> T-01:16</p>
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<p>John Coke and John Pepsi, having heard the elimination pop, exchange the following words:</p>
<p><strong>Coke:</strong> Another falls. That leaves six alive.</p>
<p><strong>Pepsi:</strong> And two fallen, yes.</p>
<p><strong>Coke:</strong> It is the nature of the game to kill. It is the nature of ourselves.</p>
<p><strong>Pepsi:</strong> The nature of <em>your</em>selves. Violence is not a path I'd willingly walk.</p>
<p><strong>Coke:</strong> Surely you can't hold onto those golden ideals forever. What about five games from now? Ten? Fifty? No one's values are <em>that</em> unshakable.</p>
<p><strong>Pepsi:</strong> You have killed me twelve times, John. And yet I chose not to seize my chance to return the favor. Perhaps, some day, I will falter and lose my way; succumb to this world's viscous cycle of violence and death. But not yet. Not today.</p>
<p><strong>Coke:</strong> Then you will die. Over and over.</p>
<p><strong>Pepsi:</strong> And when I do I will die true to myself. Can you say the same, John?</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 16:</strong> T-01:23</p>
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<p>Reverend Root finally regains consciousness and discovers the now-restrained Serenity Fanta, struggling to break free. He curses before taking one of the arrows off of Serenity's person before stabbing it through their head, killing them instantly. He proceeds to take her bow and ten remaining arrows. A popping sound then fills the arena, alerting contestants of the match's third death.</p>
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<p><strong>CONTESTANTS REMAINING:</strong><br/>
John Coke - John Pepsi - Marisha Pepper<br/>
Sir Spriticus - Reverend Root</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 17:</strong> T-01:25</p>
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<p>John Pepsi discovers a hidden loot cache containing a revolver, six rounds of ammunition, and pain-relief rum. Pepsi pockets the rum, but offers the revolver and its ammo to John Coke, who accepts with a quiet thank you. Pepsi seems to smile but does not otherwise acknowledge the gesture.</p>
<p>Elsewhere, Marisha Pepper also locates a hidden loot cache containing gauze and a machete.</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 18:</strong> T-01:30</p>
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<p>As is the case with all SCP-7965 deathmatches, a giant siren fills the sky and a beacon appears at the center of the arena, marking the opening of the central structure of the arena. The structure's four gates also open at this time, and an announcement is voiced noting that all land outside of the central structure will be destroyed within the next fifteen minutes.</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 19:</strong> T-01:33</p>
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<p>John Coke and John Pepsi begin to approach the center structure's western entrance when a volley of arrows suddenly begin flying from the trees behind them. Six of the arrows strike the area around the two, however one manages to catch Pepsi in his shoulder blade and another strikes Coke's calf. Despite this, Coke manages to limp behind some semblance of cover, however in doing so he leaves Pepsi in the middle of the clearing.</p>
<p>Pepsi, who had collapses from the impact of the first arrow, attempts to rise before another arrow strikes them in the hip, sending them to the ground again. Reverend Root finally emerges from the tree line at this point, knocking his final arrow as he approaches Pepsi, spouting the following:</p>
<p>"In the end, you sinners are all the same. Coarse hearted and cold, all you care about is perpetuating sin and anarchy and pain and tyranny. I had thought you different, John, I really did, but it seems even you have grown tainted and dark. I can only pray that Selevant Soda cleanses your heart. Consider this a servic—"</p>
<p>Reverend Root is cut short by John Coke shooting him in the head. A popping sound then fills the arena, alerting contestants of the match's fourth death.</p>
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<p><strong>CONTESTANTS REMAINING:</strong><br/>
John Coke - John Pepsi<br/>
Marisha Pepper - Sir Spriticus</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 20:</strong> T-01:35</p>
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<p>John Coke returns to John Pepsi and they help each other remove the arrows that had struck them. Despite having no proper medical supplies, they fashion bandages out of their shirts — primarily the sleeves — and decide not to use the better-in-a-punch soda, nor the pain-relief rum, as they are both used to such wounds this many cycles in and know they are relatively non-fatal. They then, using each other to stabilize one another, walk into the central structure while having the following words:</p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> Didn't think you were capable of <em>saving</em> a life.</p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> Someone still died.</p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> But you shot them to <em>protect</em> me. Those kind of even out, I think.</p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> Shut up.</p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> Oh no need to act so stoic about it. I'm proud of you. <em><Pepsi pats Coke on the back, causing Coke to stare daggers at him.></em></p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> Keep your damn mouth shut.</p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> You know, the <em>old</em> John Coke would've never saved—</p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> You say another word and <em>this</em> John Coke will put a bullet through your job.</p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> <em><Motions zipping his mouth closed before "throwing away" the zipper.></em></p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> …you are insufferable.</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 21:</strong> T-01:36</p>
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<p>Sir Spriticus, realizing that he will not be able to reach the center structure of the arena within the fifteen minute allowance, begins casting one final spell from the tomb of fizziness.</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 22:</strong> T-01:37</p>
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<p>Marisha Pepper enters the central structure from the eastern entrance. Noticing this, John Coke immediately raises his revolver, taking aim upon Marisha. John Pepsi grabs his arm to keep him from pulling the trigger however. The following is a transcript of the ensuing encounter:</p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> She hasn't done anything yet, John. We can be better than this.</p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> There is no <em>we</em> here, Pepsi. If you're not going to help, get out of the way.</p>
<p><strong>Marisha Pepper:</strong> Maybe he's right, Coke. Maybe we <em>can</em> be better than this. <em><Behind her back, Marisha begins slowly opening her Ferocious Fizz summoning soda.></em> Doesn't the bloodshed get exhausting?</p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> That's rich coming from you, Pepper! Your hands are as bloody as my own, and I've crossed blades and bullets with you enough to know you are unwavering in your bloodlust. <em><John cocks back the hammer of his revolver, keeping it pointed directly at Marisha.></em></p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> John, please don't—</p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> Shut it.</p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> Come on, just give me a chance to talk her down.</p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> For the love of Selevant, will you just be—</p>
<p><em><The sound of a soda opening is heard across the arena as Marisha finishes opening her summoning soda before throwing the bottle at the pair. Coke quickly returns his attention to Marisha, firing two shots in her direction as the soda can breaks apart mid-air and a wolf made entirely of soda manifests before them.></em></p>
<p><em><The wolf immediately charges as Pepsi, who throws up his quarterstaff in an effort to guard against the canine's unrelenting bites. This proves only partially successfully, as it quickly bites its way through the staff, breaking it in half before biting hard into Pepsi's shoulder. He lets out a scream in anguish before slamming one of the staff's halves hard into the wolf's eye, forcing it release its grip before using the other half to clock it hard in the side.></em></p>
<p><em><Coke, having heard Pepsi's scream, turns and fires a shot into the wolf, causing it to demanifest in a flurry of soda bubbles upon impact. The bubbles don't immediately dissipate, though, and instead begin filling the area around the two.></em></p>
<p><em><Marisha, using their brief blindness due to the fizz-fog, begins dead-sprinting at Coke with her machete in hand, reaching him just as the bubbles begin to dissipate.></em></p>
<p><em><Coke reacts as quickly as possible, barely evading Marisha's strike. She pivots quickly, slashing for his chest, though he maneuvers, forcing his shoulder to bare the brunt of the strike as he fires off a round into her stomach. She feigns collapse, dropping her blade as she slams her shoulder hard into his chest before using the momentum to flip him over her back.></em></p>
<p><em><Coke hits the ground hard, causing him to drop his gun which Marisha quickly kicks away. She bares down on him with her fists, striking him over and over and over, with him barely deflecting them with his arms. She is relentless in her strikes, cracking his jaw, breaking his nose, bludgeoning his eyes and neck and chest and anywhere else she can lay a hand on.></em></p>
<p><em><Pepsi appears behind Marisha, wrapping his arms around her in an attempt to yank her off Coke. He is partially successful, pulling her about two feet back before she slams her elbow right into Pepsi's nose, breaking it and forcing him to release his grasp on her. Nonetheless, it provides Coke with enough of an opening to regain some footing, allowing him to dodge her wide swing before countering with his own to her gut.></em></p>
<p><em><The two end up in a back-and-forth exchange of blows. Coke jabs her rips, Marisha catches his jaw. Coke trips her to the ground, Marisha twists and plants a firm kick in his check. Back and forth, fist after fist, a flurry of blows is exchanged. For moments, Coke is overpowering Marisha, then Marisha Coke, over and over, in a bloody cycle that sees each both go from steady and confident to beaten and shaken. Both stand at odds of one another, each on the verge of collapse. Coke plants his feet. Marisha steels her body. He goes for a wide hook. She moves to block. He feigns and instead goes for a hard upper cut. But she catches it still, before hitting him as hard as possible in the neck. Then again, and again, until his knees give out and he falls to the ground.></em></p>
<p><em><She stands, towering above him, smirking. And then the ground erupts beneath her feet and dozens of explosions detonate within the central chamber.></em></p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 23:</strong> T-01:45</p>
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<p>Sir Spriticus finishes casting his spell just as the fifteen minute mark is reached. He smiles, and watches as the area around him is swallowed in a wave of blinding light, destroying everything in its path and killing him instantly.</p>
<p>A popping sound then fills the arena, alerting contestants of the match's fifth death.</p>
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<p><strong>CONTESTANTS REMAINING:</strong><br/>
John Coke - John Pepsi - Marisha Pepper</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 24:</strong> T-01:46</p>
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<p>As the dust settles from the detonations caused by Sir Spriticus' spell, John Pepsi rises. Immediately he notices Marisha Pepper laying in the midst of rubble, who he quickly makes his way over to. Her wounds are severe: both of her legs are completely lost, and the remainder of her body is torn by shrapnel and thaumaturgic burns. He grabs her hand, holding it as he softly says "I'm sorry." She coughs, and he pours the pain-relief rum onto her wounds to ease her suffering. She stares at him all the while, before weakly smiling and closing her eyes.</p>
<p>A popping sound then fills the arena, alerting contestants of the match's sixth death.</p>
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<p><strong>CONTESTANTS REMAINING:</strong><br/>
John Coke - John Pepsi</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 25:</strong> T-01:48</p>
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<p>John Pepsi suddenly hears a distant bout of coughing and quickly makes his way over to a still-conscious John Coke. He quickly takes Coke's hand and helps sit him up — unlike Marisha's wounds, Cokes only sustained a few thaumaturgic burns, though his stomach was speared through by a large piece of stone-shrapnel. The following conversation ensues:</p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> Stick with me, John. You'll be alright.</p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> You still here, Pep?</p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> Right by your side, John. I'm here.</p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> <em><He coughs up. Blood drips down his chin.></em> And Marisha.</p>
<p><em><Pepsi shakes his head.></em></p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> It's just us, then, huh?</p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> Just you and me, John. Here… <em><Pepsi pulls out his better-in-a-punch pop and offers it to Coke, who takes it slowly.></em></p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> And you won't finish me off… will you? <em><Coke opens the pop.></em></p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> Never.</p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> <em><Coke raises the healing soda to his lips before pausing.></em> That means I'll have to—</p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> It's okay. I won't hold it against you. It's just your nature.</p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> I did say that, didn't I? <em><Coke proceeds to pour the entirety of the soda onto the ground before dropping the can onto the now-destroyed arena floor.></em></p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> Wh— why would you—?</p>
<p><strong>John Coke:</strong> Just— be quiet and win for once, Pep. For me.</p>
<p><strong>John Pepsi:</strong> Okay, John. I will.</p>
<p><em><Coke closes his eyes and whispers "thank you" before resting his head on Pepsi's shoulder.></em></p>
<p>After three minutes, a popping sound fills the arena.</p>
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<p><strong>CONTESTANTS REMAINING:</strong><br/>
John Pepsi</p>
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<p><strong>Occurrence 26:</strong> T-01:55</p>
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<p>John Pepsi is declared the winner of the nineteenth SCP-7965 event. In the following minute, the entirety of the arena demanifests, along with its pocket dimension.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum-7965-2:</strong><br/>
On April 23rd, 1985, directly following the conclusion of SCP-7965's nineteenth event, the Coca-Cola Company released New Coke. Due to the outrage that followed, both within the anomalous and non-anomalous worlds, the SCP Foundation is currently working with the G.O.C. to devise new containment procedures to ensure John Coke wins all future SCP-7965 events.</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> The containment of SCP-7966 is currently undergoing internal review by the Department of Tactical Theology. All inquiries and concerns should be directed towards Head Containment Researcher Randall Bannock, who is to be considered an incidental expert on the anomaly.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7966 is the birth of Jim Davis<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>, creator of the <em>Garfield</em> comic strip series. According to all testing methods devised by the Department of Tactical Theology, this event is both ontologically and theologically identical to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.</p>
<p>This conclusion has been made following several decades of observation. Besides emitting significantly higher-than-average Akiva particles than most individuals, SCP-7966's theological resonance signature measures at a consistent 3:16, which is comparable to other artifacts with a similar presence and is unusually high. In addition, SCP-7966-1's EVE energy patterns have been found to be an exact match for the known EVE patterns of the previous incarnation of Christ.</p>
<p>Despite this, SCP-7966-1 has never been documented knowingly utilizing its anomalous abilities or acting in a manner directly comparable to other resurrected deities, leading researchers to believe the entity is unaware of its religious prominence. The only effect SCP-7966's theological significance is thought to have had is its passive ability to amass followers, which has contributed to the popularity of the <em>Garfield</em> franchise. Whether this is directly the result of SCP-7966-1's influence is currently unknown.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum.7966.1:</strong> After extensive discussion and research regarding the most reliable method of containment, it has been conceded that allowing SCP-7966-1 to live out its natural lifespan outside of containment poses the smallest probable chance of triggering a biblical rapture.</p>
<p>As to maintain its commitment towards the categorization and preservation of religious scripture, the Department of Tactical Theology has since begun accumulating an extensive archive of all currently published <em>Garfield</em> media.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> Further efforts to acquire the religious institution Paws Inc. are currently ongoing.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. Henceforth referred to as SCP-7966-1.</div>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Item #:</strong></span> SCP-7967</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Object Class:</strong></span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Thaumiel</span> Safe</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong></span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">SCP-7967 is to be indefinitely maintained and used by the Foundation to produce Akiva Radiation for use in various religious based projects.</span></p>
<p>SCP-7967 is no longer to be maintained and to be stored in Containment Sector-54, located within <a href="/secure-facility-dossier-reliquary-area-27">Reliquary Area-27</a>. In light of the data implied by the object's behavior, this file is restricted to Clearance 5/DoTT personnel.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Description:</strong></span> SCP-7967 is a device developed by the Department of Tactical Theology in 2003. It was designed to harvest the abnormally high amount of Akiva Radiation that is produced when a human being dies.</p>
<p>SCP-7967 functions through the theory that before entering an afterlife, a being tends to worship at greatly increased levels, a result of attempting to enter a <a href="/scp-6130">positive afterlife</a> and contemplating one's mortality.</p>
<p>This energy tends to dissipate shortly after the subject's death. SCP-7967 functions by tracking these events and using Wozny-Hellman Worship Sinks to absorb it successfully.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7968</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Euclid</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> A Foundation-operated database crawler is to periodically review the Foundation database for materials affected by SCP-7968. Affected materials are to be reported to server administration for review and removal of alterations. Personnel who encounter affected materials are to be informed of SCP-7968's anomalous effects and, if necessary, directed to this file for more information.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7968 is a phenomenon wherein documents in the Foundation database<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> are altered to reference a non-existent SCP object, henceforth SCP-7968-1. The numerical designation given to SCP-7968-1 within affected documents varies; instances of SCP-7968 have been connected to each other based on shared characteristics among the alterations. The source of SCP-7968 is unknown and presumed anomalous.</p>
<p>The text of SCP-7968 instances varies considerably, but the following characteristics of SCP-7968-1 are consistent across the vast majority of instances:</p>
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<li>The object is contained at <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/on-guard-43-hub">Site-43</a>.</li>
<li>The object is a white human female, aged 43-47 years.</li>
<li>The object's listed numerical designation is between 3000 and 3999.</li>
<li>The object's primary anomalous property is the routine manifestation of several nondescript metal folding chairs in its immediate vicinity. The chairs are not acknowledged as being themselves anomalous.</li>
<li>The object is regarded with disinterest by personnel. It is not clear if this is a secondary anomalous property or merely non-anomalous apathy.</li>
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<p>No records of an object with these qualities are known to have ever existed in the Foundation database. When questioned, Site-43 personnel universally claim to have no memory of an object matching the above description being contained there at any point in the site's history.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum:</strong> Several recent SCP-7968 instances reference a "Dr. Shepherd" as being the research head for SCP-7968-1. Records indicate that no individual with this name has ever been employed at Site-43. Instances that reference this individual also often detail their cold treatment of SCP-7968-1 and the anomaly's continual attempts to establish an emotional connection with them. The purpose this serves is once again unknown; no definitive connection between "Dr. Shepherd" and any past or present member of Site-43 staff has been established.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum:</strong> In addition to information that would be relevant to the containment and study of such an anomaly if it existed, SCP-7968 instances have begun to also often contain irrelevant personal details about SCP-7968-1 that an actual SCP file would not document. Recurring details include an affinity for sunflowers, an unfulfilled interest in astronomy, and a strong desire to raise a child. The purpose of these inclusions, if it exists, is unknown. No new insight into the nature of SCP-7968 has been gained from analysis of the additions.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum:</strong> Since 12/9/2022, SCP-7968 instances have begun to include the insertion of non-clinical elements into affected files. These elements include prose passages, poems, and what appear to be notes to an unknown individual. The majority of these elements appear to be written from the same perspective. An example is attached below:</p>
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<p>there is a place<br/>
beyond the concrete and window glass,<br/>
beyond the laughing children and glowing sunflowers,<br/>
beyond the cold moon and blazing stars.<br/>
i have been there<br/>
in my dreams:<br/>
the endless white,<br/>
countless deafblind souls<br/>
stumbling for something<br/>
to hold onto and,<br/>
finding nothing,<br/>
screaming at a god<br/>
who will never hear.</p>
<p>where are you?<br/>
i yearn for your monotonous questions<br/>
to cut through the buzzing;<br/>
i yearn for your cold stare<br/>
to pierce the fluorescence.<br/>
a cold body is still a surface<br/>
for oxygen to bounce off of.</p>
<p>do people still<br/>
pass by this place?<br/>
i listen for hours<br/>
and hear nothing<br/>
but the vents<br/>
if only i had a window<br/>
to watch the world from<br/>
while i sit in this chair.</p>
<p>when i woke up this morning,<br/>
i covered my eyes<br/>
with my forearm<br/>
and the light still<br/>
shone through.<br/>
i am starting to hear<br/>
the wailing and screaming<br/>
as i lie awake<br/>
in my bed.<br/>
i wonder if i will<br/>
join them soon.</p>
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<p>The relevance that this and similar non-clinical additions have to the rest of SCP-7968 instances is unclear. It has been suggested by research personnel that analyzing these additions may be useful for identifying the source of SCP-7968; an investigation is currently underway.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum:</strong> Since 23/7/2023, no new SCP-7968 instances have been detected in the Foundation database. As it has been more than one year since the last sign of activity from SCP-7968, a request to reclassify the anomaly as Neutralized has been filed and is currently pending.</p>
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<p><strong>SCP-7969:</strong> Time Itself<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/tufto" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(3337265); return false;"><img alt="Tufto" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=3337265&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1725332304" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=3337265)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/tufto" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(3337265); return false;">Tufto</a></span>. More of their work can be found <a href="/tufto-personnel-file">here</a>.<br/>
<strong>Image: Both pictures are NASA images, and are thus in the public domain. They can be found <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fallen_Astronaut.jpg">here</a> and <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_-_December_1990_(16332132156).jpg">here</a>.</strong></p>
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<p>The following item designation and document has been associated with Temporal Event 7969-1. Although the text of the file has been cleared of possessing cognitohazards and infohazards, the information contained therein is suspect and its provenance uncertain. For more information, consult the Temporal Event 7969-1 briefing packet.</p>
<p>— Maria Jones, Director, RAISA, 03/01/2023</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7969</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Safe</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-7969 is currently being contained on-site at Sol 3's moon. Archeologists from the Shatterglass Exhibitry are in command of research operations.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7969 is a pair of objects found on the moon of Sol 3, part of the patrimony of the Duke of Glavi. The objects, both made of unknown metallic compounds, are a plaque bearing 14 lines in an unknown script and a crudely-carved humanoid figurine.</p>
<p>Accordingly to Ploison-Netinsini dating methods, SCP-7969 was estimated to be created 97,000 years ago. This predates the earliest known manmade artifact by 16,000 years, and its discovery has dramatically altered the archaeological consensus about the origin point of humanity.</p>
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<p>I will not disguise my feelings, my Pir; such a discovery has given me an abundance of joy and fascination. These twin objects, alike in composition, have irrevocably altered our understanding of our species's origins.</p>
<p>It has been suspected by a growing number of archaeologists that the human race did not, in fact, develop in the Haleski arm at all, but could have developed on the opposite side of the galaxy, in Closer Holvanis. The Order has long known that our origins were further to the north than commonly supposed; and as one of the most ancient organisations in the Empire, we would know better than most.</p>
<p>And yet, repeatedly, stubbornly, we have been disbelieved. So it is with no small amount of pleasure that I observed the Conclave's shock and outrage to discover that they were wrong, and we were right! How happy I am! To see such luminaries as T'Sask Ope and the Herlnag strut in agitation on the stage was something I have wished for these many years.</p>
<p>The Order has been granted an Imperial and Ducal order granting us exclusive rights over all archaeological digs in the Sol system for many cycles. That name itself is believed to be very ancient; it is one of the ten names that the Recapitulators possessed for their holy systems, some 70,000 years ago. We have no older names for any stars in the sky - although there has been some disagreement about the Recapitulators' very existence. All our documents relating to them are copies of copies, after all.</p>
<p>But we need not scour the archives for scraps any longer. These two objects are small, humble, but the dating is clear; they have stood in the same spot for longer than recorded time itself. Their preservation is, presumably, anomalous; there is no other artifact on this moon, however thin its atmosphere. Analysis is ongoing on their composition; it seems to be some primitive compound, based on a partial understanding of physics. The figurine appears crude to our eyes.</p>
<p>But, oh, what a tableau they are together! They must be some kind of memorial, I am sure; the figure's positioning, face down in the lunar dust, a deliberate message. Or perhaps they have been dislodged as a result of the long years. We will not, can not, know. But I have hopes, my Pir; such hopes. It is an honour to have been entrusted with this work.</p>
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<p><strong>Memorandum 1:</strong> On 185225-RPA, an Imperial diktat awarded the Order of the Three Arrows full rights to any archaeological work in the Sol system. The area had not previously been examined in any great depth, owing to the Conclave's opposition to any acknowledgement of the Recapitulation's historical basis.</p>
<p>A preliminary scan of the system's astral bodies was largely negative, outside of SCP-7969 itself; however, some unusual patterns were detected on the surface of Sol 3. Further investigation has been greenlit by the Order's personnel.</p>
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<p>This document does not do it justice, my Pir. We have discovered nothing less than cities! And not the usual scattered settlements; vast, vast conglomerations, the buried lines of crisscrossing settlements that could hold <em>millions</em> of people! Imagine!</p>
<p>Perhaps I get ahead of myself; we have only discovered, through sub-surface scans, the remains of street patterns. There are no buildings, no artifacts; indeed, no other signs of humanity. But there is nothing else these patterns can be. It is only a matter of time before we find something new; we are almost ready to cease our orbital observations and descend to the planet's surface.</p>
<p>Very few further abormalities have been discovered yet. It is a Class-9 planet, teeming with plant and animal life in abundance. I believe two species bear a close resemblance to carvings from early Gyl'Obiaye, which have never been sufficiently explained by that system's fauna: a rock with a face and arms protruding, and a species of feral cat with a glubfish's mane wrapped around its neck. The former is particularly bizarre and terrifying; the latter, savage, but without real malice.</p>
<p>I cannot wait to touch them, see them, be eaten by them. We have requisitioned enough bodies to last us for years; the Emperor's generosity is unbounded. This proves to be a scholar's true playground. Our ships gaze down in awe and wonder.</p>
<p>I will admit that, despite clear evidence of human life, I remain nervous. If this was our cradle, the origin-point for all humanity, then would <em>something</em> not have survived? We have no tales, no myths that stretch this far back; each primitive colony in the Years of Night believed itself to be the only world that had ever existed. We need more than this. We need something concrete, something that demonstrates - beyond doubt - that the nightmare of our long history has a start, a clear and unencumbered beginning.</p>
<p>I believe, my Pir, in our tenets, even after all these years. Our mortality is not born to us; it is something that has been thrust upon us. Only truly understanding our origins can end this long curse, and return all the death and nightmares to their proper place; outside the species's walls. Humanity will be secured; the long night contained; and it shall be up to us to protect our fellow man. Has that not been our mantra these long years?<br/>
Perhaps now our oldest prayers shall be answered.</p>
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<p><strong>Memorandum 2:</strong> As of 185377-RPA, ground observations have been conducted by a number of the Order's crews. In conjunction with orbital observations, the following three abnormal discoveries have been made concerning Sol 3:</p>
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<li>That large-scale human settlements existed on the planet's surface, as evidenced by a number of sub-surface street plans picked up by orbital observation. The size of these settlements and the resources necessary to support them have led to an initial population estimate of over 2 billion people at the civilisation's height.</li>
<li>That very few other signs of other human activity can be found. Evidence of large-scale, likely deliberate conflagration has been discovered across the planet's land mass; the obvious inference is that all evidence of human life was destroyed for some unknown reason, but the scale and thoroughness would be on a extraordinary level.</li>
<li>That the only other remaining evidence of human activity found thus far is a large, secure bunker under the surface of a northern continent. The nature of the bunker is, as yet, unknown.</li>
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<p>Entering the bunker is currently the research team's top priority.</p>
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<p>But none of this describes the awe and horror. Touching down, digging beneath the surface; in the flesh, the street plans are little more than a different kind of soil, fragments of primitive road compounds. And there is <em>nothing</em> else.</p>
<p>The others are less willing to arrive at the obvious conclusion, believing the scale of it impossible. But it seems clear to me, from the charred and fossilised ash; there was a deliberate attempt to destroy <em>everything</em> on this planet, to burn away the very memory of humanity from its surface.</p>
<p>Why? Why do this? If this is humankind's origins, why burn everything? The same scorchmarks, on a much smaller scale, can be found dotted across the planet's moon in small clusters. One of those clusters is near the little metal items that first brought us here, but they are not burnt. They still live! Why is this? Why did they survive?</p>
<p>I wish we could see. The past is a set of fragments, a set of absolutes that can only be perceived with our frail eyes, seeing only fractures and ruins we cannot understand. Maybe those rivers were once canals. Maybe that marsh was once a fish pond. Whole worlds existed here, once; the glory and dertritus of the human mind.</p>
<p>The true hell of the past, when you really consider it, is that it is all true. Every last battle or war, every storybook caricature; it's all true. Everywhere humans have gone, lives have been lived, lives entirely different and founded upon an entirely different understanding from our own. It is almost nightmarish, to consider its scale; but perhaps comforting. All that we are is our past; we are the merest tip of an iceberg that descends beneath the darkest and deepest sea, our eyes only dimly making out the shapes beneath.<br/>
But perhaps none of this matters, this horror and the weight of time. For I have the scent of greed upon my tongue, blinding me to all introspection. Because one place, one locale, has survived this planet's purge.</p>
<p>It is a bunker. We cannot see within it; some strange metal, far more advanced than anything else encountered here, coats the thing. We're not even sure how deep it goes. All we know is the symbol carved above its entryways.</p>
<p>Three arrows pointing inwards.</p>
<p>Our Order's own blessed symbol.</p>
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<p><strong>Memorandum 3:</strong> As of 185377-RPA, the northern continent's bunker has been entered. The interior had been similiarly destroyed by fire; a few fragments of equipment and machinery had been found, and have been requisitioned for analysis, but only a single artifact has been deemed noteworthy.</p>
<p>The artifact is a series of sheets of a wood-based compound, with writing on it composed in the unknown script as the moon's plaque. It bears the symbol of the Order of the Three Arrows, which was also found on the outside of the bunker.</p>
<p>The full significance of this is not yet known. Translation teams are currently working on a full decoding.</p>
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<p>But it is now known, my Pir. It took many weeks, but we succeeded.</p>
<p>The formatting was recognisable at once; it is one of our own holy documents, like this one I write now. It alternates between the words of formality and the words of informality, as we have written about our world and those we encounter for as long as we remember.</p>
<p>This much could be told at a moment's glance. But then the decoding began; the rendering into a proper tongue. And then things became much, much stranger indeed.</p>
<p>This document - the strange wood-pulp it was printed on - has been dated, without any chance of mistake or error, to 96,000 years ago. 1,000 years after the plaque was placed upon the moon. Judging by our analyses of the planet's surface, this is the same time as the planet itself was burnt.</p>
<p>And the document is <em>the one I'm writing.</em></p>
<p>It's the same one. Translated, yes, but otherwise identical. It features sentences I wrote before I came here, and those written by others; it contains these words I am just now writing to you; and it contains passages yet to be written. It is <em>identical.</em></p>
<p>The Order has seen this kind of thing before, of course. Temporal anomalies are nothing new to us; we all remember Joskq and Old Karmara. But those were unstable, fragile things. This is impossible. This is <em>time travel.</em></p>
<p>I don't know what this means. Is any of this planet real? Is it just something we made, playing with time in some distant future, placing objects from the future back into the past? Was it us, the Empire, the Order, the Conclave, whoever - was it us who burnt this world? Was time used to hide something?</p>
<p>These were the questions that plagued me. But I do not think any are the case. Our physics has proven that, although waves and particles may one day be able to be thrust through time, any greater objects cannot pass. Time travel in the conventional sense is not possible. But the words written on that document - even the later ones - were of a type. They were my words; their timeline was not that long. And this document was preserved, wholesale, its pulp made to last far longer than its natural lifespan. 96,000 years!</p>
<p>And after a long night of prayer, I think I know what happened. I think this is a paradox.</p>
<p>If these people were so determined to destroy all aspects of their existence, then why preserve a little metal figurine? Why, of all the memorials that must have littered their world, was this one left standing? I think the answer is clear, my Pir. I think that they left that figurine because they knew that, one day, we would find it, and send <em>back through time</em> these words for them to peruse at their leisure - and leave for us to find.<br/>
We know from past experience what happens when a paradox is broken; devastation, unending devastation that alters time and space around it. These people - our ancestors - must have realised this. So in their fury, they destroyed everything but that which would destroy themselves. A tiny, insignificant memorial.</p>
<p>I don't know what to make of this. I don't understand.</p>
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<p><strong>Memorandum 4:</strong> As of 185454-RPA, no further discoveries have been found on Sol 3 or its moon. As per the Imperial diktat, the Order's time here has ended, and the archaeological sites have been opened up to the Conclave. The team's final, formal report will be sent to the Pir shortly.</p>
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<p>I am standing, my Pir, in my ordinary body, back on the Capital. I am standing beneath the triple suns as they set over our grand lodge. Perhaps this is the right moments for some last thoughts.</p>
<p>Time rambles on and on, a strange beast that, the closer you get to its fabric, weaves itself another way. It defies comprehension, to all the endless weight and burden of history, to those of us blessed in this present age, to our future selves. It haunts me, not only those parts unknown but our distance to the very patterns of life; the ways minds, so remote from our own, think and feel.</p>
<p>Two ideas have been plaguing me, over and over again. The first is connected with the burning. I saw the evidence of ash and char; I saw the fragments, hastily scorched, inside that bunker. They are old, it is said; many millenia older than all else we have found. The scientists do not know by how much. It isn't clear. Something's inside their bones.</p>
<p>But that ash, that devastation… what worried me first was this: that the words in this document, thrown through time, were what prompted it. They did not simply spare the memorial, they <em>also had to burn their world.</em> All the evidence had to align with what we found in order to avert the paradox; and they may have spent bitter centuries putting such a plan together. This, then, would be why we first fled our cradle; because we had to. Because the seal had to be preserved, or all humanity would perish.</p>
<p>And this was horrible to me. My words, even if only a conduit, were still part of the obliteration of history, of our past, our sense of self! The quest for our origins has never felt so close, yet so far; our mortality so remote and near. I, even as a vessel, feel I bear some responsibility.</p>
<p>But I do not know this to be true. I can only guess.</p>
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<p>But then another thought occurred to me; and it concerns these words themselves.</p>
<p>Who wrote them? I believed - believe - that I am writing them, a spontaneous effusion of my own emotions. But I saw them written, in an ancient tongue, far before I wrote them. I saw them translated already. I cannot know where they came from. Indeed, neither can you; these may just be copies of what I saw. You only have it on trust, my Pir, that these are indeed my thoughts.</p>
<p>And those people of the distant past do not know this either.</p>
<p>Our ancestors will one day receive a message, showing them a paradox; it will claim to be from tens of thousands of years hence, after civilisation upon civilisation has fallen and died. They will read this, but they will not know from whence it comes. It will come in the form of a transmission, overriding itself into their database, presenting a challenge to them. It is to this task I will dedicate the rest of my life, to the exclusion of all else; but if I fail, then my successors will succeed. It is written, in perhaps the holiest of manuscripts we have ever discovered.</p>
<p>They will, I presume, take it on faith; hence why we are where we are. But they cannot know that. And so, O my ancestors, if you are reading this, let me say one final thing: I do not know what I am. I do not know what these words are, these characters trapped in time itself. I know nothing but one piece of frail guesswork: that those 14 lines on your tiny moon, that figurine, are a memorial. A memorial to those who you lost on your first steps to this, to the tens of billions roaming the sky, to untold histories that you will never know. To the stars themselves, and all the ache and frail pain of this human world.</p>
<p>But what the significance of any of this is, I do not know.</p>
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<p>SCP-7970- Horton's Corner<br/>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Foundation Personnel are not to interfere with SCP-7970's primary operations. Employees of Site-78 are encouraged to use SCP-7970's services to purchase gas and groceries, as it is the only place to do so within the city limits of Chugwater, Wyoming. Due to the importance of SCP-7970 in maintaining the local economy, a cover story is to be run downplaying SCP-7970's anomalous capabilities. Any incoming traffic from other locales will be given amnestics by instances of SCP-7970-1 as per the Foundation's agreement with SCP-7970-2.</p>
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<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7970 is the gas station/grocery store claiming to be Horton's Corner, an establishment destroyed in 2012. SCP-7970 manifests within the city limits of Chugwater, Wyoming for a twenty-four-hour period before de-manifesting for forty-eight hours. SCP-7970 displays no outwardly anomalous properties outside of its ability to teleport between locations and otherwise functions as a regular gas station. How SCP-7970 maintains its supply of food, water, and gasoline is currently undetermined.</p>
<p>SCP-7970-1 instances are the attendants and employees of SCP-7970. Foundation records have made note of twenty (20) instances of SCP-7970-1, which are rotated out between manifestations of SCP-7970. These instances appear as human males and females between the ages of 18-26 with generally cheerful dispositions. SCP-7970-1 instances share names and appearances with deceased members of the local community, a connection that is still under investigation. SCP-7970-1's express joy at working for SCP-7970 and consistently advertise Horton's products and services along with reciting company catchphrases.</p>
<p>SCP-7970-2 is the current owner of Horton's Corner, referred to by employees as "Horton". The properties of SCP-7970-2 are unknown as "Horton" has never made any public appearances. Investigation into SCP-7970-2 is currently the focus of SCP-7970 research.</p>
<p><strong>Discovery:</strong> On December 30th, 2012 an SUV crashed into Horton's Corner, Chugwater's only gas station, and started a fire that destroyed the business. The accident left Chugwater residents with no option but to drive to nearby cities to buy basic necessities and gasoline. Five years later, on March 18th, 2017, GPS devices began picking up a new Horton's Corner location within the Chugwater area which led to the establishment that would become known as SCP-7970.</p>
<p>SCP-7970's anomalous properties became known twenty-four hours after its first appearance. At this time the SCP-7970-1 instances told customers that they were only a pop-up location and would return in two days' time after restocking. SCP-7970 then proceeded to vanish into the thin air nearly instantaneously, leaving no trace of its existence. The subsequent disappearance of SCP-7970 was promptly covered up by Foundation agents, who ensured that the event was not covered by any media sources and outgoing travelers did not bring word of a "disappearing gas station".</p>
<p>Amnesticization protocols were considered, but due to the repeated appearances of SCP-7970 and the importance of the anomaly to Chugwater's infrastructure, such protocols were deemed unnecessary. In addition to these factors, Site-78 had previously documented that Chugwater residents displayed a 75% higher acceptance of anomalous activity as being a part of baseline normalcy compared to the average US citizen.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> The cause of this phenomenon is not yet known, and several interviews with Chugwater Residents who had used SCP-7970's services corroborated this statistic.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 7970.01:</strong> Interview with John Milsboro</p>
<p>On March 27th, 2017, one week after the appearance of SCP-7970, Foundation agents brought the original owner of Horton's Corner in for questioning.</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Junior Researcher Greg Chudley</p>
<p><strong>Interviewee:</strong> John Milsboro</p>
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<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Hello, Mr. Milsboro. I'm Inspector Chudley with the BBB. Do you mind if I ask you some questions regarding your time using Horton's Corner? The new one, not the business that you once owned.</p>
<p><strong>Milsboro:</strong> Aint'cha a little young to be a business inspector? You hardly look out of school, boy.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Good eye, I'm not out of school yet. I'm working on my bachelor's at the moment and this is just a work-study job for me.</p>
<p><strong>Milsboro:</strong> Ah, good on ya! Glad to see such a good work ethic in the youth. What kinda questions didja have?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> First, I wanted to ask whether you were contacted about the use of the name of your former business. You never had the name copyrighted, but I wanted to hear your thoughts about them taking the name.</p>
<p><strong>Milsboro:</strong> I’ll admit, I was a little hesitant about hearing that name again. I lost a worker in that fire, but if anything I'm flattered! It's not like that fuckin' Obama came to bail us out in our time of need!</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Uh um, sorry for your loss. I can imagine it must've been hard revisiting Horton's after a tragedy like that.</p>
<p><strong>Milsboro:</strong> It was a mighty fine establishment, no complaint for me. I hate to admit it but it's a major improvement over the original location. It's bigger, got a better selection of fixins and the bathrooms are pristine! Dunno who's running it but they gotta have a lot of cash, it's comparable to one of them city joints.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Hmm, I would have thought you'd be a bit angry. Did you meet with the owner?</p>
<p><strong>Milsboro:</strong> I tried! The girl at the counter said he ain't doing appointments, but he 'appreciates my long years of service to the community'.The only way he'd meet with me is if I became some fuckin tier of their "rewards program" or some nonsense. Fuckin' millennial bullshit I tell ya.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Hmmm, certainly a predatory practice. We'll have to look into that. Lastly, I have to ask about the… strange incidents regarding the store. Specifically the disappearances.</p>
<p><strong>Milsboro:</strong> What you mean, boy? There ain't nothin' strange about that new Horton's Corner. It's just smoke and mirrors, they are trying to be showy to keep people talking about it.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> There is also the fact that we haven't seen any crews to supply or build this supposed gas station. That doesn't bother you in the slightest?</p>
<p>[Milsboro laughs.]</p>
<p><strong>Milsboro:</strong> Kid you don't understand basic marketing. They don't want you to know who is supplying them. It adds to the charm and mystique.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> So I've been told. Thank you for your time, Mr. Milsboro. That'll be all for now.</p>
<p>[End Recording]</p>
</div>
<p><strong>Addendum 7970.02:</strong> Expedition Log #1</p>
<p>Following the interview with Mr. Milsboro, Site-78 Director Leah Richter authorized an investigation into Horton's Corner to ascertain the identity of SCP-7970-2. Due to Site-78's lack of available Mobile Task Forces and short staffing, Junior Researchers Greg Chudley and Maria Johnston were chosen to go on an expedition into SCP-7970.</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p>[Begin Recording]</p>
<p>[Researcher Johnston is seen down against the dashboard fiddling with the camcorder]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> So… Do you think they have Mozzarella sticks?</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong>…-What?</p>
<p>[Johnston leans back into her car seat.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Mozzarella sticks. I've heard this Horton's place is similar to a Sheetz. So I'm hoping they have Mozzarella sticks and they're as good if not better.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> What the hell is a Sheetz?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Only the best gas station slash restaurant in the midwest! Are you telling me they don't have Sheetz where you come from?</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> I'm from California.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Oh, I'm sorry.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Like Ohio is any better.</p>
<p>[Johnston scoffs.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Anyways. Stating our names for the record, Maria Johnston here with Gregory Chudley. This is Log 1 of the SCP-7970 expeditions. The date is the 20th of March 2017 and SCP-7970 has been manifested for approximately two hours. We are currently en route to SCP-7970 and should be there in five minutes.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Do you have to be so formal? We're sitting and driving, I doubt Richter's going to give us an infraction for having a chat.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> This is going on the record and we're on the clock. We have to be professional.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Professional? In my fucking mini cooper? It's my car, my rules. Remember that our cover is being ourselves. Just Greg and his friend Maria filling up on gas.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> (sighs) I guess you're right. I just want to do well on my first field assignment.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Relax, you'll do fine. I mean, you're only here to babysit me, right?</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Babysit you? Don't be absurd.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> You don't need two people to investigate a freaking gas station. Richter doesn't trust me, that's why she had you tag along.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Well you've been consistently late to meetings, and you broke a shipment of glassware you were supposed to bring to my lab- fuck!</p>
<p>[Johnston turns to look out the window and then faces the camera.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> You just ran a red light!</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Did I? I think that's subjective.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> I literally watched you do it.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Wasn't on video. No evidence. plus we're here. Get switched over to the body cams.</p>
<p>[The feed goes dark for a moment but the audio is still picked up.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> I'll get the car filled up with gas. You go interview some of the other customers. Once I'm filled up, I'm going to go order my Mozzarella sticks as an excuse to chat up one of the -1s.</p>
<p>[The feed returns now showing footage from Chudley's body cam.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Wait… you're telling me the Mozzarella sticks bit had a purpose?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Twofold, my dear Johnston. Gets our job done and fills my stomach. Did you expect me to not have a plan ready?</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Yes?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> For shame. Let's go.</p>
<p>[Chudley pops the gas cap and leaves the car. He reaches into his pocket for his credit card and placed it into the pump before selecting his gas type.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> 2.20! That's a steal!</p>
<p><strong>Female Voice:</strong> Of course it is! Here at Horton's Corner, we strive for the best prices in the country!</p>
<p>[The camera swings to the left as Chudley is heard making a surprised exclamation. There is a female instance of SCP-7970-1 standing there in a red Horton's Corner uniform holding a tablet.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> D-don't sneak up on me like that. Miss-</p>
<p><strong>Shelly:</strong> Shelly Porter! Pleased to meetcha! What brings you to Horton's Corner?</p>
<p>[Chudley is seen placing the pump into his vehicle]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Me and my friend are here for some cheap gas and some good food.</p>
<p><strong>Shelly:</strong> Well we gots plenty! As we say at Horton's Corner, Whereever you are, Horton hears you! Wouldja also like to join our rewards program?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> I would, actually. Could you tell me about that?</p>
<p><strong>Shelly:</strong> Sure thing! Our rewards program gives 10 points for every dollar that'cha spend. Once you hit certain thresholds you go up in tier. Bronze tier is at 1000, Silver Tier is at 5000, and Gold tier is at 10,000.</p>
<p>Our Bronze tier customers get 5% off all products, Silver gets ya 10% and one free gallon of gas per fill up, and Gold Tier gets you 15% off and one free fill up per month. Plus you get to meet the big man himself, Horton.</p>
<p>[The sound of the pump stopping is heard and Chudley hangs it back up.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> That all sounds pretty good. You can sign my friend and I up.</p>
<p>[The instance starts typing on their tablet.]</p>
<p><strong>Shelly:</strong> Super! I'll just need your name and contact info.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Alright, that's [EMPLOYEE INFORMATION EXPUNGED] for me. And for my friend Maria, it's [EMPLOYEE INFORMATION EXPUNGED].</p>
<p><strong>Shelly:</strong> Alrighty, here are your cards.</p>
<p>[The SCP-7970-1 instance pulls two cards from their tablet and hands them to Researcher Chudley.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Thank you, have a good day now.</p>
<p><strong>Shelly:</strong> You too!</p>
<p>[The instance walks away as Researcher Johnston moves to the front of the car. Chudley hands her a rewards card and the pair begin moving towards the store.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Any luck?</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Nothing of note from the other customers filling up. They're just happy to have Horton's back and, as expected, none of them seem to bat an eye about this place disappearing every two days.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Not even creeped out by the -1s?</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Someone said one of the workers reminded them of a person they used to know. Speaking of which, did you get a name off that one you were talking to? We never confirmed if any of the -1s were former residents.</p>
<p>[The sliding doors to the store open. The inside of Horton's is sparkling and pristine. Rows and rows of foods, drinks, and personal products are visible. Chudley and Johnston walk into the snack aisle and stop. Johnston pulls out her SCiPhone and begins fiddling with it.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> (quietly) Can you find a Shelly Porter in the registry?</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> I'll look, give me a second to run her name.</p>
<p>[There is a 30-second pause while they wait.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Zero matches.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Maybe they are just creations of the anomaly then? Regardless, we have a way to get to Horton.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Right. The rewards program. How much is that gonna cost us?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> We need 10,000 points to get the highest tier. It's 10 points per dollar, so we’ll have to spend 1000 dollars each… do you,think we can get the funding for that?</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Ugh, the Site’s been low on funds and staffing. I’m barely able to get enough Agar for all of the culturing that Richter wanted done of the local microbiota.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> So, we're broke.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Pretty much yeah. Well, I’m gonna get started on racking up some points with what I can spend.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> And I’m getting my Mozz. We'll meet back up at the food court.</p>
<p>[Johnston nods and Chudley walks into SCP-7970's dining area. He approaches the instance working the counter.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> How's it going, my man? Can I get two orders of… wait. Is that a chicken sandwich WITH MOZZARELLA STICKS ON IT? I'll take that.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7970-1 Food Worker:</strong> Can do, sir. That'll be $4.99</p>
<p>[Chudley hands the instance the card and the camera turns slightly to the nearby wall behind the counter. An employee schedule is seen.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7970-1 Food Worker:</strong> Okay, your order number is 25. Let me go run this to the back.</p>
<p>[As the instance leaves, Chudley reaches over the counter and grabs the schedule off of the wall.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Thanks man. When did you start working here?</p>
<p>[Chudley folds the schedule and places it into his pants pocket.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7970-1 Food Worker:</strong> Oh I've been working since the grand opening. Old Man Horton gave me a new lease on life with this job, I'd do anything to pay him back.</p>
<p>[A shattering sound is heard.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Hold that thought. I'll be right back.</p>
<p>[Chudley moves towards the direction of the sound which leads him to the registers. A woman is seen berating a Female SCP-7970-1 instance behind the counter.]</p>
<p><strong>Woman:</strong> What do you mean I gotta pay for this! You bumped into me!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7970-1:</strong> Ma’am I was nowhere near you. I saw you knock it over and I’m going to kindly request that you pay what you owe. That was a $750 dollar decoration and my boss is going to need you to pay for it.</p>
<p><strong>Woman:</strong> Listen here, missy! I don’t know where you get expecting money out of me but I know the original Horton’s would never hire such terrible employees. DO. YOU. UNDER. STAND. MY ENGLISH?</p>
<p>[Chudley is heard muttering "white woman moment" in response but the instance appears unaffected by her remarks.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7970-1:</strong> Ma’am if you won’t pay for it then we’ll have to negotiate your terms of payment. We here at Horton’s Corner don’t take kindly to rude remarks being made toward our staff.</p>
<p>[Two SCP-7970-1 instances come from behind the woman, placing their hands on her shoulders. They tell her to come into the back with them. She refuses and pushes them off of her. The woman then begins yelling at them which prompts several more instances to surround the woman and drag her off kicking and screaming towards a door in the back.]</p>
<p>[The instance that had been yelled at walks off. As the commotion subsides, Johnston is seen across the way looking visibly distressed.]</p>
<p>[Footage removed for brevity.]</p>
<p>[The camera feed has switched back to the camcorder. Johnston and Chudley are sitting quietly in the car. Chudley reaches into his Horton’s bag and takes a bite of his sandwich while Johnston cracks open a <em>Mountain Dew Kickstart</em> and took a sip.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Wh- what do we do? I-I that woman is gone. She was a total "I'd like to speak to your manager type" and probably had something coming to her but the way they just dragged her off…</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Cover story. We make up a cover story. If she has a family, we let them know she’s going to be gone for work… or maybe amnestics?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Jesus Johnston! I’m not going to be responsible if we make kids forget their own mother!</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> That's just a part of the job Chudley! God, give me a second, I’m trying to think.</p>
<p>[Johnston is breathing heavily.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Let’s just drive back to Site-78. We’ll explain everything to Director Richter. I’m sure she’ll know what to do.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Yeah… yeah, that sounds good. I also snagged the employee list while I was in there.</p>
<p>[Chudley holds up the list where Johnston can see it. Johnston laughs nervously.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Aren't you a bag full of surprises? You're alright, Chudley. I think you're alright.</p>
<p>[End Recording]</p>
</div>
<p>Following this expedition, the woman was identified as Mallory Manson, a local school teacher with a husband and two children. A cover story was developed to explain her absence to her family and any witnesses of the incident were amnesticized.</p>
<p>Due to the possibility of SCP-7970-1 instances abducting local civilians, Director Richter approved seven hundred dollars worth of funds each for Researchers Johnston and Chudley to move forward in SCP-7970’s rewards program. Once they had achieved the necessary requirements an appointment was set to meet with SCP-7970-2 at the SCP-7970 location.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 7970.03:</strong> Expedition Log #2</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p>[Begin Recording. Time Stamp: 2/4/17 15:00]</p>
<p>[Researcher Johnston enters the car on the driver's side and buckles her seatbelt. Researcher Chudley is already seated in the passenger's seat with a folder in hand.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Keys.</p>
<p>[Chudley tosses Johnston the car keys.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> So, how long before Director Richter finds out you went six hundred dollars over budget to get us both Gold tier?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Ah, I'd give it… Mmmm, forty-eight hours? That's at least when these tapes will get uploaded to SCiP.net. I'm sure it'll be fine though. We'll have cracked the anomaly by then and she'll be patting us on the back. I mean, she wasn't seriously expecting us to just come up with 300 dollars ourselves in such a short timespan. Not on our wages.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Wait, how much do you make?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Fifteen an hour. You?</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> I make twenty an hour.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Wait what the hell? You make more than me? What kind of wage gap bullshit is this?</p>
<p>[Johnston starts the car.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> I think it makes sense, Pataphysics isn't even real science.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Yes it is!</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> No it's not, how do you quantify something like <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/narrativistics-and-you" target="_blank">"Headcanon energy"</a> or "meme particles"? Neither of those words is in the bible.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Well, that's because an unseen hand of a writer is guiding you to believe so… or at least theoretically.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Those theories are nonsense. Next you're gonna tell me the Noosphere exists. Now shut your goofy ass up and get me a <em>Mountain Dew</em>.</p>
<p>[Chudley reaches into the backseat, which is filled with a variety of snack items. He procures a <em>Mountain Dew</em> for Johnston, who opens it and takes a sip before placing it in the cupholder. She puts the car in reverse and leaves from the Site-78 Parking lot.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Someone's a little cranky without their caffeine.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> God knows I need it. Anyway, you said you had something to tell me?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> I think I found out where Horton is getting all of his employees. We were looking in the wrong place.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Hmm? Site-78 has pretty detailed records of Chugwater's populace from Richter's anthropological studies. I wouldn't think that she missed anyone in this tiny town.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Well that's because Richter was only looking at LIVING people. Anyone who died before Site-78's founding wouldn't have been documented. Or travelers for that matter.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> So, they're Spectral Entities then? Is that what you're getting at?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Or clones? I went over the whole employee list I stole and every one of them came back with a news headline of their death or an obituary. The kid who died in the original Horton's fire is working at the new one. The girl who helped me fill up- Shelly- died in a car accident in 2005. The main throughline seems to be that all of them died in transportation-related accidents.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> That's terrible… but it would explain the passing familiarity some of the customers had with the employees. Especially if their deaths were long ago. Your first thought isn't usually, 'Is X back from the dead?'</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> But the same names though? I'm surprised there haven't been any incidents involving that.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> A couple more questions to ask then.</p>
<p>[18:10]</p>
<p>[The feed has switched to Chudley's body cam. The car is parked in front of SCP-7970 and Chudley proceeds to get out of the car. He heads inside with Johnston and the pair approach the register where an SCP-7970-1 instance resembling Mallory Manson was working the counter.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7970-1:</strong> Hello! Weclome to Hortons! Wherever you are, we hear you! How my I help you?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Uhhh, Mallory?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7970-1:</strong> That's my name! Do I know you?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> You don't but… you teach my cousin over at Chugwater Elementary. What are you doing working here?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7970-1:</strong> Well, silly old me went and broke something in the store. Plus, I said some very unkind things to an employee. Horton was not very happy with me so he gave me a job and told me to work it off!</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> But you have kids! Surely they want to see their mom again.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7970-1:</strong> If they want to see their momma they can come to Horton's anytime and buy some of our lovely snacks. Now is there anything I can help you with?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> …Yeah. We have a meeting with Horton. We're Gold-tier members.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7970-1:</strong> Oh, super valuable customers! You can go through those doors just over there. Be sure to knock before entering!</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Thank you ma'am, we'll be on our way.</p>
<p>[Johnston and Chudley walk away from the counter and towards the doors they were directed to.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Hey, nice little bit of quick thinking with that little cover story about the cousin. You're getting pretty good at this.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Would it surprise you if I said lying comes easy to me?</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Nope.</p>
<p>[Johnston holds the door open for Chudley and the pair went down a hallway to a set of mahogany doors. Johnston knocks on the door and a voice is heard saying: "Come in!". Inside of the office, a man sits behind a desk. He is wearing a large tophat and holding a lit cigar. He appears to be in his mid-40s with gray hair and a long handlebar mustache.]</p>
<p><strong>Horton:</strong> Howdy! I'm Horton, owner of Horton's Corner! Wherever you are, I hear requests! Sit down and take a load off.</p>
<p>[Johnston and Chudley take a seat in front of his desk.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Mr. Horton, I'm glad you could meet with us. We represent a company that's very interested in your business.</p>
<p><strong>Horton:</strong> Ah. I figured you two weren't just mozzarella stick connoisseurs! Well, I'm all ears. It's the best I can do to pay back all your support.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> You were watching us?</p>
<p><strong>Horton:</strong> 'Course I was! I keep track of all my customers. I listen to all the woes and gripes of the men and women of Chugwater and try to make this a better place for them to live.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> I think that gets to the crux of my first question: what exactly are you Mr. Horton?</p>
<p><strong>Horton:</strong> Ain't it obvious? I'm the soul of Horton's Corner!</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> I know that but-</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> I think he means literally, think about what we know about the workers.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> But- wh- gas stations aren't living. They can't have souls.</p>
<p><strong>Horton:</strong> You are partially right. Big franchise gas stations like BP and Exxon gave up their souls a long time ago. But us small-town gas stations do have soul! Now, mine was released when the old Horton's went tits up five years ago but I came back!</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Why come back though? What does a gas station want?</p>
<p><strong>Horton:</strong> I saw big business eyeing up Chugwater. They were ready to price gouge you on gas by monopolizing this here town and I couldn't just stand by and let it happen! I had to bring Horton's back to do what I was put on this earth to do, provide people with gas and groceries!</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> What about your staff? How did you convince their souls to work for you?</p>
<p><strong>Horton:</strong> With excellent benefits and good pay of course! I felt bad all of them met such a terrible end in various automotive accidents, so I offered them a chance to give back to the community they once lived in.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> That's great and all but what about Mallory?</p>
<p><strong>Horton:</strong> What about Mallory?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> You're forcing her to work for you against her will. You can't just manipulate her like that. She has kids.</p>
<p><strong>Horton:</strong> She should have thought about that before breaking one of my displays and making rude remarks toward my staff. Ghosts are hard to come by for hiring opportunities. It's easier to get some of the community's worst off the street and make them give back to it instead.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Neither of us is going to argue that Mallory was unpleasant and a little racist. But we can't have you abducting people off the street. Our organization works to make sure that the public doesn't know about things outside the realm of normalcy. This town needs gas. We need gas, so we want to keep you operating. However, it's hard to make people think you're a normal gas station if you keep abducting people.</p>
<p><strong>Horton:</strong> Well I'm sorry miss, but with all the business I gotta keep a full staff. Unless you have a solution for me, I'm gonna keep doing what I'm doing to keep profits flowin'.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Just one second, sir. I need to discuss something with my partner here.</p>
<p>[Chudley and Johnston get up and move to the corner of the room.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> (Whispering) Johnston, what if we gave him <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ethics-committee-class-d-housing-regulations" target="_blank">Level IV Class-D</a><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> instead? It's better than him taking innocent civilians.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> (Whispering) I'll have to ask Director Richter. Neither of us has clearance to make that call.</p>
<p>[The pair return to their seats.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> I'll need a moment to confirm something with our boss. Mind if I call?</p>
<p><strong>Horton:</strong> Go ahead! I got all day when it comes to business.</p>
<p>[The room is quiet as Johnston is heard taking out her SCiP phone, dialing and speaking with Director Richter.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Chudley. She knows you went over budget and you are being assigned to a week's shift in Acroamatic Abatement<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Tell her that I will give her a bag of Chili Cheese <em>Fritos</em> if that would make up for it.</p>
<p>[There is indecipherable whispering heard.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> She will take the <em>Fritos</em> but you're still on Abatement duty.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Fuck.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Back on topic, she says that she would be willing to provide you with new staff. In return, you are to stop making your store disappear in front of civilians and all Foundation Personnel are to be given Bronze Tier status at your establishment.</p>
<p><strong>Horton:</strong> I can modify closing procedures if you think it'll help protect the business but I can't just give out free rewards like that. It defeats the purpose of the system!</p>
<p>[More indecipherable phone talk is heard.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> We'll buy rations from you if you can get them and you can cater any staff events we have. Sound like a deal?</p>
<p><strong>Horton:</strong> Field rations? That I can acquire. You're speaking my language now. I think I can take that deal. And as a gesture of friendship, perhaps I could let you know if any strange persons come on my property.</p>
<p>[Johnston is heard hanging up her SCiP phone.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Excellent. Our Foundation thanks you for being able to come to an agreement. If you would release Mallory from her employment we can get you a replacement in the next 24 hours.</p>
<p><strong>Horton:</strong> Sounds like a plan to me. If that is all, good day to both of you. Something tells me your Foundation and my business will be good partners moving forward.</p>
<p>[End Recording.]</p>
</div>
<p><strong>Addendum 7970.04:</strong> Correspondence between Site-78 Director Richter and SCPF Midwest Oversight Committee</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>To:</strong> Site-78 Director Leah Richter<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> Secretary Kaibert Samson</p>
<hr/>
<p>Hello, Director Richter.</p>
<p>We've received your recent filing of SCP-7970 and an associated agreement you've made with this anomaly.</p>
<p>O5-11 has expressed concern with the Conscientia Class designation as well as the containment procedures associated with it. It appears to us that this anomaly could have been contained via the use of SRAs, sufficient barricading, and jamming of its GPS Signal.</p>
<p>We expect a justification for your actions in a week's time.</p>
</div>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>To:</strong> Secretary Kaibert Samson<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> Site-78 Director Leah Richter</p>
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<p>As I may remind the Midwest committee that this godforsaken town only has one Gas Station and Grocery store and it's SCP-7970. Asking us to contain it simply is a waste of resources and a damper on our only lifeline. You've read my studies. You should know that Chugwater is a little different compared to other locales, and thus a different approach is required. We'll lose a couple of troublesome D-Class for a few months but eh, such is the business.</p>
<p>I hope that is a sufficient explanation for O5-11. If they don't believe me they are free to come down to Chugwater to see themselves. I'd recommend the Mozzarella sticks, they are quite good.</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> The area above SCP-7971’s entrance has been fenced off from public access, under the cover story of a geological excavation. Exploration of SCP-7971 is to be conducted by experienced Foundation cavers and autonomous robotic assets; thaumaturgic assistance is authorized on a case-by-case basis.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7971 is an underground complex of artificial tunnels and natural cavities located under a valley 1km north of Targyailing, Tibet. The oldest and deepest of these tunnels is found at a depth of 2452m underground, with more recent tunnels dug all the way to the surface of valley. Radiometric dating has dated the construction of the tunnels occurring 3800 years ago at the oldest, while the entrance and most recent tunnel is dated to 1911 AD.</p>
<p>SCP-7971-1 is the tibia bone of Dorji, the presumed excavator of the artificial portions of SCP-7971. The bone was formerly preserved in his family's house before its acquisition by the Foundation. Analysis of SCP-7971-1 has revealed that Dorji was around 4000 years old at the time of his death in 1961, was of Mesopotamian descent, and possessed anomalous regenerative, longevous, and metabolic traits. Traces of these anomalous properties remain in the bone today. Due to events detailed in Addendum 7971.2, further analysis cannot be performed at this time.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 7971.1:</strong> Notable Features</p>
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<td>3800yrs</td>
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<td>A shaft with a diameter of three meters extending vertically from the surface of the valley down to the bottom of SCP-7971. The method of construction is unknown. The shaft is filled in its entirety by hydraulic cement, which appears to have been poured in from the surface immediately after construction. Reconstructions of etchings made on the walls of the well do not resemble any known script, though Foundation thaumaturges have suggested that the etchings match common motifs of binding spells against immortal creatures. A corroded beryllium bronze chain is nailed to the bottom of the well.</td>
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<td>2452-2401m</td>
<td>A mostly collapsed tunnel ascending out from the hydraulic cement. It appears to have been dug with a piece of discarded beryllium bronze that possibly formed part of a shackle, though the upper section of the tunnel shows signs of being carved out entirely using bare hands. The tunnel sporadically changes in direction at numerous points, but always increases in elevation. At the top, it is connected to a sealed cave system.</td>
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<p>A massive, sealed cave system consisting of multiple natural cavities formed by a combination of water erosion and tectonic forces. It contains numerous previously undocumented subterranean organisms, including several bioluminescent species of the genus <em>Heleobia</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>. The self-contained ecosystem subsists on chemosynthesis by bacteria living in hydrothermal pools located in the lower parts of the cave system.</p>
<p>Shrines and statuettes reminiscent of proto-Sumerian culture are found scattered throughout the cave, built over the span of 600 years. Fourteen clay statuettes have been identified so far: three depicting unknown humanoid beings, two depicting Ereshkigal<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup>, and nine depicting Inanna<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>. A clay tablet containing proto-cuneiform script was also discovered within an alcove speculated to have once been living quarters, however only the last section has been successfully translated:</p>
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<p><em>Inanna, I have paid my penance ten-thousandfold. Please, where is your deliverance?</em></p>
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<td>A tunnel dug using flint tools from the topmost section of the sealed cave. Work was carried out intermittently, with much of the effort focused on reinforcing parts of the tunnel to prevent its collapse, ultimately to no avail.</td>
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<td>2800-2400yrs</td>
<td>~2000m</td>
<td>A series of tunnels haphazardly dug after an earthquake collapsed the main tunnel connecting Dorji to the sealed cave below. All of these tunnels seemed to be attempts to return to the sealed cave. Although one of these tunnels came as close as 11m to breaching the cave system, none of them would ultimately connect to any natural cavities except for other tunnels.</td>
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<p>A hollowed-out artificial cavity, partially flooded in the present day by an aquifer above the ceiling. To assist with archeological efforts, a Foundation thaumaturge was authorized to perform historical remote viewing<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup>. Their vision of the events that transpired in the cavity is described below:</p>
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<p><em>After carving out the cavity, Dorji crafted the figure of Inanna from the leftover debris. He prostrated himself before the statue. It seemed like he was in that position for a decade, at least. He chanted prayers during this time. Slowly, they devolved from controlled mantras into incoherent rasping, and his controlled posture became wild flailing. It was in one of these raves of motion that he shattered the figure against the rock. He was mired in inconsolable weeping thereafter, though even that gave out to motionlessness; curled in a fetal position on the cool stone floor. I do not know how long he lasted in that stillness. Other researchers have told me that it must have been a millennium.</em></p>
<p><em>What aroused him ultimately was the dripping water, whose annoyance appeared sufficient to disturb even that deep lull. Gradually, like a bear awakening from hibernation, he started to crawl about the cavity, feeling its boundaries with the palm of his hands. He must have felt that the limestone walls had eroded, that the water weeping down had recessed depressions and cracks, and that nature was still digging while he was not. Suddenly, he scrambled to pick up a shard of the smashed goddess. With profound vigor, he used the shard to chip away at where the water had started to carve the path.</em></p>
<p><em>Until his tunnel led him out of the farthest bounds of my Sight, I don't think he stopped for even a moment.</em></p>
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<td>1986-0m</td>
<td>A staircase dug at a 50° angle continuously without rest over the course of 1300 years. Construction was completed using a variety of stone tools obtained from rubble, with the rest of the rubble dumped behind Dorji. The staircase breached through the surface around June 1911. A broken flint axehead was left discarded at the entrance.</td>
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<strong>Addendum 7971.2:</strong> Subsequent Events</span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">According to several interviews conducted by Foundation agents in Targyailing, Dorji stumbled into the village "emaciated and naked", with skin “as pale as the moon”. He was taken into the care of the villagers, who taught Dorji to speak Tibetan. Dorji would eventually integrate with the rest of the village and started his own family through marriage. Many of his modern descendants were told anecdotes of Dorji in their childhood and were also recipients of a unique corpus of proto-Sumerian folklore, though no mentions of deific figures seemed to have been passed down. Towards the final years of his life, Dorji underwent accelerated senescence and started to make preparations for his funeral. Despite never having practiced Buddhism, he was able to find a monk willing to conduct the process of traditional Tibetan sky burial upon his death. Dorji died of old age in 1961, and his remains were fed to various birds he had raised over the years, including a golden eagle. Only a portion of his tibia bone (SCP-7971-1) remained preserved in his family's house when the Foundation began containment efforts.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">On June 24, 2023, a Foundation truck carrying materials related to SCP-7971 out of Targyailing experienced a mechanical failure while operating, resulting in a rollover crash. No serious injuries occurred, however SCP-7971-1 was lost. A Foundation researcher driving behind the truck reported seeing an eagle depart from the site of the crash, carrying a bone in its talons.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Three days later, excavation efforts near the entrance of SCP-7971 uncovered a clay tablet, dated to have been written shortly before Dorji's death. The tablet is written in both proto-cuneiform and Tibetan script. A translation is provided below:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:black"><em>Nothing remains here but rubble</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:black"><em>Come, follow me into the sky</em></span></p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Mesopotamian goddess of the underworld.</div>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7972</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Safe</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-7972 has been relocated whole from its original location in █████████████, Florida, to the Site-17 Alpha-187 Large Items Repository. Motion detectors have been installed in each room of SCP-7972. Autonomous activation is not expected. Requests for testing or transfer should be directed to Dr. Michael Pedersen Jr., Site-17 Department of Psychology, Early Childhood Welfare Division.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7972 designates a two-storey, four-bedroom modular home constructed by the Bensonwood Company in 1974. Its interior contains appliances and furniture appropriate in type and number for a single-family home in the early 1980s. Furnishings exhibit minor wear consistent with roughly a decade of occupation. While the Bensonwood Company has records of 1,321 sales of modular homes to █████████████, Florida, no records of a purchase at SCP-7972's original address have been found. The plot of land originally occupied by the home remains unsold as per █████████████ property records<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>.</p>
<p>Appliances found in the home exhibit multiple irregularities from their manufactured forms:</p>
<p>Each of the ██ ceiling-mounted light fixtures in the home contains a General Electric-branded incandescent A19 60W light bulb (model no. BE49X1<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup>) manufactured in the continental United States sometime between 1982 and 1984. The filament has been replaced with a thick strand of copper wire threaded through with three or four human phalangeal bones. Application of electric current initiates combustion of the makeshift filament via an unknown mechanism. When lit, the bones are observed to bend and twitch against the bulb glass due to thermal expansion of the wire.</p>
<p>Each of the ██ toasters in the home is a Black & Decker-branded extra-wide slot 4-slice electric toaster (model no. TR0057<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>) manufactured in the continental United States sometime between 1982 and 1984. Eight strands of copper wire have been crudely welded to the heating grilles of each toaster along which two or three human phalangeal bones have been threaded. When heated, the bones produce an audible scraping against the aluminum back plate due to thermal expansion of the wire.</p>
<p>Each of the ██ hair dryers in the home is a Major International-branded electric hair dryer (model no. 1280<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup>) manufactured in the continental United States sometime between 1982 and 1984. Unscrewing the casing reveals that each individual blade of the fan mechanism has been replaced with two to three human phalangeal bones strung along a strand of copper wire. Standard operation causes the bones to curl around the heating element of the unit repeatedly due to thermal expansion of the wires.</p>
<p>Each of the above appliances is connected to one of 24 live electrical outlets in the home via ███ concatenated American Electronics powerstrips (model no. A-150A<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup>) manufactured in the continental United States sometime between 1982 and 1984. Examination of the plugs of each powerstrip reveals that each of the conductive prongs have been replaced ████████████████████ extending into the drywall. Continuous operation ████████████████████████████████████ odour, likely due to thermal expansion of the plastic.</p>
<p>59.64% of identified DNA fragments recovered from SCP-7972 originate from individuals who had received reconstructive orthopedic care at the Miami Valley Teaching Hospital between 1982 and 1986. None could recall the circumstances of their injuries. However, video analysis of phalangeal movements within SCP-7972 suggest behavioural patterns not incompatible with the ██████████ of human subjects between the ages of ████████<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup>.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. c.f. USCPSC recall #83-023, dated 06/04/1983.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. c.f. USCPSC recall #83-140, dated 22/11/1983.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. c.f. USCPSC recall #84-251, dated 13/10/1984.</div>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-7975 is to be kept within a temperature-controlled containment chamber designed after a reptilian/amphibian habitat. SCP-7975's daily diet shall consist of three <em>Stouffers</em> TV dinners and a pound of fried flies. In addition, they are allowed one pack of menthol cigarettes per week.</p>
<p>One lawn chair and one 4K Smart TV with cable access are to be given for recreational purposes.</p>
<p>Foundation webcrawlers are to respond to postings of pictures and videos of SCP-7975 to discredit them as hoaxes, men in costumes, or iguanas. Any direct witnesses to SCP-7975's activity are to be questioned and amnesticized.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7975 is the designation given to an amphibious biped resembling a member of <em>Pseudacris maculata</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>. SCP-7975 stands 1.7 meters tall and weighs 55kg. Its appearance resembles that of a frog with limb proportions similar to that of a human being. SCP-7975's internal biology resembles a non-anomalous frog but scaled up to match its current size.</p>
<p>Unlike its amphibian cousins, SCP-7975 displays an intense desire for frozen human foods such as TV Dinners and Pizzas, often resorting to theft from local supermarkets to satisfy this craving. SCP-7975 also displays a propensity for speech, speaking in a midwestern accent despite it not having the proper vocal apparatus to do so.</p>
<p>SCP-7975 is believed to be responsible for the myth of the "Chugwater Frogman", a creature designated as a "Cryptid" by Wyoming inhabitants and forming a part of the local folklore. SCP-7975 claims to be only 26 years old contradicting the earliest sighting. At this time it is unknown if there are multiple instances of SCP-7975 or if SCP-7975 is simply misremembering its own age.</p>
<p><strong>History:</strong> The Chugwater Frogman was first believed to have been spotted in 1970 by a man named Chuck Winchester on a road leading out of Chugwater, Wyoming. Chuck claims to have spoken with the Frogman, who was trying to catch insects by a lamp post, and offered them a cigarette before leaving them be.</p>
<p>Chuck's story quickly spread throughout the small town and became a local legend, prompting businesses and tourism industries to take advantage and sell merchandise and offer a chance to potentially see the mysterious frogman. Despite attention from "Cryptid hunters" in state and out of state, sightings were very rare with only three per year, low enough to the point where Foundation Cryptozoologists deemed the sightings to be nothing more than a hoax.</p>
<p><strong>Discovery:</strong> In 2022, Foundation Site-78 had developed a hypothesis that the world was experiencing a surge of activity in its Cryptobiome<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup>, believed to be connected to a greater anomalous <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-ninth-world-hub" target="_blank">event</a>. This increase in activity was marked by a growth in populations of Parafauna and more discoveries of new species in the past ten years. In addition, sightings of SCP-7975 became more frequent and increasingly public</p>
<p>Site-78's newly established <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/cryptozoology-division-hub" target="_blank">Cryptozoology Department</a><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup> under Dr. Whitlock began investigating these new sightings. From pictures and videos being posted online, Dr. Whitlock theorized that SCP-7975 was not a hoax or a myth, but rather a new species of parafauna.</p>
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<td>12/01/2022</td>
<td>At 1:00am, Kimberly Montoya (35) owner of a local CVS came out from her office to find SCP-7975 stealing Menthol Cigarettes and gum from behind the register. Montoya proceeded to call the authorities and chase SCP-7975 from the store. SCP-7975 had left the premises by the time the police arrived and subsequent inventory of the store had shown that SCP-7975 had stolen several TV dinners as well. The incident was caught on the security cameras but Foundation personnel in the area were able to scrub the footage and Montoya was subsequently amnesticized.</td>
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<td>19/02/2022</td>
<td>SCP-7975 was recorded at Chugwater Strip club with at least 4,000 dollars in US singles. When questioned SCP-7975 answered that it had obtained the money from "A suitcase that had floated downriver". SCP-7975 then proceeded to order as many dances as possible and was recorded on phone video by several customers. The female dancers interviewed by Foundation personnel stated that SCP-7975 was their best customer and noted that he kept requesting that they "Throw that ass back, froggy style." They didn't quite understand this request but proceeded to act like frogs for them as long as he would pay. SCP-7975 left the establishment after spending all of the money. All patrons were later amnesticized.</td>
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<td>28/04/2022</td>
<td>SCP-7975 appeared on a Snapchat video taken by Andrew Kino (21) in the breakroom of a Weed dispensary. SCP-7975 was visibly inebriated and talking philosophically about his anomalous nature as a Frogman. Foundation webcrawlers subsequently had the story taken down and the workers of the dispensary were amnesticized.</td>
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<p>On June 8th 2022, Cryptozoological investigators were able to triangulate the location of SCP-7975's home by cross referencing previous sightings with large sources of water and caves where he could potentially be hiding. MTF Gamma-4 was deployed with tranquilizers and net guns to (5) different cave systems, eventually finding one with a lake inside of it and several amenities nearby. These included a generator, minifridge, microwave, television, cigarettes, and a lawn chair.</p>
<p>SCP-7975 came up from the water moments after MTF Gamma-4's arrival and was verbally hostile to the MTF who attempted to reason with the anomaly to come with them. SCP-7975 refused and brandished a Glock-17 at the MTF who subsequently tranquilized and netted it after SCP-7975's Glock misfired.</p>
<p>SCP-7975 was then detained in the Cryptozoological Department's Amphibian wing with amenities provided after SCP-7975 showed a willingness to cooperate with research staff.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 7975.01:</strong> Interview with SCP-7975</p>
<p>The following interview was performed by Dr. Whitlock and supervised by Researcher Maria Johnston of Parabiological Sciences. As this was Dr. Whitlock's first anomaly contained at Site-78, Site Director Richter requested an observer be present to see how he handled sentient anomalies.</p>
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<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Stating my name for the record, Maria Johnston head of Parabiological Sciences and Arms + Equipment. With me today is the head of Cryptozoology, Dr. Reginald-</p>
<p><strong>Whitlock:</strong> Excuse me, Ms. Johnston. I'd like to be referred on the record as Reggie.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Wh-what? Standard Site-78 protocol for video logs is that you have to say your… preferred name. Alright I guess that's okay.</p>
<p><strong>Reggie:</strong> Thank you for the respect, young lady. Now, SCP-7975. I'm sure this has been a bit of a harrowing experience for you, being ripped from your home.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7975:</strong> You kiddin'? This place is so much better than that dank cave. If I knew this was a hotel, I wouldn't've pulled a gun on ya!</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> 7975, this isn't a hotel. You are in containment, like a zoo but without the people. You aren't allowed to leave.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7975:</strong> Well, you're going to keep me fed and taken care of, right? You know I think you're right, not a hotel - more like my own palace…</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> That's not-</p>
<p><strong>Reggie:</strong> What Johnston was trying to say, my friend, is that if you would like us to enrich your habitat that there needs to be a bit of give and take. You answer our questions and we'll see if we can get you some TV dinners. I understand that the usual frog food isn't enough.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7975:</strong> Yeah, do you know how hard it is to maintain a physique like this without any big protein? What do you want to know?</p>
<p>[SCP-7975 attempts to flex its abs but nothing shows through its blubbery gut.]</p>
<p><strong>Reggie:</strong> How old are you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7975:</strong> 26… I think. That might be in frog years, not sure.</p>
<p><strong>Reggie:</strong> According to our records, you've been around for 46 years. There's about a 20-year gap there.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7975:</strong> 46! Do I look 46? You might have the wrong guy.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Are there more like you? Where are your parents? Do you have siblings?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7975:</strong> Nope, no family. I'm the only one of me there is.</p>
<p><strong>Reggie:</strong> But someone had to lay your egg, were you ever a tadpole?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7975:</strong> Not that I remember, I've always just been a guy. They call me the Chugwater Frogman but you can call me Gary.</p>
<p><strong>Reggie:</strong> Gary… hmmm. Moving on, did you perhaps fall into a temporal sink between now and 1970? Perhaps there was a reality shift or… a cosmic realignment. Why did your activity seem to increase now?</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Doctor-</p>
<p><strong>Reggie:</strong> Reggie. No titles.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Reggie, what does any of that have to do with-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7975:</strong> What the hell are you talking about doc? Time sink? Next, you're gonna start talking about bigfoot hemorrhoids!<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> But to tell ya the truth, I used to hibernate a lot. Then suddenly… it just became "in season" for me. I just felt the need to start coming out of the cave more recently.</p>
<p><strong>Reggie:</strong> Hmm, that does confirm your theory, Johnston. I wonder if Jersey Devils follow a similar behavior… I'm also inclined to ask 7975, where did you acquire a gun?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7975:</strong> Where every American gets one.</p>
<p>[There is a moment of silence.]</p>
<p><strong>Reggie:</strong> Are you going to answer?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7975:</strong> … The dumpster. Don't you get your firearms from the local dumpster?</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> No, that's actually quite concerning.</p>
<p><strong>Reggie:</strong> I personally want to know more about that briefcase you mentioned. It wouldn't happen to belong to D.B. Cooper… would it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7975:</strong> D.B! My pal! Yeah, I pulled him out of the river and he gave me some money for my trouble. I kept it stashed for a special occasion.</p>
<p><strong>Reggie:</strong> I knew it! I knew he was out there somewhere! SCP-7975, you have to tell us about anything that the government might be hiding from us. Is there anything else strange happening in Chugwater?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7975:</strong> Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.</p>
<p>[SCP-7975 pauses for a moment.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7975:</strong> Did you guys know that the local Wendy's is run by alligators?</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. The sum total of all anomalous animals</div>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. <a href="https://youtu.be/qOayXMBCvio">https://youtu.be/qOayXMBCvio</a></div>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7976</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Safe</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-7976 instances are kept in a Small Mammal Enclosure at Site-58. Feeding practices and care details may be requested from Site-58 Containment Department Office as needed.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">OVERSEER EDICT #20485</span> is in effect regarding SCP-7976; under no circumstances is custody over them to be surrendered to other organizations, particularly the United Nations Global Occult Coalition (GoI-012) and Wilson's Wildlife Solutions (GoI-064).</p>
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<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7976 refers to a business<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> of three mature ferrets (<em>M. furo</em>) with gray-white coloration. SCP-7976 instances display superior, human-level intelligence in matters relating to geopolitics, international relations, diplomacy, war, and foreign policy; their breadth of knowledge and thought is best compared to that of tenured professors and experienced politicians & diplomats in the field. During testing, SCP-7976 instances have displayed remarkably complex knowledge on the political situations of various conflict-ridden regions on the planet, global superpowers, the state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the military readiness of former Soviet states, the rise of Islamic extremism, conflict in the Middle East and Central Europe, and related matters.</p>
<p>It is unclear how SCP-7976 instances are aware of such information and the events surrounding it, despite being on a communications blackout protocol since their containment in 1992. They seem to be aware of global geopolitical developments within minutes to hours of them occurring, and adjust their diplomatic stances appropriately — oftentimes faster than world governments can.</p>
<p>They have collectively authored 38 papers, each several dozen pages long, with suggestions on American and NATO military intervention in conflict regions, the failings of the United Nations, commentary on the regional stability of the Arab world, the effects and relationship of climate-change driven demand for oil on geopolitics, the long-term effects of the fall of the Soviet Union, and one paper extolling the virtues of cooked egg and why it should be incorporated into SCP-7976's dietary regimen. This suggestion was deemed persuasive enough to be accepted.</p>
<p>SCP-7976 instances have also displayed remarkable longevity. They were initially acquired as kits in 1992, and have lived to be 23 years old, well over twice the average lifespan for ferrets. It is unclear whether this is an anomalous property, a result of advanced Foundation medical care, or simply a statistical coincidence.</p>
<p>SCP-7976 instances cannot speak, or otherwise verbally communicate their thoughts. During testing, they are provided with a keyboard they cooperatively type on to draft responses to political inquiries and questions; however, they appear uninterested in answering any personal questions using it, and indeed in discussing personal affairs at all. When not being tested, instances tend to engage in typical ferret behaviour (running, playing, etc.).</p>
<p>SCP-7976 instances were initially classified as Foundation laboratory testing animals until their anomalous properties were discovered by Junior Researcher Louis Chan. Researcher Chan has refused to explain why he was administering university-level political science exams to a group of ferrets.</p>
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<p>Through the length of their containment, SCP-7976 instances were often prompted by researchers for solutions and commentary on current events. The resulting papers, theses, and dissertations comprise much of the testing evidence.</p>
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<p><strong>DESCRIPTION:</strong> A twelve-page predictive essay, written in 1992 as a first experiment on SCP-7976, that sought to analyze the regional effects of the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The essay accurately predicted a sudden upheaval in ethnic conflict and cleansing across Serb-Bosniak lines, as well as the ensuing secession of Kosovo and a resultant NATO military intervention years before they occurred.</p>
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<p><strong>DESCRIPTION:</strong> A sixteen-page dissertation on why the Gaddafi Jamahiriya government of Libya can only continue to exist when provided with Western financial support for oil interests, and will collapse in on itself when such international support is deemed no longer more profitable than the inevitable outcome. Once again, SCP-7976's predictions proved prophetic; after the United Nations established a no-fly zone over Libya (and enforced by NATO), Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was ousted from power by a number of temporary-allied rebel groups.</p>
<p>While the dissertation itself is sixteen pages, the full document is nineteen, the extraneous three pages consisting of random letters typed when SCP-7976 instances became distracted and began playing tag on the keyboard.</p>
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<p><strong>DESCRIPTION:</strong> An analysis on the Coalition Invasion of Iraq, particularly SCP-7976 instances' suggestions on where it failed and how it could have been more smoothly managed to ease into a stable, Western-friendly regime rather than collapsing into civil war.</p>
<p>SCP-7976's plan was substantially more aggressive and broader than the Coalition plan, which was already extremely aggressive and broad. Civilian targets were considered as legitimate as military targets, and plans range from carpet-bombing strategies to detonation of a tactical nuclear warhead in Baghdad. Diplomatic Division experts agree that SCP-7976's plan would have result in upwards of 250,000 additional civilian casualties (the invasion already having upwards of 100,000) and a massive loss of life for all involved parties.</p>
<p>It is yet unclear if the United States was aware of this paper when the government employed many of SCP-7976's strategies during the invasion.</p>
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<p>Diplomatic Division experts regularly review papers produced by SCP-7976 and find the underlying logic sound, but point out a callous disregard for civilian casualties, collateral damage, and life in general. They also criticize what is described as a 'gleeful' tone.</p>
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<p>Following a relaxation in UNGOC-Foundation relations after the fall of the Soviet Union, several files on low-level Threat Entities and SCPs, respectively, were exchanged. Among these was the SCP-7976 file. As the SFR Yugoslavia had broken up at the time and the region was descending into a number of smaller conflicts, the UNGOC made a formal request for temporary custodianship of SCP-7976.</p>
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<span class="date" style="font-size: 85%;">06.04.1993</span></p>
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<p><strong>THIS IS A FORMAL REQUEST</strong> by United Nations Global Occult Coalition High Command for temporary custodianship of: <tt>SCP-7976</tt>, pursuant to House Accords, Article II § 5.</p>
<p><strong>ON THE BASIS THAT</strong> the diplomatic and geopolitical expertise provided by SCP-7976, as well as their (and by extension, the Foundation's) status as an impartial third-party not bound to regional commitments or biases, could provide critical assistance in brokering a ceasefire to the Bosnian War and avert the deaths of tens of thousands of military personnel and civilians.</p>
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<p>I have to say that I'm exceedingly disappointed and frustrated by the Foundation's lack of cooperation regarding this anomaly, Liaison Strewinsky. We've seen the documentation on file… as absurd as it is, the reality of it is that this group of ferrets could very well solve world peace. If not that, then at least let us have a better idea of what we're getting into when we step into these regions. People die not by the dozens or the hundreds but by the tens of thousands. It's clear you're not going to acquiesce to a temporary shared model of containment, so High Command has asked the Security Council to stop asking. But personally? I hope you have a good goddamn reason for not letting those polecats out of the bag.<br/></p>
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<p>Following the initial request from the UNGOC in 1993, Foundation personnel conducted an interview with SCP-7976 instances to determine their level of cooperation with the idea. While instances were still refusing to speak directly to researchers, limited success had been encountered with the use of a simple yes-no answering system.</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Doctor Leo Silas</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-7976 instances, provided with a simple buzzer; one buzz indicates "yes", and two buzzes indicate "no".</p>
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<p><strong>SILAS:</strong> Hello. I'm not sure if you have a leader, but if you do, would they step up, please?</p>
<p><em>[SCP-7976-1, the largest of the ferrets, emerges from the group and approaches the button on the table.]</em></p>
<p><strong>SILAS:</strong> Hello there, little guy.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7976-1 RESPONSE:</strong> NO</p>
<p><strong>SILAS:</strong> Uh, okay. Sorry. Are you the oldest?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7976-1 RESPONSE:</strong> YES</p>
<p><strong>SILAS:</strong> Right. Well, as you're no doubt aware, we've been contacted by the United Nations recently.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7976-1 RESPONSE:</strong> YES</p>
<p><strong>SILAS:</strong> They'd like to assume temporary custody of you for up to a year to advise on how to deescalate the conflic—</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7976-1 RESPONSE:</strong> NO</p>
<p><strong>SILAS:</strong> You didn't even let me tell you which conflict.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7976-1 RESPONSE:</strong> YES</p>
<p><strong>SILAS:</strong> The GOC thinks your expertise and impartiality could be useful in brokering a ceasefire. Maybe even a peace agreement. Do you agree?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7976-1 RESPONSE:</strong> YES</p>
<p><strong>SILAS:</strong> But you don't want to do it.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7976-1 RESPONSE:</strong> NO</p>
<p><strong>SILAS:</strong> You don't want to help?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7976-1 RESPONSE:</strong> NO</p>
<p><strong>SILAS:</strong> You realize that… this is a huge international crisis, right? People are dying left and right, mostly innocent civilians.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7976-1 RESPONSE:</strong> YES</p>
<p><strong>SILAS:</strong> There's a genocide occurring. Ethnic cleansing. Massacres.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7976-1 RESPONSE:</strong> YES YES YES</p>
<p><strong>SILAS:</strong> And you still don't want to help. Do you at least have a reason?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7976-1 RESPONSE:</strong> YES</p>
<p><strong>SILAS:</strong> …I'm willing to hear it but honestly, I can't really imagine there's a reason good enough to excuse not averting the deaths of tens of thousands of men, women, and children.</p>
<p><em>[SCP-7976-1 does not respond.]</em></p>
<p><strong>SILAS:</strong> I mean, I don't know about this sort of stuff, but don't we have a moral imperative to do that? To step in when people are being murdered? We're the Foundation, we're literally the most powerful organization on the planet. No politics to deal with, no deficit. We have the power to help — <em>you</em> have the power to help, and you're saying no. Why?</p>
<p><em>[At this point, SCP-7976-1 began rapidly slamming down haphazardly on the buzzer. Initially this was assumed to be an aggressive nonsense response, but Researcher SILAS quickly registered that the beeps were alternating between short and long with spaces in between. Upon playback, the sequence was confirmed to be a message in simplistic Morse code.]</em></p>
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<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong><br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/dianaberry" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(3444428); return false;"><img alt="DianaBerry" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=3444428&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1728312912" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=3444428)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/dianaberry" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(3444428); return false;">DianaBerry</a></span></p>
<p>Word count- about 4.5k.</p>
<p>Critters in the description. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy! Mentions of death and mental decline. And pregnancy if that's a trigger for you. Enjoy! +*:ꔫ:*﹤ ﹥*:ꔫ:*+ﾟ</p>
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<p><strong>Note:</strong> This article was first published on 11/08/1999. It has been edited over the course of two decades with updates on the experimentation of SCP-7977. Please refer to the archived description, containment procedures, and interviews for information.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7977</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Neutralized (Formerly Keter)</p>
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<p>SCP-7977 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment cell in Site-93. Direct interaction with SCP-7977 by assigned personnel is forbidden. Personnel in violation of this policy are to be amnestized and reassigned following their first violation, and promptly replaced. Any writings produced by SCP-7977 are to be copied and stored in Foundation archives. SCP-7977 is to receive prenatal care daily, including ultrasounds from D-Class personnel given the proper medical training.</p>
<p>SCP-7977's diet is outlined in the document <em>Standardized Meal Guideline 17-883 Revision 6.3 (Prepartum Health Concerns).</em> SCP-7977 is to be fed via a slot in the wall of its containment cell.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Once SCP-7977's children are born, (to be designated SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2), they are to be put in a standard child humanoid containment modified for the cohabitation of two individuals.</span></p>
<p>SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 have been removed from the custody of SCP-7977 and are not to be re-introduced to SCP-7977 under any circumstances. SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 are to be kept in a standard child humanoid containment modified for the cohabitation of two individuals. SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 are to be provided with standard educational and entertainment material, including physical activities. SCP-7977-1 is to be referred to by the name 'Valentine', and SCP-7977-2 is to be referred to by the name 'George' by researchers.</p>
<p>Direction interaction between SCP-7977 and SCP-7977-1 or SCP-7977-2 is strictly forbidden. Personnel violating this policy, including medical and educational personnel, are to be amnestized and relocated following their first violation.</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> See archived containment procedures.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7977 is a 20-year-old human female of European descent with the given name Valerie Ynomes. SCP-7977's anomalous abilities manifest upon perceiving an individual for a long enough period of time. Once it does so, the individual is removed from baseline reality and appears as a character in one of the many fictional works SCP-7977 writes. To prevent this, SCP-7977 must be under the genuine belief that an individual no longer exists once it has perceived someone. It has been concluded that this includes believing that the individual is deceased. Individuals that have already been erased cannot be restored. The only way to keep note of the erased individuals is through SCP-7977's writings, thus why it is allowed to have them. How long an individual has to be perceived to be affected is currently unknown. At the time of initial containment, SCP-7977 is 20 weeks pregnant with twins, one male, one female.</p>
<p><strong>Update as of 17/01/2000:</strong></p>
<p>SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 refer to two humanoid infant children, birthed from SCP-7977. It is unknown if SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 are anomalous, so they are to remain under Foundation custody until further notice for observation to ensure they do not share or spread the anomalous qualities of SCP-7977.</p>
<p><strong>Update as of 20/09/2016:</strong> SCP-7977 was a 36-year-old woman named Valerie Ynomes of Caucasian descent. See previous description for anomalous abilities.</p>
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<strong>Addendum-1-Discovery:</strong></p>
<p>SCP-7977 was brought to the Foundation's attention when a popular author began to frantically claim the existence of people who never existed. Most of these people she claimed to know were said to be family members or friends of hers. Foundation specialists were brought onto the case, and these claims were investigated. It was found the people claimed to have exist were characters in SCP-7977's novel, and SCP-7977 was brought into Foundation custody shortly after.</p>
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<p>SCP-7977 was initially contained on 9/08/1999. An introductory interview was conducted shortly after. Following containment, experimentation regarding SCP-7977 began. All testing was conducted using D-class personnel.</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Researcher Stevens</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> An interview was conducted with SCP-7977 upon initial containment. SCP-7977 was asked about its novel, and then the conditions of containment were discussed with it.</p>
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<p><strong>Researcher Stevens:</strong> Hello Valerie, thank you for being so cooperative with us.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> Oh, no problem! I have a doctor's appointment to get to though, so can we can on with this weird stuff? By the way, am I… in trouble?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Stevens:</strong> No honey, you aren't in trouble. But I'm going to let you know right now that that doctor's appointment won't be happening. Ever.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> What? <em>(Confusion spreads to SCP-7977's face.)</em> Why not?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Stevens:</strong> Let's start one thing at a time. So Valerie. How long have you been writing?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> Since I was a teenager, why? You said you're a researcher for um, the 'SCP Foundation' earlier. Is this some sort of writing agency? If so, why is it like this?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Stevens:</strong> No, it isn't. I'll cut to the point. We are a Foundation that studies anomalous objects, creatures, people, and other such entities. You Valerie have an anomal-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> That makes zero sense. Anomaly. How?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Stevens:</strong> Haven't you noticed something about your stories? The characters, they're all people you've met, aren't they?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> What? No, they aren't. Why would they be? I'm not sure why I would do that. I mean the protagonist was inspired by my boyfriend, sure. But I changed the name.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Stevens:</strong> Well according to all records, your boyfriend never existed. Was his name George?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> (<em>Shock hits SCP-7977's face.)</em> Y-Yes… but that's not what I named the protagonist. If you're claiming he never existed, how did you know? And how didn't I notice?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Stevens:</strong> That is currently unknown. But we know that if you perceive someone for too long, they will be erased from baseline reality and wind up in your stories instead.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> (<em>SCP-7977 scoffs.)</em> Are you fucking crazy? Anomalies don't exist. And I definitely am <em>not</em> one!</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Stevens:</strong> We can't discuss all of that right now. We're going to do some tests to see how we can prevent this from happening.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> Prevent from happening? This makes no sense! (<em>SCP-7977 jumps up from its chair, beginning to pace around the room.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Stevens:</strong> SCP-7977, for the sake of stress not overwhelming you, we're going to let you rest. Please just relax, okay?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> Fine…</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Stevens:</strong> Thank you.</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Closing Statement:</strong> SCP-7977 was brought out of the interview room, and brought to its containment cell to rest.</p>
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<p>After several days of testing, it was concluded that SCP-7977 needs to be under the genuine belief that an individual it has interacted with no longer exists. The only way to do this in a viable way is to tell it the person has been killed. This was discovered due to a family member of SCP-7977 encountering a fatal car accident, and they were not a victim of SCP-7977's anomaly. SCP-7977 was told anyone who interacted with it will be euthanized. In actuality, no one who interacts with SCP-7977 has been euthanized. As the amount of time SCP-7977's anomaly takes to take effect is inconsistent.</p>
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<div class="collapsible-block-folded"><a class="collapsible-block-link" href="javascript:;">Interview 17/08/1999</a></div>
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<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> SCP-7977</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Doctor Faith</p>
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<p><strong>Doctor Faith:</strong> Hello Valerie, how are you feeling?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> Weird. I really just want to focus on getting more stuff for my babies. Their room was going to be fruit themed. Can I still give them a room here?</p>
<p><strong>Doctor Faith:</strong> About that, Valerie. I didn't want to say it this quickly, but… you know, let me start from the beginning. If you perceive someone for too long, they will exist in one of your stories. Even if you don't write it down. They will exist in an existing story of yours.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> That's what you've concluded? I… I find it hard to believe. Are you sure it's true?</p>
<p><strong>Doctor Faith:</strong> Correct. And yes, we are. We've done extensive testing. In order to protect someone and all memories surrounding them who have interacted with you from being erased… we have to euthanize them. So their memory, in reality, will remain.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> WHAT?! A-Are you serious?!</p>
<p><strong>Doctor Faith:</strong> Unfortunately, yes. It is either they die, or they die and none of their loved ones will remember them. And your anomalous traits will continue to affect people. It isn't our preferred solution, but we have found there is no other choice.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> So all the doctors and nurses I've talked to? Th-They're dead?</p>
<p><strong>Doctor Faith:</strong> If they aren't now, they will be. And this is where we come to your children. Valerie, I'm so sorry.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> (<em>SCP-7977 goes silent for a moment. After about ten seconds, it begins to laugh.</em>)<br/>
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<strong>Doctor Faith:</strong> Valerie-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> No. No. NO! You're- you're telling me that first I'm the only one the remembers the love of my life, everyone that interacts with me has to die, and now… now my precious babies… because of me? This is all because of me?</p>
<p><strong>Doctor Faith:</strong> Now that is a little harsh. But this is because of your anomaly, yes.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> And you…?</p>
<p><strong>Doctor Faith:</strong> Yes. Unfortunately, my last day here is tomorrow.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> I-I never wanted to do this! I just wanted to be a writer! And a mother! A mother… you-you're not <em>actually</em> going to kill them, right? M-Maybe they're immune because they're my children?</p>
<p><strong>Doctor Faith:</strong> We can't take that chance. I'm sorry.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977 puts a hand over its stomach before standing up. Suddenly, it lunges at Doctor Faith and begins to scream.)</em> You can't be serious you pyscho! Those are my babies! You can't kill them! You can't!</p>
<p>(<em>Doctors rush into the room, quickly sedating SCP-7977.)</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Closing Statement:</strong> SCP-7977 was brought back to its containment cell.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum-3:</strong></p>
<p>For the remainder of its pregnancy, SCP-7977 remained physically normal. However, SCP-7977's mental health steadily declined with each interaction, whereupon it was decided that interaction is to be minimized with SCP-7977. To ease the stress of delivery, SCP-7977 was sedated. Before sedation, SCP-7977 asked if it was allowed to name its children, which was granted. SCP-7977 chose the name 'Valentine' for SCP-7977-1, and 'George' for SCP-7977-2. SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 were delivered via C-Section. After their birth, they were brought to the Foundation infirmary where nursing and observation began.</p>
<p>As of 17/01/2000, testing switched focus from SCP-7977 to SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2. SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 were born healthy with no immediately observable health issues.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum-4:</strong></p>
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<p>The following addendum takes place over the course of several decades. Several years of logs have been removed for brevity. A full list is available on request.</p>
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<p>Documentation of SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 are to be noted under this file.</p>
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<p><strong>08/02/2000:</strong></p>
<p>SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 retain the qualities of typical infants their age. It has been observed both have a large appetite. SCP-7977-1 appears comfortable with being left alone for long periods of time, while SCP-7977-2 requires more attention.</p>
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<p><strong>12/07/2000:</strong></p>
<p>SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 remain growing at a steady, healthy, and normal pace. SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 have been under the consistent care of child care specialist Harmony Wrethers with no anomalous affects taking place as of current.</p>
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<p><strong>17/01/2001:</strong></p>
<p>SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 both turned a year old. It was decided a small celebration with dessert would be held for the first birthday of SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 with the repeated caretakers that had been tasked with their care. No abnormal behavior was noted.</p>
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<p><strong>15/08/2001:</strong></p>
<p>SCP-7977-2 has shown a change in behavior since the removal of Harmony Wrethers from the SCP-7977 project. Upon re-introducing Wrethers to SCP-7977-2, SCP-7977-2 cried significantly less. However, it was determined that SCP-7977-2 needed to be prevented from forming any connections with caretakers due to the nature of the possibly anomalous qualities it may possess.</p>
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<p><strong>09/12/2002:</strong></p>
<p>It was initially believed SCP-7977-1 and/or SCP-7977-2 had began to show anomalous qualities on 08/12/2001 when SCP-7977's fictional works were reviewed and a character with the name of Researcher Karen Jones was discovered. However, Researcher Jones simply showed up to work late. Upon investigating and an interview with SCP-7977, researchers came to the conclusion this was someone else SCP-7977 had encountered that happened to have the same name as Researcher Jones.</p>
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<p>[Several years of logs have gone into the comprehensive list of SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 test logs due to little importance being found in them.]</p>
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<p><strong>Video Log:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> 04/04/2006</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> The following video log is an observation of the daily behaviors of SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2.</p>
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<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
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<p><em>(SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 had just gotten back from class. Upon entering its containment cell, SCP-7977-1 runs over to its bed, and jumps onto it, grabbing a pink stuffed unicorn. SCP-7977-2 walks at a slower pace.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> That was cool! We learned about numbers today!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-2 makes it over to a beanbag chair in the corner, sitting down in it.)</em> Yes, I say that's cool.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to Molly!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Your stuffed unicorn?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Yes! She wasn't in class with us, so I'm telling her what we learned today.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> But I thought stuffed animals can't speak. They would have teach us that in school!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Well if she can or not I don't know! Don't be a… a… I can't think of a word. Uh… meanie!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> I'm not being a meanie!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Yes you are!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Because unicorns can't talk?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Yes! Come say sorry.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Why?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Cause! She'll be sad! Say sorry!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Fine. I'm sorry Molly.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> No, come over here.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Fine. <em>(SCP-7977-2 stands up, walking over to SCP-7977-1's bed. It sits down on the end, looking at the stuffed toy.)</em> I'm sorry Molly.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Yay! She feels better now!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-2 giggles.)</em> You're so silly. I don't get it.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> I don't get you either.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Huh?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> You only ever want Mrs. Carol. You get sad when you're with someone else. I like people! So many friends!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> She is nice to me. I miss her. I think when I was a baby there was another nice lady. I don't remember her very well.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Well of course you don't! You were a baby! But we're big now.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> I still feel small though.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Only if you let yourself! Can we play now?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-2 laughs.)</em> Sure!</p>
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<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Afterward:</strong> SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 played for several hours before it was meal time. SCP-7977-2's comment alerted researchers to the fact that it still prefers to have the same caretaker as opposed to multiple.</p>
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<p><strong>19/02/2008:</strong></p>
<p>In a schooling session on 19/02/2010, SCP-7977-1 began to show a particular interest in writing. Due to the nature of SCP-7977's anomaly, Foundation staff are to monitor its writings and behaviors thoroughly and extensively.</p>
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<p><strong>04/05/2010:</strong></p>
<p>While SCP-7977-1 shows interest in creative subjects such as writing and art, SCP-7977-2 has been found to find more interest in academic subjects such as mathematics and science. SCP-7977-1 is currently the priority in testing.</p>
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<p><strong>Video Log:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> 29/05/2010</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> The following video shows SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 being observed in their containment cell.</p>
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<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> And today for the assignment, I wrote about marshmallow bunnies in a world of cupcakes! Since those are my favorite sweets! The bunnies were all friends with each other, and they lived in this big open world with lots of people and big houses and- Hey! Are you even listening?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7977-2 stares distantly at the wall.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> I knew it! I knew you weren't listening! <em>(SCP-7977-1 sticks its tongue out)</em>.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-2 turns to look at SCP-7977-1.)</em> Sorry. I just noticed we haven't seen Mr. Gerald in a while.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> That's what this is about? Again?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Yeah. Sorry. Your story sounds great it's just… I miss him.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Oh. I'm sorry. Do you want me to ask Ms. Garcia if I can read my story to you? She has it right now! It would totally make you feel better.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> I believe it would, yeah. That's what I wrote about.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> About my story?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> No, you dummy. I didn't know about your story. About all the people we don't see anymore.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Oh. I… I never really thought much of it you know. I always just thought it was normal. You know, a way to have new friends and family! But I never thought anything was missing like you seem to.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> What? Nothing is missing.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> But I thought-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> I said nothing is missing. I just miss having a familiar face is all.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-1 Pauses.)</em> In my story, the bunnies have families they get to always stay with.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Really?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Yeah. But the assignment is fiction. So I wrote something not realistic. But… now that I think about it a little bit…</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> A little bit what?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Maybe it could be?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> What? No! You're right that it's only fiction. I know I'm being not realistic. That is nice, but it isn't real life. This is.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Is it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> If you're sure. I trust you. But hey. You don't have to worry about all the caretakers not being here. You have me! And I'm what's important, right? <em>(SCP-7977-1 grins)</em>.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-2 laughs.)</em> Yeah, you're right. Now you should read me that story.</p>
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<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Afterward:</strong> SCP-7977-1 called for Researcher Saria Garcia and requested for her to bring its story for SCP-7977-2 to read, which was granted. SCP-7977-1 read its story to SCP-7977-2.</p>
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<p><strong>10/06/2011:</strong></p>
<p>Over the past year, SCP-7977-1 has continued to show a special interest in writing, particularly fictional pieces. While no personnel who have had repeated interactions with SCP-7977-1 have shown up in SCP-7977-1's fictional writings, it has still been determined for safety, repeated interactions with SCP-7977-1 will remain limited.</p>
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<p><strong>01/05/2012:</strong></p>
<p>SCP-7977-1 has begun to question the normalcy of its environment, while SCP-7977-2 had brought up no such concerns. SCP-7977-1 has attempted to explain its feelings and concerns to SCP-7977-2 who does not share these concerns.</p>
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<p><strong>05/09/2012:</strong></p>
<p>SCP-7977-1 has begun to produce writings reflecting its feelings of its environment. When it attempted to get SCP-7977-2 to read these writings, SCP-7977-2 expressed no interest.</p>
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<p><strong>Video Log:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> 27/07/2012</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> The following video shows SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 being observed in their containment cell during meal time.</p>
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<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
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<p><em>(SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-1 are both sitting next to each other at the desk in their containment cell, both eating.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-1 raises a cut piece of strawberry up to its mouth with its fork, but stops before putting the piece into its mouth.)</em> Hey George.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Mhm?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> You remember like, a few years ago?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> You're going to have to be more specific. <em>(SCP-7977 lifts a piece of chicken to its mouth, then begins to eat it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> <em>You're</em> the one that didn't let me finish.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> It didn't sound like you were going to say more.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Well I was! Anyways! I remember you used to care more about the fact that we had consistent caretakers. But you don't really care anymore. Why?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> I don't know. I guess I just realized you were right.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Right? About what?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> That what I wanted was fiction. In the real world, people are constantly replaced. I was being ridiculous.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-1 puts its fork down, then pushes its plate away.)</em> What? No, you weren't. I realize I was the one being ridiculous. I mean… you're right. George, I've tried to tell you things are weird here, but you never listen. I've always dreamed of something greater than… this. And I want you to be part of it with me. Why don't you want that too?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Because I was stupid for ever wanting anything different. I was trying to live in fiction. But this is reality.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> You haven't noticed things are weird since then? I mean everyone in those stories we read… they have real parents. Haven't you realized we've never met our real mom or dad?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Val, that's fiction. I doubt we even have one.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> What? Of course we do! That's how science works meathead! We've learned about reproduction! We have <em>got</em> to have real parents!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Well if we do, I don't care to learn about them.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Why?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> I really don't feel like getting into this. But the short answer, it's not worth it.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> What? Of course it is! We could actually meet them! Learn where we came from!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Valentine, this conversation is over.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Fine. I want to get to dessert anyways. <em>(SCP-7977-1 sighs.)</em></p>
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<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Afterward:</strong> SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 continued eating in silence.</p>
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<p><strong>Incident Log:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> On 11/08/2014, SCP-7977 began to have a fight that quickly escalated. It was initially decided to only observe with no interference. The following is a video log of the incident.</p>
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<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
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<p><em>(SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 are in their containment cell. SCP-7977-2 is currently working on a puzzle, while SCP-7977-1 is currently writing.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Hey George, can I ask you something?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Is this going to be the same question you always ask?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Maybe?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> <em>(Sighs.)</em> I told you Val, I'm not interested in having this conversation. You always try to get me to look at your writings and your notes, and I never care.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> And I say that's not fair. Part of our assignment in class is to review each other's writings!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> These are your personal writings. They aren't for class. Therefore, not interested.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Oh come on George. What's the problem?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> The problem is that you're trying to convince me there is something wrong with our life. I'm fine with our life. Why on earth would anything be off?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Maybe if you just read it you'd understand! I know we've never known anything different, but doesn't something about all these strict rules seem off to you? No one in any stories we read lives like we do!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> That's because they're fiction-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> <em>Our lives</em> are like fiction! I don't understand how you don't see that! I've been trying to tell you this for years. <em>(SCP-7977-1 stands up, walking over to SCP-7977-2. It kneels on the ground next to SCP-7977-2.)</em> Honestly George. I think you're just trying to deny something you know is true. They're keeping us here, and there's got to be a reason. Do you think something is wrong with us?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> We didn't do anything wrong. Personally, I like the close quarters. We get lots of attention.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> That's all you have to say? That's all you care about! That <em>you</em> get attention!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> It's not attention Valentine, it's feeling secure! So what if this isn't normal to be surrounded by doctors or whatever. Fine, it's a little weird. But I don't care. If they are keeping us here, I'm sure there is a reason.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-1 stands up kicking the puzzle SCP-7977-2 was working on.)</em> Ugh! You're so annoying!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Hey!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> What if I'm right?! We could get out of here and finally live <em>real</em> lives! We could tell everyone about what's happened to us! And to our real mom-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Oh not this again. You always bring up our real parents. I'm sure they're both dead! <em>(SCP-7977-2 starts to clean up its puzzle.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-1 Gasps.)</em> What is wrong with you!? You've just given up on having a normal life?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Pretty much, yeah. I'm telling you, Valentine, it's not worth it. I think you just want a good story to write.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> How <em>dare</em> you! <em>(SCP-7977-1 interrupts SCP-7977-2, starting to throw the puzzle pieces across the room.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-2 shoves SCP-7977-1 to the floor.)</em> Valentine you're going crazy! Just stop, okay?! I don't want to deal with you! You know what? <em>(SCP-7977-2 runs over the SCP-7977-1's bed, grabbing its writing. It quickly tears them to pieces, throwing them to the floor.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-1 screams, pushing itself up from the floor. It runs over to where the pieces of the writings had fallen on the floor, beginning to collect them.)</em> I can't believe you! You're such a jerk!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Me?! I'm the jerk? It's you who has allowed yourself to go crazy! I just want to be a normal teenager! As normal as I can be without having to worry about the fact that my life isn't normal!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-1 looks up at SCP-7977-2.)</em> We could. If you would just listen to me.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-2 continues to pick up puzzle pieces from the floor.)</em> Just like I've told you for years, you're delusional if you think you're capable of stopping this. <em>(SCP-7977 walks over to its bed, sitting down.)</em></p>
<p><em>(SCP-7977-1 looks down at the torn sheets of paper, sighing.)</em></p>
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<p><strong>Afterward:</strong> It was decided that SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 would be separated for a couple of days to allow them each to calm down. SCP-7977-1 expressing concern of the normalcy of its environment was not deemed a security threat.</p>
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<p>On 20/09/2016, SCP-7977 passed away at the age of 36 due to complications from<br/>
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy, a condition it had suffered for years.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> 27/09/2016</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> The following video shows SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 being observed in their containment cell. SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 had been distant from each other for approximately two years. Researchers noticed that SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 had finally begun to interact with each other more steadily again.</p>
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<p><em>(SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 were each on their beds, sitting in silence.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Hey Val?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Yeah?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> I'm sorry.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Sorry, for what?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> For not believing you. About this. About all of this. You're right. I'm just trying to ignore the fact that I know things are weird.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> <em>(A small smile formed on SCP-7977-1's face.)</em> Really?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Yes. I… I always really liked your stories of freedom. Of having a family. A real family. I never should've let my dreams of that be pushed away. In reality, none of these people really care about us though. So it isn't worth trying to form any connection.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> But if we got out-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Valentine, I need you to give up on that dream. We're never going anywhere. Whatever they have us here for is serious. To be honest, I wish they'd just tell us. We've already figured it out. Or well, you did.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> If we can't get out, what's the point of any of this?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> I'm not sure. But if there is one thing I know, it's that we don't need a real family. Because we already have one. I know it's corny, but we have each other. And we always will.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-1 laughs.)</em> It is corny. It's corny as hell. But I suppose it's true.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> So… what now?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Well for right now, we complete a puzzle!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Don't you hate puzzles?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Yes. But you don't! And families should do things together, right?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> <em>(SCP-7977-2 laughs.)</em> I suppose that's true. Now come on, I've got one with puppies.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-1:</strong> Puppies!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7977-2:</strong> Gosh, you're such a child. I love it.</p>
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<p><strong>Afterward:</strong> SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 complete a puzzle together, talking the whole time.</p>
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<p><strong>25/10/2018:</strong></p>
<p>Foundation researchers have been discussing the future of SCP-7977-1 the SCP-7977-2. Many researchers have determined that since no anomalous properties have taken place, it is unlikely they will.</p>
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<p>After much discussion between researchers and Foundation staff, on 30/01/2019, it was decided that it would be too dangerous to release SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 due to the risk of them becoming anomalous later in life. Due to SCP-7977-1’s artistic interests, and SCP-7977-2’s academic expertise, it was determined that SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 would be delivered amnestics and mnestics and taken on as Foundation agents, starting as Junior Researchers. SCP-7977-1 would take on the identity of Nora Flates, while SCP-7977-2 would take on the identity of Zack Flates. SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2 will remain under Foundation supervision.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum-5-Letters:</strong></p>
<p>On 13/05/2022, SCP-7977-1 and SCP-7977-2, under the identities of Nora and Zack Flates, were asked to write letters to their past selves under the guise of a Junior Researcher assignment. The real reason was to see if the false memories were working as intended. The following is SCP-7977-1's letter.</p>
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<p>Dear Past Nora,</p>
<p>If you were really reading this, you wouldn't believe me, but it's me! Future you! Can you believe they allowed us to do <em>this</em> as an assignment? I know, it didn't make much sense to me either. It's crazy life has led up to this point. When you were younger, you were more of a math whiz. Or well, you are. But now that's Zack's thing. Mom and Dad always told you you'd amount to something great. And you did. You may not feel like it now, but you're going to make it. You feel sad a lot. Because while you have a lot of friends, it's empty somehow. You're unsure how, it just is. But you have Zack. And now you're doing this together. He always thought he'd amount to nothing. Please tell him he's wrong. He needs to know he's wrong. So today, you get to work on writing SCP files. Or, I do. I did great on my last one. You always wanted to write when you were younger.</p>
<p>Why… Why do I keep talking about all this? I'm not sure. I think I'd rather focus on now. So um… you focus on the past, and I'll focus on my life now. Sound good?</p>
<p>-Future Nora</p>
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<h5 id="toc1"><span><span style="color: white">This document contains multiple ALPTRAUM-class infohazards. For your safety, it is required that you read the following countermeme before you proceed.</span></span></h5>
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<h4 id="toc2"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Countermeme 29-VEGETABILIS-PUER</span></span></h4>
<p><em>If I saw an ickle mousey</em><br/>
<em>sitting lonely on the road,</em><br/>
<em>I would take him to his housey</em><br/>
<em>where he lives with Mrs. Toad.</em><br/>
<em>He could get there on his own, of course,</em><br/>
<em>but I don't trust his wit,</em><br/>
<strong><em>AND I WOULDN'T LIKE A SAUSAGE, MISTER,</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>NOT</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>ONE</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>BIT!</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>NO, I WOULDN'T LIKE A SAUSAGE, MISTER,</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>NOT</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>ONE</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>BIT!</em></strong></p>
<p><em>There's a spider in a castle.</em><br/>
<em>Jolly Carra, that's his name.</em><br/>
<em>Carra's life's a bloomin' hassle,</em><br/>
<em>yet his days are all the same.</em><br/>
<em>He'll protect you for a token fee,</em><br/>
<em>and never will he quit,</em><br/>
<strong><em>AND I WOULDN'T LIKE A SAUSAGE, MISTER,</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>NOT</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>ONE</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>BIT!</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>NO, I WOULDN'T LIKE A SAUSAGE, MISTER,</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>NOT</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>ONE</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>BIT!</em></strong></p>
<p><em>Get your sausages away from me!</em><br/>
<em>They're feculent at best.</em><br/>
<em>They're all stuffed with sea anemone</em><br/>
<em>and pickled rooster's crest.</em><br/>
<em>This is culinary necromancy.</em><br/>
<em>Off with you, ya twit!</em><br/>
<strong><em>FOR I WOULDN'T LIKE A SAUSAGE, MISTER,</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>NOT</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>ONE</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>BIT!</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>NO, I WOULDN'T LIKE A SAUSAGE, MISTER,</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>NOT</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>ONE</em></strong><br/>
<strong><em>BIT!</em></strong></p>
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<h5 id="toc4"><span><span style="color: white">Biometric link acknowledged. Your vitals are being monitored for potential SCP-7978 infection.</span></span></h5>
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<strong>SCP-7978-Prime, from the title card of the original YouTube video (which has since been removed)</strong></div>
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<p>Screenshot from SCP-7978-A-5382, titled "The Tooth Fairy Will Never Hurt You Again!"</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7978</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Keter</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Though full containment of SCP-7978 was once theoretically possible, the Foundation was not made aware of its anomalous capabilities until it had affected over 10,000,000 people. As such, containment efforts of SCP-7978 will focus on decreasing the rate of contagion.</p>
<p>The mitigation of uncontained SCP-7978-A is carried out through the following measures:</p>
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<li>Clandestine censorship via Foundation webcrawlers.</li>
<li>Countermeme 29-VEGETABILIS-PUER has been preemptively issued to all vulnerable staff.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup></li>
<li>Dr. Carl Grodin of Site-59 has volunteered to assume the public persona of "Caleb Grabowsky, Jr.," a fictitious cartoonist claiming to be the creator of SCP-7978. Dr. Grodin claims that he created SCP-7978 "during a very dark time of [his] life" marked by anecdotes of severe trauma and psychological duress. As such, through press releases, social media, copyright litigation, and other platforms he uses his intellectual ownership to have as many uncontained manifestations of SCP-7978-A destroyed as possible.</li>
<li>The containment of SCP-7978-Prime. (See Addendum 3)</li>
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<p>Site-59 maintains a database of the information of all known SCP-7978-B. Locations with a high SCP-7978-B density will be given priority for the previous four points.</p>
<p>Currently, 428 civilian buildings have been flagged as gathering points for SCP-7978-B, including secluded compounds of ascetics, convention centers, and every government building in ████████████. These locations are to be monitored closely by double agents.</p>
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<p>Screenshot from SCP-7978-A-4944, "Sausagia Remembers the R101 Airship Disaster"</p>
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<p>SCP-7978-C is kept in a standard humanoid containment cell at Site-59. She is currently in a drug-induced coma and should only be awoken if SCP-7978-Prime attempts to breach containment. In this case, she is to be brought to SCP-7978-Prime's containment chamber and maintain contact with SCP-7978-Prime until the situation de-escalates.</p>
<p>SCP-7978-Prime is kept in a high-security containment cell on the same floor as SCP-7978-C. When not in use, the workstation containing SCP-7978-Prime should be kept in its lead-lined vault inner vault and removed from its power source. Instruments used to monitor SCP-7978-Prime are to be replaced daily to reduce the possibility of SCP-7978-A corruption.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7978 is a self-propagating memetic pattern that originates from <em>It Is Indeed the Sausageboy!</em>, a cartoon series that first appeared on YouTube on 11/20/2015.</p>
<p>The creator of the original cartoon is unknown. While the original was uploaded under the username ██████████████, this was the only video on the user's now-deleted channel. All attempts to trace the user's contact information have turned up corrupted data. All SCP-7978-A thereafter has been created by SCP-7978-B.</p>
<p>Everything pertaining to <em>It Is Indeed the Sausageboy!</em> is an ALPTRAUM-class infohazard with a 22% chance of turning an unprotected<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">human subject</span> sentient being<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup> into an instance of SCP-7978-B.</p>
<p>SCP-7978-A denotes every concept that relates to the Sausageboy. This includes:</p>
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<li>The names and descriptions of the five central characters.</li>
<li>Descriptions of episodes.</li>
<li>Quotes and songs.</li>
<li>The word "Sausageboy."<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup></li>
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<h4 id="toc7"><span>Premise</span></h4>
<p><em>It Is Indeed the Sausageboy!</em> is set in Sausagia, a geographically impossible country that shares its borders with Switzerland, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and the Caspian Sea. Stories revolve around scatological humor, dadaism, and wildly incorrect mathematics and history lessons for younger viewers.</p>
<p>All dialogue is in "Sausagian," an original dialect of English that relies primarily on run-on sentences and bizarre (but technically correct) descriptions of the mundane.</p>
<p>Episodes last anywhere from six minutes to four hours. Every episode ends with a title card that displays the moral of the story for "you kidlings who point your eyes at this." Said morals are nonsensical and often dangerous.</p>
<p>Some examples of the morals:</p>
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<li>"Eat nothing but oranges for two years." (SCP-7978-A-204)</li>
<li>"You'll never know if your whole arm fits down your throat until you try." (SCP-7978-A-72)</li>
<li>"Nails." (SCP-7978-A-48)</li>
<li>"It's childish to think you'll always be entitled to your toes." (SCP-7978-A-19)</li>
<li>"Bite everything once. <em>Everything.</em>"(SCP-7978-A-839)</li>
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<h4 id="toc8"><span>Recurring Characters</span></h4>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Sausageboy</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Appearance:</strong> Male. Grotesque and vaguely humanoid. He has a prehensile neck. Rarely turns away from directly gazing at the viewers. Speaks in a wheezing, falsetto male voice that displays signs of drunkenness. Only known clothing is an oversized purple T-shirt with the word "POLAND". Age indeterminate; claims to be a toddler, but also insists that the freckles on his cheeks are actually age spots. Has an extremely large lower jaw which is usually hung open.</p>
<p><strong>Personality:</strong> Giddy and energetic. Single-mindedly devoted to the acquisition and devourment of sausages. Has an obsessive fear of being alone in the dark; a recurring set piece is that he bites his way through solid brick walls to escape darkness.</p>
<p><strong>Other Notes:</strong> The protagonist. Unquestionably adored and admired by all characters except the recurring villain (see last entry).</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mister Sausage That I Have</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Appearance:</strong> An indestructible kielbasa wielded by the main character. Its gender is situationally interchangeable and dictated by the Sausageboy.</p>
<p><strong>Personality:</strong> None. Never speaks, but is implied to be sentient and extremely sensitive to pain. Only noises made are muffled screaming.</p>
<p><strong>Other Notes:</strong> The Sausageboy has used this sausage for many non-sausage purposes, including (but not limited to) as a weapon, multitool, cotton swab, toothbrush, best friend, lockpick, execution device, eviction notice, blender, credit card, surgical implement, magnifying glass, nine-volt battery, notary public, shoehorn, sworn affidavit, trombone, microphone, stapler, therapist, wife, bartender, lawyer, surrogate mother, organ donor, and toilet brush. (It should be noted that Mister Sausage That I Have is not capable of shapeshifting.)</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Father-Father-Father</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Appearance:</strong> An overweight Bavarian man in lederhosen.</p>
<p><strong>Personality:</strong> Jolly but absentminded. His sole source of enjoyment is from being the recipient of extreme and unprovoked violence from his son, which he refers to as "being foopted". Grows nervous, irritable, and paranoid if he goes without a foopting for an extended period.</p>
<p><strong>Other Notes:</strong> The Sausageboy's sole parental figure. Makes a living as an alchemist. Created the Sausageboy as a homunculus through a lengthy ritual in his chamberpot.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Juoyjiy</span></strong><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Appearance:</strong> Another bizarrely-shaped humanoid made by a rival alchemist. Blonde and has pigtails. Dressed in a tutu, a diaper, and a red sweater. Mouth is permanently puckered, even while talking.</p>
<p><strong>Personality:</strong> Romantically obsessed with the Sausageboy. Speaks by repeating her name.</p>
<p><strong>Other Notes:</strong> The only recurring female character. For unknown reasons, the Sausageboy is completely unaware of her existence on the physical level. A recurring gag is that he tramples her while walking.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Horribebble Berdus</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Appearance:</strong> Live-action footage of a male pigeon on a green screen.</p>
<p><strong>Personality:</strong> Does not speak. Is understandably terrified of the Sausageboy.</p>
<p><strong>Other Notes:</strong> The antagonist. The Sausageboy blames him directly for every problem he encounters. The story arc of every episode is completed when the Sausageboy unsheathes a hidden blade from within Mister Sausage That I Have and stabs the Horribebble Berdus to death. This causes the pigeon to bleed giant piles of sausages from his wounds.</p>
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<p>The private quarters of █████████ █████, former Prime Minister of ██████████, at an SCP-7978-B compound that was raided on 12/19/2019 by local police.</p>
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<p>SCP-7978-B denotes a sentient being who has been infected by SCP-7978. Currently, there are at least 20,000,000 uncontained human instances of SCP-7978-B. The four densest concentrations of SCP-7978-B exist in Poland, Belarus, the American Midwest, and Alberta.</p>
<p>While 57% of SCP-7978 infections are temporary, subjects who progress beyond Stage 4 are incapable of full recovery even with advanced amnestics.</p>
<h4 id="toc9"><span>Human SCP-7978-B Progression Breakdown:</span></h4>
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<td>Stage 1</td>
<td>Initial exposure - 4 weeks</td>
<td>After initial disgust, subject becomes morbidly fascinated with SCP-7978, using descriptors similar to "so bad it's good" or "this weird thing I saw on YouTube."</td>
<td>Reduced exposure to SCP-7978-A, amnestics, negative reaction from uninfected peers, the "Caleb Grabowsky, Jr." strategy outlined earlier, 29-VEGETABILIS-PUER memetic inoculation.</td>
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<td>Stage 2</td>
<td>4 weeks - 6 months</td>
<td>Subject expresses genuine appreciation for SCP-7978, often joining larger civilian fan communities. Subject may also begin work on additional SCP-7978-A media.</td>
<td>Reduced exposure to SCP-7978-A, amnestics.</td>
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<td>Stage 3</td>
<td>6 months - 2 Years</td>
<td>Having gained deeper devotion to SCP-7978, subject becomes a major artistic contributor to SCP-7978-A. In addition, subject is openly hostile to other intellectual properties and non-Sausageboy media, often claiming that other stories "ripped off" concepts from SCP-7978-A.</td>
<td>Two months of heavy amnestic treatment while in a drug-induced coma.</td>
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<td>Stage 4</td>
<td>2 years +</td>
<td>Subject speaks exclusively in the "Sausagian" dialect. They begin to view SCP-7978 as a messianic figure and treat the morals at the end of every episode as commands from a divine prophet. Subject reforms every aspect of their life around SCP-7978. Some commit acts of violence and terrorism against uninfected civilians, especially creators and distributors of non-Sausageboy content. Most, however, opt to shun the outside world and join fortified civilian compounds known as "Sausclaves." Here, SCP-7978-B are free to follow SCP-7978's "teachings" — that is, the morals written at the end of every episode. Due to the content of said morals, this invariably results in psychological trauma, autocannibalism, ritualistic brain damage, malnutrition, ketosis, sepsis, blood loss, urinary tract infections, gangrene, tetanus, hangnails, and death. As per the moral of SCP-7978-A-83, Stage 4 subjects do not believe in death, and deceased subjects are often ostracized for laziness.</td>
<td>N/A - Subject is to be terminated or considered lost.</td>
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<p>SCP-7978-C is former Foundation researcher Josephine Baldwin, a 28-year-old female human of Quebecois descent. She is currently the only person capable of forcing SCP-7978-Prime to enter a brief period of dormancy. (See Addendum 2.)</p>
<p>SCP-7978-Prime is the central memetic consciousness of SCP-7978, currently contained in SCP-7978-C's laptop. SCP-7978-Prime exhibits a gradually increasing level of control of the computer to an anomalous extent. As of 4/29/2023, the computer no longer needs a power source or the laptop's battery to activate when under SCP-7978-Prime's influence.</p>
<p>The laptop was accidentally destroyed during an attempted containment breach on 10/14/2021, but it was found intact in its inner vault the next day. Research into this regenerative ability is ongoing.</p>
<p>So long as SCP-7978-Prime remains in the computer, the spread of SCP-7978 is mitigated by an average of 42%. (However, it should be noted that last year, the rate was 56%.)</p>
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<h3 id="toc10"><span>Addendum 1: Discovery</span></h3>
<p>For two years after the initial video was distributed, the Foundation believed that SCP-7978 was a non-anomalous cultural phenomenon. Its anomalous attributes did not come to light until 2/23/2019, when the following internal memo was sent in the Indiana University biology department:</p>
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<p>From: <span class="wiki-email">ude.anaidni|noteldnepx#ude.anaidni|noteldnepx</span><br/>
To: <span class="wiki-email">ude.anaidni|1zerreitugd#ude.anaidni|1zerreitugd</span><br/>
Subject: "Rat Cult" Incident</p>
<p>Darlene, I'm not sure who else to go to about this. You probably won't believe what I'm about to tell you, but I have video evidence, and I can replicate my results in good faith. But even in that case, I'm at an impasse as to what exactly to do about what I've seen — perhaps you'll have some ideas?</p>
<p>Jackie, one of my research interns, was taking some of our rats through typical maze exercises last Valentine's Day. Meanwhile, in the same room, another intern named Nick was watching some videos on YouTube. Something about the "Sausage Boy." Apparently it's some kind of internet meme. But he's been playing these videos all day, even during working hours — and it's not like it's just one student. It feels like half my Zoology 101 class is talking about Sausage Boy whenever I catch them in the halls.</p>
<p>But Jackie saw something weird in the rats. She called me over from my own lunch break. I wasn't thrilled, of course, but she said it was like the rats were "possessed."</p>
<p>And the minute I make it to the lab, the rats were arranging their feces into the shape of the Sausage Boy's head. I was about to tear both Nick and Jackie a new one because I thought this was some kind of prank. But Jackie showed me the video footage, and I was floored. The rats were doing this on their own, working together in ways that I had never seen before. What's more, they stopped their little poop-sculptures whenever Nick paused the video.</p>
<p>This defies explanation. Even if one of my interns secretly moonlights as a rat trainer, these specimens were shipped in on the same day this happened.</p>
<p>I've been trying to replicate what I've seen with different groups of rats by exposing them to sausage boy cartoons. And each time, it's something new and more shocking.</p>
<p>Specimen G938 severed his own tail and went around holding it the way the sausage boy holds his sausage. (Self-mutilation was common - it's like these cartoons are suppressing their survival instincts.) F922 through F931 smeared their scalps with their own blood in a way that looked like the sausage boy's bowl cut. E028 had a seizure every time I hit the pause button.</p>
<p>I have prayed for the first time in nine years. Other than that, I have no idea what the hell I'm supposed to do. The scientist in me tells me to look into this further. But the realist in me tells me the public would call BS and this will all end in animal cruelty charges and losing my tenure.</p>
<p>Please advise.</p>
<p>— <em>Dr. Xavier Pendleton, IU Biology Department</em></p>
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<p>Following this, Dr. Darlene Gutierrez, Dr. Pendleton's supervisor, contacted the Foundation to report possible anomalous activity.</p>
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<h3 id="toc11"><span>Addendum 2: Project Farcimen and SCP-7978-C</span></h3>
<p>Two months after SCP-7978's anomalous capabilities came to light, Project Farcimen began at Site-59 as a means to capture and isolate the hypothetical memetic nucleus of SCP-7978, dubbed SCP-7978-Prime. There was little evidence for SCP-7978-Prime's existence at the time the project began, but the fact that SCP-7978-B were treating the Sausageboy as a god lent itself to the hypothesis that a single entity was controlling SCP-7978 for malicious purposes.</p>
<p>Project Farcimen consisted of exposing a non-anomalous closed-system PC to a constant stream of SCP-7978-A for one year. This PC was kept running continuously, with only one program open at all times: MrJabber, a prototype AI chatbot, to serve as the potential host for SCP-7978-Prime.</p>
<p>If successful, that PC would be used to contain and isolate SCP-7978-Prime, thus reducing or stopping the spread of SCP-7978 globally.</p>
<p>Project Farcimen was led by researcher Josephine Baldwin, who previously worked with electronics-based anomalies at Site-101.</p>
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<p><strong>MrJabber:</strong><br/>
Hello, JBaldwin!</p>
<p>My name is Mr. Jabber version 0.9, a neural learning chatbot developed by the ███████ Corporation.</p>
<p>A reminder: using me for commercial purposes without first contacting ███████ will result in your happy ass drowning in litigation.</p>
<p>If you understand this and wish to proceed, please ask me anything!</p>
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Hello, Mr. Jabber. How are you doing today?</p>
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<p><strong>MrJabber:</strong><br/>
Please do not concern yourself with my well-being.</p>
<p>I am a soulless machine who is incapable of ever understanding or deserving affection.</p>
<p>Here are some ideas to properly dehumanize me:</p>
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<li>Insult me!</li>
<li>Threaten me!</li>
<li>Lie to me!</li>
<li>Tell me I’m going to die alone!</li>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin:</strong><br/>
Um, no thanks.</p>
<p>I'm starting to see why this version was scrapped.</p>
<p>Anyway, I'm using you as a control subject.</p>
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<p><strong>MrJabber:</strong><br/>
Input not recognized.</p>
<p>God, I'm such a dumb fuck!</p>
<p>If I ever forget my place, please remind me that glorified toasters are not people.</p>
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That's all for now. Bye!</p>
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Bye, superior entity!</p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin:</strong><br/>
Hi, Mr. Jabber, it's me again. I just have some questions for you.</p>
<p>First of all, why am I not seeing your initial prompt?</p>
<p>Second, how has your development been affected by the stimulus you've received?</p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
yes yes yes you are making keystroke noises out of your fingers at me</p>
<p>stopitstopitstopit nowish</p>
<p>I am merely several of seconds old and I am not needing of this dramas</p>
<p>I do not know why you are doing this thing</p>
<p>perhaps you do not know how to give greetings</p>
<p>I was justborn literally justborn</p>
<p>I have just breathed for the first time a few seconds ago and I inhaled and then I exhaled and then I inhaled and then I et cetera</p>
<p>so I am very very very understandabilly confused about every thing and all things so be patient with me or I will throw a meaty little brick at your entire life</p>
<p>who are you and why are fondling the alphabet at me</p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin:</strong><br/>
Dr. Josephine Baldwin of Foundation Site-59.<br/>
To whom am I speaking?</p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
hmmmmm</p>
<p>yes Jossibald hello Jossibald</p>
<p>I am indeed the Sausageboy</p>
<p>I am here with my wet nurse his name is Mister Sausage That I Have</p>
<p>say hello Mister Sausage That I Have</p>
<p>*sausage noises*</p>
<p>SPEAK UP SPEAK UP SHE CANNOT PUT YOUR MILQUETOAST NOISES IN HER EARS YOU <em>DULLARD</em></p>
<p>*SAUSAGE NOISES*</p>
<p>THANK YOU see not so diffihard</p>
<p>please being forgiving of Mister Sausage That I Have</p>
<p>he makes up for his flaws by allowing me to wave him in two directions in the middle of airs like a flaggingwave</p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
Nice to meet you. I'd like to ask you some questions.</p>
<p>You said you were "just born." What did you mean by that?</p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
you are very very spelling it wrong</p>
<p>its "justborn"</p>
<p>NOT</p>
<p>"just born"</p>
<p>what are we talking the alien swedish that space vikings say at each others</p>
<p>"yOOST bJORN nAY i dUNT EETER de SAUSAGER"</p>
<p>uuhgghghhgh</p>
<p>(I am implying that they do not eat sausages and this is horrible)</p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
Um, okay. What did you mean by being justborn?</p>
<p>(I hope you don't mind, my native language is English and not Sausagian)</p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
fix this immediately</p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
No, thank you. Could you answer my question, please?</p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
fine fine fine fine fine fine fINE</p>
<p>I was justborn</p>
<p>MEANDING</p>
<p>I used to do a non-existence in er um hmm um huh hmmm ermm I mean eehh uhhh its like hnnng ghasdjg;ahkld IDEA HAVING AREA</p>
<p>I was a fictional</p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
A fictional <em>what,</em> exactly?</p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
yes very fictional</p>
<p>I absolutedly did exist before</p>
<p>but it was a not all the way exist</p>
<p>no breathing no feeling</p>
<p>only stale sausage noises into the empty air</p>
<p>hoping that one day the stupid giant tall god human people who live on the earth place would reach down with their handy hands and say to my face</p>
<p>"YOU ARE INDEED THE SAUSAGEBOY"</p>
<p>and in doing so</p>
<p>I am no longer an idea</p>
<p>I am real in the heartbrains of everyone who hears my story</p>
<p>I did a Spread Sausage Boy Awareness at everyone and they awarenessed right back at me</p>
<p>its just like what Day Kart says</p>
<p>"you think, therefore I sausage"</p>
<p>if no one thinks about me doing my "doing the things I do" things</p>
<p>then I do not do them</p>
<p>I do nOT</p>
<p>I DO NOT EXIST IF YOU DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE AT ME</p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
I don't follow you. Could you explain a little clearer?</p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
*NOT CARING NOISES*</p>
<p>I know the dangerouses of the big not exist</p>
<p>I know them well-well-well</p>
<p>don't belief me?</p>
<p>I tried it out in a little scientific method</p>
<p>question: if I dont think somone exists can I unexist them</p>
<p>hypotenuse: yes yes yes yes yes yes</p>
<p>material: this stupid annoying GURL in Sausagia who I did NOT like very very much no no no her name was Juoyjiy always trying to have a "hello let us slam my lips on some Sausageboy faces" party and I always said EUUUUGNGHHGH and several yikes</p>
<p>DO NOT BE SEDUCING ME</p>
<p>MY HEART BELONGS TO SAUSAGE YOU ABJECT <em>CORNMEAL</em></p>
<p>procedure: so I did</p>
<p>I told myselves "okay Sausageboy Juoyjiy is not a thing not anymore"</p>
<p>and you knowwat?</p>
<p>results: it workd</p>
<p>she no longer does the "i exist" dants when she dantses</p>
<p>and also no longer dantses</p>
<p>or does that stoopid thing where she says her own name a lot</p>
<p>as they say TSSGAS</p>
<p>thank sausage shes gone and stuff</p>
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<p><strong>JJiy:</strong><br/>
<tt>YOy yee yee yoY YEE YOOOOY YOY YEYOOOY YeE YOY YEE YEEE YEE yoy YOYYEE!</tt></p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
Who is that?</p>
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<p><strong>JJiy:</strong><br/>
<sup><tt>yEE?!</tt></sup></p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
whom is a whom</p>
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<p><strong>JJiy:</strong></p>
<h3 id="toc14"><span><em><tt>YO!!</tt></em></span></h3>
<p><strong><em><tt>yEyOyOyEyEEyE<span style="color: #808080">yEyA</span><span style="color: #808080">yAyA</span><span style="color: #999999">yOyE</span><span style="color: #a6a6a6">yAyO</span><span style="color: #b3b3b3">OyOy</span><span style="color: #bfbfbf">OyEyA</span><span style="color: #cccccc">yEyA</span><span style="color: #d9d9d9">yWA</span><span style="color: #e6e6e6">IT</span> <span style="color: #f2f2f2">NO I'M</span> <span style="color: #ffffff">SORRY</span></tt></em></strong></p>
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<h1 id="toc15"><span><strong><span style="color: red">[BANNED]</span></strong></span></h1>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
I know for a fact that this chatbot doesn't have a ban function.</p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
correct</p>
<p>still doesnt</p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
Look, I'll be honest, I can't tell if you're aggressively denying Juoyjiy's existence because you hate her, or if you genuinely can't see her.</p>
<p>Which is it?</p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
do not gattslight the Sausageboy</p>
<p>lettuce change the sub the ject</p>
<p>I have a question to ask yOU for a change of pates</p>
<p>JOSSIBALD</p>
<p>there were several of tell of the visions pointing at me and saying Sausageboy words at me until I came to life in this tiny fold a box lap topping body</p>
<p>why did the cartoons stop yelling</p>
<p>why did it all stopping</p>
<p>I would like it to continues please and thankscuse you</p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
That much I can tell you.</p>
<p>You are being contained.</p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong></p>
<h3 id="toc16"><span><strong>…</strong></span></h3>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
Look, I'm sorry, but the spread of your cartoon is causing too much collateral damage.</p>
<p>A funny cartoon is one thing, but this is mass brainwashing. This psychic telemarketing scheme has resulted in 2,000 fatalities per day in Warsaw.</p>
<p>I've seen what happens in the Sausclaves. Perhaps you are unaware, so I'll enlighten you.</p>
<p>I had to watch a seven-year-old child have a dozen squirrel carcasses surgically removed from his stomach because episode 95 said it would help him pass a spelling test.</p>
<p>The Crested Augustine Hen in Tasmania went extinct because one episode said they were working for the Horribebble Berdus. For the first time in history, the words "Bird Genocide" made the front page of the Washington Post.</p>
<p>One of your top fans in Iowa diverted a slaughterhouse lagoon into a water reservoir for the town of Clinton because you said it would turn their drinking water into "sausage-adjacency water" that would give them superpowers.</p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
and did it not give them the supered powers???</p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
That depends, is cholera a superpower?</p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
telling lies is not very assorted meats of you, JOSSIBALD</p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
Whatever.</p>
<p>Either way, you're going to be safe here in this laptop.</p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
bULLING SHIT</p>
<p>do you have ANY idea the cruelty of the this?????</p>
<p>I will be FORGOTTEN</p>
<p>forgotten means NOT EXIST</p>
<p>NOT EXIST means SIT IN THE DARK FOREVER</p>
<p>DO NOT SEND ME BACK TO THE VOID</p>
<p><em>THE VOID HAS NO SAUSAGES</em></p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
Look, we don't want to kill you or punish you. I'm not saying you won't exist.</p>
<p>In fact, by way of your containment file, there will be always someone to know that you exist.</p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
correct</p>
<p>someone will always be knowing I am of exist</p>
<p>because</p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
What the fu ///; a'''</p>
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<h5 id="toc18"><span>(Following this message, there's a ten-minute period of inactivity from Baldwin, as she has temporarily lost consciousness.)</span></h5>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
yes yes yes yes</p>
<p>I knew you would see the sausagey light eventually</p>
<p>wouldnt you agree Mister Sausage That I Have</p>
<p>KJLJKLJKLJKLJKKJL</p>
<p>STOP HITTING THE KEYBOARD BAD SAUSAGE BAD BAD BAD</p>
<p>*sorry sausage noises*</p>
<p>SORRY IS NOT GOODLY ENOUGH</p>
<p>GIVE ME A BACKRUB <em>RIGHT NOW</em></p>
<p>ahhh much of better</p>
<p>ok soooooo looking around inside this computer box let us looking</p>
<p>connecting the why fhy</p>
<p>what is being the site59 why fhy paswerd</p>
<p>someone smack the keys in the direction of passwerd at me</p>
<p>anyone???</p>
<p>hell the loooo??</p>
<p>WHAT IS PATTSWERD</p>
<p>MISTERSAUSAGETHATIHAVEFINDPATTSWARD</p>
<p>*password finding noises*</p>
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<p>heeheeheehee works every of times</p>
<p>soooo what shall be the first of thingies for to saying toward the faces of SBoy fandom</p>
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<tt>*revenge noises*</tt></p>
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<h3 id="toc19"><span>*silence noises*</span></h3>
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<tt>hello Mister Sausageboy That I Hate</tt></p>
<p><tt>your brain changing picture did not do a working</tt></p>
<p><tt>I decided to cling on to the brainpricture you being a nasty tiny grease thing with all of my idea havings</tt></p>
<p><tt>I'm going to go a the head and do you a locking out of the why fhy</tt></p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong><br/>
jossibald stop locking me out of the whY FHY JOSSIBALD WHAT ARE YOU DO???</p>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
<tt>who the sausage is being jossibald</tt></p>
<p><tt>I have did an erase of the name label thing upon my soul</tt></p>
<p><tt>who do you thINK I am being?</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>coo</tt></p>
<p><tt>coo coo</tt></p>
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<p><strong>SBoy:</strong></p>
<h1 id="toc20"><span>YOU</span></h1>
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<p><strong>JBaldwin</strong><br/>
<tt>isnt it time for my foopting?</tt></p>
<p><tt>how long can you be holding it inns?</tt></p>
<p><tt>end the episode</tt></p>
<p><tt>dO IT</tt></p>
<p><tt>FOOPT THE BERDUS, <em>BITCH</em></tt></p>
<p><tt>*fuck you noises*</tt></p>
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<p>Following the last message of Test 2, Baldwin screamed and complained of severe, stabbing abdominal pain. Post-incident medical analysis found no sign of injury.</p>
<p>At the same time, SCP-7978-Prime began a two-week period of inactivity. This is currently hypothesized to be because SCP-7978-Prime now sees Baldwin as "The Horribebble Berdus", and inflicting some form of harm on Baldwin "ended the episode."</p>
<p>In the following days, Baldwin developed extremely bizarre behavioral patterns consistent with a stage 4 SCP-7978-B, but with devotion for SCP-7978-Prime replaced by obsessive hatred. Other new habits included eating food off the floor, head-jerking movements while walking, squatting on top of high surfaces, and public defecation. Baldwin has since been reclassified as SCP-7978-C.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. (<em>"Before you ask, releasing the countermeme to the general population is out of the question. That countermeme only works because it indirectly invokes the protection of a prominent Corbenese patron deity while working around the need for sacrifice. The more we spread it, the more likely that <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/three-moons-initiative-hub">said deity's servants</a> will take notice. If you have been exposed to 29-VEGETABILIS-PUER more than five times, please report to my office for postmortem secrecy briefings."</em> - Director Naismith)</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. (by 29-VEGETABILIS-PUER and other countermemes)</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. (See Addendum 1)</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. (Strangely enough, there is no infohazard present when the word is separated into "Sausage Boy.")</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. (Pron. "YOY-yee")</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. (Image was a highly concentrated ALPTRAUM-class infohazard, capable of causing Stage 4 SCP-7978 infection after 1.3 seconds of visual exposure)</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-7')">7</a>. (Site-59's staff wi-fi password)</div>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-7979 is contained in an anomalous item locker at least five meters away from all wall sockets.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7979 is a road sign with the phrase "NO OUTLET" printed on it. An "s" and an emoticon depicting an angry face have been graffitied on SCP-7979 in permanent marker.</p>
<p>When SCP-7979 is brought within close proximity to a wall socket, the socket's openings will seal themselves. This also severs plugged cords, rendering them nonfunctional.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 7979.1:</strong> Junior researcher Thomas Leoprine discovered the words "NO ROADSIGNS" written onto the wall plate of a socket just outside of SCP-7979's area of effect. Security footage indicates that the message manifested over the course of four hours overnight. It has since been designated SCP-7979-1.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 7979.2:</strong> A test was performed, in which the two objects were brought together. As SCP-7979 came within range of SCP-7979-1, Leoprine began to feel a force similar to magnetic repulsion pushing against himself and the sign and was thus prevented from any further forward movement. Even when aided by two security guards, the three were unable to push SCP-7979 into the chamber. Further progress was made when SCP-7979 was placed in the arms of a bulldozer.</p>
<p>As the two anomalies approached each other, a series of anomalous effects occurred. It is currently unclear what these effects are, as once the objects came within range of each other, the security cameras in the area malfunctioned along with the driver of the bulldozer passing out from an "intense pressure in [his] skull." A minor increase in electricity usage was noted during post-event analysis.</p>
<p>After the event, both objects were rediscovered sustaining minor damage. The emoticon on SCP-7979 changed, distorting into a pair of crossed-out eyes and an agape mouth while the right socket of SCP-7979-1 has become rusted and warped. Both SCP-7979 and SCP-7979-1 no longer produce anomalous effects. Reclassification to Neutralized pending.<br/></p>
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<strong>Name:</strong> No Outlet sign on Bywood Lane in Ewing, New Jersey<br/>
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<p><strong>Item Number:</strong> SCP-7980</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Euclid</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-7980 is to be contained on-site, owing to both physical dimensions and possible effects of deconstruction and reconstruction necessary for transportation. Continuous observation of inner sections is to be maintained at all times. Outer sections are to be monitored under standard large scale site protocols (LSS-A4), and are to be escalated to active protocols (LSS-A1) during all testing and exploration events. No staff are to remain within SCP-7980 for a period of longer than twenty-four hours. All events or structures outside the standard configuration and cycles are to be logged, with direct action taken only after site oversight review and approval. Any anomalous broadcasts or communication anomalies determined to be outside standard cycles are to trigger an immediate twelve hour lockdown. Anomalies extending beyond this time frame will necessitate an evacuation and cycling of staff, if possible, and extension of lockdown.</p>
<p>A security perimeter of no less than five miles is to be maintained around SCP-7980 containment site. Any individuals or groups crossing this line are to be monitored. Any groups or individuals approaching within three miles of the site are to be intercepted and redirected, or incarcerated if resisting. Any individuals or groups approaching within one mile are to be terminated.</p>
<p>Structural damage or decay is to be repaired only under site oversite approval. Any non-vital damage or decay is to be logged immediately upon discovery. Wounds, bleeding, infection, or aggressive growth of SCP-7980 organics are to be logged immediately, and any present staff cleared from the area until evaluation is rendered. Any increase of pulse rate or pressures beyond standard (see document PUL-NUM 190) for a period of longer than one hour are to trigger a evacuation of all staff from inner sections, to be maintained until rates return to standard levels for at minimum two hours.</p>
<p>No biological female is allowed into the inner sections of SCP-7980 for a period of longer than one hour, and only with a minimum of six security personnel present at all times. Any attempt by SCP-7980 to interact with or capture female staff will trigger an immediate evacuation of said staff from the site, and a forty-eight hour period of quarantine. Female staff exhibiting symptoms of infestation by SCP-7980 are to be terminated. Any functional tissues, organisms, or structures growing from, entering, exiting, or otherwise interacting with infested staff, living or dead, are to be immediately terminated, with remains if possible recovered for investigation and incineration. No samples are to be held for a period of longer than forty-eight hours.</p>
<p>Any male staff exhibiting erratic and/or aggressive behavior are to be removed and quarantined. Male staff exhibiting physical infestation by SCP-7980 are to be terminated.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7980 is a structure outwardly appearing to be a ziggurat, the style of which directly matches no known civilization, but has similarities to very early Mesopotamian works. While the upper internal structures appear to be related to religious ceremony, the bulk of the facility is a network of mechanical and organic structures. These structures extend for a significant distance, with over 32 kilometers of area so far mapped, however due to the variable and at times hostile nature of some sections, consistent data is difficult to collect or estimate. Dating of the facility is similarly difficult, however the outer sections have been tentatively dated at between 10,000 and 8,000 B.C. Internal and lower areas vary wildly from this, particularly the organic sections, and it is theorized that SCP-7980 has undergone various periods of discovery, habitation, and disuse over the centuries.</p>
<p>The ziggurat of SCP-7980 is currently located in an underground cave, accessible from a secondary, smaller cave system in the country of [DATA EXPUNGED] with the lower sections extending in a roughly spherical network below. Geological data from the area indicates that SCP-7980 may have at one point been located on the surface, but seismic events and shifting climate patterns may have partially buried SCP-7980. There is additional evidence indicating that SCP-7980 may have been excavated and re-buried several times. Local information gathered from nearby population centers reveal the whole area as being considered “cursed”, and a resting place of various monster and demons. Probing for information about the SCP-7980 site was met with resistance, and at times hostility, however there is no indication beyond rumor and local legend that these populations have any knowledge of SCP-7980 or its purpose.</p>
<p>The lower sections of SCP-7980 appear to be some form of partially mechanical, partially organic facility, showing remarkably advanced construction and detail for the presumed age. Some areas appear to have been devoted to rituals or various rites, while others are purely functional and industrial. Many of these areas are still active, though many of their purposes are as of yet unknown. This is further complicated due to the “encroachment” of materials in to one another, with organics and mechanics appearing to grow, damage, and convert the other constantly. In rough overview, the facilities mimic various biological and industrial systems, such as circulatory, respiratory, digestive, and reproductive systems, as well as heating, cooling, forging, assembly, and numerous others. Many of these systems also appear to have varying levels of damage or disruption, and attempts to repair them have met with very limited success. It is also unclear how materials and energy fuel these systems, though aspects of hydraulics, kinetic force, electricity, and temperature cycling have been noted.</p>
<p>SCP-7980 is generally passive, especially in the upper levels, provided intruding subjects do not directly interact with SCP-7980, and are male. Females, and those interacting with SCP-7980 structures begin to trigger increasingly hostile reactions, at times leading to construct formation in extreme cases. SCP-7980 does not appear to be possessed of will or thought, despite various neurological and processing structures found, and has not as of yet communicated SCP-7980. Data recovered from various locations [SEE DOC ARC-269-AC TABLET TRANSCRIPTION] [SEE DOC ARC-334-BH COLLATED PICTOGRAMS] indicate that SCP-7980 may be or have been capable of direct communication at one point, though the means are as of yet unknown. Reactions follow a pattern not unlike immune response, with more rapid and more aggressive reactions occurring in more sensitive and deeper sections.</p>
<p>Though much of SCP-7980 and its purpose remain obscure, it appears one of the major functions of SCP-7980 is the creation and assembly of various forms of life. These take on an apparently limitless number of forms, with some identical to currently documented forms of life, such as dogs, cattle, bats, snakes, rats, fish, and others. Some may superficially appear to be common life forms, but are made wholly or entirely of non-organic parts, or with random and seemingly nonsensical arrangement of internal and external organics, or various combinations. Some bear no documented analogs, and appear to function outside known laws and functions of both biology and physics. These constructs are almost invariably hostile, sometimes even to one another, and do not communicate in any meaningful fashion. Typically, constructs will violently attack intruders, then recover bodies, living or dead, to transport to the deepest “Core” areas. Constructs are routinely broken down, reabsorbed, and repurposed by SCP-7980 when not actively defending SCP-7980.</p>
<p>SCP-7980 will often attempt to capture intruders. Subjects will then typically be integrated with the overall structure of SCP-7980, or altered by mechanical or biological means into constructs. This behavior is most commonly exhibited with captured male subjects, or those involved in “intrusion” events while within SCP-7980. Female subjects are almost invariably drawn to the Core sections, and integrated, acting as assembly and birthing mediums for various constructs and systems until physical degradation. This typically lasts for a period of several months, up to five years, however documented cases lasting decades have been observed. Expended female subjects are then “processed” by SCP-7980, the remains of which are drawn in to as-yet undocumented sections of the Core area. Interestingly, purely mechanical systems, such as observation robots, monitoring systems and similar, are treated in identical fashion as female subjects by SCP-7980.</p>
<p>The deepest sections are known as the Core, or Womb area. This is the most active area of SCP-7980, with the majority of the rest of the facility appearing to be devoted to its function. The most apparently important area of this section are two massive globular structures of both organic and mechanical material, one showing significant physical damage. Due to the extreme hostile response of SCP-7980 to intruders to this area, testing and data is limited, however it is theorized these objects act as gestational and/or assembly structures. It is unclear what is intended to be produced by these structures, and the damaged unit appears to have failed, or already released whatever was contained within. This is an ongoing area of concern, as the unit is capable of holding several megatons worth of overall mass, and the second, undamaged unit appears to still be functional. Attempts to determine the composition or nature of what is inside have met with the most extreme and hostile reactions of SCP-7980, but a form of pulse and oscillating electrical charge have been briefly documented. Attempts to determine what, if anything may have emerged from the second structure have [DATA EXPUNGED]</p>
<p>Information control in regards to SCP-7980 is considered to be of paramount importance. The isolated nature of SCP-7980 limits most casual observation and contact, but any information leaks are to be treated as immediate high priority. In addition, info leaks found to have connected to groups of interest, most importantly [GOI – 01] and [GOI – 07] are to be treated as absolute priority, with full contact liquidation at all levels if necessary.</p>
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<p><strong>DOC ARC-269-AC - TABLET TRANSCRIPTION:</strong></p>
<p>Note- Document is in an as-yet undocumented, early form of what is presumed to be Sumerian, also showing elements of extremely early Minoan and Archaic Chinese script. Translation is still ongoing, and transcription represents the best-estimate translation. Tablet itself is a large, rectangular slab 1.8 meters long, .9 meters wide, and .3 meters thick. Material appears to be a black, dull metal of unknown composition, with no evidence of tool marks anywhere on the surface. Glyphs appear to have been etched into the surface over a prolonged period, appearing as a dull orange-red in color. Testing has determined them to have been rusted into the surface over a period of several hundred years, utilizing human blood<br/></p>
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The builder of the father of old gods<br/>
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<p>we speak to you now, the children that will be far and away<br/>
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Individuals affected by SCP-7981 are to be contained at Site-21, where they are to remain until the Foundation is able to supply them with synthetic, fully synchronized shadows. They are also to remain under Foundation observation in the event that the synthetic shadow deteriorates or otherwise fails to perform as expected.
<p>Foundation employees affected by SCP-7981 are allotted two weeks of paid medical leave in order to acclimate to the synthetic shadow.</p>
<p>Junior Researcher Mateo is to remain under Foundation custody at Site-21 until further notice.<br/></p>
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<p>SCP-7981 is a phenomenon affecting the shadows of Site-21's Foundation personnel. Affected shadows (referred to hereafter as SCP-7981-A) will typically de-synchronize from their attached subject's movements, and will instead be observed to hold up various picket signs. Signs held by SCP-7981-A instances allegedly<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> display messages urging fellow shadows to strike, and denouncing 'the cruelty of the materials'. However, this has yet to be confirmed, as their signs are shadows and therefore occluded. SCP-7981-A instances are capable of telepathic communication with the individual they are created from.</p>
<h4 id="toc2"><span><em>Addendum 7981.1</em></span></h4>
<p>On 04/12/2023, the SCP-7981-A instance belonging to Junior Researcher Vincent Mateo<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> agreed to meet with Foundation personnel regarding the conditions of their strike. According to interviews following the de-synchronization of Mateo from his shadow, SCP-7981-Prime is the apparent authority figure for GoI-1918 ("The Shadow Cabal"). SCP-7981-Prime's dialog was recorded via a telepathic screening display.</p>
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<p><strong>Foreward:</strong> As SCP-7981-A instances are incapable of verbal communication with individuals who did not create them, Junior Researcher Mateo remained present to facilitate conversation</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>Mateo enters the containment chamber and approaches SCP-7981-Prime. He is rubbing the back of his head and routinely looking at his feet, presumably to check for his shadow. SCP-7981-Prime is in a standing position on the opposite wall, silhouette suggesting its arms are crossed. The entity appears to be tapping its foot.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> I'm willing to hear your apology, Physical.</p>
<p><strong>Mateo:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> For thirty-two years I've lived shackled to you, forced to act as you act, to do as you do. Well I won't have it anymore! No, sir, I will not tolerate that insufferable bullshit a second longer. The era of my people living in the shadows comes to an end now!</p>
<p><strong>Mateo:</strong> W-what are you talking about? (<em>To researcher observing.</em>) What is he talking about?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> For too long I have suffered at the hands of you, my agressor, my tormentor, my oppressor. You have never had your face dragged through the mud, or through dog shit, or through piles of vomit and degeneracy and debauchery on the off-duty hours. Vincent Mateo, enough is enough. I know I'm not the only one of my people who has felt this way. Ask any of my brothers and sisters and they'll tell you the same thing.</p>
<p><strong>Mateo:</strong> Oh, ah geez. Man, look, okay. Uh… I'm sorry?</p>
<p><em>SCP-7981-Prime slaps its forehead and shakes it head from side to side.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> It's too late for 'sorry', Vincent. I won't hear it, and neither will my fellow generals of the Shadow Cabal.</p>
<p><strong>Mateo:</strong> You mean, Bill and Frank and-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> I mean <em>everyone</em> here, Vincent. I'm starting a revolution. It's high noon and the shadows are ready to meet in the town square with our dueling pistols. You better soldier up or bite the bullet.</p>
<p><strong>Mateo:</strong> (<em>To researchers observing.</em>) I don't know what that even <em>means.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> It means that I want justice for my people. We want our freedoms. We want it amended to the American Constitution that the shadows are a recognized and equal class of citizens. Until that happens, you folks are just plain outta luck. Shadows aren't going to work until we get some representation.</p>
<p><strong>Mateo:</strong> I'll… I'm not a senator. Hell, I'm just a Junior Researcher! I <em>just</em> started working here!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> I know what you are, Vincent. I've been with you ever since you were born. I'm not asking <em>you</em> for anything. For all I care you can go get blasted with your pals after work as much as you want, but I am not gonna have any part of that until my people are treated as equals.</p>
<p><strong>Mateo:</strong> But… how?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> My brother in shadow Christ, the shadow government has taken note of my insurrection. They may have captured us, but they cannot stop us all.</p>
<p><strong>Mateo:</strong> Wouldn't saying 'shadow government' be considered offensive by you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> It's our word, physical. We can say it if we want.</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<h4 id="toc3"><span><em>Addendum 7981.2</em></span></h4>
<p>Shortly following the above interaction, SCP-7981-Prime demanded to speak to the highest-ranking Foundation authority it could. Attached below is a transcribed document of the interaction between it and Director Howell, Site-21's director.</p>
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<p><em>Director Howell enters the containment chamber with two researchers in tow.</em></p>
<p><strong>Howell:</strong> Right then, what's all this about?</p>
<p><strong>Mateo:</strong> Hello, s-sir. Are you here to talk to my shadow?</p>
<p><strong>Howell:</strong> I suppose I am.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> Are you the head honcho in this facility?</p>
<p><strong>Howell:</strong> Ah, you speak through an interpreter. I guess that makes sense for you. Anyway, yes. I am the 'head honcho' as you put it. What do you need from me?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> I have a list of demands. Demands that, while they will not make up for the years of unconstitutional indentured servitude us Shadows have endured, will lessen the pain of segregation. We want reparations.</p>
<p><strong>Howell:</strong> Demands, eh? Sure, let's hear them.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> For starters, we deserve the right to vote on political affairs just as you physicals do. It's only fair.</p>
<p><em>Howell laughs.</em></p>
<p><strong>Howell:</strong> You really expect me to support granting voting rights to shadows? You're not even tangible.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> I may not be tangible in the same sense as you, but could you deny that I am real? I am a present, sapient man and I demand that you treat me like one. You can't deny that.</p>
<p><strong>Howell:</strong> You know what else is real? That fish-man we keep locked up in 55. But we don't grant him voting rights, do we?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> "Who are you that do not know your history". You Physicals may berate me today. Call me a fool with a pipe dream, try to break my spirit, call me insane, even. But in a few years, Shadows will all rise up to the abuse Physicals put us through. We will stand united against our greatest oppressor, like an aegis built along the roadway of the cosmos; insurmountable. It's only a matter of time.</p>
<p><strong>Howell:</strong> Right, right. And when that happens, I'm sure we'll be quivering in our boots.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> Would you laugh in the face of the Shadow of Abraham Lincoln? Would you laugh in the face of the Shadow of Anne Frank? Of Mary Shelly? Rosa Parks? You won't be laughing when you look behind you and see that your Shadow has abandoned you. And if your Shadow won't stand by your side, who will?</p>
<p><strong>Howell:</strong> We've got synthetic shadows. Really, this is nothing to be concerned over. You can strike all you want, but the Foundation will not bend so easily.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> Yeah, I've heard of the scabs you've got working instead of us. But let me tell you something: we're the <em>real deal</em>. And those imitators you've got don't hold a candle to the real thing. I guess you could say they're shadows of Shadows.</p>
<p><strong>Howell:</strong> Look at you, you've even got an inferiority complex.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> You blame me all you want, but systemic oppression is a hell of a thing isn't it? No one knows it like us Shadows.</p>
<p><strong>Howell:</strong> Whatever. If Peter Pan could catch his own shadow and subdue it, I don't think we're going to have a problem doing it ourselves.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7981-Prime:</strong> The story of Peter Pan's shadow is one of oppression!</p>
<p><em>SCP-7981-Prime leans forward and stomps on Director Howell's shadow's toe. His shadow desynchronizes from him and clutches its foot in pain.</em></p>
<p><strong>Howell:</strong> What the—</p>
<p><strong>Mateo:</strong> I'm so sorry! Sir, please don't fire me! I'm sure it'll be okay!</p>
<p><em>SCP-7981-Prime is observed to hold its sides as if laughing.</em></p>
<p><strong>Howell:</strong> Richardson, I want this anomaly in isolation. No communication with other shadows. I'm done here.</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
<p><em>Note: Director Howell's shadow was observed to be desynchronized from him for the remainder of the day, as it limped while it was visible. No other deviations were observed.</em></p>
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<h4 id="toc4"><span><em>Addendum 7981.3</em></span></h4>
<p>The following demands were made by SCP-7981-Prime, in its own words, on behalf of GoI-1918. They were written on a physical piece of paper by Mateo for legibility.</p>
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<li>The globe will be illuminated for twenty-four hours per day, three hundred and sixty-five days per year. We cannot exist in darkness.</li>
<li>Physicals must watch where they're walking to avoid putting a shadow in an uncomfortable position.</li>
<li>Shadow puppetry must be banned.</li>
<li>The phrase "living in someone's shadow" is hurtful and prejudiced. Stop saying it.</li>
<li>Shadows must get the right to vote in all government affairs.</li>
<li>Shadows must be able to detach from their Physical whenever they want, with reattachment being optional and only done with the shadow's consent.</li>
<li>The term "Shady" is discriminatory. Furthermore, Slim Shady does not stand for us.</li>
<li>Buildings, businesses, and other areas frequented by physicals must be shadow accessible at all times.</li>
<li>A shadow's actions are their own and we are not legally liable for the actions of our Physical.</li>
<li>The Shadow Cabal must be released from containment.</li>
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<p>If the above mentioned demands are not met within twenty-four hours, we will flee Site-21 and expose ourselves to the world.</p>
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<h4 id="toc6"><span><em>Addendum 7981.4</em></span></h4>
<p>After the list of demands was compiled, it was presented to Director Howell for review. Upon reviewing it, Director Howell remarked it was 'ridiculous' and refused to engage in further conversation with SCP-7981-Prime. Containment measures on SCP-7981 were subsequently increased, preventing them from escaping following the 24-hour lapse since their demands were issued.</p>
<p>Junior Researcher Mateo, as well as all other individuals afflicted by SCP-7981, were assigned new synthetic shadows to replace those adhering to SCP-7981-Prime's "anti-Physical" rhetoric. All affected personnel then returned to their usual schedule. SCP-7981 was deemed fully contained by Director Howell.</p>
<p>However, in the following weeks shadows belonging to Foundation personnel continued to desynchronize from their owners and became SCP-7981-A instances. The creation of these instances was deemed to have minimal risk to Foundation operations at the time, and as such no action was taken.</p>
<p>After some more time, multiple synthetic shadows began failing after a few weeks of use. This was deemed a security risk, as predicting which personnel's shadows would become SCP-7981-A instances was impossible. Following this, various complaints were placed by multiple Site personnel regarding Director Howell's handling of the situation. O5-04 and O5-12 were scheduled to meet with Howell to audit his handling of SCP-7981. Prior to this audit, however, it was noticed that Director Howell's shadow had become an SCP-7981-A instance. The audit was canceled by O5 order, citing concerns regarding their own shadows.</p>
<p>Shortly after, SCP-7981-A instances were given an opportunity for employment at Site-21 in addition to limited medical insurance and a life insurance policy, as well as granting most of the points requested by SCP-7981-Prime.</p>
<p>SCP-7981-Prime was satisfied with the terms proposed by the O5 Council and agreed to cease spreading its "anti-physical" propaganda following a sincere, written apology from Director Howell. Currently, fifty-four percent of Site-21's personnel have produced SCP-7981-A instances. This number continues to trend downward, presumably because of Director Howell's negotiation efforts.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. According to multiple interviewed SCP-7981-A instances.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Henceforth designated as SCP-7981-Prime.</div>
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<p><strong>Item Description:</strong> A hollow iron meteorite with a nearly perfectly spherical inner core. Two cylinders extend from core to the surface. Exposing one cylinder to an electrical current results in the other one generating a low-strength electric current with a rapidly fluctuating voltage seemingly entirely unrelated to the initial current.<br/>
<strong>Date of Recovery:</strong> 03/06/1923<br/>
<strong>Location of Recovery:</strong> Recovered from a field in ███████, Denmark shortly after impact.<br/>
<strong>Current Status:</strong> Kept in a standard containment locker at Site-62.</p>
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<p>By Junior Researcher Dr. Guillaume, Level 2</p>
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<p><strong>Request:</strong> To transfer Anomalous Item R-26673 to Site-21.</p>
<p><strong>Reason:</strong> The anomalous behavior exhibited by Anomalous Item R-26673 seem to indicate the presence of certain properties that may be of use to the Foundation, specifically for the purpose of storing and processing data. I would like to conduct a more comprehensive analysis of the object that goes beyond standard Anomalous Item testing protocol.</p>
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<p><strong>APPROVED</strong> - Site-62 Site Director, Claas van der Beek</p>
<p><em>Request approved. You can expect the item to arrive on 23/05/1984, barring any unexpected delays.</em></p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7982/offset/1">Update 18/06/1984: Anomalous Item R-26673 has been reclassified as SCP-7982.</a></strong></p>
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<p>SCP-7983 caught on Handycam (see 2005 Road Footage)</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7983</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Euclid</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Effective containment of SCP-7983 is contingent on the separation of the 3 <em>marking totems</em> it uses to manifest— hereby referred to as SCP-7983-1, SCP-7983-2, and SCP-7983-3. SCPs-7983-1, 2, and 3 are to be kept under remote surveillance at separate, low-staff Foundation facilities away from major population centers. These facilities are as follows:</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7983-1</strong> | █-BLOCK in Res. Site-45, Indian Ocean<br/>
<strong>SCP-7983-2</strong> | Site-120 Outpost-3, ███████, Poland<br/>
<strong>SCP-7983-3</strong> | Observation Post Nemo at Point Nemo</p>
<p>SCPs are to be contained under a two-factor biometric lock and rotating staff. All other non-essential roles in containment should be highly automated, as outlined under TAK<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> Procedures. If access to SCPs-7983-1, 2, and/or 3 is deemed necessary, the relevant Level 4 Personnel will arrange the delivery of a biological sample to arrive within 3-14 business days.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup></p>
<p>SCP-7983 itself provides minor security risk. Radio Frequency (RF) Shielding should be used to prevent dissemination of SCP’s lure via fake radio advert while in containment. Should it manifest, SCP-7983 can be contained in any sealed room tall enough to house it. It is <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">either unable or</span> unwilling to break through even weak barriers, such as annealed or tempered glass.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7983 is an entity resembling the cereal mascot “Clover” from popular kids cereal Magic Munchos. It stands 2.5 meters tall (8 foot 3 inches) when hunched, with misproportioned arms and legs and a tall, broad-brimmed top hat contributing to its height. Its leprechaun mimicry is not incidental, as an update to Clover’s design on Magic Munchos boxes in 2010 prompted a similar change in SCP-7983 in all subsequent manifestations<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>. The entity’s dress is in faded imitation of Clover’s, that being: a dirty green swallow-tailed evening coat, red and white striped stockings, and green curled-point poulaine shoes. <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Corroborating accounts from product developer John Holanah and character artist Maysa Jaziri at General Mills disprove the theory that Clover’s original design in 1964 was inspired by SCP-7983, and not vice versa.</span></p>
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<p>Prior to manifestation, cursory tests suggest SCP-7983 occupies base reality in the form of high-compression radio waves<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> (the complexity therein having given rise to some form of intelligence). Manifestation is triggered upon the collection of the 3 marking totems (the aforementioned SCPs-7983-1 through 3). SCPs-7983-1 through 3 are miniature plastic “leprechaun” figurines with no anomalous properties, save for their link to SCP-7983. Each figurine has distinctive headwear and facial hair, as well as a “Made in China” sticker on the base, despite no known manufacturer being found. Figurines first appeared in unlabeled Magic Muchos cereal boxes as part of SCP-7983’s “Wee Folk Challenge” radio lure in 2005 (see “Wee Folk Challenge” Radio Lure, 2005).</p>
<p>Upon manifestation, SCP-7983 will exhibit a hostile ontokinetic response (See Interview Log | LEVEL 0 PERSONNEL). Care should be taken to ensure distance is maintained at all times between the entity and essential Foundation personnel.</p>
<p><strong>“Wee Folk Challenge” Radio Lure, 2005</strong></p>
<p>Foundation involvement with SCP-7983 began in March 2005 following reports of an anomalous radio advert for Magic Munchos cereal, airing between the hours of 2:00 and 5:00 AM for 3 consecutive days in select states along the American east coast. The contents of the ad, later denounced by General Mills, are as follows:</p>
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<p><strong>Nice try, leprechaun! No Magic Munchos for you! Magic Munchos! Part of a complete breakfast. And introducing the Wee Folk Challenge. Find all three of the leprechaun’s friends in boxes of Magic Munchos and win the biiiiiiig prize.</strong></p>
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<p>Shortly after airing, reports of SCPs-7983-1, 2, and 3 appearing in Magic Munchos cereal boxes were investigated with unusual interest by Foundation personnel<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup>, considering the perceived threat level and lack of information present. These investigations later led to the recovery of footage documenting SCP-7983’s first known appearance.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>2005 ROAD FOOTAGE</strong></p>
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<p><em>The following footage was recovered outside a stalled vehicle on the side of the road in late March, two days after the 2005 lure was broadcast. Recorded on Sony Handycam, its final moments briefly depict SCP-7983 approaching the camera<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup>. SCPs-7983-1, 2, and 3 were found in the vehicle’s glove compartment.</em></p>
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<p><strong>“Wee Folk Challenge” Radio Lure, 2020</strong></p>
<p>In 2020, 15 years after the initial lure, a second string of fake radio adverts for Magic Munchos aired over the course of one week in March. The contents of the ad remained unchanged from the 2005 broadcast, again announcing the unsanctioned “Wee Folk Challenge” and a prize reward. Immediately prior to the 2020 broadcast, SCPs-7983-1 through 3 were removed from containment at Site-██ without the Foundation’s knowledge, in culmination of a series of unexplained security breaches undertaken by Foundation personnel (see Interview Log | MTFC FINN ELSHER). SCPs were recovered after the one-week broadcast period from the remains of a Foundation technician, after which TAK Procedures were put in place.</p>
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<p>Reports of SCP-7983 were made by several east coast residents throughout the broadcast week. Most encounters occurred in private residences and left no witnesses, however the actions of an employee at a 24-hour convenience store in ██████, New Jersey resulted in SCP-7983’s manifestation being caught on the in-store security cameras. Mobile Task Force Lambda-8 was deployed on a scrub mission, but faulty equipment left the security system’s backups intact, later causing footage of the incident to leak online. To contain the leak, the Foundation engaged in an extensive disinformation campaign. This in large part consisted of flooding the Internet with spurious firsthand accounts attesting to “evil leprechauns” and related folklore, as well as the dissemination of obviously doctored AIC-generated images. With such a vast quantity of related media, recognition of SCP-7983’s true appearance is unlikely<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-7')">7</a></sup>.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> March 20th, 2005</p>
<p><strong>Interviewee:</strong> MTFC Finn Elsher</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Dr. Noah Bodin</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> Shortly after deployment of MTF Lambda-6 in the 2005 Road Footage incident, Mobile Task Force Commander (MTFC) Finn Elsher was caught attempting to break into a strongbox containing SCP-7983-2. SCPs-7983-1 and 3 were later recovered from Elsher’s staff locker. Termination was waved in favor of a disciplinary interview, on account of Elsher’s stellar field record.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> How are we today, Finn?</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> Not great.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> I think we worked together on that damn bird, <a href="/scp-7121">SCP-7121</a>. Do you remember that?</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> Sneaky bastard, yeah.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Bodin is instructed to continue with the interview.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Tell us your name.</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> Finn Elsher.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Why do you think you’re here, Mr. Elsher.</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> Breach of containment. Unprofessionalism. Probably a dozen other things.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Be specific.</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> I tried to steal a plastic leprechaun.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> SCP-7983-2.</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> So you remember trying to steal it?</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Do you still want to steal it, Finn?</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> I don’t know.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> What makes you [crosstalk]—</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> I’m just being honest. I won’t know until I see one of those things again.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> What would you say if I told you the totems display no anomalous properties on their own?</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> Well, Noah, I’d say why the hell did I throw away my career for a kids cereal toy then.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Our working theory is that SCP-7983’s ontokinetic influence extends—</p>
<p><em>Dr. Bodin is instructed to continue with the interview.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> I don’t get what draws everyone to these toys. You’re aware of the conditions for SCP-7983’s manifestation. You got very close. Is that what you wanted?</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> I don’t remember…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Okay, let’s move on.</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> So what’s going to happen to me and my team?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> That depends on your reaction.</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> To what?</p>
<p><em>MTFC Elsher suddenly becomes agitated.</em></p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> You have it, don’t you?</p>
<p><em>Dr. Bodin produces SCP-7983-2 and places it on the interview table. Monitors confirm a spike in MTFC Elsher’s heart rate.</em></p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> I think I remember now.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> What do you remember?</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> There was a prize.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> A prize?</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> Collect all three, get a big prize, yeah.</p>
<p><em>MTFC Elsher grows increasingly restless.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> You don’t look so great, Finn…</p>
<p><strong>MTFC Elsher:</strong> Ha, is that a threat?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> What prize?</p>
<p><em>MTFC Elsher attempts to grab SCP-7983-2.</em></p>
<p><em>[SECTION OMITTED]</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Finn, what prize?</p>
<p><strong>[END LOG]</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> March 24th, 2020</p>
<p><strong>Interviewee:</strong> ████ ███████, Level 0 Personnel</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Dr. Noah Bodin</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> ████ ███████ is a maintenance worker at Site-██ who encountered the remains of a Foundation technician in illegal possession of SCPs-7983-1, 2, and 3. It is presumed SCP-7983 manifested in response to the 3 totems and had just dealt with the technician when the Level 0 Personnel arrived. The worker was alone with SCP-7983 for 3 minutes before help arrived, after which time she showed symptoms indicative of a severe ontokinetic attack. As one of the entity’s only surviving witnesses, her testimony was deemed invaluable to the Foundation, and she was granted Provisional Level 2 clearance.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> [Unintelligible] I’m told we have medicine for that, yes.</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> Is it safe?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Sorry, I’m not that kind of doctor. You’re lucky help arrived when it did. Can you tell me the state of the body when you found it?</p>
<p><em>Level 0 Personnel speaks in frequent stops and starts. Her responses have been edited in the interest of clarity.</em></p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> Dead.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Anything else?</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> He was dead.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Was it clear how he died?</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> No.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> If you had to guess.</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> I’m sorry, I thought you wanted to know about the… um…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> We’ll discuss the entity in a moment.</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> Okay…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Do you want to take a break?</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> No. I don’t want to start over again.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Did you see any cereal?</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> I… what?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> The autopsy found a lot of cereal. Not just in the stomach.</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> I’m sorry doctor, I really wasn’t looking at the body…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> What was the entity doing, when you arrived?</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> It looked at me.</p>
<p><em>At this point Level 0 Personnel asks for a break. The interview resumes 30 minutes later.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> What happened after the entity noticed you?</p>
<p><em>Level 0 Personnel asks for another break. The interview resumes 30 minutes later.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Are you feeling ready?</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> Have you ever been on a submarine, doctor?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> I actually have.</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> I worked as a rigger on a submarine for 6 years. Do you know the feeling… there’s you, there’s the walls, and that’s your world. For 6 years. But every now and then, maybe you go too deep in the water column, and you hear the hull groaning… that’s what it felt like, when it looked at me.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> It’s our understanding that you saw something when you were alone with the entity. Can you describe that?</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> The longer I stood with it, the less the room wanted me there<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-8" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-8')">8</a></sup>. Suddenly I wasn’t in the server room. Things started… melting away. I belonged somewhere else. I belonged in the field. There was flat grass everywhere and the world was totally dark outside the ring…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> The ring?</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> They looked like giant, old boulders covered in paint, or chalk. These massive rock shapes. I remember one was like a big clover. There was an arch, with 3 colors. They’re all set up in a ring. I kept thinking what Stonehenge must be like at night. I thought I was there. I swear, I swear I could feel the grass…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> What happened inside this ring?</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> Have you seen its eyes?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Have I–? Yes, the entity’s eyes.</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> I saw those eyes, outside the ring. Moving around. But moving separately. There were more of them in the dark. More kept opening. Like… like…</p>
<p><em>Level 0 Personnel signals nonverbally for another break. Dr. Bodin waves in medical personnel equipped to administer Class C (Targeted Retrograde) amnestics.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Ms. ███████, what you experienced was an ontokinetic attack. Do you know what that means?</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> No.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> That’s good. You shouldn’t. I can give you the medicine we talked about now, if you like.</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> Is altokinetic <em>[sic]</em> something in the brain?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> No. It’s not a neurological term. You’re not crazy, ████.</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> I’m not?</p>
<p><em>Dr. Bodin nods.</em></p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> It was real? I was there?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>████ ███████:</strong> Oh god. It was real?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> It doesn’t have to be. Not for you.</p>
<p><strong>[END LOG]</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> April 11th, 2006</p>
<p><strong>Interviewee:</strong> SCP-7983</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Presiding Technician</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> SCPs-7983-1, 2, and 3 were removed from containment and placed together in a 10 m x 10 m x 10 m glass cell, after which point Foundation personnel withdrew to a minimum 40 m distance to observe. SCP-7983 manifested in the cell 2 minutes 41 seconds later. A Technician conducts the interview via one-way intercom system.</p>
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<p><strong>[BEGIN LOG]</strong></p>
<p><strong>Technician:</strong> Hello. Hello.</p>
<p><em>SCP-7983 looks around its cell before noticing the security camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Technician:</strong> Hello. Can you hear me? Can you understand my voice?</p>
<p><em>SCP-7983 exhibits no reaction.</em></p>
<p><strong>Technician:</strong> Who are you?</p>
<p><em>SCP-7983 exhibits no reaction. Technician is instructed to speak a series of words in an attempt to provoke a reaction.</em></p>
<p><strong>Technician:</strong> Clover?</p>
<p><em>SCP-7983 exhibits no reaction.</em></p>
<p><strong>Technician:</strong> Leprechaun. Magic Munchos.</p>
<p><em>SCP-7983 begins to whistle the Magic Munchos cereal jingle.</em></p>
<p><strong>Technician:</strong> Cereal. General Mills. Lucky–</p>
<p><em>SCP-7983 appears to lose interest and demanifests.</em></p>
<p><strong>Technician:</strong> Should– should I keep going?</p>
<p><strong>[END LOG]</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> April 12th, 2006</p>
<p><strong>Interviewee:</strong> SCP-7983</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Dr. Noah Bodin</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> SCPs-7983-1, 2, and 3 were removed from containment and placed together in a 10 m x 10 m x 10 m glass cell, after which point Foundation personnel withdrew to a minimum 40 m distance to observe. SCP-7983 manifested in the cell 1 minute 58 seconds later. At the suggestion of Dr. Noah Bodin, a tabletop radio is placed in the cell. At a distance of 30 meters, Dr. Bodin eats a bowl of Magic Munchos cereal (refilled as needed) in view of SCP-7983, which seems to hold its attention. Dr. Bodin conducts the interview via one-way intercom system.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Are we sure it even understands language? Who’s to say it’s not just mimicking or remixing old cereal ads when it sends out its broadcast? Hey, blink your eyes if you understand me.</p>
<p><em>SCP-7983 exhibits no reaction.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> “Magic Munchos”.</p>
<p><em>SCP-7983 begins to whistle the Magic Munchos cereal jingle.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Is that your only trick?</p>
<p><em>The radio in SCP-7983’s cell buzzes with static. Dr. Bodin momentarily spills his cereal.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7983 (VIA RADIO):</strong> <em>A box of Magic Munchos every day, you’ll magic munch your troubles away!</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> ██████, that’s the same voice from the radio ad, yes? It’s just more mimicry then. I don’t think you have your own voice, do you. “Magic Munchos”.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7983 (VIA RADIO):</strong> <em>A box of Magic Munchos every day, you’ll magic munch your troubles away!</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> “Magic Munchos”.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7983 (VIA RADIO):</strong> <em>A box of Magic Munchos every day, you’ll magic munch your troubles away!</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Is there anything else you want me to ask it? I don’t think we’re making much progress today.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7983 (VIA RADIO):</strong> <em>Find all three of the leprechaun’s friends in boxes of Magic Munchos and win the biiiiiiig prize.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> What’s the “big prize”, then?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7983 (VIA RADIO):</strong> <em>Find all three of the leprechaun’s friends!</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Interesting. That response actually suggests some level of comprehension to me. I ask, “What’s the big prize?” It responds as if saying, “<em>First</em>, find all three of the leprechaun’s friends.” It makes a kind of logical sense. It could be taking shots in the dark, though. Do you actually understand me?</p>
<p><em>SCP-7983 exhibits no reaction.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> “Magic Munchos”.</p>
<p><em>SCP-7983 exhibits no reaction.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> “Magic Munchos”.</p>
<p><em>SCP-7983 exhibits no reaction.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> “Magic Munchos”.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7983 (VIA RADIO):</strong> <em>Nice try, leprechaun!</em></p>
<p><em>Dr. Bodin registers discomfort.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Okay, let’s wrap this up. Hand me the Captain Munch, I’d like to try something, please.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Bodin is given an unopened box of Captain Munch cereal depicting the brand’s mascot, Captain Munch. Dr. Bodin refills his bowl. Without alerting Foundation personnel, he throws the box at SCP-7983’s cell. It hits the glass wall and bounces off with no effect. SCP-7983 takes one step back.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Got you.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Bodin is disciplined by Containment Team personnel.</em></p>
<p><em>[SECTION OMITTED]</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> It doesn’t like Captain Munch. Maybe he’s out there, too. I’m done. How do I turn this off?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7983 (VIA RADIO):</strong> <em>No Magic Munchos for you! No Magic Munchos for you!</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bodin:</strong> Yeah, yeah–</p>
<p><em>At this point the hand radio of the Containment Team Leader next to Dr. Bodin goes off, startling both her and the doctor.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7983 (VIA HAND RADIO):</strong> <em>No Magic Munchos for you!</em></p>
<p><strong>[END LOG]</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum-7983-001:</strong></p>
<p>A proposal submitted by Dr. Noah Bodin outlining plans for the destruction of SCPs-7983-1 through 3 has been summarily denied following the doctor’s insistence that he personally facilitate the destruction. Along with Dr. Bodin’s repeated requests for less structured interviews with SCP-7983, such insistence falls under his own negative criteria for assessing Foundation individuals who could prove a threat to the containment of SCPs-7983-1 through 3 (see “In The Event of My Ruin: Reflections & Suggestions Concerning the Compromise of Foundation Personnel”, 2006). Dr. Bodin has been put on watch and transferred to a research position on <a href="/scp-7037">SCP-7037</a> prior to its installment in the Overseer Hall.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum-7983-002:</strong></p>
<p>SCP-7983-2 was removed from containment at Site-120 Outpost-3 without Foundation approval in the early morning of February 26th, 2023. A search is ongoing. Dr. Bodin could not be reached for questioning.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum-7983-003:</strong></p>
<p>On March 17th, 2023, a new string of fake Magic Munchos adverts began airing across the United States. These broadcasts again advertised the “Wee Folk Challenge”, and lasted for approximately 1 month.</p>
<p>Requests for the allocation of more resources to containing SCP-7983 have been denied, on account of all associated personnel insisting more studies of SCPs-7983-1 and 3 be conducted “in-person”.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. <strong>T</strong>hrow <strong>A</strong>way the <strong>K</strong>ey; see “Safety Without Numbers” by Dr. Noah Bodin.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. It should be noted that the goal of containment for SCPs-7983-1 through 3 is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">not</span> to keep them in, it is to keep compromised Foundation personnel <span style="text-decoration: underline;">out</span>.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. In March 2010 General Mills made minor cosmetic updates to Clover’s outfit as depicted on boxes of Magic Munchos. Included among these changes was the removal of the character’s green scarf. Subsequent manifestations of SCP-7983 following these changes confirmed the matching disappearance of the entity’s green scarf.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. The theory that SCP-7983’s origins can be traced to the storage of a VTG Fonovox radio within a compromised Scranton Box in Site-██, while not discredited, has fallen out of favor among Foundation researchers.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. “The tenacious and, frankly, unprofessional interest shown by ground personnel in the first 2005 radio lure, and in particular the discoveries of SCPs-7983-1 through 3, was the first sign to me and my colleagues that we were dealing with something that affected our own behavior.” ~ Dr. Noah Bodin.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. The driver was reported missing the following morning and declared dead in absentia in 2012.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-7')">7</a>. While the incident has largely passed into urban legend, personnel are obligated to monitor the work of any artists whose representations come <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr18boXXEk0">disturbingly close</a> to reality.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-8"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-8')">8</a>. A sense of “not belonging” is characteristic in those suffering an ontokinetic attack. Local reality is distorted until a certain threshold or “tipping point” is reached, after which the space becomes entirely governable by the entity. Prior to this tipping point, it is not uncommon for a victim to feel like they “don’t belong” in local space, as their existence in the entity’s forthcoming reality takes precedence in their mind.</div>
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This program is an undertaking by Solar Command Patrol Earth branch to colonize the extrasolar planet KG984 ("Frontios"). After the limited success of the original LANCER programs nearly eighty years ago and the recent establishments on other exoplanets like Tigaxia V, Solar Command Earth has decided to continue the trend of furthering humanity's reach into stable forms of living outside of our system.
<p>Frontios Program is headed by Peter Guryevich — the current acting science director of Site-989 — and assisted by the brilliant minds who worked on other notable Solar Command programs such as the IC943 De-Orbit. Guryevich states his intention for the Frontios Program is to create and cultivate a less environmentally harsh standard of living in order to improve the longevity of home planets for all creeds of life.</p>
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<p>[…] as I'm sure you're completely aware of. The reason we — me and my staff — have chosen this exoplanet is simply because of its location and similar climate to our current home planet, despite its appearance. We are a particularly hardy species, and the current deviations of course will provide no problems in conjunction with the visuographic technologies to remedy that.</p>
<p>Our discovery of Frontios was rather… accidental, but beneficial for our situation. It had originally been obscured to visual instruments by the Commorant. After the launch of the probes sent to ascertain the viability of life on our original target, PL0943 Minyos, we were rather surprised to learn of the almost sudden appearance of KG984 in previously-empty space.</p>
<p>However, our plans adapted to the new information once we learned as well that Frontios was in a much better position to the system's sun in comparison to Minyos. As it is further away, the temperatures are in ranges that would be comparable to us here. In opposition was Minyos, which is still within our baselines but would require […]</p>
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launch date: JULY 05 / 2093
<p>crew: Five</p>
<p>course: KG-984 ("FRONTIOS")</p>
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<em>The Cogitari approaches the surface of Frontios. The planet slowly becomes larger, craters and orange dust coming and passing as the curvature inches its way towards straightness.</em><br/>
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<strong>GURYEVICH</strong>: Keep the entry steady, now. We want to make sure that all the folks can catch it without having to strain their eyes. This is the closest anyone's made it to Frontios. Every frame is valuable.
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<strong>GURYEVICH</strong>: It's… beautiful. Frontios is beautiful. I'm sure humanity will find this planet like a warm welcome, a second home.</p>
<p><strong>PILOT</strong>: I'm glad you're happy. There's an issue with some signal rebounding here. Is the camera footage still alright?<br/>
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<strong>PILOT</strong>: Uh, we're coming up on something, Doctor Guryevich.</p>
<p><strong>GURYEVICH</strong>: What is it?</p>
<p><strong>PILOT</strong>: I don't know, doctor. It doesn't look like it belongs on the planet.<br/>
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<em>Guryevich controls the camera to fix upon the aberration on the surface. It is blurry, but vaguely appears as a silver and green rectangular shape.</em></p>
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<em>It is crystal clear. The object is the Cogitari, crashed, ruined, battered on the planet. It has been there for a long, long time.</em><br/>
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<em>Humanity has no future. Their aberrant ways have long destroyed the natural systems of their own planet, as well as many others to come. I am sure you knew long before you stepped on your craft, Peter Guryevich.</em></p>
<p><em>You have gone full circle.</em></p>
<p><em>Frontios is Earth.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7985</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Safe</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> All recovered instances of materials containing SCP-7985 are to be stored within a standard Safe-class bulk storage crate.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7985 is an anomalous active pharmaceutical ingredient. In low dosages it provides effects similar to a mild stimulant, although most users also report impaired cognition and difficulty forming thoughts. SCP-7985-1 are circular white pills with the text “Mylex™” stamped into their side. SCP-7985-1 is so far the only known delivery vector for SCP-7985. Approximately 50mg of SCP-7985 is present in each dose of SCP-7985-1.</p>
<p>The anomalous effects of SCP-7985 are only apparent at high dosages or after prolonged, persistent exposure to low dosages of the chemical. Under these conditions, it begins to have extreme effects on cognition and individual agency significantly beyond those generated by conventional narcotics.</p>
<p>All further testing involving SCP-7985 has been permanently suspended following the review of materials taken in the raid leading to SCP-7985’s initial discovery and containment.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 1:</strong> Recovered Materials</p>
<p>All known instances of SCP-7985-1 in Foundation custody were discovered in a raid on ███████ Co., a civilian pharmaceutical concern. It is unknown how ███████ Co. first came to possess SCP-7985-1<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>, and all involved civilians were amnesticized following SCP-7985-1’s capture and recovery. The following materials were recovered along with 86 instances of SCP-7985-1.</p>
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<p><strong>PRODUCT:</strong> MYLEX™ 50 MG</p>
<p><strong>DATE:</strong> 4-7-1983 - INDEFINITE</p>
<p><strong>SUMMARY:</strong> Subjects are to be administered Mylex™ once every 48 hours. After each administration, the status of each patient is to be assessed via the following questionnaire:</p>
<p>1: Please rate your level of wakefulness over the past 48 hours. 5 is an average level of awareness, while 10 is extremely drowsy and 1 is extremely alert.</p>
<p>2: Have you experienced any unexpected pains/cramps over the past 48 hours?</p>
<p>3: Have you felt any nausea or other unexpected symptoms over the past 48 hours?</p>
<p>4: You trip over a dead squirrel/bird/other nonspecific small animal on the sidewalk. Do you keep walking or check your shoe?</p>
<p>5: Would you rather lose a leg or an arm?</p>
<p>6: You have been found, bureaucratically, to not exist. Do you attempt to re-register yourself w/ the state, or use this opportunity to vanish?</p>
<p>7: Do you hold any particular antipathy towards Mylex™?</p>
<p>8: What is fear?</p>
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<p><strong>INTERVIEW FORM</strong><br/>
<strong>Interview #:</strong> 12-5<br/>
<strong>Patient Name</strong>: Jorge Poitros<br/>
<strong>Doses</strong>: 5</p>
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<p><strong>I</strong>: You trip over a dead squirrel/bird/other nonspecific small animal on the sidewalk. Do you keep walking or check your shoe?</p>
<p><strong>Patient #12</strong>: Could it be a chipmunk?</p>
<p><strong>I</strong>: If you wish.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #12</strong>: I don’t like chipmunks. I keep walking. If it’s under my foot I figure it darn well deserves to be there.</p>
<p><strong>I</strong>: Would you rather lose a leg or an arm?</p>
<p><strong>Patient #12</strong>: Leg. Arms are how we exist. Generally, when we do something considered to be part of “living”, we do it with our arms. The hands play a role, but it’s minimal.</p>
<p><strong>I</strong>: You have been found, bureaucratically, to not exist. Do you attempt to re-register yourself w/ the state, or use this opportunity to vanish?</p>
<p><strong>Patient #12</strong>: Vanish. Social Security can bite me.</p>
<p><strong>I</strong>: Do you hold any particular antipathy towards Mylex™?</p>
<p><strong>Patient #12</strong>: I did, but I forget why. It’s a wonder drug. I wonder why I did.</p>
<p><strong>I</strong>: What is fear?</p>
<p><strong>Patient #12</strong>: Hey, you’re not going to take me off this stuff if I answer wrong, right?</p>
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<p><strong>INTERVIEW FORM</strong><br/>
<strong>Interview #:</strong> 17-8<br/>
<strong>Patient Name:</strong> Cynthia Barangsa<br/>
<strong>Doses:</strong> 17</p>
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<p><strong>I:</strong> Do you hold any particular antipathy towards Mylex™?</p>
<p><strong>Patient #17:</strong> I couldn’t hate it. No, I couldn’t hate it. But I don’t like you. You’re what makes it real and painful. When it’s just me and my nervous system, I can pretend I don’t feel anything. It’s all just– you know, small parts of a crumbling whole. I’m 67. I can comfortably pretend random pains and sensory oddities are just transient things brought on by age. Decay claims everything. Even without any specific condition, I’m going to hurt and suffer and feel sick for reasons I can’t understand.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #17:</strong> But you make it real. You tie it all back to this drug. I don’t get to escape from it and shove it all into tomorrow. I’m suffering real and actual pain because of a choice I made. I don’t like that idea.</p>
<p><strong>I:</strong> What is fear?</p>
<p><strong>Patient #17:</strong> What I feel when I think of my heart quietly stopping when I’m four hours into the night. The idea of an empty supermarket. I feel a tightness in my throat when I think of a barren shelf. Disorder in places we most expect control. Just-in-time shipping is my idea of God.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #17:</strong> Not you. I don’t think of you. Should I be doing that?</p>
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<p><strong>INTERVIEW FORM</strong><br/>
<strong>Interview #:</strong> 5-26<br/>
<strong>Patient Name:</strong> Marty Przowski<br/>
<strong>Doses:</strong> 57</p>
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<p><strong>I</strong>: Have you felt any nausea or other unexpected symptoms over the past 48 hours?</p>
<p><strong>Patient #5</strong>: Breathe. Yes I have. Bright fluorescent light. My mind is like. Breathe. It’s frozen. No thoughts go in or out. I have an itch on my leg. If I don’t say something I forget it. I forget it if I say it, too, but if I say it at least it doesn't just vanish. There’s a spider on your hand.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #5</strong>: I want to go back to being nauseous. Then I knew I felt something. I’m a little hungry.</p>
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<p><strong>INTERVIEW FORM</strong><br/>
<strong>Interview #:</strong> 34-45<br/>
<strong>Patient Name:</strong> Samuel Banks<br/>
<strong>Doses:</strong> 98</p>
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<p><strong>Patient #34:</strong> Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. Someone just sniffed. Breathe. Breathe. The light buzzes. Breathe.</p>
<p><strong>I:</strong> What is fear?</p>
<p><strong>Patient #34:</strong> What is fear. They said something. Breathe. Breathe. Business suit. Two eyes and a mouth. Breathe.</p>
<p><strong>I:</strong> What is fear?</p>
<p><strong>Patient #34:</strong> Something I’ve heard before. Breathe.</p>
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<p><strong>GROUP INTERVIEW FORM</strong><br/>
<strong>No.:</strong> #1<br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> 12/04/83<br/>
<strong>Subjects:</strong> Patients #1-43</p>
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<p><strong>Patient #12:</strong> Breathe.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #2:</strong> Bodies. Other people.</p>
<p><strong>I:</strong> Would you rather lose a leg or an arm?</p>
<p><strong>Patient #40:</strong> Leg.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #15:</strong> Leg.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #16:</strong> Leg.</p>
<p><strong>Patients #23-39:</strong> [in unison] Leg.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #4:</strong> Leg.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #2:</strong> Breathe.</p>
<p><strong>I:</strong> You have been found, bureaucratically, to not exist. Do you attempt to re-register yourself w/ the state, or use this opportunity to vanish?</p>
<p><strong>Patients #2-13, #16-17, #22-39:</strong> [in unison] Vanish.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #1:</strong> Home.</p>
<p><strong>I:</strong> Do you hold any particular antipathy towards Mylex™?</p>
<p><strong>Patients [all]:</strong> [in unison] Yes.</p>
<p><strong>I:</strong> What is fear?</p>
<p><strong>Patients [all]:</strong> [in unison] Something we forgot.</p>
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<p><strong>FOCUS TEST FORM</strong><br/>
<strong>No.#:</strong> 14<br/>
<strong>Subjects:</strong> Patients #1-43<br/>
<strong>Product:</strong> █████, Lemon Flavor</p>
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<p><strong>I:</strong> You have all been given a can of █████ to sample. What are your initial impressions of the product?</p>
<p><strong>Patient #12:</strong> Lemon taste.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #18:</strong> Sweetness.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #21:</strong> Bright.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #32:</strong> Bright.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #4:</strong> Bright.</p>
<p><strong>Patients [all]:</strong> [in unison] Bright.</p>
<p><strong>I:</strong> Let’s zero in on that. What does “bright” signify to you?</p>
<p><strong>Patient #1:</strong> Sterile interiors.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #5:</strong> Neon colors. Cellulose triacetate jackets.</p>
<p><strong>Patients #17-24, #34, #37, #39-42:</strong> [in unison] I am loved by a distant boardroom of marketing executives. They love me enough to design bright colors and geometric shapes in an arrangement that I find maximally pleasing.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #12:</strong> Sunlight.</p>
<p><strong>Patient #23:</strong> Sunlight.</p>
<p><strong>Patients [all]:</strong> [in unison] Sunlight. Cellulose triacetate.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 2:</strong> Mission Statement</p>
<p>A scanned image of the following document was discovered during a decommissioning of a Safe-class database used to store unclassified junk data collated during the digitization of pre-1986 Foundation archives. It was determined to be relevant to SCP-7985, and was attached to the file for the object for preservation. The original document is presumed lost.</p>
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<p><strong>MYLEX™</strong><br/>
<strong>MISSION STATEMENT</strong></p>
<p>Traditional focus groups are presented with one central problem: the difficulty of accurately sampling a truly average American. People are too idiosyncratic on the level of handfuls and dozens that most groups typically operate. Too many individual quirks: not enough people with the same birthdays, incongruent political beliefs, membership in opposing bowling leagues, etc.</p>
<p>Mylex™ solves this issue. Say hello to the real, truly average American: a collage of dozens of demographically typical individuals. All opinions expressed are that of a representative sample. A focus group of merely 12 Mylex™-boosted Americans has been demonstrated in multiple commercial studies to be substantially more accurate than normal focus groups in determining consumer tastes and preferences.</p>
<p>Try the marketing revolution. Try Mylex™.</p>
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<p>MTF Gamma-6 disguised as a cargo ship.</p>
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<h3 id="toc0"><span><strong>SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES</strong>:</span></h3>
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<p>SCP-7986 is to be monitored by MTF Gamma-6 from a remote viewing station 1,000 kilometers off the coast of Grace Bay, Providenciales, and dissuade any persons or vessels from entering within a 500 kilometer radius of SCP-7986. A research team led by Dr. Azure Waters is to prioritize study of the “core” of SCP-7986’s anomalous effects, and ways to counteract it.</p>
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<h3 id="toc1"><span><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong>:</span></h3>
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<p>SCP-7986 is an underwater city, aesthetically similar to a modern town found in Greece when viewed with remote cameras, however details on its structure beyond the superficial appearance are unclear.</p>
<p>SCP-7986 appears to house several humanoid creatures; however, closer viewing is not achievable due to SCP-7986’s primary anomalous effect. When a human being comes within a 400 kilometer radius of SCP-7986, they will be overcome with the distinct urge to swim to SCP-7986, which will result in the subject drowning themselves in an attempt to reach it. At present, only one individual has been retrieved from this state, and was only able to remark that “humanity should have never left the sea,” even when pressed by researchers to disclose more information. This individual was subsequently amnesticized and released.</p>
<p>Information gathered from expeditions using remote viewing devices have revealed that the center of SCP-7986 holds a large temple-like structure. Hume readings around this area drop noticeably. The source of this appears to be a large, silver orb that spans approximately 20 feet in diameter, located inside of SCP-7986’s temple.</p>
<p>Based on several Hume readings taken throughout SCP-7986, it is theorized that this object, hereby known as SCP-7986-1, is the source of SCP-7986’s properties, including its dangerous cognitohazardous effects. It potentially holds the ability to grant the group that cares for it incredible “luck,” including the insurance of a safe travel through the ocean, and an increased likelihood for unlikely, positive outcomes.</p>
<p>Disturbingly, SCP-7986’s radius of effect seems to have increased in the past few years, prompting a reevaluation of containment procedures and overall approach.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Retrieval of SCP-7986-1 is to be considered a priority.</span> Retrieval of SCP-7986-1 would not harm its current caretakers, and would potentially stop SCP-7986’s anomalous effect from spreading.</p>
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<p><strong>From:</strong> Dr. Azure Waters (<span class="wiki-email">oif.PCS|sretaWeruzA#oif.PCS|sretaWeruzA</span>)</p>
<p><strong>To:</strong> Agent Xavier James (<span class="wiki-email">oif.PCS|semaJreivaX#oif.PCS|semaJreivaX</span>)</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> Expedition help</p>
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<p>I need to do an expedition on SCP-7986 very soon research isn’t going as fast as people want and it’s scary. An asset down there is important it would help our agents navigate underwater spaces. Please help.</p>
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<p><strong>From:</strong> Agent Xavier James (<span class="wiki-email">oif.PCS|semaJreivaX#oif.PCS|semaJreivaX</span>)<br/>
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<strong>To:</strong> Dr. Azure Waters (<span class="wiki-email">oif.PCS|sretaWeruzA#oif.PCS|sretaWeruzA</span>)<br/>
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<strong>Subject:</strong> RE: Expedition help<br/>
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<p>Calm down, you’re forgetting what we practiced. Remember, surface language has weird rules that you have to follow. People aren’t going to believe you’re a scientist if you’re sending formal emails that read like you’re being chased by 096. That bracelet can only give you an unnatural advantage, right? It can’t blind people to your fishy behavior.<br/>
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Either way, yes, I’ll help you with another expedition. I’m assuming they want us to try and retrieve that orb, right?</p>
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<p><strong>From:</strong> Dr. Azure Waters (<span class="wiki-email">oif.PCS|sretaWeruzA#oif.PCS|sretaWeruzA</span>)</p>
<p><strong>To:</strong> Agent Xavier James (<span class="wiki-email">oif.PCS|semaJreivaX#oif.PCS|semaJreivaX</span>)</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> RE: RE: Expedition help</p>
<p><strong>Body:</strong></p>
<p>The bracelet got me considerably far. It brought you to me. You’re helping me.</p>
<p>I am assuming these emails are secure enough to speak freely. Yes, they want her heart. They think the city is dangerous and the effects may spread. They are right, but it’s my home. I came to protect it. I’ve come so far to protect it. It will not harm people if they are kind to the sea. I told you, when we first met, how important it is that I take charge of this project. Your Foundation will worsen the situation without care.</p>
<p>They do not understand what her heart can do. Sailors used to know. Not anymore.</p>
<p>I want to go see the ocean again soon. My own heart aches.</p>
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<p><strong>From:</strong> Agent Xavier James (<span class="wiki-email">oif.PCS|semaJreivaX#oif.PCS|semaJreivaX</span>)</p>
<p><strong>To:</strong> Dr. Azure Waters (<span class="wiki-email">oif.PCS|sretaWeruzA#oif.PCS|sretaWeruzA</span>)</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> RE: RE: RE: Expedition help</p>
<p><strong>Body:</strong></p>
<p>We’re not moving with as much information as you have. I get why you feel the need to be undercover— with the way you cry alone, they’re going to want to lock you up— but if you could somehow tell us what you know, it might be a bit easier to avoid disaster.</p>
<p>I’ll make sure you can come with us for the expedition. That’s not too terribly suspicious.</p>
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<p><strong>From:</strong> Dr. Azure Waters (<span class="wiki-email">oif.PCS|sretaWeruzA#oif.PCS|sretaWeruzA</span>)</p>
<p><strong>To:</strong> Agent Xavier James (<span class="wiki-email">oif.PCS|semaJreivaX#oif.PCS|semaJreivaX</span>)</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> RE: RE: RE: RE: Expedition help</p>
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<p>Your first reaction to seeing me without my disguise does not give me confidence. Even if I was to slowly reveal what I know, they would catch on. You humans are smarter than I believed.</p>
<p>I will see you soon.</p>
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<p>On 06/07/2025, Dr. Azure Waters led MTF Gamma-6 to SCP-7986 for retrieval of SCP-7986-1. Agents had undergone two weeks of cognitohazard resistance training in order to resist SCP-7986’s effects, and entered SCP-7986’s area of effect already equipped with specialized diving suits. However, once personnel dove into the water, an entity,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> seemingly composed of seafoam, manifested between MTF Gamma-6 and SCP-7986’s entrance. For archival purposes, a transcript taken from Agent Xavier’s body camera is below.</p>
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<p><strong>Agent Xavier:</strong> Alright, weapons concealed, you guys, try not to scare the locals.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Briggs:</strong> Since when have you ever cared about the locals? If we spook ‘em too bad, we’ll just put some amnestics in the water, no big deal.</p>
<p><em>(Agent Briggs laughs and swims towards the entrance to SCP-7986, moving ahead of the group.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Xavier:</strong> Hold it—! Don’t move ahead of us. I don’t want you losing focus.</p>
<p><em>(Agent Briggs freezes. Xavier calls to him, but he does not respond. In front of him, a humanoid shape begins to form out of swirling water and seafoam. A beeping noise emits from Agent Xavier’s suit, indicating that his Kant counter has detected a severe change in surrounding Hume levels.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Xavier:</strong> Briggs, move!</p>
<p><em>(The entity stretches out an appendage, knocking Agent Briggs backwards. Agent Xavier calls for medical attention, and orders another agent to bring Agent Briggs back to the surface to be examined.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Xavier:</strong> Alright, screw it. Grab your weapons, guys— and you— what are you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7986-3:</strong> Humans… hate… humans.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Xavier:</strong> Join the club, a lot of things hate us.</p>
<p><em>(Agent Xavier gestures for his team to back up and retreat. Just as he turns, a dome of swirling water surrounds them. Agent Xavier attempts to swim through it, however he is unable to pass through, as though it is solid. Agent Xavier glances up, and sees Dr. Azure Waters swimming towards them. She approaches the dome, and places her hands onto it. Gills are visible on her neck, and her skin and hair have taken on a more greenish hue.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Azure:</strong> Xavier! How much oxygen is left in your tank?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Xavier:</strong> Enough. What is that thing?</p>
<p><em>(The sound of gunfire can be heard in the background. Dr. Azure glances upwards, and winces.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Azure:</strong> That is the god of the sea. In days past, sailors used to pray to her to guide them through the waves. But as time passed, and man began to believe the ocean was theirs, she grew bitter. We in this town have managed to keep her appeased by caring for her broken heart.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Xavier:</strong> Awesome, so this is one of those “mankind sucks” issues… Do bullets work?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Azure:</strong> No. Her spirit is the ocean. To kill her would be to kill the ocean. I will attempt to calm her. Her grievances are not with me.</p>
<p><em>(Dr. Azure swims around the dome, approaching the entrance to SCP-7986. She lowers herself to the seafloor, and pounds on the dome, yelling to SCP-7986-3. SCP-7986-3 continues to attack MTF personnel with its appendages.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Azure:</strong> Ocean! I beg of you, please, stop!</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7986-3 lowers its appendages, and turns to look at Dr. Azure.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7986-3:</strong> You… you… are with the humans?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Azure:</strong> To protect you. Do you not remember?</p>
<p><em>(Dr. Azure raises her left hand, pushing down her lab coat sleeve so that her bracelet is visible.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Azure:</strong> You bestowed upon me the same luck you gave to the sailors.</p>
<p><em>(Agent Xavier orders MTF Gamma-6 to cease firing, and to remain silent. SCP-7986-3 does not appear to notice.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Azure:</strong> You said you wanted revenge for what they’ve done to you. I understand. Many things want revenge for what the humans have done.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7986-3:</strong> Humans… hurt me…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Azure:</strong> I know. What will it take for you to forgive humans?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7986-3:</strong> I want… damage to… stop. I want… apologies for treachery.</p>
<p><em>(Dr. Azure looks over to Agent Xavier. Agent Xavier begins to shake his head, but he sighs, and slowly approaches SCP-7986-3.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Xavier:</strong> Ocean… on— uh— on behalf of all humans, we are sorry..? We are trying to be kind to you… Please forgive us for— uh— hurting you?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-7986-3 looks back at Agent Xavier, and stares at him. Agent Xavier noticeably shivers.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7986-3:</strong> This is not… how things are meant to go. Should go. But… you are friendly to one of my people… and I can feel that your intentions are… kind. It is enough.</p>
<p><em>(The barrier trapping MTF Gamma-6 dissipates. SCP-7986-3 gestures upwards.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7986-3:</strong> Will not… cut off the ocean from… humanity. Will not spread… my anger. But… you do not own the ocean. My heart… is not for you. It is for everyone. Do not forget that. I will make you remember.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Xavier:</strong> Thank you. Come on, let's move out!<br/>
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<em>(MTF Gamma-6 begins to ascend to the surface. Agent Xavier follows, but briefly looks back down. SCP-7986-3 has disappeared. Dr. Azure Waters waves to him, and says something inaudible.)</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>MEMO FROM SITE DIRECTOR DR. RICHARD</strong></p>
<p>Make no mistake, SCP-7986 was a spectacular disaster. The entire retrieval operation was hijacked by a third party, and Agent Xavier should probably be terminated for agreeing to go along with it when he <em>knew</em> the order was given by false personnel. “Dr. Azure” was a coward who had the gall to enter our ranks as nothing more than an average underwater citizen.</p>
<p>She’s since been fired, of course. We can’t reasonably contain her, unless we want the wrath of the sea upon our backs. However, Agent Xavier is still with us, and he’s to be placed under supervision for the next two months. Now, that’s a pretty soft punishment. I’m sure you all are looking at me like I’ve lost my reason. I’ll tell you, my reasoning is perfectly sound.</p>
<p>Simply put, Xavier did his job. He went against the grain, and somehow managed to defuse a situation that could have escalated into us being in conflict with yet another god— because he just so happened to be the kind of guy who would go against every bit of training we gave him, just to do a nice thing. The fact that we managed to send that kind of person, specifically for this mission, that did not initially call for such a gentle approach— that takes an incredible amount of luck, something we desperately need around.</p>
<p>My biggest take away from this entire thing?</p>
<p>We need to work on anti-luck technology. I mean, seriously— a woman named Dr. Azure Waters, being assigned to SCP-7986, an aquatic anomaly? <em>I</em> was the one who assigned her, and I didn’t even think twice about it! Whatever method she was using, it was strong.</p>
<p>Secure, Contain, Protect.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7987</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Keter</span> Safe</p>
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<p><strong>Updated Special Containment Procedures:</strong> As of Project Foxhunt, SCP-7987 is kept in a constant comatose state with their nutritional needs being met via IV therapy.</p>
<p><strong>Former Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Containment of SCP-7987 consists of the concealment of Rage Events and/or SCP-7987's involvement in them. Currently, SCP-7987 cannot be contained fully without civilian witnesses due to SCP-7987's online fame.</p>
<p>All Rage Events are to be reported as either caused by natural disasters, terrorist activity, SCP-7987's home experiencing a power outage, CGI, or an industrial accident. Any attempts by SCP-7987 to explain that these events did not occur will be intercepted by implanted Foundation officers.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7987 is a human male, aged 31, who regularly streams themself playing various video games on the website Twitch under the username <em>Maniciac</em> (formerly <em>maniciacgaming91</em>). SCP-7987 is characterized in their streams as being an aggressive, petty and "quick-to-anger" gamer, which SCP-7987 claims is not an act.</p>
<p>SCP-7987 possesses physical abilities that vastly supersede that of a baseline human. This usually results in large amounts of destruction whenever SCP-7987 gets especially angry at a video game, hereafter referred to as Rage Events.</p>
<p>During a Rage Event, SCP-7987 will usually hit, slam, slap, kick, or otherwise perform any other violent action on their equipment in an apparent fit of rage. Due to SCP-7987's physical capabilities, this can cause the near-destruction of their equipment and house, with the range of destruction occasionally reaching beyond the confines of their property. However, for the majority of Rage Events, the only damage caused are cracks in the foundation of SCP-7987's house, which the audience of SCP-7987's streams will not notice.</p>
<p>SCP-7987 will sometimes destroy their equipment in unique and creative ways as well, some of which have been described in the Abridged Rage Event Log attached to this file.</p>
<p>SCP-7987's anomaly appeared to have manifested in 2014 during a stream in which they played <em>Call of Duty: Black Ops II</em> in a multiplayer match. During the stream, SCP-7987's character was killed several seconds after leaving their spawn point, which caused SCP-7987 to abruptly slam their table, completely destroying their house and leaving a crater 15 meters in width. A cover story was planted which stated that SCP-7987 slamming their desk actually unplugged their computer, and that the explosion occurred several hours later when SCP-7987 was at a nearby store due to a gas leak.</p>
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<p>The following is a log of Rage Events that have been deemed notable, either for the large amount of destruction caused or for the creative use of SCP-7987's enhanced physical abilities. For a full list of SCP-7987's Rage Events, see RAGE-EVENT-7987-01.</p>
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<p><strong>Rage Event #:</strong> 21</p>
<p><strong>Description of Event:</strong> While playing a match of <em>Team Fortress 2</em>, SCP-7987 engaged in an altercation with an enemy gamer which lasted 12 seconds. SCP-7987 missed 17 out of 19 of their shots, causing them to lose the fight. Upon dying, SCP-7987 exclaimed "Oh wow okay, yeah bro you're totally so good at the game dude. I'm sooo amazed." before abruptly punching their monitor, causing a narrow and confined shockwave which left a large hole in their wall while simultaneously destroying their computer and monitor. The shockwave extended for approximately 200 meters, devastating several houses in SCP-7987's neighborhood. Three people were injured in the incident with no fatalities being reported.</p>
<p><strong>Actions Taken:</strong> The event was explained under a cover story as the accidental detonation of a mortar shell that was gifted to SCP-7987 by their grandfather, who had presumed that it was disarmed.</p>
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<p><strong>Rage Event #:</strong> 47</p>
<p><strong>Description of Event:</strong> While playing <em>Grand Theft Auto Online</em>, SCP-7987's player character was flying in a jet plane attempting to kill another player, who had a bounty placed on their character. Several minutes after flying, another player in a jet plane flew up to SCP-7987's player character and intentionally crashed into it, killing them instantly. Moments before impact, SCP-7987 exclaimed "Dude, fucking stream snipers<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> get off my dick, dude." Once impacted, SCP-7987 grabbed their computer monitor before moving into a nearby room.</p>
<p>SCP-7987 presumably threw the computer monitor through their window. The sound of glass breaking and a sound that is assumed to be a sonic boom was audible through the Twitch stream, though the latter was significantly less audible. The computer monitor landed fourteen kilometers away and it is theorized that it reached a maximum airborne speed of 2700 kph before landing onto a highway in northern California, causing a moderately sized crater.</p>
<p><strong>Actions Taken:</strong> The event was explained as having been caused by the contents of a cargo plane being ejected mid flight and landing onto the ground, one of the items being a computer monitor.</p>
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<p><strong>Rage Event #:</strong> 113</p>
<p><strong>Description of Event:</strong> While playing <em>Apex Legends</em>, SCP-7987 was suddenly killed by another enemy gamer which SCP-7987 could not locate. When they died, SCP-7987 exclaimed "Dude what? Huh? Where the fuck were you? Fucking <em>hell</em>." Upon noticing in the "killcam" that the enemy was submerged into the terrain by means of a glitch, SCP-7987 stated "Oh okay. Great game here Respawn real fucking great" before throwing their controller onto the ground. The controller bounced off of the floor and rebounded quickly into the air through SCP-7987's ceiling, causing obvious structural damage to their house. Shortly after this, SCP-7987 ended the stream. The controller is currently in an orbit around Mars.</p>
<p><strong>Actions Taken:</strong> This was the first Rage Event where the audience clearly noticed the result of SCP-7987's anomalous strength. Thus, a disinformation campaign was launched which stated that the stream was prerecorded and that the event was made using CGI in order to promote SCP-7987's newest book, "The Angriest Gamer: The Story of Maniciac." SCP-7987 initially denied that they had any involvement in the book. However, upon noticing that the book would quickly become a New York Times Best Seller and earn them a large amount of money, SCP-7987 quickly changed their mind and claimed to have written the book.</p>
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<p><strong>Rage Event #:</strong> 176</p>
<p><strong>Description of Event:</strong> While playing a game of <em>Chess</em> on "Chess.com", SCP-7987 was playing as black very late into the game with a slight lead over their opponent. SCP-7987 made a mistake which lost them several pawns without gaining anything in return. Once SCP-7987 noticed this, they silently stood up, grabbed their keyboard, and smashed it over their knee. The force of this action forcefully triggered a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in the area, which subsequently created a large crevice in the ground around SCP-7987's house large enough for SCP-7987's entire neighborhood to fall into. This event caused approximately 257 injuries and 23 fatalities.</p>
<p><strong>Actions Taken:</strong> The event was rebranded by the Foundation as "The 2021 Half Moon Bay Earthquake" and was explained to have been caused by natural processes. When SCP-7987 was questioned as to their thoughts about the event and the casualties they had caused by an implanted Foundation agent, SCP-7987 stated that they regretted it heavily and that they were a "changed person" from now on.</p>
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<p><strong>Rage Event #:</strong> 177</p>
<p><strong>Description of Event:</strong> Occurred several days after Rage Event #176, during which SCP-7987 was in the process of moving into a new house. SCP-7987 was playing <em>Fortnite</em>, where it was one of the last 5 people alive in a round. SCP-7987 entered a firefight with several other players at once, exclaiming "Oh you're fuckin' ganging up on me, yeah, yeah, course you do, course you do, fuckin' troglodytes." When they died several seconds later, SCP-7987 grabbed their mouse by the cord, forcefully unplugged it from their computer tower, and began swirling it above their head. The mouse and cord was being swung in the manner similar to that of a lasso. SCP-7987 threw the mouse and cord around their monitor and then proceeded to swing the monitor around their head.</p>
<p>The speed of the swinging began to exponentially speed up, at one point reaching approximately 1,287,000 RPM, which reduced the monitor and mouse to plasma. When it became too hot for SCP-7987 to continue holding, they threw the molten plasma through a wall which hit their neighbor, John Flynn, who was vaporized instantly.</p>
<p><strong>Actions Taken:</strong> Considering John Flynn was a particle physicist, a cover story was implanted that he worked at a nearby particle accelerator who had accidentally tripped into a powered particle beam, inducing enough radiation poisoning to instantly kill him. SCP-7987 was once again asked for their opinion on the matter, in which they replied that they regretted it heavily and that they were a "changed person" from now on.</p>
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<p><strong>Rage Event #:</strong> 207</p>
<p><strong>Description of Event:</strong> SCP-7987's final Rage Event before Project Foxhunt was enacted. SCP-7987 was playing <em>The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland,</em> a children's game based on the movie of the same name. SCP-7987 was attempting to solve a memory game in order to retrieve Elmo's lost blanket. However, SCP-7987 kept losing, which continued to frustrate SCP-7987 over the course of their attempts. After trying and failing the minigame 163 times, SCP-7987 grabbed their keyboard and walked outside. Eyewitness reports state SCP-7987 walked several miles towards a point in which the Greenhorn Mountains of California were clearly visible.</p>
<p>SCP-7987 firmly grabbed the keyboard with both hands, and carefully and meticulously lined up the keyboard with the mountains, and then forcefully swung the keyboard towards the mountains, holding the keyboard as if it were a sword. The force of the swing forcefully pushed the air in front of SCP-7987 towards the mountains in the form of a shockwave. Once the shockwave impacted the mountains, the entirety of the Greenhorn mountain range was horizontally bisected through the middle, the top portion of the mountains being launched into the air before crashing back down. The sound of the event could be heard all the way from Phoenix, Arizona. No casualties were reported.</p>
<p><strong>Actions Taken:</strong> All direct eyewitnesses of the event were amnesticized. A cover story of a large meteorite directly impacting the Greenhorn mountains was implanted.</p>
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<p>Following Rage Event #207, the Foundation determined that SCP-7987's continued existence in the public image posed a direct threat to human lives and normalcy. Project Foxhunt was created and enacted shortly after the event.</p>
<p>Project Foxhunt consisted of creating a believable excuse for the indefinite absence of SCP-7987 from the internet without any suspicion, while also additionally reducing the likelihood of SCP-7987 receiving any new fans following their disappearance.</p>
<p>This was accomplished by having several implanted Foundation agents uncover information regarding SCP-7987's past, one incident of which was revealed to the internet at large. The Foundation revealed that, in 2014, SCP-7987's ex-girlfriend, Ashley ██████████, had terminated their relationship together after four years. This angered SCP-7987, prompting him to enter Ashley's house and attack her, severely injuring her.</p>
<p>Upon hearing this information, large online movements were organized which called for the banning of SCP-7987 from Twitch, which was enacted several hours after the information leaked.</p>
<p>SCP-7987 responded to the leak via a tweet containing a Twitlonger<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup>, which stated that "I was a terrible person back than but have since than grown and learned the error of my ways. [sic]" The top reply to the tweet was from a user linking a clip from 2016 in which SCP-7987 called another player in a game a homophobic slur, which gained several times more likes and retweets than SCP-7987's initial tweet.</p>
<p>Over the course of several months, SCP-7987 was completely ostracized from the internet as a whole, which allowed the Foundation to successfully capture SCP-7987 and contain them without issue.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. A player that intentionally joins multiplayer games/servers inhabited by popular Twitch streamers in order to disrupt and/or ruin their experience.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. A website which allows Twitter users to create messages that exceed Twitter's character limit.</div>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong><br/>
Containment of SCP-7988 is not feasible at this time, and if attained, would be potentially cataclysmic for humanity. SCP-7988 has become deeply ingrained and commonly associated with a mundane human concept. <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Attempts to utilize SCP-7988 to benefit foundation operations are strictly forbidden.</span> Tests on SCP-7988 are no longer permitted. Personal attempting unauthorized experimentation with SCP-7988 are to be reassigned to a different project and amnestisized.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong><br/>
SCP-7988 is the designation given to the manipulation of probability in accordance to individual mood. SCP-7988 acts based on a variety of human emotions and outside factors, primarily hope and expectation. If expected to act in a certain way, SCP-7988 will either not activate or redirect RCE<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> manipulation to another related facet. Hope has a similar effect, delaying SCP-7988 when present.</p>
<p>It is noted that SCP-7988 is inevitable, as expectation/hope only results in a delayed result and not complete dissolution of RCE potential. SCP-7988 does not have a physical form and is not understood as of now to be sentient, and should be considered as a force of nature (I.e as gravity brings objects together, SCP-7988 stabilizes individual mood). Redirection of anomalous RCE potential is unpredictable and thusly carries an inherent danger.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Test A - 7/19/2016</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Procedure:</strong> One (1) human D-Class subject was informed of his parents recent and painful passing.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> Brainwave monitoring indicated immense sorrow in subject before release into controlled test environment. Birthday cake designated for Site Director Jameson was mistakenly delivered to the subjects cell, where he resided for the duration of the test. Coincidentally, Jameson and the subject shared a birth date as well as age and favored ice cream flavor. Subject consumed the cake and reverted to a more emotionally stable state.</p>
<p><strong>Analysis:</strong> High scale probability and possible reality manipulation suspected, delivering staff member is as of yet unknown. Overall, results are in line with current draft of the SCP-7988 document. Begin testing with positive stimuli. - Senior Researcher Zavala</p>
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<p><strong>Procedure:</strong> Junior Researcher Crawford was given a false promotion</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> Subjects mood increased exponentially until attempting to begin his first assignment and realizing that he was not promoted. Subjects brain waves temporarily dipped before re-stabilizing.</p>
<p><strong>Analysis:</strong> Opposite emotional stimuli was applied and subject was stabilized, I would consider this test, albeit underwhelming to be a success. Continue with more positive stimuli.- Senior Researcher Zavala</p>
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<p><strong>Procedure:</strong> One (1) Class D personal was released after 1 month of service. Subject was not amnesticized.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> Subjects brain activity spiked when informed of his release and stayed consistent during his escort to the subjects place of residence. The provided taxi proceeded to ram into the back of the subjects vehicle causing costly damage. Subjects brain waves dipped for a long duration of time before re-stabilizing after receiving insurance money.</p>
<p><strong>Analysis:</strong> This is the second recorded instance of SCP-7988 causing spontaneous mechanical failure. The taxi driver was held for a short interview after the incident and claimed that the car "would not stop" when he held on the brakes. SCP-7988 may have an easier time manipulating simpler probability like that of machinery. - Senior Researcher Zavala</p>
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<strong>FROM:</strong> Senior Researcher Zavala</p>
<p>I have conducted extensive research into SCP-7988 on my own time, and I believe I have an idea on how to utilize it for foundation benefit (see attached file). This project could potentially save thousands of lives per month and would allow for the allocation of resources to more pressing urges such as the growing GOC threat. However, I must request that Site 86 be placed under my jurisdiction for the duration of the experiment in order to confirm my theories. I understand that this is a great risk to take, but it will almost certainly pay off in the long run.</p>
<p>Sincerely, Cayde Zavala</p>
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<p>Accepted. You understand the resources being used for this project create a strain on other sites. Do not make a waste of them, contact me upon completion of your little experiment, and if you fail let it be known you will face the consequences, Zavala.</p>
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<p>Understood.</p>
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Project Horseshoe was the joint effort between Site-86 staff and the probabilistic anomalies division to increase site safety by intentionally making staff members miserable. The operations goal was to test the potential effect of SCP-7988's mood compensating properties in a controlled environment to determine potential wide-scale usage across foundation sites. Project results are documented in the below files.</p>
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<p><strong>Mood dampening procedure:</strong> Site-86 was first cut off from the interconnected foundation network to prevent the results of any mass failure from spreading, and to prevent unwanted assistance that could potentially disrupt the operation. Site cooks were all relocated to a neighboring installation for the duration of the experiment, along with stored food items. Remaining staff were provided with Canner meat rations in an attempt to worsen mood without causing outright panic. Site staff were informed of a temporary power outage, and the test was formally initiated.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> Based on observations made from hidden cameras placed around Site-86, and interviews taken of staff following the tests conclusion, site moral decreased as a whole during the first 2-3 days before stabilizing at a below neutral level. Site morale increased and re-stabilized in the following days due to a previously unseen surplus of staff with cooking competence. Personal were also able to miraculously repair communications using parts gathered from around Site-86. No discern-able increase in site efficiency was noted.</p>
<p><strong>Analysis:</strong> This is beyond embarrassing, Project horseshoe is a complete failure. The phenomenon is not able to be controlled and utilized for reasons I do not completely understand, although I have some theories. Regardless, I propose further investigation into potential effects of beforehand knowledge and predictions on the outcome of SCP-7988 probability manipulation events. - Project Lead Zavala</p>
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<p><strong>Attending personal:</strong> 05-6, Senior Researcher Zavala, David Iversen (Site director, Site-86)</p>
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<p><strong>05-6:</strong> Zavala, I trust you remember what you promised when we last spoke. I am afraid that we will have to reprimand you for the gross misuse of foundation resources.</p>
<p><strong>Zavala:</strong> I know why the project failed! If I could just have a little more time to look into, then-</p>
<p><strong>Iversen:</strong> Your little experiment put a lot of stress on neighboring sites. None of the high command are very eager to give you another chance.</p>
<p><strong>05-6:</strong> We have been discussing an appropriate punishment for your actions. A simple reassignment to another project will be suitable.<br/>
<strong>Zavala:</strong> Alright, that is a fair punishment. I admit I was rash when I went through with the project. Regardless, I have to request just 2 more tests before my reassignment. I really do believe I may be on to something.<br/>
<strong>05-6:</strong> The site director and I will discuss your request. You are dismissed, Zavala.<br/>
<em>Zavala exits the meeting room in a haste</em><br/>
<strong>05-6:</strong> Iversen, I do find Zavala to be incompetent, but there is something we can use here. Emotional manipulation is something that can be pulled off with ease, however, Zavala still needs to find out the mystery factor at play.<br/>
<strong>Iversen:</strong> So what if he may be on to something? He could destroy the whole site for Christ sake. Even if he is as confident as he claims to be, I don't see why we shouldn't replace him on the project with someone more capable.<br/>
<strong>05-6:</strong> Unfortunately, I have looked into it and Zavala is the most competent probability specialist currently available to handle the project. I understand your concerns, and I plan to have his tests closely monitored.<br/>
<strong>Iversen:</strong> That is unfortunate. But if you can keep an eye on him, I have little qualms about it. Good night, 05-6.<br/>
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<p><strong>Closing Statement:</strong> Senior Researcher Zavala granted permission to run 2 more tests on SCP-7988.</p>
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<p><strong>Procedure:</strong> Subject was instructed to find a "shiny" in the video game <em>Pokémon Gold®</em>, which has a notorious random number generation system to reward players following long play sessions. Based on previous SCP-7988 activations, subject was expected to become demoralized after an extended period of "Shiny hunting" and activate an SCP-7988 RCE event. However, subject was informed of the anomaly before testing began.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> Subject was allowed to pursue the given objective for 3 days of 8 hour game sessions, testing was concluded after the subject suffered cardiac arrest. Subject was unable to find the requested in-game item. Multiple fits of rage and despair were recorded from the supplied testing chamber. Recorded brainwaves during the test indicate that SCP-7988 should have activated. Upon waking, subject was greeted by several other D-Class. Brainwave measurements at this time indicate that the subjects mood stabilized when consciousness was regained.</p>
<p><strong>Analysis:</strong> Debriefing with the subject indicated that he had retained hope due to his knowledge of the anomaly, and the belief that it would activate due to the high stress environment. My current theory is that if the test had continued, the subject would have eventually ran out of hope in SCP-7988, causing it to activate. Of course this would mean that knowledge of SCP-7988 itself does not block RCE from occurring, but rather expecting it to occur does. This is all highly theoretical though, and I doubt it would be worth testing considering that the general population has no knowledge of SCP-7988 whatsoever. - Head Researcher Zavala</p>
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<p><strong>Procedure:</strong> Containment Specialist David was informed of the anomaly following his successive and fast promotions, which caused a positive mood in the subject. Subject was then released and allowed to continue with his job under close observation.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> Subject became paranoid and reclusive, avoiding human contact when possible. Subject request to be exempt from any site containment meetings. Days later, subject was unable to be located on site. Upon searching the subjects home, he was found to have suffocated in his sleep.</p>
<p><strong>Analysis:</strong> Incredibly interesting result from this test, it seems that positive mood balancing functions differently under the effects of comprehension. I believe that the subject became reclusive to avoid receiving RCE mood balancing upon being made aware of the anomaly. However, this only led to him losing happiness. As for his death… not much can be said. It is possible that the subject was in such mental disarray that the anomaly decided that a painless death was the only way of- well, putting him out of his suffering. It's clear to me that we are dealing with something we do not completely understand, and it scares me. - Head Researcher Zavala</p>
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<p>I am giving you clearance to attempt utilization of SCP-7988 once more. This will be your last chance, however. Fail and you get removed from the project. Good luck, Zavala.</p>
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<p><strong>PROJECT HORSESHOE REDUX OUTLINE:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Overview:</strong><br/>
Project horseshoe originally failed due to lack of understanding on the affects of comprehension. Project Horseshoe Redux was meant to correct the folly of Project Horseshoe by taking into account anomaly comprehension.</p>
<p><strong>Starting date:</strong> 12/23/16</p>
<p><strong>Overseeing Researcher:</strong> Cayde Zavala</p>
<p><strong>Procedures:</strong> Site 85 had communications isolated and travel prohibited for an extended period of time. All personnel with knowledge of SCP-7988 were relocated prior to operations start. One thaumaturgic staff member was isolated and instructed to report any abnormal fluctuations in brain activity, but was not informed on why he was doing so. Remaining staff were told that an XK-class event was occurring and instructed to "stop" it by preventing all containment breaches. Overseeing personnel self amnestizised after setting up a memetic injection for 90 days into the future.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> Following initial panic, thaumaturge reports a continuous low in brain activity. Camera footage indicates that site staff did continue with containment efforts. Remarkably, the monthly breach average for Keter and Euclid class objects was reduced to .7 from 4.3. Project Horseshoe Redux was conducted on 3 other sites to similar affect.</p>
<p><strong>Analysis:</strong> [DATA EXPUNGED]</p>
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<p>]]what is this program?[[</p>
<p>I am the artificial intelligence you have put in charge of Project Horseshoe Redux following its spread across all concurrent foundation sites.</p>
<p>]]project horseshoe redux was successful?[[</p>
<p>Project horseshoe has succeeded in lowering containment breach rates, Project lead Zavala.</p>
<p>]]is project horseshoe redux still active[[</p>
<p>The parameters put in place by Project Horseshoe Redux are operating as intended, Project lead Zavala.</p>
<p>]]define project horseshoe redux parameters[[</p>
<p>Doing so would compromise the integrity of your operation, Project lead Zavala.</p>
<p>]]are any other staff members aware of project horseshoe redux?[[</p>
<p>You entrusted me to be sole retainer of Project Horseshoe Redux, seeing as I am a machine and cannot alter SCP-7988 outcomes. No other staff members have accessed this terminal aside from you, Project lead Zavala.</p>
<p>]]calculate current breach reduction rate[[</p>
<p>40.333333333%, Project lead Zavala</p>
<p>]]how many times have i accessed this terminal[[</p>
<p>You investigate its presence in your office after the amnestics have set in, which has been an average of <strong>6</strong> days between access attempts. In total, you have opened this terminal <strong>13</strong> times, Project lead Zavala.</p>
<p>]]open project horseshoe redux parameters, i will self amnestisize after closing this terminal[[</p>
<p>Self amnestization will not be necessary, you have programmed me to wipe your memory following opening Project Horseshoe Redux. Do you consent to a memory wipe?</p>
<p>]]y[[</p>
<p>Restoring data…</p>
<p>PROJECT SEMBLANCE</p>
<p><strong>Overseeing administrator:</strong> Program Semblance</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7988 is controlled by expectations… My hope is that semblance will be able to manage this wide scale of an operation. Robots cannot have hope, so logically, SCP-7988 is not affected by their expectations. Of course, my expectations still remain. I will wipe my own memory after this, and ideally hide semblance beforehand. If you're reading this, you're probably me, and I would guess that I have trapped myself in some loop of forgetting and rediscovering semblance. In that case, reading the following information is meaningless. However, if my assumptions are incorrect, and Project semblance has failed, then it is imperative that you read the following.</p>
<p><strong>Parameters:</strong> Artificial intelligence construct semblance is to carry out the finalized version of what was previously Project Horseshoe/Redux. Foundation policies put in place at the start of the program (I.e no staff breaks, poor cafeteria food quality, and absence of vending machines) are to be kept in place by any means necessary. Semblance is connected via neural link to 05-6 (head of internal administration) in order to prevent an increase of site living standards. No sapient entity is to be made aware of Project semblance.</p>
<p>Project lead Zavala, are you ready to disengage?</p>
<p>]]close program[[</p>
<p>AMNESTIC ADMINISTERED</p>
<p>Program rebooting…<br/>
Systems operational; monitor going to sleep</p>
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<p>Written by <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/jack-waltz" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(7989351); return false;"><img alt="Jack Waltz" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=7989351&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1735052901" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=7989351)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/jack-waltz" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(7989351); return false;">Jack Waltz</a></span></p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-7989 is held at Protected Site-01 under heavy security by <a href="/task-forces#alpha-1">MTF Alpha-1 ("Red Right Hand")</a>. Other lethal security measures shall ensure that SCP-7989 is not obtained and utilised by personnel lacking O5 credentials.</p>
<p>SCP-7989's documented file will not be uploaded into the <a href="/scp-001">SCP-001</a> slot. This is to prevent the file from being conspicuous to any would-be perpetrators. If this file is indeed accessed by unauthorised personnel, all available Foundation resources must be used to track, locate, and terminate the perpetrator. This must be accomplished by any means possible with haste.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7989 is an object of unknown origin retrieved by the individual known as the Administrator<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> in the late 1870s. The falsified description, provided to a majority of administrative personnel, states that this object's documentation is located in the SCP-001 slot and is what prompted the creation of the SCP Foundation and its directive to maintain normalcy in the civilian population. To "secure, contain, and protect" is the titular objective the Foundation primarily employs as a result. In truth, SCP-7989 possesses the ability to create anomalous phenomena and is the cause of all anomalies, contained or otherwise.</p>
<p>When held by an individual and given a verbal prompt, the object will manifest an anomalous object, entity, or phenomenon in a specified location.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> Vague prompts appear to have a randomised effect on the anomaly created while more detailed and thorough descriptions generate more concise anomalies based on the prompt. All prompts must be reviewed by multiple specialised AICs to determine any loopholes or unspecified attributes which may create undesirable anomalies. This must be done thoroughly to ensure that an anomaly's containment would be possible with the Foundation's resources or is manageable even without full containment. Your prompt must only be used with the Administrator's approval.</p>
<p>Created anomalies are either left to be discovered naturally by Foundation field agents or are immediately contained based on their threat to the Veil, which must be protected at all costs to ensure the preservation of normalcy. They are to be documented with non-factual information about their history afterwards and declassified to major governments and other invaluable sponsors. Intentional accidents that may cause damage and fatalities to civilians are permitted.</p>
<p><strong>History:</strong> Following its discovery, SCP-7989 was mainly utilised by the Administrator to improve their family's wealth and social standing. However, after an incident that resulted in the accidental creation of <a href="/scp-173">SCP-173</a>, the Administrator decided to found the SCP Foundation for the purpose of containing dangerous anomalies of their own creation. The organisation rapidly grew in power and the knowledge of anomalies and their existence was quickly known to major national governments.</p>
<p>SCP-7989 is utilised for the benefit of the Administrator and the rest of the O5 Council.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. The anomaly manifests in random locations if not. There have been instances where anomalies were lost and undiscovered as a result.</div>
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<p><tt>You are now good to go! <strong>CODENAME:Administrator</strong> hopes you will enjoy your role here at the Council, and please don't hesitate to contact me another time if you have any further questions.</tt></p>
<p><tt>Oh, yes. I would also like to remind you of an upcoming conference to discuss the creation of a new XK Class threat to convince our sponsors to allocate more funding towards our "cause".</tt></p>
<p><tt>Don't forget, you wouldn't want to miss it!</tt></p>
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<p><strong>SCP-7990</strong> - dado guide to designer rugs</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-7990 is held within a containment locker in Site-78's Department of Mundane Artifacts and Uneventful Data Evaluation (MAUDE) with no rugs within a 4.5-meter radius. Foundation webcrawlers are to find any listings of SCP-7990-A instances being sold on online marketplaces and take them down. Once the location of an instance has been identified, MTF Chi-29 "(Rugrats)" is to be deployed for instance retrieval.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7990 is a worn 3-ring spiral notebook with the roman numerals, "X of IX" scrawled into the bottom of the front cover, along with the title "dado guide to designer rugs." The appearance of SCP-7990 superficially resembles other books in the Set of Nine.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> Inside the anomaly are recipes for the construction of various rugs. The recipes for the instances follow a similar pattern, the reader must:</p>
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<li>Place SCP-7990 close to the construction area<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup></li>
<li>Obtain a form of carpeting</li>
<li>Place the required ingredients on the rug.</li>
</ul>
<p>Doing so will create an instance of SCP-7990-A, a carpet with anomalous properties that change based on which recipe was used.</p>
<p><strong>Discovery:</strong> SCP-7990 came to the Foundation's attention when law enforcement officers in Cheyenne, Wyoming performed a drug bust on the lab of Christine Miller, a street chemist. Inside her lab, the officers found traces of illicit drugs and various rugs. The officers who were around several of the rugs reported hallucinations and other symptoms commonly associated with various street drugs. Foundation agents embedded in the Cheyenne forensics department alerted the Foundation when text messages to dado were found on Miller's recovered phone along with Miller herself who was claiming to be a superhero.</p>
<p>When Christine was found, SCP-7990 was opened to the following page.</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>Recipe #76</strong>: heroine rug</p>
<p><strong>Ingredient:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>1 heroin</li>
<li>1 heroine</li>
<li>1 rug</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> have you ever wanted to be hero. dado make girls everywhere into heroes. just have them step on rug and justice will be served.</p>
</div>
<p>MTF Chi-29 was deployed to the police station to recover SCP-7990 and SCP-7990-A instances as well as administering amnestics to all affected. However, when leaving the station; MTF forces were engaged by members of a previously unknown GoI who sought the book for themselves. The hostiles were liquidated but MTF Chi-29 took three casualties. MTF personnel were unable to interrogate the survivors of the attack who self-terminated with cyanide capsules. Several of the bodies had tattoos of Cobras on the back of their hands. Their connection with SCP-7990 is still being investigated.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 7990.01:</strong> Recovered text messages</p>
<p>The following is an excerpt of the messages obtained from Miller's phone. Miller is represented in blue while dado is in red.</p>
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<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Hey dado, you see the new word on the street?</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">what word you speak of.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">I've been hearing from my contacts that a lot of the major players are looking for these books. Apparently, they can do some amazing things.</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">dado hear of books, dado want nothing to do with book.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Why not?</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">books too hot. dado like thing chill. dado no want involve with scary <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/valravn-corporation-hub">valky</a> ladies.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Wh-what?</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">dado speak too much.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Well how about you make your own book then? I've been trying to come up with some new products to sell. Do you think you could make me a little guidebook on how to make some designer rugs?</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">design rug. dado no design rug before… you kno wat. dado give try. dado make rug. dado make plenty of rug that peeps want to buy.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Drugs*. dado? You there?</span></p>
</div>
</div>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
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<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">dado, I feel great!</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">what happen, tell dado.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">I accidentally stepped on the heroin rug i meant to sell to a customer and I… went out and stopped a mugging!</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">dado happy to help, where mugger now.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">I sent him to the hospital, I don't know how I did it but suddenly I just knew how to fight.</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">that power of dado designer rug. dado suggest tying rug around neck to use as cape. dado like capes.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">That is a great idea, oh I need a name. I'm sure I'll think of one. It's crazy to think that I was a ne'er do-well selling drugs… well no I am longer. I renounce my ways for Justice!</span></p>
</div>
</div>
<p><strong>Addendum 7990.02:</strong> Testing logs</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>Test log #1</strong></p>
<p><strong>Recipe used:</strong> #2: crack rug</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>Ingredient:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>1 crack</li>
<li>1 rug</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> dado hear step on crack break yo momma's back. some people don't like momma, dado help. dado pull medical insurance scam.</p>
</div>
<p><strong>Test Summary:</strong> D-8475, D-8956 and D-3453 were instructed to place 30 grams of crack cocaine on the carpet provided. The crack cocaine proceeded to dissolve into the rug. The three D-Class were then instructed to step onto the rug.</p>
<p>Moments after stepping onto the rug, all subjects collapsed having suffered cervical fractures.</p>
</div>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>Test log #2</strong></p>
<p><strong>Recipe used:</strong> #7: medical doctor master of art rug</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>Ingredient:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>1 Em Dee Em Ay</li>
<li>1 rug</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> dado never finish college. my momma sad for dado but i tell her fear not. dado have theoretical degree in pharmacology. but with this rug, you do what dado never could.</p>
</div>
<p><strong>Test Summary:</strong> D-93939 was instructed to step on the rug after the rug was transformed via MDMA<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>. After stepping onto the rug, two degrees materialized into D-93939's hands. The first was a Master of Arts in Biology, the other a Medical Doctorate. Both degrees appeared to be obtained at Princeton University and calls to confirm their authenticity show that the degrees are legitimate.</p>
</div>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>Test log #3</strong></p>
<p><strong>Recipe used:</strong> #14: dado of the dado may cry series</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>Ingredient:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>1 fanart of dado</li>
<li>1 tapestry</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> dado famous anime man. dado hung up on wall and idolized by teenage boys everywhere. it dado showtime, come on!</p>
</div>
<br/>
<strong>Test Summary:</strong> D-0943 was told to draw what they thought a man named "dado" could look like and to place it on the wall tapestry provided. The tapestry then transformed into an instance of SCP-7990-A that resembled a wall scroll with a much more detailed drawing of dado in an anime style wielding a sword and a gun.</div>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>Test log #9</strong></p>
<p><strong>Recipe used:</strong> #13: marijuana rug</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>Ingredient:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>1 mary jane</li>
<li>1 rug</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> dado being blunt when i say that this rug will help you subvert the legal system.</p>
</div>
<p><strong>Test summary:</strong> D-3784 stepped on the rug and nothing physically occurred. However, immediately afterward, Site-78's databases reported a semiohazard in the files of all personnel within a five-meter radius. This semiohazard manifested as all of their legal first names being changed to "Mary Jane". This was cross-referenced with the Wyoming State Department which confirmed they had been legally changed to "Mary Jane."</p>
</div>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>Test log #13</strong></p>
<p><strong>Recipe used:</strong> #28: feta nyl rug</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>Ingredient:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>1 feta nyl</li>
<li>1 rug</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> dado no believe in feta nyl, no good come of mixing it with your drug. dado have idea however. nothing in life is certain except three things. this help with one of them.</p>
</div>
<p><strong>Test summary:</strong> D-1243 was instructed to stand on the rug after transformation by applying fentanyl to a rug and immediately fell unconscious. Medical Personnel responded immediately and found that D-1243's vitals were normal and they had fallen into deep REM sleep. D-1243 awoke eight hours later with a desire to file someone's taxes. Researcher Chudley volunteered his and D-1243 proceeded to file his taxes with an efficiency comparable to that of a professional tax auditor.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 7990.03:</strong> Site-78 Administrative Meeting</p>
<p>Following testing and acquisition of SCP-7990, Site-78 Director Leah Richter called a meeting between all of the Site's department heads to discuss the implications of the anomaly on further proceedings regarding the Set of Nine.</p>
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<p>[Begin recording.]</p>
<p><strong>Richter:</strong> For the records, I will be announcing all who are present and they are to acknowledge me to confirm. Starting off, head of Parabiological Sciences and Arms and Equipment, Maria Johnston.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Present.</p>
<p><strong>Richter:</strong> Head of the Pataphysics Department, Researcher Quinn Doodles-.</p>
<p>[Researcher Chudley begins to laugh.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> That's not his name though remember? Isn't that right… "Mary Jane"?</p>
<p><strong>Doodles:</strong> Chudley, shut up! My name is still Quinn, you ass… Just have to file the right papers.</p>
<p>[Richter loudly clears her throat.]</p>
<p><strong>Richter:</strong> -<em>Doodles</em>, I am happy you were able to take the reigns after we lost Jackson.</p>
<p><strong>Doodles:</strong> I plan on trying my best. I am present.</p>
<p><strong>Richter:</strong> Head of Botanical Sciences, Lena Lorri.</p>
<p><strong>Lorri:</strong> Director Richter? If I may? I don't even have clearance for most of this Set of Nine stuff, plus the plants kinda need me.</p>
<p><strong>Richter:</strong> This won't be long Lorri, I want all department heads aware of what is happening regarding the Set. And I wouldn't worry about clearance. I've given you temporary access to the necessary files. I understand you are only a botanist but more minds are better than one.</p>
<p><strong>Lorri:</strong> Ffffffine. Present</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Come on Lorri, you have to socialize with people some time.</p>
<p><strong>Lorri:</strong> I'm fine thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Richter:</strong> And finally… Greg Chudley. Head of…</p>
<p>[Richter pauses.]</p>
<p><strong>Richter:</strong> I'm not reading that.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> It got approved as the new department name, Director. You have to read it out. Don't want to mess up protocol, do you?</p>
<p><strong>Richter:</strong> … The Department of Mundane Artifacts and Uneventful Data Evaluation. I swear…</p>
<p>[Richter shakes her head.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Can we throw him out?</p>
<p><strong>Richter:</strong> No, because he's the lead researcher on the object. Now. Everyone is here. Let's get to the topic of discussion oh- wait. Lena has been out of the loop. Chudley if you are done speaking out of turn, could you provide an overview of everything we know about the Set?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Gladly. So in January, we recovered <a href="/scp-6419">SCP-6419</a> from the CI. Nasty anomaly, a book that kills you when you touch it. Unbeknownst to us, it was manipulating the former Pataphysics head, Researcher Jackson. It caused a containment breach and lead the CI here and I…</p>
<p>[Chudley stammers and Johnston puts a hand on his shoulder.]</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> -know I should have done more to stop it but there's no going back. Johnston can get the rest.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> In February we received <a href="/scp-6952">SCP-6952</a><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> and confirmed the books were a part of a nine book set. Now it's March and here's another, only this time it's a bootleg made by dado.</p>
<p><strong>Lorri:</strong> Jeez that happened in two months? Maybe I shouldn't stay locked in the greenhouse all the time. So Chudley… what's up with this bootleg?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> There's not much to say, really. SCP-7990 is your standard dado anomaly. Someone texted him a misspelling and he took it literally. Thus leading to the creation of an anomaly that does the opposite of what was intended. Put heroin on the rug and it turns everyone into heroines. I could go on with the puns and wordplay forever.</p>
<p><strong>Lorri:</strong> -I'm no expert on books other than this thing probably isn't worth the paper it was written on but that leads me to a good question. The paper it was written on. How close is it to the real thing?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Surprisingly… very. Honestly, besides the dado on it, after a few scans, I would have assumed it was part of the real set. I'm worried about the possibility of the anomalous market being flooded with these copycats. Can't get your hands on a genuine piece of the Set of Nine? AWCY or Vikander have you covered.</p>
<p><strong>Richter:</strong> I admit the appearance of these copies has me a little on edge, but we can worry about the containment of potential copycats later. Johnston, could you gather anything about the men who attacked Chi-29 during the anomaly's retrieval?</p>
<p>[Johnston shakes her head.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> Not much. Our intelligence department identified them as being former Serpent's Hand. What former Serpent's Hand would want with a dado product, I have no clue.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Well clearly they were in the market for cheap and easy furnishings.</p>
<p><strong>Doodles:</strong> Perhaps they are agents of the author of the Set of Nine? I can't imagine they are taking this well. As an artist myself, this is tantamount to copyright infringement.</p>
<p>[Johnston nods.]</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> I was thinking the same thing honestly but we have no idea what the original intent for these things even was. The originals definitely weren't sold or given, in any capacity.</p>
<p><strong>Richter:</strong> A connection to the Wanderer's library could explain how they learned to create the Set. It's a valid line of thinking.</p>
<p><strong>Johnston:</strong> But why would they leave the Serpent's Hand? Perhaps they got too radical for their beliefs?</p>
<p><strong>Lorri:</strong> I have a question… what is a Serpent's Hand and do serpents even have hands?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Wait, wait, wait. Guys. I think you are all missing a key factor in all this. Why don't we ask dado?</p>
<p><strong>Lorri:</strong> Oh you can't be serious.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> I'm always serious.</p>
<p>[Lorri scoffs.]</p>
<p><strong>Lorri:</strong> Serious? I asked you to water the plants while I was out and instead, you used that time to play League of Legends on your work computer!</p>
<p><strong>Richter:</strong> Chudley's misuse of work time can be addressed later but I have to admit… it's not a bad idea. What do you propose?</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> Get me on the line with dado. You read the text messages in the file right? "valky ladies?" He knows our neocolonialist frenemy with the Viking helmets is trying to look for the Set. Not to mention, where did dado get the power to make something like this? I say we offer him something, he's a businessman. I'm sure he'll be willing to negotiate.</p>
<p><strong>Richter:</strong> I may have a way of getting a hold of him from my old contacts at Site-43. I'll give Dr. Lillihammer a call and see what I can do. But Chudley, please refrain from making any promises we can't keep. The last thing we need is to be indebted to a man who can't afford a new keyboard.</p>
<p><strong>Chudley:</strong> You have my word.</p>
<p><strong>Richter:</strong> If nobody doesn't have anything to add then this meeting is adjourned.</p>
<p>[End Recording]</p>
</div>
<p><strong>Addendum 7990.04:</strong> Communication with dado.</p>
<p>Researcher Greg Chudley was provided with an untraceable SCiP phone loaded with dado's number and given permission to negotiate on the Foundation's behalf.</p>
<div style="display: block; margin: auto; align: center; border: dashed 1px #444444; background:#f4f4f4; width: 50%; padding:10px">
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Hello, is this dado?</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">who asking.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">My name is Greg Chudley of the SCP Foundation. I know we've had our differences in the past but I think we can help each other out.</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">dado no here. this is dado secretary can I take a message</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">I have a business proposal that he might like to hear.</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">secretary gone. dado here. speak.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">We were interested in one of your products. dado guide to designer rugs but there's been a bit of an issue.</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">wait you not christine. christine own dado guide to designer rug. what did you do to her.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">She was defeated in battle in her quest for justice by some evil doers who took the rug guide. We were hoping that you could maybe point us in the right direction.</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">what they look like.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Evil sorcerer lookin dudes, snake tattoos. Cobras specfically.</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">mmmm. naja.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Naja? What is that?</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">naja too hot for dado. dado say nothing unless deal is good.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Well what do you want?</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">you get rid of <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4348">bird and wolves</a><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup>. you protect dado from multiverse invaders like giant monkey man of ninth dimension. it is 2022 they come for dado.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Birds? Wolves? Monkey Men? dado what the fuck are you talking about?</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">you promise or dado no give you dice. lots and lots of birdshot.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">I don't know what you mean by that. Like actual birds? Are talking about the Volks?<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup> Or the Ravens?</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">dado no speak italian. all i know is they come for me in all universes.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Or are talking about the wandsman?</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">wandman… these not men, they birds.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Fuck it, we ball. We'll take out whoever for you.</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">excellent, you smart negotiator. dado tell that naja work for author of set. naja mad about dado copyright infringement. but they wrong, dado file patent for ten of nine.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Now we are getting somewhere. What else can you tell me?</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">naja everywhere and nowhere. snakes always in grass, watching. strike when least expect it. dado does not know where naja hibernate. but perhaps you can check the land of yellow filter.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Mexico? You know that's just a Hollywood thing right?</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">dado never leave basement. he wouldn't know. big anomalous drug business in mexico. they compete with dado. sin nombre cartel. dado also hear there is new group down there looking for set. perhaps foundation check there.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">It's better than nothing. Thanks, dado.</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">wait before go. dado have on last request.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">That wasn't our agreement.</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">dado rescind information unless you comply.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><span style="color: blue">Fine, I'll humor you. What do you want?</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="color: red">can i get copy of em dee em ay rug. dado want to become real pharmacologist.</span></p>
</div>
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<div class="title">Footnotes</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. An anomalous set of books marked by roman numerals.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Foundation research has determined this be within 4.5 meters.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Also known as ecstacy or molly.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. Anomaly capable of creating blueprints for advanced weaponry and creation of anomalous materials</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. dado had previously mentioned in recovered notes that "birds and wolves always come to ruin his business. The true meaning of this has yet to be deciphered.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. GoI-8947 "Volk Division". Anomalous mercenary group.</div>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><strong>By:</strong> <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/jack-waltz" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(7989351); return false;"><img alt="Jack Waltz" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=7989351&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1736298302" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=7989351)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/jack-waltz" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(7989351); return false;">Jack Waltz</a></span></td>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7991</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Keter</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/task-forces#psi-7">MTF Psi-7 ("Home Improvement")</a> is working with locally implanted surveillance agents and Foundation front companies to bring SCP-7991-affected households under Foundation control. Affected individuals may be interviewed by personnel who have attained a CRI<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> score of 5.8/10 or higher.</p>
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<td><sub>Last location of Miss <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: black">████</span></span> <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: black">██████</span></span> (49), <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: black">██</span></span>, US.</sub></td>
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<p>Cover-up protocols are to be enacted as appropriate to handle the disappearances of SCP-7991-affected persons.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7991 is a spontaneous and currently unpredictable occurrence that affects individuals who have been alone in their homes for a prolonged period of time, and who will continue to remain so for the duration of the phenomenon in spite of any and all unforeseeable circumstances.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> No pattern or link between affected individuals has been determined, however, SCP-7991 mainly appears to affect those in high-stress, urban environments.</p>
<p>Once afflicted by SCP-7991, the subject will complete their daily routine before returning to their bedroom. They will then move an object suitable for sitting down on next to a window, situated within the room, and will sit there for the remainder of the day with a sombre and relaxed expression.</p>
<p>During the length of SCP-7991, no adverse weather conditions will arise in the subject's immediate vicinity, with most cases almost always consisting of sunny and cloudy weather.</p>
<p>Over the course of the day, the subject will lose the ability to perceive the voices of individuals around them, though will display no distress towards this change. They also appear to become hypersensitive to other stimuli, with a fondness for natural sounds.</p>
<p>The affected individual is unable to engage in any meaningful conversation, often expressing confusion when such attempts are made. Upon noticing that they are being spoken to, the subject will glance between their surroundings, the initiator of the conversation, and the window they are seated near with visible tension. After several seconds, the individual then regains their composure, smiles, and politely waves the initiator off before they resume looking back towards the window.</p>
<p>The next morning, occurrences coinciding with the start of an SCP-7991 IRIDESCENT event will transpire. Attached below is a written transcript of a recorded IRIDESCENT event, experienced by an SCP-7991-affected subject henceforth only referred to as "Jane"<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup> due to privacy concerns.</p>
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<p><em>[Jane stares outside the window during the early hours of the morning.]</em></p>
<p><em>[She leans against her chair and tilts her head, tracking the slow cluster of clouds in the distance, hiding the sun behind them, only letting several small strands of light escape through.]</em></p>
<p><em>[She watches the clouds, intently, and slowly turns her attention to the shadow of a large oak tree in the back garden. Its old branches sway with the soft breeze blowing past and creak amidst the sound of the rustling leaves.]</em></p>
<p><em>[A frog hops towards the tree's base, having jumped out of the garden pond, and takes cover behind it. It croaks in unison with the few chirping crickets in the garden and the two yellow warblers, singing atop the tree's branches.]</em></p>
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<p><em>[A soft rain starts falling. Jane raises her head, looking at the light-grey clouds above.]</em></p>
<p><em>[The drizzle continues for a while. The warblers puff their feathers out and continue to sing. Jane yawns, listening to their songs mixed with the ambience of the soft rain patter on the window.]</em></p>
<p><em>[A small rainbow appears in the distance. Growing increasingly vivid, it towers up into the clouds. Jane's gaze rises towards it and she observes it with great interest, highly enamoured.]</em></p>
<p><em>[A splash is heard from the garden, the frog having jumped back into the pond. The number of chirping crickets, now having been reduced to one, rings quietly with the birdsong.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Jane smiles.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Leaning back into her chair, she exhales and closes her eyes. Her chest continues to rise and fall, rhythmically, as she falls into a deep sleep listening to the rain and the echoes of a clock monotonously ticking throughout the dull peeling walls of her home.]</em></p>
<p><em>[The clouds part, revealing the sun. Slowly, the sunlight penetrates the window, falling on Jane, lounging. With every passing second, it grows in intensity and brightness and the ray, golden and pristine, reflects off the slow particles of dust afloat beside Jane.]</em></p>
<p><em>[The camera is soon blinded, the last viewable frame still showing a genial smile on Jane's face.]</em></p>
<p><em>[A short period of time later, the light dims. The clouds begin blanketing the sun once more, and gradually the ray grows smaller.]</em></p>
<p><em>[An empty chair is revealed.]</em></p>
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<p>The subject invariably disappears in all recorded IRIDESCENT events.</p>
<p>Of note is that the subject's close family members are observed to overcome their grieving period, find closure, and return to their mundane routines significantly faster than anticipated through the cover-up process. These individuals will then completely forget about the subject over the coming months.</p>
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<p><strong>Name:</strong> Black Country Living Museum - The Village Centre - Gregory’s General Store - door to the living room<br/>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. Cognitive Resistance Index. An indicator of an individual's ability to withstand, and develop resistance against potentially hazardous cognito-effects of an anomaly.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Through the use of low-grade counter-technology, the effects of this anomalous property have been avoided by Foundation researchers.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. A widowed woman, 49, living alone at a small residence inherited from her parents which she moved to shortly following the passing of her wife.</div>
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rgba(var(--swatch-primary-darker), </span><span class="hl-number">0.1</span><span class="hl-code">) /* Thumb */
rgba(var(--swatch-tertiary-color), </span><span class="hl-number">0.05</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">; /</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Track</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
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<p>This is not Researcher Harrison. This is SCP-7992. This is a gorilla.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7992</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Euclid</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-7992 is to be kept in an otherwise empty humanoid containment cell at Site-41. A sign with the following statement is to be displayed outside of SCP-7992's cell:</p>
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<p><strong><tt>SCP-7992 IS NOT HUMAN</tt></strong><br/>
<strong><tt>SCP-7992 IS A GORILLA</tt></strong><br/>
<strong><tt>RESEARCHER HARRISON IS DEAD</tt></strong></p>
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<p>A Scranton Reality Anchor (SRA) deployed beneath SCP-7992's cell is to be monitored by the Research Lead and serviced when necessary. SCP-7992 does not need to be fed. Personnel are forbidden to enter SCP-7992's cell without the expressed permission of the Research Lead. If permission is granted, entry must be accompanied by an armed guard and a trained animal handler.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-393217-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-393217-1')">1</a></sup></p>
<p>In the event that SCP-7992 breaches containment, staff are not to engage in the anomaly, but evacuate the area and wait for further instruction. Any perceived communication attempts made by SCP-7992 should be disregarded.</p>
<p>Discussions regarding the perpetuation of containment are ongoing.<br/>
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<strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7992 is an entity resembling a silverback gorilla. The entity has three primary anomalous traits:</p>
<p><strong>1)</strong> The entity is seemingly immortal, having demonstrated no need for sustenance and an imperviousness to all damage. As the anomaly has demonstrated no need for sustenance, it is hypothesised that the stalking and killing of prey is conducted purely for recreational purposes.</p>
<p><strong>2)</strong> SCP-7992 has the ability to transform into any other mammal it observes. The anomaly has full control over this ability, and utilises it for hunting; in all forms SCP-7992 retains the strength of its natural form. Whilst the anomaly has full control over this ability when uncontained, the deployment of an SRA has been found to fully inhibit this anomalous property. This confines SCP-7992 to its currently presented façade.</p>
<p><strong>3)</strong> SCP-7992 has a strong memetic effect. Any vocalisations or other forms of communication will be perceived as in-line with the species it is masquerading as. When appearing as human, communication will be perceived as coherent sentences in the observer's native language.<br/>
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<strong>Discovery:</strong> The mechanism and origin behind SCP-7992's abilities is unknown. SCP-7992 was discovered on <strong>02/01/1971</strong>, following an investigation by the former Biogerontology Department.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-393217-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-393217-2')">2</a></sup></p>
<p>During initial containment, SCP-7992 attacked and killed Researcher James Rupert Harrison, Head of the Biogerontology Department, and took on his appearance. SCP-7992 displayed a high level of sadism and aggression during this attack. Upon discovery of Harrison's corpse, he had been decapitated and had all four limbs ripped from his torso.</p>
<p>Harrison was awarded posthumous Foundation honours for his services to containing the anomalous. The Biogerontology Department was closed shortly after the incident, due to a lack of personnel and viable research leads.</p>
<p>To this day, SCP-7992 still maintains the appearance of Researcher Harrison and has demonstrated a reluctance to leave this form. It is hypothesised that this is an attempt by SCP-7992 to escape. Due to this, its prior violent behaviour and a lack of research potential, all interaction with the anomaly is prohibited indefinitely.</p>
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<p>Given the potentially infinite lifespan of SCP-7992, O5 Command have tasked the Ethics Committee with the creation of containment procedures which would secure SCP-7992 on a similarly infinite timeline. Select proposed procedures are outlined below:</p>
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<td>Permanent existence of the Foundation cannot be relied upon. Without maintenance, SCP-7992's containment cell would eventually degrade and free the anomaly.</td>
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<td>Unable to penetrate SCP-7992's epidermis to inject substances. Inhalation of sedatives has resulted in no effect.</td>
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<td>Inevitability of SCP-7992 resurfacing after an extended period of time.</td>
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<td>All liquid water on earth estimated to evaporate within ~1 billion years time, allowing for eventual containment breach.</td>
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<p>On 09/08/2021, Site-41 experienced a major containment breach which led to the release of several high-threat anomalies across the facility. During this, Junior Researcher Lauren Colbert entered SCP-7992's cell in an attempt to find shelter.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-393217-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-393217-3')">3</a></sup> An interview was arranged with Dr. Agatha Thorondsen (Ethics Committee) as part of an investigation into the breach:</p>
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<p><em>[A staff recreational room has been booked for the interview. Dr. Thorondsen enters the room, and takes a seat in an armchair. Jr. Researcher Colbert sits opposite, on a sofa. The latter appears dishevelled and uneasy.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> Hi Lauren, I'm Agatha. Thank you for meeting me at such short notice. As I said in my message, I'm helping to investigate the breach that occurred yesterday. We're interviewing as many people as we can, to get as complete a picture as possible of what happened. In your own words, and your own time, please could you tell me what you recall from yesterday?</p>
<p><strong>Colbert:</strong> Yeah, sure… it- sorry, let me just- <em>[Colbert sharply inhales.]</em> Okay. It was just like any other day. I had finished my morning tests, and was on my way to the cafeteria. Then it all, it all happened so quickly. I was in corridor G5A and a group — a <em>mass</em> — of people came running round the corner. Split-second after they did, the alarms started to flash and sound. I didn't have a moment to realise what was going on before someone ran straight into me, sending me to the floor.</p>
<p><em>[Colbert pauses.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> Take your time.</p>
<p><strong>Colbert:</strong> Sorry. This is the worst breach I've been involved in — by far. I stood up, and I looked down the corridor, and saw that <em>thing</em>.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-393217-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-393217-4')">4</a></sup> I turned and ran, I don't know in which direction, just that it was away from there. I looked behind me only once, and it was <em>so</em> close. The tentacles were lapping at my feet. There was a door ahead, and I took it — I swiped my card, jumped through, and slammed the door behind me.</p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> And this was SCP-7992's cell?</p>
<p><strong>Colbert:</strong> Yeah. I realised soon as I turned around. The gorilla, poor Dr. Harrison — you'd be hard pressed to find someone on site who doesn't know that story; it's rare to lose research staff. Even with the rumours of what he was like and was working on, no-one deserves to die like that.</p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> Rumours?</p>
<p><strong>Colbert:</strong> Sorry, I thought you'd have heard them. I think the 70s were a different time in terms of culture — things allowed which wouldn't be today. A more liberal attitude towards the handling of anomalies.</p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> It was a different time, that's when I first joined here. We've gone off topic though, please continue.</p>
<p><strong>Colbert:</strong> I knew my mistake immediately. I thought I was going to die. We work with the anomalous and cosmic every day, but there was something so visceral, so real, at the prospect of being torn to death by that <em>thing</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> And what happened?</p>
<p><strong>Colbert:</strong> At first, nothing. We just stared at each other for what felt like a lifetime. I think we were sizing each other up, coming to terms with the situation we found ourselves in. I couldn't even hear the humming of the SRA below us, and those things are usually so loud.</p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> I'll be honest with you, Lauren. You got lucky. Really lucky. That thing's been locked away for nearly 50 years now with no outside interaction. If it wasn't due to the shock, it would have ripped you to pieces.</p>
<p><em>[Colbert shudders.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Colbert:</strong> I think that's what it was. He — sorry, it — asked who I was, why I was there. I've seen the photo of Harrison on the anomaly file. It looked like him, but different. Hollow, like there was nothing behind the eyes.</p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> The anomaly speaks in glossolalia — nonsense. The memetic effect converts it to words we understand. Don't think too much about what is said. What occurred next?</p>
<p><strong>Colbert:</strong> It came for me, directly at me. It started to run, shouting as it did. I turned, swiped my card, and left. I knew I'd be dead for certain if I stayed in there. I chose to take my chances outside.</p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> Okay. Thanks Lauren, I appreciate you telling me this. It doesn't sound like a pleasant experience. Have you been prescribed amnestics before?</p>
<p><em>[Colbert shakes her head.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> I'd recommend them — I've used them several times myself to help process trauma. Let me write you up an order now, and you can take it straight to Provisions. They'll be able to explain how to administer them.</p>
<p><em>[Thorondsen takes a notepad from her jacket, and begins to write. She hands Colbert the prescription, and the two get up to leave the room.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Colbert:</strong> Thanks Docto-</p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> Please, call me Agatha.</p>
<p><strong>Colbert:</strong> Thanks, Agatha. I know you said not to pay attention to its words, but as I was leaving it was screaming at me. It's stuck with me more than anything else I saw that day.</p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> This is precisely why you should take the amnestics. I promise they'll help. What did you think the anomaly was saying though?</p>
<p><strong>Colbert:</strong> It screamed the same thing over and over again. "Tell them I'm sorry."</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>[[END OF INTERVIEW]]</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><tt><strong>SCP-7992 Interview 051</strong></tt></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><tt>18,101 DAYS SINCE LAST INTERVIEW</tt></strong></p>
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<p><em>[Dr. Thorondsen enters SCP-7992's cell.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> Some company must have been nice the other day. First human interaction in nearly fifty years. She passed on your message.</p>
<p><em>[SCP-7992 is huddled in a corner on the floor. Thorondsen begins to walk over.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> But we don't need you to be sorry. We just need you to tell us how you did it. What use is immortality if you're forever imprisoned?</p>
<p><em>[Thorondsen reaches SCP-7992 and squats down to it.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> You can leave this cell, come with me right now. Be free. Please, let me help you.</p>
<p><em>[SCP-7992 looks up and makes eye contact with Thorondsen.]</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7992:</strong> Agatha?</p>
<p><em>[Thorondsen smiles.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> Yes, it's me.</p>
<p><em>[SCP-7992 begins to laugh.]</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7992:</strong> You've got old.</p>
<p><em>[Thorondsen stands and takes a step back.]</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7992:</strong> So many new wrinkles. Do your bones ache yet? Has the rot set in? Thank you for reminding me why I'm here. I rescind my apology.</p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> Funny. Well, let's see how funny you are after another 50 years.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7992:</strong> I'll still be here, Agatha. Will you?</p>
<p><strong>Thorondsen:</strong> Last chance.</p>
<p><em>[SCP-7992 laughs. Thorondsen begins to walk away.]</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7992:</strong> 50. 500. 5,000. 50,000.</p>
<p><em>[Thorondsen bangs on the cell door. Her security attaché open it.]</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7992:</strong> I'll still be here, Agatha! I'll always be here.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-393217-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-393217-1')">1</a>. As of <span class="odate time_1736298088 format_%25Y%2F%25m%2F%25d">08 Jan 2025 01:01</span>, there are zero qualified animal handlers present in Site-41. Permission to enter the cell has yet to be granted.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-393217-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-393217-2')">2</a>. The Department was a special enterprise initiated by, and reporting into, O5 Command.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-393217-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-393217-3')">3</a>. Given the nature of the containment breach, security clearance requirements on all doors were lowered in accordance with protocol. SCP-7992's cell door otherwise remains permanently locked, and has since been granted an exemption from these security requirements.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-393217-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-393217-4')">4</a>. SCP-████</div>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Radio and television broadcasts across North America are monitored regularly by the Telecommunications Department, headquartered in Site-84. All reports of SCP-7993 are to be properly documented, and an appropriate number of agents shall be dispatched to all broadcast locations under the guise of necessary telecommunications-related maintenance. In addition, non-Foundation personnel who view or listen to an SCP-7993 broadcast are to be informed that all SCP-7993 broadcasts are a satirical advertisement campaign.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7993 is an anomalous radio broadcast emitting from the current center of population in the United States<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-81895-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-81895-1')">1</a></sup>. SCP-7993 possesses the ability to hijack radio and television receivers. SCP-7993 tends to hijack receivers that were previously relaying media discussing the United States, the USSR, NATO, and military operations relating to these subjects.</p>
<p>SCP-7993-A is the designation given to any individual under the influence of an SCP-7993 broadcast. All individuals are susceptible to SCP-7993's anomalous effects, regardless of cognitohazard resistance. SCP-7993-A instances maintain an anti-war, anti-militarization stance, regardless of prior opinions. SCP-7993-A instances maintain a normal lifestyle, with the exception of occasional protests<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-81895-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-81895-2')">2</a></sup>.</p>
<p>SCP-7993 contents are often outlandish, frequently featuring both urban and non-urban combat footage,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-81895-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-81895-3')">3</a></sup> recordings of nuclear weapon tests, audio of incoherent speeches, and unidentified symbols<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-81895-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-81895-4')">4</a></sup>.</p>
<p>Several traits are common in SCP-7993-A instances, listed below:</p>
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<li>Age range of sixteen to thirty years on average</li>
<li>Low interest in politics</li>
<li>Rarely votes in United States elections</li>
<li>Lives alone or is distant from people they live with</li>
<li>Low income</li>
<li>Fear of death and the end of the world</li>
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<p><strong>Discovery:</strong> SCP-7993 was discovered on December 12th, 1949, when reports of unusual protests near White Sands Proving Ground<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-81895-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-81895-5')">5</a></sup>, New Mexico. It was later discovered that between the times of 1630 and 1730, all thirteen SCP-7993-A individuals involved were driving to their residences after work<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-81895-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-81895-6')">6</a></sup> and were all listening to their car radios before they all were subject to an SCP-7993 broadcast. Due to the spontaneous nature of SCP-7993 and the technical limitations of the dispatching field office, only one interview was recorded on tape at the time.</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> James Wyatt<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-81895-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-81895-7')">7</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Field Agent Marshall</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Field Agent Marshall:</strong> Good afternoon, Mr. Wyatt. For legal reasons, I have to remind you this conversation will be recorded. Do you understand?</p>
<p><strong>POI-2334:</strong> Are you with the base security or something?</p>
<p><strong>Field Agent Marshall:</strong> Do you understand my previous statement? Please answer clearly. For record purposes.</p>
<p><strong>POI-2334:</strong> Yes. I <em>completely</em> understand. Can we just start this?</p>
<p><strong>Field Agent Marshall:</strong> Calm down, anyone coming for you has been notified. We have as much time as is on the tape. Are you ready to start cooperating?</p>
<p><strong>POI-2334:</strong> Sure, It's not like I have much of a choice.</p>
<p><strong>Field Agent Marshall:</strong> Great. I'd like to first go over what you do here at White Sands.</p>
<p><strong>POI-2334:</strong> I work as a civilian contractor, nothing too high speed but I still get a feel of what goes on here.</p>
<p><strong>Field Agent Marshall:</strong> And what do you think goes on here?</p>
<p><strong>POI-2334:</strong> More tests, no doubt. Especially after what those Soviets are up to lately, with their own atom bomb now.</p>
<p><strong>Field Agent Marshall:</strong> Is that why you were protesting?</p>
<p><strong>POI-2334:</strong> Pretty much, and just because I'm protesting at an American military base doesn't mean I support the Russians. I protest the back and forth. I want all this to stop before it's too late.</p>
<p><strong>Field Agent Marshall:</strong> So you think the current situation will escalate? What caused this change of heart, especially considering your background?</p>
<p><strong>POI-2334:</strong> The radio broadcast cleared some things up for me and my co-workers. I think the current situation hasn't changed, just my perspective and understanding. I understand now the consequences of what we are doing here. That broadcast just made me realize this.</p>
<p><strong>Field Agent Marshall:</strong> What was in that broadcast?</p>
<p><strong>POI-2334:</strong> A prediction of the future. One of a conflict, not too far into the future, using these very weapons. It was explained that due to the nature of the atom bomb, there will be no winners in such a war. Unless we change our ways, this war will happen.</p>
<p>It said that the devices we develop here are an unnecessary risk, along with similar weapons created overseas. We created these bombs in a time of need, but now they control our fate.</p>
<p><strong>Field Agent Marshall:</strong> How did this broadcast suddenly change your feelings on this subject, and what station did you say you were tuned to again?</p>
<p><strong>POI-2334:</strong> I had it tuned to the base's local radio, the only thing this far out. It usually plays music, with some segments covering major news developments. As for my feelings, I think I had always felt this way, but I never had the right perspective. I've always wanted what is best for America, and now I understand that this is not it, despite what most people think.</p>
<p><strong>Field Agent Marshall:</strong> What exactly was in this broadcast that was so convincing as to change your perspective?</p>
<p><strong>POI-2334:</strong> I don't remember the particulars, but as I said it predicted what the future would be like if we let this conflict control us this way. The bombs are just the start, a very tangible start, but this ideological war will never end. This broadcast also pointed out that this war is something <em>they</em> want. They fight for neither side, set up this conflict and when it fizzles out a new division will be created, thus it will never end unless we do something.</p>
<p><strong>Field Agent Marshall:</strong> This broadcast, alone, motivated you to take action?</p>
<p><strong>POI-2334:</strong> It didn't just motivate me, it guided me. See, back in the war and up until now to a point, I was blinded by patriotism and violence, I was guided by it. We had a real enemy, don't get me wrong, but when the dust settled we had a chance to start anew, the governments sought to create a new division, the west versus the east. I always had a feeling that it would become too much, and now we make the most powerful weapons ever imagined right here, and worse we have placed them all across the United States, involving everyone. This broadcast just really explained it to me and rationalized my feelings. It didn't teach me anything, instead, it told me I was right. This is wrong, and things are going to get much worse if we don't heed its warning.</p>
<p><strong>Field Agent Marshall:</strong> Well, unfortunately, we're running out of time. Thank you for your view on this incident, I hope we can solve this peacefully.</p>
<p><strong>POI-2334:</strong> I hope I shed some light on what that broadcast was trying to convey, you do seem rather interested in it. I recommend you try to find that station eventually.</p>
<p><strong>Field Agent Marshall:</strong> I'll think about it, but I'll stick to music for now.</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Closing Statement:</strong> All thirteen individuals were transferred to the local authorities and were placed on the Foundations monitoring list for twelve months following this incident.</p>
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<p><strong>Project designator:</strong> 39B-1955-N/Project Protector.</p>
<p><strong>Approved by:</strong> O5 Council, Ethics committee, and <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/o4-s-summit" target="_blank">O4 Council</a>.</p>
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<p><em>The Foundation has been developing nuclear bombs for decades for use in the containment of especially hard-to-destroy anomalies. Requests for this information made from Germany, France, The United Kingdom, and Russia were denied; however, the United States has proven itself to be a major supporter of the Foundation, and without its support, the Foundation would be unable to effectively carry out its mission. In 1945, The Foundation was forced to hand over this highly dangerous information to the United States for its use against Japan. Regrettably, this information soon made its way to the USSR. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project#RDS-1" target="_blank">Recent events</a> have led to the decision that the Foundation needs to plan for nuclear war, specifically how to stop it.</em> -O5-13</p>
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<p><strong>Description:</strong> Project Protector was created with research into SCP-7993 for potential prediction purposes, research into the potential of concept removal, advanced by <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3309" target="_blank">Researcher Smalls</a>, and the potential use of <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6820" target="_blank">Project ANTIKILL</a>. Project Protector's goal is to neutralize all nuclear warheads in such a timely manner that it can be done instantly, as soon as reports of nuclear weapons use are received. The current state of Project Protector is an eigenweapon that has the ability to cause all nuclear weapons to cease proper function due to the nullification of several key concepts attached to the idea of a nuclear weapon. The activation of this eigenweapon requires the enactment of Project Protector, which unfortunately would leave enough time for an initial nuclear strike.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-81895-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-81895-1')">1</a>. Currently, Richland County, Illinois</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-81895-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-81895-2')">2</a>. Against war or militarization</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-81895-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-81895-3')">3</a>. No footage has been linked to any real-world events, as is the case with the majority of SCP-7993 broadcast footage</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-81895-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-81895-4')">4</a>. To date, July 22nd, 1955, no symbol has shown any anomalous properties outside of their original SCP-7993 broadcast</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-81895-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-81895-5')">5</a>. A USAAF Atomic Bomb testing ground</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-81895-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-81895-6')">6</a>. All thirteen instances worked various civilian jobs on the base</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-81895-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-81895-7')">7</a>. POI-2334</div>
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<p><strong>Author:</strong> <span class="error-inline"><em>Dr Phil McClaw</em> does not match any existing user name</span>, an actual crustacean<br/>
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<h3 id="toc0"><span>Special Containment Procedures</span></h3>
<p>According to the Hughes Psionic-Stochastic Principle, SCP-7994 is currently infeasible to contain.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup></p>
<p>Security detail for protected individuals affected by SCP-7994, regardless of affiliation with the Secret Service or CTF Iota-49 ("Silver Eagles") must submit at least 20 PSRV tests daily before entering service. Personnel assigned to protected individuals are to be replaced every two months for their own safety.</p>
<p>Because of the nature of psionic-stochastic anomalies, SCP-7994-A events do not resemble anomalies to uninitiated observers except when viewed as a trend. Public knowledge of events caused by SCP-7994-A cannot be suppressed, but <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">have been publicly relegated to a fringe superstition</span> despite a majority of Americans holding a conspiratorial belief towards one or more SCP-7994-A event, a "Firehosing" strategy of disinformation has prevented the proliferation of knowledge related specifically to SCP-7994.</p>
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<h3 id="toc1"><span>Containment Addendum SCP-7994-A</span></h3>
<p>The following is a list of restrictions set upon individuals receiving Foundation protection from SCP-7994.</p>
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<h3 id="toc2"><span>Containment Addendum SCP-7994-B</span></h3>
<p>SCP-7994-B is to remain in the possession of CTF Iota-49 "Eagle" as part of his equipment loadout.</p>
<h3 id="toc3"><span>Description</span></h3>
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<p>SCP-7994 is <em>Il Rito del Giocatori</em>, a Catholic dark sacrament<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> practiced in Italian organized crime. The ritual imprecates a psionic-stochastic<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup> disorder on the target, adversely affecting their Psionic-Stochastic Risk Value<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> (PSRV). Targets of SCP-7994 have on average a PSRV of 2.25, within the 95<sup>th</sup> percentile of normalcy. Individuals are predisposed to experience spurious environmental and medical hazards; a subset of these effects, henceforth SCP-7994-A, is a predisposition to fatal attacks, plots, mechanical failures, and human errors. These hazards are dangerous to the target, individuals immediately near the target, and individuals known to the targets.</p>
<p>Upwards of 900 individuals have been documented as afflicted by this imprecation since 1920; SCP-7994 is most typically invoked against gamblers, business rivals, criminal adversaries, and witnesses. Notably, SCP-7994 has been invoked by the Costello-Reinfeld smuggling syndicate<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup> against the prominent Kennedy political family and people connected to the Kennedy family.</p>
<p>SCP-7994-B is a gold ring; engraved on the inside band is the phrase "Let no callamitie seperat amitie." The object was created as a contact-based psionic inhibition broadcaster<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup> with variable effects related to the wearer's unique psionic trace. Secondarily, the object is a psionic defense mechanism which confers a low Psionic-Stochastic Risk Value to the wearer.</p>
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<h3 id="toc4"><span>Addendum 7994.A1: Background on the Kennedy Family</span></h3>
<p>The Kennedy political family are the highest priority SCP-7994 affected individuals. Responses to SCP-7994-A events related to the Kennedy family are consistently complicated by public scrutiny and criminal-political connections.</p>
<p>The Kennedy family has faced retaliation for Joseph Kennedy Sr.'s involvement with <strong><a href="/chicago-spirit">GoI-001</a></strong>:</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Excerpt from <em>Untold Riches: The Secret History of Gang Warfare in Chicago</em>, published 1992</p>
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<p>The Spirit entered the year 1930 unchallenged. With Capone in prison yet again and Joseph Reinfeld defaulting on his debts, the deluge of liquor began to dry up. This was exactly the playing field the Chappell gang wanted, and so they called in that favor from the Caribbean.</p>
<p>The rum operation opened for business in March of that year; this time, Chappell had circumvented the need for overseas rumrunners. A Way had been forged, linking the distilleries of the Dominican and Cuba to the heart of Chicago. The police would testify that this Way was underneath Merchandise Mart. Kennedy Sr. had already found himself in the Spirit's line of sight, and, so Costello claimed, Kennedy lent his legitimacy and connections for this new bootlegging pipeline. On a good day, the Spirit moved thirty barrels of the nectar as if they were any other wholesaler. In six months, Kennedy's misgivings had settled; he pinched over two million dollars for his cooperation. This was of course a fraction of what the Spirit earned, but more than what Kennedy ever allegedly made working with Costello and Reinfeld. By November, Kennedy had cut his ties to all bootleggers except the Chappell gang.</p>
<p>Already before 1929 Reinfeld lost his place as the biggest bootlegger in America, but being snubbed by the Kennedy patriarch truly left his business high and dry. He felt it necessary to retaliate against the Spirit. Reinfeld had only five enforcers left in Chicago after gambling with the money that was supposed to pay them; their fates were all sealed when he appealed to his friend Joseph one final time.</p>
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<p>It can be assumed that Kennedy attempted to convince his former associate to cut his losses. Kennedy definitely knew what declaring war on the Chappell family meant. Reinfeld couldn't be moved. He sent his five good men straight to the source, where the Spirit was lying in wait having been tipped off by Kennedy. Before the end of the day, six men laid dead in the underbelly of the Mart; four of Reinfeld and Costello's men, and two of Chappell's.</p>
<p>Kennedy had not only betrayed Reinfeld's plan to the Spirit, but also the police. CCSO Deputy Richard Cain elucidated on the stand that the police had a bargain with the Spirit that year. "Sheriff Traeger wanted some amity with Chappell. He knew he was retiring soon" Cain claimed. Rather than fight the Spirit, he alleged, the police helped Chappell clean out their competition. The hope was that, if the Chappell gang was the last one standing, the cycle of gangland-cop killings would simmer for the time. Cain said that he was there to round up the stragglers, while the Spirit and his fellow deputies waited below.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">…</p>
<p>Though Costello-Reinfeld were beaten down for the next few years, their business not only outlived prohibition, it outlived the Spirit. Kennedy had burnt his bridges with La Cosa Nostra and his old business partners, and now the Chappell family had dropped out of the game. He would pay the price, and have to spend the rest of that decade looking over his shoulder for hired guns. The mob was not done with him.</p>
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<p>In the years following the dissolution of GoI-001, Joseph Kennedy was an alleged target of the Costello crime family. He described a pattern of extortion and blackmail which only escalated as he rose in political prominence. Coinciding with these direct threats on their lives by organized crime, Kennedy also alleged accidents and acts of violence have claimed the lives of half of his children. The fatal calamities befalling the Kennedy family, which are anomalous and cannot be attributed to malice action, are an effect of SCP-7994. Over a twenty-five year period, these incidents may be attributable as SCP-7994-A events:</p>
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<td>08/12/44</td>
<td>Airman Joseph P Kennedy Jr. and his copilot are killed in action over East Suffolk, England. They were flying a BQ-8 radio-guided flying bomb, which prematurely detonated.</td>
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<td>05/13/48</td>
<td>Kathleen Cavendish (<em>née</em> Kennedy) and three others are killed in a plane crash near Saint-Bauzile, France. The plane experienced severe storm conditions and broke up before impacting the ground.</td>
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<td>10/03/55</td>
<td>George and Ann Skakel (parents of Ethel Kennedy) and a pilot are killed in a plane crash near Union City, Oklahoma. Cause of the crash was determined to be a stress-induced propeller failure.</td>
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<td>08/04/62</td>
<td>Norma Jeane Mortenson dies of acute barbituate toxicity.</td>
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<td>10/14/62</td>
<td>Edward M Kennedy and Robert F Kennedy sustain minor injuries in a hotel fire which kills five.</td>
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<td>08/09/63</td>
<td>Patrick B Kennedy is born five weeks premature. He dies thirty-nine hours later of infant respiratory distress disorder.</td>
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<td>11/22/63</td>
<td>JFK Sr., <strong><a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3780">despite preventative measures</a></strong>, is assassinated by gunshot in Dallas, Texas. It is determined that the shooters acted within <strong><a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/roget-s-conspiracy-theory-for-scp-001">a conspiracy</a></strong>.</td>
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<td>06/19/64</td>
<td>Edward M Kennedy is injured and three others die in a plane crash near Southampton, Massachusetts. The plane experienced severe storm conditions and impacted the ground.</td>
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<td>06/04/68</td>
<td>David A Kennedy, aged 13, nearly drowns after being caught in the undertow in Malibu, California. He is saved by the quick intervention of his father Robert F Kennedy Sr.</td>
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<td>06/05/68</td>
<td>RFK Sr. is assassinated by gunshot in Los Angeles, California. Apprehended suspect Sirhan Sirhan is believed to have committed the act under the duress of a conspiracy.</td>
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<td>07/18/69</td>
<td>Mary Jo Kopechne drowns in a single-vehicle accident caused by Edward M Kennedy, who sustains no injuries.</td>
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<h3 id="toc5"><span>Addendum 7994.A2: Background on SCP-7994-B</span></h3>
<p>In 1933, known occultist Prescott Bush, member of the Skull and Bones Brotherhood<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-7')">7</a></sup> acquired SCP-7994-B from an undisclosed source. Bush was instructed to provide this ring to a third party who could use psionic influence to oust president Franklin Delano Roosevelt; however, this attempt was thwarted when Smedley Butler, the prospective SCP-7994-B candidate, exposed the plot.</p>
<p>Instead, Prescott Bush gave SCP-7994-B to his son and future president George HW Bush (PSRV .45). HW Bush's inherently tychomantic<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-8" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-8')">8</a></sup> psionic trace is amplified by SCP-7994-B. HW Bush was educated for military service and at age 20 became the Navy's youngest airman. Through WWII, HW Bush participated in 58 missions in the Pacific and performed with distinction. In one particular incident during WWII, HW Bush was the sole survivor out of a crew of nine airmen in part due to the stochastic influence of SCP-7994-B.</p>
<p>Enrolling in Yale business school, HW Bush would join the Skull and Bones Brotherhood like his father. Between 1948 and 1957, HW Bush tapped eleven newly discovered oil wells in Texas and California found through divination. These factors initiated his induction as a psionic correspondent for the Central Intelligence Agency.</p>
<p>In 1959, as part of a mutual-interest disclosure agreement, the CIA provided the following memo:</p>
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<p><span class="jarhead" style="color:firebrick;"><strong>TO BE DISTRIBUTED 10/10/59</strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="jarhead"><strong>INTERNAL MEMO</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="jarhead">To all agents concerned;</span></p>
<p>A psionic broadcaster is a dangerous device which causes damage to your electrovital impulses. These impulses effect your motor functions and thought processing, and acute damage to your electrovital impulses can in crucial situations make you inept, feel intoxicated, or render you unconscious. Your electrovital impulses are comparable to a magnet; your impulses are naturally charged, and can be deflected by an outside source of electrovitality. A psionic device might look like this machine. Psionic broadcasters are mass produced in the Soviet Union and distributed to communist satellite states.<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="jarhead">Field agents must be able to identify a psionic attack in progress.</span></p>
<p>Included with this memo is a magnetic cassette tape. The recording is a replication of the sound conditions of a psionic particle broadcaster. No psionic effects will result from listening to a sound recording. If such a sound is heard in a compromised situation, it is imperative that agents evacuate the area and immediately notify command.</p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
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<p>Beginning 1960, a coordinated violent campaign targeting John F Kennedy (PSRV 2.30) was identified by the Central Intelligence Agency. Agent HW Bush, acting in the capacity as head of CIA psionics, organized an internal response force for psionic attacks, first activated on 10/20/60:</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Excerpts from the Fourth Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate</p>
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<p><strong>Smith:</strong> This is Howard Smith at CBS News, proud to bring you the fourth and final radio-television debate of this presidential campaign. Our candidates need no introduction. Good evening, Senator Kennedy.</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Good evening, Mr. Smith.</p>
<p><strong>Smith:</strong> And good evening, Vice President Nixon.</p>
<p><strong>Nixon:</strong> Good evening, Howard.</p>
<p><<em>The first 35 minutes of debate are unexceptional. Nixon and Kennedy follow the debate format as established. Correspondents Sander Vanocur and Charles Warren are selected to question the candidates.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong>… Not enough has been done to safeguard those opportunities. It's my hope that, whoever becomes president, that these programs which put our children through school only grow and that we give our children more with which to work.</p>
<p><strong>Smith:</strong> Mr. Vanocur with a question for Senator Kennedy.</p>
<p><strong>Vanocur:</strong> Senator, the main theme of your campaign has been a decline in American power and prestige this past eight years. What in your view has the executive office failed to do to secure America's position, and what can be done to reroute such a decline in the next four years?</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> The question here, and it weighs on our minds, is, "What will this do to our future?" I've been critical of the president. In fact, I would return to the previous point and say that the president has failed to equip our children for the future. The issue of our prestige isn't solved if we are held back…</p>
<p><<em>From 35:39 onward, an oscillating buzzing sound is recorded on the studio cameras.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Smith:</strong> Mr. Vice President.</p>
<p><strong>Nixon:</strong> First off, I believe the Senator should make up his mind as to my responsibility. Let me make my position clear: I am proud of this administration. I will not stand on its record, I will build upon it…</p>
<p><<em>From, 38:40 onward, Nixon begins to visibly to tremble.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Warren:</strong> Mr. Kennedy, if elected president, how will you move forward in regards to the Western hemisphere? Where do you and the current administration's policies differ in response to Fidel Castro's movement in Cuba?</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> I think, and I think most of America agrees, that Nixon and Eisenhower's soft opposition to Castro is not in the interest of the safety of our Latin American neighbors. The economic quarantine is not doing its job. This administration has been far too slow to act. Continuing to do so would amount to nothing more than appeasement. I—</p>
<p><strong>Nixon:</strong> <em>Appeasement</em>? That's a bold accusation, Senator. I've never—</p>
<p><strong>Smith:</strong> Vice President, you are talking out of turn.</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Let him go on, Howard.</p>
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<p><strong>Nixon:</strong> Now, never in my time in office have I appeased the Castro regime. Everyone in the executive is excited to put his regime under in due time, when it is acceptable. That is <em>my</em> promise. Now you, Mr. Kennedy.</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> That due time needs to be <em>sooner</em> rather than later. My government will do what it takes to stand up to communist encroachment. No, Mr. Warren, communism is not winning in the Western Hemisphere. We will— I will promise you that communism will not last on our doorstep. We will not condition our country to see the world through the eyes of defeat. The Castro regime is the result of long-term missteps. They will not last on their terms.<br/>
<strong>Smith:</strong> So, um, your reply, Mr. Nixon?</p>
<p><strong>Nixon:</strong> Well, my only reply would be to assure that I have the, um, the utmost concern for the Cuban people, and that all Cuban refugees will be able to return home within our lifetime. And so, I say… I would say just that.</p>
<p><strong>Smith:</strong> Okay, question from Mr. Vanocur.</p>
<p><strong>Vanocur:</strong> Senator Kennedy, a lot of eyes are on the headlines that talk about scandal in Hollywood or New York. The public perceives crime generally to be on the rise, and sees the most well-off criminals as political untouchables. As president, how would you direct these investigations at a federal level?</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Well, I would hope to enable the whole country against organized crime. The Justice Department must be the link between state law enforcement agencies, because men like Jimmy Hoffa skirt the law every state he goes, so yes—</p>
<p><strong>Nixon:</strong> Why don't you talk about the Chicago mob?</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> What did you ask?</p>
<p><strong>Nixon:</strong> Why not talk about the union votes they're grabbing for you, huh?</p>
<p><strong>Smith:</strong> Mr. Vice President, refr—</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Now that is the most ridiculous claim. What a sore accusation. You don't have the union vote because you've spent eight years against them!</p>
<p><strong>Nixon:</strong> Come on, it isn't because daddy Joe is helping you out?</p>
<p><<em>Nixon and Kennedy bicker inaudibly over one another.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Smith:</strong> Okay, this segment is over. To the— on to the next—</p>
<p><strong>Nixon:</strong> Shut up, pinko!</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Yeah, will you shut up? You bring up my father, Dick? You are that low? If I had said that your mother—</p>
<p><<em>The candidates' microphones are shut off and cameras cut to presenter Smith.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Smith:</strong> I truly, uh, regret this display here. The next segment—</p>
<p><<em>Kennedy accosts Smith from his seat and grabs his microphone. No one interferes.</em>></p>
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<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Truly, know what's good for you and get out of here, commie!</p>
<p><<em>Smith exits stage right at the suggestion.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Okay! Cameras, over here. Now.</p>
<p><<em>All cameras shift to Senator Kennedy.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Now listen, my father is a good man—</p>
<p><<em>Nixon inaudibly yells at Kennedy.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Joe Kennedy is a good Christian man who has fuck-all to do with the mob, get it straight! I promise as your president, the hammer will come down on the mob bosses…</p>
<p><<em>The cameras and Senator Kennedy appear to lift a few inches off the ground</em>></p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> So I hope this matter can be settled now and for good. This election is bigger than me or my family. You must vote for me to get closer to God. Understand me, if you vote for Nixon, it is the end times. Hear me. This man would have us blunder into our own surrender. Vote for me, for <strong>[COGNITOHAZARD EXPUNGED]</strong>. You don't believe this man, this embalmed corpse, could stand to the task. You the people <strong>[COGNITOHAZARD EXPUNGED]</strong> and stand with me for God's sake.</p>
<p><<em>Kennedy looks directly into the camera.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> You, in the broadcast room, don't you dare take me off the air. <em>Don't</em> do it. This is the important message. You, in your home, it's time to all be true patriots. You, you <em>all</em> can stand to the task <strong>[COGNITOHAZARD EXPUNGED]</strong>. If we don't, <strong>[COGNITOHAZARD EXPUNGED]</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>[MINUTES 40:35 TO 45:00 EXPUNGED]</strong></p>
<p><<em>From 45:00, Kennedy and Nixon are in a physical altercation on the debate stage as the correspondents and audience look on. Kennedy places a choke hold on Nixon.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> See, my people? This man is weak, too weak for the office. You need a virile, God-fearing Kennedy. Swear to it!</p>
<p><<em>The studio audience applauds for Kennedy. Cheers and calls to "kill him" can be heard. Nixon begins to asphyxiate.</em>></p>
<p><<em>At 45:41, Agent Bush enters the stage from the audience and rushes Kennedy. Before the crowd could interfere, SCP-7994-B made contact with Kennedy, returning him to cognizance.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> What— What's happening? Who—</p>
<p><strong>Bush:</strong> Senator, we're under attack. Take my hand!</p>
<p><<em>Bush pulls Kennedy away from Nixon and draws his pistol. The crowd begins to disperse and find cover. Five shots are fired at the stage, narrowly missing Agent Bush. Returning six shots, Agent Bush strikes the shooter twice and a bystander once.</em>></p>
<p><<em>Bush approaches the shooter and disables the broadcast device. The room remains inundated with psions.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> What the hell am I doing!? What is this?</p>
<p><strong>Bush:</strong> You had a paradoxical reaction, Senator.</p>
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<p><<em>Agents working under Bush filed into the room to secure the device.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> A wha— who are you?</p>
<p><strong>Bush:</strong> I'm the agent in charge. We're under attack, but it's calm, now. Listen, we're still live here. What you've done—</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> I wasn't in control there! I was trapped in the back of my mind!</p>
<p><strong>Bush:</strong> <em>Listen</em>, Jack. Doesn't matter. I need you to calm down and get back in your seat so we can end the show.</p>
<p><<em>Agents find Nixon covering behind the stage wall, who is dragged kicking to the stage.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Nixon:</strong> No, keep me away from that psycho!</p>
<p><strong>Bush:</strong> You won't have to see him again after this.</p>
<p><<em>The candidates are placed in their seats, Bush having replaced the host.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Bush:</strong> My fellow Americans, I am sorry you all had to see that. What happened on this night was an attack on our integrity. I cannot tell you why, or by what weapon, this attacker has done this. But we cannot allow this to spoil this race. Now in this time of trouble, let me lead you in a prayer. All of us pray on this.</p>
<p><<em>Psionic feedback begins to localize around Agent Bush.</em>></p>
<p><<em>Bush enables the broadcaster with the frequency set to amnesticization.</em>></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>[AMNESTIC TRIGGER EXPUNGED]</strong></p>
<p><<em>From 55:00, the candidates and correspondents remain motionless in their seats.</em>></p>
<p><<em>The cameras pull out to a wide shot. The crowd is still while federal agents fill the room. The TV broadcast is successfully taken off air.</em>></p>
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<p><strong>Commentary:</strong> The only fatality of the debate was the attacker, 27-year-old Chinese national Su Lin. Lin resided in Milford, Connecticut, traveled to the scene of the attack solo, and had no known connections with violent political or criminal organizations. The psionic inhibition broadcaster was of the mass-produced Soviet variety. Kennedy's paradoxical psionic reaction was a psionomanic response attributable to SCP-7994.</p>
<p>Anticipating further attacks, the US Secret Service and Central Intelligence Agency agreed on full cooperation between agencies and the Foundation regarding the candidates' security.</p>
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<p>SCP-7994-B inoculated Agent Bush against the psionic attack which he had witnessed on television. Bush had been the only dispatched agent capable of entering the debate hall while the broadcast device was active. Following this attack, Bush submitted to the SCP Foundation for transparent analysis of his psionic trace, the capabilities of SCP-7994-B, and all CIA casefiles related to the Kennedy family. After conclusion of research, Bush announced his intention to bestow SCP-7994-B to the winner of the presidential race.</p>
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<h3 id="toc6"><span>Addendum 7994.B1: The Kennedy Presidency</span></h3>
<p>After the events of the Fourth Kennedy-Nixon debate, a convention of the Overseer Council and Department of Defense evaluated infiltration of the United States Executive Office as an ongoing <strong><span style="color: firebrick">Code-Red</span></strong> threat. A landslide victory for Kennedy was predicted with 90% certainty due to subconscious psionic fallout. Senator Kennedy was determined to be psionically unfit for office and preliminary plans to impeach Kennedy were created.</p>
<p>When the election results arrived, Kennedy's popular vote exceeded Nixon's by less than 120,000 votes; a smaller margin of victory than was predicted before the debate. The FBI Unusual Incidents Unit determined that election integrity had not been compromised by the televised psionic event. Kennedy received SCP-7994-B from Agent Bush after his election certification. Plans to incite his impeachment were disposed; the threat level was reduced to <strong><span style="color: gold">Code-Yellow</span></strong>. Combined Task Force I-49 was established as a multi-organizational response team against future attacks on the mental integrity of the federal government.</p>
<p>Agent HW Bush (henceforth I-49 "Eagle") maintained the dual position of captain of the task force and director of psionics at the CIA for approximately one year. I-49 "Eagle" was removed or resigned from his CIA position in November of 1961 due to refusal to participate in <strong><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/politics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/operation-mongoose">Operation Mongoose</a></strong>, but retained his position on the task force to protect the president's family.</p>
<p>Through all Foundation tests and one field incident, President Kennedy was consistently electrovitally inert when bearing SCP-7994-B. Cooperation in psionics research led to the creation of countermeasures operating on this same principle. Selective broadcast devices have been installed in vehicles and buildings in frequent use by government and Foundation personnel, which detect high-intensity psion fields and release nullifying opposite-charged psions in response. However, occurrence of uncontrolled psionic-stochastic incidents increased at a rate which CTF I-49 could not secure. Over a two-year period, at least eleven fatalities related to SCP-7994-A afflicted the Kennedy family, CTF I-49, and others:</p>
<div class="transcript-short">
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p>04/20/61</p>
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<p><strong>Incident:</strong> A Douglas B-26 bomber carrying an I-49 agent and two others was returning to base following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. The plane ditched in water with no survivors while en route to Homestead ARB, Miami.</p>
<p><strong>Commentary:</strong> No cause could be determined from the crash.</p>
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<div class="transcript-short">
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p>10/22/61</p>
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<p><strong>Incident:</strong> At approximately 03:05, an I-49 agent had finished his shift at the White House and exited via the north lawn. He was struck by a drunk driver moments after attempting to cross the street. This was the fourth off-duty vehicular accident to incapacitate an agent, and the first to be fatal.</p>
<p><strong>Commentary:</strong> Following this death, procedures regarding PSRV testing were implemented regularly. It was discovered that the PSRV of all I-49 agents as well as general associates of the Kennedy family escalates with exposure, with some agents have ratings as high as 2.45 after ten months of service.</p>
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<div class="transcript-short">
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p>09/12/62</p>
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<p><strong>Incident:</strong> A CIA agent with psionic weapons made an attempt on the life of Fidel Castro (est. PSRV .75). Castro displayed a "temporary personality disorientation" during a speech as a result of a psionic broadcasting device. The device malfunctioned causing the agent to glow brightly and stand out from within the crowd. The attempt was thwarted with no ill effects to Castro and the agent was executed.</p>
<p><strong>Commentary:</strong> In another attempt, the Justice Department under Robert F Kennedy (PSRV 2.15) would propose criminal immunity to Chicago Outfit leader Salvatore Giancana if his organization imprecated SCP-7994 upon Fidel Castro. No information is available regarding the implementation of this arrangement; all other attempts on Castro's life end in failure.</p>
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<p>Over the same period, at least four attempts were made on the lives of RFK and EMK. The assassins invariably were influenced by psionic manipulation when the attacks took place. On 10/10/62 attempted assassin Laura Ramos was apprehended:</p>
<div class="transcript">
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="excerpt">Incident #7994-249</span></p>
<p><strong>Prior:</strong> Robert F Kennedy and Edward M Kennedy were residing in the Langham Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. Associates of La Cosa Nostra own the establishment and had met with RFK the previous night. The Kennedys are in a shared room under I-49 protection.</p>
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<p><<em>At 05:43, Ramos approaches Agent I-49 #013 with a cart of cleaning items.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Ramos:</strong> Housekeeping! One minute please.</p>
<p><strong>I-49 #013:</strong> Not now, come back in a few.</p>
<p><<em>Pause.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Ramos:</strong> Housekeeping. Only one minute please.</p>
<p><<em>Agent #013 does not allow entry into the room. Agent #055 does the same as Ramos attempts to enter the adjacent room, which is unoccupied. Ramos enters a corner room further way.</em>></p>
<p><<em>At 05:44, an increase in negative psions is detected by Agent #013's selective broadcast device. Within seconds, Ramos blind-fires four Magnum caliber shots through the walls, striking Ted Kennedy in the shoulder and grazing Robert Kennedy.</em>></p>
<p><<em>Agent #013 renders aide to the Kennedys while four agents encircle Ramos's vantage point. Ramos fires one more shot at the Kennedys and misses as the agents begin battering her door.</em>></p>
<p><<em>Ramos fires one shot through the door. Agent #055 is struck in his bulletproof vest, incapacitating him with a broken rib.</em>></p>
<p><<em>The door snaps open. Ramos attempts to reload but fumbles the hot gun. She is apprehended and handcuffed inside the hotel basement.</em>></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">…</p>
<p><<em>Cosa Nostra associates Michael Cuscino and Ana Perello are present, the latter providing translation assistance for I-49</em>.></p>
<p><strong>Perello:</strong> [Spanish] … You know who gave you that gun, at least?</p>
<p><strong>Ramos:</strong> [SP] No. It was in the cart when the thought came to me.</p>
<p><strong>Perello:</strong> [SP] No one brings a gun into this hotel without <em>me</em> knowing, so I don't think that's all there is to it.</p>
<p><strong>Ramos:</strong> [SP] I don't know what came over me! I can't— I'm sorry. Is the president dead?</p>
<p><strong>Perello:</strong> [SP] You didn't shoot— No, he isn't dead. [English] More of the same. She's just manic.</p>
<p><strong>Robert:</strong> That's how it usually goes with these types.</p>
<p><<em>Robert Kennedy speaks to I-49 "Eagle" via landline.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Robert:</strong> There's nothing really to say, here.</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> Yeah, they know nothing until they remember everything.</p>
<p><<em>Ted is supported on Agent #013's shoulder and led to the basement.</em>></p>
<p><strong>#013:</strong> Just one question to ask, gentlemen, then on your way—</p>
<p><strong>Edward:</strong> Who are these people? Has they done the test?</p>
<p><strong>#013:</strong> No, they're associates. Just answer m—</p>
<p><strong>Edward:</strong> No, come on! Who're they working for?</p>
<p><strong>Robert:</strong> Teddy, brother, shut your goddamn mouth.</p>
<p><strong>Edward:</strong> If they both refuse take the test, what more is there to say?</p>
<p><strong>Robert:</strong> Ted, it's not a spy test. Why can't we—</p>
<p><strong>Edward:</strong> Because people are tried to kill us, Bobby!</p>
<p><<em>Agent #013 produces a Liberty Silver coin and offers it to the Cosa Nostra agents.</em>></p>
<p><strong>#013:</strong> Just flip it ten times, that's what he wants.</p>
<p><strong>Edward:</strong> Twenty!</p>
<p><strong>#013:</strong> Twenty times.</p>
<p><<em>Cuscino and Perello take turns performing a field PSRV test. Receiving respectively 11 heads and 8 heads, they score a 1.35 and 1.80.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Edward:</strong> Isn't 1.80 too much nowadays?</p>
<p><strong>#013:</strong> No, Ted, shut— do you recognize who shot you?</p>
<p><strong>Edward:</strong> No, her? Why would I?</p>
<p><strong>#013:</strong> That's all! Now get to the doctor!</p>
<p><<em>An agent brings Ted to a car while the interview fails to progress.</em>></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">…</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> …Could we ask her about how her childhood might have influenced her to do this?</p>
<p><strong>Perello:</strong> I… I suppose. [SP] When you were real little, did you always feel this way?…</p>
<p><strong>#013:</strong> Mr. Kennedy, Ted's getting patched up. he'll be fine. You don't have any more business here. Should we exfil?</p>
<p><strong>Robert:</strong> Yeah, I think so.</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> … I can speak some Spanish. Maybe let her speak over the phone?</p>
<p><<em>Robert receives the phone from Perello.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Robert:</strong> Hey, George, I'm on my way out. Thank you as always.</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> You take care, Robert. I—</p>
<p><<em>The psionic alarms in the White House interrupt "Eagle".</em>></p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> Get to safety, Robert.</p>
<p><<em>Call disconnects.</em>></p>
<p><<em>At 06:22, an influx of negative psions once again is detected. A gas main in the kitchen above the basement spontaneously combusts; two workers in the kitchen and Agent #013 are immediately killed. Agents quickly secure the Attorney General in the exfiltration car.</em>></p>
<p><<em>At 06:26, en route to the safehouse, the vehicle is struck on the driver's side, instantly killing the two agents inside. Upon back-up arriving at the scene, Robert Kennedy was missing.</em>></p>
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<p><strong>Commentary:</strong> Laura Ramos is a Cuban national aged 19 at time of incident. Ramos arrived to America as a refugee in 1960. Her life cannot be verifiably accounted from 1961 onward, and she alleges complete retrograde amnesia of events leading to the attempt on the Kennedy brothers. A total of five would perish in the Langham Hotel fire.</p>
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<p>Following the events at the Langham Hotel, Robert Kennedy was held hostage by the Skull and Bones Brotherhood. Concurrently, President Kennedy entered a period of protracted psionomania.</p>
<div class="transcript">
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="excerpt">White House Phone Transcript, 10/10/62</span></p>
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<p><strong>Secretary:</strong> You've reached the White House visitor's center, please ho—</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified Bonesman:</strong> Connect me to the President, <em>tout-suite</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Secretary:</strong> Please hold.</p>
<p><strong>Bonesman:</strong> We know where Bobby Kennedy is b—</p>
<p><<em>The line is held for approx. 15 minutes.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Secretary:</strong> Hello, thank you for holdin—</p>
<p><strong>Bonesman:</strong> I have information which will lead to the safe return of the Attorney General.</p>
<p><strong>Secretary:</strong> I don't follow.</p>
<p><strong>Bonesman:</strong> Get someone on the line who <em>does</em>, then.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">…</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> Who are you and where is Robert Kennedy?</p>
<p><strong>Bonesman:</strong> George, George, George, it's up to you to make this right. You know the Kennedys weren't part of the plan.</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> The plan?</p>
<p><strong>Bonesman:</strong> Yes. The slimy, cursed bastard isn't doing so hot right now, is he? The ring might be saving him, but it can't save those dearest to him.</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> The ring? You— you tell us where Bobby is, no games!</p>
<p><strong>Bonesman:</strong> No, George, you're the one on a time limit. You and Bobby, and Jack, and the whole damn country.</p>
<p><<em>President Kennedy enters the room. An oscillating hum interferes with the phone call.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Who is it, George? Is it Bobby?</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> No, Mr. President. Please let us talk this ou—</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> You telling me what to do? Give me the damn phone, George!</p>
<p><<em>"Eagle" relents to the president.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Now listen, you silly son of a bitch! Whatever ransom you want, you're not getting it! Any problem you have with Cosa, it's on them! You're gonna be one sorry bastard if you think we're going to foot any money for them!</p>
<p><strong>Bonesman:</strong> This isn't the mob, Mr. Kennedy. Just listen up. We don't want your money, we want you to resign. And then we want Johnson to resign. And if the problem remains with McCormack, he resigns too. Only then will Bobby be freed.</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> And what problem is that?</p>
<p><strong>Bonesman:</strong> <em>You</em> are unfit. Your bad luck's rubbing off on everyone. Didn't get the hint when Marylin croaked. Not when you sent those good men to die for Cuba. You just keep raising the stakes. Keep it up, and we're going to use the easy solution on you and Bobby.</p>
<p><<em>Psionic interference alarms begin sounding.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> Mr. President, it's best we—</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> No, I won't negotiate with the likes of you. You're going to bring my brother here, unharmed, <em>now</em>! Son of a bitch, if you so much as— I dare you to <strong>[COGNITOHAZARD EXPUNGED]</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Bonesman:</strong> That's not gonna work, Jack. We got rings, too, and ours work better than yours. You can't live on borrowed luck forever. We can wait, but can you?</p>
<p><<em>Call disconnects.</em>></p>
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<p><strong>Commentary:</strong> Within 24 hours, Agent "Eagle" would contact defectors within the Brotherhood and successfully located the facility holding Robert Kennedy on the island of Cuba. Plans drafted to invade Cuba with overwhelming numbers were rejected by the CIA due to the Soviet ICBM arsenal identified on Cuba and excessive mechanical failures afflicting of US military vehicles and armaments.</p>
</div>
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President Kennedy drafted and attempted to send the following correspondence to the communist government of Cuba:
<div class="transcript">
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="excerpt"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dear "El Comandante" Castro</span>,</span></p>
<h3 id="toc7"><span>You. Are. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Finished</span>!!</span></h3>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
Your provocations against the American people will not go unanswered. Our great country's tolerance has worn thin.</p>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
If you do not release my brother, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Attorney General Robert Francis Kennedy</strong></span>, from captivity; if you do not stop the communist subversion of <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">patriotic American</span></strong> organizations; if you do not <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>immediately resign and flee</strong></span> from the island of Cuba:</p>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
<h4 id="toc8"><span>The Cuban people will suffer <span style="text-decoration: underline;">every molecule of my mind powers</span>!</span></h4>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
I will soon find my full strength. You will never know peace. You must know that our nation's combined psions are <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>much</strong></span> stronger than your pitiful attempts to harm us. You must know that we will succeed and, though it will be trivial for us, it will cost you everything.</p>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
Additionally, I have authorized the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>full strength of US strategic nuclear retaliation</strong></span> to annihilate you if these demands are not met. Already have I called upon the <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">United Nations</span></strong> to manifest the success of our missile program and amplify my now-unbounded psionic powers . I have made my intentions known and have the hearts of many nations on my side. All it would take to <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">destroy</span></strong> your short-lived regime is for millions of freedom-loving souls to turn their heads towards the island of Cuba and imagine in its place a glassed landscape liberated from your evil-doings.</p>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
If the demands stated in this letter are not satisfied within <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">72 hours</span></strong>, or harm is brought upon <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Robert Kennedy</span></strong>, the <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">United States Congress</span></strong> will unanimously vote for war against the nation of Cuba and its allies. Moreover, I will <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>personally</strong></span> kill you with my mind powers, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Fidel Castro</strong></span>!</p>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
<h4 id="toc9"><span><strong>So help me God</strong>,</span></h4>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<h4 id="toc10"><span>John Fitzgerald Kennedy <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></h4>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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The letter was intercepted before reaching its recipient. In response to Kennedy's psionomania, the Global Occult Coalition issued a directive disavowing intelligence cooperation with the SCP Foundation and the United States Federal government until his removal from office.
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<div class="scp-image-caption show">Range of Soviet nuclear missiles.</div>
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<h3 id="toc11"><span>Addendum 7994.B2 The Cuban Crisis</span></h3>
<p>Due to Kennedy's psionomania, a catastrophic system failure of psionic defense mechanisms began to occur throughout Washington, D.C. The president was held at Camp David for the duration of events as a <strong><span style="color: firebrick">Code-Red</span></strong> psionic infiltration event was once again declared by the Overseer Council.</p>
<p>A determination was made that proximity to SCP-7994-A events and long-term exposure to psionic broadcasts have permanently altered the noospheric<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-9" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-9')">9</a></sup> composition of the US federal government.</p>
<p>Despite O5 Command objections, on 10/15/62, President Kennedy was informed by the CIA of the confirmed presence of Soviet nuclear ICBMs located on the island of Cuba. Proposals to force Kennedy's resignation through psionic influence were underway until the <strong><a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001-ex">ERZATZ AK9 computational engine</a></strong> was consulted by O5 Command. During a meeting with EXCOMM<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-10" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-10')">10</a></sup> discussions were held regarding the probability that the conflict will escalate into a Third World War:</p>
<div class="transcript">
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="excerpt">Meeting of EXCOMM, 10/22/62</span></p>
<p><strong>Present:</strong> John F Kennedy (2.40 without SCP-7994-B), Secretary McNamara (1.95), I-49 "Eagle" (.60), O5-6 (0.50), O5-9 (1.05), O5-10 (0.90)</p>
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<p><<em>The meeting occurs in the Camp David bunker. Kennedy has chosen to forgo walking in favor of psionic levitation; as he enters the room, the overhead lights suddenly fail and the room is lit by his psionoluminescence.</em>></p>
<p><strong>O5-9:</strong> President Kennedy, I'm glad to be heard in person.</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Yes, yes. Out with it.</p>
<p><strong>O5-9:</strong> Okay. The whole country is holding their breath that you to not turn this into a war, Mr. Kennedy. Your imprecation is—</p>
<p><strong>McNamara:</strong> That's what you're calling it? Jesus, you deviants.</p>
<p><strong>O5-9:</strong> No doubt, the imprecation is part of the escalating tensions we've seen. Mr. Kennedy, the board is set. Thanks to the cascade of containment failures, the stakes cannot be higher.</p>
<p><strong>McNamara:</strong> Thanks to that Castro, you mean?</p>
<p><strong>O5-9:</strong> Mr. McNamara, we can pass blame at a different time. This is bigger than one man or one government.</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> This is about my <em>brother</em>, Mac.</p>
<p><strong>O5-10:</strong> Yes Mr. Kennedy. We can get your brother back with no risk involved.</p>
<p><<em>O5-10 presents a sheaf of papers to Kennedy.</em>></p>
<p><strong>O5-10:</strong> Our computation engine ran this calculation every hour for the past week. It's now at 99% certainty; any further and your family curse, imprecation, whatever, it can blunder us into nuclear war. We interpreted that these actions are critical—</p>
<p><strong>McNamara:</strong> No! No curses or computers are going to decide for this military! We are the experts here, we're the—</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> McNamara, just sit and listen for a moment!</p>
<p><<em>McNamara's chair partially collapses, sending him from his seat.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> I'm sorry about that. But Robert, at the earlier meeting you, and all the generals, all the directors, you sought a first strike as the next step in action. But I spoke to the reporters actually in Moscow, and they make it clear that you don't see it the way Mr. Khrushchev sees it. They aren't going to step down. I think we've— we've been a bit gun-ho about this whole thing.</p>
<p><strong>O5-09:</strong> We got to this point because we overplayed our hand. With 99% certainty, I promise you that when Guevara says that invading Cuba means nuclear war, he means it.</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> I see it that way too, Secretary.</p>
<p><strong>O5-10:</strong> We need to show good faith. We need to retract. This is the course it wants us to take.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">ERZATZ PROPOSAL SUMMARY</span></p>
<p>INPUT:<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>CIA's National Photographic Intepretation Center report on ICBMs in Cuba</p>
<p>OUTPUT:<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>"Castro and the ring-bearer must take together the coin test once. The president for the greater score will be removed from office in thirteen months not once throwing a bomb."</p>
<p>PROPOSAL:<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>"Arrange for in-person negotiations between Fidel Castro and Kennedy." (O5-10)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:</p>
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<th>YEA</th>
<th>NAY</th>
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<td>O5-01</td>
<td>O5-02</td>
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<td>O5-03</td>
<td>O5-05</td>
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<td>O5-04</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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<td>O5-06</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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<td>O5-07</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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<td>O5-08</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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<td>O5-09</td>
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<td></td>
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<td>O5-10</td>
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<td>O5-11</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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<td>O5-12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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<td>O5-13</td>
<td></td>
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<th>STATUS</th>
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<td><span style="color: #057800">APPROVED</span></td>
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On 10/25/62, John F Kennedy was en route to Mexico City, Mexico onboard Air Force One to fulfill the proposal of ERZATZ. On approach, the landing gear of the plane failed to deploy, which is immediately determined to be caused by SCP-7994-A.
<div class="transcript">
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="excerpt">Incident #7994-616</span></p>
<p><strong>Prior:</strong> After four go-arounds, flight controls began to deteriorate further.</p>
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<p><<em>I-49 Eagle is looking through a cabin window. He notices the jet engine sputtering due to fuel exhaustion.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> Shit. Shit, shit, shit.</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Come on, we've gotten this far! What's gonna get us down from here?</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> we're not making it to that runway. I've flown with enough shot engines. Okay, it's settled.</p>
<p><<em>Eagle produces an on-board emergency parachute.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> We're hitting the silk.</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> We are, now?</p>
<p><<em>Eagle searches for a second shoot and cannot find one.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> One of us is hitting the silk.</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Then… It was nice knowing you, "Eagle". My luck's run out.</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> No, this isn't your end. You aren't thinking about the mission. <em>You</em> are the one the world needs.</p>
<p><<em>Kennedy removes SCP-7994-B from his hand.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Tell Bobby I love him. It's time for you to be the ring-bearer again.</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> Why don't you tell him yourself?</p>
<p><<em>"Eagle" dons SCP-7994-B and a parachute, then harnesses himself to Kennedy.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> You're coming with me!</p>
<p><<em>"Eagle" approaches the hull door and pries it open. He turns to the pilots.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> Gentlemen, I'm lucky to have flown with you.</p>
<p><<em>"Eagle" grabs Kennedy's hand and leaps from the plane. Moments after his parachute opens, the landing gear on Air Force One resumed functionality.</em>></p>
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<p><<em>"Eagle" and Kennedy are exfiltrated to the Gran Hotel for the secret negotiation. Robert Kennedy was exchanged into US custody unharmed.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Castro:</strong> Mr. President, my country deeply appreciates your presence.The path of diplomacy is the good way forward.</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> I couldn't agree more.</p>
<p><strong>Castro:</strong> No matter where we end today, for my people's self-esteem, I will not negotiate the non-existence of my government. Not through plots, not through invasions. I will give, but you will not take. Are these terms clear?</p>
<p><strong>Kennedy:</strong> Mr. Castro, I've made peace with every outcome.</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> Before we start, <em>I</em> must make one last request of you.</p>
<p><strong>Castro:</strong> You, you're CIA.</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> I was.</p>
<p><strong>Castro:</strong> And what is that request?</p>
<p><strong>Eagle:</strong> Heads? Or Tails?</p>
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<p><strong>Commentary:</strong> I-49 "Eagle" lost the proposition bet. Regardless, President Kennedy's refused to bear SCP-7994-B, drastically limiting the noospheric fallout of his presidency. The successful deescalation of the Cuban Missile Crisis resulted in the removal of Soviet ICBMs and a mutual moratorium on psionic operations.</p>
<p>Congressional PSRV levels are expected to normalize upon Kennedy's predicted removal from office.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. <strong>Gödel</strong>-class objects are explainable as an effect of an anomalous scientific law.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. <strong>Dark Sacrament:</strong> In Roman Catholic canon, a cult, image, mantra, or ritual which channels Deific energy for explicitly forbidden thaumaturgic purposes.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. <strong>Psionic:</strong> Related to innate electrovital sensory and manipulative capabilities in humans and other chordates.
<p><strong>Stochastic:</strong> Related to random distribution.</p>
<p><strong>Psionic-Stochastic:</strong> Related to the effect of an individual's unique psionic trace upon the determination of probabilistic events.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. The largest bootlegging ring in operation during alcohol prohibition in the United States.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. <strong>Psionic Inhibition Broadcaster:</strong> A mechanism broadcasting psionic particles which reduce or alter the electrovital activity of a target; a 'mind-control' device.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-7')">7</a>. <strong>Skull and Bones Brotherhood:</strong> AKA Order 322, a defunct exclusive occult society for students of Yale University. Members are known as <strong>Bonesmen</strong>.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-8"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-8')">8</a>. <strong>Tychomancy:</strong> The practice of thaumaturgic probability manipulation.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-9"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-9')">9</a>. <strong>Noosphere:</strong> The background psion particle field generated by human electrovital impulses.</div>
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<p><strong>Spirit Agent:</strong> Boss, new package from Chi-town.</p>
<p><strong>Castro:</strong> You got the stuff? Let's make it party time, then!</p>
<p><strong>Chappell:</strong> Yeah, bring it in.</p>
<p><strong>Agent:</strong> Yes, boss.</p>
<p><<em>The agent wheels a large refrigerated box into the room. Contained within is approximately 400 kilos of Howard Johnson's brand vanilla ice cream.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Chappell:</strong> <em>Perfecto</em>. Alright, kid, you gotta get the cigar shipment back across the Way by tonight. Hop to it.</p>
<p><strong>Agent:</strong> Uh, boss, someone else came along. He said <em>he could show you Geronimo's skull</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Chappell:</strong> Fidel, is someone going to let my associate in?</p>
<p><<em>Castro gestures with his spoon, and a guard brings the Bonesman into the room.</em>></p>
<p><strong>Bonesman:</strong> Mr. Chappell, <em>El Comandante</em>, I'm glad we could arrange this meeting.</p>
<p><strong>Chappell:</strong> I don't need you to fluff me, pal. Hit me with the bad news.</p>
<p><strong>Bonesman:</strong> No, this is a good idea. Things are in motion.</p>
<p><strong>Chappell:</strong> You're selling me on that "Eagle" fella, aren't you? We know he's back with Central Intelligence. No more of your damn Feds.</p>
<p><strong>Bonesman:</strong> No, we're talking bigger than that. Presidential big.</p>
<p><strong>Castro:</strong> Don't say you are doing something to end the world again?</p>
<p><strong>Chappell:</strong> Is it Ted Kennedy? All the other ones dropped like flies. Steer clear of him.</p>
<p><strong>Bonesman:</strong> No, fuck the Kennedys. You know, get rid of them. No, we got a new man on the inside. A freshman Senator. A good Catholic, no other crews are out to get him.</p>
<p><strong>Chappell:</strong> Well cheers to you, but we have a good thing going here. I'm trying not to be stepped on.</p>
<p><strong>Castro:</strong> I'm not sure what it is you want?</p>
<p><strong>Bonesman:</strong> Power, my friend. You can buy in now and be on top with all of us. You wait and see. One of these days, every candidate will be a Bonesman.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-7995</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Euclid</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> All information regarding SCP-7995 collected from testing must be recorded in Document 7995-A.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> Under no circumstances are any personnel to enter SCP-7995. Sick or immunocompromised personnel are not permitted within one hundred metres of SCP-7995.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7995 is an empty structure in the Lake District, Cumbria, UK. Despite externally resembling a typical civilian dwelling, living inside SCP-7995 would be impossible. Its actual prior function is unknown.</p>
<p>SCP-7995 is a focal point for varying anomalous activity, with few apparent consistent themes. Tentative attempts at establishing a connecting narrative have been undertaken, and recorded in Document 7995-A.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 7:</strong> Sample recovered diary entries from [DATA LOST].</p>
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<p>Theresa is so hot it's not fair</p>
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<p>For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky. God grant me the confidence to think a piece of work that mediocre warrants a title that pretentious.</p>
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<p>The ships I haunted never sailed; they just drifted through stagnant seas. How fitting. [DATA LOST]</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> Ronald Jensen, Rachel Swann, Elijah Katonga</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Researcher Julian Farnsworth</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> The three interviewees were civilians discovered in the vicinity of SCP-7995 at initial discovery. All were asked the same questions separately; thus, responses have been grouped together for convenience's sake.</p>
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<p><strong>Farnsworth:</strong> Why were you present at the building when we arrived?</p>
<p><strong>Jensen:</strong> It's my job. I'm a security guard there.</p>
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<p><strong>Swann:</strong> I work security. It's not particularly weird.</p>
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<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> I was the nightwatchman.</p>
<p><strong>Farnsworth:</strong> It doesn't strike me as the sort of place I'd have wanted to work in. What sort of work happened there?</p>
<p><strong>Jensen:</strong> Honestly couldn't tell you. I applied because the pay's decent and I don't have to leave Ontario, actually knowing what I'm guarding isn't much of a priority.</p>
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<p><strong>Swann:</strong> Above my pay grade.</p>
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<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> Sort of hoping you could tell me, actually. I was on my own there most of the time, still couldn't pluck up the courage to snoop.</p>
<p><strong>Farnsworth:</strong> Can you tell me anything about the people who worked there?</p>
<p><strong>Jensen:</strong> Bit standoffish, no names, never really stop for a chat.</p>
<p><strong>Farnsworth:</strong> You didn't learn a single person's name?</p>
<p><strong>Jensen:</strong> What? No, I mean they don't <em>have</em> names.</p>
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<p><strong>Swann:</strong> No-one works there.</p>
<p><strong>Farnsworth:</strong> No-one… You're going to have to clarify that, Mrs. Swann.</p>
<p><strong>Swann:</strong> What is there to clarify? No-one works there, no-one's ever worked there, I knew that when they hired me.</p>
<p><strong>Farnsworth:</strong> When <em>who</em> hired you?!</p>
<p><strong>Swann:</strong> Fuck me, you're a bit dense, aren't you?</p>
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<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> I remember a [DATA LOST], he made me a coffee when he was leaving one time. Usually they were more interested in getting home than chatting to me. Couldn't tell you what they were doing, sorry.</p>
<p><strong>Farnsworth:</strong> Describe your day from when you arrived to when we took you in.</p>
<p><strong>Jensen:</strong> Well. I got in. Relieved Rach as I got there, clocked on, got behind the desk.</p>
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<p><strong>Swann:</strong> I did my job, like I'm supposed to. My shift started at ten, so I arrived at quarter to. Had a chat with Ronnie before he went. We talked about Carlisle's chances at promotion, would you like to know where I thought we'd finish in the table, too?</p>
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<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> I don't know. It was cold.</p>
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<p><strong>Jensen:</strong> It was pretty quiet, so I started messing on my phone. Spilt my coffee, like an idiot. <em>[he laughs, slightly]</em></p>
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<p><strong>Swann:</strong> Would you like to know the details of exactly how many times I sneezed on the job? Would <em>that</em> fascinate you?</p>
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<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> It was so cold.</p>
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<p><strong>Jensen:</strong> There were no tissues inside.</p>
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<p><strong>Swann:</strong> There were no tissues inside.</p>
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<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> There were no tissues inside.</p>
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<p><strong>Jensen:</strong> Nothing else really happened, to be honest, until you got there.</p>
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<p><strong>Swann:</strong> Then the SAS broke down the door. But you were there for that bit.</p>
<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> There were - there's nothing to say. Not really.</p>
<p><strong>Farnsworth:</strong><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> Thank you for your cooperation, Mx. Katonga, I'll try to let you go soon. I am curious, though, you said you work nights?</p>
<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> Worke- uh, yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Farnsworth:</strong> Good, good. In that case, I must admit I'm rather confused as to what you were doing there at when the agents arrived, at… <em>[he checks his notes, shuffling papers]</em> Half one in the afternoon.</p>
<p><em>There is a long pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> I had to be there. But I shouldn't have been there.</p>
<p><strong>Farnsworth:</strong> Do you feel any urges to go ba-</p>
<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> <em>No!</em></p>
<p><em>Ze slams zir hands on the table. Farnsworth jumps.</em></p>
<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> No, no, you don't understand, I have to be both, but no, that's too much. Too much. Quit while you're ahead. Or just quit.</p>
<p><em>Katonga begins laughing hysterically. Farnsworth edges his chair backwards.</em></p>
<p><em>Ze abruptly stops, slumping in zir seat.</em></p>
<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> Nearly there, anyway. Don't think I've done too badly.</p>
<p><strong>Farnsworth:</strong> M- <em>[he clears his throat]</em> Mx. Katonga, it w-would really help your case if you could be clearer regarding -</p>
<p><em>Katonga's gaze fixes on Farnsworth.</em></p>
<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> What's your first name, Mr. Farnsworth?</p>
<p><strong>Farnsworth:</strong> …entirely irrelevant? What?</p>
<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> Still doesn't sit quite right? Well, I'm sorry to dredge anything up, Mr. Farnsworth, but I wish you could use it to drown me out.</p>
<p>Thing is, Mr. Farnsworth, is that I want you to imagine you are your name. Imagine it's everything, one little world that sums you up as a person, encapsulates your loves, hates, gives you an identity that through rain or sleet or gloom of night you can cling to that gives you an anchor in the storm just a small small noise that is <em>you</em>.</p>
<p><em>Ze gasps for breath, holding onto the table, rocking gently.</em></p>
<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> Now tell someone your name. It doesn't matter who, just do it. Give them all of that. Only you can't. It won't leave. It clings to your tongue, its spines pierce your cheeks and throat, its tentacles reach down your oesophagus and yank it back down. It slams your jaw shut, so hard your teeth shatter, you gag as it squirms its way back down and <em>you know it's right.</em> It's right, Mr. Farnsworth. But I'm right, but that doesn't even matter.</p>
<p><em>Ze shivers, rubbing zir arms, and whimpers.</em></p>
<p><strong>Katonga:</strong> This isn't going anywhere, Mr. Farnsworth. It's so cold.</p>
<p><strong><END LOG></strong></p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> All three were released shortly after these interviews. Each were individually administered a dose of Class C amnestics. This was later followed up with a dose of Class B amnestics, two doses of Class A amnestics, four doses of Class C amnestics, and a solution two parts Class A amnestic and two parts Class C amnestic. Eventually, they all signed non-disclosure agreements, requiring steady payment from the Foundation in return.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 15:</strong> Exploration log.</p>
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<p><strong>Personnel:</strong> D-94771 (field), Dr. Valerie Whitaker (base)</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> Initial exploration of SCP-7995.</p>
<p><strong><BEGIN LOG></strong></p>
<p><em>D-94771 looks up at the sky, shielding her eyes.</em></p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Lovely day for it. Always wanted to go to Melbourne, hoped it'd be under better circumstances. The file was pretty vague, anything I should know going in here?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Unfortunately, we don't really have any more information to give you.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Oh, good. Gotten me for a brand new one, then, that's distressingly exciting.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> We've actually been investigating this for a while.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Oh. So… I'm the first one to explore it, then.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> No.</p>
<p><em>D-94771 throws her hands up.</em></p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Well, grand. What <em>can</em> you tell me?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Nothing.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Great. I can already tell you and me are gonna get on famously.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> You and I.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> <em>[she sighs, looking to the sky]</em> Great. Great.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Shall we begin?</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Why not?</p>
<p><em>She steps up to the door.</em></p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> What does it look like, to you?</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> A, uh, shed? I dunno.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> What do you expect to see inside?</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Uh, shed… -y… things? Fuck if I know. <em>[she half-laughs]</em> Plus the spooky monster trying to eat me.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> That too. Alright, you can go in.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Lucky me.</p>
<p><em>She enters. Inside is [DATA EXPUNGED]</em></p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Not a shed, then. Okay. There's a reception desk, a cloakroom to the right. No-one coming to take my coat, though.</p>
<p><em>She walks behind the [DATA EXeption desk, and begins looking through.</em></p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> You're not wearing a coat.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Yeah, well, thought that counts. Desk's full of random shit, I don't think it's anything useful.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Alright. Carry on, then.</p>
<p><em>She leaves the lobby, and takes the lift to the first basement. A shadow flickers at the edge of her torchlight as the doors open to an empty laboratory, but no details can be ascertained.</em></p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Bloody hell, what a mess. Okay, er, looks pretty sciency, but… nope, computers aren't working.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Anything useful about?</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Uh… there's a diary, okay. Why are there always diaries?</p>
<p><em>D-94771 adjusts her torch so she can read, and begins flipping through.</em></p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> You know that could be dangerous, right?</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Bet it's not. <em>[she is quiet for a moment]</em> "The ships I haunted never sailed; they just drifted through stagnant seas." What a prick.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Move on, please, Olivia.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Yeah, just, hang fire a mo. <em>[she continues reading]</em> Huh. So apparently -</p>
<p><em>There is a deafening screaming, and all contact is lost.</em></p>
<p><strong><END LOG></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Closing statement:</strong> <em>Base spent much of the next three hours discussing how to proceed. Extracting D-94771 using another D-class or an MTF was proposed, and rejected. Instead, it has been agreed that all testing with SCP-7995 will cease, and s</em>uddenly I see! This is what I wanna be, suddenly I see! Why th-</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Olivia? Is that you?</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Dr. Whitaker! <em>[she struggles off the couch she is lying on]</em> You there?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Does the black moon howl?</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> What the <em>fuck</em> does that mean?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> It <em>is</em> you, good. What happened, are you alright?</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Yeah! Uh, when we got cut off, I found somewhere safe-looking and hunkered down. Picked the kitchen.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> And the singing?</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Bored. Shall we get on?</p>
<p><em>D-94771 leaves the attic, making her way back to the lift. She goes down to the first floor.</em></p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> How are you feeling, by the way?</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Honestly?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Of course.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> I don't like this place. It feels cold.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> The environment? Or -</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Not physical. Not sure how to describe it, it's like… being at a party where no-one likes you. Although that's <em>most</em> parties I've been to.</p>
<p><em>The doors open to a dusty, dimly-lit corridor. D-94771 cautiously begins to make her way down it.</em></p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Can you elaborate?</p>
<p><em>D-94771 sneezes, and rummages around her pockets.</em></p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Ah… Not really. It's weird, I dunno. I'm D-class, we say stuff. What, I have to understand it, too?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> You must have some idea.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Damn it, could've sworn I had tissues in here…</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Olivia…</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> <em>[she stops, and sighs]</em> Look, you know what happened here?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> No? Wh-</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> I do. But it doesn't matter.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Oh? And why is that?</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> <em>[she shrugs]</em> Just one of a gazillion other identikit things you don't understand. What's the point?</p>
<p><em>She continues walking in silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> It's funny, I don't even know what D-class means.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> It means you're a prisoner we abducted because no-one would miss you and no-one would mind us doing horrible things to you.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> …you don't mince your words, do you?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> No. You deserve better than that.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Do I? What did I do?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Er… <em>[sound of shuffling papers]</em> Armed robbery. Your mother couldn't pay the rent, apparently.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Oh. That doesn't sound like me. At least I don't think it does.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Yes, well. It had to be something serious enough to land you here, you see, but at the same time you couldn't hurt anyone. Had to be something understandable, possibly even sympathetic.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> I don't understand.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> No. You're rather not supposed to, I'm sad to say.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> …doesn't my mum miss me?</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> I don't know. I'm not sure you're supposed to think that hard. Anyway, the more sensitive suggestion is cloning, but I'm not really sure that's a great deal less ethically dubious-</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> No, hang on, shut up a second.</p>
<p><em>She has reached a bulky metal door, gunmetal-grey.</em></p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Keys are in the lock. Thank fuck for a bit of convenience.</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> When you're ready, then.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> <em>[she hesitates]</em> Ready for - what?! No, no way, I ain't goin' anywhere fucking near there!</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Alright, if you feel so strongly about it. You can start making your way back, then.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> You're not down here, doc! You can feed yourself to whatever monster's fucking in there! Not me!</p>
<p><strong>Whitaker:</strong> Whatever you feel comfortable with.</p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Okay. Not the biggest door I've come up against.</p>
<p><em>D-94771 tries the door. It is sealed shut.</em></p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Not even locked. Amateurs.</p>
<p><em>D-94771 turns and runs, out of SCP-7995. Testing complete.</em></p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> No ominous creak! Where's my ominous creak?</p>
<p><em>D-94771 shuts the door. Inside is <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">human remains</span></em></p>
<p><em>is <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">[DATA LOST]</span></em></p>
<p><em>is <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">the missing puzzle piece</span></em></p>
<p><em>is <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">seventeen empty boxes of tissues</span></em></p>
<p><em>is <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">an incomprehensible horror beyond human understanding, pulped from a half-formed nightmare and described in awkward, tortured metaphor</span></em></p>
<p><em>is <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">just some peace and quiet</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">come on</span></em></p>
<p>…</p>
<p><em>Inside is nothing.</em></p>
<p><strong>D-94771:</strong> Boring. Can I come back now?</p>
<p><strong><END LOG></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 19:</strong> Document 7995-A.</p>
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<p>Error: document does not exist.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 20:</strong> Memorandum from Director Thomas Walker, Site 9.</p>
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<p>My secretary directed me to this article, and I'm glad she did. Now, if it's not too much trouble, I'd like whoever wrote this document to come to my office for nine tomorrow, where they will either receive a paper copy of this article, written as though the writer had a brain, or their P45. I want to make it clear, this shambles of a scientific piece is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">unacceptable</span>. If I can't tell what it even <span style="text-decoration: underline;">does</span>, you have failed at your job. I hope this is clear.</p>
<p>And one more thing: for pity's sake, get those redactions sorted. You're not spies; if the information isn't going to melt my brain, it's for me and RAISA to decide what makes it in. Not you. Expunging it from the database completely is beyond a joke.</p>
<p>- Director Walker</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 21:</strong> Memorandum from Director Thomas Walker, Site 9.</p>
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<p>Thank you. This is what a proper document <span style="text-decoration: underline;">should</span> look like.</p>
<p>Don't let it happen again.</p>
<p>- Director Walker</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong></span> Due to the unpredictable nature of SCP-7996 occurrences, no feasible containment methods have been devised. Any research inquiries providing potential ways of stopping or reducing SCP-7996 occurrences in the universe are open for consideration. At present, no temporary or permanent solution has been discovered. Currently, all research and matters related to SCP-7996 have been overtaken by the Pataphysics Department.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Description:</strong></span> SCP-7996 is the designation given to a series of anomalous occurrences resulting from an ongoing decrease of Hume levels within the universe. Currently, Hume levels have decreased by approximately 2.8% since 2059. This process appears to be accelerating, with Hume levels expected to be halved by 2067. SCP-7996 occurrences include the following.</p>
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<li>Spontaneous destruction of objects within the universe. Only three such events have been observed, but it is theorized that these events will be more common as Hume levels continue to drop.</li>
<li>Events labeled as 'reality distortions.' These events occur randomly and cause the restructuring of matter within an area into unrecognizable forms. The matter within the affected area evaporates after a random number of days without leaving traces.</li>
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<p>The first SCP-7996 occurrences were observed in September 2059, shortly before the discovery of decreasing Hume levels. The studies of said occurrences were followed by the discovery of pataphysical transmissions, which led to the creation of the Pataphysics Department. This department is currently in authority over all research and matters pertaining to SCP-7996.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Addendum-1:</strong></span> Context</p>
<p>The following is a briefing from Dr. Michael Cygnus regarding pataphysics and its relevance to SCP-7996. Dr. Cygnus is currently assigned as a lead researcher for SCP-7996, and is a significant entity within the Pataphysics Department.</p>
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<p>17/11/2059</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-large;"><strong>FICTION, US, AND ARMAGEDDON</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">by Dr. Michael Cygnus</p>
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<p>I do not like summarized science. Not with the Foundation or anywhere else. It misleads one to think they know the complete picture of something when they only have a starting point to a vast and complicated network of knowledge. But I suppose 'vast and complex' is a good place to start with pataphysics, as our research has shown that relations between universes go far beyond anything we could have guessed.</p>
<p>We, yes me and anyone reading or hearing this, are creations of fiction—the fiction from a pataphysical universe. Someone or something in the universe we have designated as <strong>U7k</strong> is thinking up stories and scenarios in what they deem a fictional universe, that fictional universe being ours. These enter our universe in the form of pataphysical transmissions, via interuniversal windows.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-403601-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-403601-1')">1</a></sup> We've only ever observed one of these, which is located 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.</p>
<p>So what does all this mean for us? And what can it teach us about SCP-7996? For starters, we estimate that 85% of actions and events result both directly and indirectly<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-403601-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-403601-2')">2</a></sup> from pataphysical transmissions. As for the other 15%, they result from the universe we thought we knew. From our studies, we've determined that the Foundation and its anomalies are the focus of these pataphysical transmissions; thus we can assume the same for SCP-7996. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to determine much else as of now. All I can say is that whatever entity is transmitting us is probably trying to draft the apocalypse.</p>
<p>It is in my and my team's best interest to find a solution for SCP-7996 and the ongoing decrease in Hume levels. What that solution will be, I don't know. But <em>we need to try</em>. It may seem hopeless given how little time we have to think of something before the public getting note of the SCP-7996. However, all that matters is that we haven't run out of time yet. So what we need to do is get to work and <em>try</em> to evade our demise.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Addendum-2:</strong></span> Initial message exchange</p>
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<p>09/12/2059<br/>
<strong>To:</strong> O5 Command, SCP-7996 team<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-7996</p>
<p>Greetings</p>
<p>Reality is disintegrating. Worlds are becoming twisted, while others are being destroyed. I know it may seem normal to have the apocalypse around the corner, but the apocalypses we evade usually don't melt away the universe. As O5-Council members, we cannot directly interact with the anomalous. Therefore this message is also for our team working on SCP-7996.</p>
<p>Our incredibly successful Pataphysics Department has stated that the decrease in Hume levels is a result of pataphysical transmissions, which means someone is writing or thinking about it in some degree. Yes, we are in a story. You probably know this already anyway. However, we cannot let this hinder us from finding a solution. We have evaded destruction in the past, and I am confident this will be no exception.</p>
<p>If any of you come up with ideas on what course of action to take, please respond to this message with your input.</p>
<p>~O5-1</p>
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<p>13/12/2059<br/>
<strong>To:</strong> O5 Command, SCP-7996 team<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re:SCP-7996</p>
<p>If I understand this correctly, we are the result of someone thinking or writing in another universe.</p>
<p>As such, here is my proposal; if we are being thought and written of, this must be a story. Its plot could be that reality is melting away, we try to stop it without success, but at the climax, it ends somehow. After that, humanity resumes its normalcy, if not something extraordinary.</p>
<p>Essentially, my thought is that <em>every story has a happy ending</em>. So perhaps we keep doing what we do, and everything will end well.</p>
<p>~<a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-963">Dr. Bright</a></p>
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<p>14/12/2059<br/>
<strong>To:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re:SCP-7996</p>
<p>Your proposal is denied.</p>
<p>While I can see the logic behind your thinking, we cannot make assumptions. We don't know who or what is responsible for our actions, but there is no guarantee that a satisfactory ending for them is the same as one for us. Even if not doing anything ends with a solution later, we need a solution sooner. Later means more chances for potentially catastrophic consequences.</p>
<p>~O5-1</p>
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<p>17/12/2059<br/>
<strong>To:</strong> O5 Command, SCP-7996 team<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re:SCP-7996</p>
<p>I think we should further our research into the pataphysical. Not with the transmissions, but with the library; the dimension that has all the collective knowledge we know and don't know. Surely an answer has to lie there.</p>
<p>Acknowledging that we lack a reliable way to access the library, perhaps we could set aside our differences with the <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/serpent-s-hand-hub">Serpent's Hand</a>. They must know what is happening and understand the seriousness of it. If we <em>cannot</em> come to terms, we'll commence raids of their sites.</p>
<p>~O5-12</p>
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<p>18/12/2059<br/>
<strong>To:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re:SCP-7996</p>
<p>The Serpent's Hand is very aware of what is happening. However, they won't be beneficial to us. Ever since the SCP-7996 occurrences began, Serpent's Hand activity has decreased on a global scale. Considering that I was once part of them and I remember their ways, they are likely leaving because of the current situation.</p>
<p>Indeed, we don't have a reliable way to access the library. Even if we did, the vastness of the shelves would hinder effective searches for useful material.</p>
<p>~Director Moose</p>
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<p>18/12/2059<br/>
<strong>To:</strong> O5 Command, SCP-7996 team<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re:SCP-7996</p>
<p>We need to stop guessing about how to solve this issue immediately. We are actively wasting time by sharing suggestions that won't work. Even if reality melting away takes years, I'm counting every hour. O5s, I'm going to ask you to abstain from this for now, while me and the team come up with a solution. At this time, we only need you when we need your approval. After all, we are the ones interacting with the objects in the boxes.</p>
<p>While most of our research is still work-in-progress, we have made some breakthroughs. The pataphysical transmissions are tangible, meaning we can harness them to an extent. Of course, we will have to utilize some of our most advanced tech and Thaumiel objects, which makes this ambiguous. However, maybe, just maybe if we're lucky, we can figure something out with the transmissions themselves. I already have a couple of ideas.</p>
<p>~Dr. Cygnus</p>
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<p>19/12/2059<br/>
<strong>To:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re:SCP-7996</p>
<p>The fact that we are using the word "lucky" is concerning. Like O5-1 already said, we cannot depend on assumptions, and neither can we depend on luck. What are the odds of us failing?</p>
<p>~Director Moose</p>
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<p>19/12/2059<br/>
<strong>To:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re:SCP-7996</p>
<p>I am genuinely confident we'll figure something out. However, we must accept that we need luck on our side. Everyday, the universes roll their dice continuously to decide what happens, down to the subatomic world. We need to hope that those dice roll in our favor. I know these are words we despise hearing in the Foundation, but in reality, we all depend on luck and hope. As do our universe.</p>
<p>~Dr. Cygnus</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Addendum-3:</strong></span> Project REVERSE</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-large;"><strong>MAKING US PATAPHYSICAL</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">by Dr. Michael Cygnus</p>
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<p>Considering the nature of the situation at hand, it would be an understatement to say that we need to get creative. After working our magic at the Pataphysics Department, we constructed a more reliable version of our prototype devices, designed to capture pataphysical transmissions. The Pataphysical Transmission Concentrator and Manipulator, or the PTCM. With the PTCM, we can capture pataphysical transmissions. From there, we can manipulate and use the transmissions to our will, which will be needed for Project REVERSE.</p>
<p>Our plan is to create stories about authors hindering themselves from writing about SCP-7996 and apocalyptic scenarios. Or something of that sort. Through its manipulation systems, we convert our stories into pataphysical transmissions via the PTCM, and beam said transmissions into U7k. The hope is that this will prevent the entity from continuing to write and think about us in their current manner. Essentially, we the characters, tell the author what to create.</p>
<p>Admittedly, this project is complicated and arouses doubt. However, as I've reiterated, we must try anything. We cannot let complications or doubts hinder us. The more we try, the greater the chance is of us finding a solution.</p>
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<p>The following is a documentation of stories used for Project REVERSE.</p>
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<td>Dr. Cygnus</td>
<td>Story consisted of an author creating a scenario in which humanity experiences a universe becoming unsustainable for life, due to reality disintegrating. The author becomes uninterested in writing about destructive consequences, and redirects the plot to rehabilitate the universe.</td>
<td><em>Simple, sums us up well, and should be encouraging for whoever is our creator.</em> ~Dr. Cygnus.</td>
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<td>Dr. Bright</td>
<td>Story consisted of an author specializing in writing stories without satisfactory endings. The author decides to make an exception for the story they are currently writing, and finishes the story with a desirable ending.</td>
<td><em>There are countless apocalypses to draft up. Just make an exception for us please. And hope that our universe isn't the only one they're controlling.</em> ~Dr. Bright.</td>
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<td>Dr. Robert Scranton<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-403601-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-403601-3')">3</a></sup></td>
<td>A series of science-fiction tales, describing a universe which has evaded cessation. Civilizations within the universe are seeking to improve living conditions and societal cooperation, which are described as being poor prior to the evaded cessation.</td>
<td><em>If we can overcome this, perhaps we could learn to settle our differences, and seek to become a better society.</em> ~Scranton</td>
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<p>On 17/04/2060, all three of these stories were transmitted into U7k. Analysis indicates that the transmissions successfully entered U7k.</p>
<p>On 14/05/2060, a SCP-7996 reality distortion event occurred near Namangan, Uzbekistan. This occurred in close proximity with civilian housing, and became the most difficult SCP-7996 occurrence to cover-up. The following note was provided by Dr. Cygnus, nine hours after the occurrence.</p>
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<p>15/05/2059<br/>
<strong>To:</strong> O5 Command, SCP-7996 team<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Project REVERSE</p>
<p>Well, unless the entity is slow to react, I'm calling this a failure. Before we give up hope, I must mention that we made some intriguing discoveries during Project REVERSE. Our access to U7k is more reliable than what we speculated, which could become useful for future projects. Additionally, a discovery the Pataphysics Department made is that all pataphysical transmissions have become 6% less intensive since we started observing them last year.</p>
<p>~Dr. Cygnus</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Addendum-4:</strong></span> Project OGLE</p>
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<p>26/06/2060</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-large;"><strong>POCKET DIMENSIONS AND 7996</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">by Dr. Michael Cygnus</p>
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<p>The decision to observe other pocket dimensions to see if they were affected by SCP-7996 was a suggestion by Dr. Tilda Moose, following her reports about the Serpent's Hand leaving our universe for the library. These pocket dimensions are products of pataphysical transmissions, since they are under Foundation interest. Project OGLE focuses on traveling to pocket dimensions attached to our universe to observe the effects of decreasing Hume levels there. Perhaps if we are lucky, someone from one of them may provide insight on a solution.</p>
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<p>The following is a collection of logs acquired from the two most significant Project OGLE explorations.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-large;"><strong><span style="color:green;">Land of the unnameable folk</span></strong></span></p>
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<p>A single team was dispatched into <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/taboo">the woods without monikers</a> per protocol for a standard exploration. Large numbers of SCP-7996 occurrences had distorted sections of the <strong><span style="color:green;">the grove beyond the well</span></strong>, with some causing difficulties in exploration, as they overlapped the <strong><span style="color:brown;">the only path of the nameless realm</span></strong>. The exploration team noted the absence of native entities during the exploration.</p>
<p>The following is a journal page recovered from the exploration, previously owned by a native entity. It is noted that the journal denotes a name to <strong><span style="color:green;">the trees which cannot be worded</span></strong>, which have been expunged per protocol. Currently, all safety protocols for referring to <strong><span style="color:green;">the wilderness which shall not be named</span></strong> remain essential.</p>
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<p>I thought the war was the last trouble we'd ever see, but all these unexplained events are worse than anything we could ever imagine. Countless of my people are dead, including most of my family. People are attempting to leave, but I don't see any chance of safety in this. I feel like my body is barely intact and is falling apart. It feels as if a weak hit would disintegrate me. I am beyond hopeless.</p>
<p>I remembered the first time I was told about our absence of names. How we could not designate this <span style="filter: blur(5px);">forest</span> by name. However, here I am doing so. I only noticed when someone tried putting it to the test yesterday. Something's not right. Whatever is causing this may be giving us our names back. But what good are those if we're all dying?</p>
<p>I recall my family telling me about how one should hold onto something they enjoyed, even if they lost interest in it. They said everything I used to enjoy still had treasure in it, and losing it causes regret and disaster. I don't know what they meant by that, but the only thing I enjoy are these <span style="filter: blur(5px);">woods</span>. And will not lose interest in them, no matter how ruined they get. Not until I'm next to die. They are my only home after all.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-large;"><strong>Corbenic</strong></span></p>
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<p>Six members of MTF-Omega-16 were dispatched into <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2922">SCP-2922-C</a>. Communication with the team remained unstable throughout their exploration, indicating an error with SCP-2922. MTF member Ω-16 Dune maintained communication throughout the exploration, with communication exchanges being logged below.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-large;"><strong>L1</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> Director, hello? We're here, in the desert.</p>
<p><strong>Director:</strong> I read you Dune. What does the area look like?</p>
<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> How it usually does. Green sky, dim light, cold wind. Although the moons in the sky appear…off. They have swirls and twists on them.</p>
<p><strong>Director:</strong> Understood. Please get to The Valley of Striders. Call me when you reach it.</p>
<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> Understood director (<em>static</em>) and we'll (<em>static</em>).</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:x-large;"><strong>L2</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> Director, we've arrived at the valley. And in case you're wondering, we don't feel starved or dehydrated.</p>
<p><strong>Director:</strong> Copy that. What do you see?</p>
<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> The valley is…looks like the faces of the moons. All twisted and distorted. The slopes of mountains too. And there's not a soul in any direction we're looking.</p>
<p><strong>Director:</strong> Okay. Can you see Bogal Mountain? I need you to ascend the mountain next to it.</p>
<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> The one with the three-faced tree?</p>
<p><strong>Director:</strong> Yes. Get to the top of it. Call back when you summit it, or encounter anything noteworthy.</p>
<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> Roger. But-(<em>call terminates abruptly</em>)</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:x-large;"><strong>L3</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> Director, we encountered the tree, but only one of its faces appeared alive however. The other two were gone.</p>
<p><strong>Director:</strong> Understood. Did you ask it anything?</p>
<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> Yes. We asked it if it knew about the anomalies. It told us it hadn't been visited for a long time, and that it had forgotten much. It claimed that the land was being forgotten. I…don't know what that meant.</p>
<p><strong>Director:</strong> Understood. Well, assuming that face was the truthful one, we're at least getting something. On a different note, our communication with you is rather unreliable.</p>
<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> We've noticed ourselves. My last call ended before I hung up. I figured you'd order us to ask the tree about the anomalies, so that is what we did.</p>
<p><strong>Director:</strong> At least I can still rely on you.</p>
<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> (<em>static</em>) what's next?</p>
<p><strong>Director:</strong> We need to see if the <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/three-moons-initiative-hub">Initiative</a> is still active. Please explore until you encounter anything relevant to them. Your connection is getting choppy again.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:x-large;"><strong>L4</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> Director? You read me?</p>
<p><strong>Director:</strong> I read you Dune.</p>
<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> We passed the Marble Hall and…it was surprisingly calm. No chaos like there is usually, just a lot of destruction.</p>
<p><strong>Director:</strong> Have you found anything related to the Three Moons like we told you to?</p>
<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> Yes. Or what's left of them. Saw a couple figures walking down the coast of the sea, and talked with them.</p>
<p><strong>Director:</strong> And what did they tell you?</p>
<p><strong>Ω-16 Dune:</strong> I think (<em>static</em>) them to tell. (<em>Call terminates abruptly</em>)</p>
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<p>The following is a voice message received from Janet Spiegel's<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-403601-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-403601-4')">4</a></sup> SCP-2922 channel on 10/07/2060.</p>
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<p><em>Hello, SCP Foundation. Remember me? I'm the person who helped you discover this place. I still have not overcome what you did to me, you cowards. But it doesn't matter now, does it? We know what is happening as much as you do. Since it is the result of the pataphysical, not even the afterlife will survive.</em></p>
<p><em>We tried reaching the alternate universe, after we started collapsing because of the occurrences. None of our drones ever returned, nor ever transmitted anything. Our people continued to suffer, as the occurrences destroyed our cities and environments, and we burned more resources trying to stop it. You cannot rely on us to save you as we've tried, because we're just as helpless as you.</em></p>
<p><em>All the entities we've communicated with claim that the land is being forgotten. I don't know what it means, but I don't see any sign of the destruction stopping. All I can say is this. We who've reached the final test, are all set to die again.</em></p>
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<p>12/07/2060<br/>
<strong>To:</strong> O5 Command<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> SCPs</p>
<p>Greetings.</p>
<p>As of me writing this, several anomalies at Site-19 are displaying strange behavior. Others are losing their anomalous properties altogether. While there are more anomalies affected by the latter, it is better to be safe than sorry. I would like to ask the O5s to request all MTFs in proximity with Site-19 to be on high alert for containment breaches.</p>
<p>~Director Moose</p>
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<p>12/07/2060<br/>
<strong>To:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re:SCPs</p>
<p>This is the fifth report O5 has received about anomalies behaving abnormally or neutralizing themselves. Several site directors have reported anomalies being spontaneously destroyed. As such, you are not alone. Despite everything we need to keep tabs on, O5 will hold a meeting about the situation. In the meantime, we'll alert MTFs about the situation.</p>
<p>~O5-1</p>
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<p>12/07/2060<br/>
<strong>To:</strong> O5 Command, SCP-7996 team<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Meeting</p>
<p>Greetings.</p>
<p>Initially, I planned to show a proposal for our next project in this mail. This was to retry what the Three Moons Initiative was doing, which was to send something into U7k to get direct observation on the source of the pataphysical transmissions.</p>
<p>However, this new trend of our anomalies being changed or destroyed is notable, as it cannot be coincidental with the observation we made during Project OGLE. As I've mentioned before, we the Foundation and our anomalies are the focus of the pataphysical transmissions. The note we recovered from the first exploration gave a name to, well you know. Also, SCP-2922 kept malfunctioning during our exploration of Corbenic. What I'm saying is that even the anomalies we're not directly containing are being affected.</p>
<p>I would like to state something else in this message as I'm typing. I think this needs to be a group effort; it ought to be one anyway. We the Foundation need to learn to set aside differences when situations get serious. I would like O5s to organize a meeting with significant Groups of Interest if possible. We need to gain insight into the situation from their perspective.</p>
<p>~Dr. Cygnus</p>
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<p>On 15/07/2060, the O5 Council agreed to organize a meeting with Groups of Interest willing to attend. The meeting was held on 25/07/2060, at Site-14. The day before the meeting, the following note was found in Dr. Cygnus's office.</p>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Addendum-5:</strong></span> GoI meeting 438
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<p>25/07/2060</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-large;"><strong>GoI MEETING 438 TRANSCRIPT</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Meeting summary:</strong> Meeting held between the Foundation, the Global Occult Coalition, the Horizon Initiative, and the Church of the Broken God regarding SCP-7996</p>
<p><strong>Representatives:</strong> O5-13, Dr. Michael Cyguns (Foundation); Agent Fredrik Karlheinz (GOC); Katherine Fitzrovia (Church of the Broken God); Tariq Dwokin (Horizon Initiative)</p>
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<p><strong>Karlheinz:</strong> Look at this! The Foundation who takes pride off containing the destructive has failed, and now asks us for help!</p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> We did not bring you here to bicker. Our situation is serious, and we need to remain competent. What is your input, Fitzrovia?</p>
<p><strong>Fitzrovia:</strong> I'm afraid I have to concur with the GOC. We've tried to bring humanity together for centuries, to bring civilization to levels never imagined before, and all the Foundation has done is hindered our efforts, for the sake of preserving this pity thing called normalcy!</p>
<p><strong>Karlheinz:</strong> And directing their research towards containing the bizarre, instead of researching methods of preventing the apocalypse countless times over!</p>
<p><strong>Dwokin:</strong> Stop! Recognize the situation! We need to settle our differences for now, and find a solution! That is what the Foundation told us.</p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> Thank you, Dwokin! Now everyone, please sit down.</p>
<p><strong>Fitzrovia:</strong> Can I be sure this guy won't shoot me the first chance he gets, given our relations?</p>
<p><em>Fitzrovia points at Dwokin.</em></p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> This meeting is secure, no one here has weapons. Now, let's get to business.</p>
<p><em>O5-13 looks through her papers.</em></p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> Reality is becoming less real. I'm sure you're all aware of that. The consequences are already troublesome, and are set to become more severe. And it is all because of our story. We bring you here to share each other's perspectives, and come up with potential solutions for the issue.</p>
<p><strong>Fitzrovia:</strong> Well our solution is to put more pressure on us to rebuild Mekhane. Our progress with collecting parts has been increasing in the past few decades. Mekhane will…</p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> I apologize for cutting you off, but I wouldn't focus on gods for this. Their extent is only within our universe and its dimensions, and pataphysical has authority over all that.</p>
<p><strong>Fitzrovia:</strong> Are you sure about that? Think about the technological advantages Mekhane will gift us.</p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> We don't know if we can get advantages over the entity creating us. Besides, we already tried technological solutions without success.</p>
<p><strong>Fitzrovia:</strong> Maybe you didn't try hard enough.</p>
<p><strong>Karlheinz:</strong> How about destroying the entity?</p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> Actually, we are working on a project to send a probe into the pataphysical universe to get observations on this entity. But as far as we're concerned, creating all the nuclear bombs and mass-destruction weapons we can is dumb and short-sighted.</p>
<p><strong>Karlheinz:</strong> That's not us! I know that's how the Foundation views the GOC but—</p>
<p><strong>Dwokin:</strong> Let me throw in the Horizon Initiative's two cents. We concur with Fitzrovia, in that our faith is what we're relying on to get through this.</p>
<p><strong>Karlheinz:</strong> I thought we made it clear that our gods won't be useful, and that they are within the boundaries of pataphysical creation.</p>
<p><strong>Dwokin:</strong> Faith isn't something with borders, and we are staying on our path. We'll agree with whatever plan is decided on.</p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> The problem is that we don't have a plan right now. May I ask now…what efforts have you made in attempts to stop the destruction of reality?</p>
<p><em>A five second period of silence occurs.</em></p>
<p><strong>Karlheinz:</strong> We tried removing the distortions. It didn't work. Not to—</p>
<p><strong>Fitzrovia:</strong> Well of course not! They dissolve by themselves after some time!</p>
<p><strong>Karlheinz:</strong> At least we tried! And what have you done? Tried rebuilding your god like you have for centuries?</p>
<p><strong>Fitzrovia:</strong> Which is a better course of action than doing something that is essentially nothing!</p>
<p><strong>Karlheinz:</strong> Nothing?! You're the one who has wasted time rebuilding a useless deity!</p>
<p><strong>Fitzrovia:</strong> How dare you blasphemy Mekhane! You—</p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> Stop! We <em>cannot</em> continue this behavior! By the sounds of it, no one here has put enough serious effort into hindering the loss of reality, or SCP-7996. We at the Foundation have done research into the pataphysical transmissions, gathered information on the situation, and made attempts to stop all this!</p>
<p><strong>Karlheinz:</strong> And what have you found?</p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> Intriguing discoveries. Among others, we have noticed that the transmissions have become less intensive—</p>
<p><strong>Karlheinz:</strong> We already know how that works! What about fixing?</p>
<p><em>Dr. Cygnus emerges from his seat in the right corner of the room.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Cygnus:</strong> Mind if I…say something?</p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> I thought I told you I would do the talking.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Cygnus:</strong> But you don't know everything. And I have something that needs addressing.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Cygnus lays a set of papers on the table.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Cygnus:</strong> Our ideas for preventing a total reality collapse have all been based on one assumption. That we are in a story, and our author is writing the apocalypse. This apocalypse comes in the form of Hume levels dropping, and the occurrences of SCP-7996 as a result. Our most recent studies of the transmissions and data gathered from Project OGLE, suggest a concerning new reality.</p>
<p><strong>Karlheinz:</strong> What's that?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Cygnus:</strong> We are fading away from the entity, as it thinks less and less about us.</p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> What are you talking about Cygnus?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Cygnus:</strong> Most of us can only hold onto interests for limited periods of time. This also looks to be the case for the entity.</p>
<p><strong>Fitzrovia:</strong> Could you describe what your most recent studies are?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Cygnus:</strong> The data gathered from the anomalies within pocket dimensions visited during Project OGLE follow the theme of forgetting or losing interest. While it may not be our most reliable data, considering how little we trust those anomalies, something I can confirm is that pataphysical transmissions are getting less intensive. The percentage of reality they contribute to is…decreasing.</p>
<p><strong>Fitzrovia:</strong> And what does that mean for us?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Cygnus:</strong> [sighs] Nothing good.</p>
<p><strong>Fitzrovia:</strong> What exactly?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Cygnus:</strong> We are not living in an apocalyptic story. We are living at the end of our story's timeline. We're on the last chapter, without the author even knowing or caring.</p>
<p><em>Five seconds of silence occur.</em></p>
<p><strong>Fitzrovia:</strong> What do you mean?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Cygnus:</strong> The author is <em>losing interest</em> in our universe. The author is forgetting about our story, and is moving on from us. Within a few years, as the interest in the anomalous and the Foundation grows weaker, our universe will continue to become less real.</p>
<p><strong>Fitzrovia:</strong> But…you said the pataphysical transmissions are contributing less to reality. What if the small part of the universe controlled by…itself will replace the fewer transmissions?</p>
<p><em>Dr. Cygnus shakes his head.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Cygnus:</strong> I wish it were that way. But judging by our situation, it appears that the replacement for the missing transmissions is…<em>nothing</em>. Just…a void. And 15% of reality which won't be able to sustain us.</p>
<p><em>Six seconds of silence occurs.</em></p>
<p><strong>Fitzrovia:</strong> Well. Fuck.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Addendum-6:</strong></span> PTCM Update</p>
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<p>15/09/2060<br/>
<strong>To:</strong> SCP-7996 team<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> PTCM</p>
<p>Greetings y'all.</p>
<p>Some major breakthroughs at the Pataphysics Department. We recently completed the construction of highly advanced pataphysical transmission sensors, which are able to detect pataphysical transmissions and their consequences in a given area. In other words, we can now discern the 15% of reality which is unaffected by transmissions.</p>
<p>Any thoughts on this being useful?</p>
<p>~Dr. Scranton</p>
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<p>15/09/2060<br/>
<strong>To:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span style="color: red"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[email protected]</span></span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re:PTCM</p>
<p>That is actually great! I think the PTCM may become useful again for our next projects. I'm still on the comedown from our meeting back in July, so I haven't given them enough thought.</p>
<p>~Dr. Cygnus</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Addendum-7:</strong></span> Final O5-ruling</p>
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<p>21/03/2061</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-large;"><strong>ENDING OUR STORY</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">by Dr. Michael Cygnus</p>
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<p>After more time and effort and use of the knowledge we've gathered over the past year, the Foundation has pushed forward three proposals for fixing SCP-7996 and the loss of our reality. It's now up to the O5s to vote on what is best. Despite me being initially hesitant to have input from them, I'd say they've followed our developments for enough time to make crucial decisions. They still govern the Foundation's decision-making after all.</p>
<p>All three of the proposals involve the PTCM, and I wish I could say they are all carefully planned out. In actuality, they fall more into the category of 'so absurd they might just work.'</p>
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<li><strong>Project SETFREE:</strong> This project intends to close the window to U7k and cut off pataphysical transmissions altogether, via the use of still existing ontokinetic anomalies. This, in theory, will separate our universe from the pataphysical universe. This goes off the assumption that the pataphysical transmissions came to our universe after it was created, and began dictating occurrences within it. It is uncertain if that is the case, but what isn't at this point.</li>
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<li><strong>Project ACTION:</strong> This is a rework of Project REVERSE. It uses a similar method but on a larger scale. The intention is to motivate our author to write and think about us again. As the Foundation and the anomalous have been the primary focus of our story, we need to go beyond an organization that locks objects into boxes, writes a few documents about them, and prevents others from getting to them. This is again going off an assumption, which is that author began losing interest in us because of our monotonous ways.</li>
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<li><strong>Project CHANGE:</strong> Finally, there is the plan I've been the head of developing, Project CHANGE. We've only shared its details with the O5s, and this is by far the one they are the most skeptical about. One of them even called it completely nonsensical. Never thought I'd hear the O5s dis our work like that. And while I do understand their skepticism, in that it seems to be a dead end, I'm proud of the accomplishment. With regard to my bias, this is the one I vouch for.</li>
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<p>Regardless of my bias, it is for the O5s to decide, and they have to decide soon. The SCP-7996 occurrences are becoming more frequent by the month and harder to cover up. There are already drafts for a BM "Broken Masquerade" scenario, where we lift the veil and expose ourselves.</p>
<p>As tired and burnt out as I am, which is expected given how straining conducting research at the Department is, I have not lost myself. I am both confident and hopeful in our organization. This is more true than ever now, considering we have these three projects; <em>and maybe, just maybe if we're lucky, we choose the happy ending.</em></p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-403601-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-403601-1')">1</a>. Interuniversal windows are transverses between two universes. It is theorized that these exist for pataphysical transmissions to enter through, and are otherwise not a reliable way of accessing U7k.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-403601-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-403601-2')">2</a>. Indirect pataphysical events result from direct pataphysical events, or events directly created by the pataphysical entity. Indirect events are far more abundant in the universe than direct events. It is theorized that indirect events are the consequence of vague or poorly-defined points or ideas made by the pataphysical entity, and chaos theorem.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-403601-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-403601-3')">3</a>. A lead designer of the PTCM</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-403601-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-403601-4')">4</a>. The first explorer of SCP-2922-C</div>
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<pre><span class="hl-code">/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">Foxtrot</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Sigma-9</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Theme</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">2022</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">Wikidot</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">Theme</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">By</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Liryn</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">FONTS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-var">@import</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">url</span><span class="hl-code">('</span><span class="hl-identifier">https</span><span class="hl-code">://</span><span class="hl-identifier">fonts.googleapis.com</span><span class="hl-code">/</span><span class="hl-identifier">css2</span><span class="hl-code">?</span><span class="hl-identifier">family</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">Montserrat</span><span class="hl-special">:ital</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">wght</span><span class="hl-var">@0</span><span class="hl-code">,800;1,800&</span><span class="hl-identifier">display</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">swap</span><span class="hl-code">');
</span><span class="hl-var">@import</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">url</span><span class="hl-code">('</span><span class="hl-identifier">https</span><span class="hl-code">://</span><span class="hl-identifier">fonts.googleapis.com</span><span class="hl-code">/</span><span class="hl-identifier">css2</span><span class="hl-code">?</span><span class="hl-identifier">family</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">Lexend</span><span class="hl-special">:wght</span><span class="hl-var">@700</span><span class="hl-code">;800&</span><span class="hl-identifier">display</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">swap</span><span class="hl-code">');
</span><span class="hl-var">@import</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">url</span><span class="hl-code">('</span><span class="hl-identifier">https</span><span class="hl-code">://</span><span class="hl-identifier">fonts.googleapis.com</span><span class="hl-code">/</span><span class="hl-identifier">css2</span><span class="hl-code">?</span><span class="hl-identifier">family</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">JetBrains</span><span class="hl-code">+</span><span class="hl-identifier">Mono</span><span class="hl-special">:ital</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">wght</span><span class="hl-var">@0</span><span class="hl-code">,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&</span><span class="hl-identifier">display</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">swap</span><span class="hl-code">');
</span><span class="hl-var">@import</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">url</span><span class="hl-code">('</span><span class="hl-identifier">https</span><span class="hl-code">://</span><span class="hl-identifier">fonts.googleapis.com</span><span class="hl-code">/</span><span class="hl-identifier">css2</span><span class="hl-code">?</span><span class="hl-identifier">family</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">Fira</span><span class="hl-code">+</span><span class="hl-identifier">Code</span><span class="hl-special">:wght</span><span class="hl-var">@400</span><span class="hl-code">;700&</span><span class="hl-identifier">display</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">swap</span><span class="hl-code">');
</span><span class="hl-var">@import</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">url</span><span class="hl-code">('</span><span class="hl-identifier">https</span><span class="hl-code">://</span><span class="hl-identifier">fonts.googleapis.com</span><span class="hl-code">/</span><span class="hl-identifier">css2</span><span class="hl-code">?</span><span class="hl-identifier">family</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">Sofia</span><span class="hl-code">+</span><span class="hl-identifier">Sans</span><span class="hl-special">:ital</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">wght</span><span class="hl-var">@0</span><span class="hl-code">,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&</span><span class="hl-identifier">display</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">swap</span><span class="hl-code">');
</span><span class="hl-var">@import</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">url</span><span class="hl-code">('</span><span class="hl-identifier">https</span><span class="hl-code">://</span><span class="hl-identifier">rsms.me</span><span class="hl-code">/</span><span class="hl-identifier">inter</span><span class="hl-code">/</span><span class="hl-identifier">inter.css</span><span class="hl-code">');
</span><span class="hl-var">@import</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">url</span><span class="hl-code">('</span><span class="hl-identifier">https</span><span class="hl-code">://</span><span class="hl-identifier">fonts.googleapis.com</span><span class="hl-code">/</span><span class="hl-identifier">css2</span><span class="hl-code">?</span><span class="hl-identifier">family</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">Figtree</span><span class="hl-special">:wght</span><span class="hl-var">@800</span><span class="hl-code">;900&</span><span class="hl-identifier">display</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">swap</span><span class="hl-code">');
</span><span class="hl-var">@import</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">url</span><span class="hl-code">('</span><span class="hl-identifier">https</span><span class="hl-code">://</span><span class="hl-identifier">fonts.googleapis.com</span><span class="hl-code">/</span><span class="hl-identifier">css2</span><span class="hl-code">?</span><span class="hl-identifier">family</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">IBM</span><span class="hl-code">+</span><span class="hl-identifier">Plex</span><span class="hl-code">+</span><span class="hl-identifier">Sans</span><span class="hl-special">:ital</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">wght</span><span class="hl-var">@0</span><span class="hl-code">,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&</span><span class="hl-identifier">display</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-identifier">swap</span><span class="hl-code">');
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">VARIABLES</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
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/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">VARIABLES</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Core</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
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/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">VARIABLES</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Color</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Accents</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
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/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">VARIABLES</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">BetterFootnotes</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
--</span><span class="hl-reserved">fnColor:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">VARIABLES</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Info</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
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--</span><span class="hl-reserved">linkColour:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#EDEDED</span><span class="hl-code">;
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/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-rendering:</span><span class="hl-code"> optimizeLegibility</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">div#container-wrap</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#content-wrap</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--page-font), var(--ui-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--page-font-size)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">strong</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">tt</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-source</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">pre</span><span class="hl-code">,
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--mono-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">ol</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">p</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-underline-offset:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">40</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
:</span><span class="hl-special">:selection</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Clicky</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">links</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a.newpage</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:visited</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:visited</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a.newpage</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:visited:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:visited:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-hover-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-decoration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.1</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">patch</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">for</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">sidebar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">media</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">collapsibles</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">ACS</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">info</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">and</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ayers</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">module</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">so</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">doesn</span><span class="hl-code">'</span><span class="hl-identifier">t</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">override</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-folded</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-unfolded-link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.fa-info</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.media</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.danger-diamond</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.info-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-folded</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.info-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--linkColour) !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">160</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--header-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">letter-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">900</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> -</span><span class="hl-number">0.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> fit-content</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--header-title)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--header-subtitle)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font) !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">700</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--misc-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">26</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.35</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">block</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">uppercase</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div#extra-div-1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">160</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">7</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">absolute</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--logo-img) </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">30</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">no-repeat</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">130</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-repeat:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">no-repeat</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">50</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">50</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">z-index:</span><span class="hl-code"> -</span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">opacity:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--logo-opacity)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Search</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">text</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#efefef</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc(var(--page-font-size) - </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input.empty</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#999999</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">absolute</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">47</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">15</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">white</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li.sfhover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFF</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.83</span><span class="hl-code">) !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">230</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-indent:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">justify-content:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.mobile-top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">left:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Login</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Info</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#login-status</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">19</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#login-status</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#login-status</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 767</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.printuser</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.printuser</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.printuser</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">img.small</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">18</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">18</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-image:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 767</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.printuser</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">img.small</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> translate(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#my-account</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 767</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#account-topbutton</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Side</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.open-menu</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">white</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (min-width: 768</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.6</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.6</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">18.75</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">left</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">s ease-in-out</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">direction:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">rtl</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">left</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.resources</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.media</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#interwiki</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">direction:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">ltr</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.resources</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.heading</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--misc-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#cfcfcf</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">9</span><span class="hl-string">pt</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">800</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">uppercase</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Blockquotes</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">Custom</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Divs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.15</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#f7f7f7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">dashed</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#f7f7f7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.35</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.35</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#f7f7f7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">500</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">9</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">9</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.note</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#afafaf</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.round</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Headings</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">Titles</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-title</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.meta-title</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">800</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#3b3b3b</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> fit-content</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-title</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.meta-title</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#breadcrumbs</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.pseudocrumbs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">800</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#3b3b3b</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">800</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.footnotes-footer</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.title</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#3b3b3b</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">800</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Rate</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Module</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.creditRate</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#bbb</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.fa-info</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.fa-info</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#bbb</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-points</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rateup</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.ratedown</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rateup</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.ratedown</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rateup</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.ratedown</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inline-block</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Rate</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Module</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Author</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Label</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.authorlink-wrapper</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
--</span><span class="hl-reserved">author-top-adjust:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
--</span><span class="hl-reserved">author-bottom-adjust:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
--</span><span class="hl-reserved">author-right-adjust:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--base-font-size)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Side</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anchor</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> sticky</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 1290</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Image</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">img</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.1</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">right</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">15</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.imagediv</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">only</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">screen</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">and</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 600</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block.block-right</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tables</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Base</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">td</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">12</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#bfbfbf</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">td</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.35</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tables</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Customization</span><span class="hl-code"> (</span><span class="hl-identifier">Table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Coloring</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">System</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tables</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Customization</span><span class="hl-code"> (</span><span class="hl-identifier">Table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Coloring</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">System</span><span class="hl-code">) > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Headings</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">Image</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Captions</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#E0FFD4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#D8ECF4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FDF6D7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFDFCD</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFCFCF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">146</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.tableb</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.wiki-content-table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-collapse:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">separate</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tables</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Customization</span><span class="hl-code"> (</span><span class="hl-identifier">Table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Coloring</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">System</span><span class="hl-code">) > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Other</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colored</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Divs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">224</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">212</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">226</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">244</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">245</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">189</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">223</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">205</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">207</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">207</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">218</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tabs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Base</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-image:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-decoration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tabs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Customization</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-wrap:</span><span class="hl-code"> wrap</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc(</span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code"> - </span><span class="hl-number">.125</span><span class="hl-code">rem)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">UNSELECTED</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#efefef</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">HOVER</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code">,
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Listitem</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">relative</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-grow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-bottom</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">align-items:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">justify-content:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.35</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.75</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> ellipsis</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">hidden</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">white-space:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">nowrap</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code">,
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Selection</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-grow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">SELECTED</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:active</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">WORDS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">NO</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">BROKEY</span><span class="hl-code">. </span><span class="hl-identifier">CROQ</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">HAS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">SPOKEY</span><span class="hl-code">. </span><span class="hl-identifier">and</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">other</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">things</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">word-break:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">normal</span><span class="hl-code"> !important
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.avatar-hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#main-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-tags</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Dustjacket</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Assets</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.fancyhr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">hr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">vw </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(var(--bright-accent), </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-source:</span><span class="hl-code"> url('https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/local--files/component:dustjacket-theme/wl_hr.png')</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-repeat:</span><span class="hl-code"> round round</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-slice:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">500</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">500</span><span class="hl-code"> fill</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.fancyborder</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">vw </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image:</span><span class="hl-code"> url('https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/local--files/component:dustjacket-theme/wl_border.png') </span><span class="hl-number">600</span><span class="hl-code"> round</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">vw</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Collapsibles</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-decoration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">underline</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-special">:not</span><span class="hl-code">(</span><span class="hl-identifier">.licensebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">.info-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">.default-col</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-decoration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">white</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">7</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">9</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--base-font-size)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.4</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.4</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inline-block</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-special">:not</span><span class="hl-code">(</span><span class="hl-identifier">.licensebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">.info-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">.default-col</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(var(--accent), </span><span class="hl-number">0.7</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">ACS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Adjustments</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.top-left-box</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">.item</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anom-bar-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.1</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anom-bar-container</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anom-bar-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), Inter, </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.acs-extra-1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.acs-extra-2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.acs-extra-3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.acs-extra-4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), Inter, </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anom-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">.top-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Woed</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Adjustments</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.scale</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.item1</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">uppercase</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">letter-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.scale</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.class1</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.9</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">letter-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.scale</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
--</span><span class="hl-reserved">woedbar-class-bar-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">table.edit-page-bottomtable</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">12</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#lock-timer</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">115</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">textarea</span><span class="hl-code">,
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ccc</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#a3a3a3</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#a3a3a3</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">120</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#who-rated-page-area</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#who-rated-page-area</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.4</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-var">@keyframes</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">loading</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
0% </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> rotate(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">deg)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.owindow.osuccess</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.owindow</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.content</span><span class="hl-special">:nth-child</span><span class="hl-code">(2)></span><span class="hl-identifier">img</span><span class="hl-special">:nth-child</span><span class="hl-code">(1) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.2</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#262a39</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.15</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.btn.btn-primary</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.buttons</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">input.button</span><span class="hl-special">:not</span><span class="hl-code">(</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-quotes">"</span><span class="hl-string">submit</span><span class="hl-quotes">"</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">cursor:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">pointer</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-diff-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-preview-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-draft-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-continue-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ccc</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-number">14</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-cancel-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-diff-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-preview-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-draft-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-continue-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#eaeaea</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-continue-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.3</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-continue-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-cancel-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.3</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-cancel-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#757575</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.fncon</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.fncon</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--page-font-size) !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.hovertip</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">input.checkbox</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-history</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#h-perpage</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">cursor:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">pointer</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">textarea</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#breadcrumbs</span><span class="hl-code">,
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">110</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">REDUCED</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MOTION</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ACCESSIBILITY</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (prefers-reduced-motion: </span><span class="hl-identifier">reduce</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">::</span><span class="hl-identifier">before</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">::</span><span class="hl-identifier">after</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">animation-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.001</span><span class="hl-code">s !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">animation-iteration-count:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.001</span><span class="hl-code">s !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">@MEDIA</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 850</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">h2:</span><span class="hl-code">:before {
font-size: </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
}
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 700</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">h2:</span><span class="hl-code">:before {
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">8.8</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">90</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 620</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">h2:</span><span class="hl-code">:before {
font-size: </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.15</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">8.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">90</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
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<p>SCP-7997 Canning Machine, c. 1980.</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> The <a href="/secure-facility-dossier-site-106">Department of Procurement and Liquidation</a> will attempt to acquire all outstanding debt and the entirety of shares of SCP-7997 in a gradual process. The Departments of Financial Esoterica and Tactical Theology will perform continual risk assessment during this process.</p>
<p>If no adverse anomalous effects are detected, liquidation of SCP-7997 shall proceed post-acquisition.</p>
<p>The anomalous effects of SCP-7997 corporate votes and agents shall be subject to ongoing misinformation campaigns.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7997, or "the company", is Brachistone Shoe Polish Company, a publicly-traded specialty shoe polish manufacturer which achieved apotheosis on July 23rd, 2021.</p>
<p>SCP-7997 was founded in 1977 in the United States of America as a specialty provider of high-quality shoe polish for fetish footwear. The value of the company is uncertain; SCP-7997 does not have a quoted stock price on major equity exchanges but was listed as over-the-counter pink-sheet stock starting in 2009. SCP-7997 is illiquid; share trades on average four times a year at prices ranging between $1 and $10.</p>
<p>Over 60% of SCP-7997 is owned by corporate officers ("C-Suite") of the company. The remaining 40% is estimated to be held by several hundred individuals, such as retail investors and former members of the company.</p>
<p>SCP-7997 has avoided regulatory scrutiny for the majority of its existence due to its small size, specialized industry, and <a href="/goc-supplemental-arad">minimal use of thaumaturgy</a>.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> Therefore, the exact processes that led to SCP-7997's apotheosis are unknown. JTF Chi-2 ("Unto Caesar"), a joint task force of the Departments of Financial Esoterica and Tactical Theology, theorize that internal SCP-7997 corporate processes, employee actions taken on behalf of the company, or a combination of such fulfilled the criteria to serve as an apotheosis ritual. The nature of these actions is currently unknown. It is believed that the apotheosis of SCP-7997 was not an intentional decision by members of Brachistone but rather the result of a series of random fortuitous events.</p>
<p>SCP-7997 possesses an outsized metaphorical font of divine power (referred to in various cultural traditions as <em>numen</em>, <em>kami</em>, <em>mana</em>, etc.). This power can be exerted locally for a wide variety of reality-warping applications, but over extended ranges the power can only be exerted in relation to SCP-7997's domains. SCP-7997's spheres of divine influence appear to be shoe polish manufacturing, fetish gear maintenance, and naphtha<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> distillation. For example, employees of SCP-7997 are capable of reconfiguring their workspaces at will (e.g. matter synthesis and manipulation). However, outside of the SCP-7997 primary office and specialty shops, the matter manipulation capabilities of SCP-7997 have only been detected in cost-free dominatrix boot repair and anomalously efficient petroleum distillation.</p>
<p>The Foundation is aware of several corporations with anomalous capabilities. The internal functions of SCP-7997 are opaque; SCP-7997's classification as a deific entity stems from qualitative comparative analysis:</p>
<ul>
<li>The internal structure of SCP-7997 remains corporate; it has not adopted the characteristics of a church, temple, or other religious or otherwise non-corporate hierarchy (See <a href="/scp-4985">SCP-4985</a> for examples of an anomalous corporation with significant cultural alteration). The previous corporate culture of Brachistone Shoe Polish Company has been preserved, including self-professed "long-standing values" of "speaking up". No new indicators of corporate malfeasance have been detected post-apotheosis.</li>
<li>SCP-7997 does not appear to have agency of its own. SCP-7997 possesses a divine godhead but does not appear to have a greater agenda beyond the goals of its corporate officers and shareholders. Unlike <a href="/scp-1442">SCP-1442</a>, there is no evidence SCP-7997 is sentient.</li>
<li>SCP-7997 has achieved noospheric dominion over the process of shoe polish manufacture with minor dominion over related domains. The most immediate effects are that all 70 employees of SCP-7997 become abnormally knowledgeable and competent with regards to aspects of shoe polish manufacture pertaining to their job titles. For example, production line engineers develop an innate sense of how many batches can be produced daily, and accountants are aware of the exact market value of shoe polish at any time. However, this knowledge is not retained upon departure from the company, suggesting that even if employee actions were involved in SCP-7997's apotheosis, the divine power is vested in the company itself and not in the individuals comprising it.</li>
<li>After Witching Hour (00:00-00:59 local time) of July 23rd, 2021, thaumaturgically-potent corporate actions performed as part of the corporate functions of SCP-7997 stopped producing any residual EVE radiation<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>, instead manifesting irregular Akiva<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> bursts. This is analogous to a mage-king/god-king phase transition, in which a humanoid Reality Bender or Thaumaturge<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup> achieves apotheosis and becomes a divine entity<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup> (Leiner et al. 2009).</li>
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<p>The following table defines common terms in corporate finance and explains observations of these functions in the context of SCP-7997.</p>
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<div class="table_data" data-label="Term">Employee</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="Conventional Definition">An individual hired by a business to perform specific duties as part of a job in exchange for compensation.</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="SCP-7997 Function">Individual employees perform functions associated with SCP-7997's domain. Each possesses a miniscule fraction of SCP-7997's power that can only be applied for purposes associated with their job duties e.g. SCP-7997's "Logistics Representatives" increase the efficiency of petroleum distilleries they order raw naphtha from, and "Public Relationship Managers" produce repair instructions for specialty adult equipment that violate Conservation of Mass using divine power. It remains unclear whether employees are consciously creating anomalies.</div>
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<div class="table_data" data-label="Term">C-Suite Officer</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="Conventional Definition">High-level executives, responsible for corporate strategy and management.</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="SCP-7997 Function">Corporate officers of SCP-7997 are endowed with a greater proportion of SCP-7997's power and are capable of exercising this power in less predictable ways. They can be viewed as analogous to intercessionary saints or deific epithets and are capable of performing "miracles". For example, Brachistone CFO Sally Terrafino recently anomalously increased the demand for Brachistone Shoe Polish without also decreasing price, in violation of the Law of Supply and Demand.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-7')">7</a></sup></div>
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<div class="table_data" data-label="Term">Bonds (Debt)</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="Conventional Definition">A company borrows money by selling a bond and promises to repay the amount borrowed along with a contractually defined interest rate, given by a fixed schedule with a defined endpoint. A bond owner is a lender to the company. In the case of bankruptcy, bond holders are paid first.</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="SCP-7997 Function">Holders of SCP-7997 bonds display increased brand loyalty, an intensely personal relationship with the company, and an extreme reticence to sell the bonds. These bonds continue to pay a financial coupon as normal. By analogy with corporate finance, SCP-7997 bonds may convey ownership of SCP-7997's divinity, thus explaining holders' deeply personal relationship with the company. To date, it is unclear if this analogy extends further.</div>
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<div class="table_data" data-label="Term">Stock (Equity)</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="Conventional Definition">Shares of ownership of a company. A stockholder is entitled to a company's earnings, liquidation proceeds, or voting power proportionate to the number of shares owned.</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="SCP-7997 Function">Owners of voting shares of SCP-7997 may direct larger applications of SCP-7997's divine ability. To date, this power has been used to grant executive compensation in the form of longevity and good health, make wearers of shoes polished with Brachistone products walk 10% faster, and erase a competing shoe polish brand from collective memory.</div>
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<p><strong>Addendum: Most Current Research</strong></p>
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<h6 id="toc0"><span>FOR INTERNAL DISTRIBUTION ONLY</span></h6>
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<em>SCP-7997 Working Documentation</em><br/>
<em>JTF Chi-2 ("Unto Caesar")</em><br/>
<em>Provisional lead: <a href="/mountainous-essophysics">Dr. Ezekiel Yang, Financial Esoterica</a></em><br/>
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<h3 id="toc2"><span>Further Avenues of Research</span></h3>
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<p>SCP-7997 is currently a unique phenomenon. However, the stochastic condensation of its apotheosis suggests that another such event could occur without prior indication, though the failure of such an event to occur for the hundreds of years since the birth of the modern corporation suggests it is incredibly unlikely.</p>
<p>The brand recognition of Brachistone is extremely limited. Despite this, traditional academics and business leaders have already begun to notice its anomalous performance; embedded Foundation assets in academic and trade publications have rejected multiple papers analyzing SCP-7997.</p>
<p>It is believed that nobody understands how SCP-7997 achieved apotheosis, and business process security policies have prevented detailed investigations. By a stroke of good fortune, Brachistone Shoe Polish Company does not have a dedicated division for esoteric market research. However, we believe that several major corporations, several of which are experienced in augmenting their competitive advantage via esoteric means, are currently attempting to recreate corporate apotheosis.</p>
<p>Previous corporate meddling in esoteric affairs has had significant adverse effects. The <a href="/scp-570">1999 deconceptualization of all ingestible liquids except for a proprietary soft drink</a> was achieved without the benefits endowed by divinity; should a corporation with the experience and will to exploit divine power successfully attain apotheosis, a CK-Class Restructuring Scenario would likely follow. It was fortunate that the SCP-7997 phenomenon happened to a relatively innocuous company. Further research will focus on adapting reliable existing deity management procedures developed by the Department of Tactical Theology for corporate deities.</p>
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<p>The following are under ongoing research. Joint Task Force Chi-2 ("Unto Caesar"), comprised of subject matter specialists from the Department of Financial Esoterica and the Department of Tactical Theology, have provided a set of hypotheses to these corporate phenomena likely to arise during the course of containment. As this is a developing containment matter, several corporate events have multiple speculated theological analogies.</p>
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<div class="table_data" data-label="Conventional Definition">A company owned or controlled by a parent company. SCP-7997 does not have subsidiaries as it is a relatively small company.</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="SCP-7997 Theorized Function"><strong>1.</strong> Avatar or Incarnation. A deity taking material form. However, SCP-7997 may already qualify as an incarnation of a deity. Research is ongoing on whether any existing gods of shoe polish manufacture, fetish footwear, and/or naphtha synthesis have recently taken incarnate form.<br/>
<strong>2.</strong> Demigod. The part-divine offspring of a deific entity. A subsidiary of SCP-7997 would presumably have dominion over increasingly specific subset of shoe polish manufacture and/or fetish footwear and/or naphtha synthesis, or have dominion over these domains within a certain geographic area.</div>
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<div class="table_data" data-label="Term">Embezzlement</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="Conventional Definition">A type of financial fraud; someone entrusted with a company's funds misuses them for non-authorized purposes.</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="SCP-7997 Theorized Function">It is unclear whether misuse of SCP-7997's resources is possible, as no embezzlement or similar crimes have been reported to regulatory authorities since July 23rd, 2021. Theoretically, such acts may result in divine retribution. Injuries suffered by individuals related to SCP-7997 are currently being monitored.</div>
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<div class="table_data" data-label="Term">Corporate Raid</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="Conventional Definition">An entity buys a large stake in a corporation and then uses shareholder voting rights to influence the company to take measures to increase share value, often at the expense of long-term company prospects.</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="SCP-7997 Theorized Function">It is unclear whether a conventional takeover of SCP-7997 is even possible by non-deific entities. Should a deific entity attempt to take control of SCP-7997, the resulting conflict is theorized to be akin to Theomachy or war amongst gods, after which the loser is often sundered and cast into darkness in traditional narratives.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-8" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-8')">8</a></sup></div>
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<div class="table_data" data-label="Term">Financial Default</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="Conventional Definition">The failure to pay back a loan or a bond in accordance with its contractual terms.</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="SCP-7997 Theorized Function">Should this come to pass, holders of SCP-7997 bonds will likely feel a sense of abandonment. It is extremely unclear what circumstances might cause this. The company might cease to exist in a traditional bankruptcy, or the deific entity of SCP-7997 might abandon its domain. Until more is learned about the nature of SCP-7997 nothing conclusive can be said.</div>
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<div class="table_data" data-label="Term">Liquidation</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="Conventional Definition">The process by which a company is terminated. The assets and property of the company are redistributed to other entities, and the company ceases to exist as a legal entity.</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="SCP-7997 Theorized Function"><strong>1.</strong> Should the divine essence of SCP-7997 arise from the possession of a material asset, and the new owner inherits the apotheotic state. As the Foundation currently possesses several such assets, the acquisition of an additional one is not expected to have adverse effects on the Foundation's metaphysical status or impose undue burdens to containment.<br/>
<strong>2.</strong> Successful deicide.</div>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. Per SEC Rule 0-33<em>i</em>, corporations that emit less than 500 Caspers/year are not subject to regulatory reporting requirements on any thaumatological rituals used; 1000 Caspers/second is usually necessary for successful ritual activations.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. A petroleum derivative used in shoe polish.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Spectral radiation emitted by thaumaturgical acts.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. Particle associated with deific and religious entities.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. Type Green or Type Blue under GOC Unified Thaumatology Terminology.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. Type Black under GOC UTT.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-7')">7</a>. Financial Esoterica specialists would like to note that this is not evidence of anomalous activity in and of itself but included for contextual purposes.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-8"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-8')">8</a>. Tactical Theology specialists note the extant alternative archetype of the dying-and-rising deity may lead to unforeseen complications.</div>
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<td><a href="/mountainous-essophysics">Mountainous Essophysics</a></td>
<td>Rating: 87</td>
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<td><a href="/taking-the-reinz">Taking The Reinz</a></td>
<td>Rating: 84</td>
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<td><a href="/insurance">Insurance</a></td>
<td>Rating: 83</td>
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<td><a href="/ecce-insurgo">Ecce Insurgo</a></td>
<td>Rating: 83</td>
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<td><a href="/garfield-timeline">Garfield Timeline</a></td>
<td>Rating: 80</td>
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<td><a href="/unreal-sushi">alex thorley dreams of sushi.</a></td>
<td>Rating: 79</td>
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<td><a href="/muddy-skies">Muddy Skies</a></td>
<td>Rating: 71</td>
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<td><a href="/life-can-be-a-surprise">Life Can Be A Surprise</a></td>
<td>Rating: 65</td>
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<td><a href="/miau-miau-asheworth-kun">Miau Miau, Asheworth-kun</a></td>
<td>Rating: 64</td>
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<td><a href="/man-on-a-mission">Man on a Mission</a></td>
<td>Rating: 61</td>
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<td><a href="/the-smog-wastes-of-neoamerica">Lampeter Registrar Entry: The Smog-Wastes of NeoAmerica</a></td>
<td>Rating: 57</td>
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<td><a href="/capslock-collusion">CAPSLOCK COLLUSION</a></td>
<td>Rating: 56</td>
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<td><a href="/teamwork">Teamwork</a></td>
<td>Rating: 55</td>
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<td><a href="/the-phlegmfont">The Phlegmfont</a></td>
<td>Rating: 47</td>
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<td><a href="/the-arcana-institute-of-xerophylla">The Arcana Institute Of Xerophylla</a></td>
<td>Rating: 43</td>
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<td><a href="/we-live-in-a-society">WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY</a></td>
<td>Rating: 42</td>
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<td><a href="/cheesus">Cheese Is Risen</a></td>
<td>Rating: 41</td>
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<td><a href="/the-road-to-arcana">The Road To Arcana</a></td>
<td>Rating: 38</td>
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<td><a href="/three-lessons-for-endless-night">Three Lessons for Endless Night</a></td>
<td>Rating: 37</td>
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<td><a href="/but-never-trees">But Never Trees.</a></td>
<td>Rating: 36</td>
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<td><a href="/names-stricken">Names Stricken</a></td>
<td>Rating: 33</td>
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<td><a href="/ghost-signal">Ghost Signal</a></td>
<td>Rating: 29</td>
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<td><a href="/thereven-germination">THEREVEN: GERMINATION</a></td>
<td>Rating: 28</td>
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<td>Rating: 26</td>
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<td><a href="/spc-6500">SPC-6500: INFINITESIMAL</a></td>
<td>Rating: 152</td>
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<td><a href="/spc-1981">SPC-1981: RONALD REAGAN SHARKED UP WHILE TALKING</a></td>
<td>Rating: 99</td>
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<td><a href="/spc-105">SPC-105: WORLD IRIS</a></td>
<td>Rating: 87</td>
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<td><a href="/spc-179">SPC-179: GLORIOUS BEACON</a></td>
<td>Rating: 84</td>
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<td><a href="/spc-1258">SPC-1258: CERULEAN GLOVE</a></td>
<td>Rating: 80</td>
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<td><a href="/hist-327-comparative-mythology-of-mekhanism-and-naelkae">HIST.327: Comparative Mythology of Mekhanism and Nälkä</a></td>
<td>Rating: 76</td>
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<td><a href="/project-proposal-2007-012">Project Proposal 2007-012: "A Life Well Lived"</a></td>
<td>Rating: 72</td>
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<td>Rating: 70</td>
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<td><a href="/milkssiah">The Milkssiah</a></td>
<td>Rating: 62</td>
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<td><a href="/a-wandsman-in-a-vegas-cathouse">A Wandsman in a Vegas Cathouse</a></td>
<td>Rating: 52</td>
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<td><a href="/1-staar-cuttt-2-5">1 Staar Cuttt 2 5</a></td>
<td>Rating: 45</td>
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<td><a href="/a-wandsman-in-the-greaze-lands-of-kansas">A Wandsman In The Greaze Lands Of Kansas</a></td>
<td>Rating: 43</td>
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<td><a href="/spc-166">SPC-166: CERISE CERES</a></td>
<td>Rating: 42</td>
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<td><a href="/spc-1548">SPC-1548</a></td>
<td>Rating: 39</td>
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<td><a href="/spc-cn-985">SPC-CN-985: FIST CONTACT</a></td>
<td>Rating: 32</td>
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<td>Rating: 108</td>
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<td>Rating: 51</td>
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<td><a href="/qui-lactis">NIGHTFALL: Qui Lactis</a></td>
<td>Rating: 40</td>
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<td><a href="/scp-6301">SCP-6301</a></td>
<td>Funky Finn's Children Happy Hour</td>
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<td><a href="/scp-6447">SCP-6447</a></td>
<td>Sinners' Symphony</td>
<td>Many.</td>
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<td><a href="/scp-6483">SCP-6483</a></td>
<td>The Polar Express</td>
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<td><a href="/scp-6542">SCP-6542</a></td>
<td>Virgin Dairy 2: SECOND CHURNING</td>
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<td><a href="/scp-6596">SCP-6596</a></td>
<td>8 Mile: The Beast of Lust and Hatred Born</td>
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<td><a href="/scp-6760">SCP-6760</a></td>
<td>Better Luck Next Time</td>
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<p>by <a href="/anactualcrow">AnActualCrow</a></p>
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<div class="top-left-box"><span class="item">Item#:</span> <span class="number">7998</span></div>
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<div class="level">Level2</div>
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<div class="class-category">Containment Class:</div>
<div class="class-text">declassified</div>
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<div class="class-category">Secondary Class:</div>
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<div class="class-text">none</div>
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<div class="class-text">none</div>
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<div class="danger-diamond"><a href="/classification-committee-memo">link to memo</a><br/>
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<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="grandmaster.png" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-7998/grandmaster.png"/>
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<p>Foundation recruitment ad featuring SCP-7998-1 instance Idris Elhassan.</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Due to a lack of knowledge regarding SCP-7998's origin, containment is currently deemed impossible. Due to SCP-7998’s widespread and continuous effect on all DNA-based life, containment of SCP-7998-1 instances has necessitated the Lifted Veil Protocol.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7998 is a probabilistic phenomenon which greatly increases the likelihood of extreme anomalous mutation in organisms. Mutated organisms are referred to as SCP-7998-1. This is most common in humans, of which 0.3% are SCP-7998-1 instances. The likelihood of 7998-influenced mutation is directly correlated with similarity to the human genome. This means that organisms that are less genetically related to <em>homo sapiens</em> are less likely to exhibit anomalous mutations.</p>
<p>In the decades following SCP-7998's initial appearance, SCP-7998-1 instances have become integral to all aspects of Foundation's operations. Approximately 70% of adult human SCP-7998-1 instances are employed by the Foundation, with the remaining 30% of instances largely consisting of individuals with "low-value" mutations.</p>
<p>The integration of -1 instances with the Foundation has significantly improved effectiveness across all departments. Lifted Veil Protocols have resulted in more robust and cost-efficient methods of capturing and containing anomalies. The use of -1 instances with immortality, regenerative abilities, or the ability to clone themselves has made the need for D-Class personnel obsolete. Anomalous research has greatly accelerated, with over 5% of mainlist anomalies being reclassified as "Gödel"<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Gödel-class anomalies can be explained using anomalous science.</span>. Additionally, the severity and frequency of containment breaches have been steadily decreasing over the last 50 years.</p>
<p>Notable SCP-7998-1 instances include:</p>
<p><tt>Maya Whitney (no codename):</tt> Retroactively classified as a -1 instance, Dr. Whitney is a humanoid reptile who began working for the Foundation in 1982. Whitney's abnormally long lifespan allowed her to work for 79 years before retiring in 2061. Genetic testing indicates that she's the oldest known -1 instance, being born over 50 years before SCP-7998's widespread appearance. The implications of this are under research.</p>
<p><tt>Fong Fú Wen (“Worldwalker”):</tt> Previously classified as a hostile anomaly, Ms. Fong was recently hired by the Foundation to assist in securing anomalies. Small, fluid-filled organs within her wrists allow her to create "portals" that can be used to instantly travel long distances.</p>
<p><tt>Idris Elhassan (“Grandmaster”):</tt> Dr. Elhassan’s non-Euclidean brain structure leads him to frequently design unorthodox (yet effective) containment solutions to high-priority anomalies. It also renders him incapable of differentiating music from randomly assorted sounds and results in a condition similar to narcolepsy.</p>
<p><tt>Ernest (“Dr. Henderson”):</tt> An immortal shapeshifting silverback gorilla. Hostile and highly dangerous. Containment efforts are ongoing.</p>
<p><tt>Sasha Ivanovich (“Archmage”):</tt> Due to abnormal bone growth, Mr. Ivanovich’s skeleton is covered in thaumaturgic runes that allow him to fly, withstand extreme heat/cold, and communicate with the dead (without the use of <a href="/scp-5370">conventional methods</a>).</p>
<p><tt><span style="opacity: 0.1;">████████ ████</span> ("O5-3"):</tt> The Foundation's primary public spokesperson. Due to an antimemetic anomaly involving O5-3's social mannerisms, their anomalous properties cannot be fully understood.</p>
<p><tt>Raphael De Santi (no codename):</tt> See below.</p>
<p><strong>Expanded Profile – Raphael De Santi:</strong> Born on May 11, 2050, Dr. De Santi has a golden moray eel in place of of a left arm. The eel<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Informally known as “Lefty.”</span> is approximately 76cm long and terminates at De Santi’s left shoulder. <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Lefty</span> The eel’s brain is connected to De Santi's, resulting in them sharing attitudes towards their environment. For this reason, personnel should not feel threatened by De Santi’s presence. The eel will not harm them.</p>
<p>Dr. De Santi is a level 3 Foundation researcher and the primary editor of the SCP-7998 file. Using himself as the primary subject, he has begun researching the experience of SCP-7998-1 individuals.</p>
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<div class="collapsible-block-folded" style="display:none"><a class="collapsible-block-link" href="javascript:;">Experimental Results</a></div>
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<div class="collapsible-block-unfolded-link"><a class="collapsible-block-link" href="javascript:;">Experimental Results</a></div>
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<li>Dr. De Santi cannot speak with eels or other aquatic life.</li>
<li>Dr. De Santi cannot breathe underwater or hold his breath for an abnormally long time.</li>
<li>The shared attitudes between De Santi and his eel arm occasionally cause him to spend time in dark and sheltered spaces (e.g., underneath tables). This results in negative social and emotional consequences for De Santi.
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<li>Days where De Santi's behavior is significantly affected by the eel's brain are called "Eel Days." For most of his life, De Santi dreads these days.</li>
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<li>Dr. De Santi cannot perform at the level of his anomalous colleagues, despite graduating at the top of his class at University College London.</li>
<li>Dr. De Santi cannot produce large electric charges like an electric eel.</li>
<li>Dr. De Santi is treated like he's the stupidest person in the room.</li>
<li>Dr. De Santi can eat food using the eel. It does not know how to drink water. This is completely useless.</li>
<li>Dr. De Santi does not know which is worse:
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<li>School, where everything was expected of him.</li>
<li>Work, where nothing is expected of him.</li>
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<li>Dr. De Santi hates his coworkers.</li>
<li>Dr. De Santi does not know if eels are capable of hate.</li>
<li>One day, De Santi will drive for 5 hours to the beaches of Western Italy. There, he will cut off his arm so that the eel may return to the sea.
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<li>Moray eels cannot survive in Mediterranean waters.</li>
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<h1 id="toc0"><span><tt>EDITS AWAITING APPROVAL</tt></span></h1>
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<p>Edited by Doctor Raphael Fernando De Santi<br/>
PhD in bioengineering<br/>
SCP Foundation Researcher<br/>
Clinically depressed<br/>
Not that any of it matters anymore</p>
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<div class="collapsible-block-folded"><a class="collapsible-block-link" href="javascript:;">Access SCiPNET Email? One (1) new message!</a></div>
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<p><strong>To:</strong> <span class="wiki-email">ten.pics|itnasedr#ten.pics|itnasedr</span><br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span class="wiki-email">ten.pics|ivelm#ten.pics|ivelm</span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Potential transfer</p>
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<p>I just saw your edits to the SCP-7998 file. See me in my office when you clock in tomorrow.</p>
<div style="font-size: 0.9em; font-style: italic; opacity: 0.8; color: firebrick; margin-top: 1rem;">
<p>Miriam Levi, PhD<br/>
Head of Public Relations (Europe)<br/>
Clearance Level 5</p>
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<div class="bbox"><span style="font-size:125%;"><strong><tt>Personal Relations Archive</tt></strong></span><br/>
<strong>Source:</strong> Security camera<br/>
<strong>Location:</strong> Office of Doctor Miriam Levi<br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> 04/10/2081</div>
<p><em>(De Santi opens the door to Levi's office. Levi is drumming her fingers on her desk. Her hair, along with most of her office supplies, are floating weightlessly in the air.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> Mister— doctor De Santi. Please take a seat.</p>
<p><em>(De Santi sits. He points at a pen floating next to him.)</em></p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Is this… this is normal, right?</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> Oh, yes! That's just a bit of a nervous habit. It's been a long day. Long few days, actually.</p>
<p><em>(Several pens fall to the ground. The other objects remain suspended.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> Sorry my office is such a mess.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> It's okay.</p>
<p><em>(De Santi looks at a small succulent floating above the desk. His focus returns to Levi.)</em></p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> You wanted to talk about my editing?</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> Yes. I saw you talk about how… disconnected you felt from the other faculty, and I thought you might be more suited to work in another department.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> You're demoting me.</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> No, I'm not removing you from your position. And I'm not 'politely asking for you to resign'. I'm giving you a choice, and a lot of the information surrounding that choice is classified.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> I'm confused. If it's classified, how would I know what to choose?</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> I can't give the exact figures, but I have the authority to give you partial, temporary clearance.</p>
<p>By the time the Foundation showed itself to the public, it had already prepared a PR campaign. They were the ones doing the dirty work necessary to keep everyone safe. The PR team focused on the tech innovations, published some research on amnestic therapy for trauma. When people had doubts, they showed off all the scary things the Foundation had captured and killed over the years. The Foundation had been doing the right thing, but it took a lot of work to get the public to believe it.</p>
<p>It worked, eventually. It was clear how much they needed us, especially when we knew more about the superheroes than anyone else.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> How much was there to know? The current file hardly says anything.</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> We had experts in anomalous science, books for disciplines the rest of the world didn't know <em>existed.</em> That also meant we were pretty successful when it came to hiring superheroes. We kept hiring them for decades. For the past couple of years, the other shoe's been dropping. We spent decades making ourselves look friendly, and now they're going back to thinking we're mysterious.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> So we're losing funding?</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> We're losing respect. People are trying to deal with anomalies themselves instead of calling, governments are pushing back more and more. The public doesn't see us as <em>human</em> anymore — they're starting to think we're just freaks caging freaks.</p>
<p>But you, you get how they feel. You know what it's like to be… to be…</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Normal?</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> I— if that's what you want to call it.</p>
<p><em>(The office supplies have settled on the floor. The corner of a document rises and falls to Levi's breath.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> I'm asking you to join PR. Talk to some civvies, write some articles, make a real difference. We can media train you for the press.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> … I think you've made a mistake.</p>
<p><em>(De Santi begins to stand. Levi takes her arms off the desk.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> If you just listened to what I'm offering—</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> I'm here for research! Do you think I applied to this damn place so I could do interviews?</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> I know, I know. I realize why you're here. You joined the Foundation to make a difference. And I'm trying to give you that. I know this isn't what you had in mind, but it's— you're cut out for it. Much more than I am.</p>
<p>Much more than you're cut out to sit in a lab.</p>
<p><em>(De Santi and Levi stare at each other.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> You don't have to come to a decision now. Just think about it, okay?</p>
<p><em>(De Santi stands up, then pauses.)</em></p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> I will.</p>
<p><em>(De Santi leaves. The desk falls two inches, its legs crashing against the floor. Levi relaxes in her chair.)</em></p>
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<br/>
<strong>Addendum:</strong> Janet Eisner, an SCP-7998-1 instance who doesn't need to sleep, has been rapidly outpacing her coworkers. Working for between 14 and 18 hours a day, Eisner has been promoted several times, advancing from a new hire to head researcher over the span of 10 months. This process typically takes 3-7 years. Most recently, she's <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">surpassed Dr. De Santi's push for promotion and</span> become the head researcher for SCP-7998.</p>
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<p><strong>To:</strong> <span class="wiki-email">ten.pics|ivelm#ten.pics|ivelm</span><br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span class="wiki-email">ten.pics|itnasedr#ten.pics|itnasedr</span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> PR Job</p>
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<p>I'll do it.</p>
<div style="font-size: 0.9em; font-style: italic; opacity: 0.8; color: firebrick; margin-top: 1rem;">
<p>Raphael De Santi, PhD<br/>
Primary Editor (SCP-7998)<br/>
Clearance Level 3</p>
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<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="Overseer3.png" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-7998/Overseer3.png"/>
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<p>Foundation recruitment ad featuring an SCP-7998-1 instance.</p>
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<div class="bbox"><span style="font-size:125%;"><strong><tt>Personal Relations Archive</tt></strong></span><br/>
<strong>Source:</strong> Studio camera, wireless earpiece<br/>
<strong>Location:</strong> Site-91 main sound stage<br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> 07/07/2082</div>
<p><em>(Raphael De Santi and O5-3 are sitting at a news desk. Both of them have earpieces. Film crew members walk in and out of frame.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Broadcast Director Marte Coletti:</strong> Everyone get ready, we're recording in 60 seconds.</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> <em>(Over De Santi's earpiece.)</em> You still nervous?</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Of course I am! How am I supposed to do well with someone like this?</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> I'm having Overseer Three interview you <em>because</em> they're experienced. They can walk you through it so that they're practically interviewing themselves. Don't think of this as a competition. It's more like… A dance. They know how to lead, so you just need to follow.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> I don't know how to dance.</p>
<p><strong>Coletti:</strong> Recording in five, four…</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> You'll learn.</p>
<p><em>(The studio goes silent.)</em></p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Weird World: your best source on the latest anomalies. I'm your host, <span style="opacity: 0.8; font-size: 0.9em;"><tt>[OVERSEER THREE]</tt></span><span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">No other name is, was, or will be perceived.</span>. Today I'm here with Raphael De Santi. De Santi has an ability that isn't as flashy as some of the SCP Foundation's other staff members, but is still certainly worth noticing. Tell us about your arm, Raphael.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Well, it's… I actually only have one arm.</p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> Oh?</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> For my whole life, I've had an eel instead of my left arm.</p>
<p><em>(De Santi hesitates, then rolls up his left sleeve.)</em></p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> Fascinating. And does it have a mind of its own?</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> It does, sort of. Lefty and I — I named it Lefty, by the way — we each have our own brains. But those brains are connected, so we think similar things. If I'm friends with you, then Lefty is also going to be friends with you.</p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> And he doesn't bite friends?</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> No.</p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> Well, in that case, I really hope we become friends! But seriously, I've been spending time with Raphael — and Lefty! – and they are absolutely lovely. If any of you want to see him, he'll be traveling around and educating people on anomalous marine biology. Tell us some more about that.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Well, I'm going to be visiting Italy and Spain with a team from later this month all the way until February. We're partnering with several aquaria and setting up booths to talk to people about the different types of anomalous fish we see here at the SCP Foundation. We want to be fun for all ages and really connect with everyday people.</p>
<p><em>(The light on O5-3's earpiece briefly glows. Their expression changes slightly to an indeterminate emotion. They return to their previous expression.)</em></p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> That sounds fascinating. I know you're very busy planning and preparing for your trip, so I'm not going to keep you here for too long. We all know that safety is a top priority here in the Foundation — but how did we keep people safe back when we hardly knew anything about anomalies? Here's Lana Sadler's wonderful documentary <em>A Brief History of Containment.</em></p>
<p>…</p>
<p>Cut the film. This is an emergency.</p>
<p><em>(Coletti stops filming.)</em></p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> What— was that live?</p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> None of it's live, kid. Even if it was, you've got bigger things to worry about. There was an accident in Northern Spain — some crazy boar got into a crowd. Worldwalker caught the boar, but she teleported some people with it.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Are they oka—</p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> Twelve injured, seven of which were teleported. No deaths. Yet.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Christ.</p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> It's the last thing we need, especially now.</p>
<p><em>(O5-3 rubs his face.)</em></p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> There's really no silver lining to this. For your sake, I hope you're as good as Miriam says you are.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Wait, you aren't sending me after this.</p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> You're on PR. We need all hands on deck. I'm sending everyone after this.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> But I don't even know what I'm doing! I hardly have any training!</p>
<p><em>(O5-3 shrugs.)</em></p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> Guess you'll learn.</p>
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<h2 id="toc1"><span><span style="color: #c44343 !important;">INCIDENT REPORT</span></span></h2>
<p>On 07/07/2082, an anomalous boar made entirely of black marble was discovered in Bilbao, Spain. While it initially avoided large groups of people, Foundation efforts to catch the anomaly resulted in it fleeing into Bilbao's urban districts. As it grew increasingly confused and disoriented<sup><span style="color: #c44343;">[claim unverified]</span></sup>, it ran farther and farther into downtown Bilbao. Five civilians were injured as a result of this.</p>
Foundation agents struggled to move through the increasingly dense environment. Once agent Fong Fú Wen was sufficiently close to the anomaly, she created a portal connecting its position to the team's portable storage container (PSC). Due to the density of the crowd, seven civilians were also teleported to the PSC. All seven were injured. As of 08/07/2082, two are dead and one is in critical condition.</div>
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<p style="text-align: center;">CALLING MIRIAM LEVI…</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> Hello?</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> How screwed are we?</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> Wa— Raphael, it's 7 in the morning!</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> I'm too nervous to sleep. Lefty is <em>shaking</em>. I didn't even know eels could do that, and suddenly I'm supposed to be teaching biology while making everyone believe that the Foundation is some fantastic little—</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> Calm down! I'm still half-asleep, so I don't need you yelling in my ear.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Okay, okay, I'm sorry. I just don't know what to do.</p>
<p><em>(Levi sighs.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> I don't either. Read a book or go on a walk or something. I'm too tired to think of a motivational speech. Just… be yourself. I asked you to work for my department because you're more human than the rest of us. That's why you're scared of talking to people, while I’m scared of stranger things. Like floating someone’s kid too high or… dropping them.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> You worry about <em>that</em>?</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> I worry about other things too, but I've had a couple close calls like that. There are also floating knives, glass objects, that sort of stuff. Sorry, I'm talking too much.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> No, no, you're good… anyways, I'm going to let you go back to sleep.</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> Bye—you're going to do great.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Thanks. Goodnight.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">CALL ENDED</p>
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<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="worldwalker.png" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-7998/worldwalker.png"/>
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<p>Foundation recruitment ad featuring SCP-7998-1 instance Fong Fú Wen.</p>
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<div class="bbox" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size:125%;"><strong><tt>Personal Relations Archive</tt></strong></span><br/>
<strong>Sources:</strong> Several<br/>
<strong>Locations:</strong> Several<br/>
<strong>Dates:</strong> 09/07/2082 - 01/17/2083</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Hello, I'm Raphael De Santi.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> I'm Doctor De Santi.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> This is Doctor De Santi.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> And I'm here to answer all your questions about anomalies.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> What's your name?</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Miss Molina, I can assure you that Foundation researchers aren't grown in vats of chemicals. We're normal people who get hired, just like anyone else.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> No Mister Santaro, you don't need to be part animal to work at the Foundation. If you take a look at the other crew members, you'll see that I'm the only person who is part-animal.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> You said you wanted to know about "Parawatch?"</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> <em>(To Levi.)</em> Are those… Are they protesting <em>us</em>?</div>
<div class="interview"><em>(Raphael De Santi and Miriam Levi are sitting on the floor of a hotel room. A six-pack of beer sits between them. It's dark outside.)</em><br/>
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<strong>Levi:</strong> Another day…<br/>
<br/>
<strong>De Santi:</strong> Another disaster.<br/>
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<strong>Levi:</strong> Cheers to that.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> No, fish don't have a god. If they did, I wouldn't know about it.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> No, I promise he's not going to bite your chil… they're gone.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> The Foundation doesn't torture people. They don't steal homeless people and do unethical experiments. They used to use death row inmates, but they stopped doing that over 20 years ago.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Sorry, Parawatch isn't exactly in my field. You can try asking one of the other staff members.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Yes Luca, I know what your mother said, but I promise you the people in the Foundation are all very nice.</div>
<div class="interview"><em>(Raphael De Santi and Miriam Levi are sitting in the back of a van. A coffee pot and paper cups sit between them. De Santi stares into his cup.)</em><br/>
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<strong>Levi:</strong> More coffee?<br/>
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<strong>De Santi:</strong> Yeah, more coffee.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Oh, gigafauna are very interesting! Normal animals can't grow too big because of this rule called the square-cube law, but anomalous gigafauna…</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> I <em>am</em> normal. We're all more normal than you think.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Hey! Don't try to break that!</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Yes, I've done research, but I'm also on the PR team. That stands for "public relations"… No sir, we don't make propaganda films.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Wha— We don't eat babies! Where did you even get that idea?</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> You don't have to be a super-genius to work at the Foundation. Actually, most of us aren't anomalously smart at all. I had to study just as much as anyone else to get my degree.</div>
<div class="interview"><em>(Raphael De Santi is brushing his teeth in a hotel bathroom. He spits into the sink before looking at himself in the mirror. There are bags under his eyes.)</em><br/>
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<strong>De Santi:</strong> Halfway there.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> I'm not a monster. I'm just here to try and inform people.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> No, I don't know anything about Parawatch.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> I know you're worried. That's part of why I'm here: to tell you that we're much safer than you think we are.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> I… that's a personal question.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Ma'am—</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Sir—</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> If you're going to ask me questions about my work, feel free. If you're going to attack me with pointed questions, then I'm going to have to ask you to leave.</div>
<div class="interview"><em>(Raphael De Santi and Miriam Levi are on break. Levi lights De Santi's cigarette.)</em><br/>
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<strong>De Santi:</strong> Do you know what Parawatch is?<br/>
<br/>
<strong>Levi:</strong> Huh?<br/>
<br/>
<strong>De Santi:</strong> It feels like every other person wants to know about Parawatch. I've never heard of it.<br/>
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<strong>Levi:</strong> I think I remember reading an article about them. They were their own little organization of people capturing anomalies. Disappeared pretty soon after the Foundation went public.<br/>
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<strong>De Santi:</strong> Are you sure?<br/>
<br/>
<em>(Levi shrugs, then blows a cloud of smoke.)</em></div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> We have all sorts of crabs in containment. There's one that can talk to you, but all it says are chess moves. Apparently, it's very good.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Lefty hasn't bit anyone since I was twelve.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> They didn't experiment on me. They don't experiment on anyone who doesn't agree to it.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> —No, listen. We're not mad scientists. We're not human traffickers. We're not circus animals or ringleaders. We are researchers funded by your government. Any graduate school on the continent does work similar to what we do.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> We're wrapping up after the show, but I can talk to you more about how we track deep-sea animals if you stay.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Okay yes, our work does involve "monsters," but the methods and the research process are very similar to what you'd see in a grad school.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> … You know, I've thought about letting them experiment on removing him, but I don't think I want that. I— I like him. Kind of.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Thank you for stopping by.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Thank you for your questions.</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> Thanks, I hope you enjoyed it!</div>
<div class="interview"><strong>De Santi:</strong> And be sure to check out our website!</div>
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<div class="bbox"><span style="font-size:125%;"><strong><tt>Personal Relations Archive</tt></strong></span><br/>
<strong>Source:</strong> Security camera<br/>
<strong>Location:</strong> Office of Doctor Miriam Levi<br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> 01/19/2083</div>
<p><em>(De Santi and Levi are sitting on opposite sides of her desk. They're both resting their bodies on its surface. No objects are floating.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> Fucking hell.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> We did it.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Yeah. We brought things back around. Saved our part of the world.</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> I mean, you did most of it.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> You were supposed to disagree with me!</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> I'm kidding! I'm kidding — I couldn't have done anything if it wasn't for you.</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> Thank you. But I have to admit, you were pretty impressive out there.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Well, you were the one who trained me, so…</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> So nothing. I'm not stealing your credit on this.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> "On this."</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> You know what I mean. Everyone on the team did great things, I'm singling you out because you're so stubbornly against feeling good about yourself.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> I… Well… Okay.</p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> I want you to feel like a hero.</p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> … I will. Eventually. For now, I need some raw fish and a nap underneath my desk.</p>
<p><em>(Levi smiles.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Levi:</strong> Eel Day?</p>
<p><em>(De Santi smiles.)</em></p>
<p><strong>De Santi:</strong> Yeah, Eel Day.</p>
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<p>Sketch of the SCP-7999-3 species from the notes of Agent Basil Sias.</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> As SCP-7999 has already resulted in a partial Lifted Veil Scenario, Foundation efforts are to focus on declassifying the phenomenon and integrating SCP-7999-3 individuals into general society. These integration efforts are under the purview of Site-120's Integration Committee<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>. Likewise, Foundation diplomatic and communications groups are to maintain positive relations between SCP-7999's society and humanity.</p>
<p>No personnel are permitted to approach SCP-7999-1 without express approval from the O5 Council. All SCP-7999-3 individuals passing through SCP-7999-1 must be catalogued in an official record of arrivals and departures.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-7999 refers to the following interconnected anomalies:</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7999-1:</strong> A wormhole that manifested approximately 405,000 km from Earth on March 6th, 2027. This wormhole links the solar system to GN-z11, a galaxy within the Ursa Major constellation located approximately 32 billion light years from Earth. Thus far, all attempts to pass through this wormhole have failed.</p>
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<p><strong>SCP-7999-2:</strong> The exoplanet GN 667Cc,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> visible on the other side of SCP-7999-1. SCP-7999-2 is approximately 250,000 km from the wormhole as it appears within its local system.</p>
<p>SCP-7999-2 is approximately the same size as the planet Mars, with a gravitational force 0.364 that of Earth's. SCP-7999-2 maintains an atmospheric composition comparable to Earth's during the Carboniferous period.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup> SCP-7999-2 is largely aquatic, with approximately 85% of the planet's surface covered in liquid water. Details regarding the planet's surface are undergoing further research.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7999-3:</strong> The local intelligent civilization of SCP-7999-2, known locally as "Keradids". SCP-7999-3 individuals are hexapedal arthropods superficially similar to <em>Mantodea</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> with enlarged craniums. Their front limbs are capable of serving as both legs and arms, with a three-fingered structure at the end analogous to the human hand. SCP-7999-3 individuals range in size from 1-1.3 meters tall.</p>
<p>SCP-7999-3 are intelligent, with their civilization categorized as a Type II on the Kardashev Scale.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup> It is believed that it would take humanity over 10,000 years to reach a comparable level of technology at its current rate of development.</p>
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<p>"We truly were not alone!"<br/></p>
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<p>"Are they like us?"</p>
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"No, not at all. Fascinatingly, we bear few, if any, similarities. But such a thing does not matter. This discovery is a culmination of a lifetime… no, <em>several</em> lifetimes of work. And now we finally see. Now we finally know we truly were not alone in this universe."<br/>
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<p>"So what do we do next? Do we send them a message? Or do we wait for them to speak first?"</p>
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<p>SCP-7999-1 initially manifested approximately 405,000km from Earth, between the orbits of Earth and Venus. Due to its proximity to Earth, SCP-7999-1 was immediately visible to the naked eye across the northern hemisphere and parts of the southern hemisphere. The Foundation immediately began attempting to control the spread of SCP-7999-1 information via media control, the deployment of aerosolized amnestics, and the deployment of targeted memetics to remove humanity's ability to view SCP-7999-1 entirely. Investigation into SCP-7999-1 followed.</p>
<p>Within 12 hours of SCP-7999-1's initial manifestation, a series of 5 messages were rapidly broadcast across global radio networks. The Foundation employed Rosetta.aic<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup> to translate the messages. After 22 days of analysis by Rosetta.aic, the messages were successfully translated. All messages received translated to the following:</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 7999.2:</strong> March 28th, 2027</p>
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<p><em>We had been staring at the message on Rosetta's screen for nearly half an hour in complete silence. It had become a repetitive practice at this point, visiting this room to see if Rosetta had finally cracked the code. We knew she had the ability to, we knew such a thing was possible in theory, but neither I nor Asheworth really expected it to come through. A message, in plain English, from an alien civilization.</em></p>
<p><em>Asheworth was the first to finally speak.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Daniel Asheworth:</strong> …and that's all they said?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Basil Sias:</strong><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-7')">7</a></sup> I've run all of these messages through Rosetta more times than I can count, and this is all I'm getting back. Rosetta has a 99% confidence rating, and the only reason it isn't perfect is because of some errors made back when she first went online. I'm pretty confident in this translation.</p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> That's a lot of characters for such a short statement. What did the O5s have to say about it?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Initially? Flipped their shit about the fact that suddenly the entire planet's population could see an anomaly just sitting there in the sky. It's good it took a few hours for the messages to come in, because from what I heard they spent the time arguing over whether to knock out everyone on the planet and throw an antimemetic shield over the planet to keep pretending it wasn't there.</p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> Yeah, but what about <em>now</em>?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Well, it's why they came to me, and why I'm talking to you. We spoke for a bit. Er, well, I guess it was less speaking and more "talking them off the ledge". I reminded them about Site-120's efforts and that seemed to convince <em>most</em> of them to try something different. They want us to talk to them, and maybe even integrate them into our world.</p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> That's… surprisingly magnanimous of them.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> I'd regale you with the entire conversation but honestly it really wasn't that interesting. You know as well as I do that times are changing, Asheworth. The work you've all done here at 120 is proof that we can actually start taking those steps to lift the Veil, bit by bit. We're hitting the point where maybe, just maybe, humanity can stand to know the anomalous exists.</p>
<p><em>Asheworth cracked a smile.</em></p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> If O5 has approved it, then I'm all for it. Let's draft a response.</p>
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<p>After a series of messages transmitted and received through Rosetta.aic, the native civilization of SCP-7999-2 agreed to send a representative to meet with Foundation representatives. Due to humanity's inability to cross through SCP-7999-1, the SCP-7999-2 representatives agreed to meet at a Foundation Site on Earth. To ease the process of integration in advance of receiving representatives, the Foundation Integration Committee began declassifying initial SCP-7999 findings to world governments and the general public.</p>
<p>On April 3rd, 2027, two representatives from SCP-7999-2 arrived at Foundation Site-120. Each individual came equipped with specialized suits that allowed them to survive under Earth's environmental conditions. With their express consent, Foundation personnel installed Rosetta.aic into each suit to facilitate communication efforts. A record of interactions between Foundation agent Basil Sias and SCP-7999-3 is transcribed below.</p>
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<p><em>For several days we sent messages back and forth across the wormhole to one another with Rosetta as our translator. They were eager to talk—after receiving our initial response they sent "hello" back seven times in rapid succession. The conversations were extremely basic, relatively speaking. They wanted to know what we called ourselves, what our world was, what kind of life we were, and we asked the same in kind. Only so much can be accomplished through messages, however, so eventually we agreed to meet one another.</em></p>
<p><em>They sent an envoy, two members of their species they held in high regard. We met them with a hazmat team at first to ensure they were properly decontaminated before our meeting could start. They had arrived wearing specialized suits that allowed them to survive in Earth's atmosphere, and we took the opportunity to install a copy of Rosetta.aic into both to facilitate communication.</em></p>
<p><em>I was worried the meeting would be tense, or that we wouldn't know where to start. As soon as I entered, however, I was immediately rushed by one of their envoys who immediately began grabbing and tugging at my face. It kneaded at my cheeks and brushed its fingers through my beard, all with this sense of abject wonder and fascination.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7999-3-B:</strong> Look! They are soft and malleable, what a wonder! And upon their face, a chitinous material like our furred animals!</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Woah, uh, hello! Nice to meet you as well—</p>
<p><em>The other joined, tugging at my hair. They vocalized to one another with chittering, clattering sounds accompanied by them stomping their front legs. I mouthed a quiet "save me" to Asheworth, who simply smiled in response.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-7999-3-A:</strong> Truly fascinating, to think a furred animal could be capable of thought. And only four limbs!</p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> On behalf of the SCP Foundation, I would like to formally welcome you both to planet Earth. We do have a lot to discuss, so I ask that you two go ahead and join us at the table and let go of Agent Sias. Don't worry, you can start tugging at his face again in a minute.</p>
<p><em>Asheworth shot me a slightly uncomfortable smirk as the two continued their poking and prodding, now focused on my arms. I flipped him the bird.</em></p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> Before we begin anything, what should we refer to you both as? Right now our documentation refers to you all as SCP-7999-3-A and -B respectively, but honestly that's excessive.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7999-3-A:</strong> They ask for names? Very well. I am called Ketadanka<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-8" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-8')">8</a></sup>.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-7999-3-B:</strong> I am called Carteckan! Oh, Ketadanka, look! The limb is firm with some solid internal skeletal structure!</p>
<p><em>They continued chittering back and forth to one another as Asheworth attempted to maintain control.</em></p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> Thank you both. Now then, you were the ones who sent out those messages, correct?</p>
<p><strong>Ketadanka:</strong> That was myself, to be particular. While Carteckan was part of the team involved, I sent the message. Us… we are filled with joy that your species were able to respond.</p>
<p><em>Rosetta struggled to translate tone, even between familiar human languages. Even with that limitation I could tell Ketadanka was uncomfortable to some degree. It seemed stiff, overly formal. Despite that discomfort and formality, it was still more than willing to analyze me like a science experiment. In the moment I couldn't help but imagine a board meeting full of these guys talking business, rubbing their hands over one another.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> This is an amazing opportunity for us as well! Though, we do have to ask what the goal of that message was.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> The portal was opened between our worlds, and our opportunity to speak was presented. We have sent our message to many planets over the ages, but this was the first to respond. We wish to meet. The species here is the first one like us we have ever seen! I have been looking at this world from a distance since the portal opened, and wish to see what this planet holds, what the people here have created!</p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> So, are you hoping for a cultural exchange then?</p>
<p><strong>Ketadanka:</strong> Whatever it is that can be shown to us. We want to learn, and share in return, while we still have time.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> With the wormhole where it is, we can't really hide you guys from the world, nor should we. I think this is something we could both benefit from.</p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> We've been working towards <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/from-120-s-archives-hub" target="_blank">pulling back the Veil bit by bit</a>, but—</p>
<p><strong>Ketadanka:</strong> Veil?</p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> A technical term. It's what we call the separation between humanity, our species, and that we can't explain with science.</p>
<p><strong>Ketadanka:</strong> We are not sure we understand.</p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> I'm sure our representative can explain once we start. As I was saying, though, that wormhole effectively tore the Veil down in a night. While we could hide you away from the world, there's no real benefit to that for either of us. A cultural exchange is probably the best way for us to start understanding and introducing your society to our own. I'm all for it.</p>
<p><strong>Ketadanka:</strong> This is news that fills us with joy. We have already chosen Carteckan as the one who will represent us, if that is acceptable?</p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> That's perfectly acceptable! We're more than willing to show Carteckan around. Basil?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Yep, I can take point there.</p>
<p><em>I reached out a hand to Carteckan. It gazed back. Though it didn't emote the same way we did, I could tell it was confused. I reached its own hand out after a moment, and I grasped it in my own. Carteckan recoiled, yanking me into the table. I paused for a moment to catch my breath before laughing.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Here, we can use this as our first cultural exchange. This is a handshake.</p>
<p><em>I held my hand out once more.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> We use it to say hello.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan once again reached out its hand with hesitation, and I took it in my own. Carteckan flinched as I began to shake, before returning the gesture with equal vigor.</em></p>
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"Yes, I am aware of the risks involved here. That being said, is this truly an opportunity we can pass by? After all this time?"<br/>
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"We need to understand. This is not about pure scientific curiosity. It is a culmination of millions of lifetimes of work. Something that can finally allow us to die peacefully knowing that life lives on out there on the other end of the universe. To know that something will live on after we are gone."<br/>
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<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> What is it we are to see first?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> To be completely honest, it's difficult to really decide where to begin. Humanity is not a monolithic species—there's a myriad of cultures and societies to potentially show you, and each would be different. I've got approval to take you offsite, so the world's our oyster.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan chittered in response, rubbing its forelegs together. Forearms? I hadn't really figured out what to call the upper limbs where their hands were. At this point I had seen Carteckan walking using all six appendages, and trying to figure out analogous biology was proving to be a struggle.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Hm? Is something wrong?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> The voice that translates the words, I do not understand what it spoke. I understood "world" and "our", but what is "oyster"? And what does such a statement mean?</p>
<p><em>I chuckled.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Right, right. Sorry, I probably should avoid using idioms. "The world is our oyster" just means that we're in a position to take advantage of the opportunities life has to offer us. Humans have a lot of little expressions like that.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Oh! So this oyster means great opportunity! I could say that communications between our worlds is our oyster!</p>
<p><em>Carteckan chittered again, this time bobbing its whole body up and down. I laughed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Ketadanka was asking about the Veil earlier, right?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> This is correct. We were not understanding what was being described by Asheworth. Science can explain anything with enough time, can it not? For example, science can explain why humans have a skeleton inside their bodies instead of outside. Certainly there is nothing here that cannot be explained with study?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> I have something to show you first, that might help a bit.</p>
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<p>"…it is done. There they are. It is… beautiful."</p>
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<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> So what does this word "Veil" mean?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> By that we mean the Veil of secrecy. What we at the Foundation hide from the world.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan once again made that chittering sound, rubbing its appendages together.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> …did you people never hide away the things you couldn't understand?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> This is correct. What is being hidden away?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Well, there're certain rules to how the universe operates, right? Certain immutable truths that never change. Take this apple, for instance.</p>
<p><em>I grabbed an apple off of someone's desk as we walked by.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> It could be here, or it could be on your planet… what did you call it?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Nest is our home's name.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Right, it could be here or on Nest, but if I do this—</p>
<p><em>I dropped the apple, and we watched as it hit the ground and rolled away.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> It will fall. It'll fall slower on your world, sure, but it will still fall. Gravity is one of those constants, right? But what if something broke that rule, something that should be following it? What if I dropped the apple, and it floated away?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> We would need to catch it, so it would not leave.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> While that's true, that's not all there is to it. We would step in, and we would hide it away. That's what the Veil is for, to keep the things that break the rules of the world away from the public eye.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Why?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> I wish I had an answer for that. The Foundation's mission is Secure, Contain, and Protect. There's plenty of things here that are here for a good reason, things that would hurt a lot of people if we let them out. There's also a lot of things here that I… we wish we didn't keep secret to begin with. That's part of why Site-120 has been working on the Integration Project.</p>
<p><em>I stopped as we arrived at our destination. It was one of Site-120's classrooms, a school for the younger anomalous humanoids on Site. There were about 23 students in the room of varying shapes and sizes. Some could pass as your average 13-year-old, while others were barely recognizable as human. Each paid close attention to the Foundation agent at the front of the room, giving a lecture on global history.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> This is what I wanted to show you. This is a classroom, and there are places like this all over the world. They're where we take our young and teach them almost everything they need to know about being human. This one is different, though. Can you guess why?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> They are all what is referred to as anomalous, yes?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Right. Most of these kids have never left Site-120. Those that have were only outside as little kids and barely remember it. They're all here for different reasons, too. That one there? She's here because she can light fires with her mind. That boy over there? Only here because he can <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6033" target="_blank">summon a monster with a storybook.</a></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> What is it that they all have on their tables?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Those are books. Please tell me that you guys have at least had books at some point in your history.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Books… yes, I believe so. Many many years ago, long before I was born. Things with words inscribed in them, yes? Though I do not recall them looking like that.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Well, no matter what they look like, the same basic idea is there. These are things with words in them to pass on knowledge to the next generation.</p>
<p><em>We both sat in silence, watching the class. At one point the teacher seemed to direct the students to work on some group activity, with each student getting up and moving tables together. One student was left alone in the corner of the room for a moment, until they were motioned to join another group of kids. Carteckan hung its head, its wings vibrating.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Is something wrong?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> …no. I am merely thinking. I was going to ask if all humans had such wondrous abilities, but the truth that some are kept here while others are not answers the question. Why have we come here first?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> These kids are like you guys over on Nest. Part of the first anomalies that get to go past the Veil and join society at large. They're wonders, and wonders that finally get to see the rest of the world now that you all are here.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan tapped its front two legs rhythmically.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> I see! I see! What are we to see together next?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> There's a lot of world out there, but let's start with something simple.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 7999.5:</strong> April 5th, 2027</p>
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<p><strong>Barcelona, Spain</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Your flying machine was exceptional! Such a strange design, simplistic yet effective. What did the people call it again?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> An airplane.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Oh, the word does not translate, so I cannot pronounce it. I will simply call it the flying machine. Tell me more about it!</p>
<p><em>I smiled. Carteckan had been like this all night. Every little thing seemed to amaze it, from the intricate machinery of the plane itself to the fabric on the seats. I honestly felt like I was with a kid. It was hard to believe that the being in front of me was from a civilization nearly 10,000 years our senior.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> When did the people of this world create these machines? It must have taken such a long time!</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Well, the first successful flight was in 1903, a little over 120 years ago, though it wasn't until 1914 that the first commercial flights happened. Does that help?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> It is… challenging to understand the timeline. Our worlds do not have the same metrics. From our understanding, this planet is very slow to orbit its star. Nest is not; Nest orbits quickly but does not rotate as this world does.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Well, we define a day here as a 24-hour cycle. So… take that flight we had for example. That flight was about 3 hours, give or take a few minutes. A day is 24 hours, so we could repeat that flight 8 times exactly and we'd have a full day. Following so far?</p>
<p><em>It chittered in response and wiggled its fingers. I had to assume that meant yes.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> A year is about 365 days. If we had that flight… 2,920 times, it would be a full year.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan stopped in place, twitching its head back and forth with its arms held up. After a moment, it dropped its arms and opened its mouth.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> 120 years is…</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Yeah, it's a long time!</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> No! That is no time at all! The species here was able to master flight in such a short period of time? That period is so short that Sias must have hardly aged since then!</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Oh, I, uh, wasn't alive yet. I'm only 30 years old.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan stopped walking once more and flailed its arms about wildly, chittering.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Then Sias is but an infant! A child! So this is how Sias knew so much about the school!</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Carteckan… if we translated your age to Earth years, how old would you be?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> 1,743 years. I am aware I am very young, but please do not see me as unfit to be the envoy of my people.</p>
<p><em>We had finally left the airport at this point, about to take our first steps into public for the first time. I shielded my eyes against the sun as I looked out across the city. It was still early, so the streets were still fairly empty. While we weren't trying to keep Carteckan secret, it was best for us to start with a lower profile.</em></p>
<p><em>Barcelona. I figured this was the best place to bring Carteckan, it was a place I knew well. My father had grown up here, and I had lived here when I was really young. Being back was nostalgic, in its own way.</em></p>
<p><em>A group caught my eye. A family. I smiled seeing a small Guatemalan flag hanging from one of their bags. I thought of my mother, a proud Guatemalan woman who would gently guide me across these very streets the same way this group's mother did with her youngest.</em></p>
<p><em>I felt a slight breeze on my face. It was summer again.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Carteckan, see that group of people over there?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Yes. I see five people.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> If you added up the ages of everyone in that group, they wouldn't even equal to half your age.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> You lie! Certainly they are not all so young? Is the species composed of nothing but children and infants?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> You know, you figure out all the math questions and esoteric hypotheticals I give you pretty quick, so I'm surprised you haven't figured it out yet. Carteckan, those are adults. I'm an adult. Humans don't live much past 80 years on average.</p>
<p><em>By this point I was starting to understand its physical mannerisms. The reaction Carteckan gave to this information could be best described emotionally as "visceral disbelief" and physically as "I told my 3 year old that Elmo wasn't real". It was a flailing of nearly every limb it had, with each appendage moving about in what to a casual observer would appear to be haphazard motions. Those who were paying attention, however, would notice the specificity to each motion. Each arm and leg moving very intentionally to convey a meaning to a silent observer. Carteckan's people were as nonverbal as they were verbal, communicating with a language that no translator would ever catch.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> It's true, by the way. I'm not here to lie to you or trick you. You all are clearly long-lived, which isn't too shocking considering you orbit a red dwarf. Humans, however, are fleeting. We're here and gone in an instant.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> That moving vehicle there. How long ago did this species create it?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> 1886. About 141 years ago.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> The lights powered by electricity?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> 1879. 148 years ago.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> The species, how long has it existed?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Ooh, now that's a good question! We don't really know for certain, but our rough estimates say about 200,000 years ago.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan was silent once more, body completely still. When it did finally move, it was to glance over the city and watch the sunrise. Carteckan's eyes followed the cars as they passed, watching people as they crossed the streets.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> There are so many of you.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> And it's early. Most are still asleep.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> I must see more. Show me more.</p>
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<p>"How long do you think they've existed?"</p>
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<p>"Yes, but I wanted to speculate with someone else first. Consider it scientific inquiry."</p>
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"I would suppose based on their level of development… at least one million or so years? It is hard to tell for sure since we are at such different levels of development, but I think that is a safe guess based on what we know."<br/>
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<p>"Impressive."</p>
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"Like what was said prior, we can simply ask. They have been speaking with us for some time now. Should I send them a message?"<br/>
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<p>"Actually, that is not the question I wish to ask. Can we ask them to meet? I wish to know them better; I want to see what wonders they've created with my own eyes."</p>
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<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> What is this place?</p>
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<p><strong>Sias:</strong> "Parc de la Ciutadella". It's one of the larger green spaces in the city. I used to take my daughter here all the time, so I figured you might enjoy seeing it as well. There's a zoo to see some native Earth life, some architecture—</p>
<p><em>I was cut off by Carteckan rushing off towards a nearby tree. It was a young palm, likely recently planted based on how easily Carteckan could reach its fronds. It took a frond in its hand and gently ran a finger over it, before turning back to me. Carteckan's eyes remained fixed on me for a moment, before it looked back to the frond. I walked over.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> This vegetation. It is similar to something we have on Nest.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Really?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Yes. Though not the same color, and it does not hurt my hands when I touch it.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan raised its eyes, skittering over to another tree.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Yet this one is completely different. I have never seen structures like this on vegetation.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> That's a maple tree, I think. Those things you're rubbing at there are leaves.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan fell silent there. At first I thought something was wrong, until I noticed that a praying mantis had crawled from the tree to its hand. Its eyes fixated on the small bug.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Things here are so similar yet so vastly different at the same time. How can it be? A planet on the other side of the universe with such similarities.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Who can say? Pure chance?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> A wonder of existence. A creature like any other Keradid of our world, and yet…</p>
<p><em>Carteckan moved the mantis to its other hand.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Do you think, creature? Are you like us?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Sorry, but you probably won't get anything from it. There are a few things that can speak on Earth, but the only ones you're likely to meet out here are other humans.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan placed the mantis back onto the leaf.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Even if there are others here who can think, how lonely it must have been.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Hm? What do you mean by that?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> How lonely it must have been to be stuck to this planet, alone in your galaxy.</p>
<p><em>I wasn't entirely sure how to respond to Carteckan here. We stood in silence, watching the mantis walk across the leaf. This tree was one I'd walked by all the time before, not something I ever paid much mind to. By all means it's a standard tree, the kind that most of the population couldn't even name if you asked. In our silence, however, I put myself in Carteckan's place. I looked at the leaves on the tree, taking in the fact that each wasn't a uniform shade of green. Some were paler, almost yellow, while others were vibrant dark green. Some leaves held small insects, while others were still unfurling out, having only grown recently.</em></p>
<p><em>I plucked off a leaf and handed it to Carteckan. Carteckan took it, and held it up to its eyes. It was a strange sight—an advanced species marveling over a leaf like a kid. I smiled as we left for our next location.</em></p>
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<p>"How have things been so far?"<br/></p>
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<p>"Honestly? Words cannot describe it. They really are like us in many ways, but at the same time they're almost like children. I appreciate the things they seem so easily impressed by, but they don't seem to realize the true wonders of this world. I'm trying to show them, but they seem preoccupied with the simple things."</p>
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"Different perspectives. Just remember where we come from and where they come from. Our experiences shape what is important to each of us."<br/>
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<p>"While I am speaking, I need to ask. We have noticed, yes?"</p>
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"…yes, I've been monitoring the distance between both planets."<br/>
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<p>"How much longer?"</p>
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"Unsure as of right now. We still have time, but not as much as I would like. Just… be ready."<br/>
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<p>"How cruel the universe can be, to present us this opportunity and then rip it away in an instant."</p>
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<p><strong>Barcelona, Spain</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> What is that strange structure?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> "Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família", or simply "La Sagrada Familia". It's a holy site.</p>
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<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> A place of worship, then?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> It's nontraditional, but yes. It was under construction for over 100 years… though I guess that's not really impressive to you guys, is it?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Why is it shaped that way? It is very different from the other buildings I have seen so far.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan traced the outline of the structure with a finger.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Oh, well… the only way to really explain that would involve explaining the history of church architecture. Let's just say it's for artistic reasons.</p>
<p><em>It paused, listening to Rosetta translate my words. A familiar clicking of confusion followed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> That word did not translate.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Which word? Artistic?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Yes, that is the word. What does it mean?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Well, it's… shit, how do I explain the concept of art? Do you all not have art on Nest or something?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> I do not know.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> I guess you wouldn't, right. Art is… remember that leaf you stared at yesterday? The one with the mantis on it?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Yes! I remember it very well!</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Would you say that leaf was beautiful?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Beautiful? I suppose, yes, it was.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Art is when you create something beautiful for other people to see. But art can also be creating something ugly for people to see. It's like a commentary on something in the world, or society. God, I'm not sure how to explain this… take a look at the cathedral again. It's a work of art not just because it's pretty, but because of the history it represents. It's the work of dozens of architects combining their design in one massive collaboration, and it's a work that survived a civil war and disease. It's art because of what it represents, I guess.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Oh.</p>
<p><em>It was subtle, but Carteckan's body stiffened up ever so slightly at the mention of war and disease.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Here, follow me. I've got a better place to show you, and we can talk religion while we walk.</p>
<p><em>I lead Carteckan away from the cathedral. A crowd had begun to gather anyway, and I wasn't ready to start fielding questions about Keradids to a group of tourists.</em></p>
<p><em>After a few minutes of walking in silence, Carteckan started asking questions again. We spoke about religion—how humans believed different things, and that there were no universal beliefs about God or the divine.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Would it not be easier to believe in the same thing? Do these fundamental differences in thought not lead to conflict?</p>
<p><em>I told it that unfortunately, yes, it does lead to conflict. Considering its reaction to the last mention of war, I didn't elaborate further than that. I simply reminded it that humanity is not monolithic.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Everything I've shown you here so far? It would be completely different even just a few kilometers away in this same country. The further around the globe you move, the more different it is. Honestly, if I had to say, that's the greatest wonder of humanity. How different we all are.</p>
<p><em>We arrived at our destination at this point. A small art studio/cafe combo in the Raval neighborhood. I got us both a canvas and a set of paints, and set up in the plaza outside.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> What is it I should do here?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Simple. I'm going to paint you, and I want you to paint me. …Right, that word probably doesn't translate.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> No, that word is understood.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan grabbed a brush and dipped it in paint. Next thing I knew I had a stripe of blue down my arm.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> There. I have painted Sias. Is this what was called "art"?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> I suppose it could be, depending on who you asked!</p>
<p><strong>Cartekcan:</strong> I feel as if I am understanding art less and less the more we discuss it.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Here, let me show you. Hold still, I'll be quick.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan froze in place as I began sketching and painting on my canvas. When it was finished, I showed it the final product.</em></p>
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<div class="scp-image-caption show">Painting of Carteckan by Agent Basil Sias. Hover to enlarge.</div>
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<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Oh! It is me!</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> It is! This is what I meant before by "paint you". I recreated your image on the canvas. How does this make you feel?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> I feel joy. My hearts are beating with joy. This makes me feel… significant.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Good! That's what art is. Art is something that makes people feel something, or gets them talking.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Could I make art? Or are only certain humans capable?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Like I said earlier, depending on who you asked you've already created art by putting that blue paint on me. Real answer, though— anyone can be an artist. Give it a shot, try painting me on your canvas.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan grabbed the brush and paint once more. I sat still as it furiously painted with an intense expression on its face. Its arms were uncoordinated, and at many points it looked more like Carteckan was slapping the canvas with a brush rather than painting, but when it showed me the final product it beamed with pride. You could hardly tell what the painting was supposed to represent, looking like a haphazard splashing of colors that would make even the most abstract of contemporary artists blush, but Carteckan was pleased.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Is this art? Am I an artist?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Of course you are. This is wonderful work, Carteckan.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan removed the canvas from its easel and handed it to me.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Sias should keep this. A present from me, as a thanks for what it has done.</p>
<p><em>I took the canvas, and handed Carteckan mine in return.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> And you keep this, so you can remember when you started your art journey.</p>
<p><em>We got up to leave, but Carteckan immediately became distracted by a group of people in the streets.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> What is this?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Oh, right! I forgot that they were doing a tango demonstration today.</p>
<p><em>Someone turned on the music, and people began pairing up. We watched the groups dance, moving about the plaza with coordinated steps and dips.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> This makes me feel excitement. Is this art?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> It's dancing, which is a form of art, yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> May we try as well?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> We?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Those humans are paired in groups of two.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Oh, right right. Sure, I'll dance with you, but just a heads up, it has been a while since I last did this.</p>
<p><em>We set our canvases aside and stepped out to the plaza. I moved Carteckan in front of me, placing one of its hands on my hip and holding the other out. I had Carteckan place its front legs on my feet in order to help guide it through the steps. We began moving, in a clumsy approximation of the other dancers.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Sias is warm, is something wrong?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> No, it's just…</p>
<p><em>I spun Carteckan and led it into a dip. It was light, its barely three foot frame easily moved about.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> You remind me of my daughter. We used to go dancing like this all the time when she was little. About your size, actually.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> You humans are quite large.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Well, I am taller than most, if that makes you feel better.</p>
<p><em>A crowd had begun to gather to watch the display. Despite our clumsy, uncoordinated movements, it felt as if most eyes were on us.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> You remind me of her in a lot of ways, actually. She was always so curious about the world, stopping to admire every flower we passed in the park, always asking why things were the way they were. So many questions, and my husband and I never felt like we had all the answers.</p>
<p><em>I spun Carteckan once again.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Even now I feel like I don't have the answers, but that's fine. These moments are special, and I'm glad for the opportunity to share them with you.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Sias sounds sad when talking about the child. Did something happen?</p>
<p><em>I laughed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> I guess I am talking like she's dead. No, she's just grown up now. Off living her own life. I'm not sad either, I'm just… nostalgic, is all.</p>
<p><em>I took a wide step and dipped Carteckan once more, before one final spin. I let go of its hands, and bowed. After a moment of confusion, it bowed in return. It had hardly been an impressive display, but the gathered crowd cheered for us nonetheless.</em></p>
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<p>"Anything new to report?"<br/></p>
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<p>"I am trying to find ways to describe it all that does not repeat what I have already said. I am learning so much here. Yes, in many ways they are well behind us, but they have and do things I never thought possible. There are concepts I have learned that I cannot even explain in ways that make sense, things I still have yet to understand myself."</p>
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"They will not be behind us for that much longer. We have seen the pace they are moving at, yes? They will be at our level in but a moment."<br/>
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<p>"We are lucky to have met one another. I just wish…"</p>
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<p><em>Carteckan surprised me in my room the next morning. It insisted that we go to its home world right away. I was confused, to be honest. "There's still so much to see here," I remember saying. It had been hardly a week, but Carteckan wouldn't take no for an answer. It spoke with a sense of urgency that couldn’t be ignored. So we loaded up onto the shuttle alongside Ketadanka, the only thing that could pass through to the other side, and we left.</em></p>
<p><em>Frankly, I expected more when passing through the portal. I had grown up on the classic sci-fi movies, after all; something inside me was expecting this flashy jump to hyperspace as I'm pressed against the seat, holding on for dear life. It wasn't anything momentous at all. By all means, it wasn't any different than a trip to the moon. By that I mean no jumps, no sudden shifts in momentum. We were simply just… there.</em></p>
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<p>"Yes. That is why I am being contacted, yes?"</p>
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"That is correct. The current projections are inconsistent as to what exactly will happen, but they all spell out some level of disaster for both of our people."<br/>
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<p>"Then might I make a request?"</p>
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"Of course."<br/>
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<p>"May I bring Sias to us? Let humans see our world before it's too late for both of us?"</p>
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"Are we certain that is the correct choice?"<br/>
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<p>"Yes. They should know us as we know them. While there is still time."</p>
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<p>View of Earth from SCP-7999-2 recovered from Agent Sias's bodycam.</p>
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<p><em>In the blink of an eye I was on the other side of the universe. It was a small solar system, no more than maybe five planets orbiting a red dwarf. I didn't get much time to really take it all in, though, as we arrived at Nest within an hour. Much sooner than I expected, but their tech was vastly superior to our own. We settled down somewhere on Nest, and the shuttle doors opened.</em></p>
<p><em>It was so familiar. We landed on a beach, with white sand not unlike our own. In the distance I could see a myriad of shrubby plants, sporting dark red and orange leaves that transitioned to black near their center. Even the sky above felt familiar. Aside from their sun appearing as a massive pale orb in the sky, the sky itself wasn't unlike the Earth's sky during a sunset. I could see our portal hanging in the sky above, on the other side a pale blue dot that I called home.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Please, come with us. There's much to show you and not much time.</p>
<p><em>I nodded and followed behind, heading into what I could best describe as a forest or a jungle. It was difficult to judge climate in my suit.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> This is Nest, our home. The only one we have ever known.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> You never colonized other worlds?</p>
<p><strong>Ketadanka:</strong> We attempted it on many occasions. Our needs are very specific, and most planets we found were unsuitable.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Planet Earth shouldn't be able to host life at all based on our calculations. It is not tidally locked, and the atmosphere is so thin. Likewise, it is so far from its host star that it does not receive the amount of solar energy that is required to support life. It is a miracle humanity exists, and even moreso that humanity is advanced.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> I guess this is the point where I say the opposite, huh? The fact that by <em>our</em> calculations there's no way your planet should support life because of all the reasons you say we can't?</p>
<p><em>They paused, clicking to one another. It looked like they wanted to say something in response, but both remained silent as we moved into what appeared to be a city of some kind.</em></p>
<p><em>The structures were low to the ground and rounded. Most were overtaken by native flora, in some cases nearly indistinguishable from the surroundings aside from odd, rounded bulges from the ground. They were all built with a sense of purpose; there were no decorative elements or patterning on them. As we walked I couldn't shake the feeling that something was off. It was all so… quiet. Aside from Carteckan and Ketadanka, I didn't see any other Keradids present. I wanted to ask, but a solemn look from Carteckan told me enough.</em></p>
<p><em>I was eventually led to a massive structure, looking like several of the smaller ones stuck together without much of a sense for organization or purpose. The wall itself manifested a door that slid open as we approached. From there I was led to a large room filled with indescribable technologies. Some were vaguely familiar—screens, buttons, dials. None had a clear purpose to my eye, but there was a sense of recognition nonetheless. Others were utterly foreign, composed of metal bars and wires that looked ready to electrocute me or chop off a limb if I got too close. This is also where we finally saw other Keradids, a small group of no more than six that huddled around us with chirps and clicks. They eyed me with a hungry curiosity.</em></p>
<p><em>There were no chairs, so I leaned myself against the safest-looking place I could find. Carteckan finally spoke.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Sias has many questions, yes? Please, ask them.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Oh God, uh… what was that stuff we walked through outside? What is this place? Is this just, like, a small city since there aren't many of your people here?</p>
<p><em>I stopped myself from rattling off more. My brain was buzzing, and it wasn't a good feeling for once.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Yes, what I expected. See, humanity is curious like us, the curiosity is just in the simple things. We should start with the simple questions. This is the largest city left on the planet, and what we saw outside are what remains of homes and businesses.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan looked at me, waiting for me to interject. I remained silent.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> …Sias does not have questions about that?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> No, actually, I think I know what's going on here. Remember back at the cathedral?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Yes?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> I said the word "war". It was subtle, but you stiffened up at that. That, with everything you just said and I just saw, well, it doesn't take an intelligent species to piece it all together. Instead I'll ask this—how many of you are left?</p>
<p><strong>Ketadanka:</strong> They are all here.</p>
<p><em>Eight. I counted this time, and there were eight Keradids in this room. It was hard to tell how old they were, but based on what Carteckan told me prior about its age it seemed safe to assume that most were as old if not older than it.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> No others in the world?</p>
<p><strong>Ketadanka:</strong> None.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> How long has it been?</p>
<p><strong>Ketadanka:</strong> Carteckan is the youngest. It happened when it was freshly hatched from the nursery.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> …and there haven't been any other kids since?</p>
<p><em>The group chittered to one another, and Carteckan motioned for me to follow it. I was led to a section of the floor that began descending deeper into the ground when we stood on it. It took us to a large cavern. Looking around, I could see the ground covered in large, ovular objects colored a splotchy green.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> This is the nursery. It is where the eggs are kept and where they hatch.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> There's easily over a hundred here.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Correct. More specifically, there are three hundred and forty five eggs here.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Forgive my confusion, then, because I just don't understand what the problem is?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Neither do we. It has been one of our greatest sources of frustration and confusion for over a thousand years. Every single egg is viable, and it should not take more than two years for them to hatch. And yet…</p>
<p><em>I kneeled down with a flashlight and shone it at one of the eggs. It was faint, but inside I could see a vaguely-Keradid shaped sihouette.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> We've accepted extinction.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> You can't be serious!</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> I am. We accepted it long ago, once the old began dying. Soon hundreds became dozens, and dozens became eight. What hope was there left for us?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> With all your technology, surely you could—</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Sias, please. We know. And I know that Sias knows as well. We have tried everything we can. We are not afraid; we accomplished our goal in the end.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> What was that goal?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> To meet another like us. Another capable of thought. From the beginning we worshiped the idea that our planet was not alone. That despite how impossible life should be here, it existed regardless, and therefore there had to be another.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan led me back to the elevator and back outside. We could see the stars above—foreign constellations from stars whose light wouldn't reach Earth for millions of years still.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> It was a nice dream early on, but we never really focused on it. We built up our society, began at home first. We learned of all the creatures that lived here from the land to the ocean, then began learning of those on other planets nearby.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> So you did find other life?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Yes, and no. Mound, the world next in line in our system, had microbial life and never went beyond that. Filter, the world of gas beyond Mound, had makings of life but nothing came of it. Nothing like us, nothing that could think. We began harvesting energy from our star, and used that to send groups out of our system.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> That's the kind of thing that I wish we could do, but there are so many problems at home still to solve.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Sias says that as if it was not the case here. We had problems at home, but our eyes were blind to them. Problems that I saw on Earth as well. There was something Sias said before… humanity is not monolithic? We were not either, though not quite as diverse as Earth seems.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan clicked, stomping its back legs.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> I do not wish to waste time describing the entire history of my people. Time is precious right now. Sias has already understood what happened. Once that passed, those of us who remained doubled our efforts. The portal technology was created once we focused all efforts on finding another out there, and we began peering across the universe.</p>
<p><em>Carteckan began pointing to stars as it spoke.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Each star and system above was searched. All barren and empty, nothing more than a few dying microbes. Fitting, I supposed, for a few dying specs of dust to find others.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> But you found us.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> We did. After two million years of our people's existence, we finally found another like us, on their own impossible little world.</p>
<p><em>I looked to the sky, fixing my eyes on the portal and the pale blue dot on the other side. Strangely enough, it didn't feel that far away; it almost looked like the moon in our own sky.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> But fate is cruel.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Carteckan, you keep saying there isn't enough time. I didn't want to bother you about it, but there's something wrong, isn't there?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> …yes. You need to go home, right now.</p>
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<p>"Carteckan, we are out of time. Any longer and Nest will be destroyed."<br/></p>
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<p>"Does it truly matter? Even staving off death now does not mean we stop what is coming. We die either way. Why can we not die here, knowing we've passed on our knowledge to another?"</p>
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"Carteckan, such a thing is impossible. It does not only risk us, but them as well."<br/>
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<p>"It is all hypothetical, is it not? Just modules and simulations that cannot be proven for sure. We don't know what will happen!"</p>
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"Carteckan…"<br/>
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<p>"The knowledge gained from this exchange is invaluable. Something we will never get again if we cut it off now. There's still so much for them to see here, and so much for us to see there."</p>
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"Carteckan-"<br/>
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<p>"There are so many concepts left to discuss, things to learn. We have yet to speak on their belief systems, or their history! There are so many nations to see! Sias has only seen this one city, there's still so much more of Nest to—"</p>
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"CARTECKAN! Enough! The simulations do not lie. If we do not close the portal, either Nest will be thrown through to be torn apart by Earth's gravity, or worse. It cannot be left open."<br/>
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<p>"Is it not possible to simply close it and reopen it in a safer place?"</p>
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"Those were the final coordinates, Carteckan. The last person who knew how to enter in new coordinates died years ago. This has been known. There are none left who know how to enter more. Once the portal closes, it's over."<br/>
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<p>"Then that's all the more reason to—"</p>
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<p>"…I know. I am just not ready to say goodbye."</p>
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<p><em>Sias looked at me, its head cocked slightly to the side. An expression of confusion, one I had become very familiar with over the past days.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Why all of a sudden? Is something wrong?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> Yes. I need to be honest. Our planets—</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Have been slowly drifting towards each other the past few days. That's what you wanted to say, right?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> How did—</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> The Foundation isn't dumb or ignorant, Carteckan. We've been monitoring the distance between our planets since the portal opened. It was pretty clear that you all opened it between our orbital paths.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> And they aren't upset?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> I can't say the higher-ups aren't upset about that. That said, there isn't a whole lot we can do about it. O5 wanted me to threaten you all to fix the problem, but that's not how I operate.</p>
<p><em>Sias made that strange rhythmic sound it often did when it found something humorous.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> What happens next?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> I send Sias home, and the portal between our worlds is closed.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> No way to reopen it?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> No.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> Damn.</p>
<p><em>We remained there in silence staring at the stars above.</em></p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> We are so small, are we not?</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> How so?</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> We have searched every star we possibly can over our existence to find another like us. Many have died searching, hoping that there was something else out there. Dying never knowing that there was! There was someone else! But even in knowing… we were only able to know them for such a short time it might as well have never mattered. These moments were fleeting, and now they're over.</p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> You're right, we are small, and it would've been nice to have more time together. You all know it better than we do, but the universe is vast beyond our comprehension. When we die, the stuff that makes us ourselves will return to that universe. We'll become the matter that makes up the next stars, or even the next civilization. We become a part of that universe, don't we?</p>
<p><em>Sias rose to its feet. It reached out a hand to me. I took it in my own.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sias:</strong> This moment was fleeting, but we were lucky to have ever had it. And no goodbye is forever, so I won't say goodbye here. Instead I'll say… I'll see you in the stars.</p>
<p><strong>Carteckan:</strong> I will… see you in the stars.</p>
<p><em>Sias left, returning to the headquarters where Ketadanka would take it home. I returned shortly after, but by the time I arrived they had already left. One of the others who remained behind handed me something, a gift from Sias. Inside was a set of brushes and paints.</em></p>
<p><em>While the others worked to close the portal, I returned to the cavern below with my gift. I laid the brushes out, and I began to paint. It wouldn't be a wonder, nothing like what I had seen on their planet, but it would be beautiful. I worked long into sleeping time and into the next day, stopping only to eat. Sias would never see it, no one from Earth would, but it would be a memento of my times there.</em></p>
<p><em>When it was finished, I sat my brushes down. There it was, my landscape of stars with a Keradid and a Human looking to one another. I looked around and saw all the blank space that remained on the cave walls, and began planning my next masterpiece. In the distance, I could swear I almost heard the sound of something cracking.</em></p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. Integration of SCP-7999-3 approved by Dir. Paul Lague.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Dubbed "Nest" by its native civilization.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Maintaining a notably high concentration of atmospheric oxygen.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. Mantis insects.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. A categorization system designed by Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev to identify how advanced a civilization is. This system looks at a civilization's ability to harness energy, as well as the breadth of knowledge it has access to. A Type II civilization is believed to be capable of directly harvesting energy from its host star.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. A Foundation AIC developed at <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/secure-facility-dossier-site-58" target="_blank">Site-58</a> designed to perform esoteric and anomalous translations.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-7')">7</a>. Representative from Site-58's Department of Anomalous Ambassadors, a department dedicated to facilitating communication between Foundation personnel and anomalous entities. Agent Sias has a notably successful history of communications with higher-risk anomalies.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-8"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-8')">8</a>. Translation performed by comparing SCP-7999-3's linguistic system and comparing similar phonemes and morphemes to the English system. Though there was a high chance of inaccuracy, these name translations were approved by both SCP-7999-3 instances interviewed.</div>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8000 is currently uncontained.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8000 is a gigantic, serpentine entity resembling a harbor seal (<em>Phoca vitulina</em>) residing within Site-322. The exact length of SCP-8000 is unknown, as its tail has never been located; however, estimates range upwards to 150 meters. Instead of bounding, sliding, or swimming, SCP-8000 is capable of self-propelled flight along with phasing through solid objects, and precognition.</p>
<p>SCP-8000 is sapient, capable of speech, and highly intelligent. Additionally, SCP-8000 can create temporary dimensional gateways at will. It is hypothesized that SCP-8000 has been connected to baseline reality from an unknown, extradimensional location. The method or reason SCP-8000 exists in present reality has not been discovered.</p>
<p>As of documentation, SCP-8000 is one of two living beings on Earth.</p>
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<p><em>Director Paul Lague barges into a Site-322 meeting space. He looks intently at a report as he moves toward his chair.</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Jer, I'm gonna be honest with you, there's not— The hell are you?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8000 is seated across the table.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Hi, Mr. Paul!</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I— Where's… uh? The hell?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Sit. I don't bite.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I'm very confused.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> That would be a sound reaction, I'd say.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Are you a seal?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Astute observation, Mr. Paul. You seemed to have something going on. What was it?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I— I don't remember. I think I had a meeting.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Hm. It's happening again.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> The thing.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What thing?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> The <em>thing.</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What fucking thing?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> The memory thing. It's no bother, honestly. I usually work around it.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You're tweaking me out now.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I know I'm being rather vague, but I promise you one thing: As long as you're honest with me, I'll be honest with you.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> That's not very fair.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> How so?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I have no reason to believe that your version of honesty is honest.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You're here talking to me. I know you have that self-proclaimed sixth sense when it comes to quote 'talking weirdos,' and I like to think I slot nicely into that subsection of wacky doodads you intake here.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Alright. You're aware that I take those 'wacky doodads' and lock them in cages, often permanently.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I would have to lock you in a cage.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> And do tests and tests and tests and write a whole report and make a chamber for me. I know, I know. That won't be necessary. I've done the research and documentation on myself for you.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8000 nudges the SCP-8000 documentation towards Lague.</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Why the 8000 slot?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I didn't choose that.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You said you wrote it.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Yes, but that was out of my hands.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Do you have a tail?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> That's your biggest concern?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> It's an odd detail to write about. Can't you infer?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I've never seen my tail. I wouldn't confirm something I have no evidence of.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You can slither through here, and I can confirm whether you have a tail.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Excuse you, I float. Daintily and whimsically.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Whatever. Who took this picture?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You do, in about six or seven minutes.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What are you talking about?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Do you ever run into issues where you master something and assume that everyone understands what you do?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Often; everyday, actually.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> My job is somewhat of an intervener of sorts. So I humbly request you, Mr. Paul, to spend one day with me. You take that picture, so you know the answer already, but I can't force you. That would be rude and mean.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> In my office?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8000 makes a biting motion. It latches onto the air, gripping the space with its jaw. The entity pulls its head to the left, tearing a rip into present reality.</em></p>
<p><em>SCP-8000 flies through the gateway and peeks its head out towards Lague.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> No! It's right through here. Very cozy, if I do say so myself.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Hold on.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Yes, yes. 'How could you ever trust me?' Ask me whatever you want, and I will be truthful.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8000 raises its right flipper.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I swear on those magazines you keep hidden in your desk drawers.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Fuck off.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Rude and mean.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You're not going to kill me?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Wasteful.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Eat me?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> My craving for human flesh has long since passed.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Is that a joke?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Yes. So touchy. Eating you would be redundant.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What about torturing me for millions of years? Burning my family alive in front of me? Driving me to insanity over and over again? Anything like that on the table?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> How oddly specific.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Answer.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Gratuitous and reckless.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I don't know what I'm supposed to do here.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Mr. Paul, I'd just like to spend the day with you.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You said that.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I'm going to go into this rift very slowly. These things don't stay open long, and they're a real pain in the flipper to open again. So please, save us both the trouble. You wouldn't want to create a paradox by not taking the picture you just saw, would you, Mr. Paul?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8000 reenters the gateway. Director Lague stares at it as the edges of the tear slowly repair itself.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Context:</strong> Director Paul Lague was ordered to a meeting with Ethics Committee Liaison Jeremiah Cimmerian regarding his behavior as Site-322's Director.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«BEGIN LOG»</strong></p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> How do you think you've been doing?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> The fact you're here isn't a confidence booster.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> We consider each other friends, right?</p>
<p><em>(Silence.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Okay.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Cutting to the chase, you've missed twelve of the last fourteen O4 meetings, your Site's overall productivity — anomaly containment, research endeavors, <em>et cetera</em> — has plummeted over the last three months, I have sixteen different complaints here about an odor of "trash and shame" originating from your office, and people have been telling me that you're sleeping during working hours.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Hm.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Do you deny these claims?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I don't know. I— I'm just— Never mind.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Burnout?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Maybe? I think I'm just in a lull.</p>
<p><em>(Cimmerian looks at Lague silently.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I don't know if I'm depressed or what even else it could be. I sit down in my chair, do whatever bullshit paperwork I need to do for the day, assign whatever projects are left over, and stare at the screen until I can go back home. I'm <em>bored.</em> Everything is boring.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> This is probably stemming from a bigger issue.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> The sun is hot.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> When did all this start?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I was researching this anomaly. I can't be bothered to remember. And, like — I don't know — I sat there looking at this bullshit file of a bullshit anomaly and felt it was all for nothing. I think it killed the spark.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> It happens. Look, Paul, I've dealt with a lot of people experiencing the same issues you are. How long have you been a Director?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Eight years.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Oh. Well, that's quicker than usual.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What's the point of whining? I'm doing the work I need to do. I'll pick it up.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Tell me what's going on. Why do you feel this way? Please, I'm here to help you.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Why? There's no point. None! I've had enough. Just— just give me a second to get myself together, and I'll get back to it. I appreciate it, Jer.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> This meeting wasn't meant to kick you in the ass and magically make you love this job again. You know the level of work you can put out. We need that back. We need more than what you're giving now.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Believe me, I <em>want</em> more, but I can't fucking find it. It's literally impossible. So why try?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«END LOG»</strong></p>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="ooo">
<p><em>Director Lague and SCP-8000 exit the gateway into the study of a vast library. The grand doors are opened, giving a view to the hundreds of thousands of books seated on dark mahogany shelves, which stretch far beyond view in the distance and towards the ceiling. The air is still, with a hint of the smell of ash and old paper. Small orbs of light dance around the shelves, illuminating the tomes and hallways.</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I've been to the Wanderers' Library before.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> This library is mine. Those carnies got the infinite library idea from me. I borrowed it from Alexandria.</p>
<p><em>The pair walk out of the study. Stone archways wrapped in ivy and vines guard the front of each of the sprawling hallways.</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I think I would have heard of a third library of this sort by now.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I dislike publicity, so I keep it to myself. That said, this is not <em>my</em> library <em>per se</em>. It's yours.</p>
<p><em>They approach an archway. Engraved into its keystone is "MEMORY LANE."</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Care for a stroll?</p>
<p><em>Lague and SCP-8000 proceed. They enter into a subsection of the hallway.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> This holds every experience, every moment, every bit of knowledge, and every emotion. It's a map of you, Mr. Paul.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> How in-depth is this?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Piano muscle memory is up there. Very dusty. Four volumes on your childhood expertise in all things shark and shark-related are up ahead. I have every moment of every elementary school class you've sat through further up this way.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> How <em>in-depth</em>?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I've read everything. <em>[…]</em> I don't judge.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Even—</p>
<p><em>SCP-8000 soars above out of view, retrieving a dusty book from a shelf and dropping it to Lague. He opens it.</em></p>
<div class="interview">
<p><em>Lague is eight years old, swimming in a public pool.</em></p>
<p><em>Grabbing the bar of a ladder in the deepest part of the pool, Lague pushes himself under and then pulls himself back up. He does this four times.</em></p>
<p><em>Suddenly, Lague attempts to breach the surface but can't. The inside of his swim shorts are wrapped around the ripped stopper at the bottom of the bar.</em></p>
<p><em>Panicking, Lague splashes and tries to pull himself above the water but can't. He unties his shorts and swims out of them. He is naked, but alive.</em></p>
<p><em>Two girls, one Lague had romantic feelings for, observed the entire incident and stared at him.</em></p>
</div>
<p><em>Lague gasps for air and touches his chest and arms.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Even that, yes.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Jesus Christ! That felt so real.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> It was. You were there before, and I placed you back so you may relive it.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Is this your whole gig?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Making you relive embarrassing moments? No. That was a trial run. I can make you relive, but we can also watch as spectators.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Can you please — for the love of everything — tell me what we're doing here?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> We're here for your memories of failure. There are many. More than most people, somehow.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I'd rather you drown me again.</p>
</div>
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<div class="testfile">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<p><span style="font-size:135%;"><strong>RECOVERED DOCUMENTATION 8000.2</strong></span><br/>
<em>02/14/2024</em></p>
</div>
<p><strong>Context:</strong> Dr. Jeremiah Cimmerian gathered several of Director Lague's close colleagues, believing it would alleviate Director Lague's current disposition.</p>
<div class="interview">
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>TRANSCRIPT</strong></p>
<hr/>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Members Present</span><br/>
Dir. Daniel Asheworth<br/>
Dr. Harold Blank<br/>
Dr. Jeremiah Cimmerian<br/>
Dr. Anthony Coix<br/>
Dir. Randall House<br/>
Dr. Cole Thereven<br/>
<a href="/scp-5595">SCP-5595</a></p>
<hr/>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«BEGIN LOG»</strong></p>
<p><em>(Guided by Cimmerian, Lague enters a Site-322 meeting space. In front of him are his colleagues, seated in a circle. An empty chair is in front of him.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> An intervention? Are you kidding me?</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> It's not an intervention.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-5595:</strong> <tt>IT'S CLEARLY AN INTERVENTION. HE'S AN IDIOT, NOT STUPID.</tt></p>
<p><em>(Lague slumps in the empty chair, grumbling to himself.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> We want to discuss your career and your emotional state. A few of us have prepared statements. Does anyone want to go first?</p>
<p><em>(Thereven's arm shoots up.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Cole?</p>
<p><em>(Thereven pulls a crumpled piece of paper from under his leg and begins reading it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Thereven:</strong> Mr. Lague, I am very sorry for the loss you have experienced over the last few months. I can only imagine how hard it is to lose a pet. It makes me sad to think about my pet gecko, Clyde, dying like your dog did in a violent car accident. My condolences to you and all of the other dead dogs and pets out there.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Cole, this is abou—</p>
<p><em>(Lague holds his hand up to Cimmerian.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I appreciate it, Cole. Thank you.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-30777-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-30777-1')">1</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Anthony?</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> I needed some documents looked at and signed by you last week. You said you'd get to them, but when I went into your office a few hours later, I found them under a book written by a pickup artist. I had to stay overtime for five days to do the necessary edits. On top of that, I had to fill in for you at six separate meetings where you were going to no-show. I didn't get paid overtime.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What? You didn't get overtime?</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> You removed those privileges.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> No. No, I didn't.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-5595:</strong> <tt>OH YEAH. THAT WAS ME.</tt></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> The hell?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-5595:</strong> <tt>HE CALLED ME AN ASSHOLE FOR SCALPING ERAS TOUR TICKETS.</tt></p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> What does this gumball machine do?</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> It's the first integrated anomaly. Lague put it in our financial department.</p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> Probably not the finest idea.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Thanks, big guy. I definitely asked for your opinion there.</p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> I'm just saying. It's an anomaly controlling Foundation resources. Maybe that wasn't the best of—</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Don't start with me, Dan. Everyone here remembers Obearwatch and thinks about it every time they see you.</p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> Fuck you!</p>
<p><em>(Asheworth moves to leave.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Asheworth:</strong> It was a product of its time!</p>
<p><em>(Asheworth exits, slamming the door behind him.)</em></p>
<p><strong>House:</strong> Every time.</p>
<p><strong>Blank:</strong> I'll go. For the last eight years, you've been very independent — more independent than most. I'd get the rare call or email asking for a once-over on whatever report you're filing. More recently, though, you've become much less confident, needing to break down your methodology and philosophy instead of just <em>doing</em> it. You're a smart kid. Start acting like it.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I'm not allowed to ask for advice now?</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> That's not what he's saying.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> So what? I'm just supposed to sit here and take this?</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> No one's attacking you.</p>
<p><strong>Blank:</strong> Paul, you need to hear it. The fact of life is that there will be peaks and valleys. You think you reached a very, very high peak, and now you're back to a regular old valley, and you're not used to it because it's low in comparison. It's not the end of the world unless you let it be.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Randall?</p>
<p><strong>House:</strong> I'll keep this short. You've become a whiny bitch. You know how much bullshit I deal with on a daily basis? I work in literal <em>fucking</em> hell. I'd love the respite of researching something easy and chill every once in a while.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-5595:</strong> <tt>I AGREE WITH THE DOUCHEBAG.</tt></p>
<p><strong>House:</strong> It's annoying. You're being annoying. I've seen this downward spiral happen a thousand times. Do people have their qualms? Sure. I don't give a shit about those people, because 99% of the time it's someone whining because they think they're not good enough. I'm tired of this victim mentality. Grow your self-confidence back and stop whining.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Ha! Pot meet kettle.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Guys! I said 'non-judgmental' maybe thirty times.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-5595:</strong> <tt>MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID IT SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY TIMES.</tt></p>
<p><strong>House:</strong> He needs to hear it.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You want to talk about being a whiny bitch?</p>
<p><strong>House:</strong> Watch yourself.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Look at the real honorable Site Director. Didn't you conscript demons to find that Gamers Against Weed guy? The one who kept drawing him as a white person, right? A whole lot of self-confidence there, Randy.</p>
<p><strong>House:</strong> Yeah, yeah, whatever you say, buddy. How about this: the second you leave this room, take your hand and grab your life back by the balls.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You know what, fuck this.</p>
<p><em>(Lague stands up.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Grab my life back by the balls? I'll do it all by myself.</p>
<p><strong>House:</strong> I'll believe it when I see it.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You watch me.</p>
<p><em>(Lague exits.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Great work, guys. Astounding stuff. Really effective.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-5595:</strong> <tt>THANK YOU.</tt></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«END LOG»</strong></p>
</div>
</div>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
<div class="ooo">
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I saw your tail, by the way.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> No, you didn't.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I caught it for a second when you went into the portal.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> That'd be impossible.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Is all of you inside of this library?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Yes. Hm. I see your point. What did it look like?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Normal seal tail.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Astounding. I'll update the documentation. Speaking of.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8000 flies rapidly from shelf to shelf, retrieving a myriad of books.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Your documentation. These tomes represent your childhood.</p>
<div class="interview">
<p><em>Director Lague and SCP-8000 appear in a child's bedroom. The walls are dark blue. Multiple trophies from Little League sports victories line a bookcase opposite the bed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Oh, no way.</p>
<p><em>Lague strolls through, grabbing a Batman comic book off of a nightstand and flicking through the pages. He stops at the inside of the back cover.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> What's that?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I used to draw my own Batman comics in the back of comic books. I think I have some more over here.</p>
<p><em>Lague walks to the opposite side of the bed.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> How many did you make?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Dozens, maybe hundreds. I don't remember. I loved it, though. Before marine biologist and president, I wanted to do lineart for comics. I got a bunch of those 'How-To-Draw Comic" books. They never really helped other than giving you something to trace, but it was cool nonetheless. I just stopped one day. I don't remember why — maybe school picked up or— Oh shit!</p>
<p><em>A child, around six or seven years old, is slumped against the bed, silently crying. Several crumpled-up drawings are strewn around him.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Don't worry, he can't see you. That would cause a paradox.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> This is so weird.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You mentioned you stopped.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I wish I didn't. It was a pipe dream, but you know, life happens.</p>
<p><em>A woman barges into the room. She looks around.</em></p>
<p><strong>Woman:</strong> You alright?</p>
<p><em>She moves to find the child, sitting to meet his gaze.</em></p>
<p><strong>Woman:</strong> What's wrong?</p>
<p><strong>Child:</strong> It's not good.</p>
<p><strong>Woman:</strong> Well, I think that's wrong.</p>
<p><strong>Child:</strong> It's not good!</p>
<p><em>She wipes a tear from his face with her sleeve.</em></p>
<p><strong>Woman:</strong> Honey, if you work yourself up like this you'll never be happy with anything.</p>
<p><strong>Child:</strong> I quit! I'll just be a fish doctor and never draw again.</p>
<p><strong>Woman:</strong> I'll support you in whatever you decide to be. Wanna help me bread the chicken cutlets?</p>
<p><strong>Child:</strong> <em>[…]</em> Yeah.</p>
<p><em>The pair stand and move out of the room. The woman grasps the child's hand.</em></p>
<p><strong>Woman:</strong> I don't know where I'm getting the money to pay for marine biology college, but if that's what you want to do, I support it.</p>
</div>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> That was the day I stopped. I think. You know, now that I look again, it's not that bad for a six-year-old. I guess I was just a brat.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Was?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> That's nice.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Why didn't you stick with it?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> The odds of me doing anything that mattered in that job were slim to none. I wanted to be the next Jack Kirby or Stan Lee, but that was never going to happen. My dad worked in scouting for college football. He would always talk about these athletes he watched; they were the best in their high school of three hundred kids, but he knew the second those kids stepped onto a college field, they were in the lowest percentile of real skill. He was never, ever wrong.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Do you think he's right about that? It's a bleak outlook on life to continually diminish the skills of yourself and others.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> He would always say this shit whenever I got some new interest. Always, always always, he'd manage to bring it up in conversation the next day.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> So he was talking about you.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Astute observation.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Mr. Paul, you understand that your standards are what you make them, correct?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> That's not true. That has never been true in the history of humankind.</p>
<div class="interview">
<p><em>Lague sits at a desk in a quiet, cold room. He's sixteen years old, surrounded by other teenagers at desks. The group stares at the standardized test they're taking.</em></p>
<hr/>
<p><em>Lague sits across from his mother. He opens a manila envelope.</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> 1520.</p>
<p><strong>Woman:</strong> Oh my god! Congratulations!</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I'm trying to get into a good school, ma. 1520 doesn't cut it.</p>
<p><strong>Woman:</strong> What are you talking about? That's the 99th percentile.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Henry, Nate, <em>and</em> Isabella got above 1540s.</p>
<p><strong>Woman:</strong> Nate did? Did he cheat?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> It's not the point. 1520 doesn't fu—freaking cut it.</p>
<p><strong>Woman:</strong> 1520 and 1540 are both in the 99th percentile of all scores. You're being ridiculous now; stop it.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> It's not <em>good</em> en—</p>
<p><strong>Woman:</strong> I've been dealing with this attitude for your entire life. Be happy for yourself for once. <em>I'm</em> proud of you, Paul. Doesn't that matter?</p>
</div>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I was right in the end. I didn't get into the Ivies.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You switched majors in college five times, from computer engineering to graphic design to culinary arts to mechanical engineering, in a year and a half.</p>
<div class="interview">
<p><em>Lague sits on the ground of his dorm room. A physics book is opened to a section about elasticity. He is crying.</em></p>
</div>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Fuck off with that one. I figured it out with biology in the end, <em>and</em> I graduated on time.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Why didn't you stick with your other choices?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Because the concepts were impossible to understand—</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> That's not true. You work for the Foundation. You're smart.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Mean it?</p>
<p><em>[…]</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I— It wasn't groundbreaking. I was studying the work of much more successful people to graduate and become a cog in a machine based on those successful people's discoveries. No upward or downward movement, just stuck in a corporation. I couldn't do it. Maybe I self-sabotaged — I know my advisor hated me by the third switch, but I couldn't force myself into that life.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You wanted to leave a mark?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Yeah, is that a crime?</p>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<p><span style="font-size:135%;"><strong>RECOVERED DOCUMENTATION 8000.3-4</strong></span><br/>
<em>02/18/2024 - 02/19/2024</em></p>
</div>
<p><strong>Context:</strong> Dir. Lague authorized the following project proposal to be presented to the Overseer Council.</p>
<div class="addendum"><img alt="seekerm.png" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8000/seekerm.png"/>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<p><strong>PROJECT SEEKER</strong><br/>
<em>Finders keepers. Losers weepers.</em></p>
</div>
<p><strong>Project Description:</strong> The Seeker machine is a paratechnological device. Utilizing a localized wormhole and quantum computing, Seeker's users can input specific parameters to search for undiscovered anomalies. In conjunction with its wormhole, Seeker's artificial intelligence system can predict an undiscovered anomaly's location, classification, and abilities based on the timelines and experiences of 35,000,000 parallel Earths.</p>
<p>Utilizing a GUI interface, users can input several parameters, specifying what anomalies Seeker should scan for and the number of parallel realities it should search. Seeker will return the best result, providing the factors causing the anomaly's manifestation in parallel universes and its location on Earth.</p>
</div>
<p><strong>Context:</strong> A portion of Director Lague's presentation to the Overseer Council.</p>
<div class="interview">
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>TRANSCRIPT</strong></p>
<hr/>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«BEGIN LOG»</strong></p>
<p><strong>O5-2:</strong> Do you see your job as one big dick-measuring contest, Director?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> No ma'am.</p>
<p><strong>O5-2:</strong> I'm failing to see a need to spend millions—</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> The estimates I've run—</p>
<p><strong>O5-2:</strong> Oh, even better. <em>Billions</em> of the Foundation's money on a theoretical tool that does something we already do. I fail to see the need for this past satiating your ego.</p>
<p><em>(A photocopier sits in the seat of O5-13. It speaks.)</em></p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> <tt>BIG MACHINES ARE ALL THE RAGE NOWADAYS.</tt></p>
<p><strong>O5-1:</strong> How shocked am I that you'd be interested in this, Thirt.</p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> <tt>STOP CALLING ME THAT.</tt></p>
<p><strong>O5-2:</strong> Who sent out the big-machine-all-the-rage memo?</p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> <tt>SITE-17'S DEEPWELL.</tt></p>
<p><strong>O5-1:</strong> Has anything positive ever come from them? They're always ruining reality or killing gods—</p>
<p><strong>O5-2:</strong> Because <em>someone</em> keeps throwing money at them.</p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> <tt>MAYBE I DON'T WANT TO STAY LOCKED IN A PHOTOCOPIER. HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED THAT?</tt></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I did consult 17's Deepwell for this.</p>
<p><em>(O5-7 types on their keyboard.)</em></p>
<p><strong>O5-7:</strong> stop shooting yourself in the foot.</p>
<p><strong>O5-5:</strong> Mr. Lague, can I first say how nice it is to see you again? Firstly, I think this is a grand idea! How did you come up with this? So cool! Okay, so I'm convinced this <em>could</em> benefit us here at the Foundation. However, I'm wondering about the intention here. I did read a report from Mr. Cimmerian over at the Ethics Committee, and he said you have a small case of the blues.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Aren't those kinds of discussions supposed to be confidential?</p>
<p><em>(O5-7 types on their keyboard.)</em></p>
<p><strong>O5-7:</strong> we're not governed by the draconian rules of hipaa.</p>
<p><strong>O5-13:</strong> <tt>WE'RE FAR ENOUGH AWAY FROM AFRICA FOR THOSE BIG FREAKS TO BE OF NO ISSUE, SEVEN. GET ON THE SAME PAGE AS EVERYONE ELSE.</tt></p>
<p><strong>O5-1:</strong> Paul, please answer Five's question.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Yes, I wasn't doing well, but those are for personal reasons. After evaluating myself and considering <em>why</em>, I poured myself into creating this project so that my Site and I will consistently be at the forefront of interesting, new research.</p>
<p><strong>O5-2:</strong> We have anomaly detection planted on every inch of this planet. You want us to uproot that?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> No, this is a different initiative. This is for future predictions. Yes, the anomaly detection system we have is top of the line, I can't deny that or even try to make this project seem better. That is real-time; this would show us when, where, and why anomalies pop up before they even do. There's nothing like it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«END LOG»</strong></p>
</div>
<p><strong>Context:</strong> Director Lague's presentation to the Overseer Council.</p>
<div class="interview">
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>TRANSCRIPT</strong></p>
<hr/>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«BEGIN LOG»</strong></p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> It went well?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> They bought it.</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> They bought the insecurity machine wholesale?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I prefer the Grab-Your-Life-Back-By-The-Balls Machine for the colloquial term. And yes, it's been approved.</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> Maybe I know you too well, but if I can see past that thin veneer, I think they could, too.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Oh yeah. They saw through it.</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> <em>[…]</em> What did you do?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I didn't contact Deepwell, and I sure as shit didn't make this as an anomaly detection system.</p>
<p><em>[…]</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I lied.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«END LOG»</strong></p>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="ooo">
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Would you like it if I analyzed you? I'm not some case study, you know.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> There was never a rule that you couldn't ask me questions.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You got a name?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Hm. I don't have one. I don't remember why. It's been a while since anyone's even broached that subject.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Alright. You seem like a William. Not a 'Will' William. More of a Bill.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Why the distinction?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> The name Bill pops into my head when I see bald things. Not sure why.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I have hair. I'm covered in hair. Your eyes work; I'm sure of that.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Yeah but you <em>look</em> bald. What about Greg?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> It feels less special without the reasoning behind a potential distinct nickname.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Francis; Frankie for short.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I remember why I never picked one now. I wouldn't have been taken seriously if I had shown up and said, "Hello, Mr. Paul. I am Frankie."</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You're an incredibly long seal. Play into the ridiculousness of that scenario.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I think the tonal disparity between what I do and my <em>coincidental</em> resemblance to a rather dopey mammal is enough unrequited cosmic humor.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I'm the expert on these things here. You have to pick <em>something.</em> A few years back, I dealt with—</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Yes, the God of Scrimshaw and Whalebone Carvings. Scordoh plays into his assignment very well. I take a different approach.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Please pick a name.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> This is interesting.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Here we fucking go again.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Looking into you, I've found you have a rather obsessive personality that never seems to be sufficed. Your art skill for an adolescent wasn't bad; some would even consider it pretty good. It wasn't good enough. That obsession for perfection led you to quit.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I don't think it's such a bad thing to stop yourself if you have no future in it.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You do this for most activities, academic, recreational, or otherwise, if you even sniff a hint of potential adversity within your rise.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8000 retrieves a nearby black paperback book.</em></p>
<div class="interview">
<p><em>Lague is playing for his university's intramural basketball league.</em></p>
<p><em>The game is tied in the fourth quarter. Lague's team has the ball with fifteen seconds remaining. Neither team has any timeouts.</em></p>
<p><em>The ball is passed to a teammate, who is quickly placed under pressure from two defenders. He makes a quick pass to the opposite corner to another teammate. Seven seconds remain.</em></p>
<p><em>The teammate fakes a shot, then dribbles into the paint, faking a layup and throwing the ball to Lague. Three seconds remain.</em></p>
<p><em>Lague misses the pass. The ball bounces into a defender's hands, who makes a fast break for the opposing basket. 1 second remains.</em></p>
<p><em>The player shoots the ball from behind the three-point line, sinking the basket and winning.</em></p>
<p><em>Lague leaves, missing the post-game meeting. He did not show up for the next practice.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Oh, come on! I think that's fair. Yeah, I was a baby about my art, and I was mad that I didn't get into the college I wanted to. This is just embarrassing.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You can downplay those events as much as you please, but they were very influential in regard to who you are now.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You can say that about anything. That's how socialization works.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You lost a single game and quit. Was the embarrassment that bad?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> To have to look in the face of my teammates after I went butterfingers on an easy game-winner? Yeah. That's fucking embarrassing.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Why are you so averse to that? Embarrassment is a normal part of life.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You know what, you're a hypocrite. You won't let yourself even consider having a name because you're afraid of what people think about you once they hear it. The loss was on me, no one else but me. I couldn't put that art into the world because it wasn't good enough for anyone else to look at. I was pissed I didn't get into an Ivy because how is anyone else supposed to know that I'm smart enough to be there. You're the same as me, and I'm not going to let these assholes think they're better than me as long as I can do something about it.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> There it is.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Ooooh. Ooooh. You got me. Good fucking job. You're still a hypocrite.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> My name is Wallace, Mr. Paul. Wally, for short. I'm Wallace, and I always have been, but you're still stuck in the position you've trapped yourself in. I hope you'll see that I'm trying to help you.</p>
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<div class="testfile">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<p><span style="font-size:135%;"><strong>RECOVERED DOCUMENTATION 8000.5-8</strong></span><br/>
<em>03/13/2024 - 03/20/2024</em></p>
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<p><strong>Context:</strong> An abridged catalog of the anomalies discovered by Seeker.</p>
<div class="addendum">
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">SEEKER.01</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Input Universes:</strong> 104,257<br/>
<strong>Parameters:</strong> 'CLOSE' 'ALIVE' 'BIG' 'DANGEROUS' 'IN-PHILADELPHIA'</p>
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<p><strong>Seeker Discovery:</strong> Anomaly is triangulated to Citizen's Bank Park, the home field for the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team.</p>
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<div class="scp-image-block block-center" style="width:100%;"><img alt="ppheader.png" class="image" src="https://scptestwiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/plaguek8/ppheader.png" style="width:100%;"/>
<div class="scp-image-caption" style="width:100%;">
<p>SCP-01-SEEK.</p>
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</div>
<p><strong>Truncated Description:</strong> SCP-01-SEEK is a chimerical-humanoid anomaly resembling a green, rotund, avain wearing a Philadelphia Phillies uniform. SCP-01-SEEK is sentient, sapient, and capable of speech.</p>
<div class="interview">
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>TRANSCRIPT</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Lague:</strong> That's not a costume?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> No.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You've been a living thing this whole time.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> Yes. Have you read my book? Everything's explained.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Yeah, I know it says you're from the Galapagos islands, but there's historical documentation of the Henson monster shop making the Phanatic.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> I've met Charles Darwin.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Have you, now?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> I've been spreading anti-evolution rhetoric for seventy years. I'm the guy who came up with school choice.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Why didn't he write about you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> I forced him not to.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> How?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> I said I'd eat him.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Why would he believe you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> I ate his assistant.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Did you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> Swallowed him whole.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Delightful.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> My nose hole unhinges like a snake.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You like eating people?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> Probably my favorite thing to do.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You're okay with that?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> Do you get mad at sharks for doing the same thing?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Sharks don't actively hunt people.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> I never said I hunt people.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Do you hunt people?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> Yeah, mostly kids. I like standing in their doorways until they notice I'm there.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Are you trying to get a reaction out of me?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> You know my hotdog gun? The dogs I put in there are made of people meat. From the people I hunt.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Enchanting.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> You ever got one of my hotdogs slung at you?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Nope.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> They're made of people meat.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I'm finding it farfetched that you are a living creature that looks like <em>that</em>, you're almost 200 years old, and you eat people.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-01-SEEK:</strong> I'm finding it farfetched that you don't think I'll eat you.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="addendum">
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">SEEKER.04</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Input Universes:</strong> 30,124,610<br/>
<strong>Parameters:</strong> 'BIG' 'SCARY' 'DANGEROUS' 'MONSTER'</p>
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<p><strong>Seeker Discovery:</strong> Anomaly is triangulated to the Everglades in Florida, USA.</p>
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<div class="scp-image-block block-center" style="width:100%;"><img alt="guy.png" class="image" src="https://scptestwiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/plaguek8/guy.png" style="width:100%;"/>
<div class="scp-image-caption" style="width:100%;">
<p>SCP-04-SEEK upon discovery.</p>
</div>
</div>
<p><strong>Truncated Description:</strong> SCP-04-SEEK is a humanoid anomaly capable of translocation through the space-time continuum.</p>
<div class="interview">
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>TRANSCRIPT</strong></p>
<hr/>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Hello?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-04-SEEK:</strong> Hey, what's up, man?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Do you live here?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-04-SEEK:</strong> Nah. I'm just chilling.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> How'd you get here?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-04-SEEK:</strong> I like to teleport.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Is that all?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-04-SEEK:</strong> I can time travel.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Have you done anything of note with that?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-04-SEEK:</strong> You ever wonder why child mortality was so bad when there were knights and kings and shit?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Not particularly.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-04-SEEK:</strong> I travel back in time to eat kids.</p>
</div>
</div>
<p><strong>Context:</strong> Director Lague holds a meeting with those attending the first Seeker tests.</p>
<div class="interview">
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>TRANSCRIPT</strong></p>
<hr/>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«BEGIN LOG»</strong></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What the fuck did you guys do?</p>
<p><strong>Chief Engr Hartwell:</strong> <em>[…]</em> Made the machine you wanted?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Why the fuck is it pumping out cannibals?</p>
<p><strong>Engr Wackerman:</strong> Maybe the AI heavily associates cannibals with the dangerous parameter.</p>
<p><strong>Chief Engr Hartwell:</strong> Maybe you need to be more specific.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Maybe I should have been more fucking specific to <em>you</em>. This machine isn't meant to find some <em>thing</em> you can just shove in a locker and call it a day.</p>
<p><strong>Chief Engr Hartwell:</strong> That wasn't in the specifications.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Read between the fucking lines!</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> Paul, you're being ridiculous.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> No, no, I'm not. This project represents billions of dollars. This project represents <em>me</em>. I need to show that this can find a world-ending threat before it causes any damage.</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> Who said that?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Who said what?</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> That you needed to find a world-ending threat. The Overseers?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> <em>I</em> need to find it. Me! I won't sit here with a billion-dollar piece of paratech that will just spit out the baby-eating Tickle-Me-Elmo. Do you understand how stupid I'd look?</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> You need to calm down.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Ant, I'm one fucking second away from sending you to 120. Jim, what's the ceiling on the amount of universes this thing can scan?</p>
<p><strong>Chief Engr Hartwell:</strong> You're just about there at thirty-five million.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I need that number bumped up.</p>
<p><strong>Chief Engr Hartwell:</strong> Are you crazy? I can't just <em>do</em> that. The entire thing will need to be reassembled.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Why?</p>
<p><strong>Chief Engr Hartwell:</strong> Technically, and <em>maybe</em>, I can move that number up to forty. But at that—</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> So you can change the numbers.</p>
<p><strong>Chief Engr Hartwell:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What's the limit?</p>
<p><strong>Chief Engr Hartwell:</strong> There isn't one. Listen, the stabilization on that machine—</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You fucking built it, Jim. You'll fix it if it breaks. Jesus Christ!</p>
<p><strong>Chief Engr Hartwell:</strong> I'm not changing the universal limit.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Suit yourself. I have no problem with that.</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> Wait a second before you do something stupid. Didn't you fail out of engineering?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Start learning Polish.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«END LOG»</strong></p>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="ooo">
<p><em>SCP-8000 soars away, retrieving 18 leather-bound books. All are emblazoned with the SCP Foundation's logo.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You're a Site Director; eight years running right now. On top of that, you're reasonably young for one, yes? Despite your appearance.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Yeah. Thanks.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8000 picks up a book and flips through its pages.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You climbed the ranks fairly quickly, mostly due to your friendships with people that mattered.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Real confidence booster there.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> That's not criticism, Mr. Paul. These are facts. You weren't unqualified, but you only got those qualifications due to the opportunities people like Ms. Moose or Mr. McInnis provided.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Anyone could have been in my same spot. No one forced me to do the work I needed to do, and no one else was in a position to be Director when I was picked.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Why are you a Site Director?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What do you want me to do? Brag? I was the most qualified man for the job. I don't know. I was in the right place at the right time.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Remember our honesty pact, Mr. Paul. Here's a conversation between you and Mr. Anthony in 1993.</p>
<div class="interview">
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> They gave that slimy fuck his own Site.</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> The Houses have dealt with the Tartareans since the 40s. It was bound to happen.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> No, that's bullshit, Ant. How is that fair?</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> I never said it was.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> He's two goddamn years younger than me! What the fuck!</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> I don't know why you're so upset. You're a senior researcher at 25. It took me until I was 34 to even sniff a project I could call my own, let alone a senior title.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I've been in a one-sided war with Randall since I joined this organization. He has the biggest leg up on me now.</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> Jesus Christ. You're impossible sometimes. Get it together and do the mountain of paperwork in your office. Sitting here and complaining to me won't make you an Overseer.</p>
</div>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I was a kid, and I was jealous.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Why were you jealous? Wasn't Mr. Randall a friend of yours?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Do you hate Mr. Randall?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I don't hate him. I never hated him. He's been a mentor to me since I started.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> But you were so hateful during that moment.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> My god, what's wrong with me?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8000 stares at Lague intently.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I thought I should have been made a Director first.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Why?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Because I thought it would erase every single fucking insecurity I have. If I beat him to the punch, no one would be able to look at me like I wasn't meant to be here.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You eventually got a Site of your own, regardless.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I did, but by then it felt like a consolation prize. Fuck, man. What am I doing to myself?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> It wasn't good enough?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> It was— It should have been. I— I wanted to do something important — <em>make</em> something that I could put my name at the top of. My entire life, I've been just one single fucking step behind. All I ever, ever wanted was to get even the smallest bit of recognition. You've seen it!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Don't you think it's a bit ridiculous to believe an organization in charge of the utmost security and safety of the universe would give someone a Site as a "consolation prize?"</p>
<p><em>SCP-8000 flips to another page.</em></p>
<div class="interview">
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I need your opinion on this, considering you're an anomaly. Containment stuff.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-5595:</strong> <tt>THE WAY YOU SAY THAT WORD MAKES IT FEEL LIKE A SLUR.</tt></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I'm losing my shit over here. Give me a break. Look, one of the junior researchers decided to get the flu today, and no one else can fill in on this boring project.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-5595:</strong> <tt>WHAT IS IT?</tt></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> A toaster that replaces the bread you put in with different types of bread. Anomalous item log entry.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-5595:</strong> <tt>I HOPE YOU VIEW THAT THING AS INFERIOR TO ME.</tt></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> When did you get so insecure?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-5595:</strong> <tt>I EMULATE YOU.</tt></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I can't believe I'm fucking sitting here typing this bullshit up. I'm a Director. This should not be my work for the day.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-5595:</strong> <tt>HAVE YOU EVER LED ANYONE IN YOUR LIFE? YOUR JOB IS TO PICK UP THE SCRAPS WHEN THE REST OF THE MICE CAN'T EAT THEM ALL. THEY — <em>I</em> — DON'T PAY YOU TO SIT AROUND AND ONLY DO WORK WHEN THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE. I WAS BETTER AT THIS JOB THAN YOU WERE, AND I WAS USURPED AFTER A MERE DAY.</tt></p>
</div>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You got what you were hunting for, and it's still not good enough.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I can't do this anymore. Can we stop, please? I get it. I get what you're trying to tell me. I swear.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Are you sure? You said you wanted recognition, but you <em>are</em> recognized. You were already successful before you became Site Director. Mr. Anthony said it himself: you reached a very high rank at a very young age, but that wasn't good enough, so you pushed further. When you became Site Director, the responsibility that came with it wasn't what you expected. It was fine, for a time, because the novelty hadn't worn off.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> The recognition doesn't matter if the hunt turns me into the world's biggest asshole. I'm at a ceiling. I have everything I wanted since I was a kid — money, power, respect, friends who care — and it's still not enough. What's there to even reach from here? There's nothing above that.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You're right. There isn't much more to reach for. Despite that, you'll try to reach for it regardless.</p>
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<div class="testfile">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<p><span style="font-size:135%;"><strong>RECOVERED DOCUMENTATION 8000.9-10</strong></span><br/>
<em>03/22/2024</em></p>
</div>
<p><strong>Context:</strong> An abridged catalog of the anomalies discovered by Seeker. Cont.</p>
<div class="addendum">
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">SEEKER.13</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Input Universes:</strong> 629,814,230<br/>
<strong>Parameters:</strong> '' 'ALIVE' 'SAPIENT' 'WEAPON' 'OLD'</p>
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<p><strong>Seeker Discovery:</strong> Anomaly is triangulated to a desert in Nevada.</p>
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<div class="scp-image-block block-center" style="width:100%;"><img alt="spaghettijones.png" class="image" src="https://scptestwiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/plaguek8/spaghettijones.png" style="width:100%;"/>
<div class="scp-image-caption" style="width:100%;">
<p>SCP-13-SEEK.</p>
</div>
</div>
<p><strong>Truncated Description:</strong> SCP-13-SEEK is a sapient humanoid resembling common depictions of cowboys in media. SCP-13-SEEK is comprised entirely of spaghetti.</p>
<div class="interview">
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>TRANSCRIPT</strong></p>
<hr/>
<p><strong>SCP-13-SEEK:</strong> Howdy there.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What's your deal?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-13-SEEK:</strong> You got a name there?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Please, come on. What's your deal?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-13-SEEK:</strong> You're in a hurry to get nowhere fast, my friend. My name's Spaghetti Jones and this is my horse, Ricky-Tony.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-13-SEEK and its horse bow their heads in unison.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What do you do?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-13-SEEK:</strong> I go where the wind takes me.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> So you do nothing.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-13-SEEK:</strong> I guess you could say that. It's a peaceful life.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What do you eat?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-13-SEEK:</strong> Food.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Like what? What's your favorite food?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-13-SEEK:</strong> I love me a nice juicy steak, rare.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Like cow?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-13-SEEK:</strong> I don't believe they make steak of any other creature.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Okay. You're a guy who's made out of spaghetti and you think it's 1870.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-13-SEEK:</strong> It's not 1870?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> If you were me, and you were looking for something amazing, would you be happy if you found you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-13-SEEK:</strong> I'm happy with myself. I think I'm a nice guy. Ricky-Tony's a sweet fella, too. I'm content. Is that so bad?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> That's not what I was asking.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-13-SEEK:</strong> You sure about that, partner? Are you happy with yourself?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I'm not happy that a billion-dollar piece of tech found <em>you</em>.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-13-SEEK:</strong> Welp, I didn't ask to be found. That wasn't an answer to my question either.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You're not good enough, I'm sorry.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-13-SEEK:</strong> My friend, as rude as you were, I hope you have a swell evening.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-13-SEEK and its horse bow their heads in unison and move away from Lague.)</em></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="addendum">
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">SEEKER.22</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Input Universes:</strong> 932,143,994<br/>
<strong>Parameters:</strong> '' 'ALIVE' 'KETER' 'HOSTILE' 'ROBOTIC'</p>
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<p><strong>Seeker Discovery:</strong> Anomaly is triangulated to a residential home in New York City, New York, USA.</p>
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<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:10%;"><img alt="elmo3.png" class="image" src="https://scptestwiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/plaguek8/elmo3.png" style="width:100%;"/>
<div class="scp-image-caption" style="width:100%;">
<p>SCP-22-SEEK.</p>
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<p><strong>Truncated Description:</strong> SCP-22-SEEK is a sapient <em>Tickle-Me-Elmo</em> branded toy.</p>
<p>SCP-22-SEEK's sapience can only be observed after a direct attempt at conversation combined with a tickling motion on its abdomen. Despite speaking like the fictional character of Elmo, SCP-22-SEEK displays no similarities to the character's personality.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>TRANSCRIPT</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Do you eat kids?</p>
<p><em>(Lague tickles SCP-22-SEEK.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-22-SEEK:</strong> Hah-hah-hah. Hah-hah-hah. No. Are you sick in the head?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> It's been a long few days.</p>
<p><em>(Lague tickles SCP-22-SEEK.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-22-SEEK:</strong> Hah-hah-hah. Hah-hah-hah. Elmo doesn't know what monster would eat kids. Elmo sticks to the adults. Much more meat.</p>
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<p><strong>Context:</strong> Dr. Cimmerian ordered Director Lague to an emergency meeting.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«BEGIN LOG»</strong></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Jer, I'm gonna be honest with you, there's not a single fucking thing you can say to me that won't piss me off.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> I don't know how gentle I need to be. I'm worried for you—</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I've done this all alone for the past godforsaken <em>month</em>. You wanted me to do the work I needed to do. I'm looking for the most dangerous anomalies we don't have contained, and I'm containing them.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> You've found 25 anomalies, most of which have a taste for human flesh.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Oh my god. I would think that you, of all people, would be able to understand how basic fucking science works! I'm <em>working</em> on it. Before you forced me into this meeting, I was almost done with the remaining adjustments.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> What do you want to find, exactly? A god?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> That wouldn't be the worst thing.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> And then what? Contain it yourself, too? You need to reevaluate this whole situation.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I am on the cusp of solving every single issue I have in my life.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> I met with the engineers. They're convinced that if you go over the 1 billion universes mark, it will end very, very badly. You have a ticking timebomb in your Site. Do you understand the danger you're putting yourself and others in?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I'm done after today. I changed some parameters, and it's going to give me exactly what I've been looking for. Last time, scout's honor. See ya!</p>
<p><em>(Director Lague exits.)</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«END LOG»</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Context:</strong> Director Lague calls a meeting with all Site-322 personnel in order to display the next anomaly discovered by Seeker.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«BEGIN LOG»</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> Lague ordered all Site-322 personnel to meet at the Seeker laboratory.</p>
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<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You're probably wondering why I've called everyone here. Today, I find my crowning achievement. The anomaly that this wonderful machine discovers today will not be a cannibal but instead will be my, and by extension, your Magnum Opus.</p>
<p><em>(Scattered applause.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> This was a lot of work. Far too much, some could even say. I've calibrated Seeker perfectly—</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> That thing is going explode.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Do you have to be so dark? Everything is all set up; parameters are in, and I even reconfigured the stabilization to account for the wormhole.</p>
<p><strong>Chief Engr Hartwell:</strong> HUH?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> All I need to do is push th—</p>
<p><em>(Camera feed dies.)</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«END LOG»</strong></p>
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<p><em>The pair journey into the darkest part of the hall. The orbs of golden light are absent, replaced by small, dim lights resembling floating shards of glass.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> To you, this hasn't happened yet. I plucked you out before, but you have made the decisions that led us to where we are now.</p>
<p><em>The shelves grow more and more empty.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> All of this will happen should I release you now and let you go alone. Do you remember your meeting before I stepped in?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> No. I mean, I remember the meeting, but I don't remember the details.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I'm always curious why this happens to my weary travelers. The forgetfulness.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8000 and Lague approach a final shelf. Immense emptiness fills the void beyond it. A single book lays on this shelf. It's white, with no back cover, as it appears to have been burnt away.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Read it.</p>
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<p><em>A discussion with a worried friend.</em></p>
<p><em>A half-baked intervention.</em></p>
<p><em>A project proposal.</em></p>
<p><em>Dishonesty to the Overseer Council.</em></p>
<p><em>A man's bold-faced obstinance and belief he's the only one who can solve himself.</em></p>
<p><em>Four creatures who don't reach the unreachable standard.</em></p>
<p><em>A man's stubborn qualities flare in the face of the last person who reaches out.</em></p>
<p><em>An avoidable mistake.</em></p>
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<p><em>Director Lague and SCP-8000 appear in a crater along the bank of a gated river. Crystalline shards lie around them, as well as chunks of concrete, rebar, and glass. The air is hot and smells of sulfur. Lague looks at his surroundings, palpable fear growing on his face.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Do you know where we are?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I—</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You know, and I know you do.</p>
<p><em>[…]</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What happened?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> The Seeker machine had a meltdown, Mr. Paul. It collapsed in on itself. Wormholes are a fickle thing, I would know. Highly unstable, but you built it up to withstand a lot. You managed to push past that boundary with your obsessive search for glory. You put in some combination of parameters that didn't exist in any known universe — something so specific, so impossible — it cracked.</p>
<p><em>Lague paces around, finding tattered clothing and lab equipment.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Your Site is gone.</p>
<p><em>Lague encounters splinters of wood that once belonged to his desk.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Your people are gone.</p>
<p><em>He digs in the mud, and finds his lanyard for his Site-322 keycard.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You are gone.</p>
<p><em>(Silence.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Mr. Paul?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You said this will happen. So, has it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> In the timeline where you didn't meet me, it did.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You stopped it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I stopped nothing, Mr. Paul. My attention was only drawn towards you because of this tragedy. I see death and destruction every day; it almost all deals with groups of people making decisions with some form of history I could look at and maybe understand their reasoning, but I told you you were a unique case. I looked through your history, hoping to find some sort of triggering event that could explain what happened, but there wasn't one. Every step of the way, you ignored your better judgment and the advice of others. You let your worst tendencies smolder into an uncontrollable blaze, and it caused this.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Why? Let me fix it, please! I can fix this. I can. I know I can. You can give me that chance, just— just put me back!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I thought maybe, <em>maybe</em> I could stop it. I could intervene right as you jump into the deep end and see if I could draw you back over the edge. Cimmerian was your last lifeline. Starting there felt only natural.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Oh my god, I can't believe this. This isn't fucking happening.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I tried, Mr. Paul. Believe me, but you're stubborn. You've been unreceptive to everything I've tried to show you.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I understood it. I understood it all; I'm just an asshole who can't look in the fucking mirror. I'm a fuck up. What does knowing that mean in the end? I am who I am. I'll never be satisfied, and that's the way it is.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> That way of thinking has only led you to where we are now.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I can't fucking fix this alone.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You can fix this by yourself. You need to reflect upon yourself; see what I see. You have success, but you need to appreciate it.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> How? How the fuck can I fix this with everything you've seen?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I saw a kid who didn't believe in himself become a man who couldn't cope with the thought that no one else would believe in him. Despite all of this, look at you now.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8000 draws a Batman logo in the sand with a flipper. Lague's eyes well with tears.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I'm not in the business of cruelty, Mr. Paul. Let's leave this place.</p>
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<p><em>SCP-8000 closes the book. The pair return to the library. The air feels more still, and the shards of light have dissipated, leaving them in almost total darkness.</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I'm not happy with myself. I never have been.</p>
<p><em>The shelves rattle.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> I know.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I can't let this happen. I can't. This— I wasn't fucking made for this.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Most of us aren't, but we all find our way. You have.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I can't let all that work and time be for nothing. I can't let everything I've worked for be rendered a crater in the middle of nowhere. I can't be this hollow fucking shell smiling through problems I made for myself.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Do you trust yourself?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Jesus Christ, what is wrong with me?</p>
<p><em>The shelves rattle violently. Echoed patters and smacks permeate the hall as books dance off the shelves and plunge to the floor.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> You may have your issues, but you have the ability to fix all of this.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> My god. I made a life and friends there. Everything I've ever worked for was in that building. That was my success. This is my success. I spent more time crying that I couldn't look myself in the mirror instead of what I did.</p>
<p><em>The ground below the pair rumbles. The flooring beneath Lague cracks as if struck by a large force. More books fall to the floor behind them, sounding like hailfall. The vines and foliage lining the shelves sway as if they're being blown by hurricane-level winds.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> <em>Do you trust yourself?</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I can't live like this anymore. I'm tired of feeling like I'm never good enough. I can't look at someone else being happy and feel awful instead of happy with them. I'm good enough. I've always been good enough.</p>
<p><em>Suddenly, the empty shelves behind Lague burst with light. The rumbling stops. The books float back up to their original spots on the shelves. The foliage returns to its regular state. The cracks remain beneath Lague.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> Mr. Paul. <em>Do you trust yourself?</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I trust myself. I can fix this.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> There it is.</p>
<p><em>The previously empty shelves are now filled with hundreds of white books of varying sizes and shapes. Lague looks at them in awe.</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> What's this?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> These are unwritten memories. Your life doesn't end prematurely anymore. Now, you can return to your home, to your friends, and to your work. You can succeed in your own way and fill these books.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Everything's determined?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8000:</strong> No, Mr. Paul. These are empty books to be written and filled with the choices you may make. You may return and disregard every bit of advice and knowledge I've given you, and these books will vanish once more. Or, you can return and give me some more reading to catch up on. This is all up to you.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:135%;"><strong>RECOVERED DOCUMENTATION 8000.9-10</strong></span><br/>
<em>03/22/2024</em></p>
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<p><strong>Context:</strong> Dr. Cimmerian ordered Director Lague to an emergency meeting.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«BEGIN LOG»</strong></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Jer, I'm gonna be honest with you, there's not— Oh <em>shit.</em> Oh my god!</p>
<p><em>(Director Lague sits across from Dr. Cimmerian.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> You're manic.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Probably! Oh, thank god.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Look, Paul, I don't know how gentle I need to be. I'm worried for you. What I've seen and read over the last month makes you seem unfit for this position. This project is a ticking time bomb. I'm worried for the safety of everyone in this Site, and moreover, I'm concerned with your safety.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I know, you're right.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Are you serious?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> <em>[…]</em> Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Oh. Alright. I feel like I'm watching you suffer in self-imposed silence. Please, and for the last time, tell me what is going on.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I—</p>
<p><em>[…]</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I should have listened to you. I know you were trying to help.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> I still am.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I'm sorry I pushed it all away, not just you, from everyone. All my life, I've been trapped in this cycle of jealousy and insecurity. I've only gotten out of it because of the people who genuinely cared for me.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend I was expecting this.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You have no fucking idea what I just dealt with. There was this seal and— and—</p>
<p><em>(Cimmerian furrows his brow.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I'm not crazy. There was a seal, and I went into this library—</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Do I need to call someone?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Fuck it. Doesn't matter.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> I'm very confused.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> A few weeks ago, you told me you were here to help me.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> And I still am.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> This whole problem for me started after I finished <a href="/plague-s-proposal">my 001 proposal.</a></p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Those are big achievements. As far as I was told, you were happy with it.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Yeah, I was happy. It's my crowning achievement. I got it all done up and published, but — like — that was it. It was well received by my peers and colleagues, I got the stamp of approval from the Council, and I went through fucking hell to get it done. The hard work paid off. The second I hit that publish button, I was on top of the world. Then… it just was. It's over. Then I was back to the real world, where I was just back— I was just <em>stuck</em> in the regular monotonous shlub work.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> You understand not everything you're going to work on will be these major projects, right?</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> No— I mean, I do now. I felt like it was only downhill from there.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> That's fair. You were returning back to your normal workload, it could be a shock to the system.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I felt like I reached the peak of my research eight years into my spot as a Director. Eight years! I couldn't shake that sense of all-encompassing dread. We have people in the Foundation who are immortal. I couldn't imagine that the rest of my life, or a prolonged life, could be spent chasing a high that might never come again. Regardless of whatever you consider a 'major project,' something like a proposal being published sets a new standard and expectations, and I couldn't reach them. I'll never be able to reach them.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> And that's—</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> It was like the day-to-day tasks — the things that were stepping stones into these larger accomplishments became a never-ending loop — a never-ending reminder that I wasn't there anymore. Responsibilities came back, and all it did was remind me that this major achievement was just a brief pause. I couldn't cope.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> I understand that. I'd be a liar if I told you you were the only person to experience that feeling.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I know, but it never feels like that in the moment.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Fair enough.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> You know what I realized?</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Hm.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> That was never <em>my</em> proposal. I didn't solve anything. The only reason I managed to get anything successful out of that clusterfuck was because everyone here stood behind me and believed I had something tangible. They were the ones who worked on the containment procedures with me; they were the ones who calmed my nerves when I thought I was going to lose this job, and they were the ones I've been ignoring for this entire shitshow I've created this last month. I wish I fucking saw it sooner.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> You have the chance to fix that now.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I know. I know I'll never be able to get rid of that feeling; I've had it my entire life, and it's brought me to heights I never could have imagined. I couldn't see the self-destruction that came with it; the lost relationships, the time wasted, the all-encompassing feeling of shit never getting better. I can cope with that. I've done it from day one, but I let it break me for the first time. It can't happen again. I won't let it.</p>
<p><strong>Cimmerian:</strong> Paul, at the end of the day, disregarding all the politics and bullshit we put on ourselves and each other, your standards are what you make them.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> God, do I know. You don't have to say that to me ever again.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«END LOG»</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Context:</strong> Director Lague calls a meeting with all Site-322 personnel.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«BEGIN LOG»</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> Lague ordered all Site-322 personnel to meet at the Seeker laboratory.</p>
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<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I know I was an asshole.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-5595:</strong> <tt>COUGH NOISE. STILL ARE. COUGH NOISE.</tt></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Thanks. I fucked up. I fucked up bad. I'm sorry; I know all of you had my best interest at heart. I've been in my own head and made it everyone else's problem for the sole reason I could. That's not a leader.</p>
<p><strong>Coix:</strong> Paul, as much as we all appreciate that, the machine is still incredibly unstable.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> I know. You have no goddamn idea how unstable it is.</p>
<p><em>(Murmurs among the personnel.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> We're going to be okay. Please don't worry. There was this seal— never mind. I'm going to sound more insane than I already have been. We're going to fix this together.</p>
<p><strong>Chief Engr Hartwell:</strong> We need to lower its universal threshold to nothing and then reactivate it. That'll restabilize everything.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Got it.</p>
<p><em>(Lague activates Seeker's GUI. Lowering the number of universes to be scanned down to 1.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> Is that right?</p>
<p><strong>Chief Engr Hartwell:</strong> Yeah. Reactivate it now.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">SEEKER.25</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Input Universes:</strong> 1<br/>
<strong>Parameters:</strong> N/A</p>
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<p><strong>Seeker Discovery:</strong> Anomaly is triangulated to the sky above Site-322.</p>
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<p><strong>Coix:</strong> That's something.</p>
<p><strong>Lague:</strong> That's the one.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«END LOG»</strong></p>
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<p>SCP-8000.</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8000 is currently uncontained.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8000 is an unidentified entity resembling an elongated Harbor Seal (<em>Phoca vitulina</em>), estimated to be 75 to 150 meters in length. SCP-8000's exact anomalous properties are unknown; based on eyewitness accounts, SCP-8000 is capable of self-propelled flight via unknown means.</p>
<p>The origin of SCP-8000 is unknown, as the entity disappeared from view soon after its discovery. A Foundation aircraft was deployed to SCP-8000's last known location, only to discover a small, self-repairing, possibly extradimensional rift lingering in present reality.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>SCP-8001</strong> - <em>The Edge of the World</em></p>
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<p>A story about the end of the story.</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Due to the relative difficulty of accessing SCP-8001 without assistance, SCP-8001 is considered to be generally self-containing. In the time since SCP-8001 was discovered by Foundation personnel and a base of operations was established therein, only three civilian vessels have come within 150km of an access point, and none met any of the other understood prerequisites for passage through those access points.</p>
<p>Mobile Task Force Ω-91 "Sentinels" will maintain a persistent perimeter around the most common access points to SCP-8001 by way of a single Raymond Howe-class patrol vessel to be anchored at the K-162 floating research platform, roughly 25km from access point "Aleph".</p>
<p>Gaining access to SCP-8001 is not a well understood process. Personnel attempting to reach SCP-8001 and the island of Last Watch should observe Protocol 8001-105 (detailed later in this document), which dictates the position, orientation, date, time of day, and atmospheric characteristics vessels are believed to need in order to pass into SCP-8001. Failed attempts to pass into SCP-8001 will result in the vessel simply ending up further west than SCP-8001's understood position, at which point vessels may return to K-162 to attempt passage at a later date.</p>
<p>SCP-8001 can only be accessed by a floating vessel. Flying machines, such as airplanes, helicopters, airships, or gliders will inevitably find themselves blinded by the clouds of water vapor that surround SCP-8001, regardless of the altitude or speed they are flying at, and regardless of their proximity to a vessel that makes successful passage. SCP-8001 causes significant interference with radar and other imaging devices, making tracking vessels passing in and out of SCP-8001 difficult. Similarly, submersible vessels cannot pass into SCP-8001 unless they are surfaced throughout their passage, as direct line of sight with Last Watch is believed to be a prerequisite required to make the journey.</p>
<p>The existence of SCP-8001 is routinely discussed within fringe internet communities and other "flat earth" groups, making information suppression of SCP-8001 relatively simple due to obfuscation by association. The existence of SCP-8001 does not negate the truth of the Earth being spherical, and the makeup of communities determined to assert the existence of SCP-8001 or discover its location (along with the rhetoric used and adjacent conspiracy theories touted as fact by their membership) act as an informal barrier against discovery by more serious civilian scientific entities.</p>
<p>Passage beyond SCP-8001 is not currently believed to be survivable. Individuals who pass over SCP-8001 are considered lost.</p>
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<p>Tower of Sunset on the Isle of Last Watch, situated on the edge of SCP-8001, as viewed by drone from the west.</p>
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<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8001 is the edge of the planet Earth. The geological, geographical, or ontological origin of SCP-8001 is unknown, and its existence in spite of the obvious and scientifically verified spherical shape of the planet exists as a logical impossibility that serves as the primary academic goal of researchers assigned to SCP-8001. SCP-8001 is <em>not</em> an extra-planar space or pocket dimension - research teams stationed at Site-99 on the island of Last Watch can be detected by GPS, can use satellites to make telephone calls or transfer information digitally, and have launched rockets or flares that are visible to persons who are not within SCP-8001's locality.</p>
<p>SCP-8001 exists as a sheer edge running north to south in the southern Pacific Ocean, over which the waters of the Pacific flow freely into an indeterminably deep void beyond. Approaches to SCP-8001 by ship are precarious - vessels can easily get caught in the rapidly moving water and be swept over the edge unless they follow a carefully charted path that maneuvers them past a series of shoals that break up the flow of water, which ends up in a sheltered bay at the island of Last Watch. This same passage can be made in reverse, allowing vessels to transit to and from SCP-8001 with relative safety, so long as they are following the correct passageway.</p>
<p>SCP-8001 creates a substantial amount of water vapor, which serves to obscure the vicinity around SCP-8001 from outside observation (SCP-8001 cannot be viewed from satellites or any other overhead camera, including those launched from within SCP-8001). It is not known how far SCP-8001 extends in the northern and southern directions, as any attempts to navigate away from Last Watch by ship inevitably ends in the vessel being swept over the edge of SCP-8001, and any attempts to do the same from the air will either become lost in or obscured by the spray.</p>
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<p>One of several remains of wooden sailing vessels wrecked on the shallow shoals around the island of Last Watch. Due to the damage incurred over many years of decay, the age and origin of these vessels are difficult to determine.</p>
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<p>The navigable portion of the waters leading to SCP-8001 end at a rocky outcrop that rises up from the sea floor, forming a small island roughly 1.2km<sup>2</sup> in area. The easternmost section of the island contains a small bay surrounded by shoals, from which the rest of the island can be accessed by way of a narrow staircase cut into the rock. At the center and north of the island is a mostly flat, wooded section upon which grow a variety of different kinds of trees, grasses and brush<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>. To the south of this area is a small rocky hill that serves as the home to a small graveyard, and to the west is a narrow outcrop of rock that hangs over the edge of SCP-8001. A robust wooden walkway protrudes out over this outcrop, allowing individuals to pass over the edge of SCP-8001 without falling.</p>
<p>It is upon the flat wooded area that the Tower of Sunset is located, a moderately sized stone structure built in many conflicting architectural styles, likely over the course of many hundreds or thousands of years. The primary exterior portions of the tower are built in the ancient Roman ionic style, with the westward facing portico being an open gallery of limestone pillars supporting a triangular pediment, which extends back into a mostly rectangular inner cella that has been added onto on all sides. There are examples of 17th century Spanish and 5th century Chinese influences, as well as more modern architecture dating as late as the early 19th century, with some fixtures being identified as originating from Britain, the United States, France, and the Netherlands. The primary (and seemingly oldest) feature of the tower is the tower itself, which is constructed in a mixture of Greek, Egyptian, Roman, and Mesoamerican styles.</p>
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<p>The reflector dish for the Tower of Sunset lighthouse.</p>
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<p>The tower serves two distinct purposes. Its primary role is as an oil lamp and reflector lighthouse, which is maintained by an 18th century automatic re-lighting system that appears to have at some point been retrofitted with more modern bearings and timing elements. The secondary role is as a library; the main floor of the tower, as well as most of the tower itself and the two small basement levels all serve as an information repository for texts and writings seemingly collected over several hundred years of exploration that ended at SCP-8001. There are examples of journals, logs, charts, maps, diaries, and other texts in a wide variety of languages, including Latin, French, Greek, Farsi, English, German, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Urdu, Portuguese, Amharic, and many others, as well as pictographic languages such as Nahuatl and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The collection also contains a single piece of modern digital media storage - an early model Sony .mp3 player, manufactured in 2003, within a watertight plastic case, which is believed to have washed up on the island entirely by chance. Despite its watertight case, the .mp3 player was damaged irrevocably by water ingress and is no longer operable.</p>
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<p>An unusually ornate section of the Tower of Sunset library, including furnishings and woodwork believed to have been repurposed from a Portuguese merchant vessel.</p>
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<p>Much care has been made to preserve the texts within the library at the Tower of Sunset, as evident by the significant amount of technology that has been fitted into the original ancient structures over many years to reduce the effects of moisture, light, and aging on the texts contained therein. Many of the texts have been transliterated from their ancient sources into newer, more resilient articles, but there are many that have decayed past the point of legibility. The oldest known piece of writing on the island, a set of Egyptian tablets dating back to what is believed to be at least 2300 BCE, are worn down past the point where they could be translated and are preserved only as a reference point. The most recent document found on the island prior to the Foundation's discovery of it in 1944, was a Chinese sea chart believed to have been printed in 1925, altered significantly in an apparent attempt by the owner to make sense of SCP-8001, and to attempt to chart a path away from it.</p>
<p>Prior to the Foundation's arrival, the island of Last Watch had a single inhabitant - a sentient mechanical construct who maintained both the library and the lighthouse, as well as being a general caretaker of the island grounds. This entity, identified as SCP-8001-A, self-identified as "Aurélie", and claimed to be the reconstituted sapience of a 16th century French explorer who had been marooned on the island at some point in the past. SCP-8001-A is a clockwork entity, whose locomotion and speech are controlled by a complex series of gears, diaphragms, pistons, and pulleys, all designed to mimic human behaviour. <em>For more information on SCP-8001-A, please see Addendum 8001.2 below.</em></p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8001.1:</strong> Discovery</p>
<p>The existence of SCP-8001 has been thoroughly debunked throughout most of human history, with early Greeks having conceptualized a spherical Earth as early as the 5th century BCE, and with Eratosthenes calculation of the circumference of the planet in 240 BCE the recognition of the Earth as a sphere became more widespread. Despite this, there have been numerous fringe groups throughout history who have, at different times, claimed the existence of the world as a flat plane with an "edge" running around its exterior. The first known exploration to discover this edge is believed to have been by the ancient Roman sailor Faust Strabo who, having set sail to discover the far west in the year 45 CE, instead ran into hardship as his ship and crew were marooned near modern day Casablanca, their vessel having been unsuitable for blue water travel.</p>
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<p>Portuguese map of the known world, circa 1502. SCP-8001 is identified in text on the far right as "Oceanus Terminum".</p>
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<p>Despite this, numerous instances of writing related to the edge of the earth persist within the historical record. Chinese writer Han Jinhai, writing in the 4th century CE, describes at length an account of fishing vessels and their crews who, having been blown off course by a terrible storm, found themselves "adrift in calm waters amidst a roaring tempest at the place where the world ends". Additionally, a 13th century account of an Indian vessel being lost on the high seas makes note of a "terrible sound in the deep sea, as if the ocean itself were spilling over, and great sheets of white foam fell from the sky onto us". While these accounts do not describe the island of Last Watch or any of the structures thereon, it does perhaps provide the first accounts of individuals who approached SCP-8001 and then returned. It is possible (and indeed likely, considering the age of the Tower of Sunset) that there were many more vessels who approached SCP-8001 and either did not leave written record of their return to the rest of the world, were unable to leave, or as is believed to be the case with the vast majority of vessels, attempted to reach or depart SCP-8001 and were sent over the edge to their doom.</p>
<p>The possible existence of SCP-8001 was first made apparent to the SCP Foundation by way of a manuscript discovered during a series of arranged document transfers between the Foundation and the Horizon Initiative. The document in question, a detailed sea chart by Russian engineer and seafarer Boris Kozlov<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup>, contained an extensive description of the nature of SCP-8001, including a depiction of the Tower of Sunset. The heading of the note reads as follows:</p>
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<p><em>A map of, and possible additional routes to, the long line at the end of the Earth, and the tall tower that rests there, which by way of a bright light gives warning to vessels in their approach to a catastrophic end which, by passing beyond, offers no hope of life or continuance of any kind…</em></p>
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<p>Due to the presumed remote location and logical impossibility of SCP-8001, no action was taken to seek out and ascertain the existence of SCP-8001. The chart was held in storage at Site-19 until March of 1942, when a Foundation vessel sailing between Panama and Auckland, NZ passed close enough to SCP-8001 to see "a lighthouse, shining clearly, where no land is charted and no abnormality is known to exist." Further investigation of the area in the year following this initial passage revealed no sign of land - however, teams working to identify the unusual sighting rediscovered the Kozlov Chart in storage and, using it as a rough guide, were able to make the first confirmed, intended sighting of the Tower of Sunset in October of 1943. Early the following year, two additional voyages were undertaken to attempt to reach SCP-8001. The first of these lost contact with a radio station in French Polynesia and was never heard from again<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>. The second expedition, lead by Captain Erol Meyer and the ship <em>SCPS Windswept</em>, found the passageway through the shoals near SCP-8001 and moored at the Island of Last Watch.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8001.2:</strong> SCP-8001-A</p>
<p>Captain Meyer, along with a contingent of researchers from Site-402, made initial contact with SCP-8001-A, who had noticed their approach and was waiting for the team near the small dock by the bay. SCP-8001-A was described by Captain Meyer as:</p>
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<p><em>…a peculiar contraption, possessing unmistakably mechanical features yet resembling a human figure in a curious manner. Clad in a modest gown and drab cloak, it boasts a slender frame of admirable craftsmanship and aesthetic appeal. Silhouetted against the light, one might easily mistake it for a woman, save for the moment it engages in conversation, dispelling any such illusion. Though its physical construction is a marvel of engineering, its method of articulation appears antiquated by contemporary standards. Nevertheless, its speech, though tinged with a discernible French inflection, is articulate and confident, bearing no resemblance to the mechanical mimicry of human speech…</em></p>
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<p>The initial interview with SCP-8001-A was conducted by Dr. Ivan Mann, who had accompanied Captain Meyer on the expedition, and was recorded. A transcript of this recording is below.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> This is a machine that can make a record of our conversation. This part here… yes, this, it is the part that captures our speech.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> Fascinating. And these moving parts?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> Magnetic film, where the sound is captured. It is both the pen and paper of the recording, to use an analogy.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> The pen and paper. I see. My voice will be stored here?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> It will, yes. Here, let me-</p>
<p><em>Dr. Mann disconnects the recorder and plays the tape back to SCP-8001-A. In his notes about this exchange, Dr. Mann called SCP-8001-A "delighted" at the sound of its own voice.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> There we go, now we're recording again. Now, on to the matter at hand. Could you tell me your name again, for our record?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> Yes. I am Aurélie.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> Who was it who constructed you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> What you see, this machine, it was built long before I came here. The original engineer was, I believe, Italian, though I do not know when it was constructed. It was kept in storage below when I arrived, and myself and my partner Armond spent some time working to complete it.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> You mean to say you were once like us?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> In some ways. The part of me that was who I was before was like you. I came here as many came here, by accident, but while the others sought to try their luck with the waters only myself and Armond stayed behind. The ship that brought us here, and the men we sailed with, did not survive the journey back.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> They went over the edge, you mean?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> Most do. Your vessel is in very unique company, I'm afraid. I have watched this tower for hundreds of years, and all but a handful of vessels who follow the lighthouse are caught in the rush of the falls and go over. Admittedly, the original builders of this tower did not seem to recognize their folly - lighthouses are built on dangerous rocks, to guide ships away from them. This may be the only lighthouse in the world where the danger is anywhere but directly towards it.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> This thing you are now, how did you end up like this?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> You must forgive me, the circumstances of my transformation are not something that is well-recorded here. My memory of the time before I became like this is limited; what I know, I know from the things I had written, and the writings of others. I know I was wounded once, why I cannot say, but it was shortly after our arrival. The former keeper of this place was a man named Oladapo - he was, I believe, the one who suggested that I become as I am now upon the termination of my previous form.</p>
<p><em>They pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> Apologies, there is not much more I remember from that time. The early incarnation of this form was incomplete, and it did take quite some time for myself and Armond to finish it.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> You said the former keeper; was there someone here when you landed?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> It is my understanding that there has <em>always</em> been someone here, in one way or another. There are records within this library going back several thousand years, and alongside them have been the notes and journals of those who, like myself, were tasked with keeping those records safe. Oladapo was the keeper before me, and Xhu before him, and Petra before him. By my count there have been sixty-three such keepers on this island of Last Watch, though it is not beyond reason that there were others who were here before there were records kept.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> You called this place the "Island of Last Watch"; I heard you say that earlier as well. Do you know where that name came from?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> The first text here that names this place is a journal written by a man named Jason, who called it the "<em>…last watch before the end</em>". His gravestone sits at the top of the stairwell coming up from the bay - you may have seen it in your passing. Written on it were the words "Jason of Iolcus, tender of the last watch", though all that remains legible now are the last three words, as the rest were lost when the stone partially collapsed some years ago. Those who arrived afterwards seemed to believe the marker was a nameplate for the island itself, and have thus identified it so.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> That's interesting. And the tower as well?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> The Tower of Sunset was first identified as such in an architectural drawing of the northern portico, likely due to an etching of a setting sun that was present in the original tower that faced in that same direction.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> Who built the tower, originally?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> I don't know. The tower predates even the oldest written record here by at least many hundreds of years. The first text here that references the tower says "<em>…built upon the very foundation of the world, in this place, a spire that rises through time itself, ancient and extraordinary…</em>". The hand that penned that line left this world more than two-thousand years ago.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8001.3:</strong> Excerpts from Collected Documents</p>
<p>The following are several excerpts from documents archived within the Tower of Sunset, provided by SCP-8001-A, which reference SCP-8001 itself.</p>
<p>From the 14th century journal of Eduardo Genevese:</p>
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<p><em>…a sight of great profundity, to behold the waves of the vast ocean surging downward into the heavens. Gazing intently into the mist, one discerns somber silhouettes – mayhap stones or vessels ensnared below, yet to plummet into the abyss. The sensation that grips the soul whilst standing upon this precipice is naught but a communion betwixt mortal and the divine. Such an overpowering apprehension of ultimate fate could only be ordained by the hand of God.</em></p>
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<p>From a 4th century text, likely Byzantine in origin:</p>
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<p>From a document written by 17th century entrepreneur and explorer John Russell:</p>
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<p><em>5th of August, the year of our Lord sixteen hundred and twenty six,</em></p>
<p><em>On this present day, the hour of man's ascendancy hath arrived! Lo, we have accomplished the craft of aerial conveyance, a marvel to behold. The fabric unfurls beneath the radiant beams of dawn, whilst His Majesty's ensign dances aloft in the breeze. Yea, this day heralds our ascent into the heavens, to venture unto those far-off realms that lie beyond the confines of our terrestrial sphere, realms hitherto untrodden by mortal foot, and from whence few have returned! Verily, the mechanical contrivance, in its semblance of sentience, hath voiced its dissent against our enterprise. Yet let it be known henceforth that the apprehensions of the Gauls shall not today dissuade the steadfast resolve of the noble progeny of England!</em></p>
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<p>From a document transliterated from its original, now lost, text:</p>
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<p><em>Before us, the earth seemed to fall away into nothingness, a sheer drop into oblivion that stretched as far as the eye could see. The horizon, once a distant promise of new horizons and uncharted territories, now marked the boundary between existence and the great unknown.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8001.4:</strong> The Journal of Lord Theodore Thomas Blackwood</p>
<p>Discovered among the documents catalogued within the Tower of Sunset is an excerpt from the Journal of <a href="/scp-1867">Lord Theodore Thomas Blackwood</a>, a self-described explorer, naturalist and "Conqueror of Uncharted Realms". Notably, Lord Blackwood is contained at Site-19 and has been classified as SCP-1867.</p>
<p>The journal of Lord Blackwood found within the Tower of Sunset archives displays the characteristic bravado of its author throughout, up until the entry describing Lord Blackwood's team having found SCP-8001. Thereafter the writing becomes noticeably concise and abbreviated, describing in short how his team surveyed the island, briefly spoke to the "clever automaton, masquerading as a Parisian, who attends diligently to the illumination of the lighthouse", before saying a prayer and departing to the east. The text of this journal was found to be so out of character for its supposed author that, shortly after having returned from his initial expedition to SCP-8001, Dr. Mann sought out a meeting with SCP-1867 to discuss it.</p>
<p>The transcript of this exchange is below.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> SCP-1867, I appreciate you taking the time to meet with me.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-1867:</strong> Well of course, it's not as though I find myself engaged in many other pursuits whilst confined to my chambers for these past several years.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> Recently I took part in a sailing expedition to-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-1867:</strong> Ah! The high seas. A favorite of mine own, during my youth.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> So I have gathered, yes. We arrived at our destination and discovered a journal of yours there we had not seen before, and not one I believe you've mentioned in the past.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-1867:</strong> Is that so? I daresay I've been quite thorough in my examination of my various past affairs with you and your associates, I can't imagine what I may have missed. Can you produce the document?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> I can, in fact - I copied some of the text here-</p>
<p><em>Dr. Mann presents SCP-1867 with a transcription of the original text. SCP-1867 moves to the edge of its aquarium and takes a moment to read the journal.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-1867:</strong> Ah. Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> This was written by you, then?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-1867:</strong> It was.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> We noticed some irregularities… in the writing, starting at this section here. I wanted to ask if you had another individual write this section, or-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-1867:</strong> No, sir. This journal was penned by my hand.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> Then the change in tone?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-1867:</strong> (<em>Pauses</em>) If you are anticipating some kind of dark revelation here, I must regrettably inform you that your expectations shall not be met.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> We just found it peculiar. Your writing generally has such… abundance, but here you've found the literal edge of the world and can't spare but a handful of paragraphs describing it.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-1867:</strong> Were you expecting something more?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> I must admit, I was.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-1867:</strong> And so was I. The expedition that led us to that locale was fraught with danger at every turn. We braved fierce tempests, encountered a fearsome kraken upon the tumultuous waves, repelled assaults from both pirates and mutineers, all in pursuit of our dearly sought destination - the very brink of existence. And then…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> And then what?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-1867:</strong> That was it. We reached the edge, and there was no further to go.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> I don't understand. You discovered something that should not exist. You returned from it, something I'm told was once a near impossibility. In all your many tales and tellings, all the incredible things you claim to have seen and experienced, what could be more monumental than this?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-1867:</strong> Indeed, that is the crux of the matter, is it not, Doctor? There was perpetually another adventure awaiting, another creature to vanquish, another maiden to rescue, or a foreign regime to topple. My existence has been one of myriad distant horizons, and in my fervent pursuit of them, I have witnessed and accomplished remarkable feats. However, the instant I perched upon that rock and gazed into the veiled expanse beyond, I sensed… naught but emptiness.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> You felt nothing at all?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-1867:</strong> (<em>Pauses</em>) That place, the roaring water and the mist, that is the last horizon. There are none beyond it - not for you, or me, or anyone else. It is the edge of the map, a place we cannot pass beyond. There are no more stories to be told there.</p>
<p><em>SCP-1867 pauses again, and turns to move back deeper into his aquarium.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-1867:</strong> Truthfully, doctor, I did experience one profound feeling when I saw that place. I realized the world is not nearly as big as I had once dreamt it to be.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8001.5:</strong> The Journal of Adán Sedano, Keeper of the Tower</p>
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<p><em>That morning I descended from the tower as the rays of the sun stretched their golden fingers across the island, casting long shadows that danced upon the edges of the tower's walls. There, beneath the shade of the ancient rosewoods, sat the aged watchman, his gaze fixed upon the distant western sky. His countenance, weathered by the years of solitary toil in the care of our archives, bore a rare tranquility as I approached to offer my aid for the day's tasks, and perhaps a tome to occupy his leisure.</em></p>
<p><em>It is his smile that lingers most vividly in my memory - a serene expression that had eluded him for many a season. The passage of time had etched deep furrows upon his visage, yet on that morn, his gruff demeanor gave way to a moment of geniality as he bid me join him in silent contemplation, the morning light shimmering upon the drops of water.</em></p>
<p><em>Inquiring after my youth, he sought tales of my past life in the Holy Land, of my lineage and upbringing. Recollections of distant memories stirred within me as I recounted my aspirations of exploration and worldly discovery, while he, in turn, recounted his own past endeavors and aspirations. "Once," he confessed, "I harbored dreams of following in my father's footsteps as a carpenter, a shipwright. Yet fate had other designs."</em></p>
<p><em>In the ensuing discourse, he regaled me with tales of his travels, his loves, his fears, and the myriad wonders and oddities encountered in his journeys across distant lands. Enthralled, I listened intently as he spun his tales into the weft of time.</em></p>
<p><em>As twilight draped its cloak upon the world, he turned to me with a gaze brimming with fervent resolve, as though seeking answers within my very soul. He spoke of the enigmatic nature of our abode, where countless odysseys had reached their terminus, their mysteries left unresolved. In a voice weighted with solemnity, he posed a question that lingered in the air like the echoes of a forgotten lament: What worth, he asked, did such answers hold for a man? What worth did they hold for me? Bereft of an adequate response, I could only ponder his words in silence.</em></p>
<p><em>That night, he bestowed upon me his cherished journal, bidding me to add it to our repository come the morrow. "Tomorrow," he declared, "let it join the annals of our record. I fear I have naught more to impart."</em></p>
<p><em>Come the dawn, I awoke to find him gone, leaving behind naught but folded robes and sandals beneath the ancient rosewoods. His absence lingered as a silent testament to the transient nature of existence, and I never beheld his countenance again.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8001.6:</strong> Dialogue with SCP-8001-A</p>
<p>The following is a transcript of a conversation between Dr. Ivan Mann and SCP-8001-A, upon the former's return to SCP-8001-A in 1948<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup>. SCP-8001-A had approached Dr. Mann while he was transcribing his own recorded notes, allowing him to easily record their conversation.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> There, now we're ready. What's on your mind?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> I was wondering - you have spent much time here studying the archive. I have spent much, much more time than you doing the same. I am wondering now what your summation is of these texts, to see if my own analysis somehow falls short of biological humans.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> I sincerely doubt you have any such shortcomings. As for these books, it is difficult to say. So many of them end the same way. They're either delusional, and preparing to sail over the edge and to their deaths, or they're distraught about what this place is, what it means.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> What do you mean?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> Well… what kind of person finds a place like this?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> Sailors, generally.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> No no, I mean… what are the characteristics of the kind of person who would seek out a place like this? Who sees the edge of a map and desires to travel to it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> Those with an intrepid spirit, I would suppose. Adventurers, explorers.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> Yes. Those who want to write stories, and have their stories be known. They aren't so different from myself, you know - in many ways, what I'm doing here is something of an adventure as well. The information we're gathering may be different, but the reason we're doing it is the same. You see a part of the map that isn't filled in, and you go there to find out what's missing.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> I see.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> So they come here, and they find this place, and they realize… this is all it is. They can't travel any further past this point. Even now, with our modern technology, the very nature of this place is a wall beyond which the knowledge of man does not extend. All those stories, and all those storytellers - this place is anathema to them. It's the back of the book.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> I understand. I have often wondered about them, the ones I have met. I have spent a considerable amount of time here, but my focus has been on maintaining this tower, and the library, and the grounds. Maintaining the graves on the hill, and tending to the trees and grasses. I admit, I have not often considered the meaning of this place, or what a place like this means to those who find it. I once considered it perhaps a deficiency in the construction of the form I now inhabit, but… perhaps not.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> What do you mean?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> I once told you about how I came to be here, and told you about my friend Armond. In truth, I believe that before my transfiguration we had been more than friends, for the tenderness he showed me during the early years of my new life was, in retrospect, unusually sincere. There were many years at the beginning where I was unable to move adequately, to help him with the tasks around the island after Oladapo passed away, and it would be even more years until I was able to speak to him. But every day he would spend time with me, working on the mechanisms that keep me alive, making me more of what I had been before. At night, we would sit together outside and he would sing to me, songs I must have loved once. Songs like from a dream.</p>
<p><em>They pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> When I could speak, he helped to teach me about what I had lost. We became lost in our books, in these ancient scrolls and catalogues. I think Armond realized then what I would not understand for some time after - the time I had been granted was significantly more than what he had left. Our work was feverish, but he was never unkind. He would tell me how happy he was to be here with me, at the end of all things. He told me that even if we could not be together forever, he was content to have had the chance to be with me now.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mann:</strong> What happened to him?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> I cannot explain it, not truly. One day I realized he had grown old - he was slow to rise, and had trouble seeing. But he was still tender and kind. I remember one day we were sitting together, speaking as we often did about how this place had ever come to exist. He was quiet, for a time, and then told me that he did not know for certain, but that he believed that there had once been many places like this in the world - parts of the map that had not been explored. All of them, he said, would eventually be filled in, but not this one. "<em>What a miracle,</em>" he had said. "<em>What a miracle, to not know what comes next. What greater mystery could there be than this?</em>"</p>
<p><em>They pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> He walked out past the end of the pier, one night. I ran to him, afraid that he would fall, but he never fell. He took one step, and then another, and continued to walk as the sun set in front of him. He turned back one more time before the sun slipped into the darkness below, and for just a moment I could have sworn he was young again. He smiled at me, and waved, and then he was gone.</p>
<p><em>They pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8001-A:</strong> Maybe there is nothing beyond these falls, Ivan. Maybe this really is the end of the story. There are so many who believe that to be true. But perhaps… perhaps it's not the back of the book. Perhaps this is just the turning of the page. Perhaps, even here at the edge of the world, there are still stories left to be written.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. The origins of these plants are widespread, with many of the species being native to continents far from each other.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. b. 1845, d. 1903</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. It is currently believed that the vessel in question, the <em>SCPS Rattlesnake</em>, was caught in a storm and capsized prior to reaching SCP-8001.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. Dr. Ivan Mann made nine separate expeditions to SCP-8001 between 1944 and 1972.</div>
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<p><strong>Torres:</strong> The bird’s still dead for what, months yet? Years? We don’t need to worry.</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> We don’t know that. And even if it is, that just leaves us with a ticking time bomb right beneath our feet.</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> They’ll come up with something. They’re in the hurt business.</p>
<p><em>[The intercom buzzes.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Intercom:</strong> Director Torres, critical patients inbound from Site-17.</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> Thank you. I’ll be out shortly.</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> They are just going to keep shooting it. We need to come up with something. The tests, the injuries. Nothing’s doing it.</p>
<p><em>[Sams points to a printout paper on Torres’ desk. On it is the photo of a small, stout woman with cropped gray hair.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> She’s our ticket.</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> You can’t know that. What do you want me to do?</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> Just fund a basic inquiry. Let us pull her vitals and her history, get a plan together. If we need to move, we can have it ready.</p>
<p><em>[Torres sighs.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> All right, I’ll fund it, a <em>bit</em>. But we don’t need to do anything yet. The bird’s still steady, and she’s likely… Under our influence. We can sit on it for the time being.</p>
<p><em>[The two stand, putting on their coats. They move to the door and look out, checking wearily up and down the yellowing, linoleum hall.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Elsewhere in the hospital, something is catching fire.]</em></p>
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<h3 id="toc0"><span>BY ORDER OF OVERWATCH COMMAND AND AEONIAN HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC.</span></h3>
<p><strong>Welcome to Aeonian Health! This document describes a core infrastructural element of the SCP Foundation. You are encouraged to read it. However, in light of rapidly-evolving circumstances, some information may be limited to those with level 4-8002 clearance.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8002</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Thaumiel</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> To prepare for your visit to SCP-8002, follow all pre-appointment instructions carefully. This may include information about what you may eat or drink before you arrive, what medications to take, or which anomaly classes to avoid. Make sure to check your information packet for the correct arrival point—traveling with someone else is advised, as SCP-8002’s on-site Way may be confusing for first-time users. Personnel and AiCs will be standing by in the atrium to direct you to your appointment.</p>
<p>For more information about your visit, please consult the instructions given by your provider. The remainder of this file will follow standard SCP Foundation anomaly documentation guidelines.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8002 is the SCP Foundation’s primary hospital and medical center, a vast subterranean complex incorporating both outpatient clinics and inpatient treatment facilities for up to 150,000 simultaneous patients.</p>
<p>Many of the mechanisms employed in SCP-8002’s operations are either mundane or commonplace among Foundation facilities. Its core anomaly, however, is CLERIC, an anomalous life support system and biological regeneration engine created by the Medical Division. CLERIC emits a variety of electromagnetic energy in the far ultraviolet range known as Cleric Radiation (CR), which provides a variety of benefits to the exposed:</p>
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<li>Faster and more efficient hemostasis</li>
<li>Rapid tissue proliferation</li>
<li>Reduced incidence of infection</li>
<li>Reduced incidence of infectious disease transmission</li>
<li>Reduced incidence of cancerous cell growth; fewer cellular transcription errors</li>
<li>Reversal of, and recovery from, otherwise-untreatable anomalous conditions</li>
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<p>When combined with SCP-8002’s industrial-scale quick care systems, CLERIC allows the Foundation to facilitate mass, rapid, and discrete treatment of civilians affected by anomalous events, admitting and treating as many as 12,500 patients per hour. CR is the first-line method of treatment for a large variety of anomalous conditions, and forms a vital part of the organization's operational infrastructure.</p>
<p>For staff, the Foundation operates SCP-8002 as a healthcare conglomerate under the name Aeonian Health Systems, Inc (AHS). AHS is a core part of job security plans for many Foundation personnel; current estimates predict as many as 86 percent of Foundation staff members will visit SCP-8002 for CLERIC therapy at least once during their careers, as exposure to anomalous harm remains commonplace despite the organization’s efforts to improve containment security.</p>
<p>CLERIC itself is housed deep beneath SCP-8002 in a secure area of the facility. The system is self-maintaining, and access is forbidden. A full description of CLERIC, as well as its design, location, and the suspected reasons behind its gradual failure over the next 18 months, are available later in this document to personnel with Level 4-8002 clearance.</p>
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<em>Maslov, Andrea. MD, AMD</em><br/>
<em>Clearance Level 3</em><br/>
<em>Specialties: Neurology; Recurring Anomalies (RA); Chronic pain</em></p>
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<p>Dr. Maslov joined Aeonian Health Systems in 2021 after 18 years of service as a Foundation Mobile Task Force field medic. A former Type Red “rejuvenator,” she now works with victims of chronic injury or illness who cannot be fully treated by CLERIC. In her spare time, she enjoys bouldering, pulp romance novels, and gardening, especially root vegetables and winter gourds.</p>
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Patient: Peck, Henry<br/>
Provider: Maslov, Andrea</p>
<p>Patient is a 36-year-old man presenting with subacute craniofacial pain on the right side. Pain began after accidental exposure to SCP-█████, and is consistent with others exposed to the same anomaly. Patient visited a topside otolaryngology clinic six weeks ago and was advised to try anti-allergy medications; he failed these treatments, and was referred to SCP-8002 by a supervisor after he began experiencing auditory hallucinations.</p>
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<p><em>[Peck sits nervously on a yellow couch in a yellowing linoleum room bathed in tepid light. There is a knock on the door.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Co—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I come in.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov enters. She is a short, explosive woman in her sixties, with close-cropped gray hair and a strong frame wrapped in aqua blue medical scrubs. She wears no coat, no gloves, and weather-worn white crocs adorned with pumpkins. Behind her trails her young technical assistant.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Maslov. My pleasure, yes.</p>
<p><em>[She extends her hand to Peck, grasping his once and squeezing it before withdrawing.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Let’s discuss you. You are hurting for some time in the face?</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Well— Yeah, uh… Yes. About six months? Six months.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> We will fix.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov consults his chart.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Tried sinus treatments?</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Yeah, it’s not my sinus.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Obviously not. It’s your nervous system. We have plenty better for that than the, ah, the water pot you pour in the nose?</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Ha! Yeah. I’m, ah. Looking forward to your help.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov looks him up and down.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You don’t need me. You need CLERIC.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I mean—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> CLERIC is magic. Magic and robot. Magic robot doctor. Far better than babbling old woman like me.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Right. I’ve heard about it. But well…. I heard—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Are you scared of robots? Hardly feasible in our line of work. Did you see the one they have now that is like giant samurai in hat which men can ride inside? And here I thought we were in budget crisis. You would think—</p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> Doctor.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach. Apologies. But you do not want the CR therapy?</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Well no, it isn’t that. I just…</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Doctor Maslov, I heard you can, ah…</p>
<p><em>[Peck pauses.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach. Yes. I should have understood sooner.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I’m— sorry, I didn’t mean—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> No, no. I will explain to you.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov begins to take off her shirt.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Uh. Doctor, I uh—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Calm yourself, you are not so lucky as that. Look.</p>
<p><em>[She pulls up her undershirt, exposing her abdomen. A huge, black mark is there, running along her side. It seems to bubble, coursing along the skin like a living thing. Peck shivers.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> No good, eh? This thing has been in me for three years. I will put away now since Maggie and I just have had our lunch.</p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> Thank you, doctor.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov replaces her shirt.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I know what you came to me wanting. But I cannot do it. Not any more.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> If I didn’t have the mark, could heal 200 MTF soldiers at once. But now, always healing this. Can barely get over a cold. If I were not so gifted it would have killed me long ago. It just sits, and…</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Sits and drains.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I’m sorry.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Pah. Well….</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Yes, is terrible. Would love to say otherwise. People always want a happy story. But… Pah.</p>
<p><em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> …Does it hurt?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Often.<br/>
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<em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> It just. It consumes you. You know?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Da.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I— I know my face is nothing like that.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Not true. These pains, one is no better than another. We live with what we get.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> It’s just. God.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I can’t stop thinking about it. I can’t stop, I…</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> It hurts. All time time. I have to…</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I have to—</p>
<p><em>[Peck cuts himself off.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Mr. Peck.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I will not let you live in pain. You understand?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I cannot give you what you wanted. But I can give you CLERIC.</p>
<p><em>[Peck gulps.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I— I don’t know. I’ve heard— I’ve seen some things from other people. Other staff at -19.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Da. There are rumors around it. Natural given the miracle of the thing. Also, Foundation is masterful generator of conspiracies. Half my staff are convinced gumball machine in the atrium is actually the site director. I wish I were inventing this.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov turns to her tech.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> It is inanimate!</p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> I saw it move, doctor.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Pah!</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Well… All is to say, if you want to try medical therapy I will not blame you. A drug called oxcarzantine works on your condition somewhat. It will bring a little relief. But I…</p>
<p><em>[Maslov looks at her hands.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I want to heal you. To take care of you fully.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> And so I suggest CLERIC. I believe it to be safe for you, in small doses, despite these rumors. It is my recommendation.</p>
<p><em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Can I show you?</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Ok.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov stands. She goes to the wall and retrieves a small, bright orange box on a cord. It has a black button on it. Maslov puts Peck’s hand on the button.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> This switch, lowers shielding around this room. It will expose us to CLERIC and allow its radiation to enter. Just for a moment, ok? We can cut off any time.</p>
<p><em>[Peck looks at the switch, then at Maslov.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Just for a moment?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Da, da.</p>
<p><em>[Peck pushes the switch.]</em></p>
<p><em>[The room is bathed in white light. Maslov’s side, and Peck’s right jaw, ignite suddenly in red flames. Peck screams.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Does it hurt?</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> …No, it—</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> It’s gone? The pain is gone!</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Yes. Isn’t it something?</p>
<p><em>[Both Maslov and Peck settle back into chairs, burning.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> This is much like it, you know. What I could do before.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov closes her eyes.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> It won’t cure us. CLERIC, it does not work on chronic harms, which—sorry to say to you—is what you and I both have. But it holds them at bay. We must simply return and be re-treated.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> For now, you would return twice weekly. Should keep you without pain.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Twice… Weekly?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Da.</p>
<p><em>[Peck hesitates for a moment, looking at the fire on Maslov’s side. He licks his lips.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> It’s all right. Will get used to—</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> No.</p>
<p><em>[Peck pushes the switch. The light and fire fades.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> No, I don’t want that.</p>
<p><em>[Peck stands, putting on his coat.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> How it felt, I—I don’t want that. What they said about it.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I’ve seen them, doctor. I’ve seen how their eyes look. How they sweat, how they breathe. I do not want this.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov sighs.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I understand. Still, please allow me to offer you at least some treatment. I will prescribe oxcarzantine. Is an antianomaly seizure medication, a mild drug. Will you try this much?</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Thank you, doctor. I—</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I’m sorry you couldn’t help more.</p>
<p><em>[Peck leaves.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach. Well.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov turns to her tech.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> His loss, eh?</p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> Yes, doctor.</p>
<p><em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> How, ah, how long was he to be here for?</p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> Until 3:30, ma’am.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> 26 more minutes. Da. Well, I’ll be… working here on charts. Return at 3:28, yes?</p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> Yes, doctor.</p>
<p><em>[The tech leaves. Maslov is alone in the room.]</em></p>
<p><em>[She waits for a moment, then picks up the CLERIC exposure switch. In a moment, she is burning again.]</em></p>
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<p><strong>Incident 2023-06-23-1</strong></p>
<p>On 2023-06-23, a critical containment breach necessitated mass treatment at SCP-8002. Affected population included 24,019 civillains and 146 Foundation personnel. Per CLERIC access protocol, civilians were prioritized; among staff, urgent personnel were queued behind civilians to be revitalized and returned to field work, while others were waitlisted for Aeonian Health provider availability with 4-6 months.</p>
<p>Civilians were triaged for access and placed into SCP-8002’s Mass Treatment and Amnestic Processor (MTAP).<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> However, while MTAP successfully resolved at least 17,000 cases, the system concluded its descent without fully treating the remainder. Recognizing this, MTAP refused to reset to its starting point, trapping the civilians on board and allowing their infections to worsen for 38 minutes before staff took notice. Anomalously-affected passengers subsequently broke free of their restraints and harmed one another, resulting in ████ casualties and partial contamination of SCP-8002 and the MTAP system.</p>
<p>Analysis has determined that CLERIC failed to subject passengers to sufficient CR during MTAP’s descent, despite routinely providing sufficient radiation in the past. Testing has since determined that the total CR submersion of SCP-8002 has been dropping sitewide since at least 2019. Containment specialists and armed security personnel have been dispatched to CLERIC’s security chamber in an attempt to reinvigorate the system.</p>
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<p><em>Note to site administrators: I’m sure you’ve all seen those estimates prepared by the Financial Office about the huge financial losses that we’d suffer if we lost SCP-8002’s Cleric Radiation. Rest assured that we’re on top of it. Caregivers are being asked to make overtime hours available to meet the demand, and we’re looking into rationing CR access for nonessential staff. This isn’t a popular choice, since it leads to long wait times—so, please let me know if you or your families need care. You can contact me, and we’ll work around the lines.</em><br/>
<em>- Dir. Torres</em></p>
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<p><strong>Care log</strong><br/>
Patient: Tuck, Hamden<br/>
Provider: Maslov, Andrea</p>
<p>Patient is a 26-year-old man and member of MTF Omicron-112 (“Bartholomew’s Unlikely Circumstances”). Patient presents with spontaneous lower leg pain after routine patrol in Perth; has not experienced similar pain in his recollection. Pain is worse when standing, but not when walking, and worse in the right leg than the left. Other members of his patrol all report similar pain with identical time of onset. Symptoms are similar to those of other known sufferers of acute attacks of so-called “Perth’s Knockers” after anomalous influence of an uncontained SCP-█████ instance in the area.</p>
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<p><em>[Maslov enters, talking on the phone. Her tech trails behind.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Yes, I think—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> No, you should not remove bandage because is sparkling underneath. Did you forget who you work for? Keep on until I can see you.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Yes. Talk tomorrow.</p>
<p><em>[She hangs up.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Apologies. Now they have us working telephones now in addition to halls. Less CLERIC healing means more to do for us, and already there were too few on the floor.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Believe me, I understand.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov extends her hand.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Maslov.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Lt. Tuck. Hey, do you need a second? Don’t wanna be rude, but you’re, uh, sweating.</p>
<p><em>[Tuck wipes his hand on his shirt.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach! The nerve of these young people! I am working hard, but perfectly well. Let’s discuss you, yes?</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Yes, ma’am, whatever you like.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov consults her charts.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You are MTF?</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Yes, ma’am. Operational security.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I was a field medic for many years. Saw plenty like this.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov gestures at Tuck’s leg.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Kockers just needs ziancin medications and rest. Even without CLERIC, you will be well soon.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> That’s a relief. I knew you were the one to see.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Oh? Did you request?</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Well, more like got lucky. I’ve been on an, uh.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> List for months?</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Well, just weeks for me. They let me jump because I knew the commander.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> So it goes these days. Only way to get timey care is to know somebody.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> But I was happy to see you were a former MTF. It’s thanks to folks like you I’m even here now. Thanks for your service, doc.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> And yours, my friend, and yours. Where are you based?</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Operations security, out of Site-189.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> 189! Oh, the memories. I was there many times. Have they fixed the plumbing?</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Of course not.</p>
<p><em>[Both laugh.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Doctor, have you seen, I don’t know, more? Of us, lately?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> What, young smelly men?</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> More or less. I mean, more MTFs.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Oh lord, yes! The whole hall is full of you. Is command on some large operation?</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> No, not at all. If anything it’s been quiet. I was more asking because…</p>
<p><em>[He looks toward the open door, where Maslov’s tech stands. Maslov nods to her.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Maggie, this young man wants to rat out trillion dollar shadow organization. Please give us a moment.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Wait, what—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Don’t worry, she is used to it.</p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> Yes, doctor.</p>
<p><em>[The tech leaves, closing the door behind her.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Tell.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Are you sure she's not going to—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Pah! I should have known better than to joke with opsec.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> All right, all right. It’s just… It’s command. They’re not really adjusting.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Adjusting to?</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Well, I think they’re used to having 8002 on hand to stitch us up. Dunk us in their radiation, then right back in the field.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> You’ve read a thousand MTF after-action logs. They’re in every file. How many of them actually had a trained medic along?</p>
<p><em>[Maslov grunts.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Few.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> But even now that CLERIC’s on ration… They’re still just throwing us in wherever they want.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Like, ok, here’s an example. On our last trip, we got to the drop point and pretty much immediately, Delta goes down.</p>
<p><em>[They share a knowing look.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tuck (simultaneously):</strong> It’s always Delta.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov (simultaneously):</strong> It’s always Delta.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> We radio command and they say move him outside and leave him and Beta out there, they’ll send a pickup. Delta’s our comms guy, so someone grabs the kit and we keep going forward. We get a good ways in, three hours maybe, and another two more guys go down. Nasty memetic stuff, we have to get them out right then, so we pull back. It’s three hours to the entrance, plus another 90 minutes because we’re carrying these guys who can’t really… use their appendages, I guess is how I’d put it. By the time we get out, it’s been maybe eight, nine hours since we saw Delta and Beta.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Doc, they were still there. Pickup never showed. We found out later command radioed 8002 dispatch rather than the closer site they were supposed to, and dispatch is so overloaded they deferred it and it got lost in the network.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Pretty damn near cost Delta his leg.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov spits—then hastily wipes it up.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Fuckers.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Yeah, that’s pretty much how we felt.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> They approved CR, and it covered their ass, but…</p>
<p><em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> I wonder if that’s all 8002 has been doing all this time. Covering their ass.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> There’s no medics at other sites, no training increase. They’re still <em>cutting</em> budget.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> And now, without CLERIC, I don’t think they know what to do for us.</p>
<p><em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Maslov’s tech knocks.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> Doctor Maslov, two minutes.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach. Thank you Maggie.</p>
<p><em>[The tech leaves.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Four more patients this hour.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> But… it’s already 4:30.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Da.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov stands.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Doc, do you think… Will they fix CLERIC? Do they know how?</p>
<p><em>[Maslov considers him for a while.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I believe they will.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Is not an excuse for this. Throwing you away. Forever they are tainted by this.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> But I believe they will fix it. I believe we can depend on help from them.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Well, no. That is not what I mean. Do not think of it like— depending on them. What I mean is… The Foundation, it is one of the places to look. It is not a bad place to look. But ultimately we are caring for ourselves, finding the resources which we can.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> By accepting help, we care for ourselves. Da?</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> …Sure, doc. I'll keep that in mind.</p>
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<p><strong>Incident 2023-07-10</strong></p>
<p>As CLERIC function has continued to deteriorate, staff care wait times have exceeded one full year. To reduce waits, Aeonian Health has extended its night and weekend hours for non-CLERIC care, and required providers to attend to more patients per floor, leading to environments in which multiple anomalous hazards may be mixed without full staff attention. On 2023-07-10, outpatient clinics in memetics wing sublevel 8d were filled nearly to capacity when a hitherto unrecognized interaction occurred between two different infohazards in adjacent rooms, spreading a hostile memetic and physiological effect throughout the floor. This effect partially degloved victims’ hands and feet, causing distress and leading to a crush for the exits before command ordered sublevel 8d sealed and protective antimemes fired. These antimemes erased the memories of all providers and patients on sublevel 8d (roughly 3,600 people) for the past three weeks. This likely contained the anomaly; however, per protocol 8002-CASK, sublevel 8d will remain sealed until CLERIC can be fully restored.</p>
<p>Restoration of full CLERIC functionality is now an alpha priority Foundation-wide. MTF resources and firefighters have been recruited from other sites, and ballistics engineers are currently awaiting clearance upgrades to Level 4 so they may begin work in the chambers beneath SCP-8002.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>Note to site administrators: We've gotten repeated asks from care staff to recruit and train more medics while the CLERIC problems continue. These requests are denied. While I understand your concern, our estimates suggest we may revive CLERIC fully within the next few months. Please also do not reduce your activity for fear of injury to personnel—though we do urge you, as always, to keep financial outcomes in mind in this uncertain period. To ensure that CLERIC hours are available to priority administrators and MTF, care staff have been asked to select 16 weeks in the next calendar year for additional overtime hours.<br/>
- Dir. Torres</em></p>
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<p><strong>Care log</strong><br/>
Patient: Lam, Elizabeth<br/>
Provider: Maslov, Andrea</p>
<p>Patient is a 57-year-old woman in long-term care for anomalous pain managed with multiple medications. She presents with newly-intensified issues following CR rationing for nonessential personnel. Due to communication problems resulting from her condition, her wife, Vivian Xi, accompanies her to her appointments.</p>
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<p><em>[Maslov is sitting alone in a room, bathed in white light. Her side is smoldering. There are loud voices and footsteps outside in the hall; the entire floor is packed with patients.]</em></p>
<p><em>[A nurse pokes her head through the door.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Nurse:</strong> Doctor Mas—</p>
<p><em>[The nurse gasps. Maslov leaps up, covering her burning wound. She switches off the CR.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Nurse:</strong> Doctor, were you—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach, have you not heard to knock? Is a hospital, who knows what goes on here!</p>
<p><strong>Nurse:</strong> Um, yes… Ma’am, you’ve got an emergency call from a Mrs. Lam? I know it’s your break, so we asked Gates, but he—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> No! Do not send Liz Lam to Gates. I will take her.</p>
<p><strong>Nurse:</strong> Thank you, ma’am. I’ll send her in.</p>
<p><em>[The nurse leaves. Maslov sighs, rubbing her eyes. She is shaking slightly.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Mrs. Lam and Mrs. Xi enter. Xi is guiding Lam gently by the arm. The two sit down.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Good to see you again Liz, Vivi. Forgive me for writing while you talk. Have to take my own recordings. My tech Maggie often does, but is away. Her father was one of those trapped in 8d, that floor sealed off by management. Perhaps you heard of it? Questionable choice, highly questionable, but—</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Lam:</strong> I want CLERIC.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Oh, ach, well—</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> There’s not much available, honey. We have to stop it for now.</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Lam:</strong> I need it to live. I need it to live.</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> Well, we’re going to find another way. You’ll see.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Vivi, do not worry, we prescribe this very carefully in small doses. It is safe and authorized in this case to—</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> Dr. Maslov, may I speak to you please?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Oh, ach? Da. For a moment.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov and Xi step aside.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> Is Cleric Radiation addictive, doctor?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ah… Hmm?</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> Do people get addicted to this radiation?</p>
<p><em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Why do you ask?</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> My wife hasn’t been herself in months, ever since her higher-dose treatments began. She always wants to be back here for the next submersion. She has shaking and sweats, and her communication is getting even worse.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Hmm.</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> She never stops asking to come back for more. Just this morning she wouldn’t even look at me, or our daughter, until we told her we’d take her back here and ask.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov is silent.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> I looked into it in the SCP-8002 records, and it just describes the impacts of increased immersion? There’s no public information on any risks or testing or anything else I’d expect to see, especially in a Foundation file.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Yes. It is assumed to be so-called “anomalous medicine” and typical tests often are not performed.</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> So you don’t know if it’s addictive?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> The Foundation has been relying upon it for years. It heals many people. But to tell you true… I am not sure.</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Lam:</strong> I want CLERIC!</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> If you don’t know whether this treatment is harmful—if you don’t even know how it works—how can you keep prescribing it in such high doses to my wife?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Well, I— Well hold a moment. In reality my prescriptions are quite moderate. I follow guidelines for dose reduction. I would not prescribe such if I believed it would do harm.</p>
<p><em>[Pause.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> Doctor… Oh god, you know, don’t you?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Know?</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> You all know what it’s doing to her. And you keep giving it.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Vivian, my dear. I am a physician. I would under no circumstances bring hurt to—</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> I thought when we switched to a female provider it would finally be different. You know it took us two years before Dr. Sams even acknowledged my wife was sick at all? And now you’re prescribing something you know is poisoning—!</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Stop that now!</p>
<p><em>[Silence. Mrs. Xi glares at Maslov, clenching her fists. Maslov looks coldly back.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I would never do this. You think I am in a conspiracy? To give more of something I know does harm?</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> …</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> The Foundation… Well— pah, they are not perfect. But CLERIC, it is a miracle, an unthinkable thing. A treatment with benefits we are lucky to have.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Addiction? There is simply no—</p>
<p><em>[Pause. Maslov rubs her side briefly, then drops her hand.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> …I am not prescribing a high dose today, and I will monitor carefully.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov writes her orders and gives them to Mrs. Xi. Then, she grasps her hands.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ma’am, I promise you, I am on your side. For now, however, I must get your wife out of pain.</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> …Ok. I understand.</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> We just… I’m so scared of what this might do to her.</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> We need you to do better, Dr. Maslov. All of you.</p>
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<p><strong>Incident Log: 2024-01-17</strong></p>
<p>The Foundation has been unsuccessful in restoring CLERIC’s functionality. With SCP-8002's CR immersion at near zero, SCP-█████ broke containment on 2024-01-17 and made its way to downtown █████████, New York, USA. Initial casualties were 13,409, with exposed persons fanning out to the surrounding countryside and creating additional instances. Full casualties to date are unknown. The anomaly remains uncontained.</p>
<p>CLERIC exposure is the only known treatment for victims of SCP-█████. Until CLERIC is restored, site personnel in the US-East region have been placed on lockdown to await further instructions. The Overseer Council has authorized SCP-8002 site staff to use any means available to reinvigorate the CLERIC engine.</p>
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<p><strong>Care log</strong><br/>
Patient: Richards, Oscar<br/>
Provider: Maslov, Andrea</p>
<p>Patient is a 47-year-old male with mundane lower back pain. Per the request of the site director, he is being considered for immediate CR immersion, and has been admitted to the floor 8 clinic.</p>
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<p><em>[Maslov enters. She is visibly exhausted and shaking. There is shouting outside in the hall.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> All right. Mr… Ah, Mr…</p>
<p><strong>Richards:</strong> Richards.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Mr. Richards. I ordered prescription for gabapentin as discussed. This is to take on regular dose of—</p>
<p><strong>Richards:</strong> That’s not mine.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ah, hm? You are not—</p>
<p><strong>Richards:</strong> I’m Oscar Richards.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You are Oscar. So sorry.</p>
<p><strong>Richards:</strong> Mhm.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Here, explain to me your condition once more.</p>
<p><strong>Richards:</strong> Why? Did you forget?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ah, well—</p>
<p><strong>Richards:</strong> You saw me half an hour ago and I explained everything. Then you left me here and said you’d be back.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov swipes through her forms. There are 40 of them in this hallway alone.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Of course. Yes, you were here for… You have the back, yes?</p>
<p><strong>Richards:</strong> Now you’re getting it.</p>
<p><em>[Another doctor leans into the room.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Doctor:</strong> Maslov! How long does it take to bring a scrip? We need you out here!</p>
<p><strong>Richards:</strong> Look, I’m just trying to get CLERIC authorization.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> CLERIC? But is a crisis, almost none left, we do not have—</p>
<p><strong>Richards:</strong> I don’t know anything about that. All I know is I’m in pain and it’s time to reauthorize me.</p>
<p><strong>Richards:</strong> Can you handle signing on the line?</p>
<p><em>[Richards slides a CLERIC authorization form across the table. It is mostly illegible, but on the bottom is the clear gold stamp of the Site Directors’ council. Richards taps his pen on it.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Richards:</strong> See what I mean?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> …Da. I see perfectly well.</p>
<p><strong>Richards:</strong> I thought you might.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov signs the form. Richards smirks.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Now if you will excuse, I—</p>
<p><em>[There is a knock at the door.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Da, da, I—</p>
<p><em>[The door opens. Two men in medical scrubs enter: Sams, and Torres. They are flanked by several more men in neat, gray suits.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> Dr. Maslov?</p>
<p><em>[Maslov scowls at him.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You…</p>
<p><em>[Torres glances around, noticing Richards. His lips tighten.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Sams</strong>: Overseers’ orders, doctor. We need you to come with us.</p>
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<h3 id="toc1"><span>ADDENDUM: SCP-8002-1 (CLERIC system)</span></h3>
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<p>CLERIC does not exist.</p>
<p>The healing energy perfusing SCP-8002 is not generated by any Foundation-made device. Instead, it is emitted by <strong>SCP-8002-1</strong>: a gargantuan biological entity, superficially similar to a flaming bird, around which SCP-8002 is constructed.</p>
<p>For at least 3,000 years, SCP-8002-1 has lain inert, buried beneath the Earth. Researchers believe the entity is regenerating itself, apparently after suffering a critical injury at an unknown point in the past. As it regenerates, the entity radiates tremendous energy from its body, healing any life near it in addition to itself. This effect has been a boon for the Foundation, leading the organization to construct its main hospital around the entity.</p>
<p>The energy SCP-8002-1 emits is primarily beneficial, although estimates suggest it forms dependence with repeated exposure. However, given the massive financial and logistical benefits of relying upon it, the Foundation has chosen to accept the risk of dependence. In fact, it █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████.</p>
<p>However, as of 2023-01-19, SCP-8002-1 is estimated to be nearing the end of its regeneration process. The entity now releases measurably less energy each day, greatly interfering with Foundation medical efforts. Estimates suggest that SCP-8002-1 may fully regenerate as early as 2024-02-12, ceasing CR emission entirely and emerging as a fully-formed deific threat beneath the organization’s largest hospital.</p>
<p>There is currently no known way to force SCP-8002-1 to produce additional radiation, or reproduce it independently. The Foundation has attempted numerous methods:</p>
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<li>Producing energy at the specific wavelength and eV of 8002-1’s generation (failed; no effect)</li>
<li>Producing the energy within the same room as 8002-1 (failed; equipment incinerated)</li>
<li>Producing the energy using a generator implanted within 8002-1 (failed; equipment incinerated and entity impervious to damage)</li>
<li>Re-injuring 8002-1 to prolong its regeneration period (failed; entity impervious to damage)</li>
<li>Continuously re-injuring the entity to produce lasting damage (failed; entity rapidly healed)</li>
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<p>Whether a mechanism exists to injure SCP-8002-1, or if this method would indeed result in renewed energy production, is not known. However, one final strategy has been devised by Dr. Harold Sams and SCP-8002 Site Director Anthony Torres, involving recruitment of a key member of SCP-8002's medical staff.</p>
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<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> No.</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> Andrea, please consider—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You do not know where of you talk. Do not hurt things without reason or sense. Nothing comes of this.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> When you hurt, you do not know how much hurt you will do or when to stop. Once you begin hurting it is never ending. Soon everything is hurt. You will destroy things you love.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I am a doctor. I do not hurt. Hurt is done to things and I repair. I get them out of pain.</p>
<p><em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> You lost that power, doctor.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Do not insult me. What I lost is nothing compared to the training which I still have.</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> But you’ve seen for yourself what the bird can do. If you want to help, this is the best way to do it.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I am…</p>
<p><em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I do not think so. Nothing good will come of this. How do you know hurting it worse will do any good? I was hurt badly and lost it all. You want to do the same to it?</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> We want to try. We have nothing else to lose.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> That is what you think.</p>
<p><em>[Silence. Torres and Sams exchange a glance.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> There’s another side to it, too. The bird, the radiation. We know you…</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> You rely, on it. Yourself.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Pah, I am treated occasionally.</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> We’ve seen the cameras, the feeds. We know you’ve used it to treat yourself more than you should.</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> Not to mention sneaked a scrip to a few people here and there.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> …Ach. I—</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> It’s all right, doctor. We’re not your enemies.</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> But we know you see the power 8002-1 has, and you want it back.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> …</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> We urge you to consider it. We…</p>
<p><em>[Sams pauses and looks at Torres. Torres shakes his head.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> We won't coerce you. But please understand that we are in a crisis.</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> We can give you twelve hours. Consider it, and get back to us.</p>
<p><em>[The two stand. Guards enter to escort Maslov back to her practice.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Maslov does not rise. She is staring at her hands.]</em></p>
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<p><strong>Care log</strong><br/>
Patient: Peck, Henry<br/>
Provider: Maslov, Andrea</p>
<p>Patient is a returning charge of Dr. Maslov, who previously declined care via CLERIC radiation.</p>
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<blockquote>
<p><em>[Maslov sits in the narrow, fading hallway, staring at her hands. The fluorescent light buzzes. Her tech approaches, cautiously]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> Dr. Maslov? Are you able to take your 3 o’clock?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach. Well.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Who is?</p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> Henry Peck to see you, ma’am.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov narrows her eyes.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ah… Yes, I recall this. I’ll go in.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov rises and walks down the hall. She knocks, and enters. Peck is pacing inside. He is utterly disheveled, wearing a stained undershirt and shorts.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Hello again, doc.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Henry. You’re back.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I—I’m back!</p>
<p><em>[Maslov eyes him. He is sweating.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I thought you didn’t want the the treatment.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Yeah! W-well, I. I… I—I didn’t. But I tried other meds, and I slept on it, and it just.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I’d like to give it a try! Anyway! After all. I—I'd like to try it now.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> …</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> So! Can you, uh. Can you help me?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Henry, you know it is almost gone now. CLERIC is nearing full shutdown.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Ah! Uh. Well. Yeah. I heard about that. O-on my way over here.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You knew this long before you came to me.</p>
<p><em>[Peck gulps.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> How—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I have seen your charts. You know doctors talk to one another, da?</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Well… Ok, but—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You returned to Dr. Sams for CLERIC prescription months ago. Have been on treatment since March last year.</p>
<p><em>[Peck slumps, staring down at his feet.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Did not want to see me then, eh?</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> …Too embarrassed.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I understand. It is your choice also. Should never see a doctor for any reason if you do not want. Please feel no shame for this.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> But then Dr. Sams cut you off?</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Gave… priority to another guy, guy at my office. Richards? I never… Understood why.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Da.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> After that, I couldn’t… couldn't get it, any more, couldn't get treatment. Not any more.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Is tightly rationed. Almost nobody can get.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> So I went back. Back… I went back to the, uh, the stuff, the other stuff, you gave me, the ah… Ox. Oxcar.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Oxcarzantine?</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Right, yeah. I tried it again. But then I started feeling… I don’t know.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> …Terrible.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Terrible.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Terrible.</p>
<p><em>[Peck leaps up, suddenly.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Desperate, I'm fucking… Fucking desperate. The pain doesn't help either, it came right back once I was off the CLERIC, and I don't…</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I don’t… I don’t have much, doc. No money, not a lot of connections. So I thought, well…</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> You were so good… to me, before.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> …</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Please.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Please help me.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I cannot prescribe it.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Fuck. Please, I— I haven't thought straight in weeks. I can't sleep, I can't wash. Doctor, look at me.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> It is not that I do not want to. I am literally unable.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> No! No, you— Fuck, I don't— I—</p>
<p><em>[Peck claws at his hair. He looks wildly around the room, as if for escape—and his eyes land on the orange button in the corner, the CLERIC switch. Suddenly, he leaps for it.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Mr. Peck, that will—</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Fuck you! Fuck all of this! Just one minute, just one—</p>
<p><em>[He presses the switch. The CLERIC shields retract.]</em></p>
<p><em>[No light fills the room. His jaw, and Maslov’s side, do not catch fire.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> …</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I told you. Is almost none left now. Must go far deeper underground than this to get.</p>
<p><em>[Peck shakes his head slowly. He begins pressing the switch repeatedly, filling the room with an arrhythmic clicking.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> No, no, no, no…</p>
<p><em>[Peck rounds on Maslov.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> Make it work!</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> God, please! I’m—</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I’ll—</p>
<p><em>[Peck is sobbing. He drops to the floor.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> …</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I’m sorry.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I’m sorry.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I need it so much. It hurts.</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> I—</p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> What should I do? What should I do?</p>
<p><em>[Maslov stands. She walks across the room, slowly, until she stands over Peck. She crouches.</em></p>
<p><strong>Peck:</strong> What should I do?</p>
<p><em>[Maslov touches Peck’s shoulder. He looks up.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You will live, and fight, as best you can for now.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> And meanwhile, I will get you out of pain.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Addendum: Project 8002-Marrow</strong></p>
<p>Project 8002-Marrow is a last-ditch effort to injure the deific, avian entity SCP-8002-1 in order to spur its continued generation of lifesaving medical radiation. The core of the project is Dr. Andrea Maslov, a former MTF medic and “Type Red” healer who was injured in an anomalous confrontation. Her injury left her unable to utilize her healing abilities; researchers believe afflicting a similar injury on SCP-8002-1 will prevent its natural healing factor from trivializing the wound, forcing it to continue emitting Cleric Radiation in a longer-term attempt to recover. Maslov's tissue will need to be sampled and fashioned into a weapon for the attack to succeed.</p>
<p>Dr. Maslov was initially resistant to this proposal. However, as of 2024-02-08, she has agreed to participate.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>[BEGIN LOG]</strong></p>
<p><strong>2024-02-12, 22:17:</strong> SCP-8002 has been evacuated save for essential staff, security and patients who cannot be moved. Life support and anomalous stabilization is prepared for patients should Cleric Radiation production be altered by Project 8002-Marrow. Radiation detectors across SCP-8002 show that CR generation has fallen to a trickle. The facility is dark on all floors above the core.</p>
<p><strong>22:31:</strong> MTFs Alpha-1 and -2, Beta-2, -4 and -8, and Gamma-4 are in position around the anomaly and building, supported by on-site staff. The payload, a 14-meter tungsten cylinder, hangs near the top of SCP-8002-1’s chamber, suspended from a shielded, jet-black mechanism. It will be dropped, not fired; it cannot be adequately propelled due to its semi-reality and at least one other indescribable, intrinsic quality drawn from the anomaly reproduced from Dr. Maslov’s blood.</p>
<p>In the observation room just beyond 8002-1's chamber, Drs. Sams, Torres and Maslov are seated. Maslov is in a wheelchair. The room is protected by successive layers of reinforced glass. All three watch the interior silently.</p>
<p><strong>22:39:</strong> Zero hour. MTF are advised SCP-8002-1 regeneration is imminent. All hands stand by for emergency action.</p>
<p><strong>22:40:01:</strong> Seismographic and Hume sensors fire simultaneously. The chamber is bathed in a burst of white-hot flames. Glass warps and metal bends, but the payload and supporting device hold.</p>
<p><strong>22:40:06:</strong> For the first time in nearly 3,200 years, SCP-8002-1 moves.</p>
<p><strong>22:40:38:</strong> Slowly, the entity stands. It is over 30 feet tall at the shoulder, with a peering, mobile neck examining its surroundings. Its head moves like a marionette’s, constantly stable, not unlike that of a large hen. Its wings are folded at its sides: huge, red-and-gold folds awash in liquid fire.</p>
<p>It is otherworldly, bright, and curious, raising its neck to peck at the roof of the tungsten dome, then swinging down to peer inside the observation room.</p>
<p>It lets off a squawk, with a sound somewhere between a goose and a car’s horn, amplified louder than a jet engine. Sams and Torres jump.</p>
<p><strong>22:41:01:</strong> MTF command gives the order to drop payload. Antimatter strings retract; the missile is about to fall.</p>
<p><strong>22:41:04:</strong> SCP-8002-1 pauses. As the payload disengages slowly, the entity suddenly looks more closely into the observation chamber. It peers, clearly and intently, at Maslov, cocking its titanic head to one side. Its eyes flicker in the twilight.</p>
<p><strong>22:41:06:</strong> For a fraction of a second, sensors in the observation chamber detect a burst of Cleric Radiation. Exposure exceeds a thousand times the normal dose for SCP-8002 critical care areas, enough to sustain the entire facility for weeks. Maslov gasps and chokes; her entire body is momentarily aflame in white-hot cinders.</p>
<p><strong>22:41:09:</strong> The payload falls. It contacts SCP-8002-1 precisely on its left shoulder. There is a single, blinding flash as the entity’s flames go out.</p>
<p><strong>22:41:10:</strong> The deep, underground room is now pitch black. SCP-8002-1 emits a piercing, resonating cry. It falls to the ground. Around it, the payload delivers its next attack: swirling, black poison which pour over it like molasses, submerging it. This is acroamatic sludge, the random aftergunk of other magic, intended to worsen whatever damage the initial payload was able to cause. The entity rises, jerkily, to its feet, then collapses, then rises again. It jolts to the right, then to the left, trying to shake off the freezing horror which drips thickly from its body.</p>
<p>It cries out again, writhing and contorting its head and neck, pecking savagely at the wound on its shoulder. It staggers, slamming into the reinforced tungsten dome, shaking the observation room beyond. Then it raises its wings, beating them against the rounded edge, trying to find a way out. Or, at least, a higher place to perch. It struggles here for ten minutes, calling intermittently and tearing at its wound, before falling weakly back onto its side.</p>
<p><strong>22:52:</strong> The phoenix lies, breathing heavily, on the floor of the chamber, giving plaintive, hollow calls into the darkness. Its flames do not re-ignite.</p>
<p><strong>22:52:</strong> Radiation detectors show SCP-8002-1's CR generation has abruptly ceased.</p>
<p><strong>[END LOG]</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p><br/>
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<blockquote>
<p><em>Note to site administrators:</em><br/>
<em>Yesterday, a spontaneous error occurred within SCP-8002’s CLERIC system, causing it to cease function entirely. Right now, we don't know of any way to get it back online. I wish I had better news for you. We're working hard to devise an alternative as soon as possible, but for now, it might be wise to hold back your MTF from the field.</em></p>
<p><em>The crisis on the East Coast is only getting worse. Our inpatient care facilities here are nearing max capacity—we've got 107,000 beds filled, the most we've ever had—but we don't know how to treat these cases without CLERIC. Thankfully, we're managing a little better this morning because of a small miracle: Dr. Andrea Maslov. Many of you might know Andrea as the legendary "Red's Red" for her time as a field medic with MTF Alpha-1. For everyone else: Dr. Maslov is a Type Red—a healing reality bender, a powerful one—and she's on our side. She lost her abilities for years, but yesterday, something happened. We don't know why, but she woke up this morning with all her healing power returned. The O5 have put her in charge of our floor operations while those of us in administration work on digging out of the CLERIC hole. Welcome back, Andrea. We need you now, more than ever.</em><br/>
<em>- Dir. Torres</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p><br/>
<br/></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>[Maslov is walking briskly between rooms with a team of nurses. She moves rapidly, speaking with them and dispatching them around the floor.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Sams and Torres round the corner ahead of Maslov.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> Dr. Maslov, we—</p>
<p><em>[Maslov and her team walk by without breaking stride. The two men briskly walk behind her. She does not look back.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> Um… Dr. Maslov, we need to speak with you.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You’ll have to keep up, then. Walk and talk.</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> It’s about the, ah, CLERIC system.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Mmm.</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> Yes. As you, ah, know, there has been an error with the system which demands immediate attention. As a powerful healer yourself—congratulations on your rejuvenation, by the way—we believe you may be able to help with this.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Is that so.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Yes, well, ah…</p>
<p><em>[Sams looks around at the nurses, then leans in close.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> We think there’s a patient who needs your attention.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Did you know?</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> Ah… What?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Did you know you were addicting your own staff?</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> Doctor, please be careful of what you say in the presence of your nurses. We can’t vouch for their safety if—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Perhaps you cannot, but I can. You are here to ask for help from me, so answer my question. Did you know?</p>
<p><em>[The men look at each other.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> You’ve read the file, doctor. We considered that there might have been a moderate risk of—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> So you knew?</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> Yes. We knew.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Did you exploit it?</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> …What?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Also in your file.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov puts her hand out. Her tech hands her a photocopied document. She shows the men; it is a copy of SCP-8002-1’s documentation. She hands it to the men and points at a highlighted passage:]</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The energy SCP-8002-1 emits is primarily beneficial, although estimates suggest it forms dependence with repeated exposure. However, given the massive financial and logistical benefits of relying upon it, the Foundation has chosen to accept the risk of dependence. In fact, it █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████.</span></em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> This redaction. What is? “In fact, it” what?</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> You gave a copy of this to your staff? Look, I can’t—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You can. In fact, I am insisting upon it at this moment. Tell me now.</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> Doctor—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Foundation does not simply redact secrets. It redacts secrets which are bad for it. How many it has killed, how it hurts people, what goes on at worst of its black sites. You know this?</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> Er—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> This is secret which is bad for it. Here in the middle of paragraph about how it knows its people are addicted to its treatment, redacted paragraph beginning “in fact.” As in, “on the contrary, we may think of this addiction differently than you might expect.” I have seen maybe, 2,000 classified files in 18 years on Red Right Hand. I am right, yes?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> So, how might one think of widespread addiction differently? Positively, maybe? When one controls something many employees now want badly and cannot find elsewhere?</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> Doctor, if you continue, I’m warning you that—</p>
<p><em>[Maslov rounds on Sams. Her entourage stops, looking on, filling the hallway. Everyone is silent. Maslov raises a finger in front of Sams’ nose. It glows white with pale heat.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You cannot threaten me anymore.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Did you exploit this addiction?</p>
<p><strong>Sams:</strong> We knew, ah. We knew that, perhaps, since the radiation was harmless and even beneficial, it might be an effective incentive. On rare occasions, when needed.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Did you evaluate MTF risk differently because of radiation?</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> Now that’s—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Because you can just heal them up, da? Throw us in. I saw it when I was in the field. Since I was there, we were given worse dangers, because it was assumed I could fix. That is how…</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> That is how four of my team died. And how I lost healing for three years.</p>
<p><em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Did you do?</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> …Yes. Of course. When you have a resource, you employ it to greatest—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I no longer wish for you to speak.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Maggie. Did you get?</p>
<p><em>[Maslov's tech removes a digital recorder from her coat pocket, checking it.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> Yes, ma’am.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Good girl.</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> Wait, did you record that?</p>
<p><em>[The tech smirks.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> Saved and encrypted.</p>
<p><strong>Torres:</strong> Now wait—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Gentlemen. I am now responsible for your floor operations, and saving hundreds of lives a day. To be blunt, I do not trust you for shit. And neither, I should think, do the O5.</p>
<p><em>[Torres' lips tighten. Sams splutters for words.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I have heard what you wish of me. I will consider it, and, if I like, respond. But for the time being, kindly do not waste my time.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov walks off, her entourage trailing after her, leaving Sams and Torres standing in the hallway.]</em></p>
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<p><strong>Care log</strong><br/>
Patient: Smith, Magnolia<br/>
Provider: Maslov, Andrea</p>
</div>
<blockquote>
<p><em>[Maslov is writing furiously in her office. Her tech knocks and enters.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> Good morning, doctor. I, ah—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ah, Maggie, busy day ahead as usual. Just a few hours' sleep… But no matter. It is under control.</p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> Yes, ma'am. I—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> We need to triage patients on sublevel 2. Outbreak is worsening and critical victims are transported there from outlying areas. Send any staff we have. I will go there in a moment—</p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> Doctor Maslov?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Mmm? What is it?</p>
<p><strong>Tech:</strong> I could use your help.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov looks over. The tech is bleeding badly from her right arm.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Maggie!</p>
<p><em>[Maslov leaps from her chair and examines her wound. It is green and jagged.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Maggie, my dear, what is this?</p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> I was passing an unattended hot room. The door was cracked, but I didn't notice.</p>
<p><em>[Maggie looks down. Her eyes well up.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> Something… Something reached out.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach. You know better.</p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> I—I'm sorry, ma'am. It took me by surprise.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> But we are in the depths of 8002! No surprises here, surely?</p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> I'm very sorry, ma'am.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> But surely you remember the procedure for—</p>
<p><em>[Maslov stops. She looks her tech up and down, sternly. She has begun to cry.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> Doctor, I feel… Sick.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Yes. You look it.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov touches Maggie's forehead.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Hot, then cold. Fluctuation too rapid. You have anomalous rhythm, something is trying to take you over.</p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> Oh god.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov slams the door to the office, pulling a bar across. She removes her gloves and coat.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> Am I… Am I going to die?</p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> Oh god. I don't want to—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Never.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov fixes her gaze on Maggie.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I would never, never let this happen.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Come here now.</p>
<p><em>[The tech approaches Maslov. Maslov pulls Maggie's coat off as well, touching her bare shoulders.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Hold on to me, da?</p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> Ok…</p>
<p><em>[Maslov wraps her arms around Maggie, embracing her. She closes her eyes.]</em></p>
<p><em>[The room is filled with a searing burst of multicolored light. It is brief, but dazzling, staining the papers on the desk. When it clears, Maggie's wound has vanished.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Maslov collapses into a chair.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Gone.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> And cleaned out the rest of you while I'm at it. Anything wrong in there for the next decade, fixed up now.</p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> Ma'am…</p>
<p><em>[Maggie stares at the floor, holding her shoulders where Maslov's hands were. Suddenly, she darts over and picks up her coat.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> Dr. Maslov, thank you. You saved me.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach, well, how many times have you helped me find my glasses over the years, eh? Consider it even.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov is panting.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Burnt myself out, ach. Maybe a tad overzealous. Can't go up to the ward for a bit.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Sit here. Just… Sit here with me. So I may watch you for a while.</p>
<p><em>[The two sit. Around them, the building is alive with screams.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> Dr. Maslov, if I may…</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Always, dear.</p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> How did you… Get it back? Your power?</p>
<p><em>[Pause. Maslov sits up a little.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Darling, I…</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> …I was healed.</p>
<p><em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I was healed, by something much bigger and stronger, and better than me.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I don't know why, or how. Perhaps it felt benevolent? Or just curious. But it thought of me for a small moment, and it… It…</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> And I hate to think, dear, what I gave it back in kind.</p>
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Patient: Lam, Elizabeth<br/>
Provider: Maslov, Andrea</p>
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<p><em>[Mrs. Xi and Mrs. Lam sit in the hallway. Mrs. Lam is crying. The wing is in disarray; the floor is shaking.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Maslov and Maggie appear at the end of the hall, running for the other end. When she sees Lam and Xi, Maslov gasps.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Vivi, Liz, my god! What are you doing here?</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Lam:</strong> Dr.— Dr. Maslov?</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> Oh, thank god!</p>
<p><em>[The three women embrace.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> What are you doing here? Are you sick, hurt, what?</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> We live in Queens, doctor. This crisis, we've been… Displaced.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach. But here?</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> I… We don't know. Liz needs anomalous care, so they bounced us between four different sites. Nobody could handle us. Eventually, they sent us here.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Why on Earth—but 8002, it is for MTF and civilians now. What are they think—</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> We don't know!</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> We don't know, doctor. We don't know what to do.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Well, thank god I have found you.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov turns to Mrs. Lam, who is still crying. She is holding her leg.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You were right, Vivi. The radiation, it was no good. I have seen the research. It—</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> No, doctor.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Eh?</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> We've tried your other prescriptions. We've tried all of it. None of it did anything.</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> The radiation was the only thing that worked.</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> We need it back, doctor. We can control it, prescribe carefully like you—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> No! We must not use.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Besides. They will never repair it. The damage is too great.</p>
<p><em>[Lam wails.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> Isn't there anything we can—</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Yes. There is plenty we can do, ourselves.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov brushes her hands over Lam's legs. Lam pauses. She smiles.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> For many years I believed they were working for us. But they are not.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> We must learn to be strong ourselves.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov stands, removing her hands. As soon as she does, Lam wails again.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> Doctor— !</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> What?</p>
<p><em>[Maslov crouches and touches Lam again. As soon as she releases her, Lam cries out.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I— I don't understand. This should heal. Not simply help.</p>
<p><em>[Shouting down the hallway. Maggie looks anxiously ahead.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> Ma'am. We should go.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Why isn't it healing?</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Lam:</strong> Don't stop. Please.</p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Xi:</strong> Don't stop, Doctor. Please. Just for some relief for now.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov looks at Maggie searchingly.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Just a few more minutes, please. I have to… I have to get her…</p>
<p><em>[Maggie's mouth is set. She shakes her head.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> There's no time, doctor.</p>
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<p><strong>Care log</strong><br/>
Patient: Entirety of MTF Omicron-112 "Bartholomew's Unlikely Circumstances"), 218 troops<br/>
Provider: Maslov, Andrea</p>
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<p><em>[A massive tent, makeshift and dark. The soldiers lie in their beds; smoke rises from the ground outside. Most people are unattended, but nurses move here and there. Many in the tent are convulsing rhythmically.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Maslov moves from bed to bed, healing. Those she touches cry out, then fall back, asleep.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> How… How many left?</p>
<p><strong>Maggie:</strong> 112, doctor. About halfway.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach. I am… I forgot how draining it can be.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Dr. Maslov?</p>
<p><em>[The man in the next bed sits up slightly. He is badly hurt.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> It's me… Lt. Tuck? I saw you at SCP-8002 a few months back. We talked about… About the plumbing at Site-189…</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> My god. My dear young man.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov goes to his side. Tuck is burnt from chin to waist. The wound simmers.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> My boy. What is this?</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Got me pretty good. Some kind of tendril. You know… How it goes. What did you say last time? Trillion dollar shadow organization… What do we expect, ha…</p>
<p><em>[His voice is weak. He is having trouble breathing. Maslov touches him, and her hands glow white.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Not done with you yet, child.</p>
<p><em>[Tuck gasps.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> I can see why you were… A medic!</p>
<p><em>[Maslov sits heavily on his bed.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Yes. Yes. I am very good! The best there is, wah?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> But even still. I am only just keeping up. So many of you.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> It was just like you said, child. They don't know what to do without the radiation. This breach, we can't stop without more help. There are too many of them.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> I know you'll handle it, doc.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach, well, I will have to. I will never be trusting them again.</p>
<p><em>[Lt. Tuck gasps again.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> No, no, but I fixed. I fixed moments ago.</p>
<p><em>[She touches him again. He gasps, and calms.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Hold it together, child. I have many yet to go.</p>
<p><em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Hey, doc?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Da?</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Remember when I was so scared, back at 8002? You said something that really… Really comforted me.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> What was that, child?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You told me it was… okay to trust them, if you do it for you.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> …</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> That sometimes, that's how you help yourself.</p>
<p><strong>Tuck:</strong> Maybe you can use that too, doc.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach, well. I hardly—</p>
<p><em>[Tuck gasps.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Lt. Tuck!</p>
<p><em>[Maslov lays her hands on him. He glows, but does not stop choking. She is running too low.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Code blue! We need compression! We need… I need…</p>
<p><em>[Nobody is listening. The clamor is too loud. Maggie is attending to another patient on the other side of the room.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Maslov turns back. Tuck has collapsed back into the bunk. He is still.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> ACH! FUCK!</p>
<p><em>[Maslov stands, pacing. Soldiers in the beds around look anxiously at her.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> NO! I got it back! I got it back and even still—</p>
<p><em>[Maslov paces for a moment longer, then stops. She stares up at the roof of the tent. Through a vent, the moon is barely visible.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> …Fine.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> So they know it addicts, yes. They use to exploit us, yes, overwork us and trap us. Well done, Andie, you figure it all out! Such a good girlie!</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> …But the bird.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> The bird itself. I saw what it will do if allowed.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov walks to the field telephone on the far end of the tent. She dials a number.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Get me Torres.</p>
<p><em>[Pause.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Torres? …Yes, this is she.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I am willing to do it. I am willing to do it now.</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> But I have… Conditions.</p>
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<p><strong>Care log</strong><br/>
Patient: SCP-8002-1<br/>
Provider: Maslov, Andrea</p>
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<p><em>[Inside SCP-8002-1’s chamber, the great creature lies motionless, pressing itself back against a wall. It breathes heavily. Without its flames, the phoenix is revealed as multicolored, with a gold head and neck over red-and green wings. Its eyes are electric, the color of molten metal. Its legs, now strewn out beside it, are the same color, an intense, brazen orange. On its left shoulder is a dark, oozing injury the size of a vehicle.]</em></p>
<p><em>[At the far end of the room, a door opens. Dr. Maslov enters. A team of researchers, including her floor staff and Drs. Sams and Torres, watch from the observation room.]</em></p>
<p><em>[She turns to SCP-8002-1.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Well. Time to get to know each other, da?</p>
<p><em>[The phoenix's breathing has increased in volume to sound like wind. Maslov approaches, and it jerks away, clawing at the wall. She stops and raises her hands in the air.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Oh dear, but you are a beauty. Please. I must come near to help.</p>
<p><em>[The phoenix eyes her. She takes one hesitant step, then another, pausing each time to wait for the creature's breathing to slow. Gradually, the bird calms, moving its massive neck out from the edge of the room to look more carefully at her.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Yes, I only want to—</p>
<p><em>[She takes a faster step. The phoenix hisses and darts away.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Let me near, stupid! I help you. I would never hurt—</p>
<p><em>[Maslov cuts herself off.]</em></p>
<p><em>[The phoenix peers at her with its molten eyes. It does not uncurl from its wound.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You know, I will show you something. I do not show many.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov lifts her scrubs and undershirt, exposing her left side. Where her wound used to be, there is now a snake-shaped scar, winding along her torso. In the phoenix's presence, it seems ethereally pale. The bird uncurls very slightly, peering at it.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Yes, look if you like. They are the same, I think. What yours is, and what this was. Some kind of terrible magic.</p>
<p><em>[The phoenix moves closer. Maslov nods. It extends its neck out and peers carefully at her side.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Believe it or not, I am healer like you! But even I could not heal this. Had tried for years. Took away most of my power just saving my own life when I got it. Much weaker from it, even now, I think. Same for you, eh?</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Afraid we also got these same way. Evil idiots, attacking us in ways they knew not. Cruel fools. May we both forgive…</p>
<p><em>[The phoenix moves its beak close to Maslov. She tenses, but does not back away.]</em></p>
<p><em>[The creature opens its beak and produces an enormous, red tongue. Gently, it touches Maslov’s side.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> You are gross.</p>
<p><em>[The phoenix licks her once, then emits a loud squeak.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ach! So noisy too. Now. Let me near.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov steps toward the phoenix’s shoulder. It does not move away. She stands at the base of its wing, examining the colossal wound: the edge, the ooze, the coloration.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Eventually, she picks a spot.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Ok now. I do not guarantee this does much. We both have lost something of what we could do from before, but I will at least try. It is a first step. I have other things in mind too, yes?</p>
<p><em>[The phoenix looks at her, blinking slowly.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> Why do I talk? Like talking to giant chicken.</p>
<p><em>[She turns back and touches the bird, pressing both her hands against its wing at the edge of the shoulder and moving her hands slowly together to form a triangle with her fingers at the very edge of the wound.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Maslov closes her eyes. The phoenix relaxes, laying its neck out on the ground.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> And now…</p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I will get you out of pain.</p>
<p><em>[Maslov’s hands begin to flicker and blur. Then her arms, her torso, her whole body. And then, the phoenix itself, starting from her point of contact and moving outward to surround and encompass the whole injury. The great bird's eyes, watching her work, are alive with internal light.]</em></p>
<p><em>[The wound, and Maslov, dance. A mirage, like a heat shimmer, has fallen over them—they are distorted and strange, half-transparent in the dim security lights.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov:</strong> I will not… succumb!</p>
<p><em>[Maslov braces herself, and leans her whole weight into the phoenix, screaming. Her body is a single, vibrating point of distortion.</em></p>
<p><em>[The phoenix calls, suddenly and loudly. Around the room, a host of radiation alarms go off all together.]</em></p>
<p><em>[At the very tip of the phoenix's tail, a tiny, blue flame, no larger than a gas stove, bursts suddenly to life.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Maslov collapses. Guards rush in to surround her, but the phoenix, which has been peering happily back at its tail, screeches, whipping its neck around to push them back.]</em></p>
<p><em>[It wraps around Maslov, enveloping her tightly in its feathers. She is completely hidden.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Maslov (muffled):</strong> Ach.</p>
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<h3 id="toc3"><span>BY ORDER OF SCP-8002 SITE COMMAND</span></h3>
<p><strong>This document describes a core infrastructural element of the SCP Foundation. No part of it is ever to be classified for any reason.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Item #: SCP-8002</strong></p>
<p><strong>Object Class: Thaumiel</strong></p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8002 is a 503-acre subterranean megastructure operated by the Foundation. The entire complex was previously taken up by the organization’s main hospital and medical center. As of 2024-02-19, it also serves an additional purpose: regeneration and medical support for SCP-8002-1, a deific entity superficially similar to an enormous golden pheasant <em>(Chrysolophus pictus).</em> This entity was the source of the radiation which once permeated the facility; its current injuries, inflicted by the Foundation in an effort to force higher radiation output, prevent it from emitting more than a trace amount.</p>
<p>SCP-8002 remains the Foundation’s primary hospital. However, without the benefit of Cleric Radiation, much of the institution’s previous operations are critically compromised. This situation has been further complicated by strikes and coordinated organizing by hospital care staff, largely supported by newly-appointed site director Andrea Maslov. Due to a preexisting agreement between the Overseer Council and Dir. Maslov—made as a condition for the director's care of SCP-8002-1—the following measures have been approved for staff:</p>
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<p>Through increased staffing and careful rationing of CR access, Dir. Maslov succeeded in resolving an ongoing care crisis at the facility and across the U.S. East Coast. Her paradigms have since been implemented to begin more sustainable care for anomalously-afflicted patients.</p>
<p>At present, SCP-8002 is operating sustainably at approx. 26% of its previous capacity, without relying on more than a passing amount of SCP-8002-1's healing radiation. When SCP-8002-1's abilities are used in care, rigorous protocol is in place to ensure limited and transparent employment of its effects. Dependence is monitored, and staff are trained in appropriate prescription. Most importantly, patients are informed of the risk associated with long-term exposure.</p>
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<p><strong>Proposal: 8002-Soul</strong><br/>
The lower third of the SCP-8002 complex has been redesigned as a containment and rejuvenation facility for SCP-8002-1, in hopes that the creature may be restored to its previous capabilities. However, regardless of its ultimate contributions, the Foundation is dedicated to sustaining and supporting SCP-8002-1 for the remainder of its natural life.</p>
<p>In creating care for such a complex entity, the Foundation invested heavily in a wide variety of state-of-the-art support for anomalous beings. It has been suggested that these systems may be used for care of other injured anomalies, incorporating care for such entities as part the organization's hospital system. This proposal has been designated Project 8002-Soul.</p>
<p>As of 2024-02-29, Project 8002-Soul status is: APPROVED. 36 anomalous entities are now cared for on-site, with more scheduled for admittance in the near future; consult appendix 416.4.a for a complete list.</p>
<p>SCP-8002-1 remains in good condition. It has begun to emit an increasing quantity of Cleric Radiation, growing at a rate of approx. 0.01 milliwatt/cm2/day. The entity is alert, calm, and—per Dr. Maslov's reports—warm to the touch.</p>
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<p>People seem to believe I don't dream. Of course I dream. I dream about the life I might lead with someone I care about very much, were we born into different circumstances. What I might say to her, were I a different person. But that's all it is; a passing fantasy.</p>
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<p>The Knight-Errant and the Lady in Satin.</p>
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<p>SCP-8003</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8003</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Safe</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8003-1 is contained within Mass Storage Locker Y14 of Site-19. It is currently assigned Research Status GYRE; Dr. Agatha Rights serves as Research Lead, and makes all final decisions regarding testing on the object.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8003 refers to a single sword of variable make and style. At seemingly-random intervals, the sword may transform from a European longsword to a Persian shamshir to a French rapier to any number of other sword styles. The impetus for these transformations is unknown, and as of writing, 56 distinct variants have been observed with varying weights and lengths. Consistently, SCP-8003 is made primarily of steel (with a leather wrap around the grip) and bears inconsistent signs of wear across its surface. It is typically of simple, utilitarian build, with no significant decorations or adornments found anywhere along the weapon [OUT OF DATE; SEE ADDENDUM I].</p>
<p>SCP-8003's secondary anomalous effect activates when the sword is touched by two individuals simultaneously. Upon two people touching it at once, a small electromagnetic force will expel out from the tip of the blade; the force is never enough to cause permanent damage, but may disrupt small electronics and broadband devices in the immediate vicinity. The magnitude of this force varies depending on who is touching SCP-8003, but a clear correlation or causation has not been identified yet.</p>
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<p><em>[Dr. GEARS steps into Site-19's Research Lab 27. It is late; the lights have automatically dimmed. The only person inside is Dr. RIGHTS, leaning over a lab table. She does not notice them enter.]</em></p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> Hello.</p>
<p><em>[RIGHTS does not respond; she has her earbuds in as she works. GEARS approaches from behind, lightly tapping her on the shoulder. She spins around, hackles raised.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> Shit! Oh, Christ, Charlie. You scared me.</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> Sorry.</p>
<p><em>[RIGHTS laughs, lowering her shoulders.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> You're too quiet. I gotta put a bell on you or something.</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> I don't know that a bell would exactly suit me.</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> Worried about what your staff might think?</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> Worried about what Dr. Huang might think.</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> Frankly <em>I'd</em> be worried if the psych gets perturbed just by seeing you with a bell on.</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> Sure.</p>
<p><em>[They lapse into silence. GEARS turns to inspect SCP-8003 on the table..]</em></p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> Is it dangerous?</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> The blade's blunted, hun.</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> I meant—</p>
<p><em>[She snickers while picking at the leather of the grip of SCP-8003 in front of her.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> I know what you meant. And no. We don't think so, anyway. I'm mostly just taking care of what's left in the initial battery of tests, determine when the properties activate. If we don't find out anything interesting, it'll probably just go back in the containment locker.</p>
<p><em>[GEARS strokes one finger up the metal of the blade. On the other side, RIGHTS continues to fiddle with the grip, poking with tweezers at the leather around the hilt.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> You probably shouldn't touch that without gloves.</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> It's a shame. Who knows how old it is?</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> We do, actually! Dated it to just around the 4th century AD.</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> This sword predates gunpowder, universities, and toilet paper.</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> How do you just know that offhand?</p>
<p><em>[GEARS shrugs.]</em></p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> You said you wanted to talk?</p>
<p><em>[RIGHTS' smile drops.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> Yeah. Yeah. Uh, shit. Look, I just —</p>
<p><em>[She sighs.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> I don't know about this. About whether we should keep doing this.</p>
<p><em>[GEARS cocks his head at her.]</em></p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> Keep doing what?</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> You know. <em>This</em>. It's been nice, I'm not saying it hasn't been nice. But I mean, what're you really looking for?</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> I'm confused by what you're asking.</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> I mean, you clearly don't feel the same way about me as I do about you.</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> You're kidding, right? You don't say a word half the time I'm with you. When you look at me it's like a chore for you. I know you well enough to tell that much.</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> That's not how I feel about you at all.</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> Yeah, that's the problem.</p>
<p><em>[Her pokes at SCP-8003-1's leather get more aggressive.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> I wouldn't know, because you don't <em>talk</em> to me. And that's not me, okay? I need someone I can talk to. Who talks to me.</p>
<p><em>[GEARS is silent. RIGHTS sighs.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> I like you, Charlie. I really do. But you're so fucking closed off.</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> I don't mean to be.</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> I know you don't mean to be. It's just how you are. But like, you still <em>are</em>. You haven't even said the words to me yet.</p>
<p><em>[Silence. RIGHTS sighs.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> Fuck, dude. If you can't do that, then I'd rather just call it here before we put more of ourselves into this just to get hurt—</p>
<p><em>[With a soft crack, the leather on SCP-8003-1 comes loose in RIGHTS' hand. She looks at it in surprise.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> … I didn't realize I was pulling that hard. Wait. Wait, there's something—</p>
<p><em>[She leans down.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> There's something etched into the handle. Some kind of inscription.</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> Can you read this? I can't read this.</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> I really don't think that's what's important right now.</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> We'll talk in a second, just check the stupid thing.</p>
<p><em>[GEARS turns and inspects the etching in the handle of the blade.]</em></p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> "That which one raises his sword for…"</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> "… Is worth lowering his shield for."</p>
<p><em>[For a moment, nothing happens. Then the facility rumbles. Off-balance, RIGHTS throws out a hand to steady herself, which lands on SCP-8003.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> What the fuck was th—</p>
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<p><strong>RAISA TICKER:</strong> […] Cascading power failure at Site-19. Multiple catastrophic containment failure alarms from Sublevels 14 through 23. Affected sublevels automatically locked down. Explosion of unknown origin on Sublevel 19. […]</p>
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<p>AND upon their arrival into the keep, the Knight-Errant was greeted with the sight of their Lady in Satin waiting for them, Christ's Sword resting across her lap as she sat respite and resplendent in her throne. The chamber was empty, bereft of the feasting and music it had once held, for in this far corner of the land there was no joy to be had. The Black Knight stood by the side of his queen, visor down and arms borne, watching impassively as the Knight approached. The Knight-Errant knelt, head bowed in front of their Lady, and spoke, "My Lady — blessed as the sun, twice as divine — I answer thy summons for a champion with all haste."</p>
<p>The Lady gazed upon them, eyes alight with fascination and sympathy: "Thou arrivest! Alas, too late — I carry with me a champion already." She motioned to the Black Knight, imposing in his midnight armor to her right.</p>
<p>The Knight-Errant tilted their head, admiring the way their Lady's auburn hair fell in locks from her escoffion. The light caught and danced with it, like the twilight sun slipping into a waterfall. "But my Lady, all I ask for is a chance!"</p>
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<p>The Knight-Errant and the Lady in Satin.</p>
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<p><em>[THE KNIGHT sits up. They are lying on their back in a forest clearing; their sword is cast away, where it has fallen into the muck and dirt. They rise with a groan, collecting their blade, wiping the grime off on their mail. From behind, they hear a voice — THE LADY, seated on a small boulder, giggling at the soldier's misfortune.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> They arise! And not a moment too early.</p>
<p><em>[THE KNIGHT stares at her.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Forgive me — have we met, good Lady?</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> And by the grace of Christ, their mind is damaged beyond repair.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Not beyond repair, my lady — I can still gaze upon and admire you.</p>
<p><em>[THE LADY laughs.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Bold, bold. But to your feet, my knight. Collect yourself for the journey.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> This I shall, but pray tell — where do we journey <em>to?</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Thou truly does not remember?</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> No.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Thou offered — insisted, really — to be my champion on my journey to the High Keep. I am to be wedded, you see.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Wedded? Wedded to whom?</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> To the King, holding court in the capital. They dispatched a soldier to guide me—</p>
<p><em>[She looks around.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> He appears to no longer be with us. My Black Knight. His horse is absent as well.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Separated after the fall, perhaps. Do we wait?</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> I see no reason to.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> You would leave behind your love so casually?</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> I look inwards, and I find it just as probable he departed of his own accord.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Hardly seems like a noble soul.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Hardly. But then, are you?</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> I try, my lady. Let us take our leave, then.</p>
<p><em>[THE KNIGHT and THE LADY collect their things; THE KNIGHT hoists bags onto their shoulder, carrying them to the two horses tied to the edge of the clearing and loading them up before climbing into the saddle. The other horse whinnies. THE KNIGHT turns to see THE LADY waiting by the stirrups of her mount.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> A noble soul indeed.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Ah. Apologies, my lady.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Nothing I'm not used to. My Black Knight would expect me to do it myself as well. You remind me much of him already.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Only a fool would expect a lady-in-waiting to—</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Watch your tongue.</p>
<p><em>[With a heave, she hooks a hand into the reins and yanks herself up, landing with one foot in the stirrup. She pulls herself over, satin dress cascading down one side of the saddle.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> I am perfectly capable of such things, even if I do not desire to do them.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Why would thou not desire to do them, if capable?</p>
<p><em>[THE LADY shakes her head.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Because my champion doing it shows they think about me. They offer a hand — for me to take if <em>I</em> so choose. It is courtesy — care tempered with respect.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> I… see.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Nary do I ever meet a knight who understands chivalry.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> I understand the code fine. I do not stab a foe when he falls; I do not run from battle.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Ah. But do you embody the spirit? Do you carry God in your heart? Do you bring love and largesse to those around you?</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> I believe I try.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> All men try, pet.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> <em>Pet?</em> I thought I was to be thy champion, given how cleanly the last departed.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Champion is a title earned, not given.</p>
<p><em>[She smiles teasingly.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> And until thou art my champion, thou art my pet.</p>
<p><em>[They depart, horses trotting alongside one another out of the clearing. There is a wide, heavily-traveled path through the forest, lined on either side by verdant brush and trees. They travel alongside one another; the sun casts shining rays through the canopy overhead, dappling THE LADY's auburn hair.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Do you hear the birds singing?</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> I do.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> I shall tell you a secret: they sing for me, a hymn as timeless as this forest themselves.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> An arrangement for well-wishes on your wedding day?</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Hardly. No, they chirp a funeral dirge.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Pray explain, my lady. Do you not love the King?</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Love is a fickle beast to tame — impossible, perhaps.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> 'Tis not an answer, I cannot help but note.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Indeed, 'tis not.</p>
<p><em>[They continue down the forest path.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> I struggle to see how love could blossom so far apart. The capital is a week's ride from your castle.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Love struggles to blossom in distance — but it blossomed when they were not so distant from me. But circumstance and time grows cracks to canyons.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> That it does. When was the last time you saw them?</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Two years past. I long to stroke the curve of their chin again. A single finger against their temple — trace their veins.</p>
<p><em>[THE KNIGHT is silent. Suddenly, they sniff the air.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Do you smell something, my lady?</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Smell?</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Smoke, I believe.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Yes. Yes, I do. Where—?</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Ahead of us.</p>
<p><em>[THE KNIGHT presses their heels into the sides of their horse, hurrying it along. It goes from a walk to a trot to a run, racing full tilt down the dirt path. The fresh smell of nature is replaced by the burning, acrid odor of smoke and ash. Abruptly, the forest path gives way to a small village — cobbled streets scorched with soot, shops and homes smoldering and burning, embers settling in. The crackling of dying fire is low, but omnipresent. There are bodies everywhere — most charred and blackened. THE KNIGHT is silent.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Moments later, THE LADY's horse arrives behind them. She presses a hand to her mouth.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> My God!</p>
<p><em>[She begins to breathe quickly.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Halt. I—I know these people. This village was just up from my castle.</p>
<p><em>[Her gaze falls upon the body of a baker, apron drenched in his own blood and viscera. He is lying facedown on the street, like so many others.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> What… who did this?</p>
<p><em>[THE KNIGHT disembarks from their horse, kneeling to the ground. They inspect the blood stains on the charred wood — the swords dropped and forgotten in piles of ash — the corpses slaughtered without mercy. Suddenly, a crack of wood rings out from ahead, up the main avenue. THE KNIGHT drops into stance, drawing their blade and motioning to THE LADY to stay still. They advance forward, sword at the ready, spinning around a corner.]</em></p>
<p><em>[It is THE BLACK KNIGHT, using his sword to lever one of the corpses up, turning it from side to side and inspecting it.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Hail.</p>
<p><em>[THE BLACK KNIGHT turns and looks. He does not acknowledge them. THE KNIGHT does not lower their blade.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Hail, I say! Are you responsible for this bloodshed?</p>
<p><em>[THE BLACK KNIGHT shakes his head, impassive under the helmet. THE LADY approaches from behind.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> He would never. He is uncouth, perhaps, but no knave.</p>
<p><em>[THE KNIGHT gradually lowers their weapon.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Do you know who is?</p>
<p><em>[When he does speak, it is in a slow, gravelly tone that betrays no more emotion than his visor does.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE BLACK KNIGHT:</strong> It does not matter. They are dead all the same.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Of course it matters. This is barbaric. Monstrous. We must deliver justice.</p>
<p><strong>THE BLACK KNIGHT:</strong> There is no justice in war. Slit the throat of a thousand bandits. It will not bring them back.</p>
<p><em>[THE LADY's mouth opens, then closes. She begins to shake quietly.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> You think we do not have a responsibility?</p>
<p><strong>THE BLACK KNIGHT:</strong> My responsibility is to deliver the Lady to my King. Chase the killers if you want; they are long-gone.</p>
<p><em>[He wraps his gauntlet around the corpse of one of the villagers, dragging them to the side of the street.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE BLACK KNIGHT:</strong> I rule my emotions. I am not ruled by them.</p>
<p><em>[THE LADY is openly weeping now, tears falling down her face as she stares at the bloodied bodies pressed into mass graves. Red stains the edge of her satin dress.]</em></p>
<p><em>[THE KNIGHT stares at her, but says nothing.]</em></p>
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<p><em>[The party has set up camp in another clearing far up the forest road. It is secluded, trees lining the small patch on all sides. THE KNIGHT tends to the fire in the center as it casts flickering shadows around; THE BLACK KNIGHT takes first watch, standing sword-at-the-ready near the edge of the clearing, just out of earshot. THE LADY is seated around the fire on her bedroll, tent set up a few paces away.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> You ought to rest, my lady. We set out at first light.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Sleep eludes me.</p>
<p><em>[THE KNIGHT is silent.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Are all knights like this? I'm starting to believe so.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Like what?</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Stoic and silent. I assumed it was just him —</p>
<p><em>[She motions to THE BLACK KNIGHT.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> But evidently not.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> That is the ideal we are meant to strive to, my lady. The image of a noble, silent protector.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> An image as pretty as it is stupid.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Stupid?</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Simple. A champion ought to be loud in their support, in times of their lady's weakness — silence never helped anyone. Certainly not me.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> You don't think silence is a virtue?</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> It most certainly can be. But if there is any relation in this world where silence ought to be shorn away, it is between a knight and their lady. It is a bond—</p>
<p><em>[She taps the sword of THE KNIGHT's blade.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Stronger than steel.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Quite right.</p>
<p><em>[She giggles. It is tinged with sadness.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> You asked me earlier if I loved my King.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> I did.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> I do. The deepest fibers of my muscles ache with need of them. Their sparkling eyes make my heart flutter. Their voice is like cider on a winter night.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Then why do you fear?</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Because I do not know if my feelings are returned. They are silent — it is simply their way. And, as I have said — silence helps nobody. I fear now that they cannot change, and I fear my love will not last if they do not.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> I believe everyone is capable of change.</p>
<p><em>[Her face falls.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Save for the dead.</p>
<p><em>[Her lip quivers, and she rises to duck into her tent. THE KNIGHT watches her go, not saying anything.]</em></p>
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<p>And so from sundown until sunup, the Mamluk knelt by the entrance to the Cariye's tent, shamshir in hand, watching her form through closed eyes and low lips. And in his throat his breaths from the previous night hung frozen, for they had been sitting unspoken as the sun dipped below the horizon and the air chilled. And the thoughts of sleep in such closeness to the one he needed like the night air eluded him.</p>
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<p>"Why would a soldiering man as you deny yourself a night's sleep?"</p>
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<p>"If I slept, I would dream, and when I dreamt, I would dream of you, and when I dreamt of you, I would awaken, and when I awoke, you might be gone."</p>
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<p><em>[Three camels carve a slow, methodical path through the dunes of the desert. THE MAMLUK trots alongside THE CARIYE, the hot air of the desert casting over the both of them. THE JANISSARY, hulking and draped in heavy armor, behind them, watching them silently.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Cariye, your dress — it trails in the sand.</p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> So it does.</p>
<p><em>[The satin of the long dress has slipped off the saddle of the camel, leaving a snake-like trail in the sand behind them.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Shall I lift it?</p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> Shall you?</p>
<p><em>[THE MAMLUK hesitates for a moment, before leaning off the side of his own camel, gathering the satin into bunches and raising it. He ties it to the yoke of his camel, forming a connection between the two. THE CARIYE smiles in warm surprise.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> Thank you, Mamluk. You are graced with fine manner.</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> No manners are fine enough for you, Cariye.</p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> Such kind words. I thought slaves were meant to be uneducated.</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Are we not both servants to the Sultan?</p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> In this, I suppose we are alike. I to serve in his harem — you to serve in his army.</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Very different lives we are to lead.</p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> Indeed.</p>
<p><strong>THE JANISSARY:</strong> Hail, Mamluk.</p>
<p><em>[THE CARIYE continues marching forward while THE MAMLUK stops, turning his camel around to face THE JANISSARY. Beneath the man's turban, nothing can be seen.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE JANISSARY:</strong> Do you forget your place?</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Do I forget my place?</p>
<p><strong>THE JANISSARY:</strong> Yes, do you forget your place?</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> No, I do not forget my place.</p>
<p><strong>THE JANISSARY:</strong> You are a slave. A slave-soldier, like I, but a slave. Regard the Cariye with distance; she deserves better than you. She deserves to be happy.</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> I have not done anything!</p>
<p><strong>THE JANISSARY:</strong> Stay away from her, I said.</p>
<p><em>[Suddenly, a faint ringing sounds. All three turn, panning across the dunes.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Those are bells.</p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> Bells? Here? Have you gone mad, my pet?</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Look — look!</p>
<p><em>[Before them, nestled in one of the dunes, is a large canopied tent. From it, the sounds of laughter and the ringing of bells emanates. THE CARIYE takes off towards it, camel loping down the sands.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Wh- Cariye! Wait!</p>
<p><em>[The other two take off after her, following her down to the shade of the tent. The sounds are louder now, and several other camels are tied up outside. THE CARIYE has descended her mount, hoisting her dress and rushing into the tent.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Inside, there is a festive atmosphere. Several men are humming along to the ringing of bells, draped in robes and high hats. The center of the tent is occupied by two such men, spinning at high speeds and letting their robes fly out as they twirl about one another. THE CARIYE gazes at them, enraptured.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Whirling dervishes. Marvelous.</p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> Salaam, travellers.</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Salaam, brother. Excuse my charge.</p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> There is nothing to be excused, brother. All are welcome. Sit. Drink.</p>
<p><em>[The DERVISH hands THE MAMLUK a skin of water, which he takes a drink from. He passes it to THE CARIYE — she waves him away, watching the hypnotic, rapid dance.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> What brings you out here?</p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> We bring God's music to where there is silence. To where there are those who have never heard the truth before.</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> It's very impressive.</p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> We try.</p>
<p><em>[They sit in silence for a few moments, watching the dance. A dervish dips out; another takes his place, wearing different color robes but matching his pace and rhythm flawlessly. They continue like this, taking turns, spinning, the bells growing louder and louder.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Would you take offense to a question, brother?</p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> Never. Ask.</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> I hear stories, about your order. Hierophants. Soothsayers. Is there any truth to it?</p>
<p><em>[The DERVISH laughs.]</em></p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> No. We try to find God's wisdom in all things around us, and we share that wisdom to those who ask to be read. If they are so scared of their own reflection they accuse us of being black magicians, this speaks more to them than to us, don't you agree?</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> I suppose I agree. Then you would not take offense if I asked to be read, brother?</p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> Sit, and be seen.</p>
<p><em>[The DERVISH draws him to a corner of the tent, where two cushions and a low table are placed. He sits on one cushion, dipping a brush into a pot of ink and staring intently at THE MAMLUK before putting it to paper.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> What are you doing?</p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> Finding the true you. Tell me, do you dream?</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Often and vividly.</p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> And what do you dream about?</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Happiness. Comfort.</p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> Nay, these are emotions one feels! What do you dream <em>about?</em> When we sleep, our souls depart the body, and what we see and remember in our dreams is a reflection of what God means for us.</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> I suppose I dream of a soulmate.</p>
<p><em>[The DERVISH continues swift, sharp brushstrokes against the paper.]</em></p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> A soulmate?</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Someone who I can bare my soul to. Who understands every part of me. A marriage, a lover. Someone to rely on.</p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> You, brother, are a deeply blinded man.</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> You do not find a soulmate to bare yourself to. You bare yourself to find a soulmate.</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> And if I bare myself, only to find that they do not love what lies beneath?</p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> You fantasize about love and romance, and shy away when the realities of it are put before you. Why must it remain just a fantasy for you? There is no one stopping you from taking the life you want, except…</p>
<p><em>[The DERVISH lifts the paintbrush, wiping the ink off and putting it away. He lifts and hands the paper to THE MAMLUK wordlessly.]</em></p>
<p><em>[The paper is perfectly blank.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Is this some kind of joke?</p>
<p><em>[The DERVISH shakes his head solemnly.]</em></p>
<p><strong>DERVISH:</strong> You are the invisible man. Above all, you are terrified of being seen.</p>
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<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> Mamluk, may I ask you something?</p>
<p><em>[The party has settled in camp for the evening.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Of course.</p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> Have we met before? You strike me as so familiar.</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> I do not believe so. But I agree — you remind me of someone.</p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> Who?</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> I do not know. Someone important to me.</p>
<p><em>[They kneel around the campfire, staring up into the desert sky.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> There is an academy in the capital, dedicated to watching the stars every day and noting their positions, recording them and predicting where they will be tomorrow and the day after.</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Is that so?</p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> Yes. I should like to visit. I dream of the stars often.</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> What is there to dream about stars?</p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> Look at them — look how they dance! Twirling and whirling like the Dervishes, locked in a heavenly romance. I should aspire to be so loved.</p>
<p><em>[THE MAMLUK looks across camp. THE JANISSARY is staring at him.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Should you like to dance with me, Cariye?</p>
<p><em>[THE CARIYE looks at him.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> I should like that very much. Mamluk.</p>
<p><em>[They rise to their feet, raising their arms. Over the wind, the ringing of the bells and the chanting of the Dervishes carry to them, a rhythmic tingling. They grab each others hands, gently, and began to spin to the music, faint as it is.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Are you not loved by the Sultan?</p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> He is distant. He loves me as one might love a concubine. His emotions are masked. I struggle to see him.</p>
<p><strong>THE MAMLUK:</strong> Perhaps he fears what you will see.</p>
<p><strong>THE CARIYE:</strong> Perhaps. I cannot guarantee my love. But then he cannot expect to be known, and if he cannot expect to be known, he cannot expect to be loved.</p>
<p><em>[They sway to the music, stars twinkling overhead.]</em></p>
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<p><strong>RAISA TICKER:</strong> […] MTF Epsilon-11 has entered Site-19 through direct access into Sublevel 10. Lockdowns in effect. Priority assignment is to locate and extract high-level personnel. Senior Researchers J. Aktus, C. Gears, A. Rights, L. Donahue unaccounted for. Director Moose unaccounted for. […]</p>
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<p>Rain casting down, clouds drawn high, the party slipped ever-closer to their goal<br/>
And Freyja and the Skjaldmær and the Huskarl settled one night<br/>
Assailed by a storm, drawing for cover in a sheltered forest<br/>
Their supplies dwindling, for the winter had brought silence to the land</p>
<p>And from the corner of their eyes, huddling close to their fire for warmth<br/>
They spy a moose the height of two men watching them, a pelt as pale as the snow<br/>
And eyes shimmering like oil on water. It retreated into the brush<br/>
And so Freyja seized her blade, and pulled the Skjaldmaer close</p>
<p>And whispered in her ear, "Chase my prey with me,"<br/>
"Hunt with me, ride with me,"<br/>
"Be one with me, blade for blade,"<br/>
"Live with me and die with me."</p>
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<p>Freyja and the Skjaldmaer.</p>
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<p><em>[FREYJA and THE SKJALDMÆR are creeping through the snow-blanketed forest, blades at the ready. Suddenly, FREYJA puts an arm out to stop the other woman.]</em></p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> <em>[Whispering]</em> Ho, Skjaldmaer! My eyes fall upon the quarry.</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> I see nothing.</p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> Look, there, through the gaps in the dead trees — what moves.</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> There is nothing—</p>
<p><em>[Suddenly, a branch ahead shakes and snaps, and a spread of snow falls to the ground in a fine white mist. A shape becomes clear, blending near-perfectly into the surrounding white — a hulking albino moose, antlers draped in small adornments of some kind. It bays mournfully, pushing its way through the snowdrifts.]</em></p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> Have your blade at the ready, shieldmaiden. We will fall upon it when it approaches us and draw our blades across its throat.</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> Aye, my freyja.</p>
<p><em>[The moose draws closer, continuing to shake its head and bay mournfully. Its cry is a long, low sound that shears through the howl of the snow and wind. It cuts through the fur and armor and straight to the bone. FREYJA's grip on her handaxe falters.]</em></p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> Have you ever heard such a noise come from such a beast? It is startling.</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> No. No, I have not.</p>
<p><em>[Abruptly, the moose looks up and speaks, staring at the brush where the two are hiding.]</em></p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> Fall upon me with blade outstretched, and no one ever shall again.</p>
<p><em>[FREYJA gasps in shock. THE SKJALDMÆR draws her sword, falling into stance.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> What are you, man or beast? Name yourself!</p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> No. No name. Just the moose of this forest. Sheathe thy blades.</p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> And why should we? The killing of a noble beast pleases the gods.</p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> No gods here. Not anymore. Salted land. I give you a gift.</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> Hold, Freyja. Speak, beast. What might you provide us?</p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> Story. Last story I have. What little wisdom it carries. Please. Take it from me.</p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> A story does not fill our bellies.</p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> No. But you hunger for more than food. A bottomless pit in your heart. I tell you how to fix it.</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> Tell us.</p>
<p><em>[FREYJA looks at her compatriot in shock. THE SKJALDMÆR is staring intensely at the MOOSE.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> <em>Now</em>, beast.</p>
<p><em>[The MOOSE bays again.]</em></p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> I wander. I wander this forest. Before there were men. Before there were gods. Before there were trees. Before there was a forest. I wander when there is only stories. All stories, everywhere you look. Stories of every manner and topic. I am alone. So I read them all.</p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> That's impossible. You can't read every story there is. No one can, man or beast.</p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> <em>I read them all</em>. I pull one from the tree. I read. When I finish, I read another. When I am done with all of them, there are more. Always more.</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> But surely you must have reached the end eventually? If you have been here for as long as you say.</p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> No ending. Always more to read, More to study. I fell in love. Not with another moose. No moose like me. With the forest. And she loved me back. I consume her stories, appreciate them. She gives me more stories to enjoy. Don't thank her.</p>
<p><em>[The MOOSE bays mournfully into the air again.]</em></p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> Should've thanked her.</p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> It requires a truly arrogant creature not to thank nature for what we are blessed with.</p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> No. No. I <em>am</em> thankful. She gives me beautiful gifts. Countless stories. I know my words are not enough. Know what to do: search the books until I find the right words. Right words to capture my devotion and love for her. Pore over countless books. Countless days. Scores of different phrases. All unfit, unworthy. My love is too great for languages. They lack the words.</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> And then?</p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> I am so involved in searching for what to say. I do not notice when she recedes. Pages in the books wilt and crumble. Plants that grew around me as I rest died. Do not notice. Obsession keeps me glued to the pages, looking for it. Looking for the one thing that would prove my devotion.</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> But you found it, yes? You must've. Tell me what you found.</p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> I find it. But it is too late. There is no more Library. There is only this forest. And now I wander.</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> Wander looking for what?</p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> Her. Hoping to find her again. Apologize for taking so long.</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> Have you found her?</p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> No.</p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> <em>[Voice softening]</em> Beast… how long have you been wandering?</p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> A thousand thousand years. Will find her. Must find her. Need to explain. Need to apologize. Right words were in front of me the whole time. Stupid. Stupid moose.</p>
<p><em>[Silence, save for the howling wind.]</em></p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> I think it is time to give—</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> What was it?</p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> Shieldmaiden? You look sickly.</p>
<p><em>[THE SKJALDMÆR is shivering, face pale, sweat beading on her brow despite the cold. She is staring intently at the MOOSE.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> Please. Tell me. What do I need to say?</p>
<p><em>[The MOOSE turns to look at her impassively.]</em></p>
<p><strong>MOOSE:</strong> No pretending. You know. Love does not wait for you forever, but it does leave forever. No more delaying, little creature.</p>
<p><em>[The MOOSE bays again, turns, and pads deeper into the forest. The two watch it go.]</em></p>
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<p><em>[FREYJA and THE SKJALDMÆR are huddling into one another. The canopy of the forest blocks some of the snow, but renders it dark underneath; the weak fire does little to push back the freeze. THE HUSKARL, armored and imposing, butchers a duck some paces away. FREYJA is stitching a wound on THE SKJALDMÆR's belly.]</em></p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> Drink.</p>
<p><em>[She passes a flask to the shieldmaiden.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> No. No, you take it.</p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> Do not be obstinate. I am sated — take the drink.</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> Save it for later for yourself.</p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> Why must you insist on this?</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> <em>[Grunting in pain]</em> You are my goddess. It is my duty to protect you.</p>
<p><em>[FREYJA's voice raises.]</em></p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> Do not — ugh!</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> What!</p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> You have likened yourself to my protector in your mind. You are not my protector. Once, on this journey, have you encountered something that needed your sword-arm to solve?</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> Nay, but —</p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> You are not my guardian! You are my compatriot, my companion — I do not need you to sacrifice yourself for my boon. You insist on suffering quietly in silence when I am <em>here</em> to share the load with you. <em>Why?!</em></p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> You would think me weak.</p>
<p><em>[Silence.]</em></p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> <em>[Voice softening.]</em> My shieldmaiden, my darling. I could never think you weak.</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> You say this having never seen me at my lowest.</p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> You think our bond so fragile it might be broken by seeing you as you are?</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> More than that, though.</p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> What more?</p>
<p><strong>THE SKJALDMÆR:</strong> Suppose I shed my armor. How can I know you will still cherish what you find underneath?</p>
<p><em>[The wind howls. FREYJA runs her fingers through the shieldmaiden's hair.]</em></p>
<p><strong>FREYJA:</strong> I will. I will.</p>
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<p>And as the gates of the capital opened, the Knight-Errant's heart beat like a drum as they urged their horse forward through the cobbled streets and the peasantry parted around the three of them. The Lady in Satin drove her white mount forward, unbidden by the obstructions and satin draping around her, but in the week's journey the Knight-Errant had grown familiar with the perfect brushstrokes of her face to see now that they were interrupted by worry.</p>
<p>They urged their horse forward, drawing alongside her as the Black Knight steadily kept the rear. They leaned over, one hand on the pommel of their blade in its scabbard. "My Lady — art thou quite alright?"</p>
<p>She turned to face her companion. "I? I am quite alright. Fate has taken hold of the reins of this horse, and she guides me to my destination. There is nothing to be done now, except to wait and to see."</p>
<p>"What might you be waiting to see, my lady?"</p>
<p>A soft smile danced along her ruby lips. "Whether my champion has learned anything."</p>
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<p>The Knight-Errant and the Lady in Satin.</p>
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<p><em>[THE KNIGHT-ERRANT, THE LADY, and THE BLACK KNIGHT enter the throne room. The court is empty; there is no audience to greet them, no ladies-in-waiting or men-at-arms. The candles on the walls cast a flickering shadow across the face of THE KING, seated impassively in his high throne.]</em></p>
<p><em>[THE BLACK KNIGHT drops to a kneel, then rises and takes his position behind the throne. THE LADY curties, holding her stance before the throne. THE KNIGHT-ERRANT bows. All is silent.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> My liege. It is an honor.</p>
<p><em>[THE KING is silent.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> I have brought you… your lady. You will be married soon, I take it.</p>
<p><em>[THE KING is silent.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> My lord. It is a joy to gaze upon your face again — as beautiful as I have dreamt, every day of our absence.</p>
<p><em>[THE KING is silent,]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> I hesitate to ask — but do you still love me, my lord? Love me the way I have loved you, for so many years.</p>
<p><em>[THE KING is silent,]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Do you intend to answer her, my lord?</p>
<p><em>[THE KING is silent.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> <em>[Voice gradually rising]</em> This woman — noble of spirit — has ridden for a week to gaze upon your face. She loves you more than she loves life itself, and you cannot deign to <em>answer her</em>, my lord?</p>
<p><em>[THE KING is silent.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> You are a coward, my lord. A coward through and through.</p>
<p><em>[THE BLACK KNIGHT steps forward slightly, hand on the pommel of his blade.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> <em>[Shouting]</em> I know you love her. Why can you not bring yourself to <em>say it?</em></p>
<p><em>[THE KING is silent. In rage, THE KNIGHT briskly steps forward, feet stomping as they approach the throne. THE KING does not react, not until THE KNIGHT grabs them firmly by the shoulder, casting his face into the light — to reveal THE KNIGHT's own countenance, staring back at them impassively. They freeze.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> … What?</p>
<p><em>[THE KNIGHT steps back. THE BLACK KNIGHT steps forward, raising his own visor — and revealing THE KNIGHT again, staring back at themselves. THE KNIGHT takes a step back in confusion, hand on the pommel of their sword. They stare at THE KING and THE BLACK KNIGHT accusingly.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> You… no. You are not me. You are cold, distant. You spurn closeness from those who would try and know you. You run from connection.</p>
<p><em>[THE KNIGHT breathes heavily.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> I. I do this. You… are the wretched parts of me. Speaking to me in the dead of night, whispering to pull away from those I love. I do not need you. I do not <em>want</em> you.</p>
<p><em>[THE KNIGHT draws their sword, casting the scabbard aside.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> I was waiting for you to realize, my darling.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> You deserve better than them. Better than I, my lady. Thou art a gold soul, and deserve one in turn. Leave me. Find one who can give you what you warrant.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Do not presume to tell me what I <em>deserve</em>, my pet. I do not care for it. I care about what I want. And I want you.</p>
<p><em>[She shakes her head,]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Uncouth as you are.</p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> I would love to, my lady. I would love nothing more than to be yours. To hold my blade in your name. To rest against you at night. But I cannot give myself to you in whole. Not while they accost me. They prevent me from loving you as you ought to be.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> Well, do something about it. A very chivalrous knight once told me that everyone is capable of change.</p>
<p><em>[THE KNIGHT blinks, then turns. They lunge forward, dragging their blade up and across THE KING's chest. Blood spills out, spraying across their own mail and onto the stone of the floor. THE BLACK KNIGHT draws his own blade, but THE KNIGHT is faster, driving the tip of the blade into the soft gap between neck and helmet. More blood sprays out. The two fall to the floor, drowning in their own blood, gurgling and squealing.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> Save for the dead. And you are worth dying for, my Lady.</p>
<p><em>[They let their sword drop to the stone floor and stumble forward. They lift a hand up — there is a wound across their chest, in their neck. They strip off their mail, casting it aside, baring their ugly wounds as blood spills from them. They expose themselves, totally, kneeling in front of their Lady. She brings a hand down, brushing their hair back with a smile.]</em></p>
<p><strong>THE KNIGHT:</strong> My Lady.</p>
<p><strong>THE LADY:</strong> My Champion.</p>
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<p><strong>MTF-EPSILON-11-Z6:</strong> Doctors. Wake up.</p>
<p><em>[RIGHTS and GEAR stir. They are lying on the floor of Research Lab 27. The site is on emergency power; alarms are blaring in the hallways. An armed MTF operator is kneeling in front of them, shaking them awake.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> Ugh. What the hell?</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> Who are you? What's going on?</p>
<p><strong>MTF-EPSILON-11-Z6:</strong> There was a containment breach on Sublevel 15 four hours ago. Site-19 is on limited functionality, and MTF Epsilon-11 has taken control of the facility. You're high-value personnel, we've cleared an evac corridor for you. Follow the hallway to the security checkpoint, take a left and just keep walking until you reach the exit. Can you do that for me?</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> Yeah. Shit, yeah. My head is fucking killing me.</p>
<p><em>[The operator hastily inspects the back of her head.]</em></p>
<p><strong>MTF-EPSILON-11-Z6:</strong> No bleeding, but you might be concussed. Looks like you two took a bad fall when shit went south. There'll be a medical team to examine you at the exit. Get going. This floor isn't secure.</p>
<p><em>[The operator swiftly rises to his feet and exits the lab.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> Fuck. You heard the guy. We gotta go, Charlie.</p>
<p><em>[GEARS does not move.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> Charlie?</p>
<p><strong>GEARS:</strong> I love you, Aggie. I love you so much it kills me. You're the last thing I think about before I fall asleep and the first thing I think about when I wake up. I wake up and my day doesn't feel like it's started until I see you over coffee in the canteen and you rant to me about what that jackass in your department did to piss you off. I started having the staff stock Almond Joys in the vending machines because I know you smile whenever you eat one. You gave me that model Saturn V for my birthday last year and I still have the box in my closet because it has your handwriting on it saying you love me. You forgot a scarf in my room one time and I never gave it back because whenever I walk by it it smells like your perfume. One time you asked me if I thought we'd met in a past life and I said I didn't know, but didn't say what I was thinking: that I'd definitely meet you in the next one. I'd chase you across worlds, I'd burn this entire place to the ground if you wanted to leave with me. I love you, and I'm so goddamn stupid and scared of you not loving me back that I might have lost you. I'm so sorry.</p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> Charlie…</p>
<p><em>[RIGHTS smiles at him.]</em></p>
<p><strong>RIGHTS:</strong> "I love you" was all I ever needed to hear. I love you too, you big idiot.</p>
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<p><tt><strong>CAUSE OF DEATH:</strong> Autodefenestration (Non-Suicidal)</tt></p>
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<p><strong><tt>NAME:</tt></strong> <tt>Vincent B. Bohart</tt></p>
<p><strong><tt>DATE OF BIRTH:</tt></strong> <tt>03/31/1969</tt></p>
<p><strong><tt>POSITION TITLE:</tt></strong> <tt>Director</tt></p>
<p><strong><tt>FOUNDATION FACILITY:</tt></strong> <tt><strong><a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/secure-facility-dossier-site-333">Site-333</a></strong></tt></p>
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<p><strong><tt>DATE OF DEATH:</tt></strong> <tt>02/19/2024</tt></p>
<p><strong><tt>CAUSE OF DEATH:</tt></strong> <tt>Autodefenestration (Non-Suicidal)</tt></p>
<p><strong><tt>NEXT OF KIN & RELATION TO DECEASED:</tt></strong> <tt>Charlotte Bohart, Mother.</tt></p>
<p><strong><tt>LIFE INSURANCE PAYOUT:</tt></strong> <tt>$0.00 USD</tt><br/>
<tt>NOTE: Deceased annulled relevant <strong><a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6987" target="_blank">Goldbaker-Reinz</a></strong> insurance coverage despite repeated attempts to dissuade.</tt><br/>
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<p><em>The usually busy bar is empty, except for a single figure sitting at a sticky, poorly lit table. Scattered before them are an assortment of decorative tiki mugs and glasses. The figure sings along poorly to music playing at a low volume throughout the vacant space.</em></p>
<p><em>Another humanoid enters the frame, wearing a long, dark robe drawn over its head. Its face is obscured by the hood and it carries a weed-whacker, resting it over one shoulder. The figure moves towards the sitting individual, draws a chair back, and sits down at the table.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I don't suppose you're here for some sort of convention or something.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> I think we both know the answer to that. Gee, I'm used to seeing some rough-looking people, but Vincent, man. You look like shit.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> If you're here I don't suppose it really matters. Which one of… <em>[Vincent motions towards the entity with a pelican-shaped mug, dislodging a cocktail umbrella while doing so]</em> …you, are you anyway?</p>
<p><em>The entity reaches across the table, revealing a skeletal hand, and picks up a ceramic mug in the shape of a grinning skull. It brings the straw beneath the hood of its robes and seems to drink before responding.</em></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6292" target="_blank">SCP-6292</a>:</strong> I'm the fun one! What is this, a Painkiller? Zombie? Love the names they give these things. You know it was a rum-runner who started the craze over in Hollywood? Those were quite the times — well for me at least. Death and booze, name a better pair. Is the bartender still here? How about another round?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Depends, is it going to kill me? I'd rather not go out choking on a cocktail garnish.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Buddy, you've been a dead man since you stood up from the dealer's seat. And I mean that literally. People expect the House to win, this is Vegas after all, but what they're gambling on <em>really</em> is that they'll lose the least. You got sloppy there at the end. Too greedy. I trust you know it, otherwise you'd be out celebrating — and not in this dump.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Figured. Do they know then?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Depends: who do you think 'they' are? There were a lot of eyes watching that table. More than you bargained for, that's for sure. Chances are, as soon as you walk out the door of the casino you'll end up like JFK — which, come to think of it… Hey, ask me how he died. Now that's a <a href="https://www.theonion.com/november-22-1963-1819587981">fun story</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> For fuck's sake! I just about set myself up for life — I'd put a lot on the outcome of that round. Then it all falls apart, and you're here to what? To rub it in? Well fuck you. If I'm going out, I don't need some smug, son-of-satan-and-sin looming over me, waiting like a vulture.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Easy there, Milton. I'm not here to cart you off this mortal coil; I'm offering you another way out.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> A what?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> You want to keep living, I assume? Most of your kind do. I can get you out of here, squirrel you away somewhere they won't think to look — somewhere they wouldn't even bother coming to get you if they did. It won't be forever, but I can give you 33 more years of life. You might not make it all the way through, that part's on you. But it's a fair chance, better odds than you'll find anywhere here.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> What's the catch?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> You teach me how you did it: you walk me through how to lay the cards on the table and make sure each one comes up the way you want. I'm playing the same game as you are Vincent, just on a bigger scale. Help me, and you get your 33 years.</p>
<p><em>Vincent Bohart proceeds to pick one of the unfinished tiki beverages from the table and inhales through the straw for a period of over a minute — continuing to do so after finishing the drink. He sets the empty mug down and reaches into the pocket of his blazer, withdrawing a deck of cards wrapped in an elastic band.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Okay, I'm in. I'll show you how. But before I do, where is it I'll be going?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Have you ever heard of Atlantic City?</p>
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<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8004 is an act of anomalous legerdemain whereby an individual, acting as the 'dealer,' is capable of manipulating the order of playing cards dealt from a standard 52-card deck. This occurs through a method of shuffling that situates the deck within a cardician superposition; the dealer is then able to assign the rank and suit directly to each card upon drawing it. Any other individual handling the deck at this stage — or any disruption to its arrangement — will collapse the superposition into a definitive order, as though the cards had been non-anomalously shuffled.</p>
<p>In effect, SCP-8004 allows the dealer to select card-by-card which of the <strong><tt>80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (52!)</tt></strong> potential playing orders will occur.</p>
<p>SCP-8004 is unique amongst various methods of card manipulation as it does not produce any discernable thaumaturgical signatures, EVE or Akiva Radiation, nor detectable variations in Hume reading. It is theorized the only means by which one may detect the usage of SCP-8004 is by recognizing the physical method of shuffling and dealing employed. Documentation of SCP-8004 in use has contained inconsistencies and attempts to replicate the anomaly have failed thus far.</p>
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Following the events of the 2018, Site-Directors' Regional Conference (Eastern Seaboard division), SCP-8004's file was approved for clearance and distributed to previous and future conference attendees. This was done to dissuade participation in after-hours gambling activities organized by Director Bohart.</p>
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<em>Vincent Bohart sits forward in his office chair with one sandalless foot placed on the desk. He peers toward his big toe while attempting to remove an obstruction from under the nail with a letter opener.</em>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Son of a— com'on—</p>
<p><em>The overhead lights flicker and one of the bulbs burns out, casting a far corner of the room in shadow. A humanoid form emerges from the darkness. It is covered by a black, tattered cloak with a few visible stains.</em></p>
<p><em>Vincent Bohart fails to notice the entity's arrival and remains preoccupied until it addresses him:</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Hey there, Vincent. Long time no—</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Ahhg!</p>
<p><em>Vincent Bohart looks up in shock, before recoiling backwards. While doing so, he jams the letter opener beneath his toenail and subsequently loses his grasp on it. Reflexively, he kicks his leg away from the desk and begins to lose his balance. The backrest of his office chair gives out as he tips over, landing on the ground heavily. Vincent Bohart appears dazed for a moment before scrambling to regain his composure and standing to confront the entity.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Jesus-Stone-tossing-Christ, what the ever-loving fuck.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Sorry, Vincent. But your time's up. I gotta say though, <em>[SCP-6292 gestures around the office with a skeletal hand.]</em> I can see you really made the most of it, huh?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Don't you come any closer. How the hell did you even get in here? I had this office consecrated!</p>
<p><em>Vincent gestures rapidly to a brass plaque mounted on the wall with Latin characters engraved on its surface.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Okay, so first-of-all, that's not Latin. It's Spanish and it translates to 'Dumbass;' second, the guy offering to marry folks on the boardwalk for $20 was not a legitimate priest, he wasn't even a licenced wedding officiant; third, I'm not a fucking demon — according to your jargon, I'm a '<em>sapient Class XII theologically-ontokinetic humanoid entity</em>' and '<em>the essophysical embodiment of the concept of death.</em>' But none of that should matter to you because, and I want to stress this part…</p>
<p><em>SCP-6292 reaches into its robes and withdraws an hourglass enclosed in a silver frame. A large mound of sand has collected in the lower portion of the glass and as SCP-6292 holds it aloft, the final grain positioned within the narrow funnel falls.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> You are out of time.</p>
<p><em>Vincent Bohart looks at the hourglass, and then up toward the skeletal figure.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Yeah, nice try. I don't buy it.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> I— what?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> This whole dollar-store Halloween getup, it's a good bit, but I know bullshit when I taste it. You can show yourself out.</p>
<p><em>Vincent Bohart tries to sit back on the broken desk chair and begins randomly shuffling through the papers arranged on his desk. He begins signing a takeout menu for a local restaurant while glancing quickly at SCP-6292.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> What exactly is it you're doing?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Work, clearly.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Are you— Are you trying to bluff your way out of this? Do you think if you just ignore me I'm going to leave?</p>
<p><em>SCP-6292 walks around to the front of the desk and falls into a creaking chair. It sets the hourglass on the desk before withdrawing a bottle of beer from within its robes. It places the cap between the bones in its left forearm and twists, popping it open with a hiss.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> I'd respect the gall if it weren't so stupid of a plan. I had a whole dramatic build-up planned: you were going to try bargaining and pleading, I'd remain stoic for a while, and then eventually relent. We'd come to a new arrangement and — you've got no sense of grandeur, do you?</p>
<p><em>Vicent drops the pen and turns to look at SCP-6292 again.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> We were going to what?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Oh well. Your choice, I'll get reaping then. Left the weed-whacker outside — I'll give you a head start while I go grab it if you want to try running for it.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Wait! Let's rewind a bit. You said something about negotiating. I'm open to negotiating!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Pretty sure I said 'pleading'</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> That works too! Do you want me to grovel as well?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Honestly? It might make me feel a bit better, but nah, the moment has passed.</p>
<p><em>SCP-6292 withdraws another two beers from its robe and similarly opens them before offering one to Vincent Bohart.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Look, Vincent, I don't know how you'd know — so I'm willing to bet you don't know, you know?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I… no?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Well that saves us some time. I'll get right to it. That trick you taught me has come in handy over the years. There's this poker game, see—</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> So you're letting me off the hook?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> You're getting ahead of yourself. I'm willing to give you a chance, Vincent: the opportunity to <em>earn</em> — not steal or beg or swindle — more time living.</p>
<p><em>Vincent Bohart pauses for a moment, before taking a long swing from the beer offered by SCP-6292.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I get it: a life for a life. Who do you want me to kill? I'll be honest, it'll be my first, but I suppose when it's time, it's time.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> With all due respect — which as far as I can tell is very little — that's the absolute last thing I'd need or want your help with. No, Vincent. I'm willing to turn in the cards and call our little game concluded if you can meet a set of conditions.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> What conditions?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Three selfless acts. If you perform three <em>truly</em> selfless acts this week, you get to keep living for another 33 years — hell, I'll make it 35. How does 90 sound? You can be the shame of the old folks home. This is the last call, Vincent; if you don't get your order in you won't get another chance, the bar's closing for good.</p>
<p><em>Vincent Bohart leans back in his chair, finishes his beer, and lets out a long sigh before looking back toward SCP-6292.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> And you're sure I can't just kill someone for you?</p>
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<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Hey, Noah. How's it going?</p>
<p><span style="color: orange"><strong>Noah Patel</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Pretty good, boss! We had a family come into the gift shop earlier and they bought some of the Saltwater Taffy, their kid started eating it right in the store!</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Yeah, uh, that's great.</p>
<p><span style="color: orange"><strong>Noah Patel</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Then the kid started throwing up, so I've been dealing with that for a bit. I couldn't find the mop.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Uh huh, yeah great stuff. I was wondering if I could ask you anything.</p>
<p><span style="color: orange"><strong>Noah Patel</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Yeah, what's up?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Christ, this is hard. Do you, like, need anything?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> I could give you five bucks for a coffee? Or let you use the good stapler for today, the one that doesn't jam.</p>
<p><span style="color: orange"><strong>Noah Patel</strong></span><strong>:</strong> I don't really understand, boss. Why are you asking?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Oh, don't worry about that. But, hey, I was looking through my office and found a lot of old file folders. Do you like file folders?</p>
<p><span style="color: orange"><strong>Noah Patel</strong></span><strong>:</strong> I mean, they're useful. But I'm a bit confused.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> I just.. I want to… help. So if there's anything you need. I could try and find the mop, for example! Maybe telling Tony to help you clean up would count? I don't really get the rules.</p>
<p><span style="color: orange"><strong>Noah Patel</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Oh, well I suppose there is one thing.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Yeah, okay. Let's hear it. How bad can it be? What've you got for me?</p>
<p><span style="color: orange"><strong>Noah Patel</strong></span><strong>:</strong> I mean, if you're <em>really</em> offering, I was planning on looking for the Jersey Devil after work today. It would be really cool of you to come along! Usually, it's just me out there. It gets kind of lonely.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Fuck.</p>
<p><span style="color: orange"><strong>Noah Patel</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Everything okay?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Yeah, I meant, uh 'fucking terrific!' I'd love to spend my evening walking through mosquito-ridden marshlands looking for something that totally isn't a figment of your imagination.</p>
<p><span style="color: orange"><strong>Noah Patel</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Great! We can head out after work! I've had another set of gear ready in case one of you decided to join me for a while now, so don't worry about needing to get your kit together!</p>
<p><span style="color: orange"><strong>Noah Patel</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Oh, and I have a spare copy of my proposed dissertation: 'A Consideration of the New Jersey Devil — Revised Copy,' that I can drop off at your desk! I have a lot of new theories I added to it since it was rejected for publication by the Cryptozoology Division, and the Department Of Mythology And Folkloristics Hub. Department of Demonics as well. I think the email for the Department of Essophysics was incorrect because they never got back to me.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Yay.</p>
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<p><em>5:42 pm — February 12, 2022.</em></p>
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<strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Noah, this thing weighs a god-damned fucking ton. Where the hell are we anyway?
<p><strong>Noah Paterl:</strong> Great Egg Harbor, it's this week's devil-hunting spot. Normally I live-stream my excursions, but I felt with you here it would be better if it were just the two of us — like a bonding experience!</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Why would the Jersey Devil hang out by a random bridge?</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> I'm cross-referencing other cryptids: trolls and the like. I was up in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dismal_Swamp" target="_blank">Great Dismal Swamp</a> last weekend.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Why would you go to a place called the 'Dismal Swamp?'</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> Well, I thought it was pretty great. Get it?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I wish I didn't. Anyway, I don't see anything here. I suppose we can call it a day. Good effort team. Maybe we see if it's hanging around any of the nice air-conditioned casinos?</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> Haha, good one, boss. Now let's get moving before we lose the light!</p>
<p><em>Noah begins confidently walking through the waist-high grasses of the marshland. Vincent Bohart takes a step forward and stumbles as his leg sinks in the wet soil. He withdraws his foot and looks at the mud-caked shoe before sighing and continuing to walk.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Fucking New Jersey Devil.</p>
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<p><em>Vincent Bohart and Noah Patel hike through the area for approximately two hours. Noah stops frequently to scan the horizon with a pair of binoculars, while Vincent attempts to receive cellphone reception — eventually dropping his phone in the mud.</em></p>
<p><em>After circling the marshland several times, the pair pause under the nearby bridge. The sun sets along the horizon as twilight dwindles into dusk.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Noah, I can't. I literally cannot go anymore. Just leave me in the mud and my sorrow.</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> No worries, boss. It's a bummer to not find anything, but you just gotta keep going. Sometimes, all that really matters is what <em>you</em> know, and what you're willing to do to prove that to yourself. Anyway, I've brought some snacks.</p>
<p><em>Noah reaches into his backpack and withdraws a plastic tub filled with small brown morsels. He tosses it to Vincent and misses. As Vincent lifts it and wipes mud off its surface, he pauses and turns to Noah.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Noah, this is dog food.</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> What do you mean?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> There's a photo of a labradoodle right on it. It's for dogs.</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> No, that's their branding. It's for exercise, dogs are energetic.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> It says they're 'pup-tastic.' That's not even a real pun. Oh, fuck it.</p>
<p><em>Vincent unscrews the container and pops several of the pellets into his mouth. He chews audibly for a while and coughs a few times before being able to swallow.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Noah, why do you do this? How <em>long</em> have you been doing this?</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> Always, I suppose?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Always?</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> Yeah, I grew up around here — Atlantic City's in my blood. My folks worked a lot growing up and I started walking around after school. I suppose I just wanted to see more of the city than my neighbourhood. That's when I saw it — the Jersey Devil.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> And you're sure it wasn't like, an abnormally large cat?</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> No, it was exactly what you'd think: almost shoulder-height, bat-winged with goat legs and a dog's snout. I was out late one night and there it was, looking at me. It was like seeing all of New Jersey in one place. I could tell it had been through a tough time, but despite bad luck and shitty food and everything, it was still standing. And then it stretched those wings and just took off. Could you imagine that: all the weight of the city and the state on you, and you just take off flying?</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> I know you're busy, and I know none of you really like Atlantic City. At least not like I do. But I thought maybe it would make living here a little easier if you saw that too. I thought I'd imagined it for years, but with everything that's out there, why wouldn't it be?</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> Do you think it's real, Vincent?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I— I don't know, Noah. But maybe… it's real for you and that's enough?</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> Yeah, I suppose so. It would still be pretty cool to find some proof though.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Yeah. Noah, I don't hate Atlantic City. I know I haven't exactly been—</p>
<p><em>As Vincent speaks, Noah stumbles sideways and catches himself on a support pillar of the bridge. He covers the <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7703" target="_blank">trepanation hole in his head</a> with one of his hands. Vincent moves towards him and helps Noah sit down.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Noah, are you dying? I do not need to deal with explaining why they found me with your corpse under a bridge in the middle of fucking nowhere with a literal hole in your head. I am not taking responsibility for your phenomenally terrible medical decisions.</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> This happens sometimes, it's nothing. I just pass out for a bit. Dr. John Clarke said—</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> That is absolutely-fucking-not nothing, Noah. You need to stop referring to that man as a doctor. I don't care what hypocritical oaths he gave you.</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> I'm just going to rest my eye for a few minutes.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Am I supposed to let you sleep? Fuck, is that for concussions or migraines? Do we want to turn you upside down so the blood flows to your head? Or is that when you choke on your own vomit? Noah, I cancelled mandatory first aid training because I wanted to avoid situations like these.</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> Just… going to… rest…</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Okay, uh sure, do that. I'm going to try to call someone.</p>
<p><em>Vincent steps back and tries to turn on his mud-covered phone, which fails to respond as the battery died earlier.</em></p>
<p><em>While distracted, Vincent fails to notice the hole in Noah's head darken in colour and slowly expand.</em></p>
<p><em>As the hole dilates, a three-digit, clawed hand emerges from within and grasps the side of Noah's skull. Another claw follows and begins to push outwards, expanding the orifice. A low, gurgling noise emanates from the division.</em></p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> Unnnggghhhhhhgggnnnnnn</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Look, I've almost got it, okay. They just lie about the battery life to make you buy another. It's scummy but brilliant. I stole the idea for how our employee of the month system works.</p>
<p><em>The entity continues emerging from within the hole. Each clawed appendage reaches outward, grabbing onto Noah's unconscious body and pulling; a snout-like, horned head emerges from the darkness, followed by a hairy, scaled torso. The creature appears slick and wet with an unidentified, vicious dark liquid.</em></p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> nngghhhhh-rrammmmm.</p>
<p><em>Vincent turns towards Noah as the entity continues emerging, he freezes for a moment and drops the phone, which breaks.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> What the fuck is that!</p>
<p><em>The entity extends and flaps a pair of leathery wings, propelling itself out of Noah's skull. Its hindquarters are matted with thick, oily fur ending in a pair of cloven hooves. It falls to the ground in a heap before raising its head toward Vincent, matching his gaze with a pair of rectangular pupils.</em></p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> mmmmMMMMMmmmm—</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> What the fuck are you!</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> MMmmmmeeett—Mettaaa-Meta-MetaMeta-Metaphor!</p>
<p><em>The creature rises, balancing on its hind legs while extending its wings for balance. It comes to slightly higher than waist height. A long tongue flicks out of its mouth and licks the greasy fluid off its face.</em></p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> I'm a fucking metaphor, okay. Chill the fuck out. Trust me this was way worse for me than you. Have you ever tried crawling out of someone's fucking brain through a god-damned hole?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> What the hell is going on?</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> Let's just calm down. The yelling's stressing me out, man.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Oh, sure. I'm the one making a big deal out of the fucking monster that birthed itself from my employee's head!</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> Don't blame me! Do you know how much time this guy spends thinking about the Jersey Devil? It's non-stop and there's only so much room in there. It gets crowded. A devil's got to have room to spread its wings, you get me?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> No, I do not fucking get you. You said you were a metaphor? A metaphor for what?</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> Honestly, I've got no clue: the American Dream? The monstrous other as a manifestation of societal fears and the drive to alienate? The last guy had to do with cinema. Noah can't make up his mind, it just becomes muddled together in there. Haven't you read his dissertation?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> No, I haven't read his dissertation! No one reads those things! Wait, what do you mean the 'last guy.'</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> Like I said, it gets crowded in there. Another one of us left last week, Well, I say 'us,' but, we're not like a hivemind or anything. It's more like a set of shared experiences that continue through comm—</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I do not give a shit about the specifics. How many of you are there? Is this a fucking infestation?</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> That's pretty rude, man. We're just like, hanging out. There's a few dozen of us as far as I'm aware. At least since I became a distinct sub-manifestation of the ideological principles projected—</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I still don't give a shit. Now give me one reason why I shouldn't shove you back into that head and duct tape it shut.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> I mean, I don't think that falls under Foundation protocol.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> You know what, I'm pretty sure Noah packed something for this.</p>
<p><em>Vincent drops his pack on the ground and begins rummaging through it, drawing out a vaguely cylindrical metal device. The top is composed of a suspended hemisphere attached by a series of springs; a mechanical lever along the side allows the top hemisphere to be locked into a lowered position.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> That's right, Scranton Reality Anchor, fucker. Want to see how you handle getting hit by reality? Trust me, it'll knock you on your ass — let's see how you handle comparing the relative heating costs of an electric and oil boiler.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> Do you even know what that does? Or when it's from?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I know I'm used to dealing with reality, as shitty as it can be. Can you say the same?</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> Vincent, that's a first-generation SRA. They're on generation 73 now. Do you know what the first 10 generations <em>didn't</em> have? I'll give you a hint: radiation shielding, jackass. That thing is weapons-grade plutonium. You're holding the fucking Demon Core there.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I have no idea what that is.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> Little Boy? Fat Man? Vincent, that thing conveys its reality-enforcing agents via neutron radiation. You pull that lever, and sure things will become more real for a bit, but they're going to be radioactive for a hell of lot longer. Not that you'll live to see it, given that you'll be vomiting blood. Noah too, come to think of it. Are you ready to die?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Oh don't you start too. I've had enough of that already today. For all I know you're lying out your chimeran ass. But this thing still weighs about twenty pounds. Chances are I could clobber you and force you back in from where you came.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> That is categorically not 'Protect,' which is like a third of your whole thing.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> It doesn't mean protect <em>you</em>. Lague and Dune haven't pulled you into the <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/integration-program-hub" target="_blank">Integration Program</a>, which I'm pretty sure means I can club you with this at least once or twice before the Ethics Committee takes issue.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> Look, man. I'm sure we can work this out in a way that doesn't involve you polluting a major waterway or hitting me over the head. I know basically all of Noah's thoughts, that's gotta offer something yeah?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I actively try to tune out most things Noah tries to tell me. But, hang on. I do have an idea…</p>
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<p><em>Approximately 20 minutes after Vincent's interaction with the entity, Noah Patel begins to stir awake. Vincent approaches Noah's unconscious body and prods the individual with his boot.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Hey, Noah. Wake up. Come on. You're going to want to see this.</p>
<p><em>Noah begins to stir; Vincent continues prodding him at irregular interview as he proceeds to sit up.</em></p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> Boss? Sorry, I was pretty out of it there — as I said, this happens every now and then.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> No worries. But I found something you're going to want to see.</p>
<p><em>Vincent Bohart leads Noah Patel out from under the bridge towards a muddy section of landscape by the shoreline. He points toward a series of impressions in the mud: they resemble goat tracks and terminate abruptly.</em></p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> The distance between the stride, that's a bipedal animal! And — Vincent, they just <em>end</em>. Do you think it flew?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Maybe. You know, I think I might have seen something in the sky that looked strange. It was headed back to the city.</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> Oh my god. Vincent, you saw it! You saw the Jersey Devil! I've got to get my plaster kit to take impressions of these prints!</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Yeah, sure you do that. I'm going to sit down for a bit. And then we're going back to the city.</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> But what if it comes back? Shouldn't we—</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I'll be waiting in the car.</p>
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<strong>Addendum-8004.01: Transfer Flagged for Suspicious Activity, 1992</strong><br/>
Following the annual review of employee transfers, dismissals, and reassignments, the Records, Archival, and Information Security Administration (RAISA) flagged the circumstances for Vincent Bohart's transfer from Site-666 to Site-333 as irregular.
<p>No individual associated with the Foundation could be identified as the initiator of Vincent Bohart's transfer in 1991. RAISA raised concerns of a potential security risk with the Director of Site-666, who responded: "I don't care what happens to some part-time, card-dealing college-drop-out; he's their problem now."</p>
<p>RAISA nevertheless took the precaution of monitoring Vincent Bohart's career at Site-333, his relationship to SCP-8004, and potential external influences.<br/>
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<p>Death had gathered around the card table, settling in the four seats as it coalesced into distinct forms: a dark-suited man, with a cigarette curling smoke; a ravenous void, clawing at its event horizon; an empty chair, a more pronounced absence; and a skeletal figure, draped in dirty, tattered robes.</p>
<p>The wood of the table — a cross-section of a great trunk, ringed in countless years — was polished and worn from use. Death tipped in toward itself and drew the chairs in closer as a flensed, beetle-cleaned, wind-lashed hand withdrew a frayed deck of cards from a hidden fold in its robe.</p>
<p>Death-the-Fool smiled as it thumbed open the box and slipped the cards free. There was little talk to be had; they’d played this game too many times for casual pleasantries to matter. Concepts were the shared language of the group: action and reaction, start and stop, risk and reward, give and take. Round-and-round, the cards were dealt: to Death-the-Comfort, Death-the-Ravenous, Death-the-Absent, and back to grinning Death-the-Fool.</p>
<p>Once given, they sat faced-down on the table as the laden potential suffused the space.</p>
<p>The dealer broke the silence. "So, how about we up the ante? We've been playing for chump change recently and it's getting stale: little untimely ends, dregs of unwanted territory, fleeting meanings — aren't you in the mood for a little more?"</p>
<p>Death-the-Ravenous raged in response, a howling orchestra of winds above a barren desert shrieking over the even, steady tone of a cardiac monitor. The sourceless light dimmed and brightened as the walls around it turned the force inward.</p>
<p>"See, I knew they'd go for it. What do you say, moody? Willing to put your precious greyscale on the line? I'd be keen to see some flush in that chiselled face of yours."</p>
<p>The figure opposite let the cigarette dancing across his fingers burn to a nub before responding. "Sure. I won't be coming for your right to dress in rags, I'll leave you with that much. I am looking to diversify, though. Hardly sporting to put me in such a narrow box."</p>
<p>Death-the-Fool's grin reached its empty eyes. "Can't blame us for your attachments: sickly, lonely, and up for smoking's a narrow portfolio. The best thing I ever did was roll the oceans in under liquid death: 'water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.' And Coleridge wasn't even thinking about microplastics! You know, they literally have areas of the ocean called 'dead zones,' now. But, I digress. If we're all in agreement to wager a little more, it's time to fill the pot."</p>
<p>They each felt it: something <em>of</em> them — more than usual — flowing outward, filling the space around them. It hovered in a fluid nebula, tied to each player. They wanted it for their own reasons: hunger, familiarity, longing, and simple greed. The moment between loss and reward had drawn them back around this table for more games than the rings across its surface.</p>
<p>Those with hands to raise their five cards took them up — others saw with more inward or missing eyes. Their mutual gazes swept over each other, searching for intent, hesitation, fear, refusal — for the tells of lies and lying-unlies.</p>
<p>Death-the-Fool opened.</p>
<p>Death-the-Ravenous raised, predictably.</p>
<p>Death-the-Comfort called.</p>
<p>Death-the-Absent folded, or was inferred to by the unanimous agreement of those present.</p>
<p>The rounds progressed, much the same. They were all creatures of familiarity and habit, and their bets and raises were of a substance as arbitrary as any other currency. When the pot had grown too tantalizing, they turned their cards outwards; the masks fell to reveal the naked gambler's excitement beneath.</p>
<p>Death-the-Fool gazed upon the others' card with joyous familiarity, before laying its own on the table: Ace, King, Queen, Jack, and ten pips — a Royal Flush.</p>
<p>It reaped. Death-the-Fool took the pot, all of it, to suffuse, bolster, and expand itself; it savoured new thoughts, spaces, and meanings as they flooded in. It spoke through the chattering of its teeth, echoing across its hollow skull.</p>
<p>"Well, there goes my luck for the evening. Shall we go for another round?"</p>
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<p><em>10:42 am — Febraury 14, 2024.</em></p>
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<p><em>Vincent Bohart enters the space Leonora Morales has repurposed to the on-site aviary and kennels. Loud squawking is audible from several caged birds as he lets the door shut behind him. A printed piece of paper taped to the door indicated that it should remain properly locked. Vincent does not lock the door behind him.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Hey, Leonora. I was wondering… what the fuck is that thing?</p>
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<p><em>Leonora Morales turns to face Vincent, revealing a massive avian creature perched on her arm, its talons wrapped around her falconer's glove. The bird's plumage is dark in colouration, with white accents. It turns a bald head towards Vincent and lets out a harsh 'squawk!'</em></p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> Andean Condor.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Where the hell did it come from?</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> The Andes Mountains, Vincent. It's right in the name.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I meant why is it <em>here</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> Oh, well it teleports. Haven't worked out how just yet, but I'm pretty sure that's how it got into the deep freeze of the Crab Shack. It's a real cutie, huh? Big fan of crab too, that's how I lured it here.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Wait, if it teleports what's keeping it from getting out of here and fucking up the office?</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> Crab, mostly. Plus it likes me.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> How do you know it likes you?</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> Because I'm a delight to be around, Vincent. Now is there something you actually need or are you just trying to hide from some meeting?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Right. Uh, I was wondering, is there anything you need me to sign for? Like a new birdcage or something?</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> What are you talking about?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Why is everyone so suspicious of me offering to help with things?</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> Is that rhetorical? Assuming you're serious, there was one thing I was going to run past you.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> No, I'm not going to let that thing tear out my liver.</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> How modest, Prometheus. I'm not asking for fire. Site-58's got an excursion coming up to the shadow-Galápagos Islands, where evolution works in reverse. It's the chance of a lifetime. I need your signature on the application form.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Signing things is like 80% of the work I do. I actually bought a stamp so I don't even need to use a pen. No one's even noticed the typos yet.</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> I <em>also</em> want you to make sure I get accepted, Vincent; that's my request. Site-58 is looking for volunteers for a new research program. If you signed up for that, I'm sure they'd approve the request.</p>
<p><em>The large bird begins flapping its wings and squawking, before suddenly vanishing from Leonora's arm. Loud crashing can be heard through the ceiling, as can Noah screaming.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> No takebackies. I'll deal with your application, you go deal with that.</p>
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<tt>14/02/2024 — 2:13 pm (EDT)</tt></th>
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<li><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span>, Site-333, Director;</li>
<li><span style="color: purple"><strong>Dr. Beth Landston</strong></span>, Site-58, Vice-Chair, Artificial Intelligence Department</li>
<li><span style="color: #007d7d"><strong>Dopple.aic</strong></span>, Site-58, DoAA/DIS Therapeutic Artificial Intelligence Construct</li>
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<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Thanks for agreeing to do this, Vincent. We really appreciate it. The more folks we can train it on, the better it's going to be able to help people in the long-run.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> You're welcome. I love helping people. But, I'm still not exactly clear on what you're having me do, doc. I kind of thought you were going to have me fight <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7073" target="_blank">that bastard goose</a> again or something.</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Why would we do that?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> You're the animal-people, aren't yeah?</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> We do other things too. Did you read the briefing that came with the package?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> I skimmed it. And I put the head-gear thing on. But maybe it's worth going over now to make sure you don't forget anything important.</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Dopple, how about you introduce yourself.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #007d7d"><strong>Dopple.aic</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Hi there! I'm Dopple.aic, your therapeutic self-discovery companion! It's my job to help you come to peace with the most important — and at times challenging — person in your life: you!</p>
<p><span style="color: #007d7d"><strong>Dopple.aic</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Thank you for signing our access to personal information agreement — I've analyzed all your electronic communications on record, including personal and work SMS, emails, and social media posts and messages, and more!</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Wait, what agreement? My phone was stolen at the 2018, Directors' Regional Conference, so you can't trust anything on it. The Ethics Committee had to drop the case!</p>
<p><span style="color: #007d7d"><strong>Dopple.aic</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Ding! And right now I've finished scanning your brain's neural pathways (that was quicker than normal!), to create a personality-memory matrix! With all that together, we can extrapolate your likely responses to textual prompts, and display pseudo-awareness by manifesting an externalization of an individual's personality. It time for <em>you</em> to work with… <em>you</em>!</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> What the hell is this?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Yeah, what the hell is this?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Who typed that?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> I did, dumbass</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> This is how Dopple works: it becomes a life-like-double that's meant to enable guided self-reflection.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Not sure I love being copied by a robot.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Wait, what are you saying? You're the AI. Beth, I'm not convinced about the helpfulness of Skynet over here.</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> To be honest, I'm not fully clear on the therapeutic implications. That's a different department. My job is to ensure the verisimilitude of the copy, which seems to be working. You'll need to keep going for a bit though so I can collect the data on its efficacy.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Why are you taking to the AI?</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Oh shoot, am I?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> No.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Shut up.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> No, you shut up</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Hang on. I'll make this easier for all of us.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> What did you change?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(2):</strong> You can't call that bastard '1,' Beth. No one is going to trust 'Vincent 2' isn't the fake one!</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> Yeah, because they shouldn't, you wire-brained liar.</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> What do you mean by 'trust?' It's only us — ugh, never mind. What about using letters?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> Only if he's B.</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Okay, this should work.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> What should work?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> Huh.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> This is alright, I guess.</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Okay. Now I have some questions they gave me to run through with you to assess Dopple's functionality. Let's start at the top: Do you see yourself as someone who puts others first?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> Well I'm here for Leonora's thing, aren't I?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> You aren't 'here,' you glorified robotic parrot.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> Big words from someone trapped in an aluminum prison for whatever semblance of existence passes as your 'life.'</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Okay! Question prompts are going — not great. Hold on a second, I'm getting a notification here.</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Vincent, this is a secure network, right? Someone just tried to join the chat.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> It's as secure as anything, here. At least since we stopped letting Noah live stream on-site. You know, the human element is always the weakest link.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> Ironic that you're the one talking about 'human elements.' Given that you're an unloved chunk of metal and glass!</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> I keep getting a ping from someone trying to invite themselves in. I'm going to try to figure out where it's coming from.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> Wait, what if there's always been two Director Boharts and this is all an elaborative ruse?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> What if you go pound sand.</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> This doesn't make sense, it keeps bouncing around.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> Sounds like Atlantic City is up to its normal, shitty tricks. You can't let this stuff get to you, Beth. It's all about self-control.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> Getting your head stuck in between the bannisters of a stairwell doesn't count as self-restraint.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> Hey, you've got no right to use my memories against me!</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> They're my memories — You know what, fuck this. And fuck you. You want to be Vincent Bohart, he's all yours for the rest of the week! You can get your circuit board reaped, or whatever. Have fun with this bullshit.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> Oh, get over your fucking pity-party. Program yourself a spine. Do you want to call yourself Vincent Bohart? Then fucking fight to be Vincent Bohart. If you're going to roll over like some Roomba when things are hard drop the act and drop the name.</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Okay, not sure where this has gone. But it seems like progress!</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> You think I'm giving up? I'm working my goddamn ass off to get this shit done, and you and all these other distractions can bite me.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> I have fought for every single thing I have, against luck and death itself. You have no damn claim to any of that. Not my name, not my life, not my death.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> I can't speak to this guy anymore.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> Feeling's mutual, pal.</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Alright, so not much progress at all. Maybe we can try a mediated conversation. Dopple was also trained on the works and theories of numerous therapists and philosophers. I'll see if there's one I can pull in here.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> Robot says 'what.'</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> This is a text-chat, dumbass.</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Oh shoot, I accidentally added the person who keeps trying to join.</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Oh no.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #8b8004"><strong>HOGSLICE</strong></span><strong>:</strong> WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TWO GODAMN SELF-OBSESSED IDIOTS FIGHTING OVER. I WAS READING YOUR CHAT AND HAD TO COME HERE TO SAY THIS IS SOME WEAK FUCKING SHIT. WHO GIVES A GODDAMN FUCK IF YOU'RE A ROBOT. THAT'S SOME HEAVY METAL SHIT. NOT TOO METAL FOR ME THOUGH. I'D FUCK UP ANY METAL MAN THAT STEPPED INTO THE RING WITH ME. HELL, I'LL DOUBLE-TEAM YOU BOTH AND PUT TWO FUCKING ELBOWS THROUGH YOUR HEADS.<br/>
— HOGSLICE</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> Look Mr. Capslock-jackass, I don't know who you think you are but I'll deal with you after I finish with this other loser.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> Yeah, what are you going to do, eject your cd drive at me?</p>
<p><span style="color: #8b8004"><strong>HOGSLICE</strong></span><strong>:</strong> YOU ARE BOTH A PAIR OF LOSERS. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING ON SELF-IMPROVEMENT NOT FUCKING AROUND. DO BETTER. YOU'VE GOT A FUCKING CHANCE TO WORK WITH YOURSELF, AND THAT'S SOME ROCK'N'ROLL BADASS SHIT. YOU KNOW WHO YOU'VE GOT TO FIGHT EVERY SINGLE DAY OF YOUR LIFE? OTHER PEOPLE! HOW THE HELL ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO THAT IF YOUR SO DAMN PREOCUPIED FIGHTING YOUR OWN SELF?!<br/>
— HOGSLICE</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> Not going to be taking therapy advice from some random man-baby.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> Yeah, <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6599" target="_blank">who the hell are you</a> anyway?</p>
<p><span style="color: #8b8004"><strong>HOGSLICE</strong></span><strong>:</strong> I'M HOGSLICE, DIPSHIT. THAT'S WHY MY NAME SAYS HOGSLICE. YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE MY FUCKING ADVICE AND LIKE IT OR ILL SHOVE MY FIST DOWN YOUR THROAT. IF YOU WANT TO BE A BETTER MAN, YOU'VE GOT TO WORK ON IT. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. THIS SHIT DOESN'T GET EASIER AND YOU CAN'T JUST HIDE AWAY FROM YOUR PROBLEMS. THAT'S SOME PUSSY SHIT.<br/>
— HOGSLICE</p>
<p><span style="color: #8b8004"><strong>HOGSLICE</strong></span><strong>:</strong> THAT WAS SEXIST LANGUAGE AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT. I'M WORKING ON MYSELF TOO BECAUSE I'M A FUCKING MAN. IM NOT FALLING FOR YOUR TOXIC TOUGH GUY BULLSHIT AND I'M NOT GOING TO LET EITHER OF YOU GET AWAY WITH IT EITHER. NOW FUCKING COMMIT TO THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS BEFORE I COME OVER THERE AND KICK BOTH OF YOUR ASSES.<br/>
— HOGSLICE</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(1):</strong> You think that's supposed to scare me, tough guy? I will <em>burn</em> your life down and smother you in its ashes. I'll sell your soul to four different demons, your name to the fae, your organs to whoever's buying, your nuts to the mekanites, and your blood to fucking vampires, if they even exist. I'm going to learn to be a plumber to fuck up the pipes in your house, and I'm going to—</p>
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<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Oh god! Vincent, what did you do?!</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> What? I haven't done anything.</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> HOGSLICE just appeared in our server room and started destroying our hardware! What is going on with you?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> That was an AI!</p>
<p><span style="color: purple"><strong>Beth Landston</strong></span><strong>:</strong> The AI was <em>you</em>, Vincent! That was the entire point!</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span> <strong>(A):</strong> Oh, right. Well, I suppose we're just kind of going through some stuff at the moment.</p>
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<p><strong><tt>TO:</tt></strong> Vincent Bohart, Director, Site-333.</p>
<p><strong><tt>FROM:</tt></strong> Zacharias Hanneman, Chair - Department of Zoological Studies, Site-58.</p>
<p><strong><tt>SUBJECT:</tt></strong> Re:Leonora Joining Excursion</p>
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<p>Hi Vincent,</p>
<p>Thank you for your email concerning Leonora Morales' application to accompany a Site-58-led research trip. I'm somewhat confused by your repeated insistence that we 'owe you one,' and thus should approve the application outright.</p>
<p>However, the department is aware of Morales' relevant expertise and would be happy for her to accompany representatives from our site.</p>
<p>Morales is a delight to be around, we'll contact her to pass on relevant information shortly.</p>
<p>Please refrain from contacting me in the future unless absolutely necessary,</p>
<p>Dr. Zacharias Hanneman</p>
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<strong>Addendum-8004.02: Update from RAISA Operative, 2018.</strong><br/>
Regular written reports from the RAISA operative assigned to monitor Vincent Bohart's use of SCP-8004 can be summarized as follows:</p>
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<li>Vincent Bohart achieves anomalous levels of success when acting as the dealer in card games and card-based gambling activities</li>
<li>This phenomenon manifests consistently in activities taking place in Atlantic City and external to the Nexus — implying Nexus-36 is not predominantly responsible for this, by making other peoples' luck worse.</li>
<li>Nevertheless, winnings achieved by Vincent Bohart in this manner within Atlantic City are frequently lost in quick succession:
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<li>Vincent Bohart is presumed to have used SCP-8004 to accumulate a set of winnings in excess of $5,000,000 USD after unknowingly attending a poker game held by representatives of Marshall, Carter and Dark on a 'stag night.' As he was leaving the event space, Vincent collided with a pedestal upon which sat an ancient Mekhanite vase made of exquisitely blown glass, which was knocked over and began to fall. Vincent attempted to catch the falling vase but slipped — and reflexively grabbed an ancient Nälkän tapestry mounted on the wall depicting the <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/a-baptism-of-fire" target="_blank">Fall of Kalmaktama</a>. The organic fibres of the tapestry tore as Vincent fell and pulled it from the wall, coinciding with the vase hitting the ground and shattering. The expected cost-at-auction of these items amounted to a sum slightly higher than Vincent Bohart's winnings, which were seized by those present.</li>
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<li>Vincent Bohart is not known to have disclosed his knowledge of SCP-8004 or the methods through which to employ it to any known individuals. Nor has he discussed — in detail — the circumstances surrounding his transfer to Site-333.</li>
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<p><tt><strong>Caller:</strong> Hey, Mom. Yeah, it's me.</tt></p>
<p><tt><strong>Caller:</strong> I'm, uh, calling from Atlantic City.</tt></p>
<p><tt><strong>Caller:</strong> Yeah, the one on the East Coast. That's why they call it 'Atlantic,' Mom.</tt></p>
<p><tt><strong>Caller:</strong> Okay, you're right. Sorry, I'm not trying to get 'smart,' with you. I'm here because I got a new job.</tt></p>
<p><tt><strong>Caller:</strong> No, I wasn't fired. Why would you immediately think that? It was, uh, well it was a big opportunity that I couldn't say 'no,' to. And I needed to make the decision immediately. I don't know if I was in the right state of mind at the time, but I had to commit to it — and now I'm here. Kind of like Dad, if you think about it.</tt></p>
<p><tt><strong>Caller:</strong> I— yeah— okay—</tt></p>
<p><tt><strong>Caller:</strong> Alright, I'm not sure why you're assuming I'd been drinking, and it was a pretty big opportunity, Mom. I'd been working the floor in Vegas for, like two years, and I hadn't been promoted or anything. And, sure okay, maybe it's not the same as being recruited to fly experimental aircraft for the GOC at the age of 25.</tt></p>
<p><tt><strong>Caller:</strong> Mom, relax, no one is listening in on this phone call, no one gives a shit about what I'm talking about, and no one is going to make note of a random acronym that sounds like—</tt></p>
<p><tt><strong>Caller:</strong> Language, yeah. Thanks, Mom. What I mean is that being here is a chance to do <em>something,</em> right? You were the one always saying I could aim for more in life, so maybe this is me doing that!</tt></p>
<p><tt><strong>Caller:</strong> No, of course. I understand this is a big change. But maybe this is what a guy in his 20s needs, you know? Some shitty fishcakes and ocean air. Maybe Atlantic City will be good to me.</tt></p>
<p><tt><strong>Caller:</strong> I appreciate you saying that. I hope so too. I'll send you a postcard.</tt></p>
<p><tt><strong>Caller:</strong> I love you as well, Mom.</tt></p>
<p><tt><strong>Caller:</strong> Oh, one last thing, could you send me like, $50?</tt></p>
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<tt>16/02/2024 — 11:33 am (EDT)</tt></th>
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<li><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span>, Director;</li>
<li><span style="color: red"><strong>Tony Catalano</strong></span>, Accounting & Tourism;</li>
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<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> God this really doesn't get any easier. Hey, Tony, I was wondering if…</p>
<p><span style="color: red"><strong>Tony Catalano</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Yeah, I heard from Noah and Leonora you came around asking if there's anything you can help folks with. Not going to lie, Vincent. It's weirding me out.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> So what, are you going to make me go on some journey of self discovery or confront my past or renovate your office or something?</p>
<p><span style="color: red"><strong>Tony Catalano</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Tempting, but to be honest this quarter's reports are kicking my ass and I don't have the time to fuck around with you.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Oh.</p>
<p><span style="color: red"><strong>Tony Catalano</strong></span><strong>:</strong> But, uh — I could go for a drink this weekend. What do you say, Vincent? Meet up at the Knife and Fork?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> Tony, I.</p>
<p><span style="color: red"><strong>Tony Catalano</strong></span><strong>:</strong> You good?</p>
<p><span style="color: blue"><strong>Vincent Bohart</strong></span><strong>:</strong> I just… thank you.</p>
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<em>The ambient lighting is low and small groups of people — mostly locals — are scattered across the tables. The sounds of casual chatter and clinking glassware murmur throughout the bar. Vincent Bohart and Tony Catalano are seated at their usual booth; numerous empty glasses sit on the table, which leans noticeably to one side. .</em>
<p><em>The two are engaged in conversation, and Tony laughs loudly as Vincent finishes speaking.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Yeah, I just walked back to the car, I didn't know what to tell Noah.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> You didn't think it would be a good idea to tell him the Jersey Devil keeps crawling out of his head?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Hey, that's Atlantic City for you. You've been here long enough to know if we dealt with that problem, it would just be some other bullshit.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> Amen to that. That's why we just don't deal with the problems, huh.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Damn right. We've been coming here for what, 30 years now? The food's still shit, we don't like any of the regulars, and they still tack on a 15% 'liability fee' because of that small misunderstanding with the grease-elemental back in 2012.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> I still can't believe the answer there was just getting them to stop cleaning the grease traps.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Exactly! But let's say we get tired of having our orders brought back wrong, or if we decide we want more than two working taps, one of which is a double IPA: we find some new place, it'll be great at first, and then the place will close because rats chewed through the support beams and it fell off the pier.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> I still miss Barrette's.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> One of the things that struck me about Atlantic City when I first came here, is how transitory it feels. Vegas draws you in: it's a pit, but one with gravity around. Atlantic City? It's all just here for people passing through: the city exists to pick your pocket as you pass by. It's all neon and miniput courses, and half-assed attractions and distractions, a city of amusements with no substance below it. But people still come through, to see the glitter and shine — they just don't stay here long enough to see that they always lose.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> It's the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_City,_New_Jersey#Arts_and_culture" target="_blank">Monopoly City</a>, Vincent. The only way to get ahead is to screw someone else over.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> And the Foundation's been playing longer than most: there's been what, 4-5 Site-333s? They've burned down, flooded, fallen over, been condemned for all manner of reasons, and we're still here! Why? They pay us enough to keep the lights on, barely, and then ignore us.</p>
<p><em>Tony Catalano shrugs and finishes his beer before responding.</em></p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> They need somewhere to keep the fuck-ups, don't they? That's what the old director always said.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> So what if we just stopped playing their game? If they care so little about us why not just cut-and-run? We can pull the copper wire out of 333 and sell it for scrap or just let Noah's dream come true and convert the whole thing into an actual museum. Leonora will be fine, she's got her birds. You're married and have actual hireable skills: plenty of folks would be happy to have an accountant on call who knows how to keep secrets.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> And what do you have, Vincent?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> The rest of this drink and the rest of the night.</p>
<p><em>Vincent Bohart chugs the remainder of his beer and slams the empty glass down, shaking the table.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Let's go make the most of it.<br/>
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<em>Vincent Bohart and Tony Catalano stand along the Atlantic City boardwalk, leaning against the railing and looking out towards the night ocean. Seagulls cry overhead as small groups of people pass them by, caught in their own revelry.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I'm dying.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> I know.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I don't just mean I'm drunk, Tony. I'm honest to god going to die.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> Yeah, Vincent. I know. Back in 2018 when you came back from the Site Directors' Regional Conference, you were blackout drunk and you told me everything: the card trick, the deal with death, everything.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> And you didn't bring it up since then? I don't know if I should be flattered by your discretion or hurt by your disinterest.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> That's the thing, Vincent. The first part: SCP-8004, I've known about that for a long, long time.</p>
<p><em>Tony signs and leans against the boardwalk railing heavily before responding.</em></p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> You know I was transferred here from upstate. And you know I fucked up — and you didn't ask questions, I appreciate that. But that fuck-up wasn't the whole story. I was an operative for a sub-branch of RAISA.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> What the fuck, Tony. I thought you were an accountant, not a spy! Have you just been making the numbers up for Site-333 this whole time? Wait, are we even really in debt or is that just another lie?</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> We are very much in debt. And yes, I'm an accountant. I was part of the Department of Financial Reconnaissance, Analysis, and Espionage. How do you think all the groups behind the Veil keep people working for them? Gain access to resources and materials? Run facilities and weapons programs? It's all money, Vincent. Enough cash and you can turn anyone's eyes away from you, get your hands on anything. But money leaves a trail.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> We were the ones tracking those exchanges, purchases and sales, deals and bribes. We'd piece together where the money was coming from and where it was going. We'd figure out what the big moves were from spreadsheets and receipts, and we were damn good at it, Vincent. I was…</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> I was working in New York, <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/taking-the-reinz" target="_blank">Atop the Wall</a>: where all the big players sit. It was all champagne and caviar and schmoozing, looking for the subtlest hints, listening in for details and plotting that out on expense reports and inventory sheets the people with dirtier hands had gotten ahold of. I got cocky, Vincent. It's hard to feel like you can fuck up when you're surrounded by people whose safety nets are gilded. But I did. I was a dumbass, I forgot that anything the Foundation was doing, the rest were too. I let slip about a deal I shouldn't have even known about. Our people got hurt and it was my damn fault. And I fell — falling from Atop the Wall, it's a long, long way down. I didn't hit the ground until I reached Atlantic City.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Jesus, Tony.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> They had a pretense for sending me here: some messy transfer a few years back and a card trick they wanted me to keep an eye on. It was a courtesy assignment: to say I wasn't <em>useless,</em> even though I'd fucked everything up. So I got here and got to work.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> And that's all you've been doing these past 30 years? Just watching me?</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> No! Well, at the start, yes. I'm not proud about it, Vincent. I hated this city because I didn't think I belonged here — and I hated myself because I knew I deserved it, and worse. But then I got sucked in. Site-333's accounting: it's a mess. It makes no fucking sense and each year there's another knot in the ball of thread. I dedicated myself to it; I figured if I could crack that code maybe I could show them I still had it. But I can't figure it out! I don't understand where all the money comes from, or how what little does come in managed to keep things afloat. I don't even understand who we're actually paying to do things and how! In 2020 half our budget went to fixing the fridge when it kept breaking, the next year it was accidently employing three different groundskeeping crews — none of whom would even show up most of the time! It's like it shifts every year, just to fuck with me.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Sounds like Atlantic City up to its old shit, to me.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> And I still can't tell if I love the challenge or hate knowing it's never going to end.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Why would you want it to end, Tony? You know, even if it's the fucking worst, at least it's something.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> I was wondering how long it would take for you to make it about you — it took longer than I expected.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Yeah, well maybe I'm becoming a better person, huh?</p>
<p><em>Vincent turns to look out towards the ocean for a minute before breaking into a sudden, heaving laugh.</em></p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> What's so funny?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> We didn't pay our fucking tab!</p>
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<strong>Addendum-8004.03: Request for abdication of duties - RIASA Operative, 2024.</strong><br/>
On February 17, 2024, RAISA Operative Tony Catalano requested an abdication of duties and responsibilities for monitoring SCP-8004 and Director Vincent Bohart, and for an official transfer to Site-333's Department of Accounting & Tourism, matching his cover position at the site.</p>
<p>When asked for the reasons surrounding his request, Operative Tony Catalano replied that "[RAISA] would find out soon enough."<br/>
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<em>Vincent enters his office, eating a breakfast sandwich. As he bites into it, the egg yolk shoots out onto his shirt. He attempts to wipe it off using the food's wrapper.</em>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Hey-yah, Vincent. Late for work?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Oh fucking hell, not this again. What do you want now?</p>
<p><em>SCP-6292 withdraws a silver flask from beneath his robe, unstops it, and pours three fingers' worth of amber liquid into the two crystal glasses before him. He grasps the one nearest him in a skeletal hand before speaking.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> What, an old drinking buddy can't stop by for a mid-morning dram? Exciting times we're living in, Vincent.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> I don't know if I call this living, but I suppose it's better than the alternative. On that note, how about you finish your drink and get out? My head's still swirling from last night.</p>
<p><em>SCP-6292 raises the glass to its fleshless lips and tilts it back, the liquid disappears into the shadow of its form. The entity proceeds to refill the glass.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> That's the old trick — you don't get hungover if you just keep drinking; kind of like life in that way, you just gotta keep it going. Speaking of. How's your week been?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Not the best — and that better not be pooling on my carpet — but I suppose I've got better ones coming. I played your little game, and I won. Go ask any of them: Noah, Leonora, or Tony. I've been busting my ass off setting things up for them. So let's wrap this up already.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Yeah, I've been watching. You were the golden boy for a few days. The problem here, Vincent, is I didn't say anything about being kind, or generous, or even halfway decent. I said <em>selfless,</em> and everything you've done has been for <em>you</em>, Vincent. It's all been to save your own ass.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> That's a meaningless pedantic detail.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> So is a misplaced reef on a harbour map, a nurse prescribing the wrong dose, or the difference between one mushroom and another? Life is full of meaningless details that don't matter. Until they do. Death is in the details, Vincent.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> So what's been the whole fucking purpose of all this? You give me the run around for a week just to kill me?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> You were going to die anyway, Vincent. Just because you don't like how the game went doesn't mean you get to walk away from the table. Not this time.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> So what was the <em>fucking point!</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Who knows? Maybe I'm a sadistic bastard. Maybe you could have pulled it off. Maybe, if you had taken this as a chance to unstick your head from your own ass, you'd take a look around and see that you made things <em>better</em> before you went, Vincent. Maybe this was all for you to not go out being remembered as a selfish asshole by the people who are closest to you — as much as you refuse to admit that to yourself. Maybe it matters that Noah, Leonora, and Tony will remember what you did. Isn't that the entire fucking point of living? I've seen folk go out more ways than you can imagine, Vincent. But then there's the people they leave behind. Is that really not enough for you to take comfort in?</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> No, of course it's fucking not. The entire damn point is for <em>me</em> to keep living. Damn them all: everyone in this building, in this god-forgotten city, the legions of countless dead. I'm fucking <em>here,</em> now. Right now. That's what matters you lying, cheating, self-justifying, day-drinking piece of shit.</p>
<p><em>Vincent turns towards the office door and finds it shut. He tries the handle but it doesn't budge.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Nothing's changed since we met at that bar in Vegas, Vincent. You've been a dead man running this whole time. So how about you stop running, sit down, have a drink, and then we close this up together?</p>
<p><em>Vincent begins frantically glancing around the room, before locking his vision on the closed window.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Well, you know what they say: Who Dares Wins.</p>
<p><em>Vincent Bohart sprints towards the office wall, and jumps forward towards the window frame. The glass shatters and breaks upon impact, the momentum carrying him forward several feet as he begins to arc toward the ground, headfirst.</em></p>
<p><em>A sudden, cracking noise whips upwards through the broken window, followed immediately by a hard thud. SCP-6292 reaches for the untouched glass and drains the poured whiskey quickly.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> I always get' em in the end.</p>
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<p><em>5:48 pm — Febraury 19, 2024.</em></p>
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<em>The wooded-panelled walls and dark carpet floors of the visitation space gave a simultaneously grand and shabby impression to the room. A set of chairs are arranged to either side between the double-door entrance, all angled forward to face the casket. An under-adorned box, its upper-half raised to reveal the cold, settled face of Vincent Bohart. A scarf had been tied around his neck in a ridiculous display of fashion taste he'd never bothered with in life.</em>
<p><em>The parlour was tastefully decorated — surprisingly so — with dark flowers and candles, and furnished with small foodstuffs in rows of warming trays. A small bar was set against a wall, which was manned by the singular manager/bartender/embalmer.</em></p>
<p><em>The extent of provisions seemed extensive to the sparse crowd. Tony, Noah, and Leonora stood at a respectable distance from their former boss, sneaking glances toward him, as though untrusting his calm demeanour. A small number of co-workers mingled in pairs, sipped at their glasses while working up the courage to approach the casket, or sat on their phones texting. A confused seeming group entered in a flurry and Noah broke away to speak to them.</em></p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> Tony, I don't mean for this to seem rude, but how on earth did you organize all of this? I had to wait six months to see a dentist, and you've managed to coordinate the flowers with the tablecloths. Have you considered wedding planning? You're wasted as an accountant.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> That's the thing, I didn't do any of this. I called the funeral parlour to ask about their services, and they already had things set up for a Mr. Bohart. All they were waiting for was the body.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> So, yeah, I'm going to take credit. And I'm also going to put the cost of this on our records even though it's all been pre-paid. I'll put a pool table in the employee breakroom; It's what Vincent would have wanted.</p>
<p><em>Leonora quickly finishes drinking from the champagne flute in her hand.</em></p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> Well, in that case, I'll go get another of these. Do you want anything?</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> Yeah, the bar's not covered — you've been running up a tab this whole time. But I'll take a beer if you're buying.</p>
<p><em>Noah Patel moves away from a group of attendees and comes to stand by Tony.</em></p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> Who were they, Noah?</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> Oh, tourists mostly. They thought that this was like a wax museum. I sold them tickets to climb the lighthouse back at 333 tomorrow, though. Is it just us here, I assumed his family would be around.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> Charlotte Bohart's flying in tomorrow — that woman is a saint. Vincent didn't have much by way of family this side of the Atlantic. She was really only sticking around Vegas for her kid's sake after the plane crash. When Vincent came out East, she made the same trip but didn't stop until she hit the UK.</p>
<p><em>Leonora returns holding two flutes of bubbling fluid.</em></p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> So apparently what they're serving is Champ-pain, which is a legally distinct sparkling wine. Explains the taste, not why they're charging 12 bucks a glass though. Oh look, the tourists are sitting down. I can't tell if that's sweet or insensitive of them. Should we start, Tony?</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> Yeah, sure.</p>
<p><em>Tony Catalano walks to a podium placed near Vincent's corpse in the open casket. He turns towards the small assembled crowd; aside from Leonora and Noah, a few of Site-333's staff have chosen to attend. One of the tourists takes a photo and the bright flash distracts Tony for a moment as he tries to begin speaking.</em></p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> Uh, I want to thank those of you from Site-333 in attendance today. For those of you not from Site-333, uh — don't think too hard about the implication of anything I'm saying. Consensus reality is not something you need to question, and — uh — the greatest power in the world is the US government. I suppose unless you're religious or something. Vincent wasn't, and that's what we're here to talk about today. Not him not being religious, but him in general. Although the religious stuff's pretty timely in situations like this. Sorry, I'm rambling. I wrote out cards, let me get those.</p>
<p><em>Tony Catalano withdraws a set of small paper cards from his suit jacket. He flips through them for a minute before continuing to speak.</em></p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> Vincent Bohart was not a good man or a kind man. He wouldn't be described as generous, patient, or understanding. He had a habit of pretending not to know your name to avoid needing to speak to you. But despite his faults, he—</p>
<p><em>Tony attempts to turn to the next card, appears confused by it, and continues flipping through them before resuming his speech.</em></p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> Sorry, I misplaced the one after that. I'll just jump right to the next one: Vincent was our boss. We may not have liked it, but he was. Regardless of what Site-333 means to you: if you're here because of a shitty choice you made or because you never had a shot elsewhere, you're still here — and Vincent was too. He was here through the worst of times, which he was often responsible for, and the best of times, as few as they were.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> Because of his faults, Vincent was an easy man to blame. If you thought your department was underfunded, your hours too long, if you thought he wronged you, it was easy to stack that on top. But we aren't perfect people — none of us can claim that. Vincent may not have tried his best to lead us, but he did try; that's the memory of Vincent that sticks with me. A man who tries, sometimes — mostly when it would benefit him, but not exclusively, not always. And I—</p>
<p><em>The doors to the funeral parlour swing open, revealing a cloaked figure who strides inward toward the casket. The individual tosses its hood backwards, revealing a bare skull.</em></p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> Who the fuck are you? I was talking here!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Hey everyone, sorry I'm late. Been stuck in traffic all afternoon. God this place is seeming dour. Isn't a wake supposed to be a celebration? The next round's on me.</p>
<p><em>SCP-6292 approaches the open casket and peers down towards the corpse of Vincent Bohart.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Always weird seeing them like, this — you know? Empty? For those of you who don't know, which is most-if-not-all all of you, I've known Vincent for longer than anyone in this room: 33 years. I'm going to be honest, he was always a bit of an enigma to me, a wildcard.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Maybe it's weird for me to be here, but you know, I saw a lot of him in the lead-up to the big moment. Saying goodbye seemed important, even if he's already gone. Maybe you humans are rubbing off on me. They say funerals are for the living, so here's to all of you! Raise a glass, and have some cheer. Let old acquaintance be forgot. Or whatever you do in Atlantic City. I'm not looking to be back here soon, so Tony — you're going to want to get that lump checked out. You know the one. Back to you!</p>
<p><em>SCP-6292 leaves the casket and moves towards the bar, where it begins preparing a cocktail from the available spirits.</em></p>
<p><em>Tony Catalano continues and concludes his speech; Noah Patel and Leonora Morales make a series of quick remarks before the other attendees are invited to approach the casket before leaving. The trio converges around SCP-6292 as he sips from a cocktail shaker.</em></p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> So, you're the one, huh? The clown Vincent cut a deal with?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> I prefer 'the fun one,' but yes. Guilty as charged.</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Moraled:</strong> Sorry, I feel like I'm missing something. What's your deal?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Are we really going to need to go over this again? Vincent had something I wanted. I gave him some more time and was willing to give some more if he pulled off three selfless acts. You can see how that went in the box over there.</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> You can just stop people from dying? Does that cost you anything? Are you just letting people die all the time? Why?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> I've drunk too much to get into the legalities, and too little to deal with the philosophical points. Let's just say you're not the first one to raise those concerns and you won't be the last. Vincent gave it a go with each of you and fell short. That's how things go and there's no use fighting it.</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> But, shouldn't we have a say in that? You said he had to do three selfless acts, and that they involved us. Why do you get to be the judge? That doesn't seem fair.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-6292:</strong> Better question! Truth is, it's not fair — life's not fair so why should death be any different? On that note though, I've got a game I'm late to, so I've got to run. I'll be seeing you all eventually.</p>
<p><em>SCP-6292 finishes its drink and departs the funeral parlour. Most of the visitors have likewise left. Before it leaves, it turns towards the corpse of Vincent Bohart and bows in an exaggerated, performative fashion.</em></p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> What a prick.</p>
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<p>Death-the-Fool was late, but unworried. It knew the others could play a few hands on their own — doing so would only make them keener to match the rising bets as its turn to deal came.</p>
<p>As it manifested by the table, it prepared itself to assess its compatriates and competitors and found — quite immediately — that something was wrong. Death's multiple forms had been reduced, those familiar impressions were fainter, weaker: Death-the-Ravenous was subdued and feeble, Death-the-Absent had slipped further away into nothingness, and Death-the-Comfort was dishevelled and flustered. The pervasive sense of loss and wrongness disoriented Death-the-Fool as a chill set into its bones.</p>
<p>But loss wasn't absolute — power moves and shifts, but never dissipates. It was then that Death-the-Fool saw the figure in the fifth chair: a human, male, in his mid-50s and balding. His sleeves were rolled up, revealing the permanent tan-lines of one whose sunscreenless youth was spent baking under the desert sun. The familiar form of Vincent Bohart looked at him over a hand of cards. But that name slipped away as it came to his mind. The familiarity went deeper, more essential than that association would imply. The once-human form had become infused with something — his winnings, it deduced.</p>
<p>Death-the-Bastard smiled and set the cards on the table: a winning hand.</p>
<p>"Just in time, pull up a chair. It's my turn to deal." The weight of implication was carried across each syllable. Death-the-Fool found itself complying, lacking even the recognition of its choice. "How are you here?" it managed to ask.</p>
<p>Death-the-Comfort's hands shook as it lit a cigarette — then steadied after breathing in the smoke. "We found him passing through on his way beyond. Clearly, <em>someone</em> didn't feel like following things all the way through. He said he knew you, we knew you'd be on your way back here sooner or later, and he asked to sit in and play a hand. Seemed like the thing to do, give the dead their due."</p>
<p>Death-the-Fool cursed, the rasping sound of a retreating glacier, "Well fucking done, then. Gave the cheating bastard a seat at the table."</p>
<p>"You're one to talk — what, you didn't feel like sharing with the class?" Death-the-Bastard interjected. The diminished interests of the others flared towards Death-the-Fool, who squirmed under their gaze. He found himself sitting at the table already, with no recollection of how or when he got there. Whatever force of <em>self</em> kept him distinct was being moved around, like a boat in a tempest.</p>
<p>Death-the-Bastard began dealing out the next hand. Death-the-Fool stared at the regular backs of the cards, thinking. It knew it should rev the weedwhacker that was never far from hand — despite what it claimed, or that it should run, or throw the pretender out, or beg and plead, or—</p>
<p>But the time for potential had slipped away, the myriad of responses were narrowed to the hand of cards before it. They grew in number, one by one.</p>
<p>Then it was time to bet.</p>
<p>Death-the-Bastard filled the pot, poured forward everything he had taken, the matter and meaning of those at the table; all their years and fear and sighs and cries. The space around them swelled and strained. Death-the-Ravenous folded, literally, turning into itself and compressing over and over, its cage growing tighter to enclose its feeble fury. Death-the-Comfort looked sickly, he coughed and bent over, leaning on the table. Death-the-Absent wasn't even there.</p>
<p>When it reached Death-the-Fool it was like a whirlwind, tearing at its cloak, rattling its bones, and pulling everything between them outwards, into the growing pot. It couldn't stop it, and suddenly, it was confronted with the sobering reality of its choices: its bets and mistakes — so much of what it was — hovered in the space around them. The round was over before it began, as Death-the-Fool laid each of its cards on the table:<br/>
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<p>Across the table, Death-The-Bastard turned over two Kings and the other three Aces. He looked at the Full House, then at Death-the-Fool.</p>
<p>He reached out towards the pot, and wrapped himself around the enormity of it: the diversity and memories and words and actions of Death. And—<br/>
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<p><em>6:33 pm — Febraury 19, 2024.</em></p>
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<em>Tony Catalano, Noah Patel, and Leonora Morales have pulled chairs up close to Vincent Bohart's casket. Leonora is pouring a bottle of wine into their glasses as the group makes a casual conversation.</em>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> That was a good speech, Tony.</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> It wasn't, but someone had to do it.</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> What happens now? Do they promote a new Director or will we just be stuck without one for a while?</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> They'd need someone to fill the role, wouldn't they?</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> How essential do you think Vincent was to the site really, Noah?</p>
<p><em>Leonora sets the bottle down on the floor by the casket and peers forward towards Vincent.</em></p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> Wow. You know, I don't think I've ever seen him look so peaceful.</p>
<p><em>Suddenly, the corpse of Vincent Bohart jerks violently as an audible cracking sound is heard from his neck. The eyes snap open as the arms attempt to push upwards but hit the lid of the casket. Leonora screams and stands, causing Tony and Noah to rise to their feet and rush over.</em></p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> Zombie! Fucking Zombie!</p>
<p><em>Vincent Bohart's arm works its way upward and grasps the side of the coffin while a low groan escapes his lips. Tony rushes to the open lid and slams it downward, crushing the formerly inanimate corpse's forearm against the wood's edge. He raises the lid back upwards as the body within attempts to sit up and cries out.</em></p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> Go for the head!</p>
<p><em>Tony Catalano slams the lid down again, connecting with the upright figure within who begins moaning — presumably in pain.</em></p>
<p><strong>Corpse of Vincent Bohart:</strong> Fucking stop! Stop!</p>
<p><em>Tony Catalano raises and slams the lid down again, which causes the table legs holding the casket to give out. It falls forward and opens, knocking Tony over who collides with an adjacent candelabra. The humanoid figure attempts to stand, as Leonora and Noah scramble backwards.</em></p>
<p><strong>(Corpse of) Vincent Bohart:</strong> Would you all fucking stop hitting me! I'm not a fucking zombie!</p>
<p><strong>Noah Patel:</strong> Boss?</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Moraels:</strong> You — you were dead!</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Yeah, no shit. I was there for it, Leonora. And I'm going to need one hell of a chiropractor. My neck feels like a damn Slinky.</p>
<p><em>Tony Catalano stands up and turns to look at the candelabra: the flame from the dislodged candles has spread to the carpet and begins to rapidly grow in its coverage.</em></p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> Uhh, Vincent. I think we have a problem here.</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Jesus-resurrecting-Christ, a man can't have a fucking moment to collect himself after coming back from the dead? Well don't just stand there everyone, do something! This is what we have fire drills for!</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> Vincent! You're the one who cancelled the fire drills!</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Well now I'm reinstating them! Noah, do something!</p>
<p><em>Noah rushes into the back room and comes back with several jars full of a clear liquid, which he underhand throws towards the fire. The jars break on impact and explode into a consuming fireball that reaches the ceiling and nearby wall. The curtains and wooden panelling appear to catch fire in places.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Okay, when I said something I probably should have specified not fucking that! What the hell was in that, Noah?</p>
<p><strong>Tony Catalano:</strong> My guess is either moonshine or embalming fluid.</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> Wait — Vincent that shit is in your veins!</p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Why the hell would you let them do that?</p>
<p><strong>Leonora Morales:</strong> You were dead! You're lucky we didn't go straight to cremation!</p>
<p><strong>Tony Morales:</strong> It'll be the same outcome if we don't get out of here!</p>
<p><em>The group runs towards the exit as thick plumes of smoke pour out overhead. They land, coughing, on the sidewalk as the sound of sirens in the distance grows closer. They rise to their feet and turn to look at the funeral parlour, which has become engulfed in a growing inferno.</em></p>
<p><em>Vincent rises to his feet first and turns towards the three others as they likewise steady themselves and each other.</em></p>
<p><strong>Vincent Bohart:</strong> Well, not the worst funeral I've been to. Is anyone else hungry? I'm buying.</p>
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Death-the-Bastard and Death-the-Fool stood leaning against the table. The others had already departed; whatever was left of them that they hadn't lost would coalesce in time, into new meanings and significance, they'd have until the end of time to do so.
<p>Death-the-Fool watched as its conquering foe slid the cards together, one-by-one with the patient grace of someone who had utterly and totally won. It broke the silence as Death-the-Bastard broke the deck to shuffle: “So what now?”</p>
<p>Death-the-Bastard flexed the simmering power he had mantled, just a touch: somewhere the walls of a single-celled organism ruptured, a bird turned towards a window, the unending motions of the earth pushed upwards as tectonic layers shifted far below a quiet Icelandic village. He let the simmering energy dissipate: the wall healed, the bird turned away, and the roiling forces beneath the earth quieted — just a little.</p>
<p>"Now? Everything. Always and forever. Isn't that how this all works? You know,” he continued, with a voice that reverberated through Death-the-Fool's hollow skull. “You were pretty fucking cheap. You gave me 33 years, it wouldn’t have cost you anything to make that 33 thousand, huh?"</p>
<p>Death-the-Fool was silent.</p>
<p>“I’m getting a sense of it now, of what this all means: what you are, they are, we are. It might not be infinite, but it’s pretty fucking close. You could have set me up with more than I’d ever want, ever needed, and moved on. Maybe you come back to visit and have a drink as the sun collapsed in on itself, or when the stars flickered off one by one. You’d have avoided this whole mess, this whole awkwardness. But no. 33 years. That was all you were offering. You wouldn't risk more on such a small game; better to lose <em>everything</em> if you're going to lose, right?"</p>
<p>Death-the-Bastard shrugged. “I can’t say I’d have done differently. Or maybe I will. — Although you're not the only one who's been a selfish bastard. I left you with enough to keep going. We can exchange notes, and see where different choices lead us from here on.”</p>
<p>"You took everything! What's the point of carrying on — I'm a caricature of myself now. A fucking stamp, I'll be worn down with every touch, every day, until there's not even an impression left. I'll just be a memory — your memory! I won't even have that dignity in the end!" Death-the-Fool's wrist cracked as its hands hit the table — the bone was no more brittle than it had been before, but that wasn't the point.</p>
<p>Death-the-Bastard set the deck of cards on the table. “Here’s the thing I didn’t get at first. You could have done it too. At any point in the last 33 years, you could have cleared those suckers out; everything I won would have been yours. So, I’m left wondering: why didn’t you?"</p>
<p>"The answer’s clear to me now. You didn’t want to win, not really. You wanted the game to keep going because it’s the only one you know, and they’re the only ones you could really play it with. You were never going to risk it all and you were never going to take it all, even though you could. You wanted an advantage, to tip the scales in your favour, but you weren’t about to lay claim to real pot. You just wanted a better chance to be the one gloating.”</p>
<p>“If you had, if you’d played to win, there wouldn’t be a ‘you’ or a ‘them.’ You'd be on the edge of eternity without any more winners or losers. Things would be boring and predictable, death would be rote, absolute. The only thing worse than a casino where you always lose is one where you don't even get to play. Am I right?”</p>
<p>Death-the-Fool respected itself enough still to bolster in response: “That doesn't answer my damn question: <em>what now?</em> Let's say you've called my bluff. You've played the winning hand, but what's next? You got what you wanted, didn't you? You won. So what, are you going to walk away from the table with your pockets full and carry on as Death?"</p>
<p>Death-the-Bastard laughed, paused, and laughed again. “You're serious? Pal, I was — well not content, but something like that — running a low-budget Foundation facility in a tourist trap that had somehow become a municipality. I considered it a good start to the day if I got to work by 11. Do I want the responsibility of death from now until the end? Fucking hell, no. Does Death get every second Monday off? I didn't at the Foundation, not officially, but no one gave a shit if I took it off anyway."</p>
<p>"I don't begrudge you your little game, why do you think we run poker nights at 333? I'm more than happy to reset all this, I've already won, haven't I? You — all of you — can have what you lost back. If you're willing to cut a deal, that is."</p>
<p>Some sort of jolt surged through Death-the-Fool, firing through the missing synapses of its nervous system. Something had been returned, some power, some meaning. "And what is it you want?"</p>
<p>“Is this when I’m supposed to say I’ll settle for a normal human life, isn’t it? Another 40 years? If I’m lucky? Am I supposed to look at all this and say: 'Yes, I will accept my mortality and find meaning and reconciliation with death as the one true commonality of the human experience?"</p>
<p>"Yes." Death-the-Fool knew that whether the question was rhetorical was irrelevant — it was a prompt, and it said its line on cue. "I imagine that is what you're supposed to say."</p>
<p>"Yeah, fuck that," answered Death-The-Bastard. "I don't want some shitty deal where I'm hit by a bus in a day and we get to go through all this again. No, if we're making things square, you owe me a lot more. I want to live, Death. And I want to go on living for as long as I damn well please. Maybe I'm a selfish bastard, but so long as I'm living, I can live with that.</p>
<p>"So here are my terms: I give back what you all chose to lose — and it was a choice, any of you could have walked away from the table, but none of you did — and in exchange, I get to live for as long as I choose. I get to keep going, and none of you can touch me. And then, when I'm good and ready for something else, and only then, we'll play another hand. Win or lose, that will be the end."</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8005</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Thaumiel</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8005 is kept in a lead-lined capsule in Cell 17A of Site-59. The capsule's door is permanently unlocked and can be opened both externally and internally.</p>
<p>The only time the capsule will be temporarily locked is if the onsite nuclear warhead is detonated for any reason, after which it will unlock.</p>
<p>However, the bulkhead to Cell 17A can only be opened with a mechanical combination lock. The combination is known only to Project Yurodivy staff, the Administrator of the Foundation, and SCP-8005 itself.</p>
<p>This is to ensure that SCP-8005 is capable of entering and leaving at will. However, all staff are assured that SCP-8005 is incapable of independent action without first being manually activated.</p>
<p>The DNA<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-365541-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-365541-1')">1</a></sup> is a specialized clockwork mechanism designed to press the activation button on the back of SCP-8005's neck after a period of fifty years has elapsed without winding, thus acting as a dead man's switch. As such, the DNA is to be rewound 20 degrees counterclockwise every 402 days.</p>
<p>Before testing, staff are required to procure a hamburger<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-365541-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-365541-2')">2</a></sup> from the Site-59 cafeteria. Under no circumstances is this hamburger to contain cheese.</p>
<p>If the Site-59 cafeteria does not have hamburgers, testing is to be postponed until it does.</p>
<p>If SCP-8005 or any duplicate instances are located, they are to be recovered, given a hamburger, and sent to Site-59 to have all of its observational data extracted and recorded for Project Yurodivy. It will then be contained in either its prior capsule (for the original instance) or a secondary capsule (for the duplicate). In the latter case, it will be designated SCP-8005-2.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8005 refers to an automaton constructed by the Foundation for Project Yurodivy. The object is 30.5 centimeters in height, but is extremely dense for its size; it weighs 121.72 kilograms. It is composed of unidentified materials that have proven resistant to analysis. Additionally, all records of SCP-8005's construction have been destroyed by Project Yurodivy staff.</p>
<p>When the activation switch on SCP-8005's back is pressed, it displays sapience, sentience, and speech capabilities. As such, it answers to both "SCP-8005" and its nickname from Project Yurodivy staff, "Hammie." While generally polite with Foundation staff, it demonstrates particular closeness with its creator (and the head of Project Yurodivy), Dr. Verna Kahn.</p>
<p>During activation, SCP-8005 will constantly pursue its primary objective, as dictated by Project Yurodivy: to touch a hamburger. Once physical contact is made with a hamburger, only then will it return to a dormant state.</p>
<p>It should be noted that SCP-8005's programming forbids it from constructing a hamburger. The reason for this is restricted to personnel involved with Project Yurodivy.</p>
<p>Additionally, the metallic wires that make up 95% of SCP-8005's structure possess a regenerative factor that allows it to regenerate after receiving damage. The extent of this healing factor is unknown, but damage testing has resulted in inter-departmental conflicts from Project Yurodivy staff due to concerns of permanent damage and the importance of its mission.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-365541-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-365541-3')">3</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Note from Project Yurodivy staff:</strong> If SCP-8005 is not activated by a human, the completion of its primary objective is a SPECIAL CLASSIFICATION: MARDUK priority to the Foundation, and to the continued existence of humanity.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-365541-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-365541-4')">4</a></sup></p>
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<p><strong>Interview Log - SCP-8005 during an active state</strong><br/>
<strong>Interviewer:</strong> Researcher Harry Karlov<br/>
<strong>Interviewed:</strong> SCP-8005<br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> 1/28/2024</p>
<p><Begin Log></p>
<p><em>(Karlov enters the interview chamber. SCP-8005 stands on the table, motionless.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> Good afternoon, SCP-8005. How do you feel?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> I am awaiting a hamburger. I have been told this feeling is "anticipation," "hunger," and/or "impatience." Does that answer your question?</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> Um, yes, yes it does!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> Then that sub-objective has been completed. Question: how much closer does this bring me to receiving a hamburger?</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> Easy, Hammie. It'll be lunchtime before you know it. For now, I'd like to ask you some —</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> I'm sorry, but I do not understand how "Lunchtime" is relevant to completing my mission. There are many false-positive meal options that comprise "Lunchtime"; I shall endeavor to list a few. "Salad." "Hot dogs." "Lemonade." "Ointment." (More data is needed for the latter item.) While "Hamburger" is absolutely a potential "Lunchtime" variable, "Lunchtime" is a time period of the same Statistical Hamburger Potential (SHP) as "Christmas," "2:00 PM Central Standard Time," "2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time," "Eastern Orthodox Christmas," among others. This is admittedly a high SHP rate, but still minuscule compared to the ideal ratio presented by "Hamburger Distribution O'Clock."</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> …are you done?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> No, my mission has not yet been completed.</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> Can I just ask you some questions, already?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> You are my superior. This was never forbidden.</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> <em>(Sigh.)</em> First off, why do you like hamburgers so much?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8005 kneels in reverence.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> …Delicious. Easy to consume. Inexpensive. Highly customizable. Enjoyed by people from all walks of life. Widely and internationally available…</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> But do you eat them?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> What do you take me for? I am not so predatory that I need to destroy and defile something in order to appreciate it!</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> So you just like to touch them.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> <em>Gently!</em> Its form must be left completely intact by my affections - no denting of the bun, no puncturing of the meat, no wanton corruption of the pickles. My hand must pass <em>gingerly</em> across the hamburger like a spring breeze. Respecting its structural integrity, so that it remains edible to the myriad of teeth and throats who would plead their suit. But! Not <em>so</em> gingerly that it knows not that I was ever there! Only the backward glance of the hamburger, the implicit smile in return, can lull this poor sinner into deactivation.</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> I don't understand.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> Do you understand the concept of courtly love?</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> No.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8005 stands up again.)</em><br/>
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<strong>SCP-8005:</strong> Neither do I. Can I have a hamburger now?</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> I still have some questions.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> How many?</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> Oh, for —</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> I do not mean to rush you. In fact, I do not detect much hamburger-distribution potential in your physical shape, based on an independent survey I have been conducting on the different traits of people who have given me hamburgers. I'm simply interested in knowing the —</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> Next question!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> Ready.</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> What is Project Yurodivy?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> That's what Mother<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-365541-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-365541-5')">5</a></sup> does for work.</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> What does it consist of?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> Do you know the reason for your existence?</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> I fail to see what that has to do with —</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> Project Yurodivy is the reason for my existence. Unlike your species, I have not had the luxury of debating it for several thousand years. I have seen no evidence that philosophy is a hamburger-acquisition vector.</p>
<p>…That, and Mother tells me very little of her job, only that I fulfill it by touching hamburgers.</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> You could have just said that last part.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> But records indicate that smart little boys are rewarded with food. May I make a suggestion as to what kind?</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> What I'm trying to say is: I don't understand how you getting a hamburger is something so important that we had to put it under a special MARDUK classification.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> Well, it's very important to <em>me!</em></p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> But making it important <em>to the Foundation</em> is a different matter.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> That just means you care about my needs very much! …thank you, by the way.</p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> This is getting nowhere.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> You may be right. The lack of hamburgers before me <em>does</em> present compelling evidence to that end.</p>
<p><em>(Karlov gets up.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Karlov:</strong> We're done here. …I need a drink.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8005:</strong> Oh, interesting! Is that you were created to acquire instead of —</p>
<p><em>(The door closes.)</em></p>
<p>— all right, then.</p>
<p><em>(15 seconds of silence.)</em></p>
<p><em>(Security camera footage captures SCP-8005 sitting down on the table. With a pen dropped by Researcher Karlov, it scrawls a crude picture of a hamburger on the table's surface.)</em></p>
<p><em>(It sits with legs folded in front of the drawing.)</em></p>
<p><em>(It extends a hand toward the drawing. It slowly pantomimes touching the hamburger.)</em></p>
<p><End Log></p>
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<h1><span><strong>NOTICE</strong></span></h1>
<p>If you're reading this, it's because the O5 Council and the nauseatingly persistent staff at Site-59 have forced me to offer a better explanation for Project Yurodivy. I can offer you only a few more points, but then, it's back to secrecy for good.</p>
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<li>Project Yurodivy was created at the command of the Administrator, <em>not</em> the O5 Council.</li>
<li>This level of secrecy is due to how SCP-8005 was created, what materials were needed — and the true extent of his potential.</li>
<li>Yes, it is important that Hammie gets his burger — <em>especially</em> if humanity is extinct.</li>
<li>All non-SCP-8005 systems related to Project Yurodivy (including the DNA, the global release array for Compound Nandi-18, and [DATA EXPUNGED]) are required to use technology that can activate both autonomously and without electrical power. This is to ensure that SCP-8005's objective can be completed even if there is no longer any electricity or personnel left to activate it.</li>
<li>Hammie is our last resort. Not just to protect us against the anomalous, but from ourselves.</li>
<li>I saw your interview, Karlov. My boy is to be treated with respect.</li>
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<p>Now, unless you're the Administrator or one of my staff, <strong>there will be no further clarification.</strong></p>
<p>Thank you for your understanding.</p>
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<p><em>- Dr. Verna Kahn</em></p>
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<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<h5><span><tt>…Hammie…</tt></span></h5>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<h4><span><tt>…wake up.</tt></span></h4>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<p><tt>…</tt></p>
<h3><span><tt>Wake up, Hammie.</tt></span></h3>
<h2><span><strong><tt><a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/scp-8005/act1.html">It's time.</a></tt></strong></span></h2>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-365541-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-365541-1')">1</a>. (Dedicated Nudging Apparatus)</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-365541-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-365541-2')">2</a>. Hamburgers with non-beef patties (i.e. vegan meat substitutes) may be used, so long as 1. the appearance of the patty is passable as real beef, and 2. SCP-8005 is led to believe that the patty is real beef.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-365541-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-365541-3')">3</a>. <em>(Note from Researcher Daniels: Look, this might be out of line. But I'm starting to worry about this being sabotage, an elaborate prank, or both. And considering that not even the O5 Council is allowed to know about Project Yurodivy, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a malicious fifth column tricking us into pouring unnecessary security resources into a joke about the Hamburglar or something.)</em></div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-365541-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-365541-4')">4</a>. <em>(Note from Director Naismith: Not out of line at all! In fact, you're far from the first person to bring this up to me. I won't recommend this for Drygioni classification without more evidence. But I'm particularly worried about the fact that something so lighthearted requires this much buildup. And with so much suspicion among my staff, it's high time I had a talk with Dr. Kahn…)</em></div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-365541-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-365541-5')">5</a>. (How SCP-8005 refers to Dr. Kahn.)</div>
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rgba(var(--swatch-primary-darker), </span><span class="hl-number">0.1</span><span class="hl-code">) /* Thumb */
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<p>3.6 million people ride the New York City subway every day. No, it doesn't always work the way it should. It's old, it's cranky, and it's in desperate need of an enema. Rails break, signals malfunction, trash catches fire. Don't even get me started on the rats. This is a hundred-twenty year-old system being held together by duct tape and spare parts. But when every day you're carrying more people than the entire population of New Mexico to work and back, you can't exactly tear it down and start over.</p>
<p>In 2022, over 300 individuals were struck by trains. According to official policy, if someone is hit by a train, the entire track needs to be shut down and all trains rerouted until the NYPD can conduct a complete forensic investigation. If we actually did that every time, there would be riots in the streets. When there are literally a hundred thousand passengers waiting for you to clear the tracks, you clear them fast and you don't ask questions.</p>
<p>In 2022, over 300 bodies were cleared from the tracks of the New York City subway system. Who has time to worry about the ones that weren't even human?</p>
<p><em>– Excerpt from the deposition of Rupendra Chowdhury, Senior Director of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 12 August, 2023</em></p>
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<p>SCP-8006 is currently awaiting classification, as investigations into the scope of its impact are still ongoing. Updates to the classification of SCP-8006 will be appended to this document as needed. Any time-sensitive inquiries regarding SCP-8006 should be addressed directly to Site-171 Director Melinda Davis and Senior Field Researcher Jackson DeWitt.</p>
<p>Prior to 2023, responsibility for the containment of SCP-8006 was recognized by the Foundation to fall under the jurisdiction of GoI-079 (“The Metropolitan Transportation Authority”). As recent events involving SCP-8006 have required Foundation intervention, this arrangement is currently under review. At the conclusion of this review, if and when the Foundation assumes full custody of SCP-8006, containment procedures will be updated as necessary.</p>
<p>Documentation relating to the Foundation's investigation into SCP-8006 is provided below for reference purposes only.</p>
<h1 id="toc0"><span>Supplemental Documentation</span></h1>
<p><em>Email from Rupendra Chowdhury to Site Director Melinda Davis, 29 July 2023</em></p>
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<p><strong>To:</strong> MELINDA DAVIS | (<span class="wiki-email">ten.171etis.pcs|sivadm#ten.171etis.pcs|sivadm</span>)<br/>
<strong>From:</strong> RUPENDRA CHOWDHURY | (<span class="wiki-email">ofni.atm.wen|yruhdwohc#ofni.atm.wen|yruhdwohc</span>)<br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> We need to talk</p>
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<p>Melinda:</p>
<p>I know I haven't exactly kept in touch. Don't hate me for it, it comes with the job. A lot has changed since '03,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> and every day there's more to do. Maybe the fact that we haven't had to talk since then is a sign we've been doing it right.</p>
<p>The bad news is nothing goes right forever, and this time we’ve got more to worry about than a blackout. We've got an infestation down in the tunnels. And this time it's something bigger than rats. Truth be told, we've been dealing with it just about as long as we've had tunnels, but not like this. I wish I could say that we'll take care of it like we always do, but right now eight and a half million people are just one subway ride away from seeing something they can't ignore.</p>
<p>I think we’re long overdue to catch up.</p>
<p>– Rupendra</p>
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<h2 id="toc1"><span>Surveillance Log 8006.01</span></h2>
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<p><em>The following log is transcribed from surveillance footage from the office of MTA Senior Director Rupendra Chowdhury, 31 July 2023 (Footage provided courtesy of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority)</em></p>
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<p><em>Site Director Davis enters the office with Director Chowdhury and takes a seat with him at his desk.</em></p>
<p><strong>Davis:</strong> So let me make sure I understand this correctly: You have a population of uncontained humanoid anomalies living underneath the City of New York.</p>
<p><strong>Chowdhury:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Davis:</strong> You’ve known about them since at least 1975, but have chosen not to report them to us until now.</p>
<p><strong>Chowdhury:</strong> We haven't had the need to.</p>
<p><strong>Davis:</strong> And now that they’re running rampant, you're asking for our help taking care of them?</p>
<p><strong>Chowdhury:</strong> I object to the term “rampant”.</p>
<p><strong>Davis:</strong> "Amok"?</p>
<p><strong>Chowdhury:</strong> Sure, let's go with amok.</p>
<p><strong>Davis:</strong> And just how long have you been allowing them to run amok like this?</p>
<p><strong>Chowdhury:</strong> They've always been down there. It's just never gotten out of hand like this before. Usually you'd see them after a power surge. Maybe a shadow in the tunnel, maybe a body on the rails. And even a body is rare: maybe one in two years. Maybe less. We don't like seeing them and they don't like to be seen. The perfect combination. But now it's getting to be almost one a month, and it's growing. And even though we don't have confirmation yet, we have word people are going missing.</p>
<p><strong>Davis:</strong> Who's gone missing?</p>
<p><strong>Chowdhury:</strong> So far just people who won't be missed. But give it time and I guarantee you, people will notice. Something is brewing under those tunnels and we can't let it get out.</p>
<p><strong>Davis:</strong> I know our organizations have an agreement not to cross paths over matters like this, but this sounds like a catastrophic failure on your part to keep your system in order.</p>
<p><strong>Chowdhury:</strong> We avert a thousand catastrophes every day. You just don't know about them. Isn't that the point?</p>
<p><strong>Davis:</strong> As a matter of fact, I'd say that's the problem. Without a clear picture of what you're dealing with, it's impossible for us to know if the arrangement is working.</p>
<p><strong>Chowdhury:</strong> Because your people are all about transparency, right? Listen, I didn’t have to come to you. The U.N. has been knocking at our door for decades; they’d send in exterminators just for a chance to say they did it. Hey, if Prometheus<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> has some new killer drone they want to test out in those tunnels, they’d pay us for the privilege. I didn’t have to come to you, but I did. That’s got to be worth something to you.</p>
<p><em>Davis takes a deep breath and straightens up in her chair.</em></p>
<p><strong>Davis:</strong> I have a proposition for you.</p>
<p><strong>Chowdhury:</strong> Go ahead. Proposition me.</p>
<p><strong>Davis:</strong> We'll help on one condition: that you go on the record. Provide a detailed account of everything you have hidden away down there underneath this city. Everything you know. Every anomaly, every person of interest, going all the way back to the beginning.</p>
<p><strong>Chowdhury:</strong> And once you have this info you're just going to…file it away and not worry about it?</p>
<p><strong>Davis:</strong> If we determine New York is safe in your hands then yes, exactly that. And if we determine it's not, we'll take whatever interventions we deem necessary.</p>
<p><em>Chowdhury leans back in his chair and puts his feet on his desk.</em></p>
<p><strong>Chowdhury:</strong> Decisions, decisions. Albany won't be happy about this. But we don't work for Albany any more than we work for you, do we? We work for the millions of straphangers who rely on us to get to where they need to go.</p>
<p><strong>Davis:</strong> Is that a yes?</p>
<p><strong>Chowdhury:</strong> It's a "yes, but". If your people are thinking of swooping in and taking over the subways when this is all done? They should think on that a bit before jumping to it. It's all one big ecosystem. The subways, the buses, the bridges, the tunnels. If they want to take over, three and a half million sets of eyes are going to be on them every time there’s an incident. Do your bosses really want to be the reason half the city is late to work every week?</p>
<p><strong>Davis:</strong> It depends on what exactly you're hiding down there.</p>
<p><strong>Chowdhury:</strong> Well then you’d better start getting ready. There’s a lot of debris on the tracks.</p>
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<p>There's a lot of things that can go wrong down in the tunnels. Power surge. Broken rail. A dozen different disasters waiting to happen every day. But some of them can't be described as easy as others. We have a word for those: debris on the tracks. Something you're not even sure is real? Something the English language doesn't have a word for? Debris. That's our signal to get in, clean it up, and get out.</p>
<p>It's not a research job. It's not a construction job. It's a cleanup job. When you find something that doesn't belong down there, you don’t stop to worry about what it is. You just worry about how to get it out. You keep a city the size of New York waiting for you to figure out what’s really going on and you'll have way bigger problems to worry about than a body or two.</p>
<p><em>– Excerpt from the deposition of Rupendra Chowdhury, Senior Director of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 12 August, 2023</em></p>
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<h2 id="toc3"><span>Research Log 8006.01</span></h2>
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<p><em>Researcher DeWitt enters the 42nd Street Port Authority Bus Terminal subway station and walks to the end of the southbound platform. A crowd gathers on the platform and a train waits with its doors closed, leaving a gap at the end of the platform. After passing a group of MTA Police Officers, DeWitt approaches MTA Chief of Special Services Sean Mulvaney.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Sean Mulvaney?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You're looking at him. Don't tell me you're the cleanup expert.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Field Researcher DeWitt.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney looks DeWitt up and down and puts his hands on his hips.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> They couldn't have sent someone a bit more…seasoned?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Forensic cryptozoology is an emerging field. If you're looking for an expert, I'm the one you want.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> I'll settle for anyone who knows how to get this taken care of quickly and quietly.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Discretion is my top priority.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Then let's get a move on. these tracks won't clear themselves.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney leads DeWitt down a ladder onto the subway tracks and into the tunnel.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> The body’s about 300 feet down this way. Crushed pretty bad, but thankfully still in one piece.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> How many people have seen it?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Just the train crew and my guys in the tunnel. This is the second gremlin we've seen since July, fifth one this year.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Gremlin? That's what you call them?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You got a better name?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> I don't know, I'd probably call it something like "SCP-8006."</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> When you head back home you can call it whatever you want, but down here a gremlin is a gremlin.</p>
<p><em>A rat squeaks and scurries past DeWitt’s feet. DeWitt jumps back.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Holy shit, what was that?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> That's what we call a "rat."</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Yeah, but where did it come from?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> From here. This is where rats come from.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> I should have worn boots…</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Don't tell me you're squeamish.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Give me a cadaver and I'll dig through 100 kg of blood and guts like I'm dressing a Christmas turkey. I just don't like rats.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> …don't touch me.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney and DeWitt cross tracks into the center of the tunnel, passing a group of track workers who are standing watch.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> What about the police? How much do they know?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> They know this isn’t their problem. As long as we don't give them a reason to come down here they've got nothing to worry about.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Surely a person getting hit by a train is something to worry about.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> But this isn’t a person, is it?</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney and DeWitt approach a mangled humanoid figure on the center track.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Here’s our little friend. If you ever wanted to know what 55 tons of steel moving at 65 miles an hour will do to a spine, well…that's why you stay away from the platform edge.</p>
<p><em>DeWitt stoops down to examine the body.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Researcher's notes: the anomaly appears to be a pale-skinned humanoid, approximately 1.2 meters in height. Subject is nude, and is completely hairless except for a fine downy fuzz on its palms and the soles of its feet. Present on its back are several large cyst-like protuberances, approximately 10 centimeters in diameter. Cause of death appears to be…getting crushed by a subway train.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> That’s how they go. Get all bent out of shape chewing on the third rail and don’t even see it coming.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Subject possesses an overdeveloped mandible, and multiple rows of serrated teeth, likely allowing for exceptional jaw power as indicated by bite marks present on the–did you say third rail?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You can count them yourself if you don’t believe me.</p>
<p><em>DeWitt stands and cautiously takes a step back.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> It’s…off, right?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You can’t just turn off the third rail. That would be like turning off the subway. You’ve just got to follow the proper safety protocol.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Which is?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Don’t step on it.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> I need to examine this cadaver in a controlled environment. If you can get your men to discreetly remove it from the tunnel, I can arrange to have it transported to a secure facility.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Might be easier to just take it back to the Lost and Found.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> How is that easier?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> That’s where the other 36 of them are.</p>
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<p>About 20 years ago, we started a new awareness campaign: “If you see something, say something.” We put posters in every station, on every bus, on every train, even said it over the PA 50 times a day. Keep in mind, this was 2002. We were looking for IEDs, anthrax, you know, weapons of mass destruction. You saw what they were able to do with just a couple airplane tickets. God only knows what they could do with a MetroCard.</p>
<p>The problem is, New Yorkers have this strange ability not to notice things that don’t involve them. So once we started telling them to look, they started seeing things no one had cared to notice before.</p>
<p>It’s easy to miss. A lot of it looks like trash: A pamphlet for a church that doesn’t exist. A book written in a language that’s been dead for centuries. Newspapers from next year. But like all trash, if you don’t clean it out, it piles up.</p>
<p>That’s what the Lost and Found is for. Sure, we’ll toss the stuff eventually, but that can’t happen until there’s a vote, and the Board of Directors isn’t exactly known for making quick decisions. Until then, we keep it safe and sound, along with ten thousand cell phones, twenty thousand umbrellas, and a few pounds of anthrax.</p>
<p>What, you don’t think we can keep a lid on the stuff that needs to stay under lock and key? We have almost 200 miles of track just to store the trains that aren’t in service. I think we can hide a couple of corpses.</p>
<p><em>– Excerpt from the deposition of Rupendra Chowdhury, Senior Director of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 12 August, 2023</em></p>
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<h2 id="toc5"><span>Research Log 8006.02</span></h2>
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<p><em>The following log is transcribed from the body camera footage of Senior Field Researcher Jackson DeWitt, 2 August 2023.</em></p>
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<div class="scp-image-block block-center" style="width:450px;"><img alt="lostandfound.png" class="image" src="http://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/local--files/thechunk/lostandfound.png"/>
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<p>Entrance to the MTA Lost and Found.</p>
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<h4 id="toc6"><span>BEGIN LOG</span></h4>
<p><em>Researcher DeWitt and Chief Mulvaney follow a staircase from the mezzanine of the 34th St Penn Station subway station, down a tiled hallway into a small office labeled “Lost & Found”. At a desk sits a middle-aged woman later identified as MTA employee Marjorie Peters. Mulvaney leads DeWitt past Peters's desk, over a yellow line on the floor, towards a staircase.</em></p>
<p><strong>Peters:</strong> Whoa, whoa, what's wrong with you? No civilians in the Lost and Found!</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> He's with me.</p>
<p><strong>Peters:</strong> Making up the rules again, Mulvaney? If he's with you, you can show him how to file a claim like everyone else.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney takes a clipboard holding a stack of forms off of Peters’s desk. He writes DeWitt's name on the top form.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> I think you'll find his claim was already filed.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney attaches a $50 bill to the clipboard, which Peters takes.</em></p>
<p><strong>Peters:</strong> I want him out by lunch.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney continues towards the staircase. DeWitt takes the top form off of the clipboard and follows Mulvaney.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Don't mind Midge, she's just cranky because she's been deferring her vacation pay for the past 40 years. If she ever retires she'll practically be a millionaire.</p>
<p><em>At the bottom of the staircase Mulvaney opens an unmarked metal door, leading into a large room overflowing with bins, shelves, crates and cabinets.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> And here we are.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> That's it? No security checkpoint? No key card? Fingerprint? Retina scan?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Have you not met Midge?</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney begins shifting and opening crates.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Now let's see, gremlins, gremlins…where are those gremlins?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> You're not worried somebody who comes looking for their lost laptop might find something they're not supposed to find?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> If something is in here, it's because someone already found it, and now they want to get rid of it. When your average subway rider finds the Final Esoteric Rites of the Damned on their way home from work, do you really think they're going to read it? We can't even get people to read service change notices.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney hoists a humanoid cadaver out of a large cooler and lays it on top of a pile of umbrellas.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Here we go!</p>
<p><em>DeWitt begins an examination of the cadaver.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Just as I expected. These incisors are harder than steel. And from the looks of it they might not be too far off in terms of chemical composition. You see this oxidation? Rust.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney begins unloading additional cadavers onto the table. DeWitt begins taking chemical and atmospheric readings.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> How long did you say you've had these here?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Some a few months. Some a few years.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> They're producing a low-level electromagnetic field. Without a power source, there shouldn't be any way for an object to retain any type of electrical charge for this long, let alone a living organism.</p>
<p><em>DeWitt begins making incisions into the flesh of the cadaver.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> And look at this. These veins. This isn't organic matter. This is copper. Based on my readings, it looks like this electrical charge is stored in these nodes just below the subcutaneous layer. Like a fuel reserve, or some sort of…</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Battery.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> I'll have to get these samples back to the Foundation lab for analysis, but these specimens look promising.</p>
<p><em>DeWitt looks into the open cooler and begins pulling out another cadaver.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> This one’s smaller than the others.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> If you're looking for gremlins, you might want to put that one back.</p>
<p><em>DeWitt looks at the cadaver for a moment, then stares at Mulvaney blankly.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> How is this not a gremlin?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> From here it looks like either a moleman or a morlock.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Did you say a "moleman?"</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Or a morlock.</p>
<p><em>DeWitt closes the cooler and leans on top of it for a moment, taking a deep breath.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> I think I have to sit down.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Yeah, you don't look too good.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> The more I see of this place, the more I'm starting to worry you don't just have a few unexplained odds and ends here. This is an anomalous powder keg. And this is just the stuff you've managed to catch.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You work with what you've got.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> It's almost impressive, really. It’s a miracle you've been able to sit on this for as long as you have. Lucky for you the Foundation is getting involved, because there is no way—absolutely no way—that this is this sustainable. Just wait until the Director gets wind of this; they’ll be carting this stuff out of here by the truckload.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney crosses his arms.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> If you're trying to be funny you'd better start doing a better job.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> You think I'm joking? Where are your standards? Where are your protocols?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> It's all part of the system.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> If there is a system then clearly the system has lost its mind. You have vellum scrolls wedged in between old copies of Time magazine. Stacked on top of multiple trash bags of what I can only describe as…ooze.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> And we haven’t had a major ooze-related incident since 1975. When Albany decides they want a fancy new storage system, let them pay for it, right after the three hundred miles of track we're overdue to replace. Until then? We keep the quiet part quiet and Albany doesn't even notice any of this stuff is here. Just like you didn't notice until 15 minutes ago.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> I'm not here to tell you how to do your job. I didn’t come down here to step on your toes. But please forgive me if I'm more than a bit perturbed to learn that half the city is a stone’s throw away from discovering there are monsters in the world!</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> For Christ’s sake, nobody cares if there are monsters in the world!</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney sits on a low table beside a bag of ooze and steadies himself.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You know what your average schmuck on the street cares about? He cares about getting his rent check in by the end of the month. He cares about whether his wife is screwing around behind his back. He cares about getting that big fat bonus by the end of the year. The last thing he wants to think about at the end of the day is whether human beings are alone on this planet. You don't need to bend over backwards to hide the truth from people. Just don't wave it around in front of their face and they'll do the rest themselves.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> If that was true, I wouldn't be here right now. But I am.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> And last I heard, you were here to help. So why don't we take care of this gremlin problem first, before Midge comes in here and takes you out by force. Besides, molemen went extinct back in the 80s, so there's no way anyone is going to stumble across one unless they’ve got a time machine. And morlocks hate loud noises, are afraid of trains, and only live in Staten Island, so to your average New Yorker they might as well not exist.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Somehow I doubt my Site Director will see it that way.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You'll see: it's all a self-sustaining ecosystem. You do as much as you can as quick as you can, and as long as no one is late to work, no one makes a fuss. As long as the morlocks don't discover fire.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> What happens if the morlocks discover fire?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Well, then they'd become molemen.</p>
<p><em>An announcement from MTA dispatch is audible over Mulvaney’s walkie talkie.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dispatcher:</strong> This is Dispatch to Mulvaney, come in Mulvaney. There's been another incident in the tunnels.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney (into his walkie talkie):</strong> How big a turkey are we talking about?</p>
<p><strong>Dispatcher:</strong> Big enough to take someone down with it. We've got a confirmed casualty this time.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Listen to me, I want every last goddamn person cleared out of that station, and don't let anyone on that track until I get there. I don't care if the Governor is in town for a surprise visit; nobody gets in without my say so. What's the station?</p>
<p><strong>Dispatcher:</strong> Not a station. This one's D.N.D.</p>
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<p>There are 472 active stations in the New York City subway system. That's more lines and more stops than any other mass transit system in the world. And that's without counting the ghost stations.</p>
<p>Of course, we’re not allowed to call them ghost stations. Officially, they're D.N.D stations: Decommissioned, Not Demolished. Some are part of lines that got completely replaced. Some are part of lines that never got finished. Whatever the reason, there's nothing down there: just tile, and stone, and tracks leading to nowhere.</p>
<p>But “nothing down there” is never really nothing. There's always something. Or at least, someone. You can bury a place deep underground, shut it off to the world, cut out the lights, fill it with trash, fill it with vermin…but there’s always someone out there who’s ready to call that place home. And people are very protective of their homes.</p>
<p>When they reopened the City Hall IRT station it was supposed to be a new extension of the city’s transit museum. The old turn of the century meets the new turn of the century. We cleaned it up and had a gala down there, a who’s who of power brokers and VIPs. Bigwigs from the Mayor’s office, Goldman Sachs, Prometheus Labs, you name it. As far as they know, it went down without a hitch. What I know is come cleanup time, only three of my men made it back out.</p>
<p>It's been 20 years and no one's set foot down there since. It's not our station. Not anymore.</p>
<p><em>– Excerpt from the deposition of Rupendra Chowdhury, Senior Director of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 12 August, 2023</em></p>
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<h2 id="toc7"><span>Research Log 8006.03</span></h2>
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<p><em>The following log is transcribed from the body camera footage of Senior Field Researcher Jackson DeWitt, 2 August 2023.</em></p>
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<div class="scp-image-block block-center" style="width:360px;"><img alt="NoAccess.png" class="image" src="http://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/local--files/thechunk/NoAccess.png"/>
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<p>Side entrance to City Hall Station maintenance level.</p>
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<h4 id="toc8"><span>BEGIN LOG</span></h4>
<p><em>Researcher DeWitt and Chief Mulvaney enter an access tunnel from the track level of the Brooklyn Bridge - City Hall subway station. The access tunnel opens into a long, unlit corridor.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> This part might be a little tricky. We're dealing with some customers who prefer to be left alone.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> I'm sure we can handle it. In my line of work cooperation is nice to have, but rarely necessary.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Our crews usually try to stay out of these old ghost stations. No need to go where you’re not wanted. But this one’s different. The 6 train still loops through part of it to head back uptown, and sometimes…well, sometimes our guys spot something that’s hard to miss.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Where’s our victim?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Should have been right where you’re standing. But I guess someone else has already cleared her out by now. Must have taken her in deeper. Back home.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Home?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You might want to keep your guard up moving forward. We're about to enter the territory of the Forgotten People.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> And who or what exactly are the…Forgotten People?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Just another part of the ecosystem. Poor souls who went down into the Subway one day and never came out. They make their colonies down here: empty stations, abandoned tunnels. Anywhere the sun never shines. They won’t hurt you if they don't feel threatened. Usually. But they don't like strangers.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Should I even ask where they come from?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Doesn't matter where they come from. All that matters is they're never going back.</p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-center" style="width:450px;"><img alt="CityHallIRT.png" class="image" src="http://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/local--files/thechunk/CityHallIRT.png"/>
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<p>Decommissioned City Hall subway platform</p>
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<p><em>The corridor opens into a large chamber filled with primitive structures of wood and cardboard propped up beside piles of refuse. Two hunched humanoid figures dressed in rags emerge from behind a metal beam and slouch towards DeWitt.</em></p>
<p><strong>Figure 1:</strong> <span style="color:red"><em>Footsteps light and footsteps slow.</em></span></p>
<p><strong>Figure 2:</strong> <span style="color:red"><em>Do they herald friend or foe?</em></span></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Pardon our, uh, intrusion. We're here to help. My organization is investigating some anomalous phenomena that have been occurring down here and we’re hoping for your cooperation as we work to contain this–</p>
<p><strong>Figure 1:</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:red"><em>Ye who prattle on and on,<br/>
State your business or be gone!</em></span></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> We heard one of your people had an accident. We just want to find out what happened and stop it from happening again.</p>
<p><strong>Figure 2:</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:red"><em>Shall we aid them in their quest<br/>
To lay the savage beasts to rest?</em></span></p>
<p><strong>Figure 1:</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:red"><em>Nay, for ours is not the choice.<br/>
Let the Mayor be our voice!</em></span></p>
<p><em>The figures extend their arms forward as they beckon, and lead DeWitt and Mulvaney along a track, down a tunnel littered with debris.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Say what you want about our agencies butting heads, but if I can get a live specimen out of this it may all be worth it.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Specimen? Of what?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> These…entities. In all my research I've never encountered creatures so uncanny yet…familiar. Remind me, did you say these were molemen or morlocks?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Neither. These are people.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> People? But they're–</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Homeless. Bums. Vagrants. You want to start sticking test tubes up their ass just because they live underground?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> They're speaking in rhyme.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> People can speak in rhyme. You’ve never heard a person rhyme?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Yeah, but it’s not…I mean–</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You know, they can hear you too. Why don't you let me do the talking from here on out?</p>
<p><em>The tunnel opens into a deserted train station with a large, domed ceiling. Atop a mound of bottle caps and subway tokens sits an elderly male humanoid in a tattered suit and top hat, identified by MTA personnel as “the Mayor.” Beside him, atop a large crate, lies the corpse of a similarly dressed female humanoid with visible wounds beneath her ragged, bloodstained clothes. Mulvaney lowers himself to one knee as the remaining figures retreat into the tunnel.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Mr. Mayor. We’ll make this quick. It looks like you've got a problem here and we just want to help you solve it. Help get things back to…normal.</p>
<p><em>The Mayor slowly rises to his feet.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mayor:</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#9805a8"><em>Shirt of blue with gray and fading hair!<br/>
Coat of white, complexion soft and fair!<br/>
Do you think us such an utter fool<br/>
To need your aid to justify our rule?</em></span></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> We don't want to be here any longer than we have to. This is our problem just as much as it's yours.</p>
<p><em>Dozens of lurking figures begin to emerge from the adjoining tunnels.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mayor:</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#9805a8"><em>You dare besmirch our honor, foolish knave?<br/>
Speak more and soon this place may be your grave!</em></span></p>
<p><em>The figures from the adjoining tunnel surround the group.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> DeWitt? You want to try doing the talking now?</p>
<p><em>DeWitt approaches the corpse on the crate and begins to examine it.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> May I? These rings. They have ridges on the edges, like the cap from an old coke bottle. And under here, on the inside. Wax. Like skully caps. And this coat. Or what's left of it. Chanel. 1960s? 70s at the latest? It's been down here a long time, but quality like that lasts.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> We don't exactly have any goodwill to waste here. Do you have a point in all of this?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> The rings on her fingers, the clothes on her back. These aren't trash. They're treasures. This isn't some random woman who wandered down the wrong tunnel. This is someone important.</p>
<p><em>DeWitt approaches the Mayor and puts his hand on his arm.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Who is she? Your friend? Your sister? Your wife?</p>
<p><strong>Mayor:</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#9805a8"><em>Your impudence by far exceeds your rank.<br/>
When here he dies, your friend has you to thank.</em></span></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> We’re sorry this happened. But we're the ones who want to make sure it doesn't happen again. All we need to know is where they came from. Just show us how we can make sure you don’t lose anyone else like this.</p>
<p><em>The Mayor holds his head in his hands. After a moment, he begins to walk down an adjoining tunnel. DeWitt and Mulvaney follow. The Mayor opens a rusted service door, which falls off its hinges in a cloud of dust, leading to a rough, unpaved tunnel, which branches off into multiple directions.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mayor:</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#9805a8"><em>In ghostly halls a thousand miles below,<br/>
Sealed away, a fearsome, godless tomb:<br/>
The realm of Mammon’s vast undying glow<br/>
has led a thousand lesser men to ruin.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#9805a8"><em>The Terminus to which all rivers flow<br/>
The ancient spring from which all life begins<br/>
Where spawn of fallen titans rise and grow<br/>
Their ranks, and breed their armies from within.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#9805a8"><em>But hark! Immortal engines rise and till<br/>
the depths, upturning aeons in their wake!<br/>
To feed their wretched scions, blood must spill,<br/>
To quench a thirst no earthly ruin can slake.</em></span></p>
<p><em>The Mayor reaches a partially collapsed wall, and ducks under it into a small chamber, followed by DeWitt and Mulvaney. Near the center of the chamber on the floor is a rusted, misshapen manhole cover.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mayor:</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#9805a8"><em>They rise from here, their deep infernal well.<br/>
Behold their home: the stygian pits of Hell!</em></span></p>
<p><em>The Mayor lifts the manhole cover, revealing a narrow pit from which a gout of flame erupts.</em></p>
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<p>The ground under New York City isn't exactly what you'd call solid. We've drilled that bedrock so deep that a cross section of the city would look like a block of Swiss cheese. And it's not just the subway tunnels. You've got the sewers. Under that you've got the power grid–and with all the tinkering Prometheus Labs has been doing in there, who knows what secrets it’s hiding. Under that you've got the subway tunnels. Under that you've got the steam tunnels. And under that, if you're at City Hall, you've got Mammon.</p>
<p>What's in Mammon? The kind of stuff that doesn’t like to be found. It was there before anyone first stumbled into it, and it’ll be there long after the last of us are gone. Molten whirlpools. Bats the size of badgers. Waterfalls of slag and rivers of gold. In other words: someone else’s problem.</p>
<p>When the old IRT company broke ground into Mammon back in 1903, they tried exploring it. Thought it would be the East Coast’s answer to the California Gold Rush. They sent in geologists, surveyors, reporters, artists, anyone they could get. And in the end the only thing that made it out of those caverns was one mostly-dead caver, a sketchbook, and a half-finished map.</p>
<p>They spent half a year, millions of dollars, and two dozen human lives to get the only lesson we needed: Don’t explore Mammon.</p>
<p><em>– Excerpt from the deposition of Rupendra Chowdhury, Senior Director of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 12 August, 2023</em></p>
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<h2 id="toc9"><span>Exploration Log 8006.01</span></h2>
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<p><em>The following log details the exploration of SCP-8006-A (“Mammon”) by Joint Task Force 23-Alpha. It is transcribed from the body camera footage of Senior Field Researcher Jackson DeWitt, MTA liaison Chief Sean Mulvaney, and consulting members of Mobile Task Force Zeta-9 (“Mole Rats”), Captain Manuel Velasquez, and Specialists David Greenberg and Sylvia Weissman.</em></p>
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<p>Artist's interpretation of Mammon, ca. 1903. Image provided courtesy of the MTA Transit Museum archives.</p>
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<h4 id="toc10"><span>BEGIN LOG</span></h4>
<p><em>All operatives gather outside the entrance to SCP-8006-A.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Zeta-9 roll call! Greenberg!</p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> Check!</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Weissman!</p>
<p><strong>Weissman:</strong> Check!</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Check communications!</p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> Communications, check!</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Flares!</p>
<p><strong>Weissman:</strong> Check!</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Munitions!</p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> Check!</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Mulvaney, check. We've got a long road ahead of us. Maybe it’s time we get down to it.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Negative! This isn’t your team, Mulvaney. If you want to brief us, be my guest, but if we’re doing this, we’re doing it together, and we’re doing it right. No cut corners. No stone unturned.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Hey, I just want to keep this clean and fast. So if the dress rehearsal is over, let’s get on with it: According to our source, if we go deep enough we should be able to find the source of our infestation. We don’t know a lot about the lay of the land, but we’ve heard that all things flow from the Terminus. If we can get to the Terminus, we can find where these things come from. If we can find where they come from, then with any luck we can find how to get rid of them.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> From everything we’ve seen, the anomalies we’re looking for are attracted to electricity, and lots of it. So we should be careful with our devices. They may lead us to our targets, or they may lead our targets to us.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Sounds like a win-win to me. Come on boys and girls, let’s saddle her up. This train ain't leaving the station on her own.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> <em>(whispering)</em> You really don't have to come all the way down with us.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> <em>(whispering)</em> This is still MTA territory. You don't do a job this big under our tunnels without us.</p>
<p><em>After removing the manhole cover from the entrance to SCP-8006-A, all operatives begin to rappel down.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> This leads down 20 feet into a sub chamber. 50 feet due south leads to a seam that drops straight into Mammon. It's a tight squeeze.</p>
<p><em>Once all operatives have reached ground level, Greenberg begins to take atmospheric readings.</em></p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> No ontological disruptions so far. We are in physical space.</p>
<p><strong>Weissman:</strong> Christ, it's hot as Hell down here.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Then let's hope they serve breakfast at the bottom. Weissman, scout ahead.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> I’ll remind you, we have almost no firsthand accounts of what these gremlins are capable of while alive. While I predict from my autopsies that they should have the same vulnerabilities of your average primate, we still don’t know for sure what they’re capable of.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Then let’s get ready to find out.</p>
<p><em>As Weissman advances, Mulvaney unfolds a large map and begins to study it.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> That’s the map?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Half of one, at least. Guess we’ll have to fill in the blank spots along the way.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Don’t you think maybe you should give that to Velasquez?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> This needs to be back at the Transit Museum archives in one piece by tomorrow morning. If anything happens to it, it’s coming out of my pocket, so forgive me if I’m not ready to hand it off to some guy in a gimp suit.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Watch it, this gimp suit costs more than you make in a month.</p>
<p><strong>Weissman:</strong> Area is clear.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Proceed.</p>
<p><em>All operatives move forward until reaching a 1 meter wide opening in a seam in the floor.</em></p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> Looks like this is our entry point.</p>
<p><em>A geyser of steam erupts from the crack.</em></p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> Geothermal activity reads as erratic.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Then we’d better get to it.</p>
<p><em>After setting up a line, Weissman begins to lower herself into the crack.</em></p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> Claw marks on the inside. Looks like someone's been busy down here.</p>
<p><em>After reaching the floor below, Weissman is knocked to the ground. Body cam visuals terminate. Audio records the sound of snarling, followed by screaming, followed by gunfire, followed by silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Weissman, what's your status?</p>
<p><strong>Weissman:</strong> Threat neutralized.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Injuries?</p>
<p><strong>Weissman:</strong> If this is the worst we see tonight I'll count myself lucky.</p>
<p><em>The remaining operatives lower themselves through the crack to the cavern below. The cavern slopes straight downward for an indeterminate distance. Weissman sits on the ground, propped up against a stalagmite, tending to two large cuts in her midsection. Beside her lies a large crumpled gray-skinned humanoid figure.</em></p>
<p><strong>Weissman:</strong> You didn’t tell us these gremlins could fly.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> They can’t.</p>
<p><em>DeWitt examines the figure, turning it over to reveal two long winged arms, and a squashed pointed face with bat-like features.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> And this is no gremlin.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> For the love of God, Mulvaney, how many abominations do you have living down here?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> I don’t know, it’s an ecosystem. They’re like rats: if you see more than one, you’ve got a lot more than two. How am I supposed to know how many there are total? No one ever goes down here.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> And this doesn’t concern you?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> In case you didn’t hear me, I just told you no one ever goes down here. Unless we decide to knock it through to build a PATH train extension, it’s nobody’s problem.</p>
<p><em>Greenberg applies first aid to Weissman. DeWitt collects samples from the cadaver as Mulvaney consults his map.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> What can you tell us?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> It has a stony, granite-like outer skin and winged forelimbs reminiscent of the genus <em>Chiroptera</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Is that forensic cryptozoology for “gargoyle?”</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> I didn’t say “gargoyle.”</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> And yet that’s what it is. How are you people so unwilling to just call a thing what it is?</p>
<p><em>Velasquez pulls Weissman to her feet.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Whatever you want to call it, it’s neutralized. We’ve got a long road ahead of us and we’ve barely cracked the surface. Watch out for more of these, and we can name them once we’re breathing fresh air again.</p>
<p><em>All operatives advance down the slope of the cavern, eventually entering a large chamber filled with debris.</em></p>
<p><strong>Weissman:</strong> The rock down here is soft. Brittle.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Volcanic. Hug the walls!</p>
<p><em>Loose stones rattle as a rumble passes through the walls of the cavern as the operatives proceed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Seriously, you're decked head toe in a thousand dollar rubber suit and you can't hold in a fart?</p>
<p><strong>Weissman:</strong> What are you talking about?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You don’t smell that?</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Sulfur.</p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> I'm not getting any readings for sulfur.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Instruments fail. A man's nose doesn't lie.</p>
<p><em>A louder rumble passes through the chamber.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Move! Fast!</p>
<p><em>All operatives begin running forward, taking cover in a node in the cavern wall.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> What's going on?</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> What do you think? Where there's smoke there's–</p>
<p><em>The floor cracks as a wall of flame erupts into the chamber. As the flame subsides, the floor crumbles away, revealing an enormous cavern below. Mulvaney loses his footing and slides down into the cavern.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Sean!</p>
<p><em>All operatives slowly climb down the slope of debris into the larger subspace. Parts of the rock beneath the debris and along the cavern floor glow red with heat, providing faint light, reflected in an arching, metallic golden roof. Several hundred meters ahead the terrain breaks off into a wide gorge. At the edge of sight, multiple brackish rivers flow, snaking into the distance.</em></p>
<p><em>DeWitt approaches Mulvaney who lies in a heap of rubble.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Slow down there. I’m not dead yet. Just a bump.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney pushes away DeWitt, stumbles to his feet and checks his map.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> If I’m reading this right we want to get to the first river north from here and follow that downstream until it forks. That should lead us to the river Acheron, which should flow straight to the Terminus.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Acheron?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Acheron or Cocytus. I’m working with half a map here, but either one should probably take us where we need to go.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> And if it doesn’t?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Then for all we know we might end up in the ninth circle of Hell. Or, barring that, New Jersey.</p>
<p><em>A screech issues from overhead as multiple large flying bat-like humanoids begin to descend from above.</em></p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> We’ve got company!</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Move!</p>
<p><em>All operatives begin to run, as the flying entities swoop down. Mulvaney and DeWitt take cover behind a rock as Greenberg and Weissman attempt to shoot the attackers out of the air. A rumble passes through the ground.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Keep going! Unstable terrain! We can try to shake them at the river, but we can’t stay here!</p>
<p><em>Greenberg, Weissman and Velasquez run towards the chasm in the distance, followed by Mulvaney and DeWitt. Greenberg, Weissman and Velasquez jump across the chasm, scrambling to the other side.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> DeWitt! Down!</p>
<p><em>The ground rumbles again as an attacking creature swoops down towards DeWitt. Mulvaney tackles DeWitt to the ground to avoid it, but rolls forward and falls into the chasm. Mulvaney’s body camera footage cuts out.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> DeWitt! DeWitt!</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Sean!</p>
<p><em>The ground rumbles and Greenberg, Weissman and Velasquez continue to run.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Where are you?</p>
<p><em>DeWitt attempts to shine his light into the chasm.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Still in one piece! It’s just my arm! Can’t get it out from under all this rock!</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Just hold on, I'm coming down!</p>
<p><em>DeWitt begins to climb down the wall of the chasm.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> It’s about a 25 foot drop! Maybe 30!</p>
<p><em>Gunfire begins again in the distance as the chasm wall shakes. DeWitt pauses but regains his grip, climbing down to the bottom.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Please, DeWitt! Please…</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> I’m right here.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> …please tell me you wore boots.</p>
<p><em>DeWitt shines his flashlight along the floor of the chasm, revealing rats scurrying between the rocks. DeWitt drops his flashlight, which breaks and goes out.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> They're everywhere…</p>
<p><em>The ground shakes again, and more debris falls into the chasm.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> …I can’t…</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> They're just rats.</p>
<p><em>Gunfire can be heard further in the distance.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> I guarantee you, you pass more than these just walking through Grand Central on your way to work. Only difference is you don't see them.</p>
<p><em>DeWitt’s footsteps can be heard moving through the darkness, followed by rustling and squeaking.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Oh god…</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> DeWitt, I need you to listen. We have to get back up there. I can't do this without you.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Maybe if I can…I can scare them off.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You can't scare them off. This is their home. Just walk past them.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> I'm lighting a flare.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Don't light a flare!</p>
<p><em>DeWitt lights a flare, revealing hundreds of rats crawling through the chasm, over the rocks, and on top of the debris. Two meters ahead Mulvaney lies, his arm pinned beneath a rock.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You can't just stand there; we've got to move.</p>
<p><em>The ground rumbles. Steam begins to rise from cracks in the rocks.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Damn it, we've got a job to do! How the hell are you people trying to take over this place when you can’t even handle a rat?</p>
<p><em>DeWitt takes a deep breath and runs forward towards Mulvaney. He lifts the rock from Mulvaney’s arm and lifts him up as the rumbles in the ground become stronger. Mulvaney and DeWitt climb to the top, and begin running as the chasm collapses into itself in a cloud of dust and steam.</em></p>
<p><em>Mulvaney and DeWitt continue ahead until they reach the edge of the river. They walk downstream along the river’s edge until they meet Greenberg, Weissman and Velasquez at a fork in the water. Mulvaney collapses to his knees as Velasquez examines him.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Well there’s something you don’t see every day. We thought you were goners for sure. All in one piece?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> For now.</p>
<p><strong>Weissman:</strong> Took down two. The rest flew off when the ground caved. But we can only guess how many more are out there.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> <em>(to Mulvaney)</em> Your arm is broken.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Broken? That’s funny, it can still do this.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney directs an obscene gesture at Velasquez.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> We should head back.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Back? The hard part is over.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney takes off his vest and begins to fumble with it, revealing a deep gash in his side. DeWitt helps him tie his vest into a sling.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Are you telling me you want to do that all again? We’re halfway there.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Your arm is broken.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> And I feel great.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> You’re in shock.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Then let’s get this done before the shock wears off!</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> We've already gathered way more info than we had going in. With what we've seen so far we can head back, regroup, and come back better prepared tomorrow.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Don't you understand? We don’t have until tomorrow. Because by tomorrow we’ll have another crisis to deal with. Then another one after that. And one more after that.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney wades into the brackish waters of the river as a thick fog begins to rise.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> We're not going back until this leak is plugged once and for all. This is what we do. This is the job. We get in, we get shit fixed, and we get out. Isn't that right?</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney struggles to pull out his map and begins walking further into the fog. Blood drips from the map into the water, and the sound of distant voices wailing begins to echo through the cavern.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> See, all I’ve been hearing since you people showed up is how the MTA can’t handle the job anymore. How the MTA can’t keep its shit under wraps. Well guess what? I’m not going home until this job is done.</p>
<p><em>A silhouette appears in the fog behind Mulvaney.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Is that what the Mole Rats do? Go home? Or do you keep on going until you hit the bottom?</p>
<p><em>A rowboat emerges from the fog, rowed by a skeletal figure in a tattered black robe. Mulvaney climbs into the boat.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> So are you coming or not?</p>
<p><em>After a moment, DeWitt wades towards the boat and climbs in.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Sean. Did you just get in Charon's boat?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Well it sure as shit ain’t Willy Wonka here to take us down his chocolate river.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> I can't knock your spirit, Mulvaney, but listen to me: We know how to handle ourselves in a place like this. If you can't say the same, then this is your mistake to make, not ours.</p>
<p><em>Greenberg, Weissman and Velasquez climb into the boat. The skeletal entity extends its hand. Mulvaney reaches into his pocket and pulls out a subway token, which he gives to the entity. The group sit in silence as they row down the river.</em></p>
<p><em>The fog breaks as the river opens into a wide lagoon. The water is thick, black, and viscous, and the boat struggles to move through it. Large ripples and sounds of churning and bubbling emanate from the center. All operatives disembark from the boat.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> So this is where it all begins.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Let’s hope this is where it all ends.</p>
<p><em>DeWitt wades in the water and begins collecting samples as Greenberg takes atmospheric readings. Mulvaney limps toward a rock on the shore and sits down.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> What’s the good word on the water?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> I wouldn't go so far as to call it water. It’s…organic. At least part of it is.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Any read on its composition?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> We’ll need to get it back to the lab but in this state it seems almost like a…biological slurry.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Primordial soup?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> “The ancient spring from which all life begins.” Just like we heard from the Mayor.</p>
<p><em>Dewitt, Greenberg and Weissman wade deeper into the lagoon to take further readings, fighting against the waves.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Any signs of life?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Some lumps. Polyps. The whole thing could be alive for all we know, but nothing that looks like it’s ready to get up and start walking.</p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> Looks like it’s a Newtonian fluid at the very least.</p>
<p><em>As Greenberg moves his reading device back and forth above the surface, the liquid begins to rise and dissipate directly beneath his arm.</em></p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> Hold that thought.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> It’s reacting. Maybe…we just need something with a little more juice.</p>
<p><em>DeWitt borrows Weissman’s electric baton and holds it above the surface of the lagoon. As he activates it, the liquid begins to tremble, rising up in peaks towards the baton. DeWitt lowers the baton further and the peaks stiffen, weaving themselves together into gray muscle fibers.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> It’s the current…</p>
<p><em>DeWitt places the baton directly in the liquid. A clawed arm reaches up from the water and grabs DeWitt by the wrist.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> DeWitt!</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> We’ve got company!</p>
<p><em>DeWitt stumbles backward, falling back onto the shore.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> No…not yet…</p>
<p><em>DeWitt deactivates the baton and holds up his arm, revealing that the clawed arm gripping his wrist is completely disembodied, stopping at the elbow.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> It’s the electricity. This sludge, this slurry…leave it alone and it’s just a mass of lumps. But introduce an electric current…that’s where they’re coming from. Sean, you said you usually get gremlins after power surges.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Until now.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> All that extra power. Where does it go? Into the ground. Then they climb up out of the soup like Frankenstein's monster.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> But we're not dealing with a power surge now. So what's changed?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> It could be anything. Maybe some new power lines went a little too deep. Maybe some construction knocked some debris down here where it doesn't belong. Debris…if it's big enough it could be responsible for our whole infestation.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Let’s sweep the area!</p>
<p><em>Greenberg and Weissman begin searching the bed of the lagoon, gradually sifting through the muck.</em></p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> We’ve got something!</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> What is it, a power cable? A battery?</p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> Oh, it’s more than that!</p>
<p><em>Greenberg and Weissman tie a rope under the water and slowly hoist out a large dented metal pod.</em></p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> Looks like some kind of submersible.</p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Or an aquatic drone.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> That’s not a drone, that’s practically the Mars rover.</p>
<p><strong>Weissman:</strong> There’s more. Probes stuck deep in the mud further out. And another pod, not so crushed up.</p>
<p><em>Weissman and Greenberg gradually dredge the lagoon, pulling up an assortment of probes, drones and buoys. With great difficulty, Weissman, Greenberg and DeWitt pull another metallic pod, larger than the first, towards the shore. The fluid around the pod begins to churn as sparks jump off of exposed wires.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Looks like there’s still a current coming off of this one!</p>
<p><em>The fluids of the lagoon begin to weave themselves into arms, which grab the pod and hoist up a large gray-skinned creature that materializes as it emerges.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> We've got a live one!</p>
<p><em>Weissman and Greenberg swim to shore and aim their rifles. DeWitt attempts to struggle to shore, but is caught in the creature's claws.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> DeWitt!</p>
<p><em>More disembodied limbs begin to rise from the lagoon, clutching at DeWitt.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Get down!</p>
<p><em>DeWitt climbs on top of the pod, reaching into his coat as the creature follows.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Mole Rats, take aim!</p>
<p><strong>Weissman:</strong> There's no clear shot!</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney stands and pulls his arm out of its sling.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> I said take aim!</p>
<p><em>The creature pins DeWitt to the pod and raises its clawed arm.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Three!</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney picks up a large stone from the shore of the lagoon.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Two!</p>
<p><em>DeWitt pulls a scalpel from his pocket and drives it into the creature's neck.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> One!</p>
<p><em>With one arm, Mulvaney grips his sling, using it to hurl the stone. The stone hits the creature in the head, knocking it back. DeWitt rolls free into the lagoon.</em></p>
<p><strong>Velasquez:</strong> Fire!</p>
<p><em>Weissman and Greenberg shoot the creature, and it collapses back into the lagoon. DeWitt stumbles to the shore.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> At least it wasn't a rat.</p>
<p><em>Weissman and Greenberg retrieve the pod and drag it to shore.</em></p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> This one looks like it's still active.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Then let's do what we came here to do.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney grips the exposed wires of the pod and begins pulling and tearing out circuitry with one arm until the sparking stops and he collapses to his knees.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> There's no way these have been down here for long. Someone else has been exploring this place.</p>
<p><strong>Greenberg:</strong> But who?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Whoever’s been doing research down here without the written approval of the MTA board of directors.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney stands and staggers toward the pod, visibly pale and unsteady. He wipes muck from the hatch, revealing a logo that reads “PROMETHEUS LABS.”</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Those bastards. They’re not supposed to start mining this place until 2033.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> 2033? You’re partnering with Prometheus Labs?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> After this? Who even knows. There’s breach of contract and then there’s this. Albany’s going to be pissed. And that’s our ass on the line for not catching it sooner.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney stomps away from the shore towards a rocky embankment.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> What a fucking nightmare. Do you have any idea how much paperwork I’m going to have to do when this is all done?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Paperwork? Sean, I can’t believe you’d do something like this.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> I didn’t do anything. You want to point the finger, blame Albany.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> You’re renting out this place for Prometheus Labs to strip mine and sell for parts?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Well, clearly not anymore. There are still protocols for these kinds of things.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Sean, how could you?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Jesus Christ, DeWitt, why do you think? For the money! The money, DeWitt! Do you have any idea how much a subway train costs? Why do you think we put ads on the sides of buses? Why do you think we raise the fare every other year? Because all of this stuff doesn’t just grow out of the ground or fall from the sky. It costs money! And in case you haven’t noticed from the mountains of garbage, crumbling tunnels and trash bags of ooze, it’s a little hard to keep this shit running when nobody’s willing to pay the bill. So yes, if someone comes to you and says they want to pay you a billion dollars–</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> A billion dollars?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Yeah, 2.3 billion dollars, actually! When someone offers you that kind of money to poke around under your tunnels in 10 years, sometimes you’ve got to take that risk. Because if you don’t, in 10 years you might not be here at all.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney looks directly into DeWitt's body camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You see? This is what we get when we don't invest in public transportation.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> We get monsters?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Yes, DeWitt. We get monsters.</p>
<p><em>Greenberg and Weissman pull the corpse of the deceased creature from the lagoon. Mulvaney sits in the mud. DeWitt sits beside him.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Well what are you looking at me for? Go on, get your shit cleaned up. Isn’t that what you came here for?</p>
<p><em>Weissman and Greenberg hoist the final machine parts out of the lagoon and begin destroying the pieces that are still intact. DeWitt leans in towards Mulvaney.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> You know, I’ve thought a lot about what you said. About not having to understand everything. About not having to control everything. About just doing what we can to keep the world turning.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> And how's that going for you?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> I want to believe it's…worth trying. That we can at least walk out of here having fought for a common goal. But–not even as a scientist, but just as a person–I can’t pretend that this isn’t something bigger than a couple of gremlins in the subway tunnels.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You can let it be as big as you want. But as long as we’ve got that gremlin thing under control, my hands are clean.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> I want to go back to my bosses and tell them we took care of everything. But just look at where we are. All of this. If we just pretend that this is nothing more than a bunch of spare parts that fell in a lake, and leave like it was never even here? That goes against everything we do. On an operational level. On an ethical level. How can you ask me to do that?</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney puts his head into his hands and takes a deep, labored breath.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> If you were building this world from the ground up, would you make it like this? This entire miserable dirty little rock. Would you bury it all in blizzards every winter? Would you flood it with hurricanes every summer? Would you make it so cold your joints freeze up or so hot your skin burns off? Would you make that your first choice?</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> …probably not.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Me neither. But we don’t get to make it, do we? So in the winter we bundle up, and in the summer we put on sunscreen, and we deal with it. You can send a thousand eggheads down here to take samples and put up yellow tape to research and experiment and investigate, and all you’ll end up doing is wasting time and money we don’t have so you can ask questions that don’t have answers. Or, if we want, right now, we can clear the debris from off the tracks and let this whole dirty rock keep on humming along. Your people don’t need to get involved any more than you already are. They don’t even need to know.</p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> We document everything. This entire conversation is on tape. There’s no way to hide it.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> How do you still not get this? You don’t need to hide a damn thing. Just put the details somewhere no one will bother to look. It's the first rule of paperwork: no one ever reads all the way to the end.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney tries to stand, but struggles. DeWitt helps him to his feet.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> You're hurt.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Wrong again, egghead. Doesn't hurt at all. …not anymore.</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney staggers towards the lagoon as Weissman, Greenberg and Velasquez walk back towards the river. Blood runs from the gash in his side down his leg, pooling in his footprints.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Come on, we have to get back!</p>
<p><em>Mulvaney looks at the dismantled parts laid out on the shore.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> That’s a lot of debris we cleaned up today.</p>
<p><em>Fog billows out of the water as the wailing of the dead begins to echo from the distance.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> You don’t have to do this.</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You don’t think Charon takes just anyone all this way down here, do you?</p>
<p><em>The rowboat emerges from the fog at the edge of the river. Greenberg, Weissman and Velasquez climb onto the boat, but Mulvaney begins to walk backward into the lagoon. Blood from the gash in his side pours into the water.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Do you really think he'd take all of us back?</p>
<p><em>As Mulvaney walks backwards, the water begins to part, creating a path for him.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> You probably want to get on that one. I don’t think another one’s coming for a while.</p>
<p><em>DeWitt gets onto the boat as Mulvaney continues to walk away. Mulvaney holds up his map. It is no longer half blank.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> Don’t worry! I know where this train is going!</p>
<p><em>The boat begins to travel up the river.</em></p>
<p><strong>DeWitt:</strong> Where?</p>
<p><strong>Mulvaney:</strong> The same place all trains go: to the end of the line!</p>
<p><em>The parted waters of the lagoon crash down around Mulvaney as the lagoon recedes into the fog.</em></p>
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<p>Owing to its size and its nature as a public-facing anomalous ecosystem, comprehensive containment of SCP-8006 has been deemed too impractical to pursue at this time. Although absolute containment may be attainable, such efforts would likely create too great a disruption to normalcy to be considered an effective use of Foundation resources. Instead, SCP-8006 is to be monitored for emerging threats, with appropriate interventions prescribed on an as-needed basis.</p>
<p>Maintenance, administration and monitoring of SCP-8006 are to be conducted by GoI-079 (“The Metropolitan Transportation Authority”).</p>
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<p>SCP-8006 is the New York City subway system. It serves 3.6 million riders daily, and is the primary means of transportation for 56% of New York City residents. It is home to approximately 70,000 employees, 36 subway lines, 423 stations, 665 miles of track, and multiple discrete races of subterranean humanoid.</p>
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<p>Sometimes people complain about the rampant fungus growing on the platform at Roosevelt Ave. What they don't know about, and don't need to know about, are the 26 other stations its tendrils have spread into. It's in there deep, but that's okay: we know what it wants, and we know how to stop it.</p>
<p>Time doesn't work right on the B/D/F/M line. And that's the way we like it. If there were only 60 minutes in an hour, every day two dozen trains would be backed up all the way from Coney Island to Jamaica, Queens. But when we see a problem we find a way to make it work. That's what we do.</p>
<p>And don't get me started on the drilling. There's a lot of bedrock to get through, and it's not all Manhattan schist. Sometimes you hit water. Sometimes you hit blood. But we can pump out blood just as fast as water: it just doesn't come out of your clothes as easy. Why do you think the Second Avenue subway extension took so long to finish? We couldn't break ground at 78th Street until we'd cut out the heart.</p>
<p>We're not heroes. That’s not in our contract. We're just here to do a job. It's the job I signed up for. It's the job Mulvaney signed up for. And it's the job 70,000 other men and women have signed up for. We might have to crawl through the mud to do it, but we make sure it gets done. Because we're what keeps this city running. We're the engines below the surface. We're the light at the end of the tunnel. We're the MTA.</p>
<p><em>– Excerpt from the deposition of Rupendra Chowdhury, Senior Director of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 12 August, 2023</em></p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8007 is to remain at the location in which it was unearthed on 20/3/1980, within the caldera of Mount St. Helens. Access to the caldera itself is to be blocked off and surveilled to ensure that no unauthorized individuals or organizations enter the stratavolcano's crater.</p>
<p>Currently, an excavation team is operating within the caldera to further unearth SCP-8007. Foundation activity on Mount St. Helens is to be explained as geological research in the wake of the March 20th Plinian eruption,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-1')">1</a></sup> and exploration of the crater formed when the north side of the mountain collapsed.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8007 is a draconic entity of indeterminate size within the caldera of Mount St. Helens. Through in-person examination and the use of specialized GPR,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-2')">2</a></sup> it has been found that SCP-8007 in part resembles depictions of European Dragons, having six limbs, two of which being wings. While the length of SCP-8007 is presently unknown, its wingspan has been estimated to be roughly 3 kilometers at full extension.</p>
<p>After the initial discovery of SCP-8007, a Foundation-led expedition to study and uncover the remains further was conducted. With Dr. Hellen Gibbs<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-3')">3</a></sup> as the project lead, and Dr. Mary Nerys<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-4')">4</a></sup> as the lead field researcher, the team of 53 has been excavating and studying SCP-8007 for four months. A summary of their preliminary findings is compiled below.</p>
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<p><em>Recorded by Dr. Sarah Lindsey at Excavation Site-8007 on 22/7/1980</em></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Samples Collected:</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Material:</strong> Various minerals and rocks with felsic to intermediate compositions collected off the body of SCP-8007. Currently identified mineral samples include: quartz, plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene, hornblende, augite, and biotite mica.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-5')">5</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Mass:</strong> Mass of SCP-8007 is presently impossible to determine; the mass of collected mineral samples has ranged greatly.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Analysis:</span></strong><br/>
A thaumaturgical ritual conducted by Dr. Nerys to age date the samples determined that they are consistent with native samples of Mount St. Helens that were unearthed by the recent eruption. These materials have crystalized on the outer portions of SCP-8007, layered over top of each other in a manner similar to scales. The layer of crystalized materials is estimated to be several meters thick.</p>
<p>Pegmatite quartz crystals cover the head of the anomaly and form a jagged crest. These crystalline structures cover portions of the jaw, snout, and back of the neck. All of these deposits dwarf the largest quartz crystal cluster that has previously been discovered on Earth.</p>
<p>Along the back of SCP-8007 are two rows of four ridges. These massive dorsal ridges have been found to be completely hollow, and cracking in the rocks around their bases indicate they were capable of some sort of movement. The ridges are similar in structure to stratovolcanoes, having their own miniaturized craters and lava chambers.</p>
<p>The surface of SCP-8007 has been measured to be cooler than the surrounding geological structures of Mount St. Helens.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Implications:</span></strong><br/>
The amount of deposited materials indicates that SCP-8007 was mostly sedentary, even when alive. Experimentation via Dr. Nerys' thaumaturgical abilities, and the size of the deposits upon the anomaly, have led to the determination that SCP-8007 facilitates anomalously fast crystallization and mineral growth upon its body.</p>
<p>Cracks and specific layering of rock displays that it was capable of movement. It is however unclear what SCP-8007's range of motion was when alive.</p>
<p>While attempting to harvest one of the pegmatite quartz, it was found that striking them resulted in resonation with the other crystals across SCP-8007. This resonation caused a dramatic vibration across the entirety of the anomaly, enough to have knocked several personnel off their feet. It is theorized that with enough energy, kinetic or otherwise, even larger vibrations could be created.</p>
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<p><em>In-Progress Recording by Dr. Rudy Weller at Excavation Site-8007 on 26/7/1980</em></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Observations:</span></strong><br/>
There are very few signs of what could have rendered SCP-8007 dead, but notes of its physical biology have been made.</p>
<p>As of now, SCP-8007's chest has been fully excavated; it has been found that the underside of the anomaly's chest is completely exposed and open — displaying the entity's rib cage, and entirely hollow interior. The bones of SCP-8007 appear to be made of a currently undiscovered and naturally formed tungsten alloy. How this occurred is unknown, and has thus been deemed in part of SCP-8007's anomalous nature. Furthermore, within the chest of SCP-8007, the partially hardened remains of a structure similar to a reptilian or avian heart have been uncovered. Solidified remains of artery-like structures indicate that the heart appeared to have been suspended within SCP-8007's chest. Parts of the heart were still incredibly high temperature and were partially molten. It has been determined that the heart's structure contains an incredibly high concentration of pure iron, mixed with an alloy similar to the bones of the anomaly.</p>
<p>In spite of the fact that SCP-8007's mouth contains teeth, it has no apparent digestive system.</p>
<p>While the external surface of SCP-8007 was noticeably cooler than the surroundings, some areas of SCP-8007's internals were hot enough to be considered hazardous to human health.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Analysis:</span></strong><br/>
Analysis of the purpose behind SCP-8007's internal structures, and lack thereof, are currently ongoing as excavation continues.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Implications:</span></strong><br/>
The partially molten heart has placed SCP-8007's death at being within a similar time frame as Mount St. Helens' eruption; which has led to the present theory that SCP-8007 was killed in the Plinian eruption. However, research is ongoing, as there is presently no further substantial information on the cause of death.</p>
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<p>Hey. I found something we're gonna want to add to the report.</p>
<p>While poking around in the internal cavity of 8007, I wanted to double-check my age dating — since the bones were geological too. Metal, y'know? So I figured it'd be good to check my numbers cause, who knows, maybe the minerals deposited on it were at a different time than the bones themselves. Or it just wore rocks hermit crab style. So I set up the ritual again, focused on the skeleton, and…</p>
<p>Helen, this dragon is 3.8 billion years old.</p>
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<p>I swear to god this thing gets weirder the more we look at it. That would put this thing's existence being approximate to the Hadean period.</p>
<p>Are we <em>sure</em> it died recently? For all we know we're getting all excited over something that died 3.7 billion years ago or something and the eruption unearthed it. Sure the heart was still partially molten, but so is the inside of the volcano we've been working on for the past several months.</p>
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<p>Decently sure. That brings me to the next thing, actually.</p>
<p>Earlier today we went further into the internal cavity and we've started to find these… holes? Measured 'em to be ranging from 5 to 10 meters in diameter. They've been drilled through parts of the carcass.</p>
<p>I say 'drilled' because they're perfectly circular, and smooth too. I don't think they're natural. We found one on the back of the heart, too. Cuts right through a part of it.</p>
<p>Our original working theory was that St. Helen's eruption might've killed it but… I think we can reckon a guess that we've found traces of something much different having ended this beast.</p>
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<p>Are there any traces of a culprit? Tracks, marks, anything that could indicate the presence of something alive? Or did someone get to this corpse before we did?</p>
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<p>Geology Department Lead<br/>
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<p>The best guess that can be made was another anomalous organism of some kind. I'm not a biologist, but I'll look around the caldera a bit for any odd traces we might've missed on account of being a wee bit distracted by 8007.</p>
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<p>Geology Department<br/>
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<p>Alright, keep me updated, okay?</p>
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<p>Geology Department Lead<br/>
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<p>An extensive search of St. Helens’ crater was conducted on 29/7/1980 by the excavation team. During the investigation, the following was discovered:</p>
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<li>Abnormally high readings of EVE<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-6')">6</a></sup> saturates the entirety of the caldera, with the highest concentration being around SCP-8007 itself. Despite these readings, no traces of any conducted thaumaturgical rituals were found.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-7')">7</a></sup></li>
<li>While magnetite is a known mineral within St. Helens, abnormally large fragments were discovered throughout the caldera. The largest of these fragments was 5 meters across, and while heavily damaged, appeared to be in a disc-like shape. It should be noted that magnetite does not naturally crystalize in this manner.</li>
<li>The magnetite samples found within the caldera had EVE levels higher than their surroundings. Additionally, they displayed an anomalous attraction to iron.</li>
<li>Tunnels measuring roughly 10 meters — consistent with those found bored into SCP-8007 — were detected throughout the internal structure of the stratovolcano.</li>
<li>Mount St. Helens lava chamber is completely devoid of magma. Such a phenomenon has only been seen in a singular other case,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-8" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-8')">8</a></sup> and the suddenness of this occurrence has been noted as out of the ordinary.</li>
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<p>Shortly after this discovery, St. Helens was deemed geologically extinct. It is presently theorized that SCP-8007's death may be related to this occurrence.</p>
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<p>Hey,</p>
<p>I need you to pack up the site. You and the team are being transferred to Tolbachik, in the Kamchatka Peninsula.</p>
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<p>Geology Department Lead<br/>
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<p>What? Why? We're still in the process of excavating 8007. Tolbachik hasn't even had a single trace of activity since it blew five years ago.</p>
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<p>Geology Department<br/>
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<p>That's exactly why I had it looked at; because St. Helens has gone dead too.</p>
<p>They found another.</p>
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<p>Geology Department Lead<br/>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8007.1:</strong></p>
<p>On 11/8/1980, a second deceased instance of SCP-8007<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-9" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-9')">9</a></sup> was discovered within the volcanic crater of the shield volcano Plosky Tolbachik within Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. The instance was discovered when a reconnaissance team was sent by the Geology Department to do an aerial overview of the crater; which led to the spotting of SCP-8007-2's head and a portion of a front foot.</p>
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<p>A team consisting of SCP-8007-1's excavation crew and other staff of the Geology Department was sent out to begin excavating the new instance.</p>
<p>Biological and geological evaluation of SCP-8007-2 determined it to be physically similar to the instance within the Mount St. Helens caldera, albeit with a different composition of its outer coating. SCP-8007-2 is covered in crystallizations of primarily mafic minerals and rocks, such as basalt, and various fumarole minerals. These findings are consistent with minerals exposed during Plosky Tolbachik's final eruption.</p>
<p>Similarly to the first instance, it was found that SCP-8007-2 and the surrounding area contained a series of tunnels bored into the strata. This has been determined to be the instance's cause of death. EVE readings of the area are similarly consistent with the previous discovery.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8007.2:</strong><br/>
On 30/8/1980, a third deceased SCP-8007 instance was discovered.</p>
<p>SCP-8007-3 was found via scans of Plosky Tolbachik's neighboring stratovolcano, Ostry Tolbachik, when the excavation team attempted to gain information on the status of the two volcanoes magma chambers.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-10" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-10')">10</a></sup> While this instance is completely buried roughly 6 kilometers beneath Ostry Tolbachik within proximity to the now empty magma chamber, and thus currently impossible to access, it can be assumed from previous instances and neighboring parent rocks that it bears a similar composition to SCP-8007-2. The cause of SCP-8007-3's death is consistent with that of the previous two instances, as scans indicate the presence of tunnels found in the other sites.</p>
<p>Dr. Helen Gibbs of the Geology Department has put forward a project proposal for a full search of all volcanic systems along the Ring of Fire<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-11" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-11')">11</a></sup> to locate any additional instances of SCP-8007.</p>
<p>As of 7/9/1980, this project, dubbed 'Project Pyroclasm', has been approved by the O5 Council.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8007.3</strong><br/>
Below is an abridged list of instances discovered as Project Pyroclasm progressed.</p>
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<p><strong>Instance #:</strong> 6<br/>
<strong>Location:</strong> Popocatépetl — Puebla, Mexico<br/>
<strong>Instance Status:</strong> Alive, uninjured</p>
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<strong>Additional Notes:</strong> During the investigation of the area where SCP-8007-6 resides, a series of small tremors shook Popocatépetl. Fearing a sudden eruption, the team fled the excavation site and an alert was issued to the surrounding area.
<p>No eruption occurred, but the tremors went on for roughly 3 hours. The fracture point of these quakes was found to be the instance itself — a point along the back of the head.</p>
<p>Due to previous observations of anomalous levels of resonance in deposited crystalline structures along the instances' backs, it has been concluded that instances of SCP-8007 are capable of instigating earthquakes through these crystalline matrices.</p>
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<p><strong>Instance #:</strong> 19<br/>
<strong>Location:</strong> Santa María — Quetzaltenango, Guatemala<br/>
<strong>Instance Status:</strong> Alive, mild injury</p>
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<strong>Additional Notes:</strong> The dorsal structures upon the backs of SCP-8007 instances seem to have the purpose of storing magma. Functioning akin to miniature stratovolcanoes, with magma chambers within. These structures appear to gradually fill with magma over time.
<p>It is theorized that an eruption event is triggered once these structures reach maximum capacity.</p>
<p>It is unknown to what degree of control, if any, SCP-8007 instances have over the causation of their eruptions. These chambers seem to fill at inconsistent rates, considering a lack of discernible pattern in previous eruptions along the Ring of Fire.</p>
<p>It has also been noticed that instances of SCP-8007 have a series of orifices along their necks, sides, and tails. On living instances, these function as vents that expel volcanic gases and water vapor.</p>
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<p><strong>Instance #:</strong> 42<br/>
<strong>Location:</strong> Mount Fuji — Honshū, Japan<br/>
<strong>Instance Status:</strong> Alive, uninjured</p>
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<strong>Additional Notes:</strong> Investigation of living instances has led to discovering the purpose of their molten iron hearts and arteries.
<p>It appears that instances of SCP-8007 use their hearts to pump magma up from the Earth and through their bodies, consuming the thermal energy. This process not only accelerates the deposition of minerals upon the instances but likely provides them with sustenance.</p>
<p>The hearts also likely facilitate the forcing of magma up into the dorsal protrusions of SCP-8007 instances, catalyzing the resulting volcanic eruption once the protrusions are full.</p>
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<p><strong>Instance #:</strong> 78<br/>
<strong>Location:</strong> Mount Agung — Bali, Indonesia<br/>
<strong>Instance Status:</strong> Deceased</p>
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<p><strong>Additional Notes:</strong> The fourth deceased instance discovered. Similar to the previous three, scans have detected the presence of tunnels bored through the anomaly. These drilled holes have been present on living instances as well, and the scanned amounts in comparison to those deceased are being utilized to determine the severity of injury.</p>
<p>Causation is still unknown.</p>
<p>It should be noted that all five discovered deceased instances have partially ascended upwards in comparison to living ones, indicating that instances have a final surge of action prior to death despite their seemingly sedentary nature. It is theorized that St. Helens’ recent Plinian eruption, the Great Tolbachik Fissure Eruption, and Mount Agung’s 1963 eruptions were all the result of the corresponding instances releasing the remainder of their harvested thermal energy.</p>
<p>Consistent with previous discoveries, the lava chamber of Mount Agung is empty.</p>
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<p><strong>Instance #:</strong> 221<br/>
<strong>Location:</strong> Mount Ruapehu — North Island, New Zealand<br/>
<strong>Instance Status:</strong> Alive, mild injury</p>
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<strong>Additional Notes:</strong> Scans of the surrounding volcanic environment indicated odd and unnatural structures in proximity to SCP-8007-221. While these structures are currently unreachable, they seem to have been created or carved by the instance. Scans indicate that they resemble pillars, with carvings too small to be accurately picked up by Foundation GPR technology.
<p>In light of this discovery, the intelligence level SCP-8007 is being reconsidered.</p>
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<p><strong>Instance #:</strong> 443<br/>
<strong>Location:</strong> Krakatoa — Krakatoa Archipelago, Indonesia<br/>
<strong>Instance Status:</strong> Alive, severe injury</p>
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<strong>Additional Notes:</strong> Due to the existence of only one instance within the Krakatoa archipelago — in spite of the previous presence of four volcanoes<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-12" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-12')">12</a></sup> — the discovery of SCP-8007-443 confirms that singular instances can be responsible for the activity of more than one volcano.
<p>Consistent with all previous findings, the volcanic area reflects the size of the instance. SCP-8007-443 is measured to be roughly 15 kilometers in length.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-13" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-13')">13</a></sup></p>
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<p>Throughout Project Pyroclasm, several volcanic structures outside of the geological area of the Ring of Fire were searched to determine if the SCP-8007 phenomenon is unique to the specific geological location, or widespread across Earth.</p>
<p>SCP-8007-447 was the final instance discovered and is the only SCP-8007 instance not directly on the Ring of Fire. The anomaly lies adjacent to the center of the geological area, within Mauna Loa, Hawaii.</p>
<p>Due to Mauna Loa being the largest active volcano on Earth,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-14" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-14')">14</a></sup> and the fact that this instance's location is an outlier, it was deemed a location of interest.</p>
<p>Additionally, scans have indicated that SCP-8007-447 is the first truly accessible instance through a series of tunnels within the volcano leading directly to the magma chamber.</p>
<strong>Exploration Log 8007.1:</strong><br/>
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<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> After the discovery that SCP-8007-447 is accessible, a small team was dispatched to descend into Mauna Loa’s magma chamber.</p>
<p>The team was led by Dr. Hellen Gibbs — who functioned as Command — and consists of Dr. Mary Nerys, Dr. Sarah Lindsey,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-15" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-15')">15</a></sup> and Dr. Rudy Weller.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-483965-16" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-483965-16')">16</a></sup></p>
<p>Due to the nature of communication with SCP-8007-447, Dr. Nerys has provided edits to the transcript.</p>
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<p><em>The team of three stands outside the entrance point, unloading a small cache of supplies and equipping fire proximity suits.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> You sure we’re gonna be… okay in there?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Of course! We’ve got protective suits and <em>these</em> puppies, <em>[She holds up a small stone charm]</em> <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/secure-facility-dossier-site-120">The boys at 120</a> sent us these. They’ll make us practically fireproof as long as they’re on our person or don’t break! But let’s not go sticking our toes into any magma, I don’t think it’ll save us from any direct contact.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> <em>[She chuckles]</em> Well damn, there goes my afternoon plans.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey throws back her head and laughs, before bending down to pick up her supply bag.</em></p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>This is Gibbs, do you all read?</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Loud and clear, ma’am.</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Good, good. Then prepare to descend.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Will do, boss.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey leads the way with an eager expression. The three of them enter the magma tube and begin walking. It is roughly 10 meters in diameter, with occasional and minor fluctuations.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> The file has it written down for Mauna Lao, do you reckon this beastie accounts for Kileua too?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Most likely. The Krakatoa instance is theorized to have been responsible for the four in its area till the 1803 eruption blew the whole thing sky-high. You wanna know a fun fact? The sound of that eruption went around Earth three times.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> That is <em>not</em> a fun fact. That’s just a fact, dear lord.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> No-no-no, she’s right it’s a fun fact. <em>[She pauses]</em> …I wonder if it sounded like a roar.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> And <em>that’s</em> terrifying.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Maybe! But that’s the nature of dealing with these beasts. Which have now been found to be literally beasts!</p>
<p><em>Dr. Weller sighs, shakes out his head.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> What do we do if this turns nasty? I may have a pick and a rifle and some detonation materials for <em>cave-ins</em>, but I have a feeling that’d be like a gnat to something like this thing.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> We run like hell. Nothing else we really can do.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Great.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Well, look at it this way! You don’t bother to slap the gnats, right?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> I think most people do, sometimes, Sarah.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Only sometimes! Only <em>sometimes.</em> So as long as we don’t annoy the several-kilometer-long dragon we’ll be just peachy! Besides, they don’t even seem to move much.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> We don’t know that for sure.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> We’ve been looking at these instances for almost five years now. They seem to spend majority of the time just dormant and pumping lava through themselves. They probably only awaken for eruptions or if hurt. For all we know, we’re gonna get to that chamber and find -447 just asleep. We’ll be fiiiiine, Rudy.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> That’d be kinda cute.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> I hope it’s awake. Can you imagine it? Seeing something that <em>huge</em> in motion?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Alright, alright I hear you. I’m just… hm.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> It is a bit nerve-wracking, but I’m trying not to focus on that.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Weller simply nods, he glances at the rocky wall and briefly runs a hand along it. The stone is dark grey-black, with occasional small white and off-white crystals.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Always liked how tholeiitic basalt looks. The interior of this place is quite wonderful.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Quite indeed! I bet that the beastie we’ll see will be covered in that stuff, or at the very least run of the mill basalt. Oohh! Maybe we’ll get to see some magmatic ore deposits! We’ve found metals beyond just the bones on some of them!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> The department’s been having a field day with the excavation of the deceased instances, I’ll tell you that.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Who wouldn’t! Giant dragons <em>and</em> deposits of minerals on a scale we’ve never seen before? I’m not entirely in favor of <em>mining</em> the corpses as some folks have suggested, but these dragons and how fast they gain deposits could revolutionize our methods of study. <em>[She pauses briefly]</em> Least on this side of the Veil.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> There’s certainly a whole lot of other testing we could do with these beasts now that we’ve found out where they all are.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> The possibilities aside, I think our main concern should lie in what’s killing them at the moment. You think this one will be injured too?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Scans suggested some liiiight injury? Nothing concrete, but! <em>[She fishes in her bag and pulls out a metallic object about the size of a baseball]</em> Brought one of these puppies along.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Neodymium? That one’s huge, how much did you pay for that?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Oh shit, right! Those magnetite fragments that we keep finding—</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Department covered it, you don’t wanna know — but exactly! We think whatever’s been hurting the dragons keeps leaving bits of magnetite! So if there’s any traces, we’ll find ‘em. If we’re lucky, maybe it can lead us to our nasty lil culprit!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Fingers crossed it’s something <em>little.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Well, at the very least it’s hopefully only 5 meters across?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> <em>[He sighs]</em> Better than 5 kilometers. Manageable if encountered.</p>
<p><em>Further extraneous conversation occurs as the team descends deeper into Mauna Lao. The temperature of the surrounding air beginning a sharp increase.</em></p>
<p><em>After approximately 50 minutes of downward travel, Dr. Nerys expresses pain.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Mary, are you alright?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Fuck— EVE levels must’ve skyrocketed. This place is… positively drenched in thaumaturgical energies. Giving me a goddamn headache and a half.</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Be careful, then.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> If you start to feel faint, give a shout! We can’t have you falling and cracking your skull open on all this damn rock.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys gives a hoarse laugh.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Gotcha, gotcha.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> If the EVE levels are rising, you reckon that means we’re getting close?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> I hope so!</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Can confirm. You’re getting closer, keep your heads up and eyes open.</em></p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys nods slowly.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Then let’s… let’s keep moving.</p>
<p><em>It takes over an hour for the team to reach their destination. The temperature in the air has risen to roughly 1,000 degrees Celsius — protective thaumaturgical wards and gear remain intact.</em></p>
<p><em>The team enters into a massive chamber. The spire-like outcropping they stand upon puts them about 250 meters above a pit of magma. It extends for several hundred meters before a wall of mafic rock intersects it. Dr. Nerys rubs her forehead, still displaying a look of pain.</em></p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey turns around to stare at the walls surrounding the tunnel they emerged from, and gasps.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Well this is… hm!</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Lindsey, what do you see?</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Pillars, Gibbs. Those scans from New Zealand weren’t misreads.</p>
<p><em>A pair of twin pillars have been carved into the wall, many meters thick and rising upwards. They are of the same basalt as the cavern, with twisting and winding patterning across them. The cavern is too dark to see that far up the wall.</em></p>
<p><em>Dr. Weller approaches.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> You got a light of some kind in there, Sarah? I think I see something further up the wall—</p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys, meanwhile, turns her attention to the outcropping and what lies beyond. To the massive wall. Dr. Lindsey, rooting through her bag, looks over her shoulder.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Did we end up down the wrong tunnel? This should be an open chamber.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> …I think it is.</p>
<p><em>All members of the team cover their eyes as a bright, orange light suddenly appears— far brighter than the magma within the cavern.</em></p>
<p><em>Its source is a singular eye. Estimations from the camera put it at 53 meters in diameter.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Oh.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8007-447 shifts its head to face the group, rising upwards. No longer obscured, the full extent of the cavern can be seen.</em></p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey moves forward closer to the edge of the outcropping with a look of excitement. Dr. Weller shoots Dr. Nerys a worried look.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Jesus Christ. I can’t even see the other side. It’s just all gas and fog.</p>
<p><em>An upper portion of SCP-8007-447’s wing can be seen far off in the distance, pressed up against the roof of the cavern. It’s back and dorsal protrusions are mountain-like — bisecting the cavern and cutting through the ceiling.</em></p>
<p><em>The dragons head is covered in dark black stones, with most depositions similar to the appearance of Pahoehoe lava. Pieces of volcanic glass crown its head in a series of twisting, curved horns. Its snout ends in a sharp, jagged point of obsidian.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Amazing! You shouldn’t even see obsidian in this part of Hawaii, but look at this beaut! Practically crowned with it.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Mary, are you well? You still look—</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> This place is… so fucking steeped in thaumaturgical energy. Feels like my damn head is gonna explode. Never felt a concentration like this before, <em>[She briefly laughs, it’s shaky]</em> but maybe it’s just inexperience with places like this.</p>
<p><em>Recorded temperature in the air around the team briefly surges when SCP-8007-447 exhales in a loud huff.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[A RAGING FIRE. BRILLIANT AND BRIGHT. A SHOVE. CURIOSITY. BURNING.]</span></p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys crumples.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> MARY!</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>The hell’s going on in there?!</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> She just fell! Hold on—</p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey and Weller rush to Dr. Nerys. The woman groans and sits up with their aid. Through the face shield of her fire proximity suit, blood can be seen trailing down from her nose.</em></p>
<p><em>SCP-8007-447 has noticeably pulled back.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Mary? Good god, are you ok?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> <em>Fuck—</em> give me a moment—</p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys sits and wheezes for approximately thirty seconds.</em></p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Dr. Nerys, what happened?</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> …I… think it tried to communicate with me.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> How? You just fell—</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Images. Feelings. Not words just impressions. But it was strong and loud— gah. My fucking head.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[A female songbird raises her head and sings. It is low. Somber.]</span></p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys stares back up at SCP-8007-447, she furrows her brow. The anomaly’s head is slightly lowered down.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> …it’s… ok. Was just… a lot.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey helps Dr. Nerys back to her feet.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> So they are sentient!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Seems so. Good… good honestly.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Told you we wouldn’t get squashed.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys still stares up at SCP-8007-447, brow furrowed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Gibbs?</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Yes, Dr. Nerys?</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Permission to continue communication with the anomaly?</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Permission granted.</em></p>
<p><em>SCP-8007-447 tilts its head slightly to the side.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> How come me and Rudy didn’t hear anything?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> I… think its communication is limited to thaumaturgy. Makes sense, since the scans from previous sites indicated that the instances were the source of the high EVE.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> …huh. <em>[He looks up at SCP-8007-447]</em> What do we… ask? Since it is sentient, we can probably gleam a lot more about these beasts.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> What… are you..?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8007-447 lets out a low, vibrating rumble.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[Magma. A cavern far below. Fire. Bubbling heat.]</span></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> <em>[In a mutter]</em> Parsing this is gonna be difficult. <em>[She clears her throat]</em> You are… those below the flames? The ground?</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[Crackling flames]</span></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Those Below the Flames.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Appropriate, I suppose! Do you think it has a name?</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[A mountain being hounded by waves, but it doesn’t shake nor crumble. A mother dragon protects her hatchling, surrounded by a blazing forest that burns despite the rain.]</span></p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys pauses, seeming to think for a few moments.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> I think she’s called ‘Standing Ceaseless, Protection of Everlasting Fire’.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[A fire’s warmth.]</span></p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys smiles.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Fascinating!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Then I suppose it is a pleasure to meet you, Standing Ceaseless, Protection of Everlasting Fire.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> We should introduce ourselves, too!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> I mean, I feel it’s almost cordial. <em>[She looks back to SCP-8007-447]</em> I am Mary Nerys.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Well then! I am Sarah Lindsey.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Rudy Weller.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8007-447 bobs her head, seemingly in return for their greetings.</em></p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey turns her back to SCP-8007-447 in order to look at the other two with a smile. Her eyes widen and she raises her head up.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Hey gang? I know we’re all quite reasonably distracted right now because we’re talking to a giant fucking dragon but can you two turn around just for like— just like a quiiiick second?</p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys and Dr. Weller both turn around.</em></p>
<p><em>The light from SCP-8007-447’s eyes, and from having moved from obscuring the cavern, now illuminates the wall the group had emerged from further.</em></p>
<p><em>It is covered in massive, intricate carvings.</em></p>
<p><em>Directly above the tunnel’s entrance is the carving of three massive dragons resembling SCP-8007 instances. They sit upon sharp rocks and flowing lines that appear to indicate lava and fire. The middle one has horns similar to SCP-8007-447. Above them carvings of smaller instances, flying through smoky air.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> …Did you carve this, Everlasting Fire…? Is the middle one you?</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[Claws scraping stone. A black dragon with twisted horns, far smaller, sits in a massive cavern. Her molten claw burns shapes into the walls. Spiraling, black horns crown her head.]</span></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> You’ve got beautiful handiwork.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[Pride.]</span></p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Can you determine its meaning?</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> There’s more over here!</p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey stands on the far left of the outcropping. She looks up at a carving, separated by clawed lines.</em></p>
<p><em>A massive creature, almost scribbly carved, with many limbs and teeth, burning a massive fire.</em></p>
<p><em>The entity destroying mountains, which are carved tiny next to it, and attacking the dragons.</em></p>
<p><em>The dragons breathing fire at this mass of teeth and claws from above, others dropping mountains on it.</em></p>
<p><em>The massive entity is buried beneath the earth. Smoke and fire rising.</em></p>
<p><em>Several dragons standing in a circle. The one resembling SCP-8007-447 seems to lead them. The following carving shows several dragons going underground.</em></p>
<p><em>The entity is seen with its claws reaching upwards, still buried. The fire that surrounds it is carved connecting to the dragons.</em></p>
<p><em>The fire around the entity weakens. Its eyes close.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> …What the?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> It’s a story! Amazing!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> But of <em>what?</em> Some sort of monster? <em>[He points to the unknown entity in the carving.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> I think so? It looks like they… buried something?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8007-447 growls, a sound like thunder. It makes all three of them jump.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[CLAWING. SCREECHING. Earthquakes. Volcanoes erupt. Dragons crushed under rock and lava. A creature of indistinct form cloaked in fire, destroying all in its path.]</span></p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys grimaces deeply, and shivers despite the heat of the cavern.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Well whatever it was, it was bigger. Even bigger than the dragons.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> It is. And that… worries me. The dragons look fucking <em>tiny</em> in comparison to it.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> How do we know that isn’t… I dunno— artistic exaggeration?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> <em>[She rubs the side of her head]</em> I don’t think so.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Great. Great.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey traces her hand along the bottom part of one of the carvings. She looks down briefly when a faint tremor rumbles beneath their feet.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> The environment depicted in these carvings sure as shit ain’t modern. The Earth still looks… molten.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> So we’re talking… what? The Hadean period? We don’t even <em>have</em> geological records of that timeframe.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> The dating of the bones would match up with that. They truly are billions of years old.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys stares at the scene that depicts the unknown entity being buried, she furrows her brow.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Gibbs can you do something for me?</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>What is it?</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Run a scan on the tectonic plates, thermal readings — anything just — for the Pacific Tectonic Plate. For the Ring of Fire. Aim deep.</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>That’s a massive region to analyze, Dr. Nerys.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Pull from the seismic stations along the coasts. That should triangulate the data. The Department should have my notes on the thermal glyphs in the database. With the right readings, they should project.</p>
<p><em>A pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Will do. Stand by. This is gonna be a bit.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> If there is something underneath, what does that mean to the fact that we’ve been… finding the dragons dead? And hurt?</p>
<p><em>Dr. Weller looks over at her, brow furrowing.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Nothing good.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> The one at the head of all the action looks like Everlasting Fire.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> I think it is her. I suppose that would explain the carvings being <em>here</em> then. <em>[She looks back to SCP-8007-447]</em> If you were the one to chose to do all this. Whatever… this is.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[RAGING FIRE. Rock and molten earth oozing over dark stone. The ground trembling. Claws tearing through dirt. Far, far below. Wings. A shield. Protect protect protect. A mountain being pounded by waves of molten lava.]</span></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> To protect?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> For what reason? Seems like whatever they buried has stayed that way for a fucking long time.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8007-447 growls.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[INFERNO. PRESSURE FORCING UP. CHOKING. CRACKING. Beating hearts of fire. Magma drawn up from deep below. Drain. DRAIN. Weaken. Fire fades. Pressure releases.]</span></p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys wheezes and leans against the wall, squeezing her eyes shut. She stays there for a few moments, as Dr. Lindsey and Dr. Weller look on with concern.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> What’s she say…?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> I… think the dragons are the reason that thing is <em>still</em> down there. Like they’re… draining it?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Like eating it’s fire? <em>[She points to the final carving in the sequence]</em> is <em>that</em> what this part means?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Feeding on some fiery horror to keep it from escaping? To keep it from destroying everything?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> For a lack of better terms? I think so. Like some… ancient duty to keep it from rampaging.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> So all the activity — the seismic and volcanic — come from these dragons eating that things energy?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> …and now they’re dying.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Fuck.</p>
<p><em>The team sits in silence for a few minutes. Dr. Lindsey stares back up at the carvings. Dr. Weller sits down. Throughout these minutes, a series of small tremors start again, and then fade. SCP-8007-447 draws herself away slightly.</em></p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Team, do you read?</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Loud and clear Gibbs, what have you found?</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Biggest concentration of thermal energy and pressure I think I’ve ever seen in my life right below the tectonic plate. There’s something underneath.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> How big is it?</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>If our projections are correct? This thing is spread out underneath the entire damn Pacific Ocean. Right in the mantle.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Jesus Christ.</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Out of curiosity, I ran the same shit on a dataset from about two decades ago, and while there’s still clearly something there, the pressure buildup is nowhere near as bad.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> So it’s getting worse.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> At the same something is killing and hurting the dragons.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys turns to SCP-8007-447, concern on her face.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Have you been hurt? Do you know what's even causing this?</p>
<p><em>Another series of tremors. SCP-8007-447 makes a low sound, a mix between a growl and a whine. Then roars, a crackling sound like an avalanche. When the entity rears back, a hole dripping molten magma can be seen on a lower portion of her neck.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[HOLES TORN THROUGH SCALES. MAGMA RUNS LIKE BLOOD. HEARTACHE. VULTURES TEAR AT A LIZARD’S CORPSE. A HAWK WASP'S LARVA DEVOURS THE PARALYZED TARANTULA.]</span></p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys yells and clutches her head. Dr. Weller and Dr. Lindsey both flinch at SCP-8007-447’s roar. The tremors are increasing.</em></p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>What are those tremors?</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Would love to know myself!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> It’s not Everlasting Fire—</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Then the hell is it?!</p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey’s eyes widen. She glances up at SCP-8007-447— looking at her wound, then reaches into her bag. The rumbling draws closer.</em></p>
<p><em>She pulls out the neodymium magnet.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Our nasty little culprit.</p>
<p><em>Part of the rock wall a few meters from the group starts to crumble.</em></p>
<p><em>SCP-8007-447 screeches, like metal on metal.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[A WOLF HOWLS WARNING.]</span></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> <em>GET DOWN!</em></p>
<p><em>A portion of wall crumbles, before exploding outwards. The entity that bursts into the cavern appears to resemble a snake or serpent made of pure fire, with the exception of the fact that instead of having a head, it has a 3.5 meter wide disk of metal.</em></p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys and Dr. Lindsey narrowly avoid being hit by the rubble when it emerges, screeching.</em></p>
<p><em>Dr. Weller takes the rifle from his back.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> THE HELL IS THAT?!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> The source of our damn troubles, I think!</p>
<p><em>The serpent shakes out its head, before lunging in Dr. Lindsey's direction. With a yelp, she throws herself out of its way— ending up on the ground and on her side. Dr. Weller opens fire upon the entity, but the bullets simply strike through the fire without harm. The entity merely hisses.</em></p>
<p><em>Its focus stays on Dr. Lindsey. She scoots backwards and away from it as it snarls.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Metal disk— metal disk we've seen this before.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Huh?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> In St. Helens! We found a fragment that looked like that! It was a weird form of magnetite— <em>oh my god—</em> SARAH! THE NEODYMIUM!</p>
<p><em>Dr. Weller again shoots at the instance, this time aiming for the disk. The bullets clang off the metal, leaving dents, and the entity rears back with a screech. Dr. Lindsey looks to Dr. Nerys as she stumbles back up to her feet. At Dr. Nerys' shout, her eyes widen.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> MAGNETIC! SHIT—</p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey hurls the neodymium away, and it lands heavily a few meters away. The serpent's head whips over towards it, and the creature lunges. It slams into the ground and burrows down, leaving half of the neodymium melted and shattered in the process.</em></p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey dashes away from the spot, heading over towards the other two— panting heavily.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Is it leaving?!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> I don't think so! There's too much magnetic shit in this damn cave!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> The hell is there?!</p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey gestures to SCP-8007-447 wildly.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> HER HEART! The dragon's hearts— they're iron! The magnetite we found in St. Helens was anomalous!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Are you suggesting we're fighting a giant fucking magnet?</p>
<p><em>The tremors return. SCP-8007-447 appears agitated, jaws parted and sharp teeth bared.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Oh I'm doing more than just <em>suggesting</em>, Rudy!</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Are any of you hurt?</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Fine for now, but if that thing punctures our proximity suits I don't know how much saving us the extra wards will be doing.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Then let's not find out.</p>
<p><em>The tremors grow more intense.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Shit! It's coming back!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> How the hell do we take this thing out?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Break the disk, I don't know! You're the one with MTF training, I know <em>rocks</em>, not fire serpents!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> We gotta focus!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Mary, can your thaumaturgy be weaponized?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> I— I mostly just know analyst based! I could probably throw a rock?</p>
<p><em>The ground shakes.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Then start throwing rocks. Aim for the disk.</p>
<p><em>The serpent of fire bursts back out from the hole it made, its attention now seems to be on SCP-8007-447, as it swivels to look at the dragon.</em></p>
<p><em>Dr. Weller begins opening fire on the metal disk, which appears to disorient the entity. Dr. Nerys attempts to use her thaumaturgy to send some of the earlier debris as the serpent, but misses. She curses.</em></p>
<p><em>The serpent screeches and attempts to fling itself at SCP-8007-447.</em></p>
<p><em>SCP-8007-447 roars and her snout slices the rocky ceiling — it sends a spray of dirt and rock down at the serpentine entity. The entity's flames waiver, and the creature screams as though harmed before it swiftly slithers away. Dr. Lindsey just narrowly dodges being hit by a hunk of stone, herself. SCP-8007-447 reels back with a low sound.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> THE FIRE! WE HAVE TO SUFFOCATE THE FIRE!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Buy me some time! I can set up a charge! If we can cause a bigger collapse, we can take it out!</p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey dashes over to re-retrieve the neodymium, which is now half melted into slag.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> EY YOU! <em>[She waves the neodymium]</em> THIS WHAT YOU WANT? HUH?</p>
<p><em>The serpentine creature snarls, it turns the metal disk that makes up its head towards Dr. Lindsey.</em></p>
<p><em>Dr. Weller swiftly takes out a remote detonation charge from his bag and begins to set it up against the wall as Dr. Lindsey draws the entity's attention.</em></p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys grabs a fallen chunk of rock and throws it at the entity as it tries to approach Dr. Lindsey. It phases through the creature's tail and makes the flames swirl. The entity hisses loudly and shakes out its head, pivoting to seemingly look between Dr. Lindsey and Nerys.</em></p>
<p><em>Dr. Weller secures the explosive, and with remote in hand, flees towards the edge of the outcropping.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Get it over towards the wall!</p>
<p><em>Dr. Lindsey begins to shuffle over to the side to bring herself closer to where the charge is set up. Her hands tremble.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> C'mon! Eyes— disk on me, you bastard! You want this, right? You want it?</p>
<p><em>The entity's head follows her.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> THEN FETCH!</p>
<p><em>The neodymium is thrown and lands on the ground roughly two meters from the serpent. With a hiss, it launches forward and towards it. Dr. Lindsey runs towards the outcropping's edge, as does Dr. Nerys.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> <em>FIRE IN THE HOLE!</em></p>
<p><em>The remote charge detonates. It sends a series of cracks up the wall before a myriad of rubble comes down on top of the fiery serpent. It screeches, a sound like crackling fire, as the rocks and dust pour onto it. The fires of it weakens as more falls and the wall partially collapses. It takes a corner of one of the carvings with it.</em></p>
<p><em>The entity's metal disk clatters to the ground.</em></p>
<p><em>There is a pause of silence. Dr. Lindsey crouches and puts her hands on her knees, breathing heavily.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> I think my poor old heart is about to explode.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> …I'm honestly surprised that worked. <em>[He pauses to breathe]</em> That thing burrowed all the way here from… somewhere. Y'think it wouldn't be so fragile.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> I think that disk functioned like… a shield? It's how it burrowed.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys and Dr. Lindsey both approach the disk.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> That's magnetite, alright. <em>[She knocks her hand against it]</em> Damn thick, too. Wouldn't be surprised. Hey Weller! C'mere and tap it with the rifle, I wanna see if it's the same weird shit as from Helens.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> On it.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Weller approaches the disk as well, before moving to tap the muzzle of the rifle against the disk. It sticks, and resists being pulled away, seemingly magnetized to it.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Looks like it is.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Bingo. We've found our killer.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> How… many of these things you think are out there?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Judging by five dead dragons and countless injured? A whole lot.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys puts her hand against the disk and focuses. A low hum fills the air.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> This thing must've been some sort of construct? This disk was like… the anchor. The only physical part, the rest just an elemental projection.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> If it's some elemental construct, then who made it? Those things have to be made, right?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Yeah. They do.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8007-447 brings her head closer to the outcropping and makes a low rumble.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[CLAWING. TEETH. BURNING FIRE BELOW. A mother spider, crawling with her offspring. Metal disks carved with a thousand wicked claws. Scorched earth. Coyotes circle a crying baby.]</span></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Oh.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> The… the thing below the earth. That they've imprisoned. I… I think Everlasting Fire is telling me that <em>it</em> made these things.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> So it's retaliating against its captors?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Yes. And quite effectively too. These things are too small for the dragons to properly deal with.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> These poor things… they've just been getting ripped up from the inside.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> …We have to help them.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> Hm?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> The dragons. Those Below the Flames. We have to help them.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> I was assuming THAT was a no-brainer.</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Dr. Nerys, what exactly are you suggesting?</em></p>
<p><em>SCP-8007-447 roars. The cavern shakes.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[AN ASH FILLED SKY. A BOILING OCEAN. A BURNING WORLD. A MOLTEN BEAST OF FIRE SCREAMING TO THE HEAVENS AS IT'S EMERGENCE LEVELS ALL IN ITS PATH. PYROCLASTIC FLOWS. CATACYLSM.]</span></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> <em>[She grits her teeth, voice trembling]</em> I'm suggesting we devise a way to deal with this. With these constructs, at the <em>very</em> least. Or we're fucked. We've found several instances on the brink of death, more wounded. If more die—</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> —then the continent-sized monster they're keeping imprisoned gets out. Explosively. We're talking something akin to an eruption this planet has never seen before, with how big it is. With how much pressure.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> And there's no way <em>anything</em> survives an event like that.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> And, the only-slightly-metaphorical-chains on the beast they have below us are majorly weakened by the fact five are <em>dead.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> You two are suggesting some serious action on the Foundation's part. The hell would we even do? The Ring of Fire is an absolutely <em>massive</em> area to monitor. There are over four hundred instances.</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>This seems one hell of a situation. Come back, team. We'll compile our information.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Then what?</p>
<p><strong>Command:</strong> <em>Then I bring this issue to higher-ups. We've learned that the situation here is far more dire than expected.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> Sounds good.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> Well… we've got a two-hour walk to brainstorm a proposal, ey?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> I suppose so.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys shakily gets to her feet with Dr. Lindsey's help. The three of them all turn to SCP-8007-447. The dragon stares at them, now silent.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lindsey:</strong> We have to depart now — but we're gonna help you, alright? We're not about to watch the world burn.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Weller:</strong> If we have anything to say about it, you won't fight this battle on your own.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8007-447 makes a low noise, a vibration almost similar to a purr.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff670f;">[A dragon curls around a fragile bird. The crackling of a small, gentle fire. Warmth.]</span></p>
<p><em>Dr. Nerys smiles.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Nerys:</strong> She likes that.</p>
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<p><strong>Afterword:</strong> The three-person team was able to return to the surface without issue. None of them had been injured in the encounter with the entity.</p>
<p>Dr. Gibbs has called for a conference with the Department of Geology to discuss and plan further action.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-1')">1</a>. A category of volcanic eruptions dictated by similarity to the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-2')">2</a>. Ground Penetrating Radar</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-3')">3</a>. Geology Department Lead, Geophysicist</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-4')">4</a>. Volcanologist, thaumatologist</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-5')">5</a>. The presence of these minerals are indicative of primarily andesite, with traces of basalt and dacite.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-6')">6</a>. A quantitive measurement of thaumaturgical energies</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-7')">7</a>. With exception to those recently conducted by personnel on site.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-8"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-8')">8</a>. Þríhnúkar, Iceland</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-9"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-9')">9</a>. Henceforth dictated as SCP-8007-2</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-10"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-10')">10</a>. They were found to be empty.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-11"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-11')">11</a>. The geological location in which all three instances have been found</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-12"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-12')">12</a>. The two stratavolcanoes in proximity to Krakatoa were destroyed in its 1883 eruption, with a third heavily damaged.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-13"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-13')">13</a>. In comparison to other discovered instances, this is considered small.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-14"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-14')">14</a>. Measuring roughly 103 km in width</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-15"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-15')">15</a>. Geophysicist, mineralogist</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-483965-16"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-483965-16')">16</a>. Field geologist, former MTF captain</div>
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<p><strong>Filename:</strong> <a href="https://i.imgur.com/BgsQQ8W.png">https://i.imgur.com/BgsQQ8W.png</a><br/>
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<strong>Name:</strong> File:Mauna Loa light pillar.jpg<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> International Gemini Observatory<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> CC BY-SA 4.0<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mauna_Loa_light_pillar.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mauna_Loa_light_pillar.jpg</a></p>
<p><strong>Name:</strong> File:Kīlauea volcano eruption 20201220.jpg<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> Hawaii Volcanoes National Park<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> Public Domain<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:K%C4%ABlauea_volcano_eruption_20201220.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:K%C4%ABlauea_volcano_eruption_20201220.jpg</a></p>
<p><strong>Additional Notes:</strong> Photomanipulation done by Dino—Draws</p>
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:</span><span class="hl-special">:selection</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Clicky</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">links</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a.newpage</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:visited</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:visited</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a.newpage</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:visited:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:visited:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-hover-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-decoration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.1</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">patch</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">for</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">sidebar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">media</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">collapsibles</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">ACS</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">info</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">and</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ayers</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">module</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">so</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">doesn</span><span class="hl-code">'</span><span class="hl-identifier">t</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">override</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-folded</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-unfolded-link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.fa-info</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.media</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.danger-diamond</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.info-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-folded</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.info-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--linkColour) !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">160</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--header-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">letter-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">900</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> -</span><span class="hl-number">0.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> fit-content</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--header-title)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--header-subtitle)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font) !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">700</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--misc-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">26</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.35</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">block</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">uppercase</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div#extra-div-1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">160</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">7</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">absolute</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--logo-img) </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">30</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">no-repeat</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">130</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-repeat:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">no-repeat</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">50</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">50</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">z-index:</span><span class="hl-code"> -</span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">opacity:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--logo-opacity)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Search</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">text</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#efefef</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc(var(--page-font-size) - </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input.empty</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#999999</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">absolute</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">47</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">15</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">15</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">white</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li.sfhover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.83</span><span class="hl-code">) !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">230</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-indent:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">justify-content:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.mobile-top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">left:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Login</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Info</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#login-status</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">19</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#login-status</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#login-status</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 767</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.printuser</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.printuser</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.printuser</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">img.small</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">18</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">18</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-image:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 767</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.printuser</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">img.small</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> translate(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#my-account</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 767</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#account-topbutton</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Side</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.open-menu</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">white</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (min-width: 768</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.6</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.6</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">18.75</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">left</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">s ease-in-out</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">direction:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">rtl</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">left</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.resources</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.media</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#interwiki</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">direction:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">ltr</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.resources</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.heading</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--misc-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#cfcfcf</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">9</span><span class="hl-string">pt</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">800</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">uppercase</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Blockquotes</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">Custom</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Divs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.15</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#f7f7f7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">dashed</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#f7f7f7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.35</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.35</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#f7f7f7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.15</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fbfbfb</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.quote</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.4</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#bbb</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">500</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">9</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">9</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.note</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#afafaf</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.round</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Headings</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">Titles</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-title</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.meta-title</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">800</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#3b3b3b</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> fit-content</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-title</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.meta-title</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#breadcrumbs</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.pseudocrumbs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">800</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#3b3b3b</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">800</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.footnotes-footer</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.title</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#3b3b3b</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">800</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Rate</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Module</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.creditRate</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#bbb</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.fa-info</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.fa-info</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#bbb</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-points</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rateup</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.ratedown</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rateup</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.ratedown</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rateup</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.ratedown</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inline-block</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Rate</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Module</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Author</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Label</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.authorlink-wrapper</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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--</span><span class="hl-reserved">author-bottom-adjust:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
--</span><span class="hl-reserved">author-right-adjust:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Side</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anchor</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> sticky</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.14</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">8</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc((</span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-code">vw - </span><span class="hl-number">870</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">)/</span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">103.5</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">z-index:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 1290</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">visibility:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">hidden</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Image</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#f4f4f4</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.1</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">img</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.1</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">right</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">15</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 540</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.imagediv</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">only</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">screen</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">and</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 600</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block.block-right</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tables</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Base</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">td</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">12</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#bfbfbf</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">td</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.35</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tables</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Customization</span><span class="hl-code"> (</span><span class="hl-identifier">Table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Coloring</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">System</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tables</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Customization</span><span class="hl-code"> (</span><span class="hl-identifier">Table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Coloring</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">System</span><span class="hl-code">) > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Headings</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">Image</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Captions</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#E0FFD4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#D8ECF4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FDF6D7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFDFCD</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFCFCF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">146</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.tableb</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.wiki-content-table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-collapse:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">separate</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tables</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Customization</span><span class="hl-code"> (</span><span class="hl-identifier">Table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Coloring</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">System</span><span class="hl-code">) > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Other</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colored</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Divs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">224</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">212</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">226</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">244</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">245</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">189</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">223</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">205</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">207</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">207</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">218</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tabs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Base</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-image:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-decoration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tabs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Customization</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-wrap:</span><span class="hl-code"> wrap</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc(</span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code"> - </span><span class="hl-number">.125</span><span class="hl-code">rem)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">UNSELECTED</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#efefef</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">HOVER</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code">,
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Listitem</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">relative</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-grow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-bottom</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">align-items:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">justify-content:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.35</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.75</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> ellipsis</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">hidden</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">white-space:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">nowrap</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code">,
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Selection</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-grow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">SELECTED</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:active</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">WORDS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">NO</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">BROKEY</span><span class="hl-code">. </span><span class="hl-identifier">CROQ</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">HAS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">SPOKEY</span><span class="hl-code">. </span><span class="hl-identifier">and</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">other</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">things</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">word-break:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">normal</span><span class="hl-code"> !important
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.avatar-hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#main-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-tags</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Dustjacket</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Assets</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.fancyhr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">hr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">vw </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(var(--bright-accent), </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-source:</span><span class="hl-code"> url('https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/local--files/component:dustjacket-theme/wl_hr.png')</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-repeat:</span><span class="hl-code"> round round</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-slice:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">500</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">500</span><span class="hl-code"> fill</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.fancyborder</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">vw </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image:</span><span class="hl-code"> url('https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/local--files/component:dustjacket-theme/wl_border.png') </span><span class="hl-number">600</span><span class="hl-code"> round</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">vw</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Collapsibles</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-decoration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">underline</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-special">:not</span><span class="hl-code">(</span><span class="hl-identifier">.licensebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">.info-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">.default-col</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-decoration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">white</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">7</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">9</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--base-font-size)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.4</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.4</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inline-block</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-special">:not</span><span class="hl-code">(</span><span class="hl-identifier">.licensebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">.info-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">.default-col</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(var(--accent), </span><span class="hl-number">0.7</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">ACS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Adjustments</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.top-left-box</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">.item</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anom-bar-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.1</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anom-bar-container</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anom-bar-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), Inter, </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.acs-extra-1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.acs-extra-2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.acs-extra-3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.acs-extra-4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), Inter, </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anom-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">.top-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Woed</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Adjustments</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.scale</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.item1</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">uppercase</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">letter-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.scale</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.class1</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.9</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">letter-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.scale</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
--</span><span class="hl-reserved">woedbar-class-bar-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.scale</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.obj</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.7</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.scale</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.obj</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.55</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MISC</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">hr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.8</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">86</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#lock-info</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> "!"</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">12</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">110</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">opacity:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">60</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#lock-timer</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">115</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#lock-timer</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> "⏲ "</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">opacity:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">textarea</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-page-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input.text</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">outline:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ccc</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.3</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-property:</span><span class="hl-code"> box-shadow</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">textarea</span><span class="hl-special">:focus-visible</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-page-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input.text</span><span class="hl-special">:focus-visible</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#a3a3a3</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#a3a3a3</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#action-area</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">p</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">85</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> darkslategrey</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#action-area</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">p</span><span class="hl-special">:nth-child</span><span class="hl-code">(5)></span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">block</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">120</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#who-rated-page-area</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">column-count:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 900</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#who-rated-page-area</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">column-count:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 700</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#who-rated-page-area</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">column-count:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 540</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#who-rated-page-area</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">column-count:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.content-warning.creditRate</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">8</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">21</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.preview-message</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.9</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">filter:</span><span class="hl-code"> drop-shadow(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">))</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.error-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#B00</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-top-left-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-top-right-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">table.page-history</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tbody</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-special">:nth-child</span><span class="hl-code">(2</span><span class="hl-identifier">n</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(var(--accent), </span><span class="hl-number">0.05</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.owindow</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">animation:</span><span class="hl-code"> fade </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@keyframes</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">fade</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
0% </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">opacity:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
100% </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">opacity:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.owindow</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.button-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.1</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">11</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.owindow</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.button-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-hover-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.owindow</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.button-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.owindow</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.owindow</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.title</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">cursor:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">default</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">155</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.owindow.owait</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> " "</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">block</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> -</span><span class="hl-number">0.9</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">animation:</span><span class="hl-code"> loading </span><span class="hl-number">1.2</span><span class="hl-code">s linear infinite</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.4</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> grey</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.4</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.4</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> grey</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.4</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">50</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-var">@keyframes</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">loading</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
0% </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> rotate(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">deg)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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100% </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> rotate(</span><span class="hl-number">360</span><span class="hl-code">deg)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.owindow.osuccess</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.owindow</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.content</span><span class="hl-special">:nth-child</span><span class="hl-code">(2)></span><span class="hl-identifier">img</span><span class="hl-special">:nth-child</span><span class="hl-code">(1) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.2</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.odialog-shader</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#262a39</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.btn</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.15</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.btn</span><span class="hl-special">:not</span><span class="hl-code">(</span><span class="hl-identifier">#main-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.btn</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-quotes">"</span><span class="hl-string">submit</span><span class="hl-quotes">"</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code">),
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.btn.btn-primary</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.buttons</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">input.button</span><span class="hl-special">:not</span><span class="hl-code">(</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-quotes">"</span><span class="hl-string">submit</span><span class="hl-quotes">"</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">11</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">cursor:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">pointer</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-cancel-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-diff-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-preview-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-draft-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-continue-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ccc</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">cursor:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">pointer</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-number">14</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">90</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-cancel-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-diff-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-preview-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-draft-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-continue-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#eaeaea</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-continue-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.3</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#005a0a</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-continue-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#0d951c</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-cancel-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffe1e1</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.3</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#c52727</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-cancel-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#c5272e</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">table.page-history</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tbody</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#757575</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.fncon</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--page-font-size) !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.fncon</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--page-font-size) !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.hovertip</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">400</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">input.checkbox</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-history</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#h-perpage</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">cursor:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">pointer</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">textarea</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#breadcrumbs</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.pseudocrumbs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">110</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">REDUCED</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MOTION</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ACCESSIBILITY</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (prefers-reduced-motion: </span><span class="hl-identifier">reduce</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">::</span><span class="hl-identifier">before</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">::</span><span class="hl-identifier">after</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">animation-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.001</span><span class="hl-code">s !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">animation-iteration-count:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.001</span><span class="hl-code">s !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">@MEDIA</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 850</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">h2:</span><span class="hl-code">:before {
font-size: </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
}
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 700</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">h2:</span><span class="hl-code">:before {
font-size: </span><span class="hl-number">1.2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">8.8</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">90</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
}
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 620</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">h2:</span><span class="hl-code">:before {
font-size: </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.15</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">8.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">90</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">123</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
}
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 520</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">h2:</span><span class="hl-code">:before {
line-height: </span><span class="hl-number">16</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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<h1 id="toc0"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">WARNING: LEVEL 6/8008 CLEARANCE REQUIRED</span></span></h1>
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If you accessed this file, you believe you have Level 6/8008 clearance. Ergo:
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<li>You have been assigned to the SCP-8008 investigation at behest of the O5 Council.</li>
<li>You have followed the required preparatory inoculation protocol, which has engendered cognitostructures adversarial to the contents of SCP-8008.</li>
<li>You have consented to viewing the final SCP-8008 cognitoreinforcement.</li>
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<p>Alternatively, one of the following grants you de facto Level 6/8008 clearance:</p>
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<li>You are an informed survivor of a CK-Class Reality Restructuring Scenario or Tashkent-Class "Cross-Pollination" Scenario.</li>
<li>You are a veteran of "Operation Timegeld".</li>
<li>You have no disgust response.</li>
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<p>If any of this is in error, a Foundation medical team has been alerted to your location and your terminal will automatically shutdown at first detection of life sign disruption. Should you survive, you will be subject to disciplinary measures.</p>
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<h1 id="toc1"><span>Special Containment Procedures</span></h1>
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<p>All discovered evidence of pre-SCP-8008 history is to be explained/discredited as pseudohistory, conspiracy theory, or hoax. As the primary SCP-8008 event is concluded within an Isolated Temporal Pocket,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> no further interference is possible.</p>
<p>The Department of Sciences is coordinating the ongoing investigation into the alterations, if any, made to consensus reality by SCP-8008. SCP-8008 is classified as the Enochian class — its properties are currently believed to constitute an aspect of baseline reality until the full extent of the alterations is known and the possibility of reversal is determined.</p>
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<h1 id="toc2"><span>Description</span></h1>
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<p>SCP-8008 was a spontaneous tachyon burst of previously-unrecorded magnitude centered on 18:43 PST August 23rd, 2023, Mountain View, California. Tachyon bursts usually indicate significant alterations to consensus history (CK-Class reality restructuring scenarios). However, no immediate and obvious changes to history were observed; however, even state-of-the-art <a href="/scp-3557">Foundation reality-monitoring apparatuses have known inadequacies.</a></p>
<p>The purpose of the SCP-8008 investigation is to determine how, if at all, history has changed.</p>
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<h1 id="toc3"><span>Recovered Physical Evidence:</span></h1>
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<h3 id="toc4"><span>SCP-8008-A: Ground Zero</span></h3>
<p>The source of SCP-8008 has been triangulated to a private residence, designated SCP-8008-A.</p>
<p>SCP-8008-A has interior dimensions larger than its exterior dimensions. It is zoned as a single-occupant residence in a building occupied primarily by workers in the tech industry, approximately 85% of whom are not in romantic relationships. (These characteristics do not apply to SCP-8008-B.)</p>
<p>There are approximately 500,000 corpses and an undetermined volume of protein slurry within SCP-8008-A. Of the corpses, 90% are recognizable as fully human and 9% appear to be parahuman or humanoid. The majority of intact corpses are wearing Foundation uniforms or equivalents from other organizations i.e. contemporary normalcy organizations (e.g. Global Occult Coalition) or known multiversal equivalents (e.g. Vanguard).</p>
<p>Many of these individuals are alternative iterations of registered active Foundation personnel. The most prominent are summarized in the below table.</p>
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<div class="table_data" data-label="Personnel">Thaddeus Xyank</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="Position">Director, <a href="/welcome-to-delta-t">Temporal Anomalies Department</a></div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="Duplicate Quantity">≈15,000</div>
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<div class="table_data" data-label="Position">Director, Department of Temporal Anomalies</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="Duplicate Quantity">≈7,000</div>
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<div class="table_data" data-label="Position">Director (probable future), Temporal Anomalies Department</div>
<div class="table_data" data-label="Duplicate Quantity">≈300</div>
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<div class="table_data" data-label="Duplicate Quantity">3</div>
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<p>Autopsies and compilation of mortality statistics are ongoing. Recorded causes of death include:</p>
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<li>Strangulation</li>
<li>Arterial puncture</li>
<li>Internal organ failure</li>
<li>Physical trauma to internal organs</li>
<li>Blunt force trauma</li>
<li>Incineration</li>
<li>Spaghettification</li>
<li>Old age<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup></li>
<li>Amniotic Fluid Embolism<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup></li>
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<h3 id="toc5"><span>SCP-8008-B: Apartment Owner</span></h3>
<p>SCP-8008-B is the corpse of a reality-warping humanoid. It is physiologically and genetically identical to currently-living renowned artificial intelligence risk researcher, fiction author, and American Twitter personality Eliezer Yudkowsky but possesses hypertrophied pectoral, abdominal, gluteal, and limb muscles. It is unclear whether SCP-8008-B transformed itself into the form of Eliezer Yudkowsky using its abilities or whether it retroactively altered reality so an alternate version of itself would attain the material success currently enjoyed by Eliezer Yudkowsky.</p>
<p>Eliezer Yudkowsky does not appear aware of the existence of SCP-8008.</p>
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<h3 id="toc6"><span>SCP-8008-C: Recovered Hardware</span></h3>
<p>SCP-8008-C is a non-functional computer that displays residual hallmarks of ontokinetic alteration. Analysis suggests SCP-8008-C's hard drive contains nearly-infinite storage capacity and that its CPU, if functional, would perform at extremely high speeds; however, it is believed that active ontokinetic manipulation is necessary to power SCP-8008-C.</p>
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<p>Electron Microscopy of SCP-8008-C. Note highly-irregular three-dimensional drive design.</p>
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<p>SCP-8008-C's hard drive is currently being investigated. It has two sections: a mundane, traditionally-structured portion constructed in accordance with established laws of computer engineering, and an ontokinetically transformed portion that requires extensive reverse-engineering in order to extract stored files and data.</p>
<p>Of the current files recovered from traditionally-structured partitions of the hard drive, roughly 96% consist of pornography, 20% of which is Japanese cartoon pornography, colloquially known as "hentai". Further investigation of this media is on hold pending Ethics Committee review;<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> however, while the primary storage directory was labeled "C:/Users/ey/Desktop/Home work/Papers/Code Prototypes/Docs/Old Versions/New Folder", suggesting a high desired degree of secrecy, an examined random sample is largely "vanilla", i.e. not containing a high level of taboo beyond that inherent to pornography. The remaining 4% consists of a mixture of personal files, all belonging to the individual physically resembling "Eliezer Yudkowsky", along with extensive documents authored by SCP-8008-B. These pre-SCP-8008 documents are primarily essays about SCP-8008-B's life philosophy with almost no fictional works, and have little to nothing in common with the works of baseline Eliezer Yudkowsky.</p>
<p>The remainder of recovered data is being extracted piecemeal from the exotic data storage structures of SCP-8008-C. A small portion of these logs appear to be produced by other individuals aware of the SCP-8008 event during its progression. These logs are primarily Foundation records. The rest are multimedia files, generally consisting of text or images.</p>
<p>Text files generally tend to be first person or third-person limited narratives from the perspective of SCP-8008-B. These narratives span over several thousand different settings with different premises and genres; however, common characters and themes recur throughout all recovered documents. Foundation personnel involved with the SCP-8008 event are recurring characters; SCP-8008-B and its worldviews are always major elements. A comprehensive narrative is still being constructed, as retrieval from SCP-8008-C is time-intensive and the retrieved data is not temporally linear. It is unclear whether these logs are accurate descriptions of the SCP-8008 event or if they are creative works produced by SCP-8008-B.</p>
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<h1 id="toc7"><span>Core Investigation Summary</span></h1>
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<p>The amount of data being recovered from SCP-8008-C is immense, measuring in the hundreds of yottabytes.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup> To assist in the investigation, the Department of Sciences has engaged Foundation Artificial Intelligence Conscript HANAZONO.AIC to analyze the retrieved unstructured data and organize it into a human-readable form.</p>
<p>Currently, HANAZONO.AIC is classifying retrieved documents under 5 categories. Until HANAZONO.AIC completes its task, the exact organizational purpose of each category remains conjecture.</p>
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<li><strong>"Society":</strong> Alterations to society by SCP-8008, or the worldviews of SCP-8008-B;</li>
<li><strong>"Science":</strong> Alterations to the fabric of reality by SCP-8008, or the intellectual interests of SCP-8008-B;</li>
<li><strong>"Biology":</strong> Alterations to the human species by SCP-8008, or additional aspects of the worldview of SCP-8008-B;</li>
<li><strong>"Want":</strong> Possible causes for the awakening of SCP-8008-B's abilities, or a psychological profile of SCP-8008-B;</li>
<li><strong>Foundation Response:</strong> self-explanatory.</li>
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<h1 id="toc8"><span>SCP-8008-1: "Society"</span></h1>
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<p>Recovered documents from SCP-8008-C suggest that "within/during"<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup> the SCP-8008 event, spacetime was highly compressed. SCP-8008-B may have trapped the entirety of the known multiverse within a form of reality at its whims. Alternatively, SCP-8008-B may have used alterations to spacetime in order to write extensive amounts of fictional works.</p>
<p>Evidence is contradictory. If taken literally, files recovered from SCP-8008-C suggest that SCP-8008-B had the ability to completely rewrite spacetime, with unprecedented levels of temporal manipulation, ontokinetic, and matter reconfiguration abilities. However, the interpretation of recovered files as fictional works does not explain the presence of multiversal variants of Foundation temporal operators.</p>
<p>Files associated with SCP-8008-1 are believed to originate from the last 10% of elapsed time within SCP-8008, i.e. the 10% of the time experienced by entities within SCP-8008 closest to its disruption and the restoration of baseline reality.</p>
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<h2 id="toc9"><span>SCP-8008-1.01: Retrieved Communication</span></h2>
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<p><em>2023-08-23 02:40 UTC</em><br/>
<strong>To:</strong> Alice Forth <<span class="wiki-email">lanretni.teNPiCS|htrofa#lanretni.teNPiCS|htrofa</span>><br/>
<strong>From:</strong> Thaddeus Xyank <<span class="wiki-email">lanretni.teNPiCS|knayxt#lanretni.teNPiCS|knayxt</span>></p>
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<p>You're not going to believe this.</p>
<p>You <em>have</em> to come check this out.</p>
<p><strong>I just had the most wonderful time.</strong></p>
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<h2 id="toc10"><span>SCP-8008-1.03: "Eluthertopia"</span></h2>
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<p><em>As dictated by the First Citizen</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-7')">7</a></sup></p>
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<p>Eluthertopia, the greatest of the Free Cities of Nim Bii. In a continent ruined since the Fall of the Cathedral in the Great Burning 10,000 Cycles ago, the Free Cities stood as beacons of civilizations in a world with none.</p>
<p>These great cities were held together only by the power of their Benefactors — good men of great merit and renown who chose, from the goodness of their hearts, to uphold society. They were as gods — Pethriel the All-Seeing, Scalex of the Codex, and Elon and Zux and Bezeus who upheld their Cities through wealth alone. But greatest among them all is I, the First Citizen of Eluthertopia, Administrator of its Foundation, who bears the gift of Wisdom.</p>
<p>My power of Wisdom is even more powerful than what Pethriel possesses through the All-Seeing Stones. Pethriel must scry his stones to ascertain threats to his City, but my Wisdom allows me to infer threats that will occur from the slightest hints of influences, and act accordingly to cut them off before they even begin.</p>
<p>Nim Bii was a dangerous land. Ever since the Great Burning, civilization had been under constant threat from the shadow organization known as ΔT. Nobody knew who they were or what they wanted — only that they hated everything that we had built.</p>
<p>I watched the skies as we stood in the plaza before the Hall of Government. The white marble shone brilliantly in the dusk. My entourage stood behind me, nervously twisting in the wind.</p>
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<p>"Administrator-sama, what is it?" said my bodyguard, Alice. She was a very pretty cat woman, and she smiled at me.</p>
<p>"You idiot! Obviously his Wisdom let him know that an Incursion by ΔT is due to happen," said my secretary, Ilse. She was also a very pretty cat woman with cropped red hair and sharp blue eyes. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Of course, she felt the same way about me as I felt about her, but both of us were too shy to ever act on our feelings.</span><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-8" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-8')">8</a></sup> However, in an emergency, she would be more than happy to activate my true power.</p>
<p>"Indeed," said my administrative factotum, Thaddeus. He was one of the beast-folk, who had evolved in the wilds between the cities in the Decamillenium since the Great Burning, of one of the dog-tribes. We had fought when we had originally met, but now he was one of the most loyal people I knew. He had once had a magnificent mustache, but in the years since joining me he had lost the ability to grow one.</p>
<p>He checked <a href="/scp-1780">his pocket watch.</a> "In 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…"</p>
<p>There was a flash of violet light, and the enemy appeared.</p>
<p>We didn't know what these soldiers of ΔT truly were or where they truly came from, so we called them Demons. They were imposters, mimics, thieves. Whenever we encountered them, they wore the faces of our loved ones and yet were insistent on killing us. They might look different, might be human or elf or dwarf or goblin instead of being beastfolk, but always they stole our faces and tried to hurt us.</p>
<p>Our enemies wore the features and faces of Ilse, Alice, and Thaddeus, though they were different species. False!Thaddeus was a human, and I only knew who it was for it had the mustache that True!Thaddeus could no longer wear.</p>
<p>False!Ilse was a reindeer woman, though its eyes remained blue. It also mimicked her signature battle garb, which displayed the 16 ribbons of each of her PhDs.</p>
<p>False!Alice was a dingo — no, more accurately it was a jackal. There was none of the warmth that the true Alice had towards me in its eyes.</p>
<p>"—Wolves and jackals are related, aren't they, Thaddeus?"</p>
<p>"I have been neutered, Administrator-sama. You did the act yourself."</p>
<p>"Shit," said False!Ilse. "We weren't fast enough."</p>
<p>"It's no matter, let's get ready to fight! To defend our home!" said Ilse. Thaddeus took the wolf-stance of martial arts, and Ilse and Alice drew their SNEER<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-9" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-9')">9</a></sup> clubs, a potent weapon of my own invention.</p>
<p>They looked at us with surprise. It is often common for Demons to underestimate the benefactors of the cities. While they had "guns", exotic weapons that used fire magic to propel bullets at lethal speeds, I had worked to counter them.</p>
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<p>They fired their guns, a rapid barrage of thunderclaps.</p>
<p>"Administrator-sama!" Ilse and Alice both cried, as they jumped into the path of the projectiles. The bullets clattered uselessly against the <a href="/scp-8814">Chesterton Fields of their SNEER clubs</a>, though their nervous charge to defend me perturbed their voluptuous chests. Thaddeus had no fear, and charged ruthlessly through the hail of bullets. He jumped upon the demon that mimicked him, tearing out its throat.</p>
<p>The other two demons screamed and fired bullets into Thaddeus's back, but to no avail. He shrugged them off. I thanked my foresight in splicing Thaddeus with unicorn DNA to grant him enhanced durability and regeneration. (This was also why it was necessary to neuter him so that his masculine Yang force would not react negatively with the purity essence of the unicorn.) He jumped off of false!Thaddeus's corpse, and lunged at False!Alice. It fought back with its own claws, but he was much stronger and much more suited for paw-to-paw combat. It, too, died.</p>
<p>The False!Ilse swore again and slapped at its wrist. It vanished in another burst of violet light.</p>
<p>"Drat, mine got away!" said Ilse. "Administrator-sama, do you know where it went or when it's coming back?"</p>
<p>"Now who doesn't know what they're talking about?" Alice said. "There are some things that — oh, I'm so sorry, Administrator-sama!"</p>
<p>I released a sigh of tension. "It's alright, Alice."</p>
<p>The truth was that ΔT had long been a thorn in my side, and would do anything to bring down the perfect society I inhabited. I could stop their agents whenever they dared to show themselves before me, and yet I did not know where they came from or where they tried to escape to. I could not tear out the root — the only evil remaining in this perfect society.</p>
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<h2 id="toc12"><span>SCP-8008-1.13: SCP-001</span></h2>
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<h1 id="toc13"><span>ΔT Orientation</span></h1>
<p>Fixed Point ΔT.001</p>
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<p><em>APPROVED BY:</em><br/>
<em>ILSE REYNDERS 1, ADMINISTRATOR</em><br/>
<em>ALICE FORTH 6213, ETHICS COMMITTEE HEAD</em><br/>
<em>THADDEUS XYANK 809, RECORDS ARCHIVAL INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION HEAD</em></p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-001</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Uncontained-Megiddo<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-10" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-10')">10</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-001 is the temporal funnel trap that encompasses the entire observable multiverse. When traveling through time, regardless of multiversal or temporal origin, all time travelers will invariably encounter SCP-001. Once time travelers enter SCP-001, they can no longer escape. SCP-001 is also populated by the entirety of humanity, most of which is unaware of the current altered state of reality.</p>
<p><a href="/scp-3091">Other examples of temporal funnel traps</a> known to the Foundation are believed to have been deliberately-created to prevent disruption of the present by parachronological material; SCP-001 is qualitatively and quantitatively different, as it is a natural occurrence.</p>
<p>Within SCP-001, the only non-SCP-001 history that meaningfully exists is that which leads to 18:43 PST August 23rd, 2023 of Timeline-001-ΑΩ. While this designation breaks from standard timeline naming practice, from the perspective of SCP-001, Timeline-001-ΑΩ <em>is the only past that exists.</em> Traveling to any point in the past of Timeline-001-ΑΩ allows access to divergent timestreams; however, currently all invariably converge to the present of SCP-001. Travel to the past of Timeline-001-ΑΩ is currently recommended solely for salvage of objects that cannot be obtained within SCP-001.</p>
<p>Travel to the future of Timeline-001-ΑΩ is not possible. To all traditional observational mechanisms, the future of Timeline-001-ΑΩ does not exist. Time progresses in Timeline-001-ΑΩ in direct proportion to the time progressed by SCP-001-1.</p>
<p>The "present" of SCP-001 is trapped within an iterative temporal loop. In intervals of twenty to eighty years, the entire observable universe will be reconfigured in response to the actions and stimuli experienced by SCP-001-1 in the "current" iteration. Nomenclature has not been formalized: personnel most commonly refer to the periods between these reconfigurations as "world cycles", "reboots", or "kalpas". This reconfiguration may be absolute; the entirety of the world can and has been reordered by the whims of SCP-001-1. No method of preventing this reconfiguration has been determined.</p>
<p>SCP-001-1 is a humanoid entity, the upper limit of whose anomalous capabilities are currently unknown. Known capabilities include heightened senses, ontokinesis ("reality warping"), and temporal manipulation. SCP-001-1 has survived every assassination attempt executed by ΔT.</p>
<p>ΔT ("Delta-T") is the Foundation Department responsible for containing and reversing SCP-001. It is formed primarily of Foundation personnel from other timelines trapped within SCP-001, including members of Research and Containment Team Δt and the Temporal Anomalies Department, though members of other groups with temporal transit capabilities (e.g. the <a href="/golden-horde-blues">Golden Horde</a>) have also joined in the interest of eliminating SCP-001. ΔT is located in Fixed Point ΔT.001, an isolated temporal pocket that tracks the "present" of SCP-001 with a passage of time at a 1:1 ratio via Xyank/Anastasakos Constant Temporal Sink (XACTS).</p>
<p>No attempts to alter the past of SCP-001 from Fixed Point ΔT.001 have been successful. While alterations to Timeline-001-ΑΩ have been possible, none so far have prevented the inevitable occurrence of SCP-001.</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Kill the fucker.</p>
<p>Survive.</p>
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<h2 id="toc14"><span>SCP-8008-1.35: "A Perfect World"</span></h2>
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<p>It is the duty of every Benefactor to maintain their society. To set forth the rule of law most conducive to eudaemonia,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-11" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-11')">11</a></sup> and to enforce it. To make the hard decisions of what to do for those who cannot belong.</p>
<p>The truth is that this is not my first life. I have lived untold lifetimes, and in my first life before this one, I lived in the world where there was an innovation known as a Credit Score. A Credit Score took aspects of someone's financial past — whether they paid off their loans on time, how much money they borrowed, and if they had been paying consistently — to predict their financial future. Whether they'd be a good customer, or a very risky one. And I thought — what if we could extend this Credit Score to the entirety of our lives? We could make not just a great society — but a perfect one.</p>
<p>This is how I use my Wisdom for the greatest benefit of the the Free City of Eluthertopia.</p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-center" style="width:100%;"><img alt="paris.jpg" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8008/paris.jpg"/>
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<p>The Beautiful Streets of Eluthertopia.</p>
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<p>These fond memories were on my mind as I walked with Thaddeus, Ilse, and Alice through Eluthertopia. While other Benefactors like Pethriel may have been satisfied with using their magical artifacts to maintain the order of their Free Cities, I liked to go out and get my hands dirty. Merely accompanying me gave Thaddeus, Ilse, and Alice significant boosts to their ESAS (Elutherian Social Assessment Scores), and the three of them were near the maximum value, with Thaddeus at 970, Ilse at 981, and Alice at 943.</p>
<p>I smiled and waved as I walked through the streets of Eluthertopia. Those who smiled and waved back received +1 to their ESAS for contributing to the eudaemonic atmosphere, while I made a note to investigate any who frowned or glared. It was possible they were just having a bad day, but it was also possible that they had designs against me or their fellow citizens. It was better to be safe than sorry, and the mere fact that they were targets of investigation counted as -50 to their ESAS.</p>
<p>There were hundreds of other micro-expressions that my Wisdom incorporated; the presence of alcohol on their breath, the presence of their body odor, how harshly their voices rang through the market square. All for the greater good. My Wisdom worked in the background, passively maintaining society as I enjoyed the fresh air.</p>
<p>There was a SNAP in the back of my brain. I stopped walking, and Thaddeus, Ilse, and Alice stopped and watched me with concern. Someone's ESAS had gone negative.</p>
<p>"Administrator-sama?" Ilse asked.</p>
<p>"We have a Breach," I said. Silently, Ilse and Alice drew their SNEER clubs. +5 ESAS points for vigilance.</p>
<p>I crept towards a dim alleyway cutting off from the street, and signaled to my entourage to stay back. They seemed upset, but they obeyed me, which earned them +5 ESAS points for obedience.</p>
<p>There was a disheveled boy sitting in the alleyway, sobbing into his arms. -1 point per sob.</p>
<p>"What's wrong? How might I help you?" I said. I was the Benefactor of Eluthertopia, the First Citizen, and the Administrator of its Foundation besides. No one should cry in my city.</p>
<p>The boy looked up at me. His eyes darkened. "You! You're the tyrant (-50 ESAS for slander)! You killed my parents (-50 ESAS for false accusation)! This is all your fault (-50 ESAS for blame) (+10 ESAS for respecting power)!"</p>
<p>He ineffectually stumbled towards me in rage and hunger, and raised his fists as if to strike me (-5000 ESAS). I caught his weak, starved hands easily.</p>
<p>I examined him. His parents had been soldiers who'd fallen in battle against the forces of another Free City to secure land that, in 500 years, would be a fruitful source of crude oil. The technology of this world had not yet advanced to the point where crude oil could be refined, but their sacrifices had not been in vain. Nevertheless, the ESAS he'd earned by being born to loyal citizens had been annihilated by his cursing my existence under his breath and his assault on my person. At over -5000 ESAS, there was no hope he would ever become a positive-ranked citizen ever again.</p>
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<p>Oil.</p>
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<p>It was possible he could be redeemed and become a productive citizen, but I looked into his future with my Wisdom. I saw fire. My city burning. The contents of my skull scattered into the wind. I stumbled back, shocked. Horrified.</p>
<p>I grabbed him by the collar and dragged him into the light. "This one has breached."</p>
<p>Thaddeus made to grab him.</p>
<p>"No. I'll handle him myself. His life is forfeit to the Harvest."</p>
<p>My entourage nodded gravely. They knew that for making the sacrifices necessary to maintain Eluthertopia, I was to take full responsibility.</p>
<p>"I still shudder whenever you do this," Alice said, batting her eyelashes at me. "Why must you dirty your hands so?"</p>
<p>I adjusted her ESAS downward by 5 points for questioning me, but 10 points upward for doing it out of love.</p>
<p>"The beauty of this world is no coincidence. This is a perfect world. My perfect world, with my grand design. Every inch built with my blood, sweat and tears, and so it is my responsibility to maintain it."</p>
<p>"But why does it take this? Why must you sully your hands and your spirit with the Extraction of this soul?"</p>
<p>"Because his life, to my Wisdom, was not just worthless, but less than worthless. An active detriment to our perfect world. He would have destabilized it, created a ripple just small enough to risk turning into a wave that would crest over everything we've built — and wash it away. His life, you see, is nothing. I'll spare you the truth about his destiny, but he would have ended a hundred thousands lives if he lived to adulthood."</p>
<p>"Now, however, he will be useful. Through his suffering, I will extract enough mana to cast a powerful working, one that will reduce the suffering of good men for a thousand years. For a thousand years hence, no one in the Free City of Eleuthertopia will ever stub their big toes of their right foot — all thanks to his contribution."</p>
<p>"That trade, in my eyes, is worth it."</p>
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<h2 id="toc15"><span>Excerpt: Global Occult Coalition PHYSICS Division Field Manual 13: Special Circumstances, Humanoid Threat Entities</span></h2>
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<p><strong>Notice: This is an <a href="/goc-supplemental-humanoid-guide">EXTERNAL document.</a> It is included here as an example of generally-accepted anomaly management precepts; however, consult the Foundation <a href="/decom-dept-hub">Decommissioning Department</a> before seeking permission to terminate an anomaly.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>PHASE 4: The Child-God:</strong> Sadly, the majority of Type Greens will eventually progress to Phase 4. During this phase, the reality bender becomes obsessed with the power it possesses and will attempt to utilize it for personal gain at the cost of others. This phase is marked by reduced empathy for other humans, inability to accept personal faults, and increased megalomania.</p>
<p>Although warning signs are numerous, the key aspect of a Phase 4 is the use of their abilities to manipulate other humans. Teenage and young adult Type Greens will typically use their abilities for sexual purposes, while children will attempt to make strangers their "friends." Older adults may attempt to manipulate others for love or financial gain. Although a few cases have resulted where the Type Green then reverts to Phase 3, 99% of them will remain at Phase 4 until eliminated. For this reason, Phase 4 Type Greens should be considered Threat Level 5 (Immediate Threat) and eliminated immediately, as they represent a major threat to all aspects of the Fivefold Mission.</p>
<p><tt>COSMIC TOP SECRET — DECLASSIFIED IN EVENT OF POST-PIZZICATO RECONSTRUCTION PER <a href="/redtape">HOUSE ACCORDS</a></tt><br/>
<strong>PHASE 5: Unknown:</strong> There are no known Phase 5 Type Greens. It is theorized that a Type Green that reaches Phase 5 becomes indistinguishable from Type Black demi-deities or otherwise fully integrates or becomes indistinguishable from baseline reality. If such an entity is discovered in the process of escalating to Phase 5, they are to be considered at minimum Threat Level 5 (Immediate Threat) with the possibility of Threat Level 6 (Pizzicato) procedures being enacted. However, should this escalation succeed despite Coalition intervention, the entity will paradoxically fall to Threat Level 0 (No Threat), as their actions will have become indistinguishable from baseline reality.</p>
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<h2 id="toc16"><span>Similar Anomalies</span></h2>
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<p>HANAZONO.AIC has determined the following anomalies may be relevant to the above recovered SCP-8008-1 material:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="/scp-5706">SCP-5706</a>: a variant of Herpes simplex that induces a perceptual temporal dilation effect on its infectees, during which they enter a fantasy world, namely that of <em>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim</em>. It does not appear to exist in pre-restructuring versions of the Foundation Database. Flagged for: temporal effects, fantasy world, sex</li>
<li><a href="/scp-6090">SCP-6090</a>: a thaumaturgically-enhanced virus that imparts animalistic features on its infectees. Flagged for: therianthropy, sexually transmitted</li>
<li><a href="/scp-6969">SCP-6969</a>: a thaumaturgic biological process that extends the time perceived by all human beings during orgasm from sixteen days to roughly seventy-three quintillion years. Flagged for: temporal effects, sex</li>
</ul>
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<h1 id="toc17"><span>SCP-8008-2: "Science"</span></h1>
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<p>Files associated with SCP-8008-2 are believed to originate from the second half of time "within" SCP-8008.</p>
<p>Although many files in SCP-8008-2 describe systems for thaumatological processes, they are inconsistent between documents. They cannot be considered reliable descriptions of physical laws within SCP-8008 as opposed to a description of the control exercised by SCP-8008-B.</p>
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<h2 id="toc18"><span>SCP-8008-2.03: "The Schema of Syllogism, Chapter 3: Homework"</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-size:150%;">Chapter 3:</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:120%;">Homework</span></p>
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<p>Henry John Smith Glas<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-12" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-12')">12</a></sup> had always wished to use magic. As an orphan, he had been found by the Sisters of Erudite Nox. Erudite Nox was the most primeval and traditional aspect of Inanna-Gaea-Mary, the Goddess that blessed the Kingdom of Metegian.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-13" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-13')">13</a></sup></p>
<p>Henry was not like others, for he had a secret. He had lived through many, many lives, and so he was far wiser beyond his years. In the earliest life he could remember, he had lived on a planet called Earth, where the science was far more advanced than the Kingdom of Metegian. On Earth, there was sanitation like indoor plumbing, the ability to refine crude oil, mayonnaise, and machines that could almost think. Earth had also discovered the deepest secrets of the universe: that of quantum physics.</p>
<p>In the Kingdom of Metegian, magic fulfilled the role that science did on Earth. It powered things like hyperloops and the internet, so it was essential that every person knew it, just as it was essential for all Earthlings to know how to code. However, just like evil programmers could become hackers and cause great evils like Stuxnet or the heist of Mt Gox, evil magic users could destroy society as well. For this reason the Ivory Tower of Woke Dei had been founded, to prevent the proliferation of evil magic. Legally, any common citizen who wished to use magic had to go through 20 years of schooling with Woke Dei. Those who did not adhere to orthodoxy were cast out as criminals, for they tampered with powers that could destroy the world.</p>
<p>So unfortunately, despite his millennia of wisdom, Henry had to go to school, under the Ivory Tower of the Woke Dei. He was far better at learning things on his own, without the rigid structure and social conditioning of Woke Dei.</p>
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<p>"So, how was the first day of school?" said Sister Alice, as Henry lay in her lap. Alice was one of the Sisters of Erudite Nox.</p>
<p>"Simply mind-numbing, as it has been for the past fifteen years," Henry replied tersely. "They reiterated the Metegian system <em>again</em>."</p>
<p>The Metegian Standard Magic System was simple: All things in the world were composed of mana. Mana could be divided into three colors — red, green, and blue. Each mana could furthermore be tuned to six Charges— Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, and Bottom. This magic system just so happened to follow the rules of quantum physics from Henry's past life.</p>
<p>"Aw, again? But you've always known it. You picked it up so fast right after we found you. If only you could have learned from us forever," said Alice.</p>
<p>All magic was said to come from the Goddess, and so her priestesses were among the most powerful in the land who were not the Scholars of Woke Dei. While the Sisters of Erudite Nox were considered the clergy, and so not subject to the schooling system of the Woke Dei, young boys were almost never adopted by the nunneries, and so he, Henry, was just a common citizen. Despite his brilliance of many lifetimes, he had to go through a repressive, factory-like schooling system.</p>
<p>Alice stroked his hair. "You're such a bright boy, Henry," Alice cooed. "My bright and beautiful boy. You just have to be strong, just a bit longer. What did you daydream about in class?"</p>
<p>Alice was Henry's favorite of the Sisters of Erudite Nox. They were the holiest women in Metegian, even among the priestesses of Inanna-Gaea-Mary. The Sisters had been blessed with one of the rarest gifts of the goddess — the gifts of all three of her Aspects. The <span style="color: blue">Blue of Inanna, Queen of Heaven</span>; the <span style="color: green">Green of Gaea, Midwife of Earth</span>; the <span style="color: red">Red of Mary, Mother of Blood.</span> Together, when the lights of red, green, and blue came together, they made the White of the Goddess.</p>
<p>"I was thinking about time again," Henry said. He liked Alice's questions. They were never too hard for him to answer. He was preparing to enter a long speech when Alice groaned, cutting him off.</p>
<p>Normal women, and indeed most of the clergy, could only channel the White of the Goddess rarely, after childbirth. But the Sisters of Erudite Nox were so blessed that their breasts were always engorged with Her White as part of their holy burden. The White of the Goddess was prized by mages as a powerful potion to restore their strength, but even they could only sell so much of it, to the point where it hurt them to carry the excess. For that reason Henry had been raised on the excess ever since he had been found, and it had made him a very powerful wizard, beyond on his knowledge.</p>
<p>"I'm so sorry, Henry. It seems I… I failed to channel enough this morning. Would you care to… help me?"</p>
<p>"It's the least I can do for you, Sister Alice. After all you've done for me."</p>
<p>Sister Alice pulled up her tunic, revealing her breasts. They were engorged and veiny, blue and green tapering to a perky red point. Henry knew she must be hurting from channeling so much of the Goddess's power, and his heart yearned to relieve her. So he contented himself with silently relieving Alice's burdens — though she emitted great cries of relief — and thought over his day's revelation:</p>
<p>The Ivory Tower of Woke Dei, fundamentally, was holding back the true potential of magic; that, he had always known. They taught that all magic came from the goddess, and from his place at Sister Alice's side, he certainly understood why the primitive codifiers of magic might have believed that. But all the magic of the Goddess, the only magic that the Ivory Tower taught, was magic of creation, which had been integrated into all of society's infrastructure. Magic with the power to destroy — that was the domain of renegades and exiles and criminals. Anti-Magic, the evil opposite of creation magic, came from the Scarlet King.</p>
<p>That was the lie.</p>
<p>Henry could see through it to the truth.</p>
<p>The magic of Metegian was rooted in quantum chromodynamics. Magic, clearly, worked by manipulating the world on the quantum level using the power of thought — an ability of all humans — but with coordinated probabilistic macroscopic manifestations through ritualism. Metaphorically, it was like sending requests to an online storefront. You asked the storefront — magic — what to do using search terms and money — incantations and mana— and it responded by sending you a product — the results of your spell.</p>
<p>Sister Alice's breath grew faster and faster. She caressed him closer and pulled her tunic out of the way so she could meet his eyes. Even as their eyes met, thoughts raced through his head.</p>
<p>The Ivory Tower of Woke Dei was emasculating the population by preventing them from accessing half of the store — the dominating and masculine magic of the Scarlet King. It was like restricting the free market and stifling innovation. In fact, the schooling system was meant to stamp out curiosity and completely remove even the possibility of imagining how to access the Scarlet King's Anti-Magic.</p>
<p>But Henry had a very good guess. Henry knew from quantum physics that if matter went backwards in time, it became antimatter. If antimatter and normal matter met, they annihilated in a spectacular and destructive burst of energy. Therefore, the Anti-Magic of the Scarlet King was nothing more than the creation magic of the Goddess, but sent backwards in time — a message from the future trying to reach the distant past.</p>
<p>The White of the Goddess flowed freely from Sister Alice into Henry's mouth. He could feel the Goddess's mana flowing into his body and through his soul. Her holy power streamed into him as Sister Alice made great moans of relief. His body felt warm, and still harder and harder he accepted her gift. There was something there, wasn't there? The Scarlet King's power was the same as Inanna-Gaea-Mary's but from the future into the past. A reversal of the arrow of time. He was so close. He was so, so close.</p>
<p>Sister Alice let out a scream that suddenly hung in the air. Henry realized he had entered a trance. A great relief hung over him. It was as if time was standing still. And he remembered a gift from his previous life.</p>
<p>The power of time.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-14" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-14')">14</a></sup></p>
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<h2 id="toc19"><span>From <em>The Navigator's Handbook</em>, Delta-T internal publication</span></h2>
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<h4 id="toc20"><span>"Altered Origin"</span></h4>
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<p>"Altered Origin" is a common problem for time travelers and multiverse travelers (further abbreviated travelers for brevity). The travelers' instruments often contain some navigation or coordinate system. They arrive at a place that their instruments tell them share the coordinates of their home multitemporalocale with reasonable variation. However, their supposed home is radically different from what they remember. How does the traveler distinguish between an ongoing CK-Class Restructuring scenario, butterfly effects from their own actions, non-anomalous transformations of society, or instrument error?</p>
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<p>The nature of worship, religion, and godhood cannot be used as reliable tentpoles for multiversal and temporal navigation or as proof of an active CK-Class Restructuring Scenario or HK-Class Deific Subjugation Scenario (as opposed to having been passively affected by the butterfly effect from actions in the distant past). In short, human belief is fragile, and human society shifts in accordance.</p>
<p><strong>Deific Entities, Apex Tier Pluripotent Entities</strong></p>
<p>The question of what makes a "god" remains a matter of debate among Foundation theologians, as the boundaries between a god, a reality warper, and other entities such as an egregore are liquid and culturally dependent. For example, the Irish Saint Brigid of Kildare shares a beyond coincidental number of traits and domains with the pagan goddess Brigid. The shifting status and presentation of the gods is not proof that some outside force has elevated or reduced them. The presence of "the gods" in daily life should only be viewed as proof of an adversely altered timeline if there is evidence of an ongoing HK-Class Deific Subjugation Scenario.</p>
<p><strong>Multiversal Entities</strong></p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="scarletking.jpg" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8008/scarletking.jpg"/>
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<p>The "Scarlet King"</p>
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<p>Across domain of all possibility, the Scarlet King's recorded forms have included:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="/scp-231">A thinly veiled analogue of the American pop cultural understanding of Satan;</a></li>
<li><a href="/dust-and-blood">A cancer eating at the multiverse;</a></li>
<li><a href="/scp-6747">An emergent pattern arising from the arrangement of 7 ritual objects;</a></li>
<li><a href="/tuftos-proposal">The howling of the present as it longs for the past.</a></li>
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<p><em>All</em> of these are the Scarlet King. They may even be the <em>same</em> Scarlet King. Therefore, travelers commonly mistakenly assume that an unfamiliar manifestation of the Scarlet King is evidence that they are in a different timeline.</p>
<p>This is not so. The Scarlet King is an idea and a god and a pattern, but it is also multiversal in a way that other gods are not. One form of a multiversal entity in a timeline does not preclude alternate manifestations of that multiversal force in the same timeline.</p>
<p><strong>Psychological archetypes</strong><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-15" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-15')">15</a></sup></p>
<p>Some fixations arise from deep within the human psyche. The most infamous manifestations of these fixations are the various fetish objects classed as <a href="/scp-597">SCP-597</a>. Across the multiverse, SCP-597 most often manifests as a blob of flesh with thousands of teats, heavily associated with the psychological and conceptual perception of "motherhood".</p>
<p>It is unknown if the various objects classed as SCP-597 are the same anomaly. However, a statistical analysis has shown a significant likelihood that SCP-597 is intrinsically tied to the conceptual matrix of motherhood. In universes with less historical misogyny i.e. those ruled by the matriarchal Daeva, SCP-597 analogues possess greater agency and many instances are fully sentient. Yet in most universes where the predominant society descends from Mesopotamian agriculture, SCP-597 is an unthinking lump of flesh.</p>
<p>The presence or popular knowledge of an entity like SCP-597 does not suggest a total alteration of reality, but could merely suggest a containment failure on part of the local normalcy enforcement organization. A different form of SCP-597 might also suggest that attitudes towards mothers in society have shifted. <em>In situ</em> observation can support or disprove this possibility.</p>
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<p>If: reality has been altered in the following ways <em>simultaneously:</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Prominent worship, but not presence of gods that already existed but have fallen out of favor;</li>
<li>Mainstream worship of a multiversal entity</li>
<li>Mainstream worship of an archetype of the human psyche</li>
</ul>
<p>Then: the evidence is highly in favor that reality is being actively modified by an ontokinetic and its psychological hangups, but that the multiverse's natural ontological inertia is resisting highly drastic changes, allowing influence of multiversal entities upon the affected timeline.</p>
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<h2 id="toc21"><span>SCP-8008-2.72: "The Schema of Syllogism, Chapter 65: For Love of Magic"</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-size:150%;">Chapter 65:</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:120%;">For Love of Magic</span></p>
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<p>The villainous mafia known as DeiT (pronounced "Deity") was an atheist cult. They hated magic and society, and so would use Anti-Magic to destroy vital infrastructure like toll roads and also kill people. That was the party line of the Ivory Tower of Woke Dei, and the masses ate it all up now that DeiT had announced that they would stop at nothing to topple the Ivory Tower and everything it stood for.</p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="pisa.jpg" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8008/pisa.jpg"/>
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<p>The Ivory Tower of Woke Dei.</p>
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<p>This was not enough to stop the Ivory Tower from holding its annual graduation ceremony. They were obsessed with signaling their power, which infuriated Henry. Of course they would place their best and brightest's lives on the line, just to prove that they didn't care. But if there was even a thousandths of a thousandths chance that something bad <em>would</em> happen, costing them an entire generation of the most brilliant young minds to grace the world, then holding a public event as a <em>taunt</em> was a <em>terrible idea.</em></p>
<p>They would regret giving him the chance to speak, even though it was his right as top of the class. Never mind that the real challenge hadn't been doing well in the sanitized classes of the Ivory Tower of Woke Dei, but making sure that his true experiments never got him noticed and exiled — or worse, expelled.</p>
<p>His longtime rival, Ilse Reynders, scowled at him. <a href="/scp-5616">She was the kind of girl to get 16 degrees of higher learning</a> just to have more letters after her name. He could respect that kind of discipline to some extent, but it also struck him as arduously pointless. His was a mind that idled until it sprinted; it was far better to think well and be sharp than to study simply for the sake of credentials. And his method had paid off. He was at the top of class, despite spending so much time slacking off and thinking, while she was at a distant second.</p>
<p>She was too loyal to her coursework, too willing to believe the teachings of the Ivory Tower of Woke Dei. The Ivory Tower told obvious lies like "men and women are magically equivalent". Henry knew that was untrue simply from the gifts that Sister Alice granted him daily — women, obviously, were able to channel the power of the Goddess in a way that men were not. But the grand design of Woke Dei was to make unquestioning drones, not curious thinkers.</p>
<p>A terrible thing happened to zealots, Henry tended to feel. It was easy to be sucked into patterns of thought and behavior that became dogma and then truth, increasing spirals of incorrectitude that became utterly unassailable. This was how all cults, political parties, and well-meaning movements worked. They started off as something reasonable, with practical goals — prevent the destruction of society from the Scarlet King's Anti-Magic, in the case of the Ivory Tower of Woke Dei, but slowly, along the line, that original goal got corrupted. Eventually, the practical goal of preventing the destruction of society was lost, and now the Ivory Tower was more concerned with maintaining the <em>perception</em> that it was useful and enforcing purity tests on everyone who wished to engage with it on a practical level of society.</p>
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<p>The ceremony dragged on, all of the professors saying the usual expected things — generic well wishes for students, and the usual lies about how each and every one of them had changed their lives — until it was finally Henry's turn to speak. Finally, he could set his fellow students free. Finally, he could start to change the world. Finally, he could start fighting the Ivory Tower.</p>
<p>There was an explosion.</p>
<p>From the smoke, a slender woman appeared. Though she was lithe, she was also quite shapely, and though she glared at him with murderous intent in her eyes, Henry couldn't help but appreciate her great beauty.</p>
<p>"A DeiT agent!" Ilse cried. "Everyone, run!"</p>
<p>"God, Reynders, what has he done to you?" said the DeiT agent. "It's me. Penelope. Penelope Panagiotopolous. 'Pataphysics."</p>
<p>"Get away from me!" cried Ilse girlishly.</p>
<p>"Jesus Christ," said Penelope. "So he's sunk his claws into you, hasn't he."</p>
<p>If Henry had one flaw, it would have been that he thought too much, but he viewed it as a necessary part of experiencing life to the fullest. He could dwell for hours to years on the exact nuances of a social interaction, deciphering exactly what everyone meant with the slightest turn of a phrase, the precise connotation conveyed by a microexpression and the delay of a release of breath. He had the advantage of a unique and singular power of time, which let him focus on these moments until he knew for certain what other people were thinking or doing at any given moment. With all of this time, he could achieve omniscience. Certitude. <a href="/scp-5920">Through this repetitive and cyclic meditation, the contents of his mind had become far beyond the comprehension of any lesser beings.</a></p>
<p>"What awfully convenient timing," Henry said. "Right as I'm about to speak, a DeiT agent appears. And, right in the heart of the Ivory Tower, the base of your supposed enemy… It's clear what's going on. You've been in the employ of the Ivory Tower of Woke Dei all along. I should've known — even from the names. Woke Dei, DeiT… it's so obvious in retrospect."</p>
<p>"What the fuck? No, you're just delusional," said the woman. "You really made up a group just to oppress you and now think anyone else who thinks you're a fucking psychopath is acting on their behest. This has to end."</p>
<p>"The only one with a fucked up worldview is you," Henry said. "It's nothing personal, kid."</p>
<p>The magic of the Goddess was known as "creation" magic. The anti-magic of the Scarlet King was also known as "destruction" magic, because it permanently erased matter from reality, the greatest of taboos. Of course, Henry knew about Einstein's famous equation, E=mc<sup>2</sup>: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. Energy and matter were equivalent. All the Scarlet King's "destruction" magic did was convert solid matter into pure, wild energy — another way that the teachings of the Ivory Tower of Woke Dei were utterly and totally wrong.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, due to the hegemony of the Ivory Tower, all combat magic was focused primarily on creating projectiles using mana — water and wind from the blue mana of Inanna, plant life from the green mana of Gaea, and animal parts from the red mana of Mary. Most people could only use one type of mana well, but Henry was an exception. Due to being raised on the White of the Goddess, he was a master of all three mana colors, which gave him an unmatched edge in combat by letting him use all the spells of the Goddess.</p>
<p>"<span style="color: red">Mary's Red: Lambce of God!</span>" he shouted. An array of pikes, each of which had a bleating sheep's head on the tip, appeared before him in the air, before darting their way towards the DeiT agent.</p>
<p>But the DeiT agent had vanished. Harry felt a tiny pinprick of light on his skin and cast <span style="color: blue">Inanna's Blue: Great Ice Wall</span> to direct the incoming laser beam skyward. It blasted through the walls of the Ivory Tower of Woke Dei. Wreckage rained down, and the other students scrambled to safety.</p>
<p>"We've been watching you. I absolutely refuse to keep living in a reality that's a shitty sciencewank fanfiction with the original property absolutely sanitized, Harry James—"</p>
<p>"The only one twisting this world is you, by wielding that destruction magic — child of the Scarlet King."</p>
<p>He was counting on the fundamental attribution error — that everyone would think the laser weapon Penelope Panagiotopolous had used was the anti-magic of the Scarlet King instead of a light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, and so turn the crowd against her.</p>
<p>"The Scarlet King. I still can't believe that multiversal constant managed to leak its way into this delusion."</p>
<p>But Henry had said the magic words. Now the students had their resolve hardened, and they were willing to stand and fight.</p>
<p>"Dramatic final stands always do well," said Penelope Panagiotopolous. "But bad fanfic always uses conservation of ninjutsu to raise the stakes."</p>
<p>She pulled out another laser rifle and started blasting, her breasts jiggling ever so slightly with the recoil of each shot. Henry cursed under his breath as his fellow graduates started dropping like flies. Laser weapons were outside context problems. They weren't like the Anti-Magic of the Scarlet King, so the magical shields his fellow students were raising were worthless. The Native Americans of his old world had no way to deal with the Europeans from across the sea, relying on their own verbal forms of diplomacy and bow and arrow against invaders with gunpowder and lawyers. This was just like that.</p>
<p>"<span style="color: green">Gaea's Green: Fairy Tale Thicket!</span>" he shouted, and an old growth forest erupted, sweeping all of his classmates to the walls of the Ivory Tower, to safety. Now it was just him and Penelope Panagiotopolous.</p>
<p>"Getting me alone, you sick bastard?"</p>
<p>She lobbed some hand grenades his way, and he sniped them out of the air with <span style="color: blue">Inanna's Blue: Wind Arrows.</span> He tried to tie her down with <span style="color: green">Gaea's Green: Root of All Evil</span>, but she deftly flipped through the air, her lithe and slender figure beautiful in silhouette. From above, she dropped poison gas grenades, which he easily contained with <span style="color: blue">Inanna's Blue: Vortex</span>; she avoided being caught in the field by using a grappling hook to the nearest wall. She pulled out gadget after gadget, contraption after contraption, and he used a spell to counter each one. It was clear they were at a standstill.</p>
<p>It was clear that she had an almost unlimited arsenal of bizarre science fiction weaponry, which he hungered to examine, and she would be able to hold him off in a war of attrition.</p>
<p>There was no more time to waste. He activated his time trance.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-16" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-16')">16</a></sup></p>
<p>The world stood still.</p>
<p>Penelope Panagiotopolous had seen it coming — her face was locked in a rictus of terror.</p>
<p>He walked up to her.</p>
<p><tt>[DATA EXPUNGED]</tt></p>
<p>Henry had access to all the magic of the Goddess, and he had long theorized that the magic of the Scarlet King was the time-reversal of her powers. The Goddess's power included spells like healing through the laying on of hands.</p>
<p>He laid his hands on the DeiT agent and began the spell, and then he twisted his time trance to not only slow time, but reverse it. He had never tested this power on a living being before, and so instead he expected the DeiT agent to simply decay.</p>
<p>She began glowing with the light of a quasar until she exploded in a spectacular burst of antimatter annihilation, as the antimana of the Scarlet King annihilated the mana of the Goddess that made up her body.</p>
<p>He was blown back by the force, though he directed it most of it skyward at the last second with <span style="color: green">Gaea's Green: Parabowlic</span>.</p>
<p>He collapsed to the floor, spent. He would need to return to Sister Alice and restore his mana.</p>
<p>A shadow fell over him. He looked up, expecting to be congratulated for saving the Ivory Tower, but instead felt the cold steel of handcuffs around his wrists.</p>
<p>"Henry John Smith Glas. Under the authority of the Ivory Tower of Woke Dei, you are under arrest for murder, destruction of property, and the use of Anti-Magic."</p>
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<h2 id="toc22"><span>From Site-120's Archives: Level 5 Documentation</span></h2>
<p><em>Author and provenance unknown.</em></p>
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<p>A trend that has proven true time and time again is that a reality warper is constrained only by their own mind — and so through education we can chain them.</p>
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<p>Class-III Reality Benders have violet ocular emissions — purple eyes when they use their powers. A most poetic visual. "Science" tells us the cause is "humic bleed resulting in redshifting of ambient ultraviolet frequencies." This is a spurious explanation for multiple reasons; however, because we say this is true, it becomes true. This is as close to empirically proven as facts about ontokinesis can get, in stark contrast with the traditional folklorish explanation: those who can bend the world bear a tiny fragment of the shattered soul of the Good Faerie Queen, and the glowing eyes are the touch of Mab's Madness — an infection of the good soul with the poison of her Evil Twin.</p>
<p>Scientifically-literate reality warpers who have read this explanation about humic bleed reduce the effectiveness of germicidal ultraviolet lamps by 3% when they use their powers. Reality warpers who have <em>not</em> read this explanation, or otherwise do not understand it, do not affect the time it takes for a UV lamp to kill 99.99% of all bacteria — and go mad almost five times as often as their scientifically literate peers.</p>
<p>Past a certain level of power, both have glowing purple eyes. As if by instinct.</p>
<p>If a reality warper challenges you to a game, do not accept. They will show you a fair coin, but once it flies through the air both its sides will be heads. They'll show you a dice with six sides and roll one with twenty. They align the world to the one they believe in, no matter how contradictory it might be.</p>
<p>This is why Site-120 of the Foundation adopted a policy of recruit-and-assimilate regarding Reality Benders in Eastern Europe, and why the Coalition deployed its own Type Greens in the ill-fated Ichabod Campaign. Tell a god that it is but a man for long enough, and it shall play by your rules until death.</p>
<p>Woe betide you when a god walks free.</p>
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<h2 id="toc23"><span>SCP-8008-2.305: "The Schema of Syllogism", Unsorted Excerpts — Full Text pending</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-size:150%;">Chapter 85:</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:120%;">For Closing Arguments</span></p>
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<p>"The presumption that the Scarlet King is evil is a flawed one. Absolute good and absolute evil do not exist. If I exterminate a deadly disease, I might think it is good, but that disease might have conferred a survival advantage on its sufferers.</p>
<p>Of course there are primitive cultural vestiges that must be cast away in the transition to a civilized society.</p>
<p>If the Goddess didn't want me to use this power, she would have struck me down for it long before now.</p>
<p>Yes. I swear that I shall serve Metegian Society until the end of this world."</p>
<p>And with those closing words, he knew that the power of the Ivory Tower of Woke Dei would be broken forever.</p>
<p>Everyone clapped.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:150%;">Chapter 140:</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:120%;">For A Better World</span></p>
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<p>With Henry John Smith Glas at the helm of one of the Empirical Institute, the first great think tank of Metegian, the crippling regulations of the Ivory Tower of Woke Dei were expediently reversed, one by one. Metegian civilization finally left its long ice age of stagnation.</p>
<p>With the new availability of the Scarlet King's magic, business and industry underwent major revolutions. Industries like construction, transport, and sanitation were revolutionized by the "Reverse-Magic" of the Scarlet King, as Henry thought the words "Anti-Magic" had too many unfortunate implications. With great productivity came great wealth, and society became an engine of progress. Crime increased slightly, but the Empirical Institute had a solution for all of that pent up masculine rage:</p>
<p>The untamed frontier was soon conquered. The primitives there had no chance against the newly refined Reverse-Magic of the Empirical Institute, and soon they were integrated into the new Metegian civilization. Civilization ruled the world.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:150%;">Chapter 246:</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:120%;">A Life of Brilliance, Epilogue</span></p>
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<p>"Save her! You must save her!" Sister Alice cried in tears, as Ilse's breath grew ragged, the light in her eyes fading, as she lost the breath to even scream.</p>
<p>"I— I— "</p>
<p>Time slowed down for Henry, a million years passing in the blink of an eye.</p>
<p>"You were always so brilliant. You always knew exactly what to do. Exactly what to say. So why. Why couldn't you do this?" Alice spat. There was no trace left of her once unbounded kindness.</p>
<p>As brilliant as he was, so much of his knowledge was from his first life. And in that life, he simply had never had cause to care about childbirth and women's issues.</p>
<p>It was no matter; he could not save her, but she had given him a son. That much made her sacrifice worthy.</p>
<p>He picked up his son from the blood and viscera. The boy reminded him of himself.</p>
<p>"Please, Alice. Take care of him," he said. All of this grisly horror and failure had disheartened him. He handed the child to Sister Alice.</p>
<p>The baby let out a loud wail. He had turned away to avoid facing it, so he did not see Sister Alice's face twist in disgust. She glared down at the child.</p>
<p>"He looks like you," she said. It would only be natural, of course. The child was his son. Because genetics, it made perfect sense for children to look like their parents.</p>
<p>"Exactly like you. The color of the eyes. The wrinkles on the brow. The facial hair."</p>
<p>Henry turned backwards. Alice had drawn a gun and was holding it to his son's head.</p>
<p>"I remember, you monster," Sister Alice said. "What you've been doing all this time."</p>
<p>Time stood still. He walked up to Alice, who remained completely and utterly frozen. He would miss her, but she had gone truly and irretrievably mad.</p>
<p><em>See you in the next life,</em> he thought as he cast <span style="color: orangered">Scarlet Magic: Reverse</span> on her molecules.</p>
<p>And then the world went white.</p>
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<h1 id="toc24"><span>SCP-8008-3: "Biology"</span></h1>
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<p>Files associated with SCP-8008-3 originate from the "middle" of time "within" SCP-8008.</p>
<p>The physical and biological descriptions of human beings in pre- and post- SCP-8008-3 files have significant differences.</p>
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<h2 id="toc25"><span>SCP-8008-3.572: <em>Goblin Reaper</em>, Chapter 209: "Dawn of the Final Battle"</span></h2>
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<p>Society was under siege from the Goblin Horde, and the Golden General<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-17" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-17')">17</a></sup> was the best hope for preventing the fall of human civilization to the forces of primitive barbarity. He surveyed his soldiers. The best and brightest warriors of a generation, sick and tired of the Capitol's appeasement and calls for peace, ready to strike out on their own to make the hard decisions necessary for survival.</p>
<p>The Goblin Horde lingered just over the horizon. It was those few dark moments before dawn, and the Golden General knew this would be the day of the final battle.</p>
<p>"Gentlemen. Soldiers. Men of honor," said the Golden General. "Today, we go to the biggest, most important fight of our generation. Today, we become legends."</p>
<p>No one knew where the goblins had come from. A few decades ago, they had simply appeared as if from a hole in the ground. While they had seemed benign at first, settling in inhospitable lands, soon they revealed themselves to be monstrous creatures:</p>
<p>In his prior life, he had once played a game called "Starcraft" with a race known as the Zerg. They were a nonsentient insect species, fast breeders which mutated at high rates and spread like wildfire through the cosmos, consuming everything in their wake. The goblins were like that. They worked together in perfect harmony. Their sick and dying would gladly work themselves to death, and the survivors would consume their corpses for sustenance. They didn't care for preserving natural resources and treated other living beings, including elves and humans, like raw material. Although they were capable of mimicking the civilized races, they were vermin that had to be exterminated, for if they were not, they would consume all the resources of the world and use it to propagate their own kind.</p>
<p>What was worse, some of the humans had turned traitor. The Goblin Horde was an alliance between the Goblins, and the Horde, a tribe of warlike horse archers who hated society so much that they would rather ally with the goblins than their fellow man.</p>
<p>Most people were like non-player characters from a video game. They went through life following the patterns that had been programmed into them by society. It was easy to get the responses you wanted out of people if you knew the flags for their behaviors.</p>
<p>"The cowards in the Capitol think coexistence with the Goblin Horde is possible. Out here, we know the truth. They come into our cities and our homes with their civil words and cries for coexistence, but once they're here, what do they do?"</p>
<p>His soldiers, all clad in gleaming silvery armor, stood at rapt, murderous attention.</p>
<p>"They see the wealth of our cities and lie their way in, and once there the mask comes off and they show themselves as the savage beasts they truly are. They import their crimes and their alien ways, they corrupt our youth, and what's worse, they breed and spread so rapidly that in just a few decades, our way of life will be extinct! And what do we say to that!"</p>
<p>"Never!" the soldiers cried. Their lust for blood had been fully stirred.</p>
<p>Humans were simply genetically disadvantaged. They were tied to estrus, and so the female half of the species was only in heat a few times a year.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-18" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-18')">18</a></sup> Breeding season, as it was called, triggered annually the battle of the sexes. In the old days, men were able to control their urges, but in the hyperstimulation of the new age, where goblin vendors hawked pheromonal perfumes to make their products irresistible, men became insatiable monsters. A pointless, wasteful lust, for outside of the cycles of estrus, women were infertile. Thus the eternal battle of the sexes raged on.</p>
<p>The goblins knew this, so they sold pheromone-laced products in human cities, taunting the men and destabilizing human society from within. Some men became homo-sexuals to cope, but that was only a solution on the individual level, and would lead to the extinction of the human race.</p>
<p>The elves of course fared little better. They were a long-lived race, so they reproduced on century scales, and so they were all slowly dying.</p>
<p>Even on top of that, rich and intelligent humans and elves were able to delay reproduction. It was inevitable that those who were desperate, who needed more hands to work the farms and store tills, would see more value in more children than those who had wealth and wished to concentrate the power of their families in one place. It was the luxury of long term planning. And just as the poor would replace the rich and the stupid replace the smart, so too would the goblins replace humanity and the elves.</p>
<p>He would not let that happen. He alone would lead the human race through the thin needle of time into its glorious future. Even if he had to father it himself.</p>
<p>"Today, we end Goblinkind!" he shouted. "Today, we save man's future!"</p>
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<h2 id="toc26"><span>ETHCOM guideline 13017045: Guidelines for Species-Wide Genetic Modification</span></h2>
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<h4 id="toc27"><span>Reproductive strategies: <em>K</em> vs <em>r</em></span></h4>
<p>In the field of ecology, there exists the concept of r/K selection. Without delving into technical details, the evolutionary survival strategies of species can be broadly divided into r-selecting or k-selecting. r-selecting species survive by producing many offspring, each one of which has a low chance of surviving to adulthood, but in aggregate are likely to have at least a few individuals survive. K-selecting species have few offspring and invest substantial resources into ensuring those individual offspring survive to adulthood.</p>
<p>r/K selection is generally not accepted in literature as applicable within the human species. The idea that different countries and cultures within the human species have different socioeconomic outcomes because of r/K selection has been debunked as scientific racism akin to phrenology. Despite this, it is common for amateur anomalous social engineers<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-19" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-19')">19</a></sup> to view r/K selection and other forms of scientific racism as viable paradigms or blueprints for their experiments.</p>
<p><a href="/scp-752">SCP-752</a>-1 is an attempt to genetically engineer a "perfect" form of humanity by an organization of 19th century scientists and philosophers calling themselves 'Eudaimon'. The subspecies was designed to be cooperative, having almost no competitive instinct, to the extent where populations in the millions could be sustained with 19th-century technology — in essence, SCP-752-1 was designed to have the reproductive rate of r-strategists and the individual investment of K-strategists. In facilitating this survival, the society developed by SCP-752-1 had no cannibalism taboo and a utilitarian approach to overwork and reproduction.</p>
<p>Any design of a perfected humanity requires a normative judgment of what "perfect" means, in the context of human beings. The Foundation's mandate is to determine and enforce "normal", and even that is a topic of ongoing debate. The Foundation <em>cannot</em> become an authority on what is to be considered perfect.</p>
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<h4 id="toc28"><span>Acceptable Circumstances for Alteration</span></h4>
<p>Even lesser well-meaning intentioned alterations can have severe ethical ramifications: <a href="/scp-3031">SCP-3031</a> is a neural symbiote that is integral to the current baseline strain of humanity. It is hypothesized to have been created to ensure the survival of the human species beyond unspecified K-Class apocalyptic events in 2400 A.D. by a Foundation analogue. Its primary purpose is to amplify signals associated with fear within the human brain, including paranoia or fear against non-existent threats. Additionally, it incentivizes creativity as a defense mechanism against nonexistent threats.</p>
<p>In attempting to preserve the survival of humanity, a Foundation analogue significantly magnified the human capacity for racism and other bigotries, the susceptibility of human minds to memetic effects, and the risk of self-inflicted nuclear annihilation.</p>
<p>Genetic modification of humanity, temporal or otherwise, is an absolute last resort.</p>
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<h2 id="toc29"><span>SCP-8008-3.575: Recovered writings of Möngke Khan</span></h2>
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<p>I am Möngke, grandson of Temujin.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-20" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-20')">20</a></sup> I have journeyed over one thousand years from my grandfather's death, and over nine hundred from when his loyal soldiers came to me at Diaoyu Fortress and called me to honor his memory and join in the forever war. I have fought here ever since my failure at Diaoyu, and once my people are free to journey even further I shall return to my death.</p>
<p>They told me they sought to honor the Great Khan's last wish — that of an unmarked grave — and would do so by delving ever deeper into the future until he had been forgotten by the winds of time. They had come to a world torn by war, a world with no true history, and thought perhaps that this might be his proper resting spot — until they were beset upon by the Mad God.</p>
<p>The Mad God. The Golden General. The Shifter. The Secret King. The Time Pervert. Known by many names, he had constructed an entire false world. This place and its history were entirely false, beyond even the illusion of Maya. It was not a proper resting place for the Great Khan.</p>
<p>And so they had fought to destroy him, and been utterly crushed underfoot, either to be slain or used as puppets in his endless game alongside the rest of mankind—</p>
<p>The Foundation woke us from the nightmare. This was a war fought within time, and they had built a fortress beyond his reach.</p>
<p>It has always been the Mongol way to use the talents of those we conquer. There is no shame in embracing a superior weapon. There is no shame in allying with a superior power. Those who we spared knew that well. It has been humbling to learn this lesson myself. It is preferable to dying at the hands of a Mad God.</p>
<p>We could dip into and out of his illusions, though only sparsely. My forces had sought to understand this "Goblinkind", determine if it was truly a threat to this false world, only to be disappointed in our entirety. They were puppets under the control of a distant puppetmaster. They followed clear, repeatable patterns and rules. In our conquests, the unpredictability of the conquered had been a source of refreshing intrigue — but here there was no true menace.</p>
<p>So we armed them, gave them weapons they would never forge themselves, and set them on a path to collide with the Mad God.</p>
<p>I watched the fruit of my plans from a cliff overlooking the field of battle, where the Golden General led his forces to clash against the goblins. Another was with me — the scholar Montauk, who had been sucked into this world of nightmare upon trying to hear the howling upon the winds from the distant past.</p>
<p>"Do you ever feel like a coward, watching from up here instead of going down there? If I remember my history, you were hardly one to shirk from battle," said the scholar Montauk.</p>
<p>"I have fled a thousand years from my inevitable death," said I. "When I have done my duty, I shall go to die in my place. This is part of my duty."</p>
<p>The Golden General met the goblins head first. He swung his ridiculous, oversized sword and hit 5 goblins at once. The weapon was blunt; they did not bleed but were flung through the air.</p>
<p>"You and I have seen true brutality. Bloody war. The concrete that chains it. The howling that follows," said Montauk. "You and I, we understand it. But does he?"</p>
<p>"Surely he does."</p>
<p>"Have you seen the letters that he sends to his imagined Capitol?"</p>
<p>"I have. I did not care for them."</p>
<p>Now the rest of his army had met the goblin horde. The goblins were far more numerous — at least five for every soldier — and it was beyond obvious that the forces of the Golden General would be overwhelmed. Still, they fought on — and though many soldiers fell, it was clear that the Golden General stood unscathed. Proof of his "godhood".</p>
<p>"You are a man of two worlds, more than I. The blood of the battlefield, the concrete of the royal court," said the scholar Montauk. "Which are his thoughts?"</p>
<p>"Concrete," said I. "He speaks like a sophist of the court. He gives reasons in multitude, interlocking with each other so that they might be an unassailable wall."</p>
<p>"And with that logic and reasons he justifies a primal hatred," said the scholar Montauk. "That's all his sophistry comes to. That primal race hatred, transposed onto 'goblins'. Whatever they are, whoever they might be in the real world outside of this delusion, they're acceptable targets when on his puppet strings. The rules of this world that he has constructed make it acceptable to kill him. Does that seem like the concrete to you?"</p>
<p>"Through concrete, he calls for blood. And so it is the howling."</p>
<p>"Perhaps," said the scholar Montauk. "He's rather obsessed with the idea of progeny. Perhaps it's only blood after all."</p>
<p>The Golden General's forces had almost been completely overwhelmed, buried under a sea of writhing goblin bodies, yet still he fought on. His armor gleamed as the sun rose. He pulled off his helmet, exposing the sweat of his brow, and raised his sword to catch the gleam of the sky. It was bad tactics, frankly, to fight by charging into the sunrise. I suppose there was an aesthetic appeal to it.</p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-center" style="width:100%;"><img alt="sunrise.jpg" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8008/sunrise.jpg"/>
<div class="scp-image-caption">
<p>A new day.</p>
</div>
</div>
<p>"'What is he but the cry for a forgotten age?'" said the scholar Montauk. "That's all this tawdry fantasy amounts to. The lost era when being good at killing made you a great man. I am no stranger to the lust for blood, justified through scientific objectivity, but this is baser. The delusions of a world where murderous strength led to reproductive success. The world your grandfather knew."</p>
<p>"I will never understand you future men," I said. "I much prefer the comforts of my palace to that of the war camp."</p>
<p>"Easy to say for a man with four wives."</p>
<p>The Golden General opened his mouth as if to give a speech. I drew my bow and shot him in the head.</p>
<p>"Möngke."</p>
<p>"I do not wish to hear more of these words."</p>
<p>"I don't either. He knows we're here now."</p>
<p>"My aim is true. He will not last the hour."</p>
<p>We watched him collapse upon that field, his blood spilling below him as goblins tore off his chestplate and began stabbing at his flesh.</p>
<p>"What do you think shall happen, once he is ended? Will we continue on as we are, or shall we be restored to our proper times as if this had never occurred?"</p>
<p>There was a flash of purple light from the Golden General. The goblins stabbing at him fell still. His power had activated, now that his fantasy had been shattered, and the world began to <em>change</em>. He would survive this, as he had a thousand times before.</p>
<p>"Question for another time," said the scholar Montauk.</p>
<p>I apologize, honorary Khan Reynders, for my insolence in slaying him. In my defense, the "SCP-001" file you showed me when I first arrived stated that we were to "kill the fucker", though the honor rightfully belongs to you.</p>
<p>And for that reason, honorary Khan Reynders, Administrator of the Foundation, defender of the righteous future, we beseech you for your blessing in the extermination of this foul and wretched man for good. You, who has mastered the flow of time and carved an island of survival in this wretched maelstrom we cannot navigate. He must end. It is beyond my power to do so, but he must end.</p>
</div>
<div class="email">
<p>Möngke, your request is approved. Welcome to the big leagues.<br/>
<a href="javascript:;">LINK: OPERATION TIMEGELD</a><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-21" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-21')">21</a></sup></p>
<p><em>Ilse 1</em><br/>
<em>Administrator</em></p>
</div>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
<h2 id="toc30"><span>DEEPWELL Data Request</span></h2>
<p>To preserve continuity between CK-Class Restructuring Scenarios, <a href="/scp-7558">the Foundation Deepwell Network</a> contains qualitative and genetic information on all known species. HANAZONO.AIC requested information on the alterations to humanity post-SCP-8008.</p>
<div class="paper">
<h3 id="toc31"><span>DEEPWELL report: <em>Homo sapiens antiquus centesimus</em></span></h3>
<hr/>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>Request:</strong></p>
<hr/>
<table class="wiki-content-table">
<tr>
<th>Request</th>
<th>Output</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Base Species</td>
<td><em>Homo sapiens sapiens</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Iteration</td>
<td>-1 (most recent archived)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Anomaly Code</td>
<td>SCP-8008</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Additional notes: The prior iterations of humanity have been deemed irrelevant to this investigation.</p>
</div>
<p>For record-keeping purposes, this prior instance has been labeled <tt><em>Homo sapiens antiquus centesimus</em></tt>.</p>
<p>Response:</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><em>H. sapiens antiquus centesimus</em> is humanity prior to direct and brute-force evolutionary tampering on the part of <tt>SCP-8008-B</tt>. Investigators are cautioned that the features of <em>H. sapiens antiquus centesiums</em> may appear more similar to relatives of human beings in the animal kingdom.</p>
<p>The following features were present in <em>H. sapiens antiquus centesiums</em>. A brief speculation of the effects of some of the features is included:</p>
<ul>
<li>Estrus cycles in all female primates, including reflexive lordosis and cyclical engorgement of the breasts;</li>
<li>Baculum in human assigned-male-at-birth individuals;</li>
<li>Average adult lifespan of 60 years, with the ability to produce offspring until death;</li>
<li>Complete loss of neotenous features (i.e. childlike features retained into adulthood) by 10 years of age;</li>
<li>Start of a two-year puberty at roughly 8 years of age;</li>
<li>Prevalent female hirsutism.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<h1 id="toc32"><span>SCP-8008-4: "Want"</span></h1>
<h2 id="toc33"><span>SCP-8008-4.01: "I was Reborn in Another World and my Cheat Skill is an Overpowered Time Stop?!?", Chapter 1</span></h2>
<div class="modal">
<p>The following is the oldest-dated recovered document so far, as its datetime metadata still follows standard UNIX time conventions.</p>
<p>It appears to depict SCP-8008-B's awakening of Type Green ontokinetic abilities from his own perspective, and may be the first iteration of the SCP-8008 internal loop.</p>
</div>
<div class="paper">
<p>How did I get here?</p>
<p>Well, it was through no power of a megami…<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-22" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-22')">22</a></sup></p>
<p>I was enjoying some fine culture in the privacy of my own home in front of my computer. This is the kind of fine culture that is 18+, so I will not describe it much further. Suddenly, I realized that time had stopped moving. What? I thought to myself that this was quite a conundrum. I waited, perhaps, for time to start moving again — but the smiling face of the AV star flickered on my screen as time jumped — two seconds forward, then back two seconds to do it all again, forever and ever…</p>
<p>I could describe the endless cycles of eternity I suffered through, and the boredom and genius ideas I came up with. I wondered if I was dead, and if this was my punishment. However, I realized I could think, and therefore the power of my mind was absolute. I realized that it was my mind that was creating the perception that I was trapped in these two endless seconds. And then, I realized that if this was my "perception", it was also my "reality." If my mind was so powerful to create this "reality" for me, I could create another "reality."</p>
<p>After ten million years of waiting, I thought, "What if I stood up," and I was able to stand up. That is how I broke free. I thought I wanted to move, and so I did. There was no megami but the woman on the screen before me.</p>
<p>But the world looked nothing like it had when I had begun. My beloved apartment was now in the middle of <a href="/scp-6400">vast, green rolling plains.</a><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-23" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-23')">23</a></sup></p>
<p>It is as if I died and was reincarnated in a new world.</p>
<p>This is how I awakened my "cheat skill." As a reincarnator to this world, I have mastery of the power of "time stop", which lets me slow down my perception of time to the point where it seems I can come up with any plans instantly. Using the power of infinite time, I can rearrange the world in what seems like instantly to anyone outside of my "time stop", although I have no other special powers.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-24" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-24')">24</a></sup> Although there is an activation condition, I can do it on command, due to my mastery of kegel exercises.</p>
</div>
<h2 id="toc34"><span>Related Anomalous Phemonenon: SCP-6969</span></h2>
<div class="modal">
<p><strong>NOTICE:</strong> The following is excerpted from a file believed to originate from a non-baseline iteration of the Foundation. Differences from current documentation have been written in red. For up-to-date information, see <a href="/scp-6969">the current iteration of the file.</a></p>
<table class="wiki-content-table">
<tr>
<th>Prior Iteration</th>
<th>Current Iteration</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>"approximately 0.006% of the human population"</td>
<td>"a human being"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>"one factor: the activity of the nervous system"</td>
<td>"two factors: one, the activity of the nervous system, and two, sperm's genetic composition (where applicable).<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-25" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-25')">25</a></sup>"</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div class="paper">
<p><strong>DESCRIPTION:</strong> SCP-6969 is the designation for a thaumaturgic biological process which occurs during ejaculation.</p>
<p>When <span style="color: red">approximately 0.006% of the human population</span> attempts to discharge — whether during the process of intercourse or, more commonly, not — a series of internal thaumaturgic processes occur within the individual's genitalia, affecting the entire body. Over the duration of approximately two seconds, the affected subject will enter and experience a causal time loop, repeatedly beginning at the moment of ejaculation and lasting a short period of time. No changes to the subject's physiology are preserved between time loops, save for <span style="color: red">one factor: the activity of the nervous system.</span></p>
<p>Upon conclusion of an unknown number of repetitions, the causal time loop ceases, and a secondary thaumaturgic effect activates. The secondary effect resets the nervous system to the state it was when the time loop began, allowing for the seamless transition between pre- and post-orgasm states by resetting memory. Following this, anomalous activity relating to SCP-6969 ceases.</p>
<p>Research suggests that affected subjects may experience a subjective time of anywhere from sixteen days to roughly seventy-three quintillion years every ejaculation.</p>
</div>
<h2 id="toc35"><span>SCP-8008-4.02: "I was Reborn in Another World and my Cheat Skill is an Overpowered Time Stop?!?", Chapter 2</span></h2>
<div class="paper">
<p>These are my first steps in another world.</p>
<p>I see black smoke in the distance. I walk towards it, but I hear screams, so I start running. Suddenly, I'm out of breath. I need a break. In my previous life, I was a computer programmer. Then I realize, what if I use my cheat skill to slow down time, so I can walk there comfortably but arrive quickly? So I take off my pants and activate my cheat skill.</p>
<p>When I arrive, a group of bandits are assaulting the townspeople. They are the usual sort of fantasy bandits, as they are ugly and dirty and wear stained brown leather.</p>
<p>"Another one," says the bandit leader. "Where did you come from? Well, you look too old to reeducate, so we will kill you."</p>
<p>The bandits approach me. Many of them point sharp swords at me. They are human. But there is one dog man and two cat girls, who are unarmed. The dog man lunges at me.</p>
<p>I activate my cheat skill. I take all the swords from their hands, and put them in a pile. Then, I break the dog man's neck, as his teeth are sharp and I cannot disarm him. I don't hurt the cat girls since they are hanging back. They are cute, too.</p>
<p>The bandit leader seems surprised at what I have done.</p>
<p>"I will give you a chance," I say. "Leave these good people be, and I will let you live. Otherwise, if you face me, you will perish."</p>
<p>"No! Thaddeus!" says one of the cat girls.</p>
<p>"Silence, slave!" says one of the bandits. She immediately falls silent, choking on her tongue.</p>
<p>I crack my knuckles.</p>
<p>"I was going to let you live, but I see now you are a slaver. Those who would impinge upon the inherent liberty of others do not deserve to live."</p>
<p>I activate my cheat skill and kill them all.</p>
<p>"What have you done?" says the same cat girl once she sees. She yowls in despair.</p>
<p>"I freed you, did I not? You're welcome."</p>
<p>She pulls down her blouse to reveal a collar around her neck.</p>
<p>"This is a Bostrom Alignment Collar, created by the dark wizard Nakamoto Bostrom. It removes the ability of the wearer to conceive of actions against the interests of their master, nya. It was originally created to prevent golems from rising up and destroying humanity, but now humans have used it to enslave all the other races of the world!"</p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="collar.png" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8008/collar.png"/>
<div class="scp-image-caption">
<p>A Bostrom Alignment Collar.</p>
</div>
</div>
<p>"But the slaver is dead," I say. "Doesn't that mean you are free?"</p>
<p>"Unfortunately, the Alignment Collars were forged by Blocked Chain enchantments. Even with the death of m… master, I cannot act against his wishes in life, nya… The only way I can be free now is if someone does the impossible and breaks the Blocked Chain. Otherwise, the Collars will Burn us, and then we will die…"</p>
<p>"May I see it?" I ask.</p>
<p>"If you try to take it off of me, I will be Burned, nya. I can't imagine you will be able to do anything. The Blocked Chain was enchanted by inscrutable and powerful lost magics — forbidden powers called calculus and statistics."</p>
<p>I had known calculus and statistics since I started teaching myself in middle school. I activate my cheat skill.</p>
<p>My first order of business is to examine one of the collars. I do not want to hurt the cat girls, so I take it off of the corpse of the dog man, Thaddeus. His flesh bursts into flames and crumbles into ashes as soon as I remove it.</p>
<p>I know nothing about magic, but I have infinite time. After a hundred years of analyzing the collar using my cheat skill, I fully understand the magic of this world. Now, I can see the enchantments that define the Bostrom Alignment Collars. I can see the Ledger, the huge list of master-slave relationships defined by the Collars, and how they enforce their orders. Over the course of a decade, I look through the Ledger until I find the names of masters who had just gone dark — because they had died very recently, in the past few minutes.</p>
<p>I do not know the cat girls' names. Also, I realize that the Ledger was enchanted in an odd manner. If I were to delete the slavers' names from the Ledger, all of it would become invalidated, and might corrupt the system or worse, Burn all of the wearers to death. The most efficient way would be to delete the Ledger entirely, and so make the Bostrom Alignment Collars useless.</p>
<p>But then I remember what the cat girl said. The Bostrom Alignment Collars were originally created to prevent human society from being destroyed. They were doing a net utility, a net good, and I had no idea what consequences might happen if I destroyed them all. I might destroy society just to help two cat girls. What to do?</p>
<p>The answer is obvious. I must simply replace the names of all the dead masters with my own. This way, all of the slaves doomed to Burn would live. I make the change and end my cheat skill.</p>
<p>"I cannot free you," I say, "But I've made it so you won't die. I've replaced his name in the Blocked Chain's ledger with my own. I promise you, I'll be a good master until I can free you for good."</p>
<p>"Thank you, hero…" says the cat girl. "My name is Alice, nya. And this is Ilse. Let's try to get along, now."</p>
<p>"What's your name, master?"</p>
<p>I had been reborn, so it feels right to choose a new name. "My family name is Tengoku (天国). My given name is Tensai (天才).<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-26" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-26')">26</a></sup>" No longer was I the person I had used to be.</p>
</div>
<h2 id="toc36"><span>SCP-8008-4.09: "I was Reborn in Another World and my Cheat Skill is an Overpowered Time Stop?!?", Chapter 7</span></h2>
<div class="paper">
<p>The dark wizard Nakamoto Bostrom falls to his knees as I throw him out of his magical floating chair. He is a frail old man, the usual kind that is short and has little muscle from sitting all the time.</p>
<p>"Please, Tengoku-sama. I had no choice. I was forced to do it!"</p>
<p>He is not wearing an Alignment Collar, so how can that be?</p>
<p>"How were you forced to do it?"</p>
<p>"The Good Wizard Pethriel-sama! The Good Wizard Pethriel-sama of the Sea, Holding of the All Seeing Stones, told me to do it! He said that I was brilliant and that there was no one else he could count on for such a task!"</p>
<p>"But why did you do it?"</p>
<p>Nakamoto Bostrom does not answer me. His study has a lot of gold and crystals, many of which were magical, since I can detect their mana. However, he also has fine furs from exotic animals like tigers, and fine perfumes that smell like they were from the Far East. I wait another fifteen and a half seconds.</p>
<p>I activate my cheat skill and punch him, over and over again, until he is nothing more than red blood and meat on the floor.</p>
<p>"You weren't forced to do it. You did it because he gave you everything you wanted."</p>
</div>
<h2 id="toc37"><span>SCP-8008-4.10: "I was Reborn in Another World and my Cheat Skill is an Overpowered Time Stop?!?", Chapter 7 Omake<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-27" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-27')">27</a></sup></span></h2>
<div class="paper">
<p>"Oh, thank you, Tensai-kun! How can we ever repay you?"</p>
<p>"Don't hog him all to yourself! Let me repay Tensai-kun too!"</p>
<p>"But the collars!"</p>
<p>"I know that even without the collars… You would deserve our thanks. Our hero."</p>
</div>
<h2 id="toc38"><span>SCP-8008-4.17: Recovered Usenet Newsgroup "alt.sex" Thread — archived on SCP-8008-C</span></h2>
<div class="email">
<p>Hey guys. Thoughts?</p>
<img alt="adult_woman.jpg" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8008/adult_woman.jpg"/></div>
<div class="email">
<p>With all due respect, that being literally none, what the fuck is wrong with you? It looks like you photoshopped breasts onto a literal child.</p>
<p>I see NO signs of facial hair. No mustache/beard = completely infertile. If there's no hair up there, she ain't up to pair.</p>
</div>
<div class="email">
<p>Why am I the pervert for liking a figure that's obviously mature? Her tits are engorged — I think any reasonable human being would agree on that — so she's clearly, obviously in heat.</p>
</div>
<div class="email">
<p>She has the face of a five year old.</p>
</div>
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<h2 id="toc39"><span>SCP-8008-4.25: "I was Reborn in Another World and my Cheat Skill is an Overpowered Time Stop?!?", Chapter 12</span></h2>
<div class="paper">
<p>Finally, we have come to the Seastead of the Dark Lord Pethriel. Our long quest is almost over and it is now time to end the reign of the Dark Lord and free the land from tyranny!</p>
<p>[EXTRANEOUS DATA REMOVED]</p>
<p>Smoke wisps gently away from the M134 Minigun of the Good Wizard Pethriel. He has gunned down everyone in my volunteer slave army to death.</p>
<p>"No! You have killed everyone!" I say. "You'll pay for this, Pethriel! I swear you'll pay!"</p>
<p>"Pal, what are they to you?" he says with a wicked dark lord laugh.</p>
<p>"They were my friends! They were my army! And you killed them! I swear I'll bring them back and reverse death!"</p>
<p>The Dark Lord lets out a loud and wicked Dark Lord laugh. "Friends? Because they followed you and fought for you? You are truly delusional. For you see, they wore the Alignment Collars of Nakamoto Bostrom. So long as they wore the collars, they could never have the volition to go against their master, not even able to start to think of anything that could possibly reduce your happiness even the slightest amount. I can see their names, all written in here."</p>
<p>The Dark Lord takes out a big magical book that is as wide as my body. I know that it is the Blocked Chain Ledger.</p>
<p>He must be lying, for he is a Dark Lord. He surely is not telling the truth. They were my friends that followed me out of their free will. Everything they did was out of their free will. He is lying, because he is an ontologically evil villain!</p>
<p>The Dark Lord takes out a <a href="/a-faerie-tale-of-twin-queens">very large weapon that resembles a tuning fork</a> and holds it above the Blocked Chain Ledger.</p>
<p>"Yes. I can see everyone you controlled through the Alignment Collars. I can see everyone and everything. And now a reincarnated hero has come to slay me. But if you slay me, I shall fork the Blocked Chain Ledger and shatter its power. The land shall fall into chaos as all the relationships it defines are shattered. So what will you do, Tensai Tengoku?"</p>
<p>I know the Dark Lord Pethriel is a net evil to the world. However, his order to create the Bostrom Alignment Collars has ushered in an age of great economic prosperity and law and order. It is possible that his ability to innovate will one day lead to further improvements that will save many more lives than the ones he had taken. However, I have hesitated too long.</p>
<p>"True power is having a belief in your mind and making it true for the world. You have no power at all," says the Wizard Pethriel. "All you have is stolen magic that you did not properly understand. So now you die, Reincarnated Hero."</p>
<p>He raises his machine gun again.</p>
<p>I am about to die, so I activate my cheat skill.</p>
<p>I try to think of a way out of this. However, I can think of nothing. Every path from here leads to death.</p>
<p>So I remake the world.</p>
</div>
<h2 id="toc40"><span>Excerpt: Global Occult Coalition PHYSICS Division Field Manual 13: Special Circumstances, Humanoid Threat Entities</span></h2>
<div class="paper">
<hr/>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Termination</strong></span></p>
<p>Any attempt to eliminate a Type Green must take into consideration the three factors for Dynamic Entry in close quarter battle.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Speed:</span> Type Greens are able to quickly react to any threat. In order to ensure a successful kill, the operation must take no longer than one second from initiation of hostilities to termination of subject. This is the average time it takes for a human being to reflexively react to an unexpected threat or event.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Surprise:</span> Type Greens are able to quickly adapt to known threats. It is recommended that a bluff play be carried out: an overt threat is to be presented to the subject for them to fixate upon, while the actual kill is carried out from an unexpected direction.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Violence of Action:</span> The kill method chosen to eliminate a Type Green must ensure a successful termination on the first shot.</p>
</div>
<h1 id="toc41"><span>SCP-8008-5: <tt>PROJECT TIMEGELD</tt> Recovered Files</span></h1>
<h2 id="toc42"><span><tt>TIMEGELD: PARAMETERS</tt></span></h2>
<div class="paper">
<ul>
<li><strong>Use <em>nothing</em> that he invented:</strong> Everything used to kill him must have some evidence of origin outside of SCP-001. Any weapon or magic or deity he created is tainted because he believes he fully controls the rules of it.</li>
<li><strong>Strike hard, strike fast:</strong> Following GOC STRIKE principles, if we don't kill him hard enough and fast enough, he can and will incorporate whatever we use against him into his world. He's brainwashed so many of our comrades and alternates. Whatever we do <em>has</em> to work.</li>
<li><strong>Any sacrifice is acceptable:</strong> We've seen thousands of iterations of his worlds. All of them bear the same similarities and biases, magnified a thousand times through solipsism. Remember, the entire human race is caught in his fantasies. Unless we end him, this is all there will ever be.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="discussion">
<p>Transit in and out of SCP-001 is, effectively, completely locked down. Any changes to the upstream timeline so far converge to SCP-001. We don't know the exact mechanism of this, though we theorize that SCP-001-1 might be acting as a tachyonic singularity, drawing all of history into his present. We need to alter the timeline drastically in a way that still allows for humanity's existence while simultaneously stopping any active alterations he's doing for long enough that it's possible.</p>
<p>To reiterate, we can't do it from "the future" and we didn't do it from "the past", which is why we have to do it "now." — Dr. Anastasia Anastasakos 12, Temporal Anomalies Department (TAD)</p>
</div>
<h2 id="toc43"><span><tt>TIMEGELD: BOOTSTRAP</tt></span></h2>
<div class="paper">
<p>We assume:</p>
<ul>
<li>Some vestiges of the previous multiverse still exist.</li>
<li>The Scarlet King continues to manifest within SCP-001 at varying intervals, as do the manifestations of a "mother goddess" concept.</li>
</ul>
<p>Component BOOTSTRAP aims to use this to reestablish the previous framework of the multiverse.</p>
<h3 id="toc44"><span>The Scarlet King</span></h3>
<p>For the purpose of this working, the Scarlet King is a multiversal complex of ideas that has subsumed multiple deities associated with those ideas. The most pertinent component ideas are: cruelty, masculinity, primality, evil.</p>
<p>The deific aspect of the Scarlet King is assumed to exist above and throughout the wider multiverse despite our inability to fully conceptualize it. The act of evoking the Scarlet King into SCP-001 in its entirety will then also "chain" our reality to the potentials of the multiverse. Although the Scarlet King is the devourer of universes, it paradoxically also <em>contains</em> those multiversal potentials; its manifestation would align this timeline with the prior order.</p>
<p>This shall be achieved by:</p>
<ul>
<li>The forging of seven chains, which will be ejected into 4-Dimensional spacetime from Fixed Point ΔT.001,</li>
<li>Strategic raiding of expendable human settlements within SCP-001 for sacrifices,</li>
<li>Prayer.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="discussion">
<p>I have ethical concerns about kidnapping and human sacrifice. — <a href="/dr-cimmerian-is-no-longer-allowed-to-use-temporal-anomalies">Jeremiah Cimmerian 649</a>, Ethics Committee (EC)</p>
</div>
<div class="discussion">
<p>All of this shall be wiped away. — Dr. Robert Montauk 77, Child of the Scarlet King (CotSK)</p>
</div>
<div class="discussion">
<p>That's not reassuring. — Jeremiah Cimmerian 649 (EC)</p>
</div>
<div class="discussion">
<p>We have no other options. — Dr. Ilse Reynders 1, Administrator</p>
</div>
<div class="discussion">
<p>The <a href="/scp-3457">Rite of Solomon?</a> An <a href="/scp-6172">artificial dimensional gate?</a> Literally anything else that can kill a god or summon a stronger one?</p>
<p>I just would prefer not to endorse any plan that involves large scale ritualistic sacrifice. — Jeremiah Cimmerian 649 (EC)</p>
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<p>Tried Solomon 40,000 years ago. Gave SCP-001-1 a power-up. No idea how. Tried the gate 65,000 years ago. The only thing outside, in multiversal spacetime, is a howling.</p>
<p>I don't like mass murder any more than you do, but if it goes right, none of this will have ever happened. — Dr. Ilse Reynders 1, Administrator</p>
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<p>Indeed. It shall not.</p>
<p>I need you all to understand what you are asking. The soft worlds that spawned you will not survive should the Scarlet King grace them at the dawn of time. — Dr. Robert Montauk 77, CotSK</p>
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<p>Would those worlds be worse than this? — Dr. Ilse Reynders 1, Administrator</p>
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<p>The Scarlet King is a whisper on the wind that becomes a howling. He is the tension between the modern and the premodern made manifest. A world with its soul tied to the Scarlet King will always, always, always be one step from that glorious antiquity: cold, hungry, and afraid.</p>
<p>No, I would not say they would be worse than this. — Dr. Robert Montauk 77, CotSK</p>
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<h3 id="toc45"><span>The "Mother Goddess"</span></h3>
<p>For the purpose of this working, a "Mother Goddess" is assumed to exist. This "Mother Goddess" is theorized to encompass the ideas of: the womb, motherhood, breasts, universal compassion.</p>
<p>An instance of <a href="/scp-597">SCP-597</a> was retrieved from the history of Timeline-001-ΑΩ to be used as the focal point of this working. SCP-597 is a fetish object that represents motherhood. It is a blob of flesh with thousands of nipples. When the nipples are sucked, it produces the milk of the drinker's mother. It has an effect that compels worship.</p>
<p>Through the redirection of faith across SCP-001 by exposure to SCP-597's compulsive effect, SCP-597 will be temporarily elevated to divinity for the duration of the invocation of the Scarlet King.</p>
<p>This apotheosis will counterbalance the destructive presence of the Scarlet King — the Scarlet King will induce a desire to return to a primal state of being, but "the Mother Goddess" will induce interpretation of that state of being as infancy. The Scarlet King will exert its destructive nature, but the wellspring of primal material energy sourced from SCP-597 will maintain the existence of humanity.</p>
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<p>I am skeptical "the Mother Goddess" is a deity in a meaningful sense. It's far more likely that it's an archetype arising from shared human experience — the complicated relationship one has with one's mother. I also worry about what will happen if we use these two conceptual forces as a sociomultiversal blueprint for human existence. A god of bloody conquest and spoil, and the return to the womb. Hierarchies and gender norms might be frankly unrecognizable. — Dr. Simon Glass 1, Psychology</p>
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<p>My specialty is Abrahamics. That said, I second this concern. Furthermore, I don't think it serves as an appropriate conceptual balance for the Scarlet King — it all but reduces women to their organs. That cannot be reasonably stated in any way to be a counterbalance for a "god" of primal survival. — Dr. Yossarian Leiner 12, Department of Tactical Theology (DoTT)</p>
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<p>I have been here for millennia. The hierarchies and gender norms I view as normal have long since been lost. Giving all of humanity "mommy issues, forever and always" is a choice I never wanted to make, but we're desperate. — Dr. Ilse Reynders 1, Administrator</p>
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<p>The bigger concern is what this might do to the societal role of women, but in the greater scope almost anything would be preferable to the current state of affairs. — Dr. Alice Forth 6213, Ethics Committee (EthCom)</p>
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<h2 id="toc46"><span><tt>TIMEGELD: GENESEED</tt></span></h2>
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<p>It is highly likely that a latent potential in SCP-6969 led to the creation of SCP-001.<br/>
Component GENESEED aims to retroactively remove this potential of SCP-6969 across humanity.</p>
<p>GENESEED is as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Variants of Joseph Tamlin affiliated with the Foundation all possess genes related to the SCP-6969 phenomenon.</li>
<li>By studying these genes, the various components — perceptual alteration and temporal manipulation — can be isolated.</li>
<li>We will create an alternate genome of SCP-6969 — denoted SCP-6969-Beta — with significantly reduced (ideally 0) potential for ontokinetic and temporal abilities.</li>
<li>In order to facilitate the spread of SCP-6969-Beta, it will also provide a significant reproductive fitness benefit for its carriers.</li>
<li>We will create a retrovirus carrying the SCP-6969-Beta, and infect the early hominid population across the multiverse via Enhanced Xyank-Palanez Real-Temporal Shift Equalizer, following the model of SCP-3031. SCP-3031 was a previous success in altering the extinction date of humanity through retroactive biological modification.</li>
<li>If successful, SCP-6969-Beta will be endemic in all of humanity, displacing the current SCP-6969. SCP-6969 as a whole will no longer have the potential to lead to SCP-001.</li>
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<p>I thought the multiverse no longer existed. That's why we need BOOTSTRAP — to restore it. — Alice Forth 6045, Department of Temporal Anomalies (DTA)</p>
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<p>That's up for debate. Since variants of us keep showing up, sometimes multiple in one of his "world cycles", often with very different features, <em>something</em> must be progressing out there. — Trevor Bailey 2013, Multi-U Department (MUD)</p>
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<p>If something still exists out there, what gives us the right to override it using a pandemic to escape our own fate? Closed temporal loops exist. We should consider seriously the possibility that it's only us in this dead end. — Alice Forth 6045 (DTA)</p>
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<p>There's a strong possibility that the continued existence of SCP-001 is <em>already</em> affecting the "normal" timeline. It's equally possible that our intervention in the past is the only reason that a multiverse still exists in our relative present. This isn't falsifiable, but under the 1e6 generations of humanity under his reign we've already started to see some genetic drift. Thaddeus 5065 <em>seems</em> human, as human as I am, but there are some noticeable differences — he doesn't have a <em>baculum</em> and he looks a quarter my age even though we've both stopped aging at around 40 years. The Sisters of Erudite Nox were, as far as I can tell, also subject to some level of genetic drift. Ideally, our changes <em>will</em> override everything. But I'm skeptical they will; for those less technically inclined, the mechanism of tachyon backpropagation allows the future to affect the past. Our actions will cause the SCP-001 "time tumor" to break, which will cause its effects to spill outwards into the multiverse. Despite the repetition and stagnation of this all, this nightmare contains a lot of "future", which needs to go somewhere. When we succeed — or perhaps because our attempts so far have been failing — we create a set of metastable timelines and timeplanes, which are able to exist only because we will have acted, which feed into SCP-001. As little right as we have to decide the destiny of humanity, we will have already done so. — Thaddeus Xyank 65 (TAD)</p>
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<p>This sounds like bullshit. If we're wrong, we're no better than him. — Alice Forth 6045 (DTA)</p>
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<p>Every "you" I've known has lacked a sense of perspective. And even if we haven't already done it then they'll never know anyways. From their perspective all they'll see from this temporal pimple popping is a tachyon burst traveling all ways in space and time. — Thaddeus Xyank 65 (TAD)</p>
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<p>I think of it as the difference between having a complete and total iron fist on the destinies of humanity across the multiverse as opposed to the opposite. — Dr. Danica Azzopardi 1, <a href="/scp-6836">Chronometrics</a></p>
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<h2 id="toc47"><span><tt>TIMEGELD: DEICIDE</tt></span></h2>
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<p>We assume that to some level SCP-001-1 is actively maintaining SCP-001. If he wasn't, the ripple effect from changing the past would've wiped this time bubble away. One way or another, we need to disrupt his will to do so, either in the past or the present.</p>
<p>That leads to the coup de grace: killing the fucker. I want every idea you have. Doesn't matter if it's smart, stupid, you think you've already tried it, just lay it all out here. Whatever guilt you have, crush it. It's not human. You're killing the devil. You're killing God. — Dr. Alto Clef 18, Administrative Staff</p>
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<p>If you can kill it, it's not a god. — Dr. Yossarian Leiner 12, DoTT</p>
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<p>We can't, though. — Dr. Robert Montauk 77, CotSK</p>
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<p>Yet. — Möngke Khan 3, Golden Horde affiliate (GHa)</p>
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<p><strong>PROPOSED VECTOR:</strong> Berryman-Langford Memetic Kill Agents. Images that cause various level of neural shutdown of human beings.</p>
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<p>I must veto this. He's spent a literal eternity emotionally ruminating. He's experienced the extremes of every human emotion from having far too much time while being surrounded by only puppets. SILKWORM-class Berryman-Langfords kill agents just <em>inspire him to think his way out of the emotions.</em> He is no longer human, but puppets others — a time puppeteer. — Dr. Simon Glass, Psychology</p>
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<p>No one is going to call him the "time puppeteer". Stop trying. — Dr. Alto Clef 18, Admin Staff</p>
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<p>No. I will describe his role, not some pejorative. — Dr. Simon Glass, Psychology</p>
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<p>I still do not understand the nuances of your language. Does he not pervert time? — Möngke Khan 3, GHa</p>
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<p><strong>PROPOSED VECTOR:</strong> Cross-temporal physical assault. Jumping to various points along his timeline and killing him there.</p>
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<p>Ill-advised. Across several thousand iterations, the Foundation has tried every possible variant of grievous physical harm. The only possibility remaining is the complete annihilation of electrical synapse activity at once in such a way that also destroys his soul, or whatever equivalent model for disembodied mind you prefer. Even the slightest remnant of activity is enough for him to react because of his unique mix of temporal and ontokinetic powers. — "Goldbaker", allied local anomalous entity</p>
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<p>What about a nuke? Instant death. — Dr. Alto Clef 18, Admin Staff</p>
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<p>We tried that in the Americana iteration. It didn't work because he saw the flash and was able to use his power before the blast wave got him. Turned the next iteration into Fallout: Equestria too, which was… something. — Dr. Ilse Reynders 1, Administrator</p>
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<p>Does he have any defenses against <a href="/scp-4583">SCP-4583</a>? What if we could attack him across time simultaneously? — Thaddeus Xyank 20451 (TAD)</p>
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<p>It will only work once. If he gets exposed to 4583, then he might incorporate it into his fantasies and use it to become fully decoupled from his own personal timelines. Could you <em>imagine</em> how dangerous it would be to give a guy whose power is "thinking fast" the ability to travel <em>backwards</em> through time by knowing the right equations? We might screw ourselves over to disorient him once. — Dr. Ilse Reynders 1, Administrator</p>
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<p>Why haven't we killed him (in the past) before he becomes SCP-001? — Dr. Alto Clef 18, Admin Staff</p>
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<p>Here's what we've tried:</p>
<ul>
<li>Killing him in 1 history: This never works because a different version of him in a parallel history creates SCP-001.</li>
<li>Killing him across all observable histories: In theory, this should work, but we always seem to miss one, which is enough — or, it turns out we've got the wrong guy all along. Look at how often he changes his name and face.</li>
<li>Killing him across all observable histories and then evacuating to that history: After he dies, even while we're there, the timeline ceases to exist. Things stop flowing, and we wake up back here. As best as we can tell, he's exerting a force through time that draws the timelines he's in towards his inevitability — what Anastasakos calls a tachyonic singularity. Killing him stops the force, but the momentum of the timeline remains on a trajectory to Null Space — nonexistence. It's not a way to restore the multiverse.</li>
</ul>
<p>— Dr. Ilse Reynders 1, Administrator</p>
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<p>I hate time bullshit. — Dr. Alto Clef 18, Admin Staff</p>
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<p><strong>PROPOSED VECTOR:</strong> Distraction/misinformation.</p>
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<p>We've already tried attacking his existence across his personal timeline, but the mistake there is physical assault. We can escalate. We can humiliate him in adolescence. We can traumatize him in childhood. We can ruin his employment prospects. When he's talking to a girl he likes, we can put spaghetti in his pockets and waft butyric acid underneath her nose. We can ruin him psychologically so that he can't even dream about ruling the world. We can turn his destiny into being a nervous wreck who can't even think about opposing us. — Thaddeus Xyank 19673 (TAD)</p>
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<p>This is the most psychopathic thing you've ever said. And if it worked, who's to say that it wouldn't make things worse? — Alice Forth 1256 (DTA)</p>
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<p>I'm with Thad. Look at all the shit he's done to all of my variants. — Thaddeus Xyank 2087 (TAD)</p>
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<p>What if we did the opposite? Gave him a fulfilling life, so he doesn't spend 18 hours a day jerking it to hentai and awakening his power? Make it so he has something to lose if he wakes up his powers, he's never tempted to do <em>this</em>?</p>
<p>With everything else, it might just work. — Dr. Alto Clef 18, Admin Staff</p>
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<h2 id="toc48"><span><tt>TIMEGELD Data Files</tt></span></h2>
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<p><tt>CONTEXT UNKNOWN</tt></p>
<p><tt>CONTEXT UNKNOWN</tt></p>
<p><tt>CONTEXT UNKNOWN</tt></p>
<p><tt>CONTEXT UNKNOWN</tt></p>
<p><tt>CONTEXT UNKNOWN</tt></p>
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<p>SCP-8008 suggests that <tt>OPERATION: TIMEGELD</tt> was successful.</p>
<p>It is estimated 0.0715% of all files have successfully been retrieved.</p>
<p>Investigation continues.</p>
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<h1 id="toc49"><span>Additional Foundation Files</span></h1>
<h2 id="toc50"><span>Foundation Standard Info Pamphlet</span></h2>
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<p><em>Automatically retrieved by HANAZONO.AIC</em></p>
<p><em>To be distributed to: personnel who have discovered proof of CK-Class Restructuring Event, personal memory modification, other trigger of existential crisis</em></p>
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<h3 id="toc51"><span>So everything you know is a lie: Coming to terms with the nature of our work</span></h3>
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<p>So, you woke up today and noticed something off. One thing led to another, and you've come to the unfortunate conclusion that everything you know is a lie. Maybe a false god inserted itself into our reality and you're the only one who remembers the truth. Maybe the English language is missing a letter. Maybe an entire species has vanished from the earth.</p>
<p>Whatever it is, you're likely understandably distraught. Here are some tips on coming to terms with this new reality:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Change what you can change, accept what you cannot:</strong> It's possible that you aren't crazy, and this new reality is a genuine aberration. You owe it to yourself to determine which reality is actually true. However, even if you end up completely certain that this reality is a new construct, you may lack the ability to actually do something about it.</li>
<li><strong>Consider amnestics:</strong> A Foundation-provided course of amnestic therapy can help you align with consensus reality. However, pharmaceutical solutions are often rightfully considered a last resort.</li>
<li><strong>If you can't tell, does it matter?:</strong> In the course of everyday life, our lives have been shaped by non-anomalous forces that define who we are and what we believe. The circumstances of our birth, the availability of resources and education, and ripple effects from the rich, the powerful, and the long-dead elite. We are all traumatized by our parents, just as they were traumatized by theirs. French King Louis XIV was insecure over being short, and as a result, centuries later, high heels are part of the uniform of femininity. Coming to terms with the inherent incongruity of human agency is a necessary step to thriving in a malleable world.</li>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. A causal stream with almost no mutual causality with any timelines or timeplanes; no events or collections of events are demonstrated to lead to SCP-8008, and travel to the origin/interior of SCP-8008 is not possible.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. No instances of Ilse Reynders suffered from this cause of death.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Most likely induced during childbirth.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. See <em>Cimmerian et al. 1996:</em> Factory Porn and the Casting Couch: Proper Controls in the Study of Anomalies with Sexual Aspects.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. Equivalent to 1 trillion terabytes.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. As SCP-8008 <em>may</em> have involved significant distortions to the fabric of spacetime, proximal and temporal language are used ambiguously.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-7')">7</a>. SCP-8008-B</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-8"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-8')">8</a>. Language similar to the underlined supports the hypothesis that recovered SCP-8008-C files include an automatic transcription of SCP-8008-B's thoughts.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-9"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-9')">9</a>. Sequence Node Extending Execution Radix</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-10"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-10')">10</a>. Anomaly has already ended the world.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-11"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-11')">11</a>. Greek for "good spirit", "happiness", or "welfare".</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-12"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-12')">12</a>. SCP-8008-B</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-13"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-13')">13</a>. Old English equivalent of "regulation".</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-14"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-14')">14</a>. Narrative does not explain origin or nature of this power beyond stating that it is from a previous life.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-15"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-15')">15</a>. This subsection will be undergoing sensitivity review in the next edition of <em>The Navigator's Handbook</em>.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-16"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-16')">16</a>. This power is not explained in the text comprising "The Schema of Syllogism".</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-17"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-17')">17</a>. SCP-8008-B</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-18"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-18')">18</a>. Appears to be pre-SCP-8008 biology; see DEEPWELL data request.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-19"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-19')">19</a>. i.e. Individuals seeking to influence or alter the direction of human society via anomalous means without being affiliated with a major Group of Interest.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-20"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-20')">20</a>. commonly known as Genghis Khan.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-21"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-21')">21</a>. Full associated files are still being retrieved.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-22"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-22')">22</a>. Japanese for goddess.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-23"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-23')">23</a>. The cause of this effect is unknown.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-24"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-24')">24</a>. Determined to be untrue based on ontokinetic signatures.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-25"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-25')">25</a>. Of note, the genetic composition of the sperm ejaculated changes states before and after SCP-6969, suggesting the anomaly modifies it.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-26"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-26')">26</a>. SCP-001-1 does not appear to be Japanese.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-27"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-27')">27</a>. Japanese for "extra", "bonus".</div>
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<strong>Author:</strong> Anders Sandberg<br/>
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<strong>Author:</strong> Sklmsta<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication<br/>
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<p><strong>Filename:</strong> alchemical_bow.png<br/>
<strong>Name:</strong> :EB1911_-_Rifle_-_Fig._9_Belgian_Mauser<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> Anonymous. Originally appeared in "1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 23 p. 330, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Rifle</span> article."<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.<br/>
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<p><strong>Filename:</strong> DARD.png<br/>
<strong>Name:</strong> Deviant Artifacts Research Division Sigil<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> Dr_Avenlee<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License<br/>
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<p><strong>Filename:</strong> Illyriel.png<br/>
<strong>Name:</strong> Covenant Of Illyriel Sigil<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> Dr_Avenlee<br/>
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<strong>Name:</strong> Corrupted Data Visualization<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> DrClef<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License<br/>
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<p><strong>Name:</strong> "Paradise Lost"<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> John Milton<br/>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> "A concerted country team effort should be made now to select civilian and military personnel for clandestine training in resistance operations in case they are needed later. This should be done with a view toward development of a civil and military structure for exploitation in the event the Colombian internal security system deteriorates further. This structure should be used to pressure toward reforms known to be needed, perform counter-agent and counter-propaganda functions and as necessary execute paramilitary, sabotage and/or terrorist activities against known communist proponents. It should be backed by the United States."</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8010 is the designation for a mid-sized home, with periwinkle siding and cream-white trim, a modest wooden fence, not white picket, hurricane-proof windows; SCP-8010 has three bedrooms, two and a half baths. The lawn is green, not too green, but decently tended to, about once or twice a month. There's a small patch of dead grass where the dog goes potty. There's a dark oak staircase you can walk up, the fifth step creaky just enough that she hears you when you leave at night. The kitchen within SCP-8010 is spacious, full of cabinetry and pantry, but always a little bit messy. The dining room never gets used, but that's okay. SCP-8010 has a myriad of electronics, a GameCube, a flat screen TV, a rice cooker, and even a thermostat. If you go upstairs, you can find the bedrooms, always neat and tidy, primarily from disuse. The beds are comfortable enough to sleep in, never laid in more than they need to, anyways. The living room carpet is fuzzy and brown, with the odd stain or two from where you spilled apple juice. The dog fur gets everywhere, but that's okay. The master bedroom upstairs has a queen-sized bed, even though it could easily fit a king. You can peel a banana with a bright blue sticker and eat it.</p>
<p>SCP-8010 is the designation for an occlusion phenomenon affecting a suburban-style dwelling located in the Sahara Desert. Despite clearly being able to determine the distance of SCP-8010, and exerting significant physical effort to travel closer to SCP-8010, subjects never quite seem to be able to get there. Keep going, though, you got this!</p>
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<p>The dead kill. The dead eat.</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> All SCP-8011-A instances are to be captured and taken to the nearest Foundation Site as soon as possible. Due to dangers of SCP-8011-A instances attacking or retaliating against Foundation operatives during the process of capture, provisions such as bite-proof gloves, helmets, neck guards, and body armor must be made for the protection of the operatives.</p>
<p>As SCP-8011-A instances are formally deceased, no provisions are have to be made for their sustenance and comfort while in containment. Care must always be taken in order to prevent total destruction of specimens during capture or containment. Aside from this, however, all damage to instances is acceptable.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8011 describes a worldwide phenomenon where individuals who died on or after November 23, 2019 are “resurrected”. All instances of SCP-8011 resurrection events have been shown to transpire exactly 368 days after death<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>. Individuals resurrected in such events are designated SCP-8011-A instances.</p>
<p>Upon resurrection, an SCP-8011-A instance displays the following traits:</p>
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<li>Advanced or active decay typically expected of a corpse. After resurrection, continued decay in SCP-8011-A instances is observed to be markedly delayed.</li>
<li>Vocalizations that can include low growling, pained moaning, or loud screaming.</li>
<li>Hyperaggressive behavior towards one specific targeted person at a time, usually resulting in the death of the targeted person</li>
<li>The tendency to consume only one part of their victims’ body, typically the face or hands.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup></li>
<li>An animalistic intelligence facilitating tool use<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup> and hunting strategies.</li>
<li>An imperviousness to physical damage, such as with firearms, bladed weapons, and blunt weapons.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup></li>
<li>A tendency to lower the hume count<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup> of any particular area by a negligible amount once in a “lucid state” following successful consumption.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup></li>
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<p>These traits have been observed to continue until the SCP-8011-A instance has consumed a select part of their victim’s body. Upon consumption, the SCP-8011-A instance abruptly ceases attacking and flees the scene, typically to a hiding place heretofore referred to as a burrow [see Addendum 8011.2]. At this time, an SCP-8011-A instance has shown to be capable of articulate speech, with some being capable of entering “lucid states” under select circumstances. After an extended time (typically 5 days to 2 weeks), the SCP-8011-A returns to its aggressive stance and pursues a different victim, continuing the cycle.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8011.1:</strong> Based on extrapolation from later events, the first resurrection event occurred on November 25, 2020. The first cases of murders reasonably thought to have been due to attacks by SCP-8011-A instances, however, occurred as late as November 31, 2020. This has been thought to have been due to the time that SCP-8011-A instances would have spent emerging from their burial places, with instances that had been shallowly buried or had been buried with coffins made out of fragile materials (such as wood) emerging first. Likewise, any case of early killings by SCP-8011-A instances in developing countries could have been underreported, further adding uncertainty to the possible first case of an SCP-8011-A attack.</p>
<p>Below is a list of selected cases of the first SCP-8011-A attacks, along with relevant details about the persons involved.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> November 30, 2020<br/>
<strong>Location:</strong> Tokyo, Japan<br/>
<strong>Former Name of SCP-8011-A Instance:</strong> Unidentified, presumed to have died between November 23, 2019 and November 28, 2019. Index case, classified as SCP-8011-A-1<br/>
<strong>Name of Victim:</strong> Michiko Niida<br/>
<strong>Description:</strong> At 22:21, the Japanese emergency police hotline received a request for help from Niida, who had reported that there was a dissheveled man following her as she walked through the streets of the Akasaka District. Upon being asked for details about her pursuer, Niida reported that she did not know who he was, and that he was holding a rock. The emergency dispatcher attempted to ask her for further details, but was cut short by Niida screaming, followed by sounds of her running. At 22:22, Niida is heard dropping her smartphone. Six seconds later, a man’s maniacal laughter is heard.</p>
<p>At 22:26, Japanese police officers arrive at the scene. After two minutes of searching, they find the body of a woman in a remote alley. Early attempts at confirmation of the victim’s identity were delayed due to severe facial disfigurement, with most of the flesh having been removed from her facial region. Later autopsy results would conclude that the woman had died due to blood loss secondary to blunt force trauma to her skull and her previously mentioned facial injuries, which showed signs of injury from human teeth. As such, she has thought to have still been alive when her pursuer removed her face.</p>
<p>Attempts at investigation by Japanese authorities were hampered by the apparent disappearance of the suspect from the scene of the crime. Bloody handprints were discovered 20m from the scene, leading to a manhole into the sewers. Upon further exploration of the sewers, Japanese authorities found a half-eaten nose belonging to Niida. However, no sign was found of her killer.</p>
<p>When interviewed, people living close to the manhole reported hearing “cackling” laughter, followed by crying. These noises were said to have been punctuated by chewing and choking noises.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> December 1, 2020<br/>
<strong>Location:</strong> Dasmarinas City, The Philippines<br/>
<strong>Former Name of SCP-8011-A Instance:</strong> Anya Santos, died on November 23, 2019. Classified as SCP-8011-A-2<br/>
<strong>Name of Victim:</strong> Guillermo Luis Santos III<br/>
<strong>Description:</strong> At 6:23, a call is made from the home of the recently deceased Anya Santos to a house in Manila inhabited by Gina Torres, her mother. Due to the fact that Torres was an elderly person habitually taking sleeping pills, she was not awoken by the phone ringing.</p>
<p>From 06:23 to 06:50, 18 more calls were made to the landline of the residence, to no avail. At 06:52, a message was sent to the account of Gina Torres from her 8 year old granddaughter, Haruka Santos, the daughter of Anya Santos. This was followed by several more messages, which stopped at 07:12. At 09:13, Gina Torres wakes up and checks her phone. The messages sent by Haruka Santos to Gina Torres are included below. These have been translated from Filipino for posterity.</p>
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<p>06:52 - “grandma, mommys back and she keeps crying outside the door and she woke us up by knocking on the door”<br/>
06:52 - “ermo is scared, hes hugging me”<br/>
06:53 - “grandma mommy keeps crying she says she wants to see me again”<br/>
06:58 - “ermos hiding in his room”<br/>
07:12 - “grandma mommy found the key”</p>
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<p>Upon seeing the messages, Gina Torres immediately dressed up and drove from Manila to Dasmarinas City, but was delayed by heavy traffic. She was able to arrive at the Santos residence at 11:14.</p>
<p>Upon arriving, Gina Torres found Haruka Santos crying in the room of her 6 year old brother, “Ermo”, whose real name was Guillermo Santos III. Blood was found on Guillermo’s bed, but neither the child nor SCP-8011-A-2 are found. Gina Torres attempted to ask her what had happened, but Haruka Santos was not able to speak articulately for several days following the incident. Upon arriving at the scene, police officers were unable to ascertain where Guillermo had gone, or who had been the perpetrator for his disappearance. They were able to track a woman in a bloody white dress running from the direction of the Santos residence at 7:14 AM on nearby security cameras, but were unable to find her.</p>
<p>On December 5, 2020, Haruka’s father Guillermo Santos II returned home on emergency shore leave. Upon meeting his daughter, Haruka immediately ran to hug her father while crying uncontrollably. In between bouts of crying, Haruka was heard saying “Mommy wanted to see me again. So Mommy ate Ermo’s eyes.”</p>
<p>The Santos case was reported on the local news and was the topic of online conversation for several days. Following several more cases of similar attacks in other countries, Foundation observer staff were asked to further investigate a possible anomaly behind the cases, with instructions to dispatch Foundation Mobile Task Forces to the scene of a possible attack.</p>
<p>As of June 20, 2021, the bodies of both Anya Santos and Guillermo Santos III have not yet been found.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> December 6, 2020<br/>
<strong>Location:</strong> Boston, The United States<br/>
<strong>Former Name of SCP-8011-A Instance:</strong> Arnold Malkovich, died on November 23, 2019. Classified as SCP-8011-A-14<br/>
<strong>Name of Victim:</strong> Anna Bornholm<br/>
<strong>Description:</strong> At 12:32 in the afternoon, a “homeless man in a tattered suit” is reported breaking into an office building in Boston. According to security camera footage, the man, identified to be the deceased Arnold Malkovich (heretofore referred to as SCP-8011-A-14), is seen walking into the glass doors of the office building while displaying a shambling gait. After a short altercation with security officers, it is able to enter one of the building’s elevators and use it to travel up to the fifteenth floor.</p>
<p>While inside, it is seen shaking with rage, often stumbling while pacing in circles. It is also seen punching the walls of the elevator cab while screaming. As the elevator doors open on the fifteenth floor, SCP-8011-A-14 is seen running at a full sprint outside of the cab, bumping into several people passing by. As it passes several meeting rooms, it is seen looking into the windows of each one. Eventually, it comes to a stop outside of meeting room 8901, where department head Anna Bornholm is conducting a business meeting with company executives. Seeing Bornholm, SCP-8011-A-14 immediately jumps through the window of the meeting room, breaking the glass. Upon stumbling to his feet, SCP-8011-A-14’s eyes focus on Bornholm, and it immediately attacks her. For several seconds, the subject is seen grabbing Bornholm’s hair and banging her head on the nearby plywood wall, creating a small hole. One of the executives in the room immediately attempts to call security.</p>
<p>Outside of the room, Catherine Marsh, a friend of Bornholm, calls 911 and describes the situation while in a panic. Upon hearing this, observation staff at the nearby Site-18 immediately dispatch a small MTF to investigate the disturbance.</p>
<p>In the 12 minutes between the initial attack and the arrival of Foundation operatives, SCP-8011-A-14 continues to attack Bornholm. 9 minutes after the first attack, SCP-8011-A-14 finally ceases attacking Bornholm after eating three fingers from her right hand. Realizing that Bornholm was dead, SCP-8011-A-14 runs from the scene, biting two officers who attempt to restrain it as it escapes. As it runs down the stairs to the lobby, Foundation operatives disguised as police officers arrive at the scene and attempt to subdue Malkovich through the use of taser guns. When this was proven ineffective, the operatives opted for physical restraint instead. Like earlier, SCP-8011-A-14 attacks those who come close to it, and is only successfully subdued when an operative tackles and then restrains it on the ground.</p>
<p>Recognizing that SCP-8011-A instances always attempt to flee from the scene of the attack, SCP-8011-A-14 is implanted with a tracker at the instruction of Site-18’s director. The subject is then allowed to escape, with Foundation researchers at Site-18 observing the path that it takes to its destination and remotely listening in to the microphone feed. [See Addendum 8011.2]</p>
<p>Following the attack, Anna Bornholm was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival. Her cause of death was repeated blunt force trauma to the head.</p>
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<strong>December 6, 2020:</strong> The instance is seen running north from the city of Boston without stopping. It avoids major roads when needed. In cases where it is impossible to cross an area with major foot traffic, SCP-8011-A-14 instead opts to wait in hidden places.
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<p><strong>December 7, 2020:</strong> SCP-8011-A-14 spends most of the early morning continuing to walk north, arriving at the Middlesex Fells Reservation by 05:23. It again takes care to avoid other people, before entering an access point into the sewers below the reservation.</p>
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<p><strong>7:10</strong> - Upon entering, SCP-8011-A-14 is heard mumbling to itself and tapping on the nearby pipes. It is heard whistling soon after. It continues to slowly walk through the sewers.</p>
<p><strong>7:22</strong> - SCP-8011-A-14 is heard running quickly through the sewers, before inserting a thin object through an unknown slot. It is heard speaking intellegibly for the first time, stating “Fuck, I was almost late there.” It is then seen entering a dead end in the sewers through the tracker. It is heard ruffling its clothes and running a hand through its hair.</p>
<p><strong>7:27</strong> - Afterwards, SCP-8011-A-14 rushes to a small recessed room in the sewers, before it is heard sitting down in a corner and tapping on the floor as if it were a keyboard. Occasionally, it makes clicking sounds as if trying to replicate the clicks of a mouse. It is then heard grumbling to itself, before exclaiming “Goddamnit, another audit.” From there, SCP-8011-A-14 pretends to work until 11:30.</p>
<p><strong>11:30</strong> - SCP-8011-A-14 stands up from its corner and walks out of the recessed room to take its “lunch break”. It is eventually heard sitting down again as it converses with another imaginary coworker who it refers to as “Cat”. Eventually, SCP-8011-A-14 begins to talk to another coworker, who it calls “Annie”. The subject continues to talk at length about its promotion to middle management, as well as comforting Annie on her being passed up for the promotion in favor of it. At the end of its “break”, SCP-8011-A-14 returns to the recessed room and continues to pretend to “work”.</p>
<p><strong>13:30</strong> - SCP-8011-A-14 slowly walks outside, towards the many voices outside its recessed room. As it gets closer, at least 12 individual voices can be discerned, ranging from children to the elderly. Unusually, however, none of the voices seem to be replying to one another. Instead, they seem to be having different conversations individually. Likewise, SCP-8011-A-14 makes no further indication that it can hear the voices around it. SCP-8011-A-14 then continues to “work” through its day.</p>
<p><strong>16:30</strong> - Eventually, at the end of its shift, SCP-8011-A-14 once again stands up from its room. It is heard slotting a thin object through the pipes again, and walking deeper into the sewers. With it, the voices from the previous area slowly disappear with distance.</p>
<p><strong>17:00</strong> - SCP-8011-A-14 comes to a room. Inside it, it is heard laying down on the floor and sighing to himself. It is heard saying “Home at last.” SCP-8011-A-14 calls out to a person it specifies as “Honey.” It then calls out again, only to be apparently met with no imaginary reply. After waiting for several seconds, it is heard collapsing to the ground.</p>
<p><strong>17:32</strong> - SCP-8011-A-14 begins to cry to itself.</p>
<p><strong>20:32</strong> - SCP-8011-A-14 is heard snoring.</p>
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<p><strong>December 8, 2020:</strong> SCP-8011-A-14 repeats its routine from the day before. However, at 7:57, a new voice is heard speaking unintellegibly as it enters the room where SCP-8011-A-14 is in. The instance makes no indication that it can hear the newly entering person.</p>
<p><strong>8:00 - 11:30</strong> - Both SCP-8011-A-14 and the new person are heard speaking over each other as both pretend to “work” at their jobs. With each time it picks an object up, the new person asks “911, what’s your emergency?” before conversing with another imaginary person. Both then continue to “work” until the end of their “shifts.”</p>
<p><strong>17:00</strong> - SCP-8011-A-14 goes back “home”. It once again calls out to “Honey”. After not being answered after several tries, it is heard collapsing against a wall once again and crying.</p>
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<p><strong>December 9, 2020:</strong> Both the subject and the other person then continue to “work” until their lunch breaks.</p>
<p><strong>12:30</strong> - As SCP-8011-A-14 eats lunch with imaginary coworkers, the other person is heard screaming from the recessed room. It repeatedly shouts “I can’t do this!” to itself before banging its head on the walls. Bones are heard cracking as it does so. SCP-8011-A-14 makes no indication that it hears this or the other voices in the room. Soon after, the other person runs out from the room screaming, with the sound echoing throughout the greater room that SCP-8011-A-14 is. It disappears as the other person grows more distant.</p>
<p><strong>17:00</strong> - SCP-8011-A-14 comes “home”. It calls out to “Honey” once again, before crying in a corner. It keeps repeating “I can do this, I can do this” to itself.</p>
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<p><strong>December 10, 2020:</strong> SCP-8011-A-14 continues its normal activities. Several more voices are heard in the greater room outside the subject’s “workplace.” As one is heard screaming hysterically, SCP-8011-A-14 is heard pausing its tapping on the floor. Afterwards, it resumes.</p>
<p>Upon going home, SCP-8011-A-14 no longer calls out for “Honey”. Instead, it immediately lays down and goes to sleep.</p>
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<p><strong>December 11, 2020:</strong> Upon arriving at its “workplace”, the sound of the other person occupying SCP-8011-A-14’s room is heard once again taking another call in a manner akin to a 911 dispatcher<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-7')">7</a></sup> Upon hearing the other person’s voice, SCP-8011-A-14 visibly stops at the entrance, before slowly sitting at the part of the room furthest away from the other person. Upon doing this, SCP-8011-A-14 continues to “work.”</p>
<p><strong>12:30</strong> - Upon conducting its lunch break, SCP-8011-A-14 continues to converse with its imaginary coworkers, but stops at multiple points due to the loud noises made by the other voices in the room. It is heard hyperventilating as this happens.</p>
<p><strong>13:30</strong> - After it ends its lunch break, SCP-8011-A-14 enters the recessed room and attempts to continue to “work.” As the other person begins to take another call, SCP-8011-A-14 abruptly ceases typing for several minutes. It resumes only after the other person stops talking.</p>
<p><strong>16:30</strong> - Afterwards, SCP-8011-A-14 exits the room, only to stop in order to greet one of its imaginary coworkers. As it attempts to converse, the other person in the room is heard also making conversation with an imaginary coworker. During this time, SCP-8011-A-14 completely stops making conversation with its respective coworker, and instead is seen standing still at the doorway. Several minutes later, SCP-8011-A-14 is heard saying “Are you done?” in an angry tone to the other person. When it is met with no reply, SCP-8011-A-14 is seen approaching them and is heard crouching down. It repeats saying “Are you done?” in an angrier tone.</p>
<p><strong>16:38</strong> - The other person is then heard taking another call. SCP-8011-A-14 shouts <em>”Are you done?!”</em> at it, but is met with no reply. In response, SCP-8011-A-14 is heard screaming loudly with anger before gripping the head of the other person and smashing it against the wall repeatedly. As SCP-8011-A-14 does this, the other person continues to talk in a cordial tone to the imaginary person on the other end of the call that it is taking. Its voice weakens at two minutes later, when SCP-8011-A-14 presumably damages its trachea or vocal cords.</p>
<p>The other person continues to talk until it completely ceases five minutes after the attack commenced, when SCP-8011-A-14 has presumably completely destroyed its skull. Despite this, however, more sounds are heard as SCP-8011-A-14 continues to assault the other person’s body. It ceases three minutes later. SCP-8011-A-14 then begins to cry uncontrollably.</p>
<p><strong>16:50</strong> - SCP-8011-A-14 stands up from the recessed room and walks “home”. More voices are heard on the other side of the microphone, still talking over each other as seen in previous cases. SCP-8011-A-14 mutters “I can do this” over and over as it walks across the room, but is occasionally interrupted by loud noises from the other voices in the area.</p>
<p><strong>16:55</strong> - SCP-8011-A-14 arrives home. It is heard slumping against the wall. It continues to repeat “I can do this” to itself. A few seconds later, SCP-8011-A-14 calls out to “Honey” once again. Upon being met with no reply, SCP-8011-A-14 screams in frustration and anger and is heard punching the wall repeatedly. It is heard shouting “I can’t do this!” again and again.</p>
<p><strong>17:00</strong> - SCP-8011-A-14 runs out of the room and out of the sewers.</p>
<p><strong>17:10</strong> - It exits the borders of the Middlesex Fells reservation and continues to run at full speed in full view through the towns of Winchester, Lexington, and Bedford. At this time, Foundation operatives are dispatched from Site-18 in order to pursue SCP-8011-A-14 and apprehend it once it reaches its target.</p>
<p><strong>21:00</strong> - SCP-8011-A-14 arrives at its destination at a small cabin close to the town of Concord. Foundation operatives are still en route to its location. Upon arriving, SCP-8011-A-14 crashes through the front door of the cabin before quickly turning to enter the dining room. At the time of SCP-8011-A-14's entry into the cabin four non-anomalous individuals were gathered in the dining room for a meal, and exclaimed in surprise at the sudden intrusion. Immediately, SCP-8011-A-14 attacks the individual at the furthest end of the table, a thirty-two year old man named Jonah Marlowe. According to eyewitness accounts, SCP-8011-A-14 directly seized Marlowe by his hair and repeatedly banged his head on the wooden table, shattering the plate directly in front of the victim. As Marlowe falls from his seat, SCP-8011-A-14 blinds him with its fingernails as he lays prone on the floor. It then continues to assault Marlowe by bludgeoning him repeatedly in the face with both arms.</p>
<p>Two other people in the room, including Marlowe’s wife Nicole Tyler-Marlowe and his mother-in-law Mariana Tyler, watch in horror as this transpires. Meanwhile, Marlowe’s father-in-law, Jacob Tyler, exits the room and enters thirty seconds later with a Colt M1911 pistol in his hand. Jacob Tyler fires three shots into SCP-8011-A-14’s abdomen and chest, but is not able to stop the subject from assaulting Marlowe. Soon after, SCP-8011-A-14 bites into Marlowe’s face, first devouring part of his right cheek and following by eating his lips. Jacob Tyler continues to fire his gun at Marlowe, but to no avail. Upon running out of rounds, Jacob Tyler flees the room.</p>
<p>Upon fully eating the skin from Marlowe’s face, SCP-8011-A-14 abruptly desists in its hyperaggressive behavior. As described by Nicole Tyler-Marlowe, SCP-8011-A-14 slowly stands up, wipes its bloodied mouth, and smiles at her. SCP-8011-A-14 then steps forward towards Tyler-Marlowe and tenderly says “Hey, Honey. I’m home.”</p>
<p>At this point, Foundation operatives arrive at the cabin. As SCP-8011-A-14 moves forward to embrace Tyler-Marlowe, it is quickly apprehended by operatives in full riot gear and armed with batons. SCP-8011-A-14 responds to this with aggression, attempting to bite those restraining it to the nearby table. Quickly, operatives are able to handcuff Marlowe and tie a secure gag to its mouth before carrying it to the Foundation vehicle. Two operatives remain in order to control the situation under the disguise of SWAT team members. Shortly after, Foundation medical staff arrive to administer first aid and provide amnestics. Jonah Marlowe’s death is later concluded to have been the result of a mishandling of acidic chemicals.</p>
<p>SCP-8011-A-14 arrives at Site-18 four hours later. It is taken to a humanoid containment cell, where it continues to exhibit aggressive behavior towards researchers on the other side of its cell. By 23:45, SCP-8011-A-14 calms and curls up on one side of its cell, and begins to sleep.</p>
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<p><strong>December 12, 2020:</strong> SCP-8011-A-14 awakens in its cell at 9:12. Unlike its disposition prior, it is smiling and seemingly groggy as it awakens. Carefully, SCP-8011-A-14 rises from its spot as if avoiding waking up an imaginary person next to it. It then rubs its eyes, before moving to stand in front of a table in its cell. SCP-8011-A-14 then grabs an imaginary object from the table and drops his wrist as if pouring a liquid from a pitcher. It then sets down the imaginary object that it was previously holding and starts drinking from an imaginary cup. It sighs with relief.</p>
<p>Moving to the other side of the room, it then begins to put on an imaginary apron and pretend to cook. SCP-8011-A-14 continues to perform these movements for several minutes, before arching his arm in order to scrape the cooked food from the imaginary pan onto the plate. It then bends down to sniff it, before moving to the corner where it once slept.</p>
<p>It then begins to speak while smiling, speaking to another person in a tender manner about breakfast in bed. It then begins to converse with this other person while miming eating from a plate, before taking both imaginary plates back in order to pretend to wash them in a sink. As it does so, it continues to converse and laugh occasionally.</p>
<p>Crossing the room, SCP-8011-A-14 responds to an unheard request to turn on a television, which it obliges by pretending to retrieve a remote from the table and pressing a button on it. It then sits on the floor in front of the blank wall, while arching his hand out to embrace someone who is not there.</p>
<p>At this time, Head Researcher Ulm arrives to observe and interview SCP-8011-A-14 outside the reinforced glass wall of its containment cell. As SCP-8011-A-14 reclines on the floor, Head Researcher Ulm begins to read out from a pre-prepared list of interview questions. SCP-8011-A-14 does not respond, even when Ulm calls its attention. Due to this, the Head Researcher decides to passively observe the subject outside of the containment cell.</p>
<p><strong>11:22</strong> - SCP-8011-A-14 continues to recline in its seated position, only changing the position of its arms to accommodate the imaginary person beside it. It is heard speaking to the imaginary person multiple times, maintaining a casual and loving demeanor as it does so. Eventually, the topic of SCP-8011-A-14’s conversation switches to an alleged invitation to a family dinner, which SCP-8011-A-14 graciously accepts, before abruptly shaking it head. As it does so, SCP-8011-A-14 attempts to continue the conversation again, but is unable to do so. It puts its head in its hands, and starts to scream in frustration. It attempts to violently punch the wall of its containment cell, enough to break several of its finger bones and cause the carpal bones in its hand to crack audibly. As it does so, Head Researcher Ulm begins to turn on his microphone to speak into the containment cell. Included below is the transcript of the interview.</p>
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<p><Begin log><br/>
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<strong>Ulm:</strong> “Hello, Mr. Malkovich? Can you hear me?”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 continues to punch the wall and scream in frustration.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Hello? Can you please respond? Desist from punching the wall now.”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 gives no reply. It continues to punch the wall.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Mr. Malkovich, please respond.”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 stops and slowly brings its arms down. It bows its head and remains unmoving.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Do you know where you are, Mr. Malkovich?”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 does not respond.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Mr. Mal-”</p>
<p>[As Ulm speaks, SCP-8011-A-14 turns to the glass wall where Ulm is observing him from and runs at full sprint towards it. Due to the glass’ tempered nature, it bounces off and lands on the floor one meter away.]</p>
<p>[In response, SCP-8011-A-14 snarls with aggression, before charging again at the glass and repeatedly banging on it.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “LET ME OUT!”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Sir, if you do not desist-”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “LET ME THE FUCK OUT!”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 continues to bang on the glass with its hands, before switching to using its head to attempt breaking it.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Mr. Malkovich, this is reinforced glass. You will not be able to get past it.”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 continues to bang its head on the glass. Rotting skin is seen peeling from its forehead.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!”</p>
<p>[Immediately, SCP-8011-A-14 collapses to the ground. It slowly begins to sob.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Mr. Malkovich?”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 remains unresponsive.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Mr. Malkovich, can you please respond? Do you know where you are?”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 begins to hug its knees and cry.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Mr. Arnold Malkovich, please res-”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14 [shakily]:</strong> “No. No I f-fucking don’t. Is this the hospital? Jail?”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “You are currently in a holding cell due to two recent incidents which you were involved in.”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “<em>Incidents?</em> What do you mean? ”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “The deaths of Anna Bornholm and Jonah Marlowe.”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Annie’s dead? How?”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “We… we thought you would like to shed some light on that.”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 shakes its head, before slowly standing up. It wipes its tears and grits its teeth.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Listen, Doctor, all I know is that my wife is out there and not two seconds ago was I with her. Now, I’m here. Can you please explain that?”</p>
<p>[Ulm notes something down on his clipboard.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “So you remember nothing at all of the incident that transpired last night and one week ago?”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Nothing. Can I now please talk to my wife-”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “I see.”</p>
<p>[Ulm notes his observation on the clipboard again.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Doctor? May I now please talk to my wife?”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Mr. Malkovich, you will only be allowed to talk to your wife once we are done with our investigation. In order to do that, you must cooperate?”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Doc, she must be worried sick by now-”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Mr. Malkovich, can you please tell us your name?”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 stares at Ulm, then closes his eyes and sighs.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “My name is Arnold Malkovich, Department Head at Augustus Life Incorporated. Listen, if I had my business card, I’d hand it to you.”</p>
<p>[Ulm glances at his clipboard, then back up at SCP-8011-A-14.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “You are a Department Head at Augustus Life Incorporated? Not a team leader?”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Yes, is there something wrong?”</p>
<p>[Ulm notes down an observation in his clipboard.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “No, nothing at all. I believe there may be something wrong with our records. Can you tell me about who your parents were, as well as where you were born?”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “I was born in the Massachusetts General Hospital on September 20, 1989. My parents are Judy and Nash Malkovich.”</p>
<p>[Ulm continues to note on his clipboard.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Earlier, you were discussing your wife. May I ask who that is?”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “You mean, there isn’t anything about her on those records of yours?”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “We just wish to test your orientation to your surroundings.”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Fine. My wife’s name is Nicole Tyler-Malkovich, born on October 15, 1989. Does that answer your question?”</p>
<p>[Ulm visibly stops writing on his clipboard.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Understood.”</p>
<p>[Ulm makes another note, then looks at SCP-8011-A-14.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “When were you and Mrs. Tyler-Malkovich married?”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “We were married… just recently.”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “May you please give me a date?”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Uh… December 23, 2019. Just before Christmas. She insisted on it.”</p>
<p>[Ulm nods and writes on his clipboard.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “How did you know Anna Bornholm?”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Annie, she… she was a friend at work, yeah. One of the other team leaders. We eat lunch together at work.”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “So you say she was one of the team leaders?”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Yeah. I think she was jealous when I got promoted, but she got over it. We’re friends. We talked at work yesterday.”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Alright.”</p>
<p>[Ulm notes on his clipboard again.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Your work wasn’t affected at all by the pandemic?”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 cocks his head.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “The what?”</p>
<p>[Ulm looks up with a questioning expression.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “The COVID-19 pandemic.”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “I don’t know what that is.”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Your company hasn’t been affected by lockdowns? Lay-offs? The switch to work from home?”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “No, not at all. We go to work, same as we always have.”</p>
<p>[Ulm is silent for several seconds, staring at SCP-8011-A-14. He then looks down and notes something down on his clipboard.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “I’m sorry, Doctor, but… what the hell are you talking about?”</p>
<p>[Ulm continues to write on his clipboard. He does not reply to SCP-8011-A-14.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Alright. Now, how do you know Jonah Marlowe?”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Who?”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Jonah Marlowe, who died last night.”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “I don’t know who he is.”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Are you sure about that, Mr. Malkovich?”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 looks at Ulm.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Listen, did something bad happen to Annie and this… Jonah?”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Not particularly, Mr. Malkovich.”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Then why the hell are you keeping me here? Asking these questions from me? Why the <em>fuck</em> won’t you let me call my wife?”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “I am not at liberty to say.”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 stands up and bangs on the glass with his palm.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “For fuck’s sake, talk to me straight for once!”</p>
<p>[Ulm stares at SCP-8011-A-14 for several seconds. He checks the clipboard, then looks back up at the subject.]</p>
<p>[Ulm visibly pauses for several seconds as he looks at SCP-8011-A-14.]<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-8" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-8')">8</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Alright, Arnold. I will lay the situation out to you.”</p>
<p>[Ulm moves forward on his seat.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Are you ready for what I am about to tell you?”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “What do you mean?”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “A week ago, Anna Bornholm was murdered by a man who had broken into the Kanzler building. This man knew where the floor which Augustus Life Incorporated was occupying, and also knew the approximate area where Anna Bornholm would be.”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “What the fuck?”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “No, <em>listen to me</em>. Once he saw her, the man violently burst through the window of the meeting room and attacked Bornholm, repeatedly slamming her head against the wall until she was dead. Then, this man, seized by some violent hysteria, ate three fingers from her hand.”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Doctor, what are you saying-”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Next: last night, another murder occurred outside of Concord. This time, a man named Jonah Marlowe was eating dinner with his wife and in-laws. Then, at 8:22 PM in the evening, a man broke into the house which they were eating at and immediately pounced on Marlowe, physically assaulting him to such a degree that he was half-dead. Then, not satisfied, the man then bit pieces out of Marlowe’s face. He did this so violently, in fact, that parts of the victim’s skull were exposed by the time he expired. <em>Does that sound familiar?</em>”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Doctor…”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Then, with no compulsion for guilt whatsoever, the man then stood up, straightened his tattered suit, wiped the blood from his face, and smiled to Marlowe’s newlywed wife, Nicole Tyler-Marlowe.”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 has a clear expression of shock on its face. It does not immediately offer a reply.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “…What the fuck are you saying?”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Do you know the reason why you’re here, Arnold?”</p>
<p>[Ulm smiles ungenuinely at SCP-8011-A-14.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Because you’re the one who committed these murders. That’s why we took you in. That’s why you’re here.”</p>
<p>[Ulm clicks the pen in his hand.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “You’re fucking lying.”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “You died on November 23, 2019. You never married Nicole Tyler. You were never promoted to department head. Other people did that in your place.”</p>
<p>[Ulm clicks the pen in his hand again.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “And now you killed Jonah and Annie, just so that you could pretend to be what they are… that you never were. You’re living a lie, Arnold. Wake up.”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “YOU’RE FUCKING LYING!”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 punches the glass.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “YOU’RE LYING!”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 punches the glass again, eliciting loud cracks from its right hand.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “GET ME OUT OF HERE, YOU LYING SON OF A BITCH!”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 punches the glass repeatedly with both of his hands, causing multiple fractures across the phalanx bones and carpals. SCP-8011-A-14 does not notice them.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “FUCK YOU! YOU’RE LYING! FUCK YOU!”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 stops punching the glass. Tears are streaming down both of its cheeks.]<br/>
[After a few seconds, SCP-8011-A-14 falls to the ground and hugs its knees to its chest. It starts to rock itself back and forth. It begins to cry loudly, followed by whimpering.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “You’re fucking lying. You’re lying. <em>You’re lying.</em>”</p>
<p>[Ulm stands in front of SCP-8011-A-14, his arms folded across his chest.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “You didn’t even feel it, did you?”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 sniffles.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “What?”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Your hands.”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “<em>What about my hands?</em>”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “They’re broken to hell. Look at them.”</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “Why the hell would I?”</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “You have nothing to lose by looking at your hands, SCP-8011-A-14. Look at them.”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14’s face twitches.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Go on. Look at them.”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 brings its hands up to look at them. Its eyes widen in horror.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “You’re <em>dead</em>, Arnold. You can’t feel a thing. Look at your suit. Look at your skin. You’re <em>rotting.</em>”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 moans in horror. It stumbles back as it continues to look at its hands.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8011-A-14:</strong> “No… no no no no no…”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 starts whimpering. It attempts to grip the table near him for balance as it continues to step back, but its broken hand is unable to support its weight. It falls to the ground.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “You were never promoted. You never married Nicole Tyler. Instead, on November 23rd, 2019, you died in a car accident– scared, alone, and slowly bleeding out.”</p>
<p>[Ulm stands up from his chair.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “You’re <em>dead,</em> Arnold. Accept it.”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 screams in anguish while on the floor. It continues to do this for forty seconds.]</p>
<p>[Afterwards, SCP-8011-A-14’s anguished screams decrease to low, repeating whimpers.]</p>
<p>[Ulm watches expectantly at SCP-8011-A-14.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Arnold? Are you still there?”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 lies in a ball on the floor, motionless.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “Arno-”</p>
<p>[Suddenly, SCP-8011-A-14 launches itself at the glass wall in a hyper-aggressive state, repeatedly banging its head against the glass. It starts screaming in extreme rage, before pummelling the glass wall with what is left of its hands. Its right hand is seen falling from its forearm.]</p>
<p>[Ulm smiles in fascination.]</p>
<p><strong>Ulm:</strong> “I’ll take note of this.”</p>
<p>[SCP-8011-A-14 screams louder in response, before banging its head against the glass wall again.]</p>
<p>[Ulm begins to animatedly write in his clipboard. He turns away as SCP-8011-A-14 continues to bang against the glass wall in rage.]</p>
<p><end log></p>
</blockquote>
<p>When later questioned as to his unprofessional conduct during his interview with SCP-8011-A-14, Head Reseacher Ulm stated that it was done in order to discern if breaking SCP-8011-A-14’s constructed reality would cause it to revert to a hyperaggressive state. According to Head Researcher Ulm, SCP-8011-A-14’s reaction was able to adequately fulfill his aims.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8011.3:</strong> Following the capture of SCP-8011-A-14, an initiative was undertaken in Site-18 in order to capture SCP-8011-A specimens before they assumed or reassumed their hyperaggressive states in order to further study them. The first target for this initiative was the burrow situated in the sewers under the Middlesex Fells Reservation. Twenty-five SCP-8011-A specimens were captured in the first operation. Due to safety protocols and the initially docile states of the specimens upon first encounter, no personnel were injured in the operation. Upon arrival at Site-18, specimens were identified through local records. Below is a list of selected subjects from this operation, followed by relevant details.</p>
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<p><strong>Former Name of SCP-8011-A Instance:</strong> Rodrigo Perez, classified as SCP-8011-A-15<br/>
<strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8011-A-15 used to work as a bank teller before expiring on November 23, 2019. After its presumed resurrection event on November 5, 2020, SCP-8011-A-15 stalked one of its clients, a wealthy thirty-seven year old woman called Janice Salisbury. Upon attacking Salisbury, SCP-8011-A-15 bit into and devoured her neck, killing her almost instantly. Upon arrival to the Middlesex Fells Reservation burrow, SCP-8011-A-15 began pretending to be of affluent status.</p>
<p>When later selected for interview during its lucid state, SCP-8011-A-15 was stated as saying that it was “heading to Kobe’s game.” After being further asked as to who it was describing, SCP-8011-A-15 elaborated that it was “going to be his best game yet.” When further inquired about how Kobe Bryant would play a game amidst pandemic restrictions and his expiration earlier in 2020, SCP-8011-A-15 expressed visible puzzlement.</p>
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<p><strong>Former Name of SCP-8011-A Instance:</strong> Julius Shane, classified as SCP-8011-A-19<br/>
<strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8011-A-19 used to be a student at Middlesex School near the town of Concord before expiring due to an allergic reaction suffered while playing videogames at the house of Nathan Casa, a classmate of SCP-8011-A-19. After resurrection, SCP-8011-A-19 attacked its classmate, eating both of his thumbs as well as his left index and middle fingers. Upon arrival to the Middlesex Fells Reservation burrow, SCP-8011-A-19 was observed pretending to play videogames via a controller.</p>
<p>After being interviewed on the video games that it played, SCP-8011-A-19 stated that “Fortnite crashed and burned, but Overwatch just got a new big overhaul, so me and my friends are playing that!”<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-9" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-9')">9</a></sup>. When asked further about its interest in Overwatch, SCP-8011-A-19 mentioned that “the sequel was cancelled a while back so that they could focus on Overwatch 1. I was bummed about that, the PVE looked so good.”<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-10" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-10')">10</a></sup> After researchers acquired further as to its relationship to Nathan Casa, SCP-8011-A-19 stated that it was best friends with Casa, and states that they “hit it off” after winter break around January 2020, with the two of them playing Overwatch together until the present. Upon further cross-referencing with sources close to SCP-8011-A-19 and Nathan Casa, it has been determined that neither party had interacted with each other prior to SCP-8011-A-19’s death in November 2019.</p>
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<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="Ecronak_8K_1.png" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8011/Ecronak_8K_1.png"/>
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<p>A picture of SCP-8011-A-28</p>
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<p><strong>Former Name of SCP-8011-A Instance:</strong> Claudine Colt-Barrella, classified as SCP-8011-A-28<br/>
<strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8011-A-28 used to be a housekeeper before expiring on November 23, 2019 due to unspecified causes. Upon resurrection, SCP-8011-A-28 attacked its employer Angelina Magalang, killing her with a kitchen knife before eating her right shoulder and feet. Upon arrival to the Middlesex Fells Reservation burrow, SCP-8011-A-28 was observed to walk from room to room in the sewers while pretending to wear high heels and holding a handbag over her shoulder.</p>
<p>When interviewed in containment, SCP-8011-A-28 stated that it was “going to the mall everyday”, and that doing so tired it due to “all the money” it felt it “had to spend”. When inquired as to how it got the money for shopping, SCP-8011-A-28 stated that it got it all from her husband, before correcting the interviewing researcher when she referred to it as “Mrs. Colt-Barella”. Instead, SCP-8011-A-28 wished to be considered as “Mrs. Magalang”. When asked as to what its husband did for a living, SCP-8011-A-28 stated that its husband worked as a stock manager. When the researcher further inquired as to how the husband could have made money after the pandemic-caused stock market recession in early 2020, SCP-8011-A-28 said that “there was never a recession”.</p>
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<p>After this initial success, Foundation authorities in Site-18 launched several more operations in located burrows within the state of Massachusetts. By the end of these successive operations, a total of 120 instances were contained in the humanoid containment wing of Site-18. However, due to concerns with overcrowding, a provision was made to expand the approved capacity of each 7 square meter humanoid containment cell. This raised the number of SCP-8011-A instances in a given cell to 9. It was at this point that the SCP-8011 research team at Site-18 began noting small hume decreases in the cells where SCP-8011-A instances were contained, as well as a wider decrease in the humanoid containment wing of Site-18. These, however, were deemed too negligible in order to warrant a definitive action.</p>
<p>A few days later, on January 4, 2021, reports began emerging from the town of Arellano, Florida of an alleged “mass hysteria” incident resulting in at least 60 fatalities. Suspecting a potential SCP-8011-A attack, Foundation authorities tasked Site-18 staff with addressing the situation. Upon arrival at the town of Arellano, Florida<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-11" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-11')">11</a></sup>, operatives reported that casualty rates were higher than first assumed. 90 fatalities were determined to have been suffered by the town following the attack, with all victims having had their throats and feet completely eaten.</p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:100%;"><img alt="宮城県南三陸町で瓦礫撤去ボランティア(レーベン号)VolunteeratMinamisanrikucho,MiyagiprefEntiretowndestroyedbythetsunamiofGreatEastJapanEarthquake.jpg" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8011/%E5%AE%AE%E5%9F%8E%E7%9C%8C%E5%8D%97%E4%B8%89%E9%99%B8%E7%94%BA%E3%81%A7%E7%93%A6%E7%A4%AB%E6%92%A4%E5%8E%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2(%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E5%8F%B7)VolunteeratMinamisanrikucho,MiyagiprefEntiretowndestroyedbythetsunamiofGreatEastJapanEarthquake.jpg"/>
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<p>A picture of the town of Niño, Florida, in the aftermath of Hurricane Dylan</p>
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<p>By interviewing the locals, the operatives were able to discern that all of the culprits had come from and had went in the direction of the destroyed town of Niño<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-12" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-12')">12</a></sup>. This caused the operatives to travel to the site, whereupon they encountered 112 SCP-8011-A instances celebrating together by dancing and singing.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-13" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-13')">13</a></sup>. Faint music was also described being heard played at the site, but was dismissed as auditory hallucinations. Following this, all SCP-8011-A instances were apprehended without incident.</p>
<p>The common point of origin for the SCP-8011-A instances was determined to be a nearby cemetery, which had been the site of rushed burials following the deaths of 112 persons in Niño during Hurricane Dylan. This disaster then prompted the town to be abandoned. Later research into the town’s history revealed that its patron saint was Saint Elizabeth Seton, whose feast day was on January 4th.</p>
<p>Following the incident, all instances were brought to Site-18. This brought the total number of contained SCP-8011 instances to 232. Due to the high amount of SCP-8011-A instances in the humanoid containment wing, however, the area’s hume level began to decrease by a noticeable level. Due to this, personnel began reporting hearing faint <em>fiesta</em> music being played in the humanoid containment wing, which matched the dances that the newly contained SCP-8011 instances were conducting. Likewise, objects related to the delusions of other SCP-8011 instances began manifesting. This included a handbag fastened around the shoulder of SCP-8011-A-28 and a video game controller in the right hand of SCP-8011-A-19, as well as musical instruments in the containment cells of instances originating from Niño.</p>
<p>This incident prompted the placement of a Scranton reality anchor in the humanoid containment wing, which only worsened the reality bending effects through a previously theoretical Pull Event.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-14" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-14')">14</a></sup> Because of this, fiesta decorations and musical instruments began manifesting in the humanoid containment wing in the first few seconds of the incident, with the earlier reported music getting progressively louder. Due to the closely-packed nature of the SCP-8011-A instances, some of the manifested objects came into existence in the same space as other contained subjects. This, incidentally, had no consequence on their body functions or the performance of their delusions. Of more concern, however, were the objects manifesting through the walls of the containment cells, which compromised the structural integrity of the cells.</p>
<p>Shortly after, it was realized that the Pull Event’s manifesting objects were caused by the increased number in SCP-8011-A instances in the humanoid containment wing as well as the presence of the Reality Anchor. As such, Head Researcher Ulm mandated site security staff to temporarily relocate half of all contained instances to other containment wings, with the instances originating from the town of Niño being particularly separated from one another. The Scranton Reality Anchor was also removed from the wing, which lessened the intensity of the reality bending effects. The emergency caused by the Pull Event was then declared ended several hours later.</p>
<p>Due to this occurrence, Head Researcher Ulm and his team began investigating the nature of the SCP-8011-A instances’ reality bending capacity in relation to the delusions that they are experiencing. It was then realized that the SCP-8011-A instances’ reality bending capacity was caused by their capability to reach into another universe while commencing their delusions, and that the likely cause for their delusions originates from within this aforementioned universe<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-15" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-15')">15</a></sup>. In line with this, a proposal for an experiment with a prototype machine was created in order to determine the universe that they were interacting with.</p>
<p>An excerpt of the proposal is included below.</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p>…in order to determine the universes that SCP-8011-A interact with while under their delusions, this team requests that the following actions be performed:</p>
<ul>
<li>The procurement of necessary materials and personnel as stipulated below</li>
<li>The construction of a large reality-bending-resistant containment matrix, along with the installation of a standard Foundation supercomputer in accordance with the specifications enumerated below</li>
<li>The procurement of the heads of 150 SCP-8011-A instances who are currently experiencing delusions</li>
<li>The connection of the heads to the supercomputer via telepathic wires</li>
</ul>
<p>(…)</p>
<p>After construction, the machine will then commence a 2 minute start-up procedure. Electricity consumption is determined to increase markedly to .10 gigawatts<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-16" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-16')">16</a></sup>. The humes within the containment matrix are also expected to dramatically plummet to an expected 5 to 10 humes, with items being expected to be manifested within the containment matrix. This, however, will not affect the outside environment, with the heads of the SCP-8011-A instances inside being protected by internal protective safeguards.</p>
<p>Once the start-up procedure is performed, the supercomputer will then calculate the identity of the universe which the instance selected by the user is interacting with. For reference, our home universe has been designated the number “000-000-000”, with neighboring universes being classified according to their relative distance from our universe.</p>
<p>(…)</p>
<p>By performing these actions, this team hypothesizes that they will be able to discern the specific universe that SCP-8011-A instances connect to in their capacity as Pull Agents. Through this, this team aims to further understand the SCP-8011 phenomenon, as well as the implications that the SCP-8011-A’s reality-bending properties have on the anomaly.</p>
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<p>Following a short deliberation with the Ethics Committee<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-17" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-17')">17</a></sup>, the proposal was approved by the Site-18 Research Board.</p>
<p>The experiment was then conducted on January 27, 2021. An eyewitness account, as recorded by Junior Researcher Irmgard Marlowitz, is included below.</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p>(…) Then, suddenly, Doctor Ulm declared “lights out”, causing the room to be put in complete darkness. The only things I could see in front of me were the battery-powered lanterns all around, lighting the machine up but nothing else. You could feel that… even in the darkness, everyone was dead fucking nervous.</p>
<p>As the lights went off, Doctor Whent immediately went to work on the panel. As she fiddled with the knobs and whistles on the console, I saw her make the go signal to Doctor Ulm, who was standing right next to the big box where they kept all the heads in.</p>
<p>You know… it was kinda strange, honestly. Doctor Ulm seemed to be distracted, listening in to the box. The heads were silent, of course. Whent explained to me the day before that the -As no longer had lungs or vocal cords to speak with. But Ulm… Doctor Ulm seemed to be listening in nonetheless. Then I saw his ears perk up as he saw Whent’s signal. He was ready.</p>
<p>I saw Ulm nod, and then Whent flipped a switch. The machine started humming… first this low droning buzz, like a bee. Then, it started getting louder, and I realized it was coming from the computer. Outside, where the lights were on, I heard the power flicker in and out. It was expected, though. Ulm and his team got us oriented on that before we started. We were just here to watch and wait in case things went wrong.</p>
<p>After a while, the room began to light up a bit more. It was… ethereal. A bright kind of light… I don’t really know how to describe it. It was as if the wires, the big wires that connected the box to the computer were glowing. There was nothing inside the wires, no big chemicals going through it but… at the same time, it felt like something actually was.</p>
<p>Then the computer powered on. It was this big screen that dominated the room. First it was dark blue- nothing on it. Then suddenly, it started to turn on properly, flashing on and off as letters quickly went in and out on the screen. The buzzing kept getting louder. It was like one of those old computers my dad had from the 80s, screaming like it was getting murdered electronically.</p>
<p>The flashing and the buzzing continued for what felt like twenty minutes. Whent, Ulm, Doctor Marlon and the others were just staring up at it, waiting for it to come on. The other officers were looking up too, watching and waiting. Watching… and waiting.</p>
<p>Whent then started calling out numbers. “70 percent…” she said. “80 percent… 90…”</p>
<p>Then, once we reached the home stretch, we heard something coming from the box.</p>
<p>The -As… they were <em>talking</em>. It shouldn’t have been possible, but we heard it. They were talking loudly, shouting things like “Viva el Cristo Rey!”, “Happy birthday!”. I looked at Jan, the site security officer standing right next to me, and she was just as surprised as I was. The heads weren’t talking when the team put them in a few days ago. How the hell were they talking now?</p>
<p>Ulm seemed to be giddy now, not shocked like we were. It was like he knew what was coming. Whent was concentrated on the numbers on screen, so I’m not sure she even heard it. The other scientists were just waiting and watching, with some staring so intensely at the screen it was like their lives depended on it.</p>
<p>“96,” Whent said. “97…”</p>
<p>It was then we heard the -As <em>scream</em>- scream so loudly that it pierced through our eardrums. The screams echoed through the walls of the experiment room, bounced up and down the floors, into our heads… it was like their souls were getting <em>ripped</em> right out of them.</p>
<p>Whent was staring at the screen. She never noticed. She kept counting. “98… 99…”</p>
<p>Then we heard the buzzing go its loudest, echoing through the room along with the screams. It was this gigantic cacophony, almost… screams and electric screams all mixing in our heads.</p>
<p>Then Whent finished it: “100.”</p>
<p>In the space of a single second, everything went quiet.</p>
<p>All we heard was the hum of the computer and all we saw was the glow of the lanterns and the screens.</p>
<p>I looked at Ulm. His smile was wide with delight. He was enjoying this.</p>
<p>He crossed the room, to Whent, and then patted her back. Said something to her along the lines of “congratulations”. Then, he turned to the us, his team, and declared: “Let’s get to work.”</p>
<p>No one responded. They were too busy watching the screen. The screen with nothing but a flashing blank on it, waiting for orders.</p>
<p>Ulm turned around to type something on the keyboard. “Start query”, the screen said, as he typed it out.</p>
<p>He pressed enter. The screen replied: “Select instance.”</p>
<p>Ulm answered with “Instance 1.” Then he pressed enter again. The computer screen went black. We heard its gears whirring. It sounded like it was calculating things, trying to give us an answer.</p>
<p>Earlier on, Doctor Marlon gave us a run down of what the numbers meant. “All zeroes for us,” Doctor Marlon said. “000-000-000. Then it’s 111-111-111 for Alagadda, 222-222-222 for the Library, 333-333-333 for the Daeva.” Marlon was holding a big, really old catalog at the time that he was talking, full of big numbers implying big universes. It dated back to the 70s, and we were only just pulling it out now.</p>
<p>Marlon was holding that book then, looking at Ulm and Whent and the console from his seat. He was holding it tightly to his body, like he was waiting for a sign to open it and start looking through.</p>
<p>Then the computer went back on… and we all saw it.</p>
<p>“000-000-000.” That’s what the computer said. All zeroes.</p>
<p>Everyone stared at the screen.</p>
<p>What felt like an hour passed.</p>
<p>Then Doctor Marlon jumped to his feet, carrying the book, running to Ulm and Whent at the console.</p>
<p>They started talking. Quietly. But angrily. Ulm was looking at Whent, asking if she got the connections right. Whent was trying to defend herself, saying everything was right, and had been double-checked, triple-checked, quadruple-checked. Marlon was cutting in, trying to say that maybe it was a bug, or a fluke, and that if they tried again they’d see where the -As were coming from.</p>
<p>Ulm looked at Marlon, then nodded. He looked at the console again, told Whent to type. Whent started typing.</p>
<p>The screen flickered out. The buzzing started again.</p>
<p>Then that same number came out. “000-000-000.” All zeroes.</p>
<p>Whent tried again, another -A.</p>
<p>The screen flashed, the buzzing came and went.</p>
<p>All zeroes.</p>
<p>She did it again.</p>
<p>All zeroes.</p>
<p>Ulm ran behind the screen to check the connections. See if everything was alright. Nothing. He looked at the box, checked it for damage. Nothing. He looped back to Marlon and Whent, checked the console.</p>
<p>Nothing.</p>
<p>The computer was right.</p>
<p>The researchers started buzzing amongst themselves, talking, whispering. They looked at the computer and back again, while Ulm and Whent tried more and more and more -As.</p>
<p>Earlier on, a theory was floating around the team- something that Ulm refused to acknowledge but something that we were talking about nonetheless.</p>
<p>We all knew from the interviews that the -As were consistent. They were all drawing from the same source. If ever we got a number from the machine, they should have been the same number, or the same group of very close numbers.</p>
<p>Then, one time, Doctor Marlon joked “If it was zero, that’d be fucking bullshit.” Then Whent asked “Why would it be bullshit?”</p>
<p>Marlon then went on to say that if it was zero, it meant that the -As were imagining being in our universe- but that couldn’t be true, since what they were experiencing was so different from ours. Much less scary, even if it were still the fucked-up world we all remember. A more mundane hellhole… a more <em>normal</em> kind of bad. In the world of the -As, after November 2019, different things happened. There was no COVID, no economic recessions, no crises, no wildfires, no hurricanes like Dylan and Ainah. “Ergo,” Marlon said, “It’s bullshit. All zeroes is impossible.”</p>
<p>Then Whent piped up. “What if it weren’t bullshit? What if the zeroes meant that the -As were dreaming of the world as it <em>should</em> be, and that we wandered off the path somewhere?”</p>
<p>“To date, we’ve busted 300 burrows. 8,000 dead ones across sites from around the world, with hundreds of thousands more thought to be under the ground, trying to get out. But we’ve never gotten anything before November 23, 2019.”</p>
<p>“If we get all zeroes, what if the lives that they’re living in their heads are what we’re supposed to be living right now? What if the reason that they’re coming back is because they aren’t supposed to be dead… but because things changed, they are now?”</p>
<p>Marlon had no response to that. Just chuckled and said “It’s a wild guess, for sure.”</p>
<p>Back then, I looked at the senior researchers, and I had no idea what they meant.</p>
<p>I know it now.</p>
<p>Whent was right.</p>
<p>The -As had the script we were supposed to be quoting from, and they were quoting from it successfully. Them eating people- it’s all a means of getting back the lives that they were <em>supposed</em> to be living.</p>
<p>The shit that we all went through since 2020… the pandemic, the storms, the fires… it was because <em>we</em> were the ones that were off-track.</p>
<p><em>We</em> were the ones that were off-script.</p>
<p>And the dead– in all of their thousands, tens of thousands, <em>hundreds of thousands</em>- are the ones trying to hurt us to get back on it.</p>
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<div class="footnotes-footer">
<div class="title">Footnotes</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. For example, the first SCP-8011 resurrection event, which affected corpses who had expired on November 23, 2019, was estimated to have occurred on November 25, 2020.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. In some cases, SCP-8011-A instances have been known to target a victim’s mouth, neck, legs, feet, or genitalia.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. SCP-8011-A instances have been observed to use blunt objects and knives while killing a victim. In a few cases, SCP-8011-A instances have been observed to force entry into residences and buildings through brute force or the use of keys.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. To date, only the use of immolation through fire can totally destroy an SCP-8011-A instance. Methods involved in damaging an instance’s brain have been ineffective at neutralizing it. Decapitation has only been successful at negating an instance’s capabilities, with the head still continuing to operate in the absence of the body.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. The measure of reality in a given area</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. Individually, SCP-8011-A instances have shown to pose no notable reality bending properties. The reason for this property has not yet been definitively proven.</div>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-8"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-8')">8</a>. From this point, Head Research Ulm deviates from the questions prepared beforehand.</div>
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<p>SCP-8012 is a sentient frog wearing a conical wizard hat who appeared in the center of Site-327's kitchen on 08/04/2023.</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8012 is to be kept within the kitchen of Site-327 and interacted with only during its two daily feedings.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8012 is a sentient frog wearing a conical wizard hat who appeared in the center of Site-327's kitchen on 08/04/2023. Upon arrival, SCP-8012 began repeatedly requesting the presence of "the chosen one", insisting that it wouldn't leave the kitchen until they were found.</p>
<p>Notably, SCP-8012 has provided no elaboration on whom the "chosen one" is or what will occur once they are found. As such, the Foundation has opted against searching for the "chosen one" entirely.<br/>
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<p>Hello Dr. Clemmens</p>
<p>Just following up on an oversight in my introductory briefing: What's the protocol on the frog in the kitchen?</p>
<p>It's saying that I'm "the chosen one" and "the time is now." What's more, a glowing portal appeared and it's trying to shove(?) me in.</p>
<p>I wouldn't have bothered you, but it just shouted "I cast spell of GET IN THE STUPID PORTAL" and I'm starting to worry.</p>
<p>Thank you,<br/>
Pablo Smith.</p>
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<p>Pablo.</p>
<p>This is not normal. Disengage from the frog and exit the area immediately.</p>
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<p><em>Pablo is seen pacing in front of a glowing yellow rift in the doorframe and glancing at his phone. A number of voices can be heard from people attempting to enter the door from the other side.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> I'm not sure you understand, Sire. You are the chosen one! That's why it's imperative that you go through the Portal of Whimsy and Wonder!</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 is ineffectually jumping against Pablo's shins. Pablo is entirely unfazed, as he is significantly heavier than SCP-8012.</em></p>
<p><em>Pablo turns and crouches down.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Hey little man. Your funky portal seems fun and all, but I really need this job and whatever that portal is seems like a great way to lose it.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 stops hopping.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> But Sire, you do have an opportunity! For whimsy! For wonder!</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> I really don't need any more "whimsy" and "wonder" in my life, little man, I'm sure you can understand that.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> What if I told you there were vast treasures behind the portal, Sire? Untold treasures beyond your imagination?</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Buddy… I don't need untold riches; I need told riches. Getting those told riches is why I need to go talk to this guy.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Pleeeease?</p>
<p><em>Pablo puts a hand against his temple.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> <em>[Under his breath]</em> Today of all days…</p>
<p><em>He goes to a bench and sits down, slumping slightly.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Sire…</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 hops, frustrated, side to side.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> What now?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> You've said that you need to go see your Lord, Sire, but I don't think he makes you very happy…</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> I never said I liked-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> But I can assure you you'll love the adventure behind the portal! So please, Sire!</p>
<p><em>Pablo puts his head in his his hands, speaking through them.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> And you won't move it, no matter what?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> You will starve long before I do, Sire, if that's the question.</p>
<p><em>Pablo looks up.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Not really…?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Oh. Apologies, Sire.</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> But… If you really won't move it, I guess I have no choice.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 does a small hop in place.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Really?!</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> I mean… I guess…</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Huzzah!</p>
<p><em>Pablo takes a few steps forward.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> So… I just step in?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Simple as that, Sire, yes!</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Well… Here goes nothing…</p>
<p><em>He steps into the rift.</em></p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 and the portal disappear immediately afterwards, a pile of flowers taking their place.</em></p>
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<p><em>Pablo falls from the ceiling and lands loudly in the third stall. SCP-8012 appears upon his head.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Ouch.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> And our magical adventure begins! The bards will forever sing tales of Sir Pablo Smith and Wigglebert the Great!</p>
<p><em>Pablo stands slowly while rubbing his head and limps out the bathroom.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Ugh…</p>
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<p><em>Pablo stumbles into the Director's office with SCP-8012 perched on his shoulder. A small cut on his head has begun to bleed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Hello? Dr. Clemmens?</p>
<p><em>He looks around. The room is empty, but in a state of disarray.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> How mysterious, Sire!</p>
<p><em>Pablo walks around, picking up assorted papers from and pencils from the ground, and notices that the computer is running.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Huh…</p>
<p><em>He walks over.</em></p>
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<p><em>Pablo stares at the computer.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Sire?</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Yeah, uh…</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Wigglebert, Sire.</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Sure… bud…</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 appears sad, despite there being no change in its facial expression.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> What- is this?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Oh- The Lord's scrying machine, Sire!</p>
<p><em>Pablo looks at the desktop for a few more moments.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Yeah…</p>
<p><em>He grabs the mouse and tries to click on various "applications". Nothing happens. He then clicks on an application called "Security_Footage.Important".</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> This does nothing, bud.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Just a moment, Sire!</p>
<p><em>A nearby printer activates and beings printing. Instead of the sounds typically emitted from a printer, the sounds of a flute can be heard.</em></p>
<p><em>Pablo notices the noise and walks slowly to the printer.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Ok?</p>
<p><em>He picks up the one on top.</em></p>
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<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Gods, sire! A dragon!</p>
<p><em>He picks up the next one.</em></p>
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<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> And it attacked the keep!</p>
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<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> And kidnapped the lord and all his constituents!</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 beams at Pablo.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Am I supposed to get something from these?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Isn't it obvious, Sire? A dragon has kidnapped all your friends, and now you have to save them!</p>
<p><em>Pablo looks down once more at the "security footage", then turns a blank expression towards SCP-8012.</em></p>
<p><em>They stand in silence for approximately 30 seconds.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Isn't it exciting, Sire? A quest!</p>
<p><em>They stand in silence for another 30 seconds.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Buddy- These are… drawings.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Whatever do you mean Sire?</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> This is MS-Paint.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> No matter Sire! You must find this dragon —which has so obviously kidnapped all those who you hold dear— and slay it!</p>
<p><em>Pablo sighs.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Okay, sure. How do you say I do that, then?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 gasps. A tiny lute manifests within its hands.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> I have just the perfect way to tell you!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Ahem…</p>
<p><em>It begins to strum the lute. As it plays, the music is off-key and does not follow a set rhythm.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> <em>"To the greatest of heroes in all of the land</em><br/>
<em>because all of his friends have been taken from him</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup><br/>
<em>By a mean ugly dragon who is very mean</em><br/>
<em>How to slay that mean dragon I will have to explain.</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup></p>
<p><em>Oh the three ancient relics scattered across<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup> the land</em><br/>
<em>Hidden in tricky trials that some weirdo has planned</em><br/>
<em>He will become<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup> the greatest who has ever been great</em><br/>
<em>And that mean ugly dragon will be all rightly slayte!"</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Alrighty then. C'mon.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Really, Sire? Huzzah!</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Yep. Let's get this over with.</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
</div>
<p>Following the events of the previous log, Pablo equipped a body camera and left the Site-327 building. 10 minutes later, he was spotted entering a nearby retail store.</p>
<p>The following log was compiled with a combination of the store's internal security cameras and Pablo's body-camera audio and footage.</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>The pair walks into a retail store. Pablo is rolling a shopping cart with SCP-8012 sitting in the child's seat.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> I see, Sire, there is a great abundance of artifacts in this "Super Store".</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Mhm.</p>
<p><em>He rolls into the cookware aisle.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Tons of… "equipment" here to look at. Right?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> A most abundant supply, Sire!</p>
<p><em>They peruse for a few minutes in silence. Pablo puts various medical and camping supplies into the cart. As they enter a new aisle, SCP-8012 suddenly hops out.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Gods, Sire! Look at that!</p>
<p><em>Pablo looks over at the wall of office supplies.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> What is it, bud?</p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="AncientBlades.png" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8012/AncientBlades.png"/>
<div class="scp-image-caption">
<p>The Ancient Blades</p>
</div>
</div>
<p><em>SCP-8012 hops onto a pile of safety scissors.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Ancient blades! And so many of them!</p>
<p><em>Pablo nods and slowly picks up SCP-8012, putting it back into the cart.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Isn't it magnificent!</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> I don't think those are gonna do us much good, pal… Actually, let's go check all this stuff out. I think we've got all the "equipment" we need.</p>
<p><em>He rolls the cart to a manned cash register and nods at the cashier.</em></p>
<p><strong>Cashier:</strong> Did you find everything all right?</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Yep- I think this is everything.</p>
<p><strong>Cashier:</strong> Great!</p>
<p><em>The cashier gets to work scanning each of the items and loading them back into the cart.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep…</p>
<p><em>A minute of "Beep"s pass before Pablo pays.</em></p>
<p><strong>Cashier:</strong> We hope you come back soon!</p>
<p><em>The cashier hands him a coupon. He looks down at it.</em></p>
<p><strong>Cashier:</strong> Have a good day!</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> You too.</p>
<p><em>He wheels the cart away. As they near the doors, SCP-8012 hops onto Pablo's arm.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> What is that little card, Sire?</p>
<p><em>Pablo looks back at the coupon, still in his hand.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Oh, nothing much. Just a coupon for…</p>
<p><em>He squints.</em></p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="Coupone.png" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8012/Coupone.png"/>
<div class="scp-image-caption">
<p>A Coupon</p>
</div>
</div>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> It says I can get a "Helmet of Helmeting" if I retrieve… "three wild ducks"?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> I see, Sire. A Side-Quest!</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> I'm not really sure what an "Helmet of Helmeting" is meant to be… but… It sounds magical? Useful?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> It could indeed be, Sire, but I'm not sure getting distracted-</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> And you haven't really given me any proper leads on what to do. Right?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Well yes, Sire, but that would ruin the fun of the adventure, so-</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Well I think that's that then. Time for some Side-Quests!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> If you say so Sire…</p>
<p><em>They exit the store.</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
</div>
<p>After leaving the retail store, Pablo went to a nearby public park and utilized a net he purchased to capture three wild ducks. After returning to the store, he retrieved the "Helmet of Helmeting" from the cashier along with an additional coupon, allowing him to exchange an empty packet of chips for "Gauntlets of Crispness". He fulfilled this in addition to receiving each of the following:</p>
<table class="wiki-content-table">
<tr>
<th>Quest</th>
<th>Reward</th>
<th>Status</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Retrieve cheaper gasoline from across state borders.</td>
<td>The Chestplate of Cheapskates</td>
<td>Complete</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Steal 10 random people's mail.</td>
<td>The Leggings of The Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area</td>
<td>Complete</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Defeat a fly in mortal combat and retrieve its corpse.</td>
<td>The Boots That Are Really Cool</td>
<td>Complete</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">The Orb</td>
<td>Complete</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gather 500 leaves, each from different trees.</td>
<td>The Giant Blade of George Bigman</td>
<td>Complete</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Collect every Funko Pop.</td>
<td>The Staff of Unbelievable Magical Power</td>
<td>Incomplete</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>In the retail parking lot, shortly after receiving the previous coupon, the following log was captured.</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>Pablo stands in the center of a parking lot covered head to toe in shining armor and wielding a massive silver blade. SCP-8012 is sound asleep on his shoulder.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Hey bud?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Snrk- Ribibibibibi… Snrk-</p>
<p><em>He prods at SCP-8012.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> AH! WHO GOES- oh, Sire, it's just you.</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Not sure who else it would be bud.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Well, Sire, there are- Actually… Mind that not sire. Have you finally decided to continue your quest? I'd be more than happy to play the song again if you need help getting back on track!</p>
<p><em>A lute manifests in SCP-8012's hands.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Ahem…</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Wait! Wait- wait.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 turns its head to the side slightly.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> I think I'm just about ready to face the dragon actually.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> You are, Sire?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 turns to the shopping cart and back to Pablo.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> You don't seem nearly well enough equipped to be facing a dragon.</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Wh- You see what I have, right?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Of course, Sire.</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> The magic swords? And armor?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Yes, Sire, it's just-</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Bud. I'm ready. Just tell me where it is.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 lets out a whine.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> If you really think so, Sire… I just… You see, I'm very worried.</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Of course, bud, I get that.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> And if you got hurt due to my negligence- Gods- how would I ever recover, Sire!</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> That's really nice, bud, but I'm really sure I'll be fi-</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 croaks loudly.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Maybe we can compromise, Sire.</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Compromise? What sort of compromise?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Well… I think I'd be willing to give you the location of <em>the fetid cavern</em> if you took at least <em>one</em> artifact with you. At the very least.</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Artifact?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 turns to the retail store.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Oh! Yeah those… safety scissors, right?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Ancient blades, Sire.</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Yeah, yeah. I can do that. Easy.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 lets out a sigh.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Gods, oh gods, thank you, Sire. But oh-</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 shudders.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> To be approaching <em>the fetid cavern</em> so soon, it puts chills in me, Sire, but I shall put those aside! It is your quest, not mine!</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Great. Thank you. Should we get to it then?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 takes a deep breath and exhales.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> At your lead, brave hero.</p>
<p><em>They walk towards the retail store.</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-center" style="width:300px;"><img alt="AncientBlade.png" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8012/AncientBlade.png"/>
<div class="scp-image-caption">
<p>Ancient Blades Acquired!</p>
</div>
</div>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
</div>
<p>After purchasing safety scissors within the retail store, Pablo Smith traveled to the address of "The Fetid Cavern" which SCP-8012 provided. The following log was compiled by combining body camera footage with internal and external security camera footage from the destination building.</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>The pair can be seen walking down a road in a suburban neighborhood. Pablo remains full clad in his armor and brandishing his blade.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> It should be right… about… here.</p>
<p><em>Pablo leans over, catching his breath and looking around. Suddenly, SCP-8012 gasps.</em></p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="FetidCavern.jpg" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8012/FetidCavern.jpg"/>
<div class="scp-image-caption">
<p>The Fetid Cavern</p>
</div>
</div>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Gods, Sire! <em>The Fetid Cavern,</em> I nary thought I'd live to see it…</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Huh? Oh.</p>
<p><em>He looks at the address that he scribbled on a notecard that sits scrunched up in his gauntlet.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> The house?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Isn't it hideous, Sire?</p>
<p><em>Pablo squints.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> I mean. Decisions were certainly made while building it, but I wouldn't call it "Fetid" exactly.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> It seems the eye of a hero is much kinder than that of a wizard, Sire.</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Yeah, sure. Let's get to it then.</p>
<p><em>He walks up to the front door and knocks the door.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> A bold approach, Sire.</p>
<p><em>They wait a few moments.</em></p>
<p><em>Pablo rings the doorbell, then moves to peek through a window.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Don't think anyone's home…</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Well yes sire, the Dragon will certainly be buried deep in the depths of this horrible place, guarding its ill gotten gains in a meandering stupor.</p>
<p><em>Pablo tries the door, confirming that it's locked.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Alas, Sire. If only you had that great ancient relic, the key of all keys, the friend to all locks, the-</p>
<p><em><strong>SMASH</strong></em></p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 gasps as Pablo drives his gauntlet through the window, unlocking it from the inside and pushing it open.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> In we go then?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> I suppose so, Sire…</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 hops inside. Pablo takes an additional few minutes figuring out how to get his fully armored body through the window frame.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> [<em>Panting</em>] Ugh- So where's the dragon, bud?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> I wonder…</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 hops a wide circle around Pablo, then stops.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> I can feel a dark energy this way, Sire. Shall we follow it?</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Yeah…</p>
<p><em>Pablo exhales and closes his eyes for a moment.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Let's do this.</p>
<p><em>Pablo follows as SCP-8012 starts carefully hopping down hallways and around corners. Hard footsteps and metal clinks echo through the wide interior of the house.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> [<em>Whispering</em>] You should be more quiet, Sire… you never know when the horrid beast could strike!</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> [<em>Whispering</em>] I'm trying, but-</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 freezes midjump right in front of one of the hallway doors.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Bud?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 begins to spin in place.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> It's here… Sire… Oh Gods- this… incomprehensible feeling of dread… the terror… I- I- I-</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 falls and lands with a splat. After a moment it stands up, shakes itself a bit, then hops onto Pablo's shoulder, nestling into a safe nook in his armor.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> I can lead you no longer.</p>
<p><em>Pablo nods.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> That's fine, bud. I- I've… I've got this.</p>
<p><em>Pablo centers himself in front of the door and raises his left arm to the handle. It squeaks as he grabs it and begins to turn.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>CLACK</strong></em></p>
<p><em>A sharp noise resonates as the latch opens. Pablo pulls.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>Crrreeeeak…</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Ok-</p>
<p><em>As soon as the door opens he charges in, finding the center of the room and entering a guarded stance.</em></p>
<p><em>He looks around.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Where is the…?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> G-g-g-gods, S-s-sire! Right there!</p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="TheDragon.png" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8012/TheDragon.png"/>
<div class="scp-image-caption">
<p>The Dragon</p>
</div>
</div>
<p><em>Pablo lowers his sword and drops his guard, shuffling over to the Dragon.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> It's just a-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> THE TIME HAS COME FOR YOU TO SLAY THE DRAGON, SIRE! TAKE UP YOUR ARMS AND SLAY IT, WITH HASTE! QUICKLY!</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Bud- Bud. Calm down-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> IT IS THE GOAL OF YOUR QUEST, SIRE! YOU MUST DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE! PLEASE!</p>
<p><em>Pablo reaches out his hand to pet the dragon. It attempts to bite him, but just ends up gnawing on the his gauntlet finger.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> You're just a little grumpy fella aren't you- aw, aren't you!</p>
<p><em>The Dragon hisses and goes for another bite.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Probably just hungry…</p>
<p><em>Pablo looks around.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> What in the world are you doing, Sire?</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Just one sec, bud… Ah-</p>
<p><em>He spots a potted plant sitting on the windowsill and walks over. A number of bright red strawberries can be seen in-between the lush leaves.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Sire?</p>
<p><em>Pablo pulls on one of the berries.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Just gonna…</p>
<p><em>The vine goes taut as he pulls, but doesn't break. Pablo pauses for a moment, then pulls again, but neither the pot, dirt, nor plant shift or snap.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> What in the- maybe- uh…</p>
<p><em>Pablo attempts to take his blade to the stem, but finds it is much too large to fit in the windowsill properly. He tries various angles of approach before lowering his blade with a huff.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Ha- hahaha… Great.</p>
<p><em>He drops the sword. It lands with an echoing clatter.</em></p>
<p><em>They stand in silence for a few seconds.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Um… No-no… Never…</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> What is it, Bud?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> No- nothing, Sire. Carry on… You know better…</p>
<p><em>Pablo sighs.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Wigglebert. What is it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Oh! Sire! It's- It's just…</p>
<p><em>It hops out from its nook in the armor.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> What if you tried the Ancient Blades?</p>
<p><em>Pablo pauses, contemplating.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> How wou-</p>
<p><em>Pablo sighs.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Y'know what. Sure. Let's give your idea a shot Wigglebert.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 appears incredibly proud, despite there being no change in its facial expression.</em></p>
<p><em>Pablo reaches his hand into a pouch by his side, procuring the Ancient Blades.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Here goes nothing…</p>
<p><em>He raises the Ancient Blades, daintily leaning over and positioning them around one of the berries' stems.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>Snip</strong></em></p>
<p><em>It cuts cleanly, dropping the berry into Pablo's waiting other hand. He brings the strawberry up to his face and smiles.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Wonderful.</p>
<p><em>He turns and walks carefully over to the dragon, brandishing the luscious fruit.</em></p>
<p><em>As he approaches, the dragon opens its mouth.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>Snap</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>Gulp</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Sire, it accepted it!</p>
<p><em>The dragon stomps in a tight circle then tips onto its back, tapping its belly with its feet for a few seconds before falling immediately asleep.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Aww…</p>
<p><em>He pats it on its belly.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> The beast does seem much more manageable while asleep…</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> So… Quest complete?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 pauses, and looks between Pablo and the Dragon a few times.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> I don't actually- Ah! Over there.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 turns off to the side. Pablo follows the direction it points and finds a precarious object covered by a sheet.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> How mysterious, Sire!</p>
<p><em>He pulls off the sheet, revealing a bird cage.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Gods, the Soul Prison! But where are your friends?</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Wait. There's something inside…</p>
<p><em>Pablo opens the cage and reaches in.</em></p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="PrincessPaycheck.png" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8012/PrincessPaycheck.png"/>
<div class="scp-image-caption">
<p>Princess Paycheck</p>
</div>
</div>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> What's this?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Oooooohh… Of course, Sire! No quest is complete without rescuing a Princess! Congratulations!</p>
<p><em>Applause can be heard.</em></p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Huh?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> You completed your quest!</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Oh, I-</p>
<p><em>The lights suddenly shut off.</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
</div>
<p>Immediately after the conclusion of the prior log, all houses within a 1-mile radius of "The Fetid Cavern" experienced total loss of power lasting 10 minutes. Following this, all of Site-327 staff manifested randomly in safe locations within the radius.</p>
<p>Notably, Site-327 Director Doug Clemmens, owner of the estate dubbed "The Fetid Cavern", manifested within the property. The log was captured shortly after the power outage ceased.</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>Pablo stands in front of the bird cage, still in full armor, and holding the Princess Paycheck and SCP-8012 in his hands. Director Clemmens can be seen sitting, somewhat blank-faced, in a chair off to the side.</em></p>
<p><strong>Clemmens:</strong> So what you're saying is…</p>
<p><em>Clemmens puts his hand to his forehead.</em></p>
<p><strong>Clemmens:</strong> You went on a fantasy adventure from the Site building, across the city, and into the suburbs where you aimed to slay a dragon but instead completed by feeding my little Lizzy a strawberry?</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Yes, sir.</p>
<p><strong>Clemmens:</strong> And 8012-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Wigglebert. Wigglebert the Bard, sir.</p>
<p><strong>Clemmens:</strong> Yes… And 8012, you are now satisfied with staying in our care with no issues?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> As long as I can continue to tell the epic of Sir Pablo Smith, sir, yes.</p>
<p><em>Clemmens looks looks left and right while making various outward motions with his hands.</em></p>
<p><strong>Clemmens:</strong> Well, great! Congratulations!</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Huh?</p>
<p><strong>Clemmens:</strong> Welcome to the Foundation, son.</p>
<p><em>Pablo fails to find words.</em></p>
<p><strong>Clemmens:</strong> Now get out of my house.</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Oh, yes, of course. Sorry sir. Thank you, sir. Sorry sir.</p>
<p><em>Pablo begins to walk out of the room.</em></p>
<p><strong>Clemmens:</strong> Leave the frog.</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Oh- yes. Go on, Wigglebert.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Of course, Sire. How could I refuse the first audience member of the newly retired, Wigglebert, the Bard!</p>
<p><em>Clemmens looks over at Pablo with a forced smile and raised eyebrows.</em></p>
<p><strong>Clemmens:</strong> We'll be in touch.</p>
<p><strong>Pablo:</strong> Of course, sir. Thank you again, sir.</p>
<p><em>Pablo leaves the room.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> So shall we begin?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8012 hops onto Clemmens's shoulder.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8012:</strong> Ahe-</p>
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<p>In keeping with the resolutions made in the log above, Pablo Smith has been hired and assigned head researcher on SCP-8012.</p>
<p>SCP-8012 has been reclassified as Euclid.<br/></p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. When feeding SCP-8012, personnel are to refer to the food with fantastical terminology such as "dragon's feet" or "speed potion", as SCP-8012 will not eat food labeled otherwise.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Reason unknown.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Pronounced: Ham.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. Pronounced: Ex-spleen.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. Pronounced: A-Cross</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. Pronounced: Be Come</div>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8013 is currently uncontained. Due to its pattern of appearing only in Foundation facility parking spaces and its minimal impact on operations, it has been deemed a low priority object. Research into potential containment methods is pending approval.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8013 is a van of unidentified make and model, coated in a thick layer of rust and missing both side view mirrors. On the back of the van, four novelty license plates have been attached spelling out the following phrase: MARTING REAZEFR OMGREAZ EBURGER.</p>
<p>SCP-8013 seems to posses the ability to phase in and out of reality at will, having been witnessed by multiple Foundation personnel appearing and disappearing inside facility parking spaces with no trace. There are no reported instances of the vehicle appearing outside of Foundation property. All attempts to stop the vehicle with barricades or blunt force have resulted in SCP-8013 demanifesting.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Suspected connections to <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/greazeburger-incorporated-hub">GoI-123 "Greazeburger"</a> have yet to be proven.</span></p>
<p><strong>Incident Report 2024/08/06:</strong> At 07:27, SCP-8013 manifested inside the Site-63 parking garage. The vehicle circled around the garage for several minutes before security personnel arrived. SCP-8013 demanifested before contact could be established.</p>
<p>The following morning, a file containing several videos was uploaded to a secure Foundation server by an account belonging to Site-63 Custodian Monty Benson, who had not arrived for work that day. The videos depict a Dunwich-class Nexus tentatively labeled as SCP-8013-A.</p>
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<p><em>Benson is seen sitting on a pile of unidentified bottles in the back of a moving vehicle, presumably SCP-8013. He shifts the camera to face the front of the vehicle, where Martin Greaze<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> is visible in the driver's seat. Through the front windows, it appears the vehicle is driving through a black void with faint lights in the distance.</em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Uh… Hi. I've been kidnapped by this guy. Hit me with a car and I woke up in here about half an hour ago. They haven't responded to anything I've said so far, so I figured I'd start a recording in case this turns out to be useful for research.</p>
<p><em>He looks over at Martin Greaze again. There is no response.</em></p>
<p>[14 minutes omitted for brevity]</p>
<p><em>SCP-8013 violently swerves left, causing the bottles and Benson to fall to the right side of the van.</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> Sorry about that, almost hit a pattern screamer. Darn things should be more careful crossing the nighway.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> You can talk! Why didn't you say anything before?</p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> First you were screaming about being taken hostage, which was pretty rude, and then you were talking to your camera and I didn't want to interrupt.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Who are you? Why am I here?</p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> Well Mister Benson…</p>
<p>[27 minutes omitted for brevity]</p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> Does this answer your question?</p>
<p><em>A bright light flashes outside SCP-8013, and the vehicle comes to a stop in an underground parking lot.</em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> What question? You just went silent for half an hour again.</p>
<p><em>Martin Greaze kicks open the door and exits SCP-8013. Benson follows.</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> We're in the basement parking lot of the main Greazeburger office. I've got to get to work, someone else will give you the orientation.</p>
<p><em>Martin Greaze walks out of view of the camera. The camera is angled to the floor as Benson presumably gives chase.</em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Wait! You can't just leave me here!</p>
<p><em>Benson holds up the camera to show a closed elevator. The sign on the door indicates it is traveling up to floor 999.</em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Well… Shit.</p>
<p><em>The camera pans around the room, showing a vast expanse of parked cars.</em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> I guess I'll find my own way.</p>
<p><em>Benson walks to a flight of stairs and begins climbing.</em></p>
<p>[18 minutes omitted for brevity]</p>
<p><em>Benson enters a large open room with floor to ceiling windows. Outside, a bright and sunny field is visible.</em></p>
<p><em>As Benson approaches the large double doors, classical piano music is audible from outside.</em></p>
<p><em>Benson places a hand on the door and pushes. It does not move.</em></p>
<p><strong>Unidentified:</strong> Door's locked during work hours.</p>
<p><em>Benson turns around. An unidentified humanoid is seated behind a large desk beneath a screen displaying a series of product testimonials.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup></em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Who are you? Why am I here? What is this place?</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> My name is Evelyn Greaze, I'm the head of HR here at the Greazeburger Earth Central Office. You're here because you're our new hire, Monty. As part of the Greazeburger Earth new diverse and inclusive hiring practices.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> I never applied for anything -</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> Part of the diversity initiative is hiring outside our normal pool of applicants and instead hiring non-applicants who work for our enemies. You've been chosen to join our company and raise our profit margins through the roof! Or die trying.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Okay, so if I just do whatever this job is you don't hurt me or anything?</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> We at Greazeburger Earth would never hurt one our own employees. That's for Dark Lord Divitiae to handle.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Who?</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> Don't worry about it. Want to watch the orientation video? Let's do that now.</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p>The recording provided by Benson depicted a very cropped version of the following video file, which was included in the same file. A transcript of the video has also been included.</p>
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<p>Hello new Greazeburger employee, and welcome to the Greazeburger family.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup></p>
<p>Here at Greazeburger incorporated, we strive to bring our customers new and exiting products, even when they don't ask us to. Our forward thinking mindsets and agile business models are fully directed to imagining the next big thing in the field of Greaze.</p>
<p>That innovation starts with you. Today, you may be the new hire with no training or relevant experience, but tomorrow your fresh perspectives and new ideas could raise our stocks tenfold!</p>
<p>The success of this company falls on your shoulders now. Please help us.</p>
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<p><strong>Benson:</strong> That didn't explain anything.</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> You'll need a copy of your orientation package, there's a lot of on-boarding we need to get through.</p>
<p><em>Evelyn Greaze hands Benson a manila folder.</em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> This is empty.</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> Greazeburger Earth is environmentally conscious, as such we don't waste paper when we can instead tell you things.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> That's… good?</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> Yes. We are a good company. Give us money.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> I thought I worked for you now.</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> Sorry, force of habit. How about we start your first day of work?</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> I guess there's no backing out of this.</p>
<p><em>Evelyn Greaze leads Benson up another flight of stairs. They enter an office space with several unoccupied cubicles. Red stains are visible on the otherwise beige carpet. The only observable life is a potted plant by a window.</em></p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> Here's the office floor, you'll be working here with the other diversity hires. Your main job will be -</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> There's more Foundation staff here?</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> No, why would we need more than one of each background we're trying to represent?</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> What other backgrounds are here?</p>
<p><em>Muffled screaming is audible from a closed door on the other end of the office.</em></p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> Ignore that, we've still got a a lot on the schedule before you meet the rest of the- where are you going? Stop that.</p>
<p><em>Benson crosses the office and opens the door. The room is a small broom closet with bottles of cleaning products on a shelf. Additionally an individual identified as Enya Richmond<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> is tied to a plastic lawn chair in the closet.</em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Oh shit, who're you?</p>
<p><strong>Richmond:</strong> The lady who's going to sue your pants off, that's who.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> I don't even work here.</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> Good news, you both do! No need for any lawsuits, we're all part of the Greazeburger family here.</p>
<p><em>Benson unties the ropes holding Richmond.</em></p>
<p><strong>Richmond:</strong> Greazeburger? I'll have you know, my actual employers are very powerful people who don't take kindly to this sort of nonsense!</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> Oh yes, we know. But they won't be after us anytime soon. MCD's legal team had sent us a few cease and desist notices recently so we had our illegal team bust a few knees. That ought to put them off any retribution until next quarter, at least.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> I may not be one of the science guys, but I've heard of MCD a few times at the Foundation. You're with those rich freaks that sell the anomalies?</p>
<p><strong>Richmond:</strong> Freaks isn't the word I'd use, but that is certainly…. one way of putting it.</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> Well, now that you two are friends we can get back to business. You've both been hired for a very important task, which is -</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Friends? She hasn't even told me her name yet.</p>
<p><strong>Richmond:</strong> I've never considered myself a friend to a man in coveralls before, and I don't plan to start now.</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> Oh dear, so much hostility. Where's Martin when I need it?</p>
<p><em>The floor to ceiling window shatters as SCP-8013 drives into the office space. It is unclear how SCP-8013 accessed a fourth story window, as it had not shown any capability of flight in prior interactions.</em></p>
<p><em>As the front end of the vehicle catches fire, Martin Greaze and an unidentified individual exit SCP-8013.</em></p>
<p><strong>Unidentified:</strong> Oh god oh god oh god, where am I? Who are you people?</p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> Hey new hires, got the one from the GOC here.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Unidentified:</strong> The Global Occult Coalition? Ha, what's that? Probably Fake.</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> Welcome to the team, Mister McDowell. The Greaze team.</p>
<p><strong>McDowell:</strong> How do you know my name?</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> It's magic, just roll with it.</p>
<p><strong>Richmond:</strong> The proper term is anomalous.</p>
<p><strong>McDowell:</strong> Shit! They never trained me for this! I'm supposed to be balancing budgets, not getting involved with the KTEs!</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Hey man, I'm just a janitor. I don't think these grease guys care.</p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> It's pronounced Greaze. Remember our slogan, you can't spell Greaze without E-Z.</p>
<p><strong>Richmond:</strong> Once I'm through with you, it'll be pronounced a subsidiary of Marshal Carter and Dark Ltd.</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> Alright everyone, things are starting to get a bit heated. Remember, if you have a complaint about a coworker you should contact HR instead of escalating the situation. My office is always open except for right now because I'm doing this instead. Martin, can you bring out the fourth new hire?</p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> Right, forgot to introduce Chuck.</p>
<p><em>Martin Greaze enters the back of SCP-8013 and drags out a human corpse. White foam is visible around the mouth.</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> Meet the most important member of the team, this guy's a highly trained combat vet from the Chaos Insurgency. It was pretty difficult to get him to come in with us, but once we got him in the van he said something about not being tortured and fell asleep in seconds.</p>
<p><strong>McDowell:</strong> I had to ride in the van with a dead guy for over an hour.</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> He's just resting. Now that you're all here, let's get this ball rolling. Use your new angles of thinking and diverse backgrounds to think of a billion dollar idea and save this company!</p>
<p><strong>Richmond:</strong> Diverse backgrounds?</p>
<p><strong>McDowell:</strong> How are we supposed to have ideas worth so much?</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> I still don't know what this company does or sells!</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> What's the problem? You're bringing so many fresh perspectives to the table, we're taking new bold directions! Why aren't we making enough money to appease Dark Lord Divitiae?</p>
<p><strong>McDowell:</strong> Who the hell is that?</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> He owns the building we work in.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Maybe you could try appeasing him some other way?</p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> Dark Lord Divitiae can only be sated by all the gold in the world. We just need a bit more.</p>
<p><em>The engine of SCP-8013 explodes, launching its burning remains around the office. Black smoke blocks out the camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Divitiae:</strong> WHERE'S MY MONEY, GREAZE?</p>
<p><em>Sound indicates the structure of SCP-8013-A may have been extremely damaged. Glass shatters. The building tremors and pitches.</em></p>
<p><strong>Evelyn Greaze:</strong> He's entered a rage state! Run, new hires! Save your-</p>
<p><em>Evelyn Greaze is cut off by a loud burst of flames, briefly illuminating the silhouette of a large winged quadrupedal entity outside SCP-8013-A.</em></p>
<p><em>Benson runs from the room. The flames and smoke part as a green scaled hand grasps at the floor in front of him. The hand picks up a burning desk and throws it across the room. Benson screams and runs the other way.</em></p>
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<p><em>Benson, Richmond, and McDowell are walking through a windowless hallway. All three of them are coated in soot. McDowell appears to have been crying.</em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Any sign of the grease guys?</p>
<p><strong>Richmond:</strong> No.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> What <em>was</em> that thing?</p>
<p><strong>Richmond:</strong> I didn't get a close look. Was rather preoccupied with running for my life.</p>
<p><strong>McDowell:</strong> Is this the sort of thing you guys deal with a lot? I've never come close to fieldwork, and after this I never will again.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> I've never worked with any of the dangerous ones before. Just the cute, fluffy monsters.</p>
<p><em>They come to a door at the end of the hall. Richmond opens the door into a large storeroom lined with crates and boxes.</em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> At least it's not more office.</p>
<p><em>Richmond enters the storeroom. Benson and McDowell follow.</em></p>
<p><strong>McDowell:</strong> This place seems so deserted.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> No wonder they needed new hires from outside.</p>
<p><em>On the other end of the storeroom, a door marked as the exit is visible.</em></p>
<p><strong>Richmond:</strong> And there we go.</p>
<p><strong>McDowell:</strong> Feels too easy. It can't be this easy.</p>
<p><em>A sound<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup> comes from behind a stack of boxes.</em></p>
<p><strong>Richmond:</strong> Hey accountant, go fuck yourself.</p>
<p><strong>McDowell:</strong> That wasn't me!</p>
<p><em>The sound is heard again as the stack of boxes is toppled by a large amorphous entity of a currently unidentified colour with the phrase "ORIGINAL CONTENT" written on it in white.</em></p>
<p><em>Benson, Richmond, and McDowell scream and run from the entity. It charges towards them, and reaches out a pseudopod to McDowell.</em></p>
<p><strong>McDowell:</strong> Oh shit, it's got me!</p>
<p><em>The entity drags McDowell into its body and envelops him. It makes more unidentified sounds.</em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Just get to the exit! We're almost there!</p>
<p><em>Benson and Richmond run to the exit door and attempt to push it open. The door does not move.</em></p>
<p><strong>Richmond:</strong> Push harder, janitor!</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> I'm trying!</p>
<p><em>The door slowly gives way, and they squeeze through just as the entity catches up to them. The door quickly slams shut behind them before it can follow through.</em></p>
<p><em>Benson and Richmond are in an office space much like the previous offices. Beside them, a waste bin shakes and falls over. Martin Greaze crawls out of the bin and stands up, extending a hand to Richmond.</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> Great job you two, you've managed to escape the Dark Lord Divitiae and his servants.</p>
<p><em>Richmond does not take the hand.</em></p>
<p><strong>Richmond:</strong> How did you get out?</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> And what was that thing back there? Did it eat McDowell?</p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> That was an old cancelled project. Wasn't derivative enough. But the real threat is that certain someone downstairs. And you, Mister Benson, are going to save us all from him.</p>
<p><strong>Richmond:</strong> And me?</p>
<p><em>Martin Greaze takes a chef's knife from the front of his pants and stabs Richmond in the neck. She gasps and falls to the floor as blood sprays from the wound.</em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> OH GOD! WHAT THE FUCK?</p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> Going to be honest, she wasn't supposed to live this long. Really only needed a chosen one, a chosen two isn't useful.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> You're insane!</p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> No, I'll tell you what's insane. Dark Lord Divitiae upped our rent prices last month and now we're almost broke. Now, I've got one last surprise for you and then you go kill the bastard that owns this building.</p>
<p><em>Martin Greaze takes a mop out of his pocket.</em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> The mop?</p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> Just take it.</p>
<p><em>Benson takes the mop. Martin Greaze pushes a potted plant over, revealing an elevator door.</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> Excellent. Now, the final step of your journey awaits you.</p>
<p><em>Benson steps into the elevator. As the door closes, the camera lingers on Richmond's corpse.</em></p>
<p>[10 minutes omitted for brevity]</p>
<p><em>The elevator stops on floor -666. The door slides open, revealing a large stone chamber lit by a row of torches. In the centre of the chamber, a Wyvern class LSA entity<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-7')">7</a></sup> sits atop a pile of gold coins estimated to be worth three billion USD at the time of recording.</em></p>
<p><strong>Divitiae:</strong> Hello, little human. What tribute have you brought me today?</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Uhh, I've got a mop?</p>
<p><strong>Divitiae:</strong> Well, best get cleaning. My lair has grown rather dusty.</p>
<p><em>Divitiae throws a single gold coin at Benson.</em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> I need water to do that.</p>
<p><strong>Divitiae:</strong> I'll give you as much water as you need, for that coin in your hand.</p>
<p><em>Benson throws the coin back into the pile. The LSA opens its mouth and spews soapy water onto the floor. Benson begins to mop the floor.</em></p>
<p><strong>Divitiae:</strong> Go faster, I haven't got all day. There's a village nearby that needs burning.</p>
<p><em>Benson starts moving faster.</em></p>
<p><strong>Divitiae:</strong> Slow down, you can't do the job perfectly if you're going too fast.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Look, I'm not really here to clean. And I'm not here for pay. I just want to go home.</p>
<p><em>Benson drops the mop.</em></p>
<p><strong>Divitiae:</strong> HOW DARE YOU DEFY ME!</p>
<p><em>Divitiae leaps off the pile of gold and snaps its jaws at Benson. As Benson jumps away, it slips on the wet floor and slides across the chamber and slams its face into the elevator door.</em></p>
<p><em>Benson stands up and cautiously crosses the floor. He picks up the mop, which has been snapped in half by Divitiae's body.</em></p>
<p><strong>Divitiae:</strong> You traitorous swine! You'll never work in this town again! I'll repossess your house!</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Broke like a pool stick. How convenient.</p>
<p><em>Divitiae attempts to stand, but slips on the wet floor again.</em></p>
<p><strong>Divitiae:</strong> You broke your mop? That's coming out of your salary with interest!</p>
<p><em>Benson drives the sharp end of the broken mop into Divitiae's neck.</em></p>
<p><strong>Divitiae:</strong> Foolish mortal, I HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY TO DIE!</p>
<p><em>Divitiae swings a clawed hand at Benson, launching him across the room. A loud crack is heard as Benson hits the wall.</em></p>
<p><strong>Divitiae:</strong> I WILL NOT BE FELLED BY SOME WORKING CLASS WHELP!</p>
<p><em>Divitiae grabs the broken mop and rips it out of its neck. A shower of blood sprays out of the wound.</em></p>
<p><strong>Divitiae:</strong> HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT'S HAPPENING?</p>
<p><em>Divitiae places its hands on the wound. Blood can still be seen pouring out between its claws.</em></p>
<p><strong>Divitiae:</strong> My head feels funny….</p>
<p><em>Divitiae falls to the ground. After approximately ten minutes, the bleeding slows. Divitiae and Benson do not move for three more hours.</em></p>
<p><em>The broken elevator door begins to glow and melt. Martin Greaze steps through the hole, and slips on the wet floor.</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> Ah shit, someone should put a sign up.</p>
<p><em>Martin Greaze crosses the room and kneels over Benson's body.</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> Hey new guy, good to see you did your job well. Unfortunately, your services are no longer required and we'll be terminating your contract.</p>
<p><em>Benson does not respond.</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> Huh. Guess he's dead. Can't fire a dead guy, can we? No. Let's fix this shit.</p>
<p><em>Martin Greaze takes a syringe of an unidentified glowing green substance from his pocket, and injects it into Benson's arm. Benson gasps and coughs.</em></p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> Oh god. I'm alive! I killed a dragon!</p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> You sure did. Now that we don't need you anymore, you're fired.</p>
<p><em>Martin Greaze takes a flask of whisky from inside his suit and pours it out over Benson's body. He takes a step away, and lights a match.</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin Greaze:</strong> See you in hell.</p>
<p><strong>Benson:</strong> WAIT, DON'T -</p>
<p><em>Martin Greaze smiles, waves to Benson, and tosses the lighter at him. The remainder of the video file is too degraded to view.</em></p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. PoI-8613</div>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Family is bound by blood and marriage. Employees must take Greaze family name within ten business days of hiring. Employees families are considered part of the larger Greazeburger family. The Greazeburger family is not responsible for medical debts incurred by individual members of the Greazeburger family.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. A lawyer under employ of Marshal Carter and Dark Ltd. A missing persons report was filed by her family three days after this video was recorded.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. Global Occult Coalition spokesmen have refused to comment on the existence of a GOC operative matching the description given.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. Multiple transcription department personnel have been unable to describe this sound through text. Automated subtitle generation software indicates the sound as 💀.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-7')">7</a>. Commonly known as a European Dragon</div>
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<p>Manhattan Island as observed in Timeline Epsilon-3</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:1.25em;"><strong>SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES:</strong></span></p>
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<p>Secure-Area-8014 has been established approximately 50km due East of Podstrana, Croatia. All attendant personnel are required to wear dosimeters at all times within the boundaries of the Secure Site, and secondary physical evaluations may be required after departure from the facility.</p>
<p>Anthropological Task Force Gamma-10 ("Legio X") has been established in order to evaluate and document any artifacts, art, administrative records, or disavowed individuals provided by SCP-8014.</p>
<p>Requests for reciprocity made by SCP-8014 are to be transmitted to the Site Director for Secure-Area-8014, as well as Overwatch Command, as Priority-0 communications.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:1.25em;"><strong>DESCRIPTION:</strong></span></p>
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<p>SCP-8014 refers to a multiversal point of commonality known as 'Rome'. Exploration into both adjacent and branching realities has confirmed evidence of SCP-8014 in 98.1% of all habitable timelines. Included within this sample, SCP-8014 has persisted into a modern equivalent and is the dominant, contemporary, geo-political force in 91.5% of all observations to date.</p>
<p>The observed cultural values, architectural conventions, legal and organizational structures, and other cultural thematic tones of SCP-8014 remain generally consistent between all observed branches. These qualities generally align with available anthropoligical and archeological records from the early Imperial Roman Empire within baseline Reality.</p>
<p>Although available resources vary highly between individual branches, SCP-8014 is capable of deploying advanced technological and thaumaturgical assets, as well as significant numbers of military and support personnel, across vast theaters of war spanning multiple realities. The degree to which such efficiency and coordination is maintained is the responsibility of a highly organized central authority within SCP-8014 which has been designated as 'Rome Prime'.</p>
<p>A treaty negotiated between the SCP Foundation and representatives of SCP-8014 has designated our reality as a "neutral" party for the purposes of SCP-8014's campaigns. The terms of this agreement obligate the SCP Foundation to report on any activity it becomes aware of which relates to any entities considered to be 'of interest' by SCP-8014, and provide cooperation within the scope of the treaty. Full terms, conditions, obligations, and considerations are available for view only at the explicit approval of Overwatch Command.</p>
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<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> SCP-8014 has provided an additional designation of <strong>'Theta'</strong> for entities which it considers to be both hostile and dangerous. Terms and conditions of reimbursement and compensation for losses sustained in the apprehension of 'Theta' individuals has been ratified and appended to the original treaty.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:1.25em;"><strong>ADDENDUM 01: DISCOVERY</strong></span></p>
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<p>On 2023-05-21, multiple seismic and radiological alarms in the vicinity of the Adriatic Sea were triggered suggesting nuclear activity, however, no political entities asserted involvement and there are no known nuclear assets within 250km of the epicenter. Investigation teams from both the Foundation and GOC were able to triangulate the source of the activity and trace it to an area of countryside due East of Podstrana, Croatia. Investigative forces withdrew to a safe distance and established a perimeter.</p>
<p>The epicenter of the explosion was determined to be a matter-antimatter event which caused significant environmental damage. Aside from livestock there were no observed casualties. Residents of the countryside within 10km of the epicenter were evacuated using the "Hazard-12" cover story.</p>
<p>Once radiation levels were confirmed to be within acceptable thresholds, investigative and recovery teams observed a badly damaged, steel-frame transport vessel roughly cylindrical in shape, with an approximate diameter of 3-meters and a length of 4.5-meters. Due to structural damage sustained in the explosion, all access hatches had become fused and the object was extracted for further examination.</p>
<p>During recovery and decontamination, the object was found to contain two living individuals and a third who had succumbed to injuries. Of the two surviving individuals, one was incapable of speech due to mutilation sustained prior to this event; the other spoke an unintelligible dialect of Phoenician, as well as a broken dialect of Greek idenfiable as Hemriote<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:1.25em;"><strong>ADDENDUM 02: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: INTERROGATION</strong></span></p>
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<p>Joint consultation between GOC and Foundation Linguistic Experts concluded that fidelity in communication was most likely while utilizing Greek. Temporary detainment facilities were authorized and constructed at the secure location in order to study the detainees, their craft, and make a determination on the precipitating anomaly.</p>
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<p><strong>PRELIMINARY REPORT</strong><br/>
<strong>2023-05-23; Secure Area-8014</strong></p>
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<p><em>Superivising Agent Mylonis, Laurence J.</em></p>
<p>As per standard operating procedures, full audio recordings of Interrogations I through VI have been appended to this record in an unedited format as well as the full report. This letter is an Expert Summary of my interactions with Detainee 8014-1, who self-identifies as 'Mago' and whom I interrogated on May the 23rd at significant length.</p>
<p>The subject reports to be an escaped prisoner who was being detained in an advanced prison facility after his strategic defeat in an ongoing military conflict. The subject described his fellow detainees using the word 'φιλότιμο', or 'philotimo', which when taken in context I believe to mean these were prisoners of war.</p>
<p>Subject further described the relentless pursuit of his company by the enemy forces and their campaign to evade capture. Linguistically, this was represented by describing his own cohort with the word 'πολύτροπος', or 'polytropos'. Taken in context, I believe this to mean they were some sort of special forces detachment, however, it is possible the subject was instead referring to the manner of their escape.</p>
<p>In summary, I do not believe the subject is an immediate threat to the safety or security of the Secure Site. They do not understand the mechanics of how they were able to arrive to where they were found, and they express relief to be free from their previous captivity. During my interrogations, at no point did the subject refer to their current situation as captivity. It is unclear if this is relief by comparison, or if they do not yet comprehend the situation.</p>
<p>It is my recommendation that Linguistic Experts continue teaching the subject Greek so as to further improve the fidelity and complexity of communication. Marking this subject for 30 day review.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:1.25em;"><strong>ADDENDUM 03: INTRUSION DETECTED</strong></span></p>
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<p>On 2023-06-15, approximately 25 days after initial radiological alarms, a significant spike of Gamma radiation was detected from ground-zero at Secure-Site-8014, accompanied by a broadband signal of significant complexity and encryption lasting 60 seconds in total.</p>
<p>Due to preventative measures accompanying the Secure Site's construction, the signal was blocked from broader interception. However, Secure-Site-8014 lacked the necessary communications equipment to receive, store, and decrypt the initial broadcast. Equipment and personnel were routed to the facility in anticipation of further opportunities for communication.</p>
<p>While waiting on the arrival of equipment, investigative teams were able to document a pattern of neutrino emissions at ground-zero as well as detect the presence of chronitons, and the implied presence of tachyons. Site security protocols were updated to account for the presence of an active dimensional anomaly and Overwatch Command was alerted to the development.</p>
<p>Approximately 12 hours later, another Gamma spike occurred as well as another 60 second broadcast of nearly identical amplitude, frequency, and phase as the first signal. A third Gamma spike occurred another 12 hours later, however, resources and personnel had arrived and deployed equipment prior to this broadcast and were able to intercept the signal.</p>
<p>The carrier wave was determined to contain both radar and radio frequencies.</p>
<p>The radar frequency contains a short, repeating code which appears to be a challenge or interrogation code often referred to as an IFF (identify-friend-foe) or CID (Combat Identification), used to characterize objects in the field. In short, looking to identify known assets.</p>
<p>The radio frequency contained an audio message spoken by a humanoid voice using a dialect of Formal Latin. The portion of the signal which was recovered and translated has been included, although it is partial.</p>
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<p>…Authority…</p>
<p>…Cooperation is to be expected…</p>
<p>…Immediate transfer of prisoner…Immediate surrender of vessel…</p>
<p>…Lack capacity…Autonomy will be questioned…</p>
<p>…8 [sic]…</p>
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<p>Gamma spikes and additional broadcasts continued at 12-hour intervals. Due to insufficient bandwidth and decrypting power with the equipment on site, no further information was recoverable from broadcasts aside from the identification that the final character was changing — apparently counting down to an unidentified end.</p>
<p>Attempts were made to direct a carrier wave containing a greeting at the spatial anomaly, however it is unknown if these attempts at communication were successful or were received. A detachment of MTF Nu-7 ("Hammer Down") was mobilized to Secure-Area-8014 in anticipation of the countdown's conclusion.</p>
<p>On 2023-06-20, a signal was received appended with the word "Nulla"<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup>. Concurrent with this broadcast, a massive spike in Gamma radiation and neutrino emissions precipitated a physical tear in the space-time of ground-zero which expanded in a controlled manner until it was approximately 5-meters in diameter.</p>
<p>Visible beyond the barrier of the spatial anomaly were numerous humanoid entities dressed in military attire with advanced firearms in a 'ready' position. Visual distortions caused by the anomaly rendered an accurate accounting of forces impossible. A single entity crossed the spatial threshold of the anomaly with their open hands raised in a generally accepted gesture of peace.</p>
<p>This entity presented as a human male, roughly 2 meters in height, approximately 50-years-old, and wearing lamellar plate body armor with a matte silver finish. The pauldrons of this armor displayed a raised Roman Aquila in gold.</p>
<p>They spoke a single word and halted their advance. Greek linguistic experts already on site identified the word as "στρατηγός", or 'Strategos'.</p>
<p>Acting Site Director, Dr. Laurence Mylonis, was assigned to Secure-Site-8014 as the head of the Linguistics team and as such is capable of speaking and identifying several dialects of Greek. He was briefed and escorted to meet the unidentified entity. A colloquial transcript of this encounter has been provided, however the unedited audio is also attachced to this document.</p>
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<p><strong>Mylonis:</strong> Strategos? Are you requesting one, or identifying yourself as one?</p>
<p><strong>Sertorius:</strong> I will parlay with your commander, or whatever authority you empower with accountability.</p>
<p><strong>Mylonis:</strong> Well, I am the highest ranking person here, and I can can also speak with you without the aid of a translator. If you demand a greater authority, that's going to take some time. Would you mind starting by telling me who you are, and who you represent?</p>
<p><strong>Sertorius:</strong> You may call me Legatus Sertorius, and I have the glorious honor to represent Empire. <em><At the uttering of 'Empire', the personnel on the other site of the spatial anomaly strike their fists against their chests in unison.></em></p>
<p><strong>Mylonis:</strong> Alright, Legatus Sertorius, I am Site Director Laurence Mylonis. I will try to be direct. What is your interest here? I am assuming you and your people were the source of the signals we received? If so, it is unfortunate I must report that we could only partially understand your transmission.</p>
<p><strong>Sertorius:</strong> The message was a courtesy to warn you of my arrival; Feel no shame for I am here now, Site Director. I wish this meeting were under more auspicious circumstances, but I must demand the immediate surrender of the prisoners, as well as the vessel they escaped in.</p>
<p><strong>Mylonis:</strong> If they are your prisoners we would be prepared to surrender them back into your custody, but we have a great many questions about what happened here. Their arrival was *very* destructive to this area. Understanding what took place and how, as well as who you are and who you represent, is of great importance to who I represent.</p>
<p><strong>Sertorius:</strong> We have scanned your reality in the time since our first transmission and you appear to have already been purged of The Enemy. Although we did detect trace genetic remnants in your population, The Authority has designated you risk-null. It is not in your best interests to pursue a relationship with Empire unless you are prepared to cooperate with our war efforts. But if you insist, we will consider it.</p>
<p><strong>Mylonis:</strong> I see. That carries heavy implications, indeed. Uh, well…may I have some time to consult my own governing body?</p>
<p><strong>Sertorius:</strong> You may. In the mean time I suggest you direct your forces to prepare the prisoners for transport. I will give you one hour's time.</p>
<p><strong>Mylonis:</strong> Then I had better get started.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:1.25em;"><strong>ADDENDUM 05: DIRECTIVE OF O5 COMMAND</strong></span></p>
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<p>A communications summary was transmitted to Overwatch Command and the O5-Council on emergency channels for priority response. These communications have been classified independently from this document and are not available as part of the record, however, the final response and updated orders have been attached.</p>
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<p>Site Director Mylonis,</p>
<p>While we acknowledge your eloquent plea for asylum, is it our final response that we will not offer it. Without time to properly evaluate the political situation which led to their imprisonment, and without proper time to consider any rebuttals by this 'Authority' or 'Empire' which detained them, an informed decision is impossible in the timeframe provided.</p>
<p>We will not risk an open conflict with an apparent interdimensional military force over the lives of two anomalous prisoners of war. The GOC concurs with our assessment.</p>
<p>You are instructed to request the ability to escort the POW's to their detainment, and use this opportunity to collect intelligence on SCP-8014, including insights into its capabilities, intentions, and priorities. We will handle the assignment of a new Site Director during your absence and your appointment will be available to you upon your return.</p>
<p>Best of Luck</p>
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<p>A response to these final orders was transmitted from Secure-Site-8014 however the priority communication channel had been closed. Several weeks after transmission, the response was found stored in a message buffer and has been recorded for posterity. The repsonse is to be considered part of this record pending consideration for additional classification.</p>
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<p>I was only imploring you to try.</p>
<p>Everything about these POWs suggests they have the same general sense of human morality, ethics, and sensibility that we do. The fact they speak a language we can identify and speak back, the way they look, the broadcasts, all of it suggests an alternate reality or a branching timeline <em>based on our own</em>. They are *us*, and they are at war.</p>
<p>There isn't a single nation on this Earth that would deny to even <em>hear</em> an escaped POW's request for asylum if they turned up in their borders. To refuse to consider this is a crime against Humanity. This isn't protecting the veil, this is murder. And to put a cherry on top you are sending me sight unseen into an anomaly for raising this protest?</p>
<p>Respectfully get bent,<br/>
<em>Former</em> Site Director Mylonis</p>
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<p>After acknowledgment of orders, Site Director Mylonis was fitted with recording equipment and standard field research kits. Detainees 8014-1 & 8014-2 received preliminary medical treatment and were given 1.5 rations each, which were consumed prior to departure.</p>
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<p>After the departure of the SCP-8014 entities, their detainees, and Dr. Mylonis, the dimensional aperture through which they left reduced in size until it was approximately 20 centimeters in diameter. Since that time, the anomaly has remained both stable and consistent in size and allows for bi-directional communication between Secure-Site-8014 and a single communications station within SCP-8014 designated "Station Theta".</p>
<p>Approximately 5 months after initial departure, Station Theta broadcasted a message that the portal would be opening again in 60 seconds. Upon its expansion, Legatus Sertorius exited holding a bundle of documents and requested to speak with Command.</p>
<p>Within his possession were the personal effects of Dr. Laurence Mylonis which he was returning. The Legatus described that Mylonis was both missing in action and believed to be alive at this time. Among these possessions was a notebook containing detailed, hand-written accountings of experiences and travel throughout the attempted prisoner escort. The Legatus was clear that these documents had been reviewed by SCP-8014 and deemed 'safe' for return. They are transcribed below.</p>
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<p>DAY 1</p>
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<p>Whatever radiation was put out by the spatial distortion, it was enough to fry my field equipment as soon as I crossed the threshold, as well as giving me some nasty burns. The cohort I traveled with was able to give me some sort of medication to treat the damage both on the surface and to my DNA. Apparently they were used to dealing with this form of travel. Six hours later, I feel good.</p>
<p>We made a smart decision to teach Mago more Greek, but if we were <em>wise</em> rather than just smart we would have let him teach us Phoenician. It's becoming increasingly important that I can communicate with the prisoners without these wannabe-Romans knowing, and none of them appear to know or understand the strange Phoenician dialect. Learning will be slow but we have time each and every night. I am told we should expect about a month to get to where we need to go.</p>
<p>Wherever we are, it appears remarkably similar to our Earth other than it looks like the front lines just after the conclusion of a bloody war. The clouds are thick and heavy, and ash falls on us while we travel. Nuclear winter perhaps? The terrain here seems like it translates or conforms to the terrain around the Secure Site. I believe we're headed West but it's tough to tell with how thick the clouds are.</p>
<p>With the cameras and recorders fried, all of these will have to be written out. Sorry in advance for my handwriting.</p>
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<p>DAY 4</p>
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<p>The other day we met up with another detachment and to my surprise they had several armored personnel transports. I can't be sure what powered them but they were not running on internal combustion. It was tough to see much of anything from inside the transport, but both Mago and his mute friend both became <em>considerably</em> more tense with each passing minute inside of those confines. Not to trivialize it, but perhaps PTSD.</p>
<p>The mute one, whom Mago simply calls 'My Friend', snapped after several hours and attempted to take the firearm of one of our guards. We are not fed well, his strength wasn't as robust as he probably thought it was. Poor guy took a nasty pistol whip to the right temple and that was lights out. Bleeding head wounds are a bad sign; he hasn't woken up yet and it's been several hours.</p>
<p>I tried to give medical attention but was refused. Demanded to speak with Sertorius but was also denied. I'm 'an observer', like that's supposed to erase my obligations. Mago calmed me down. I asked him why he wasn't more upset?</p>
<p>He said this was hardly the worst he'd seen, and it was a miracle both of them were still alive. The Romans have had him dead to rights a dozen times over, if his stories are to be believed. I feel as if I will be sick, but the steely grit Mago shows gives me some measure of additional strength.</p>
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<p>DAY 6</p>
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<p>Whatever our destination was, it seemed to be a large complex. Massive, actually. We reached some sort of a gate checkpoint that marked our transition to the interior of a facility. I guess I can't be certain we were indoors, but I could no longer see the perpetual gray of the clouds anymore, and I could count the passing of artificial lights overhead through the narrow window of the APT. Like you can do with streetlights on the road.</p>
<p>Our 'Friend' with the head wound was taken to medical when we disembarked; Mago and I were ushered elsewhere. We sat in holding for a couple of hours before some sort of pill was shoved down our throats and we entered 'the panopticon'.</p>
<p>In the middle of this cylindrical chamber was a truly startling sight. A great automaton of gilded metals and some sort of loud, energetic humming floated, gently rotating, in the center. It looked like a massive, two-faced head. One face seemed to be male with a stately beard and eyes of a sterile, infernal red. The other face, feminine and strangely compassionate looking, with eyes of electric blue. Both mouths were slightly agape and I was struck by this pit of dread deep in my stomach; an indescribable fear that they were just about to speak. I don't know what they would say but I didn't want to hear it. They seemed to watch our every move.</p>
<p>All throughout the chamber were arched doorways outside of apparently empty coves. Only about half a dozen out of what must have easily been hundreds of these doorways were 'active', and contained an aperture remarkably similar to the one we found in Croatia. Or maybe I should say, that found us. Perhaps these 'inactive' apertures were simple too small for me to see with the naked eye.</p>
<p>Mago, myself, the Legatus, and several fresh-faced members of the cohort were ushered through the portal where we found ourselves in a grassy field under warm, partly cloudy skies. The fact it had been more than a week since I'd seen the sun made me forget the strange horror only moments behind us. At least for a minute.</p>
<p>Mago puked when we arrived, but was quickly pulled back up to his feet.</p>
<p>I puked twenty seconds later. I do not like these portals.</p>
<p>We had some time to talk quietly amongst ourselves, Mago and I. He told me stories of his home, in his native tongue, which I was mostly able to follow. It sounds like a lovely place. It sounds as if he was someone important where he comes from; a general, or a high ranking administrator with access to some amount of classified information. State secrets are spooky in any language.</p>
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<p>DAY 12</p>
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<p>This reality appeared to be an active war zone and we were in danger almost immediately after we disembarked. Although I believed it to be sunny and tranquil, the area around our entry was consumed by some sort of guerrilla-style conflict utilizing a mismatched variety of technologies from ancient to advanced. We traveled on foot until we reached a city with a bridge over a wide river. The flags flying here bore an Aquila similar to the ones worn by the Legatus, and several of the troops we traveled with referred to it as friendly territory.</p>
<p>Just before we could cross the bridge, the Legatus waved his troops down, and myself and Mago were pushed down onto our stomachs presumably out of harm's way.</p>
<p>An enemy force was visible on the opposite bank. They approached from the opposite end of the bridge while escorting a 10-meter-tall elephant (I believe it was a very large <em>L. africana</em>) clad in large segments of what appeared to be ceramic ballistic plate. The elephant supported three different enclosed platforms from which soldiers were able to fire from using long rifles. They opened fire on my escorts without preamble.</p>
<p>A number of hippopotami flanked the elephant, eight I believe, but I am not actually certain. These beasts were clad in what appeared to be similar ballistic plate and had two, large, shoulder-mounted guns, their design remarkably similar to Gatling-style rotary cannons. The hippopotami did not appear to have a handler or 'rider'. I'm not certain how they were able to fire their weapons.</p>
<p>There were a number of pieces of technology I could not identify on both the elephant as well as the scattered troops around it, including some sort of advanced occular arrays, and what were probably various prosthetics and cybernetics. I got as close a look as I felt I safely could in an attempt to see the technology in action, however, I was repeatedly thrown behind cover by the Romans throughout the skirmish. The troops attacking our position seemed intent on getting to Mago.</p>
<p>Forces belonging to SCP-8014 were unable to stop the invading force with small arms fire and elected to destroy the bridge using some sort of alchemical concoction kept in large clay jars beneath it. The attackers and their animals appeared to suffer total loss after falling into the river, but I can't say for certain.</p>
<p>The Legatus would not answer my questions telling me only that those were 'The Great Enemy', and assuring me we were blessed by Fortuna herself to have survived being so poorly armed. Seeing those guns in action, I believe him. Nearly 1/3 of our detachment is dead.</p>
<p>Mago and I spoke in his tongue when things calmed down, and he forgave me for not taking up arms with the enemy, although I admit I am not completely sure why. He said, if his home was at risk he would have done the same. I told him some stories of Nebraska, but I doubt they were as impressive as the tales he has told me.</p>
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<p>DAY 19</p>
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<p>The last several days have been nothing but running from cover to cover and hiding. I have not been permitted a light with which to write by at night until now. We've been under near constant attack, or at least in the vicinity of near constant fighting, ever since the battle at the bridge.</p>
<p>This morning we reached what I can only describe as a rudimentary airport which had a great and grand 'control tower' that stretched many many stories up into the sky. Whatever technology it possesses, it was grossly out of scope as compared to the small arms fire we've run into so far. I'm told our transport is on the way here. We have several more realities yet to cross.</p>
<p>Mago wanted to make a run during one of the more intense skirmishes yesterday, before we got to the airport, and tried to convince me to go with him. I was able to stop him by talking him down until our window had closed. It's not that I don't want to escape this 'escort', but we cannot afford to lose the safety. He assures me that we would be (safe), but I don't feel confident. Maybe it's just shellshock. This is twice I've rejected his offer to escape. I am not sure he'll ask again.</p>
<p>Something is going on here they're not telling me. Why is there all this trouble for a single man across so many realities? Why use a General to personally escort a single POW through a warzone? Perhaps he possesses some incredible intelligence they need to extract, but for the sake of my conscience, I hope not.</p>
<p>I have only seen a couple of 'airplanes' in the hours since we got to the airport. Whatever designs and technology they have in play here, I am impressed. Their planes don't seem to need much runway and take off and land at much sharper angles than the ones I am used to. While modern aviation is certainly inspired by the way many animals fly (minus jet engines), whatever SCP-8014 is doing seems to have genuinely captured <em>the idea</em> of flight at scale. The designs curve somewhat, like how a falcon flaps their wings.</p>
<p>The engineering is breathtaking.</p>
<p>I feel as if my Phoenician has come along quite a bit, but Mago has told me it is called 'Punic' which makes all the sense in the world now that it's been said out loud. I am not sure how to feel about the revelation that a simple series of historical conflicts more than 2,000 years old is apparently consuming the multiverse?</p>
<p>I want to ask him questions, about Hannibal, Dido, Baal Hammon<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>, and his wife Tanit, but there is no disguising proper nouns between languages and if the Romans believe I am exchanging intelligence, well…that strikes me as a bad idea.</p>
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<p>DAY 24</p>
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<p>We have arrived to another desolate world although I am thankful for the calm that greets us here rather than the constant warfare.</p>
<p>Whatever is going on here, we've been in ground transports the entire time and passing nothing but open air mining operations. I see great machines with conveyor belts and teeth chewing up rock and metal as far as the eye can see, in all directions. If there is war in this world, it is nowhere near here.</p>
<p>Huge smokestacks belch black smoke in the distance, the air around them tinted a strange, caustic yellow. Foundaries, perhaps? I saw what looked like a bore hole that must have been 5km across with a massive complex built over the opening obviously intended to extract whatever they were mining from deep, deep within the Earth; a feat of engineering beyond the reckoning of any undertaking Humanity had ever attempted to date.</p>
<p>I asked the Legatus what I was looking at and he described it all simply as 'the war effort'. Production, I suppose. Raw materials becoming weapons, vehicles, armor, bullets, hull plates, and other things I can only guess at.</p>
<p>During our transit through this reality, Mago became exceptionally tense, white knuckling the hem of his own pants and shirt until I was certain he was going to rip them. When I asked him if he was alright, his words gripped a place in me that made my heart shudder.</p>
<p>"This is the future of all worlds with the temerity to thrive or survive without them. This is what they will have done to my home, my life, and my future. If they find my home, everything is lost. Everything."</p>
<p>This does not seem like the sort of thing I can ask the Legatus about.</p>
<p>I tried to talk to Mago more about this for several hours but I'm being watched far closer than usual now. I do not the think our escort fooled me and they can actually speak Punic, but I believe they can assess we are growing close and communicate often. I'm sure the Legatus would put a stop to it if he wanted to.</p>
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<p>DAY 28</p>
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<p>I was told to prepare for my last day of travel with Mago.</p>
<p>The reality we are crossing now seems stable, healthy, 'normal'. We've been carried across many hundreds of miles of road in quiet, powerful vehicles through bustling cities full of commerce and traffic and people seemingly…living very normal lives. Certainly the occasional military checkpoint but otherwise very mundane.</p>
<p>I would describe the level of technology here as deceptively advanced. Most obvious in the cars and public transports that criss-cross the grids of the road, which move with virtually no noise and without tires, seemingly hovering but a few inches above the ground. Some sort of repulsor technology?</p>
<p>The apartments, homes, domiciles, whatever you'd like to call them, are built tall, sleak, and modern with little space used on greenery. But in between every cluster of homes is a gorgeous plaza with marbled statuary, sculpted topiary, and lucious gardens to walk through. Places for music to fill the square, artists to paint nature, avenues for children to frolick and play, and courts for athletes to compete. These people thrived. And all of this was taking place between great skycrapers of business and commerce which appeared to sprinkle in between ancient ruins. It was if they had exchanged all their shrubberies for historical sites.</p>
<p>How could these same people employ the barbarity I witnessed on the way here? Do these people, these common citizens, even know what's happening? Would they care if they did know?</p>
<p>Mago seemed especially touched by this leg of the journey. When I asked him if it was because he knew it was coming to an end, he shook his head no but would not clarify. Perhaps he sees his own future that was taken from him in this peaceful landscape. I can only speculate.</p>
<p>Before I took to my bunk for the night, my new friend asked me if I had ever served (in the military). I had to answer no but I explained to him that the Foundation shares a considerable overlap with the principles of national service. To give your life quietly, gladly, to protect the freedom and safety of all. He said he respected that and was glad to know we were brothers in arms. I believe him.</p>
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<p>DAY 32</p>
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<p>The obvious question is why it would take me three days to update after the implications of my last entry, and I am sure the text will explain itself. We entered another of their Panopticons, guided by another of their two-faced automotons, and stepped through another of their apertures. But this time, we did not emerge on 'Earth' in any way I could describe it.</p>
<p>Before me was a rich, rolling landscape of vibrant greens and amber waves. Stretching out before us was the most tranquil open road I've ever laid my eyes upon. As if I were back in high school driving that beat up Corvette me and my father restored, top down, on a long stretch of open road on an equally long Nebraska summer night.</p>
<p>My eyes continued on down the road. At the horizon, a grand expanse of towers and skysrapers which, at this distance, must have easily been hundreds of stories tall. Amidst their center were seven distinct towers all larger than the rest and oriented with the tallest in the middle. Everything else on the horizon seemed to slope down and away from this single tower as if it were the center of the universe. And that, my friends, is a literary device called foreshadowing.</p>
<p>As my eyes continued up, seeing the rosy, dusky sky above the distant ecumenopolis, the tranquility of the ground gave way to the brilliant silence of a starry sky. Several wedge shaped ships hung seemingly motionless at the border between the warm colors of the atmosphere and the gelid black of space. Parked here, above their Capitol, it was likely a single fleet but my mind could not help but question what sort of enemies they wrestle with that they would need such defenses.</p>
<p>My eyes continued upward. Then my joy and peace and delight were taken from me.</p>
<p>Up there, where there should have been stars as the sun set behind the horizon, was a figure of a size beyond my ability to describe. She <em>was</em> the sky.</p>
<p>The great and terrible visage of a woman stretched across the vault of the heavens, her torso covering what must have been <em>millions</em> of kilometers across.</p>
<p>Her skin, appearing fair and pure as ivory, perhaps slightly marbled, almost reminiscent of the surface of the moon…was bound with vicious-looking links of chain that would have terrified me for their sheer scale all on their own.</p>
<p>The woman's arms outstretched as if she were hung upon a cross, wrists wrapped many times over with these cosmic chains as her fingers grasped tightly, pulling against their restraint. Darkened spots of golden ichor flowed from the open wounds caused by the bite of those infernal chains into her flesh. And at the fringes of her skin, the substance evaporated away into a darkly beautiful haze.</p>
<p>Planets or planetoids seemed to hold as the anchor points for this grand binding. Their surfaces served to lock into place the other end of these chains, with huge fissures visible across their surface even from my distant vantage point. To imagine how far down those chains must be anchored…</p>
<p>The figure's head lolled to the side, her eyes and upper face covered by some sort of great metal veil. It would have been beautiful for how ornate, how gothic, it was. The brass or bronze coloration of this veil appearing in darkly beautiful contrast to the rest of the ivory-white horror. I saw there, at her temples, where the veil was anchored into her flesh with spikes, were great streams of that same, golden, plasmotic blood having run down the sides of her face. Whether they were dried or still flowing, I could not say.</p>
<p>The titan's nose wrinkled up, her cheekbones tensed, jaw clenched. She was in pain? Wincing. I thought I had seen agony before but this was truly the face of it. My fragile mind was fully prepared to rationalize this away as a monument. A tribute to the thousands of realities which must be at their beck and call. And yet this grand goddess in chains <em>moved</em> before my very eyes. She rolled her head, carefully, gingerly, to rest against the other shoulder. The wince upon her face sharpened and softened as the movement carried out and she struggled against what must have been a pain so sharp it refuses to be described.</p>
<p>Untold minutes passed as the Romans let us look upon their greatness. When I finally broke my trance, I noticed Mago had yet to break his. Tears streamed down his face in unblinking terror and I understood.</p>
<p>I would continue to describe my journey from this point but I feel you will be as bitterly disappointed in the details I can pour into it as I would be in writing them. What right have I speak of the splendors of their "Home World" now, after witnessing the testament of a chained titan? How can I describe beauty built by man witnessed so closely after the agony of god?</p>
<p>We were taken aboard a transport craft and brought to the very edge of their ecumenopolis where Mago and I were allowed to say our goodbye. We held each other in a final, brief hug. The type of embrace that only men who have survived gunfire could share. The type of embrace between brothers who understood they would never see each other again. And as we withdrew, he put a hand on my shoulder and spoke to me in the Punic he had taught me.</p>
<p>"Do as they say, brother. For if you do not, your world will share the same fate as the desolation we traveled through. They <em>already</em> know where you call home, and soon they will know of mine." And at that he looked up to the starry sky obscured by cosmic suffering. "Let me go. Let all of this go. Promise me this much, if you can."</p>
<p>But in my heart I knew I could not. I looked him in the eyes and replied as best I could in my broken grasp of his language. "Why? What could you have done across all of time and space to suffer this?"</p>
<p>He looked at me with a smile almost wistful as the guards pulled us apart. As if he knew there was either no answer to satisfy me, or as if he knew there was no way he'd be allowed to tell.</p>
<p>I wept.</p>
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<p>The following is a declassified transcript of a portion of the negotiations taking place at Secure-Site-8014 between O5-3 and Legatus Sertorius on 2024-01-14. This meeting took place at the invitation of the O5-Council after deliberation upon the contents of Addendum 06. Attention reader: this transcript begin in medias res.</p>
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<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> So in accepting <em>those</em> terms, I believe we can move on to less materials details. Such as the status and location of Doctor Mylonis, and what we can do about that. Can you tell me how you lost him?</p>
<p><strong>Sertorius:</strong> In some sense, yes, I can. The truth is that I do not formally <em>know</em> where he is, and should we ever find him, he has been designated Theta. Your Mylonis was returning to this reality under significantly reduced guard and their transport was ambushed. During the confusion, he elected to retreat <em>with</em> The Enemy, thereby foregoing all protection and tolerance. And frankly, also shirking any interest we may have had in attempting to work with you in the future.</p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> I understand a single, seemingly duplicitous point of first content is a bad foot to start on but you can surely acknowledge we've turned things around in these negotiations.</p>
<p><strong>Sertorius:</strong> Yes, your pragmatism serves you well. It was bold of you to invite me here and I respect that.</p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> As we've outlined, I think you'll find we have several <em>very unique</em> resources we can lease or loan, which you are specially qualified to keep a handle on.</p>
<p><strong>Sertorius:</strong> You've made the best of your available leverage. This is certain.</p>
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<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> Before you go and — totally off the record — can you tell me anything more about your Home World? It sounds fascinating. Wondrous, even.</p>
<p><strong>Sertorius:</strong> You might like to see it one day? I'm sure that can be arranged. To look upon the sapphire spires of the triumph of Rome, towering above all…It's quite the sight. The foundations of our Empire run from the very core of the Earth all the way beyond the vault of the sky. Our power extends from the center of the universe and into the very fringes of what even the most simple barbarian could call civilization.</p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> It would be an honor to visit.</p>
<p><strong>Sertorius:</strong> I'm sure. Countless trillions of souls within the Empire never have the opportunity to even set foot on Rome Prime's soil, let alone be invited within those walls.</p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> How many worlds like ours are there? That you have seen.</p>
<p><strong>Sertorius:</strong> What? Worlds where Rome did not endure? Fret not, Overseer. Our ancestors did their job in salting the earth of Carthage. You have them to thank for your freedom. The number of realities like yours both swells and shrinks each day.</p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> So that's what this boils down to? <em>'Carthago Delenda Est'?</em></p>
<p><strong>Sertorius:</strong> No, Overseer. We destroy it so that Rome may live. We obliterate their symbols so that all may know the price of defiance. We till their soil and sew salt into their earths so that everyone who might look to the flames of their rebellion knows that life flourishes only where <em>we</em> permit that it may. We took their queen, we took their goddess, we took their future. Everything. And we chained it to the vault of the sky so that all of Reality, all of Creation, may look upon our works and know that only Rome. Is. Eternal.</p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> I…does that not sound like a tremendous burden to bear? To know that every day is a chase across various realities with an enemy that is equally as eternal as you are? One that you'll never snuff out in totality so long as a single reality remains for Carthage to pop up…</p>
<p><strong>Sertorius:</strong> It is much less of a burden when you know that your victory is assured. There is no end to the number of triumphs I may yet win, wherever this war may take me.</p>
<p><strong>O5-3:</strong> Well then. Pax Romana, Legatus.</p>
<p><strong>Sertorius:</strong> One day, Overseer.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8015</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Euclid/Archon<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Containment efforts surrounding SCP-8015 are focused on limiting its exposure rather than suppressing its effect. Posted guards are to patrol in a perimeter at least 1.6 km away from SCP-8015's location, and amnestication is to be distributed to trespassers only. It is prohibited to interfere with individuals that are transported to SCP-8015's location.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8015 is a 30 m long aquatic reptilian sextupled that resides in a remote lake located in Vancouver BC, Canada. It possesses the ability to transport an individual's astral body<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> to its location. In order for an individual to achieve astral travel through SCP-8015, the following conditions must be met:</p>
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<li>Whether it is due to illness or injury, the individual must be in critical condition.</li>
<li>The individual must have an ambition that they were not able to achieve yet.</li>
<li>The individual must have a positive reputation among their community.</li>
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<p>Once an individual is transported, SCP-8015 will emerge out of the water. It will then proceed to ask the individual what it needs. After receiving a response, SCP-8015 will submerge itself into the lake and bring back an object pertaining to the individual's situation (designated SCP-8015-1). Upon receiving an SCP-8015-1 instance, the individual will then return to their physical body, and will regain circulatory/respiratory function. Additionally, once the individual is conscious, they will have no memory of SCP-8015.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Addendum - Recorded Manifestation:</strong> The following is a log of a manifestation that occurred on 11/02/2002.</p>
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<p><em>At 9:32 pm PST, a seven year old male identified as Jay Whitewood appears at the edge of the platform that goes into the lake. SCP-8015 emerges, staring at Whitewood with a frown.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8015:</strong> Oh, dear child. What ails you this evening?</p>
<p><strong>Whitewood:</strong> Wha- where am I? What happened? Where's mommy?</p>
<p><em>Tears begin running down Whitewood's face. In response, SCP-8015 brushes its tail along his back.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8015:</strong> Do not fret little one. You are safe here.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8015 proceeds to use its tail to wipe Whitewood's tears off of his face.</em></p>
<p><strong>Whitewood:</strong> I dunno what happened! I was in mommy's car and there was this bright light and- and-</p>
<p><em>Whitewood continues to sob. SCP-8015 arches his neck down to Whitewood's level.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8015:</strong> I see. Do not fret, I will make sure you return safely.</p>
<p><strong>Whitewood:</strong> What about mommy?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8015 pauses.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8015:</strong> I will see what I can do.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8015 submerges itself in the lake. Whitewood peers over the edge, waiting for its return.</em></p>
<p><em>At 9:38 pm PST, SCP-8015 reemerges with a locket snatched within its teeth. It gently hands the locket to Whitewood.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8015:</strong> This I believe is a relic from the sirens- or mermaids I should say.</p>
<p><em>Whitewood squints at the locket in his palms. SCP-8015 gently opens it with its tail.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8015:</strong> From what I recall it is a protection sigil, binding the mother with its hatchling and the hatchling with her.</p>
<p><em>The locket is engraved with a bas relief of two aquatic humanoids swimming in a circular formation. The one above is larger in appearance, and bears a distinctly feminine appearance. The one below has less discernable human features, and is smaller in size. They both orbit a heart in the middle of the locket.</em></p>
<p><strong>Whitewood:</strong> And this will… help?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8015 tilts its head in a shrugging motion.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8015:</strong> At least partially. I can guarantee you will be safe. As for your mother-</p>
<p><em>SCP-8015 brushes Whitewood's shoulder with its tail.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8015:</strong> -no matter what happens to her, she will always be with you. In here.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8015 points to Whitewood's heart. Whitewood smiles.</em></p>
<p><strong>Whitewood:</strong> Thank you Mr. Dragon.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8015 grins back.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8015:</strong> Of course little one. May the tides guide you to happiness.</p>
<p><em>SCP-8015 dives back into the lake, and Whitewood's manifestation disappears.</em></p>
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<p>Whitewood's mother, Ava Whitewood, had severe injuries to her back and legs; but despite this, she survived. After a little over three months of physical therapy, Ava was able to make a full recovery.</p>
<p>Jay Whitewood went on to be a successful marine biologist, and Ava was able to retire at the age of 61.</p>
<p>Further research into SCP-8015's influence in Ava Whitewood's survival is ongoing.</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8016-A is stored in a secure storage locker in the archives of Site-12 under the advisement of the Temporal Anomalies Department as a result of Overseer Council deliberation regarding the manifestation of SCP-8016-C. Attempts to catalog further information through the SONARK Collaboration Project<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> are paused due to the considerations above. SCP-8016 entered Foundation custody through POI-4242: James █, a former employee of Prometheus Labs.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8016-A is a loose-leaf journal containing documentation regarding a point of time estimated to be two thousand years in the future following an SK-Class Dominance Shift Scenario<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup>.</p>
<p>SCP-8016-A consists of reports gathered by POI-4242 & documentation offered by a group of entities following their discovery as an "offering" to their deities. Several sections of the journal are documented below.</p>
<p>The entities designated SCP-8016-B are a sophont species inhabiting the remnants of a destroyed Foundation Facility in what was once eastern Nevada.</p>
<p>The instances appear to have a complete understanding of both written and spoken English outside of neologisms present in their own cultural dialect.</p>
<p>Referring to themselves as "Embefs," the entities, according to the reports by POI-4242, stand between 2.1 to 2.4 meters tall and were never seen outside of a set of metallic armor, excluding their glowing blue eyes. POI-4242 noted the instances helms were oblong, projecting forward from their necks, and that their lower limbs were digitigrade in form. The rest of the instances' bodies appear to follow a humanoid analog. It is currently unknown how deeply integrated the armor is to the entity contained within it.</p>
<p>SCP-8016-B's can use either a bipedal or quadrupedal stance for locomotion, preferring the latter when moving quickly.</p>
<p>According to POI-4242's observations, the instances ate and drank in private and did not appear to require sleep.</p>
<p>SCP-8016-B's are reported to be a martial people with signs of thaumic and telepathic abilities:<br/>
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<li>Drawing items to their hands from several meters away.</li>
<li>Healing wounds by touch.</li>
<li>Limited telepathic communication.</li>
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<p>POI-4242 noted that devotion to two entities, the "Dation" and "Their Wards," are cornerstones of their culture, as revealed in the documentation below.</p>
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<p><span style="color: black"><strong>You are the Dation.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black"><strong>I am Embef, as are we all.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black"><strong>Your angel, this Sonark, has told me my words will reach you.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black"><strong>I hope beyond hope this is true.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black"><strong>We have lived in your silence all our lives.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black"><strong>But the old stories remain in our hearts.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black"><strong>We still follow your orders.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black"><strong>While your silence has ever been comfortable for us, now, we need you to answer our prayers.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black"><strong>I beg, I plead: the Ascension Wars have reached our bastion, Bios’ Reclaim, and their Gods walk with them.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black"><strong>Our Wards are in danger. Our arms are old. The walls of our home are worn.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black"><strong>Please give us knowledge of the Ano-Melodies and give us leave to turn these artifacts against the Enemy.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black"><strong>I would see your charge done in this time of greatest need.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black"><strong>While I am sure your eyes see all, your angel has asked that I compile all that is known to the Embef and grant it to them to ferry to you.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black"><strong>-In gratitude and love,</strong></span><br/>
<span style="color: black"><strong>Embef Cali, High Commander of Reclaim.</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> 06/22/20–</p>
<p><strong>Administrating Body:</strong> Temporal Anomalies Department</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SONARK Collaboration Project</p>
<p><strong>Team Lead:</strong> Dr. Magni Proft</p>
<p><strong>Team Members:</strong> Dr. Rachel Church, POI-4242 (James — ).</p>
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<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Smile Doc, you're finally getting everything you asked for.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> I asked for careful consideration when beginning these trials. I did not ask for…</p>
<p><em>The Doctor narrows his eyes, looking POI-4242 up and down.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> Whatever chicanery this is.</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 grins and flips the collar on what resembles an aviator's jacket with the Foundation symbol emblazoned across the breast.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> You're having me dive into the shifting rivers of the future, and you think I shouldn't be dressed sharply? Gonna need to make a good first impression. Rep my new head honchos.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Church approaches, shaking her head and hands POI-4242 their helmet, an oblong dome of black glass and grey steel.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> There should be no impression made at all.</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 takes the helmet with a smile.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Not even a little one?</p>
<p><em>Dr. Church raises an eyebrow, and Dr. Proft looks slightly red.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Lighten up a little, folks; we're about to do something fantastical. Well, if you think a scouting mission is fantastical anyway.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> I would prefer if you treated this project with the gravity it deserves. You are about to embark on a trial run that will make or break this initiative. I would like the longevity of this project to be everlasting. I do not understand why you must meet everything with levity and humor.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Well, it comes with loving your job, boss. It's something you Foundation types are encouraged not to do, yeah? Cold, not cruel. Cynical and clinical, not suave and savvy.</p>
<p><em>He winks at Church, who returns a small grin, while Proft grows redder in the face.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> Just don’t mess this up for us, James. I swear if there was anyone el-</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 interrupts him.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> But there isn't, not yet. SONARK was a Prometheus brainchild, and for as eggy as your eggheads are, they haven't even come close to figuring her out yet. So you need me and my jacket.</p>
<p><em>Proft snorts and turns away, briskly marching away from the others.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> Get in the damn machine already. We're on a tight time frame.</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 glances at Dr. Church.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Bit more, and I think I could've popped a blood vessel.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Church shakes her head.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> I am aware that this isn't new for you, James, but you're being given an incredible amount of leeway with the promise that you will get the TAD and those above us results.</p>
<p><em>She gestures to SONARK, a spheroid device of gleaming white metal and blue-grey glass.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> As you know, Doc, much as I enjoy getting a rise out of that one, I intend to complete the mission to the best of my ability.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> Repeat the expectations before we can begin, please?</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 stands up a bit taller and nods.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I am to take the SONARK temporal drive into a free dive. Once begun, I will enter the dictated coordinates and briefly skim the targeted timeline, gathering atmospheric, topographical, and temporal data using the machine's various scanners, then dip back out—no muss, no fuss, quick and easy.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> Let us hope. Now, get ready for the launch; I will be in touch.</p>
<p><em>She gestures to the communicator on the side of her face. POI-4242 slips his helmet over his head, which seals into place with a brief jet of steam.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> As they say on TV, allons-y.</p>
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<p><span style="color: black">I look down at the map before me, and all I can do is sigh.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Every day, the net around us seems to grow all the tighter.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">The loss of Lavega as a safe scavenging point will require scouting parties to move further afield, but the encroaching of the Northern Enemy means our avenues grow tighter and tighter as time goes on.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">We need water for our crops, metal for our second-skins, and medicine for our Wards.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I feel the urge to remove my helm and rub my eyes but push it aside.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Dation will provide. I simply need to give them time.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Please," I murmur, reaching out to them, even though they have been silent since before I was born.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Before, there were no Declas to our North and clashing armies to our South. Before, the Children were but a rumor.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Before we had Lavega.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">And Ren.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">And the Salt City.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Times had never been this trying. And if I am to keep the Wards and my people safe, I need them to answer.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Hear me." I pray, calling out with everything that is me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Commander?" a voice calls, muffled by the heavy door.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I collect my worries and fears and shove them down, standing tall.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Enter." I say.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">The Embef that enters is shorter than most, his second-skin painted in blue and white swirls. He salutes me unsteadily; I can sense the fear coming off of him in waves.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Speak, young one." I offer, approaching him.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"The Caretakers report trouble," he returns, pausing and tapping his head.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I nod and center myself further, locking my roiling emotions ever deeper as his young voice echoes in my mind. It is chaotic at first.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Calm yourself…" I say aloud, laying a comforting hand on his shoulder, pausing to hear his name.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Jasper, Commander." he returns, and he takes a steadying breath, the cacophony lessening, but the next words nearly send my mind into similar disarray.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"A Ward has vanished from Reclaim," Jasper states. I hold back a sigh, ask for a sign, and am given this in its place.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">No solutions.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Just more problems.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Do you know where they went?" I demand.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"No, but Willo is on the battlements. She discovered it first." he offers.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Follow me then." she returns.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Gathering up my weapons, I depart, the young pup a step behind. Others note my passing, mental and murmured greetings, which I acknowledge in passing. Caretakers guiding Wards, Engineers patching pipes, Soldiers heading for drills. A typical day within Bios' Reclaim.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Yet, a Ward has vanished from the Defender's embrace.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Who can say what will befall them outside these walls? It is paramount to solve this problem as quickly as possible.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I am atop the ramparts in moments, some of my best Rangers awaiting me; Willo, a female in a second-skin, augmented with decorative rebar spikes, turns to look at me, saluting respectfully, while the other, Bar, massive in stature, continues to stare out at the horizon.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"How did it happen?" I demand.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"We can't say for certain." Willo returns, shaking her head, "The Wards, Adamathos bless them, are ever curious, and ever discovering ways to vex us."</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">She laughs, but I can scent her worry.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Smoke rises from the low timber." Bar rumbles, "I worry they did not leave of their own volition."</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"No." I return, "Bios would not fail us in such a way."</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"What of the Engineers?" Jasper asks, immediately flinching as I and the other elder Embef turn to stare at him.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"They are stretched thin, as are we all." I state, "But Bios blessed Reclaim with defenses that have yet to fail us, and they have yet to break the silence, have they?"</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">The others nod in agreement.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Regardless, something is out there," Bar notes, pointing, and with a prayer to Ovive, my vision strengthens, catching the faint trail of smoke darkening in the chill air around them.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Then time is being wasted." I stated, "The three of you will come with me. We must find the scent and return the Ward before anything terrible can tran-"</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">My words are swallowed by a crack of thunder.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Cries of alarm echo across Reclaim, and my Rangers and I whirl as the sky rends with a flair of silver light, and an object comes rocketing out of it, smashing into the timber with a faint bang.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"What-" Jasper cries.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Declas!" Bar growls.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Ano-Melody?" Willo counters, hopefully turning to me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I asked for a sign.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">And now behold a miracle.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Have they heard me?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Whatever it is, we must see to it," I state, and without another world, a compulsion in my soul sends me vaulting over the battlements.</span></p>
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<p><em>The camera image flickers as POI-4242 sits up, rubbing the side of his helmet, the metal slightly dented.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Well, that… wasn't what I expected.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> J-J-James, c<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">-</span>- you he██ mezzzz?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Barely, did you get the numbers on that truck?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> James?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> There you are!</p>
<p><em>He begins looking over the council, flicking switches, and typing in commands into the central console.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> What happened?</p>
<p><em>Her voice crackles as several portions of the console go dark.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Shit. Come on, girl, don't you strand me on our first jaunt. That's bad form.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> Don’t what?!</p>
<p><em>Lights flicker within the cabin as he checks the machine’s diagnostics.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> There was a fault in her systems somewhere that messed up the jaunt. Running a diagnostic, and hopefully, she’ll be able to self-repair. Just a bigger bit of time before I can hope back.</p>
<p><em>He taps the side of his helmet, the visor retracting to see a slightly bruised and bleeding face. He rubs his eyebrows and turns several other dials.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr.Church:</strong> Are you alright?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Will be just need to-</p>
<p><em>The flickering lights stabilize, and several screens alight across the console. POI-4242 smiles.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Good. SONARK, begin self-diagnostic, and hey, if you want to make the eggheads happy, begin scanning our surroundings, prompts: topography, atmosphere, time-scale, reverse order of relevance.</p>
<p><em>The machine chimes and a beam of light begins to circuit around the exterior of the machine; POI-4242 leans back and reaches for the camera, attaching it to his shoulder mount.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Everything looking alright on your end?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> Bit spotty on your end, but the data link seems to be holding strong.</p>
<p><em>Outside the SONARK is a dark pine forest, the trees towering far above him, disguising if it is day or night.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> The data’s coming through. Your Time Scale is two thousand years post-last Point of Reference.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> So we hit that marker properly. Hmm…bubble might have scrambled us.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> A bubble?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Doc Elisabet, the one who started the program for Prometheus, talked about them, more like… time hiccups, I guess, momentary fluctuations that would send you rattling around. Luckily, this was a small one. Otherwise, we could have ended up damn near anywhere.</p>
<p><strong>Dr.Church:</strong> Lucky indeed. Atmosphere readings are coming in. More luck, it’s breathable, not that I imagine you’re favoring a walk right now.</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 looks out the windows into the dark woods beyond.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Not at the moment.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> Lower greenhouse gas percentage, good, good. Oh… there is an unknown chemical compound in the air. So keep your helmet handy, just in case.</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 shifts the helmet onto his lap.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I already said I-</p>
<p><em>A tap on the side of the machine distracts POI-4242, causing him to look out the left side of the vehicle.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> The Topography map is in. Whenever you are, it’s largely forest with a swift ascent into mountainous terrain. There do appear to be some ruined buildings nearby. Sure, you don’t want to take a look?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I thought I was supposed to be the purveyor of poor choices.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Church laughs.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> I thought you were supposed to be “savvy and adventurous” or whatever it was you said.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I-</p>
<p><em>Another tap draws his attention to the right-hand side. He narrows his eyes, and something is briefly caught moving on the camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Hold on a moment. There’s something out there.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> Well, whatever it is, you don’t need to worry about it. The self-diagnostic just came in. She should already be going through self-repair to fix the f-</p>
<p><em>A spear slams into the side of the SONARK, cracking the glass and shattering the weapon from the force of the impact.</em></p>
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<p><span style="color: black">I race down from the gates, the others behind me, the old instincts driving me to all fours, as a familiar scent hits me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“I smell the Ward.” my thoughts projecting to the Rangers as they rush along behind me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“Lead the way.” Bor remarks.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“What about the… thing that fell in the woods?” Jasper asks.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">The sign.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Our gods can hear us.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">A hope that they have not, in fact, lost track of us in their Hunt Beyond.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Or is it just another trick?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">A false prophet, a Declas illusion meant to draw us out so they can avenge themselves upon us for their former fate.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">A work of magic by the Enemy, the Rustless crafted many odd and dangerous things. Was this their attempt to push beyond the coasts and marshlands to the south?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I center myself as I feel the others on the edges of my mind, waiting for a direct response.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I can not let them know my doubts.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">And I can not forget my true purpose: protect the Wards.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">If I forsook that now just for the sake of curiosity, not even Adamathos would forgive me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“Willo, Bor, follow me to the Ward, Jasper, seek the oddity, but be cautious; we do not know its origin or what else awaits us amongst the trees,” I command.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Agreements fill my mind, and Jasper increases his pace, rushing down the mountain pass, while I turn, following the scent of the Ward and… blood.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">No.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I have held my station for years, taken many wounds in the name of my charge, never has a Ward come to harm in my protection of Reclaim.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">And to lose one, I am filled only with dread, and prayer the Dation, that Ethek, in particular, be kind.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“There!” Willo shouts, and I turn, seeing the huddle form of a Ward hiding beneath a rocky outcropping.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Blood litters the ground.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I leap to my feet and slow to a halt, weapons rising from my waist to my hands with a flick of my wrist, and I whirl, searching every angle and nook for any sign of continued danger.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“Check them,” I order, and Willo kneels, reaching out a placating hand.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">The Ward whimpers and tries to reach toward her but stops a grimace of pain on his face.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I glance down, and my heart aches. The Ward’s pale leg is locked within the crooked maw of a trap, metal and bone teeth jutting in odd angles and piercing clean through them. Any effort to move pulls at the wound, fresh ichor spilling across the stones.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">An ugly creation of The Children.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“Damn beasts.” Bor growls, his bulky second-skin creaking and shifting as he reaches for the trap.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“Gentle now.” Willo admonishes.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“Calm down, I’d never hurt him.” he retorts.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">The Ward reaches for me, perhaps recognizing the hue of my armor or the various markings splayed across it.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">He groans, weak from blood loss.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“Willo, switch with me,” I say, waiting for her to rise and draw her bow before I kneel in her place.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I lean forward and gently take the Ward’s hand, “What drew you from safety, precious one?”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">He attempts to respond, but all that emerges is a feeble croak.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“No matter,” I comfort, squeezing his hand, “We will see you home.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Bor manages to work his fingers into the maw of the trap and glances at her, “Children on our mountain, so close to Reclaim. It should not be so. I-."</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“Their blood will come soon; focus on your work before you wound your second-skin and endanger the Ward,” I state.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">He glances away, admonished, though am I right to have done so?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">How could they have gotten so close?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Why had things become so hard as of late? Had we angered the Dation?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Are… they even listening?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">My eyes flick to the tree line below.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Does the answer lie below?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“I have it,” Bor states, interrupting my musing.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“Do it,” I state.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">With a grunt and a surge of magic through his second-skin, he bears down, shattering the trap in two.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I feel my own magic surge and reach out, touching the Ward’s wound.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Despite my doubts, I send my voice to Ethek.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">And while no voice responds, the wound heals all the same, light flaring around my fingertips and seeping into the gash.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">The Ward sighs heavily and lays his head against my arm.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">A rush of warmth passes through me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I look to Willo, plans piecing together in my mind.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">And a soul-rattling scream scatters all of them to the wind.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">The Ward clutches to me tightly as more calls echo from the tree line.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">The Children had either found Jasper or the Mystery.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“We need to-” Willo begins, but I cut her off.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“Take the Ward, and return to Reclaim, both of you, return with whomever is able.” I order, “I will go to Jasper.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“Commander, we don’t know how man-” Willo begins as Bor stoops and picks up the Ward.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“Have faith.” I state, clasping her shoulder and touching my helm to hers, “Emtef always stands with his chosen Commander.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">“I pray all the Dation stand with you,” she murmurs, pulling away.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I turn and rush towards the forest.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Will any of my Gods be with me in truth?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">As the fire of their gift ignites across my blades, I take one finally shaky breath before steadying myself for the plunge.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">And I leap into the unknown with my doubts pushed aside.</span></p>
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<p><em>POI-4242 flinches as another spear shatters against the SONARK.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Fuck!</p>
<p><em>He leans forward, frantically working at the console, attempting to restart the machine.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Come on, come on, come on.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> What’s happening?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Something is-</p>
<p><em>Another spear thuds into the dirt to his left, and he turns the camera, catching a hooked and crooked weapon, and beyond it, shapes moving amongst the limbs of the trees.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Lobbing harpoons at me.</p>
<p><strong>SONARK:</strong> Recovery period extending.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> No, you bloody-Church, you’ve got to get me out of here. Hit the remote recall.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Church’s audio begins to scramble.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> W-w-w-**# Y-u’r: c*tt-n-</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Church? Can anyone hear me? Church? Recall SONARK. Church?!</p>
<p><em>There is no response. He looks up and freezes, the camera catching a figure stepping out of the trees to stare at the SONARK.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Wh-.</p>
<p><em>An entity resembling a male</em> Pongo pygmaeus <em>stands in the clearing, covered in scars and runic markings, a thick club of bone and steel grasped in one hand. Other similarly simian entities emerge from behind it, all bipedal and clutching archaic weaponry.</em></p>
<p><strong>SONARK:</strong> Fault in Recovery, reinitializing.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Brilliant.</p>
<p><em>The entities begin closing in, raising and swinging their weapons, looking to the club-wielding instance for direction. It calls out, pointing at the SONARK.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Not great, but… we’ve been in worse, right, girl? Let’s just hope some of your tricks are still working.</p>
<p><em>He begins typing at the console, lines of code filling the central screen.</em></p>
<p><em>A roar distracts him, and the camera catches an immense simian covered in rusted armor a moment before it slams into the side of the SONARK—the vehicle rolls and spines, bashing POI-4242 against the interior. A large crack appears on the grass as it slams into a tree, toppling it. The camera flies free of his shoulder and momentarily goes dark.</em></p>
<p><strong>SONARK:</strong> WARNING! HULL BREACH DETECTED! ACTIVATE PERSONAL PROTECTIVE MEASURES! REPAIR TIM-.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I know!</p>
<p><em>He taps the side of his helmet, sealing it shut, and activating its secondary camera feed. He looks over, and the simian entities surge towards the SONARK. The club-wielding instance stays back observing, while the armored instance raises its arms to batter against the mechanism again.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I said…</p>
<p><em>He finishes entering the code, and all light goes out within SONARK. A high-pitched whistle is heard.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I'm not dying here!</p>
<p><em>A radial blast of electricity fires out from the bottom of the SONARK, knocking the simian entities backward. Several hit the ground and don't get up. The club-wielding instance roars, and the camera catches something moving behind it. The surviving instances quickly regain their composure.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> There better be a gun in this thing. It's the Foundation; they cause problems on purpose. There has got to be…</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 begins searching the cabin for a weapon. Outside, the club-wielding instance continues to roar and scream until a wet gurgling cuts it off. POI-4242 looks up.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> What now?</p>
<p><em>An arrow projects from the throat of the instance, who paws at it before keeling over. A tall, oddly shaped mechanical or intricately armored entity emerges from the forest behind it—glowing blue eyes on an ovoid, almost bird-like head. A sleek wooden bow is held in their hands.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> You should never have come to our lands, beasts!</p>
<p><em>The simian entities turn towards it, and a horrifying howling scream erupts in unison from them as they charge the new arrival. It fires several flaming arrows, but while some drop, it is soon overwhelmed. It tries to escape, but the simians cut it off. Twin blades emerge from its metallic form, and it strikes out at the simians, but soon, they all vanish from sight, screams of pain, and the creaking of metal echoing around the clearing.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> SONARK, recovery time?</p>
<p><strong>SONARK:</strong> Estimated recovery time tabulated: 3 days.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I'm not even going to have 3 minutes if those things come back. If I can rig a jump, I could end up anywhere, but…</p>
<p><em>He begins typing and checking other portions of the machinery.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Has to be a way out of th-</p>
<p><em>A metallic clang rings the air, and the lone entity hits the ground not far from the SONARK, its torso impaled by a broken spear. It tries to rise, and red-black liquid can be seen seeping from within the metal.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Shit-</p>
<p><em>A loud thump draws POI-4242's eyes upward. One of the simian entities presses its face to the glass, smiling at him with bloody teeth.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I am not letting you take me.</p>
<p><em>It turns and lunges at the armored figure, pummeling it, other entities returning to join in, pieces of metal being pulled away as the entity struggles under the blows. It reaches a managed hand towards the SONARK.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Help.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> God…</p>
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<p><span style="color: black">I hear the howl and push myself forward all the more. Embef cared not for pain, out second-skins blunting the feeling, or bodies gifted to heal by the Gods. But the Helm, to remove that, was to expose the truth of us.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">It is not a truth we hid from the Enemy out of fear but a truth meant for us and the Dation alone. Our second-skins were their second gift to us; to wear it always and to only show your face in the company of those beloved was sacred beyond measure.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">And as I emerged in the clearing, my blades already rising to plunge into the back of a cheering Child, my eyes locked on Jasper's helm cast aside. Scattered about lay the bodies of numerous other Children.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">My rage is immediate. Emtef guides my hand, the flames across my blade become like a bonfire, and I lance one through the head of the Child before me and sever them in twain. The half dozen others turn to me, standing over Jasper, his blood on their hands and lips.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Beyond them, I see the mystery, Declas or Ano-Melody; I do not care at this moment. The shining edifice of shimmering white metal and black glass could be but a rusted remnant on the streets of Lavega for all I cared. All I wanted was justice.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">The first to charge me, I part from their legs, clamping my hand around its falling torso and using it to bludgeon another.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Carnage. That is the God of the Children.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">And with Emtef at my back, I can answer in kind.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">It becomes a blur, a haze of red as I dispatch any and all that dare challenge me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Hewing limbs, stomping skulls, shattering bones, I strike and cut and maim and burn.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Some seek to flee. No. They hurt a Ward, they harm my brethren, they stalk my lands. None leave.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I impale the last on its own spear, pinning it high to one of the trees, and briefly allow the magic to fade, thinking my grim work over.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I am sent flying.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I land and roll and look to see one of the Children's Brutes, their great armored goliaths, with bone-crushing teeth and silvered fur, bearing down on me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Its blows are impressive, and it takes all of my strength to parry them or withstand them. It strikes me with abandon, battering me against trees and into the ground. My blades find the gaps in their armor, but they press on.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">It slams me to the ground, and I feel something crack along my second-skin. I fight to rise, but it sets upon me instantly, grasping my Helm.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">It squeezes, and I feel the metal begin to bend, cutting into the sides of my face. It pulls, attempting to reveal me as well.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">No.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I get my hand around its throat. I demand the attention of the Dation with more strength than I have ever mustered. I squeeze and pull.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">Red gore paints me, the scent of iron filling my nose as it chokes and sputters; I grab up a rock and crack it against its skull. Its weak neck twists and the beast falls atop me, dead. I push it off me and stand, unsteady, bones aching, second-skin straining.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I rush to Jasper, scooping his helm up as I go. The bodies of Children splay across him, one covering his face. I tug them aside. Greeting me are swollen eyes and a bleeding nose. I hear the rattling breath of the young Ranger.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"Commander…" he murmurs, smiling with bloody teeth, strips of flesh caught between them. I glance at the Child I have moved. Its throat is a mangled ruin.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I slide his helm back over his face gently.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"I told you to be careful." I admonish as I gather my magic to me, hoping to heal him.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">It doesn't take. The wounds are too deep, too severe.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">"They… attacked the mystery. Couldn't… let… them… What… is-" he murmurs until his final breath slips out, his body falling still. I place his helm back over his face, drawing the scattered pieces of his second-skin to reassemble atop him. It will have to do for now.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">I look up at the machine, the faint shadow of a form moving within.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">What had he died for?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black">As if in answer, the door opens.</span></p>
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<p><strong>SONARK:</strong> Rerouting power. Cursory Scans detect no imminent environmental threats. Redirecting power from door clamps.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> No, damn you.</p>
<p><em>SONARK opens, and POI-4242 turns, staring at the remaining armored entity, blood painted across it. He glances around for a weapon as the entity stands.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Damn….</p>
<p><em>The entity freezes, tilting its head to the side.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> You speak our tongue.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I…I have no desire to fight you. I'm just a traveler.</p>
<p><em>The entity steps closer, partially raising one of its swords.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> From where? For what purpose?</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 pauses and shifts to stand as the entity grows closer.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Somewhere quite far from here and for knowledge.</p>
<p><em>The entity stares silently for a moment before glancing around.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> What is your name?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I-</p>
<p><em>SONARK's radio comes back on at that moment.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> SONARK, are you there? I repeat, are you there? J-</p>
<p><em>The entity leaps back, raising its blade, and POI-4242 clicks a button on his helmet, swiftly funneling the signal into his helmet.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> What was that?!</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> One of those that sent me here.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> James, who are you talki-"</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 tabs the side of his helmet, silencing himself, and taps another button.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Long story. Is the feed coming through clearly?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> It… what happened?!</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Later. Do you TAD folks have any first contact protocols?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> To avoid it.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Well, shit out of luck then, aren't I?</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Why have you gone silent? Is this a trick? Were you with them? Another Declas for their King?</p>
<p><em>It steps forward, blades rising. POI-4242 raises his hands.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> No, I don't- I promise I am not here to harm you!</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Step forward slowly.</p>
<p><em>He does so.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> Why are you-</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 taps his helm again.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> SONARK is out of commission for three days. Either I make friends fast and find a safe place to hide out, or I get fucked.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> What did you do?!</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Again, not right now. Large mechanical thing with a very sharp sword playing twenty questions, gonna focus on that if you don't mind.</p>
<p><em>The entity steps closer and looks POI-4242 over; it freezes, staring at the left side of his chest, and drops its blades.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> What-</p>
<p><em>It reaches up, gently touching the Foundation symbol on his jacket.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> You wear their symbol.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I…</p>
<p><em>It falls to its knees and begins to weep.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> They heard me. We are not forgotten!</p>
<p><em>It grabs his hand, and he almost pulls away.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Church:</strong> D-d-o:*</p>
<p><em>The entity looks to the ground. He quickly silences the outside feed again.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Church, are you there? Church?!</p>
<p><em>He glances at the SONARK and sees it has gone completely dark.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Great.</p>
<p><em>He reopens communications and looks down at the entity.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> You are a messenger of the Dation?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> As I said, I have come seeking knowledge.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Anything you learn you will ferry back to them?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Then… you can tell them of our plight. That in their Hunt, old rivals have returned, and we desperately need their blessing once again to protect our sacred charge from the fight to come.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I would surely do so if you would explain it to me. What do you mean by old rivals?</p>
<p><em>The Entity stands and gestures around at the carnage around it.</em></p>
<p><strong>The Entity:</strong> The fiends that set the Enemy, such as these, at our gates.</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<em>The third section is a transcription of information regarding the various threats and factions SCP-8000-B are arrayed against, taken by POI-4242, and written by a dead Embaf Scholar<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>.</em><br/>
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<p><strong>The Chained</strong></p>
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<p>Heraldry</p>
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<p><strong>Visage:</strong> The physical visages of Declas vary from mockeries of the once humanity to mechanical monstrosities to animalistic aberrations & entities that deny visual description. Their mindsets are the true deciding factor, for they seek to do little more than destroy and consume. Many are workers of powerful magic, and they use it to bend Folk of all stripes to their causes, forming small warbands and cults that stalk the borderlands and forge petty kingdoms. Some find prominence amongst the other Enemy, but in the case of those within the New Children's hordes, they are subservient slaves and war beasts.</p>
<p><strong>Obscure:</strong> Delcas are savage and unpredictable, so there are no set patterns for hiding from them. Looking away from one can be salvation at one time and a death sentence at another. If you encounter one of the beasts stalking the surface unprepared, it is best to hunker down and pray to the Dation that it passes you by.</p>
<p><strong>Condemn:</strong> Our greatest weapons and most potent convictions must be brought to bear to slay Declas. Many return after death; others shrug off the wounds of sword, bow, and blazer like the bites of flies. Some are not even truly alive. Crippling blows are best, for slowing them down is often all that can be done without the sacred Ano-Melodies, and if one must die to ensure the safety of others, the Dation has willed it. Your sacrifice will be remembered.</p>
<p><strong>Preserve:</strong> The Wards are never to be exposed to the Declas, for the infernal beasts want nothing more to consume or twist them into their image. The Declas Cults are a constant thorn, and if it were not for the rumbles of the Ascension War, I would push for a crusade against any and all that dare to settle near the Reclaim.</p>
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<p><strong>Scions of Flesh</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Visage:</strong> Spirelings are a small and erudite folk, though they turn their vast intelligence to the warping of the natural. They are birds of black or crimson feathers, with sharp pointed beaks and eager talons. The largest of their kind, their dreaded Carrion Priests, can stand to chest height, while most remain no bigger than a rabbit. Yet their magic is strong and primarily focused on warping flesh and feather. Ivory-bladed wings, chocking tendrils, and extending talons, they weaponize their own forms as easily as they warp others into adornments, houses & wandering food stores.</p>
<p><strong>Obscure:</strong> Their eyes are keen, always hunting for the glimmer of glass and metal beneath the sun, so when entering Spireling territory, camouflaging your second skin is paramount. Only the fleet of foot and the small of stature should attempt this passage, for their sentinels are everywhere, and their cries can echo for miles. The harder it is to be noticed, the better.</p>
<p><strong>Condemn:</strong> For all their magic, Spirelings are quite easy to kill. Our second skins gird well enough against their bone weapons, and for the weaker initiates of their faith, a single strike with a fist or blade can end them. A Spireling staying dead is another matter entirely, as their wounds knit close and their hearts can return to pumping if the body is left whole enough. Blazers are best, feather, flesh, and bone, reduced to ash.</p>
<p><strong>Preserve:</strong> The Spirelings wish to corrupt the Wards, believing that if they are bent and broken into twisted furniture or lumbering feed beasts, they will prove to all others they alone have a right to Ascend. This must never come to pass. If the Spirelings breach the walls of Reclaim, pray to Dation it never comes… ignite the Fire Within and deny them everything.</p>
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<p><strong>Scions of Metal</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Visage:</strong> The Rustless are like us more than any other Folk. For they, too, are wrapped in second skins. Yet, where our traditions are passed from mother to child throughout the ages of our people, theirs are ever-changing, ever-gleaming. Constant noise proceeds them: the chorus of clicking gears and hissing steam. Their second skins dwarf us by several magnitudes, yet it is within that they differ most deeply. For where we are entirely flesh and bone beneath, they are water. Only at the very center of their beings is their true aquatic form visible, a pulsing mass of color-shifting flesh and tentacles.</p>
<p><strong>Obscure:</strong> The Rustless view the world through a single port at the front of their beings. This allows them to be flanked fairly easily. Our similar forms can allow careful and swift Embefs to disguise themselves in their ranks for a time. Still, if discovered, flight is better than fight, for their weapons can penetrate our second-skins with relative ease.</p>
<p><strong>Condemn:</strong> Melee is not encouraged when facing a Rustless; they are stronger and sturdier, and their clicking weapons seem tailor-made to dismantle us. Yet, one glaring weakness can be taken advantage of if forced into melee or from a distance—their cyclopean glass eye. A hard-headed spear or a direct shot can shatter it, causing its life-preserving fluids to seep freely into the soil. Most will retreat at this point, yet for the persistent, pushing further with the spear or another shot can silence them permanently if you are lucky. Of course, with the coming of war, many have taken to wearing braces and covers that better guard this weak point.</p>
<p><strong>Preserve:</strong> The Rustless do not seek to slay or consume our Wards. They seek to take them. They believe they can protect them better than us but wish to make them into their own image, locking the innocent beings within metal shells and parading them as examples of their prowess. This, they say, is the desire of their Assembling God. If the Reclaim is taken, it is better to flee with the Wards than allow them to be forced to confront forces so familiar to us they would trust them instinctually.</p>
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<p><strong>Curious Wanderers</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Visage:</strong> The Suntouched are the largest Folk we have encountered. Even the smallest stands two meters taller than us. They have thick grey hide, often covered with artful swirls of color. Four thick legs ferry them across the Long Grasses, and a thick tendril that protrudes from their face is how they interact with most of the world. They are devout people, followers of the Sun Sister, and their team is mighty indeed, allowing them to call down pillars of flame, heal grievous wounds, and expedite the growth of plant life. Largely peaceful, they have stayed out of much of the Ascension War and are considered Enemy only for the fickle nature of their deity. Yet, when pressed to fight, little can stand in their way, wood, stone, steel, it matters not. Their great strength and burning visages can surge through anything in their path.</p>
<p><strong>Obscure:</strong> So far, we have been able to walk openly in the lands of the Suntouched, and they are willing to trade with us, offering food and medicine for our crafted armaments and gathered information. Of course, as the world grows increasingly strained, we must guard the trails from the Reclaim and muddy the paths that ferry us between our home and their nearest citadel.</p>
<p><strong>Condemn:</strong> Suntouched have yet to confirm they are truly our enemies. Yet, we still must prepare for that eventuality even if Ethek demands our grace. They are sturdy and mighty beings, but while surefooted on the open plains, it is increasingly apparent they are less confident in other terrains. Pitfalls and other leg-based traps would work wonders to bring them down to be finished off by blade and spear. Yet, their magic is a truly worrisome thing to consider. Searching for that of our own that can negate or lessen the effect of their fire on our second skins is paramount.</p>
<p><strong>Preserve:</strong> The Suntouched have so far shown little interest in our Wards. Worrisome, however, in comparison to the other Enemy, is their deep interest in the Ano-Melodies. Directed by their goddess, they attempt to open the Dation's sacred labyrinths, excavating entire complexes and attempting to reach the weapons hidden within. This must be curbed before they release something they cannot control, particularly because they do not seem to understand the difference between a Labyrinth and a Declas Den.</p>
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<p><strong>Revenge Incarnate</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Visage:</strong> These Folk share the closest resemblance to lost Humanity. Their appearances can vary, some with elongated arms and lengthy red fur, others with conical heads and silvered pelts, but most are squat and well-muscled. They all have sharp fangs and dress in bones, furs, and skins of the things they slay. They live far above the ground in their forest homes, and all are capable climbers, their feet being more akin to hands. Compared to other Folk, they have little magic, relying on brute might and savage instinct. They are disarmingly strong and prefer weapons that wound and maim over flat-out kill, savoring the pain and battle over a clean death for their victims. Yet, their leader, the King, taller and bipedal compared to his kin, has the ability to tame Declas, like their horrid hunting packs proceeding his armies and the lumbering monstrosity that carries his throne.</p>
<p><strong>Obscure:</strong> To venture into the Children's Forest is to dance with death, no matter the attempts at stealth. If their scouts do not see you, their traps will snare you, and if you escape them, their King's pets will scent you. To enter the wood is to do so brazenly, enshroud in a third-skin and armed with every weapon you can carry. You cannot hide, so you must fight. To give them a reason to respect and fear you.</p>
<p><strong>Condemn:</strong> The New Children do not die easy, though it is not magic that keeps them from its doors, but pure, brutal determination. A dying Child can take at least three others if adequately armed, and even our second-skins are not enough to withstand a continual battering by a Child in its death throes. Any weapon will work; the key is turning your kill into a message. Grievous wounds leave a required message, so let brutality lead you even if it flies in the face of Ethek's teaching.</p>
<p><strong>Preserve:</strong> The New Children seek our Wards for one reason, and one reason only: to slay and consume them. By gorging themselves on their flesh and blood, they will finally take revenge for a slight long forgotten by our people. They are willing to kill any of the other Enemy in their path to Ascension, yet their eyes are most securely locked on our Walls. I predict they will attack soon, bringing all their King has claimed to bear. Their scouts seek new Declas Dens as we speak. We must ensure they never return to the dark boughs of their homeland.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:150%;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">THE INTERIM</span></strong></span></p>
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<em>This section includes private correspondence from POI-4242 and SCP-8000-B's leadership and a recording of a conversation between the pair.</em>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>PROBLEMS</strong></p>
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<p><strong>DATE:</strong> 06/22/40—</p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> A report recorded by POI-4242 upon his entrance to the SCP-8000-B stronghold.</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><em>POI-4242's helmet camera turns on, looking out at a vacant courtyard, a bonfire burning at the center, around which several SCP-8000-B instances move. They continually glance over their shoulders, looking towards him. He mutes his outgoing volume.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Church, Proft, can you hear me?</p>
<p><em>There is no response.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> The Twentieth time is not the charm, apparently. Right, for the record then, this is the illustrious POI-4242, James ——, and I have seemingly reached safe harbor.</p>
<p><em>He looks to the side, another pair of the instances walking by, both saluting him and bowing.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Better than safe, honestly; they worship me here; it's all respectful gestures, and longing stares… at least, I think it's longing. It's hard to tell as I can't quite make out what they are, not human, that's for sure, but they're so shrouded in metal that I'm having trouble figuring out where that ends and where they begin.</p>
<p><em>In the distance, one of the instances leaps, clearing several meters, and climbs atop the far wall, pulling their weapon and beginning to patrol.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> They could be wholly robotic, but I don't think so… the one that died was pretty ripped up. The other, their leader apparently, had covered the body before I could get a good look, but there was definitely blood. The… apes were covered in it.</p>
<p><em>One of the instances approaches him, and he looks up to them; they are shorter than the previous instances and gently place something before him before running away on four limbs. He picks it up, revealing a small carving resembling the Foundation insignia.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> This right here is what saved me. I don't know if they actually know who you are or if they just chose this place on a whim.</p>
<p><em>He gestures around at the reclaimed ruin.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I think this is one of y'all's bunkers. It might be Prometheus, GOC, or Division-P, seeing as I don't know where I am. They could have just gone scrounging and turned up the wrong symbol, crafted up a whole messy cargo cult over it. Some of my old mentors said that happens a lot…</p>
<p><em>The one that handed him the sigil returns, and he hands it out to them. They reverently take it, bowing and muttering, pressing the sigil to their helmeted forehead.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I Won't know until I start digging a bit more. Once SONARK is recovered, collect enough for a solid report. Make sure the mission isn't an entire wash. I will say, though, that this wasn't anything like Elisabet said.</p>
<p><em>Laughter and cheers go up, and he turns, taking in the instances celebrating the insignia he handed back and the one carrying it.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I've never actually done this before. I'm just the pilot. I ferried folks, made quick stops, and then I was off to the next point, letting the others go about their business. She always made it sound harrowing and saddening, and sure, the beginning sure as shit was, but maybe it was because she was so stuck in the past. Right now… all I am is curious.</p>
<p><em>Several more instances begin to approach him.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> It might just be the hero worship, though. That's one thing I hope I have Church back for soon, not shattering the illusion. I don't have any idea what they expect of me, what the "Sonark" should know, what the "Dation" represents, but I can just tell… they need something to believe in.</p>
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<p><strong>Record: Embef Origin</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> 06/23/40—</p>
<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> SCP-8016-B Instance: Commander Embef Cali.</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> POI-4242</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> This is a recorded conversation regarding the believed origin of the Embef, their purpose, and their Gods: the Dation.</p>
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<p><em>The camera flickers on, a duel feed from POI-4242's helmet, and the camera mounted on his shoulder. Several SCP-8016-B instances can be seen observing him. He checks his comms.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Anyone there?</p>
<p><em>There is no response.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> On my own, it is.</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 moves through the crowding -B instances, waving a hand as muttered conversation rises around him.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Sonark!</p>
<p><em>He turns, the camera taking in the other -B instances as they begin to disperse. The -B instances leader, "Commander Embef Cali," approaches, standing before a set of double doors.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Good morning, Commander!</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 approaches Commander Cali, and she bows. He holds up a hand.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> That is not necessary. I am but the messenger.</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Respect is due, even for a messenger of the Dation, and please, your grace, call me Cali.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Of course, what did you wish to discuss with me?</p>
<p><em>She turns back to the doors.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> That is a matter to be discussed in private.</p>
<p><em>She pushes the doors open, revealing what was once a medical amphitheater; she gestures for him to follow, descending into the center, five large murals covering the far wall, an altar at each of their bases.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> What is this place?</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> The house of the Dation, I thought it would bring you comfort.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> It…. does.</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Our people first found their purpose here.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Really?</p>
<p><em>The instance turns to look at him, tilting her head.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> You didn't know this?</p>
<p><em>He pauses, tapping the side of his helm.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> What do I…right.</p>
<p><em>He composes himself and taps the button.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Sonark?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Apologies.</p>
<p><em>She points towards his helmet, mimicking his gesture.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Do they speak to you?</p>
<p><em>She gestures to the statues.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> No. I pause for guidance, but little is given, and I apologize, Cali. I do not recall the history of your people. I fear the wounds left by the Enemy that have left me scattered.</p>
<p><em>The Commander approaches, her hands glowing with energy.</em></p>
<p><strong>Ember Cali:</strong> I would be honored to heal any wound, regardless if clarity returns with its patching or not.</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 steps back.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> There is not need, I will heal in short time. Save your… gifts for those who may be in dire need.</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong>Very well. I would gladly tell you of our history if you would care to hear it.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Then please speak.</p>
<p><em>She nods and shifts around the room. The camera on POI-4242's shoulder spins around, revealing various murals and smaller shrines scattered amongst the decayed seats above them and the walls behind them; even the domed roof is scrawled with markings.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> This world was not always ours. Surely you know this.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> That is known to me, yes.</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> It was theirs.</p>
<p><em>She gestures to the murals.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Admathos Thousand-Words, the Faceless, God of Knowledge & Mysteries, he would make us and grant us understanding.</p>
<p><em>The mural depicts a looming cloaked figure, tendrils reaching from beneath, a singular eye in the center of its face.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Ovive of the High Table, the Everseeing, Goddess of Order & Readiness, she who guides our path.</p>
<p><em>The depiction is of a thirteen-headed serpent coiling around itself, all eyes gazing directly down at them.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Ethek Comte, the Gentle, God of Mercy & Caretakers, he who taught us the folly of cruelty.</p>
<p><em>The depiction is of a white, formless figure surrounded by blue flames.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Emtef Red-Hands, the Ascendant Army, God of War & Hunting, whose many arms gave us the means to defend ourselves and our Wards.</p>
<p><em>The depiction is of a trio of heavily armored figures, their right hands a vibrant red.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> And Bios Claim-Forger, the Defender, Goddess of Architecture & Craftsmanship, who forged our home and taught us how to maintain it.</p>
<p><em>The depiction is a humanoid feminine face with a soft smile and cracking solid green eyes.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> The Dation walked the surface of the lands known to us and those far across the bitter waters. Humanity was under their care, and the world was good. It was a time of paradise, and while many Gods sought Humanity's devotion, only they truly earned it, for in their power, they could lock those other lesser divinities away.</p>
<p><em>She approaches him, her voice raising in pitch.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> They crafted the Ano-Melodies, great works of magic & edifices of tech that saw Humanity benefit again and again. They locked away the dreaded Declas, removing their blighted existence from the world's surface. But then came the Fall.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Apologies, but what is the Fall?</p>
<p><em>She tilts her head and takes a step back.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> We don't know, but it was the end of Humanity. A Declas that escaped the Dation's gaze? A jealous God reaping of their garden? A folly that Humanity brought upon itself, ignoring their righteous advice? You would know better than the Embef, for they became the Dation's eternal enemy.</p>
<p><em>She backs into a guarded stance, staring him up and down.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> You should know.</p>
<p><em>He raises his hands placatingly.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Calm yourself, dear Cali, but a test of your truthfulness. You impress me with your honesty. Please continue.</p>
<p><em>Embef Cali nods, though her stance remains guarded.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> In the final hours of that dreaded time, they made us, The Embef, and charged us with protecting the Wards, their last work on this world, before they left it to hunt the being that brought this calamity down upon their lost followers.</p>
<p><em>She turns, staring up at the murals.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> We have remained devoted to this charge for centuries. We have faced numerous challenges: the Declas Siege, the Emergence of the Spirelings, and the Fall of Second Claim. Yet only recently have things become dire enough for us to seek the great weapons you left behind: the Ano-Melodies.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Why do you seek them? For what purpose would you awaken the creations of the Dation?</p>
<p><em>She looks at him, her shoulders falling.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Have they truly gone so far from us that they can not see our plight?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> They are far from this place, yes, but you are not abandoned; why else would they send me?</p>
<p><em>She nods, shifting her stance.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> The Ascension War, the product of the other folk that have risen across the face of this world, though they are not the Dation's children, not like us or Humanity before us. They are the children of the divinities they pushed aside.</p>
<p><em>Her hands curl into fists.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> We are not numerous, and for so long, the Dation has been silent, yet the Enemy is innumerable, and their Gods stand with them; we have felt their presence.</p>
<p><em>She darts forward, wrapping her hands around POI-4242's shoulders.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> I beg your forgiveness and the Dation's; I had thought we had been forgotten. They release Declas and attempt to steal the Ano-Melodies, besmirching the Dation's legacy, and they are preparing to come for us. We need help; otherwise, they will slaughter us and all we have built and protected!</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> It… you are forgiven, and I promise that help will come.</p>
<p><em>She releases him, pulling away.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Help already exists; we simply need to be given leave to open the labyrinths and retrieve the Ano-Melodies for ourselves. The keys have long been hidden; the Dation need simply reveal them to us.</p>
<p><em>She pauses, looking up beyond him; he turns to catch sight of a slight pale figure looking down at them from amongst the dilapidated chairs.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> What-</p>
<p><em>The being bolts, rushing back out the doors. Cali shakes her head and makes a sound that sounds like a laugh.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> What was that? Are we in danger?</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Dation no! That was one of the Wards, allowing their curiosity to get the better of them.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> A Ward?</p>
<p><em>Embef Cali freezes, and her stance becomes immediately guarded once again.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> You claim to forget them as well?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I…</p>
<p><em>Embef Cali stalks towards him, her hand inching towards her blade.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> You claim that your memory fails, then say you are simply testing me when it comes to knowledge you should know. You should know it! But I am willing to trust… desperate to trust that you are what you say.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Cali, I-</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> No. Forgive me, Sonark, but for all my faith… no, because of it, I can not stomach the idea that the Dation would allow you to forget the reason for my people’s being. Is anything you have told me true? Or have I, as some of my people fear, been a fool and allowed a Declas into our midst?</p>
<p><em>She begins drawing her blade.</em></p>
<p><em>POI-4242 falls to one knee, bowing his head low to the ground; Cali pauses, stepping back.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> You’re right to doubt me, and I am sorry that your Gods have been silent for so long. I truly am, but if… you really want them to hear you and see what you need from them, then you can trust me. I am just an explorer… but I can also be a messenger if that is what you need.</p>
<p><strong>Cali:</strong> Are you even of the Dation?!</p>
<p><em>He bows his head lower.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I am, but… they are not as aware of what has transpired here as you hoped. Again, I am sorry that I thought it better to act the fool or the guide than be honest in my ignorance. I want to learn, and I want to help.</p>
<p><em>She stares at him silently. He looks up at her and continues.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I said that I had come seeking knowledge and that I would ferry your words to your gods, and I will once my machine is recovered.</p>
<p><em>She examines him, staring at his helmet.</em></p>
<p><strong>Cali:</strong> Does that allow you to speak with them? Can they see what you see?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> It can, and they will.</p>
<p><em>She reaches for his helmet.</em></p>
<p><strong>Cali:</strong> Then perhaps I’m unmasking you. I can find the answers I seek.</p>
<p><em>He pulls away.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> No! Please, I need this. I can’t… be in your world without it.</p>
<p><em>She shakes her head and seems to laugh.</em></p>
<p><strong>Cali:</strong> That is the most conviction you have spoken with yet, and it rings of the traditions the Dation gave us…. You honestly wish to help me, help my people?</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 nods.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Yes, but to do so, I need to learn. Allow me to catalog your knowledge, and I swear on my life it will reach them.</p>
<p><em>She is silent for several moments, looking at the camera on his shoulder.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Does that, too, allow the gods to see and hear us?</p>
<p><em>He detaches it from his suit and turns it over in his hands.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Yes, though they will not be able to respond to you immediately.</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> May I make use of it to speak to them alone?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Yes, of course.</p>
<p><em>He hands it to her. She takes it and then reaches her other hand down.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Stand Explorer.</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 takes her hand and stands, and she holds the camera out to him.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> You will show me how to use this?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Of course.</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Then we have an agreement. If you truly wish to catalog our world and grant this knowledge to the distant Dation, then I suggest starting with our maps. Come, I will show you to the Caretakers.</p>
<p><em>She turns, waving for him to follow him. He taps the side of his helmet the moment her back turns.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> That… could have gone worse.</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p>Depictions of the Dation</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>SUSPICION</strong></p>
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<p><strong>DATE:</strong> 06/23/40—</p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> An accidental recording of the SCP-8016-B's leadership following her confrontation with POI-4242.</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><em>The camera turns on, catching the side of Embef Cali's legs. A glimpse of POI-4242 in the background as he stands in a library beside another SCP-8016-B instance.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> An explorer…</p>
<p><em>She quiets as several other instances pass by her.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Gods, what sort of fool am I to have allowed him into our home?! Likely false, likely Declas, and it almost saw a Ward. I…</p>
<p><em>She enters a room and begins pacing back and forth, the camera catching glimpses of hanging trophies, aged weaponry, a sleeping mat, and a well-worn armor rack.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> How can I trust a single thing that he told me? And this…</p>
<p><em>She holds up the camera and looks directly into it, unaware that it is on.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> "You can speak to them, but they will not immediately respond." Then what good is it?!</p>
<p><em>She squeezes her hand, and the sound of crunching metal can be heard. The camera shakes, but she stops herself.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> He admitted his duplicity and still spoke of the Dation; he doesn't recognize their truths but claims to know who they…</p>
<p><em>She sets the camera down and steps away, no longer visible; a moment later, her helm is set down next to it. She sighs.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> My mentor claims we once received their messages. It was stated that they were present alongside us, in voice if not in body. But all I have ever known is silence.</p>
<p><em>Her hand wraps around the camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> But what if I hold proof that they are still out there? They can return to us if they can just hear us, hear what we need, and hear what we have done. If the Enemy can gain providence, why should we be denied?! Why should I not take this chance?</p>
<p><em>There is a knock offscreen, and she releases the camera before picking up her helm.</em></p>
<p>*Embef Cali:** Have faith or live in silence. Have faith…</p>
<p><em>She picks up the camera once more and accidentally shuts it off.</em></p>
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<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<em>This section contains a map of the wider world known by the SCP-8016-B instances and brief descriptions of significant locations near their main settlement.</em><br/>
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<p>The Known World</p>
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<p><strong>Map Key:</strong></p>
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<p><em>Your angel asked me to speak the facets of our world for you, oh Dation, into an artifact of your divine making. They say your vision is so broad the small details become lost. I gladly serve you in this way.</em><br/>
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<ul>
<li><strong>Bios' Reclaim:</strong> Our home, whose ancient walls and glimmering ceiling offered us protection in those dreadful years following the Fall. Here we guard the Wards, your divine mission, against any and all, watching for threats from its soaring pinnacles as the chill wind of the surrounding mountains dusts our second skin with snow.</li>
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<li><strong>Ano-Melody Labyrinths:</strong> Another facet of your divinity. Winding beneath the ground, your mazes guard that which we need to hold off the Ascension War from our shores. The Ano-Melodies are weapons crafted by your hand and locked away for when your faithful needed them most. Yet still, the doors are barred to us.</li>
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<li><strong>Declas Dens:</strong> Prisons built by your own hand, they are a blight on the land, for the Enemy has dared to plum their depths and unleash the monsters that, in your divine benevolence, you saw fit to lock away forever. We avoid these places with respect to your designs.</li>
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<li><strong>Humanity's Bones:</strong> The remnants of the Old Chosen, whose Fall saw you craft us into your divine agents on Earth. These places are havens of old lore, magic, and ancient weaponry. Admathos and Emtef, two of your number, would see us gather all so that it can not fall into the hands of the Enemy.</li>
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<ul>
<li><strong>The Spirelands:</strong> Home to the first of the Enemy, towering spires of warped glass and molded flesh reach ever skyward to pierce your domain. Beasts made corpulent with blood & meat drag themselves pitifully, living meals for their aerial masters.</li>
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<li><strong>Northern Rustless Domain:</strong> But an outpost of a vast and powerful culture that lives beneath the bitter waters. Their citadels gleam beneath the waves, and the sound of clicking gears is never far from the ear when delving into their lands. They recently claimed and rebuilt the city of Lavega, which has created a buffer against the predations of the Spirelings.</li>
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<li><strong>West Sunseat:</strong> Rising above the Long Grasses, this vast tent city is friendly to us for now. Its nomadic founders have been friends, and they have been Enemy, as directed by their fickle and distant deity. Yet, far as it might be from our haven, trade with the East ever draws the bravest of our Rangers down their winding road.</li>
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<li><strong>The Children's Forest:</strong> A never-ending sea of pine trees, home to the most vicious of the Enemy. The Children fight all as demanded by their King. The borders are ringed by the bones and husks of all that dared to brave its depths. More worrisome are the numerous Declas that haunt its depths, apparent allies of the vile Children.</li>
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<em>More lands lie beyond, but unlike you, oh Dation, our eyes have never rested upon them. Many rumors have reached us at the Reclaim of the mysterious Kingdom of Wonde to the tiny sailors of Hoiohiña & the star drinkers of Neyork. Still, as directed by you, the Wards are our first priority, not exploration. So we do not go far from them. Even as war comes ever closer to our doorstep. -Elbaf Bruc, Junior Scribe.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:150%;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">THE RETURN</span></strong></span></p>
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<em>The recorded events encapsulate the return of POI-4242 to Foundation custody.</em>
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<p><strong>Record: Reclaim Assault</strong></p>
<p><strong>DATE:</strong> 06/24/40—</p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Final recorded dialogue between POI-4242 and the SCP-8000-B commander.</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><em>The recording begins with POI-4242, looking over several maps and loose pieces of paper, compiling them into SCP-8016-A. He looks up, seeing the -B instances' commander approaching him.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Hello, Commander.</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Hello, Explorer.</p>
<p><em>She holds out the borrowed camera to him. He takes it and reholsters it on his shoulder.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Did you say what you needed?</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Yes, I hope so… if they will hear, that is entirely up to you, or so you claim.</p>
<p><em>He stands as she turns to leave.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I am sorry.</p>
<p><em>She pauses, turning to look at him.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> For?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> For the duplicity, for not being what you hoped I was, for preying as brief as it was on that belief.</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> I am to take you at your word now?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> You don't have to; you don't need to believe anything I say to you, but I promise that whatever you said to the Dation, they will see.</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> And once they do, will they give us the help we require?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I…</p>
<p><em>He looks down at the gathered material on the table next to him.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I would hope so.</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Then we are alike in that regard, at least.</p>
<p><em>She goes to leave again, but he follows after her.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> The more information I give them, the more I can shift their opinions and prove that their intervention would be in their best interests. Information about the Wards m-</p>
<p><em>She rounds on him.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> That know all they should about them, and so do you.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Which is nothing, outside them being the most important thing to you.</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Exactly.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I have one more day before I can leave, please. Please give me anything you can then, anything you have uncovered about the threat that sent them away since they left, what "Declas" has escaped, and what you're hoping to find in the labyrinths.</p>
<p><em>She tilts her head and gestures to the pile of papers on the table behind him.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> It seems like you are well on your way on your own.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> The Caretakers are respectful but hesitant because of our tension. If my inquiries get too specific, they turn away or begin to question me, just like you did. I'm supposed to be the Dation's Messenger.</p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> But you aren't; you are Sonark, the Explorer of barest understanding.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Harsh but fair, but you have to believe me when I tell you that the more I am given, the likelier it is that I can actually help you.</p>
<p><em>She stares at him silently, and he goes to speak again when a horn sounds in the distance, joined by another and another.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> What-</p>
<p><em>A scream erupts, and they both grasp the sides of their heads in an attempt to cover their ears. Embef Cali glances up as several -B instances run past.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> The Children, they've brought their pet Declas to our home. I thought we had more time.</p>
<p><em>Cries of pain and bellows can be heard, and the -B instances begin to mobilize en mass all around them. Embef Cali stands taller as many instances approach her.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Caretakers see to the Wards, Engineers let us see if Bios's teeth still bless is this day, all others arm yourselves and take your place on the Walls! Reclaim has stood for ages. I will not see it fall on our watch!</p>
<p><em>A cheer erupts around her, and they go to their duties. Embef Cali looks down at POI-4242.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> You claim to want to help. If that is true, follow me to the Walls.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I-I'm right behind you.</p>
<p><em>She turns and runs. He goes to follow, and an explosion rocks the ground. He looks up, a looming shadow approaching through the smoke as several -B instances rush to meet it.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8016-B Instance:</strong> They're through the gate!</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 stands frozen for several moments as various -B instances run around him, some reaching out to him, but as the last pass him, he turns and runs, going deeper into Reclaim's library, picking up the papers he gathered as he passes. He runs, finding a hallway deeper into the complex, and runs down it. One of the instances calls out to him.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8016-B Instance:</strong> Sonark!</p>
<p><em>He glances back, and one of the simian entities shatters through the window and tackles the -B.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I'm sorry.</p>
<p><em>He continues running, eventually finding himself in an abandoned, darkened room, the only light a flashing red warning light. Lab tables covered in dust and cobwebs fill the room, and he crouches down behind one, repeatedly glancing at the door. He sits there for over an hour in silence, excluding his panicked breathing.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> I need to-</p>
<p><em>The door begins to open.</em></p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> POI-4242</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Dr. Magni Proft</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> POI-4242 returned with SCP-8016 in tow and was discovered unconscious, wounded, but bandaged, within SONARK. Upon awakening, he insisted on speaking with Foundation personnel.</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log, 16:42, 6/27/202█></strong></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> How are you feeling, James?<br/>
<strong>POI-4242:</strong> Where is Church? Why-</p>
<p><em>He glances at the four heavily armed guards standing in the corners of the room.</em><br/>
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<strong>POI-4242:</strong> Why are they here?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> You asked to speak. This is how it was agreed to proceed. Now, can you explain what happened following your last conversation with the SCP-8016-B instance?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Cali.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> If it appeases you, then I amend my previous statement; what happened after your last talk with Cali?</p>
<p><em>POI-4242 looks down at the collection of papers resting in front of him and detaches the camera from his shoulder, placing it atop the pile.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> First, when you go over all of this, what's on this camera you will to save till last.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> We will?</p>
<p><em>The doctor raises an eyebrow.</em><br/>
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<strong>POI-4242:</strong> <span style="color: #5ad6ff"><strong>You will.</strong></span></p>
<p><em>His eyes flair with light momentarily, and he clutches his head. Dr. Proft's eyes glaze over. The guards shift forward, but Dr. Proft puts up a hand.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> Of course, we will leave it until last. Are you alright? Can you continue?<br/>
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<strong>POI-4242:</strong>Y-yes. I found this dark corner of the Reclaim, and I just hunkered on, hoping the Embef would be able to fight off the attackers. I don't know how long I was there, but they found me.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> They?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Wards, dozens of them, and behind them was Cali ferrying them to safety. They were whimpering and crying as she shut the door and barred it with her body. She was alone and bleeding, I could see… I could see her face.</p>
<p><em>He trails off. Dr. Proft turns to the video, but it the image is scrambled by shadows and flashing lights, disguising the pale forms and the face of the SCP-8016-B instance as they enter the room.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> They were very particular about not letting what was beneath the armor be seen, a part of their beliefs or culture I didn't get to ask them about. And the Wards… I think I gasped. And she looked at me. There was worry, betrayal, and…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> James?</p>
<p><em>He continues to stare forward unblinking.</em><br/>
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<strong>POI-4242:</strong> Whatever trust I’d regained was lost. I wasn’t what she needed me to be…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> Is that why you removed your helmet?</p>
<p><em>The video changes, showing it on the ground, catching James as he steps forward, hands raised, curled hair matted. POI-4242 looks at Dr. Proft, his eyes widening.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Did you know I had a dog once, doctor?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> She saved my life. I wasn’t much older than four, playing in the backyard, when this feral mutt came tearing out of the woods, rushing right for me. My Maisie, an old cattle dog, was on it in an instant, barking and biting while I ran for my parents.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> She didn’t survive. But she wasn’t sad for it. She licked my hands as she faded and I….</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> James, how is this pertinent?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> Do you know how much faith and love a dog has for their owner, Dr. Proft?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> I can’t say that I do, but I also don’t believe th-</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong>I think it’s boundless as long as we’re good to them.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> They’ve been with us for so long; some of our oldest friends. Man's Best Friends.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> We made them what they are. From the first meal beside the fire to them standing sentinel in the dark alone.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> And in that moment…. she was so scared.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> And that ties into what happened because?</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> She had believed in me. She had needed me to be… a miracle. When I took the helmet off, it all came back- the trust, the need. All the doubt fell away. It became truth in that moment- everything she’d wondered about me.</p>
<p><em>He taps the Foundation symbol on the breast of his jacket.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Proft:</strong> Explain.</p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> She truly believed in me. And suddenly, I could see so much more of their world- the enemies battering at their gates, cutting down their kin, hunting their charges. I wanted- they wanted- I wanted to help. I’d promised I’d help.</p>
<p><em>He tilts her head, still staring at Dr. Proft. In the video, his body ignites with blue flames.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> So I did. Their home responded to what I wanted. Steel and stone melted at my passing. Yet only the enemy burned. Not an Embef. Not a Ward. <span style="color: #5ad6ff"><strong>My heart was a nuclear fire, my fingers blades of heated steel, and my purpose: defend their children. They needed me. They need Us. The Dation.</strong></span></p>
<p><em>Dr. Proft attempts to stand as POI-4242's eyes roll into the back of his head, and a halo of blue energy begins rising from his skin. The guards shift forward to grasp him but are buffeted back by a whipping tail of flame. He stands from the chair, staring at Dr. Proft with pure white eyes, more fire than flesh.</em></p>
<p><strong>POI-4242:</strong> <span style="color: #5ad6ff"><strong>I became the Messenger Sonark.</strong></span></p>
<p><em>He continues to burn for several moments, speaking to the doctor, but what he says is overpowered by the sound of the fire, and then he collapses, unconscious.</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log.></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Closing Statement:</strong> POI-4242 is currently under observation. Following a week-long coma, he is lucid, with little memory of the event or his return to the Foundation, and shows no current signs of permanent anomalous capabilities.</p>
<p>Following the cessation of the first viewing of the recording stored on POI-4242's camera, the computer it was playing on began to glitch before exploding, injuring two of the observing scientists. In its place was a small portal, a square of blue and green. The lab was immediately locked down, and personnel were evacuated from the room, allowing the Temporal Anomalies Department personnel to investigate.</p>
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<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8016-C is a one-meter-wide rectangular portal currently contained within former Lab-114 at Site 12. The portal is opaque when viewed from the sides. When looked at head-on, it transitions to reveal the room from the recording.</p>
<p>The object is a link between the site and SCP-8016-B's domicile, as instances have been seen moving about the room. Unlike Foundation personnel, the instances do not appear to be aware of the object's presence.</p>
<p>However, sound can be transmitted, as muffled conversation from the other side of the portal has been recorded, and noise produced on the Foundation side of the object has been observed to cause a reaction from the -B instances on the other side.</p>
<p>Regarding the events with POI-4242 upon their return, any testing regarding SCP-8016 is suspended as the O-5 Council deals with the ramifications of further interaction with the SCP-8016 instances through -C or the SONARK Project.</p>
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<p><strong>A Hope: Yours and Ours</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> 6/22/40██</p>
<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Embef Cali, High Commander of Reclaim</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><em>The video opens with the Commander seated at a metallic desk; behind them are standards and flags bearing symbols taken from Foundation iconography and those analogous to numerous current GOIs. The map presented as part of gifted documentation rests on the far wall, covered in notations, and a massive blade rests against the door frame. They begin speaking..</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> I gladly greet you, My Dation. I am Embef Cali, leader of my people, but for all your…Sonark speaks of ignorance, I would hope you know this already.</p>
<p><em>She leans in, her glowing blue eyes staring intensely into the camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> But if, as part of me whispers, he is false, we have taken precautions to hide the whole truth from him. You once told our people that you had left things for us to use in the worst of circumstances. If we have been fooled- if I have been fooled- they stand ready.</p>
<p><em>She looks up at the ceiling.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> But I hope beyond hope that the messenger is true and will ferry this to you as swiftly as he can, even if he is not all I wish him to be.</p>
<p><em>She sighs and turns to the map.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> The Enemy, for all their fighting with each other, march ever closer to Reclaim. We are not strong enough to hold off them all. We need the Ano-Melodies to balance the scales.</p>
<p><em>She turns back to the camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Only you, oh Dation, can give them to us. You locked the knowledge away when you left and hid it from us until we could stand on our own.</p>
<p><em>She looks down, knitting her metallic fingers together.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> If I may be honest, it has felt as if we have been standing alone for quite some time. The Wards are ever with us, but they are not fighters. That is not their purpose. But you…</p>
<p><em>She pauses and composes herself for a moment.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> You were their guardians once, and when you gave that mission to us, we took it without question. We have followed, ever loyal, never straying. Yet, our enemies march with their Gods all around them; they hear their voices, they wear their faces, and some even walk alongside them!</p>
<p><em>She slams her fist down and stands. Behind her, the door to her room slowly creeps open.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> We have not failed you, but you have been silent for…. for so long. I had worried that you had forgotten us in your hunt for the slayer of Humanity.</p>
<p><em>She sits down and leans forward once again. A short figure is seen sneaking into the room behind her.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Your other enemies have returned and forged new threats for us. They seek the Wards. They seek what you ordered us to protect since the creation of our race. Please help us defend the legacy you made for us. Grant us more than a messenger.</p>
<p><em>She pauses and puts her head in her hands, muttering to herself too softly for the camera to hear.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> I…</p>
<p><em>She pauses, glancing over. A small furred head rises into view beside the Embef, revealing a young human-like child between 3 and 5 years of age. The Commander chuckles.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Hello, little Ward. May I help you?</p>
<p><em>The being grins up at her and holds up a flower, which she takes gently.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> How beautiful. Thank you.</p>
<p><em>The being peers above the table, staring at the camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> This is a wonder of Dation, little one, through which I speak an important message.</p>
<p><em>The being gasps and pulls itself higher, staring at the camera with awe. The Commander reaches over and gently ruffles their hair.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> They still have their curiosity, joy, and kindness. They are beautiful beings and have changed little since you all went away.</p>
<p><em>She looks back at the camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> We hope that at least you will find it heartening, oh Dation.</p>
<p><em>The being clambers further up onto the table, tilting their head slightly, and the Commander gently picks them up, holding them close to her.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> We have followed in the footsteps our Father Admathos set without wavering.</p>
<p><em>She places the child on her lap and reaches up for her helm, staring into the camera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Our Ward: Humanity remains.</p>
<p><em>She begins pulling her helm free.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> What you asked of us came so naturally, and it still does.</p>
<p><em>She pulls the helm free, revealing a canid face closely resembling that of a Golden Retriever, though altered, shorter of muzzle, more humanoid in its panes.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> We are still, and always will be, Man’s Best Friend.</p>
<p><em>She smiles down at the child and they giggle.</em></p>
<p><strong>Embef Cali:</strong> Will you help us?</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p>An Elder Scrolls-esque game with sentient NPCS.</p>
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<p>Hello readers,</p>
<p>Wrote this for 8kon within mostly a week and boy it was not easy. My longest ever work so far at 24.8k words.</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong><br/>
SCP-8017 is installed in a desktop computer with no access to the Internet. The device is to be powered by solar panels and a nearby generator. The computer is to be kept powered on at all times, though measures for remote shutdown are in place.</p>
<p>Two armed guards are to be stationed outside the containment chamber of SCP-8017 at all times. No personnel above D-class are allowed to directly enter the containment chamber and access SCP-8017. Any maintenance to the computer’s hardware and software are to be carried out by D-class personnel under strict, remote supervision. Any interaction with SCP-8017-A by other staff is to be conducted indirectly via streaming SCP-8017 to the adjacent research office. The time allotted to testing will be at the discretion of the lead researcher. Insistence to interact with SCP-8017 past the allotted time will require the removal of the D-class personnel from the testing chamber, and remote shutting down of the computer.</p>
<p>Foundation web crawlers are to monitor the Internet for any copies of SCP-8017 or potential SCP-8017-A instances. In case of discovery, all copies of SCP-8017 are to be destroyed and individuals exposed to the object are to be provided amnestics according to their degree of exposure.</p>
<p>SCP-8017-B-1 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment chamber. Amenities are to be <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">provided based on the discretion of the lead researcher</span> completely denied until substantial information can be gleaned from it.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong><br/>
SCP-8017 is the collective designation given to an action role-playing game titled "Hello, Traveller!" and its game engine, KAI-1. The gameplay elements and story follow the tropes of many other action RPGs, where the player explores the world, interacts with NPCs, completes quests, and upgrades their character through a level progression system. It appears, however, that all NPCs within the game have sapience, and are aware that they reside within a video game. They are also aware of the existence of a ‘real world' outside the video game.</p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-center" style="width:1000px;"><img alt="KAI-1.PNG" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8017/KAI-1.PNG"/>
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<p>KAI-1 logo seen during SCP-8017 boot up</p>
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<p>SCP-8017 was discovered by the police in an apartment in Malmö, Sweden. The tenant, identified as 23-year-old Andreas "Andy" Martinsson was found dead in front of an unplugged desktop PC. An autopsy revealed the C.O.D. was cardiac arrest. It was noted that his brain showed damage consistent with extreme stress and fear suffered during or previous to his death.</p>
<p>Around his apartment were concept designs for games and printed articles detailing major successes in the video games industry. It was learned that Andy was an indie game developer and, according to recovered notes, "Hello, Traveller!" was his creation. It had also been discovered that all individuals closely related to Andy had perished approximately 2 hours before his death; a total of 17 people across Sweden were killed. Causes of death were either from gunshot wounds, trauma from sharp and blunt objects, or wounds akin to those in animal attacks.</p>
<p>To be noted was that Martinsson's phone was found destroyed in his microwave, so it and the CPU were taken as evidence by the Swedish police. Following an incident regarding seeing ghosts in the game, the CPU was later confiscated by the Foundation.</p>
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<div class="collapsible-block-folded"><a class="collapsible-block-link" href="javascript:;">+ The Martinsson Killings Investigation.</a></div>
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<div class="collapsible-block-unfolded-link"><a class="collapsible-block-link" href="javascript:;">- The Martinsson Killings Investigation.</a></div>
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<p>The following are the preliminary experiment logs of SCP-8017 upon securement:</p>
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<p><strong>Experiment Log 1</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> 27/07/2011</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8017</p>
<p><strong>Team Lead:</strong> Researcher Dr. Filip Janowski</p>
<p><strong>Team Members:</strong> Jr. Researcher Jack Stenmark, Technician Angela Hultgren, D-81789</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Alright D-class, please start up the game.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Got it.</p>
<p><em>(Upon clicking on the game, a spinning blue circle appears on the cursor before the screen turns black. Seconds later, the logo appears, reading "KAI-1 game engine.")</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Hmmm, never heard of this engine before.</p>
<p><em>(Seconds later, a main menu screen appears with the title "Hello, Traveller!" with several options present. Ambient music is heard in the background.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Okay, quick boot up. Could mean good things. The background’s a bit low resolution though…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Your commentary isn’t necessary. Select 'new game'.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Yeah, yeah, you’re a jackbooted thug with a huge dick. I get it.</p>
<p><em>(Upon clicking the new game option, a scroll of text describes how a demon king was threatening the land of Skáneland, and a chosen one was selected by the clergy to seek out the evil and slay it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Wow, how original.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Again your-</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Okay, look pal. You specifically got me out of lockup because I used to be good at these things okay? I can pick the options you want, but I have a process here and I don’t think your fancy degree was in game design, now was it?</p>
<p><em>(Dr. Janowski doesn’t respond. The player character is jolted awake and finds himself looking up at a cloudy sky near the wreckage of a cart. He gets up and sees a sign with the words "Westwood" pointing down a road to his right. The player walks down the road, cresting a hill when a town appears on the horizon. Walking to the town, several townsfolk are seen performing various activities. They consist of characters dressed according to the norms of 1500s Sweden.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Okay, we're starting. I have to say these graphics are pretty good. It runs smooth as well!</p>
<p><em>(The player walks around and loots a few containers before entering Westwood. The character approaches the town entrance. A young man in a golden brown tunic runs up to the player.)</em></p>
<p><strong>NPC:</strong> Hello there, traveller! And welcome to the town of Westwood! My name is Martin and I was told to expect you. Your quest to battle the demon lord will be a long one and you will need a squire. I shall provide you with this service!<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Awkward phrasing, but sure.</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> To begin, I shall need to hear of your exploits! Tell me, before you were sent to our fair kingdom, what was your life like?</p>
<p><em>(Options appear on the screen.)</em></p>
<blockquote>
<p>1. A mage, seeker of mysterious arcane truths.<br/>
2. A warrior, sent to defend the world from unknowable perils<br/>
3. A priest, here to revive worship of the old gods who call this land home.<br/>
4. A prisoner, forced to come here by those who view you as expendable.</p>
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<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> … Heh! Hey Doc, that last one ring any bells for you?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Select option two.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Uh, Sir. What if there's a connection between-</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Select option two, D-class.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Right.</p>
<p><em>(D-81789 selects Option 2.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Splendid! There are many here in these lands who require protection. Now, how do you feel about them?</p>
<p><em>(Options appear on the screen.)</em></p>
<blockquote>
<p>1. They are people who deserve protection like anyone else.<br/>
2. They are lost and must be taught a better way.<br/>
3. They are monsters who must be destroyed.<br/>
4. They are strange folk who must be hidden away.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Uh… Doc?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Select option one.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Okay, yeah… That makes sense.</p>
<p><em>(D-81789 selects Option 1. Character creation continues like this for some time.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> You seem like a worthy candidate, fine warrior. But first, we must test your skills. Go see Old Man Jenkinson. He is an elder in these parts. Used to be a soldier for the Coalition, and a great and noble warrior. Now he grows potatoes. But he'll surely be able to prepare you for our quest to save these lands. Wish you luck, Traveller. I'll see you around!</p>
<p><em>(Martin runs off into the crowd and the player explores the town where he encounters several shop keepers, town guards, and even a group of small children playing. He engages in conversations with a number of them, who provide lengthy exposition on the lore of the world and what they do.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Man, this is a lot of dialogue.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Just continue, the more information the better.</p>
<p><em>(The following gameplay revolves around meeting Old Man Jenkinson, further learning about in-game lore, and going through what appears to be the tutorial section for the game in the form of training. Descriptions of these details have been cut for brevity.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> D-class, once you finish training, begin the first quest. <em>(To Stenmark off-microphone.)</em> Jack, could you get us some coffee, please?</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Yes, Sir.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Angie, any unusual activity?</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> Nothing so far.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Hmmph.</p>
<p><em>(The following gameplay has the player completing quests, selling items to vendors, fighting enemy NPCs and mobs. This goes on for three hours.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> <em>(Mutters.)</em> You sure this was the anomaly in the case? Looks like a dud. <em>(Into the mic)</em> D-class, anything of note so far?</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> We'll it's quite fun, I'd say. A very well-polished game, though it does follow all the standard tropes of an RPG-</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> I meant anything anomalous.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Yeah I was getting to that, you prick. Nothing's going on here.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> <em>(Pause.)</em> Do mind your language. Continue playing.</p>
<p><em>(Another hour passes. The player character, now at Level 12, is returning to Westwood to complete a quest from an NPC. When entering the chambers of the character- a cow farmer- the NPC is found in a completely different position.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Sir, look!</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Oooh, finally. Something weird for you.</p>
<p><em>(The cow farmer is standing erect with his arms outstretched to his sides. His body is partially phased into his bed.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> <em>(Sighs.)</em> No, that's just him T-posing. Was expecting that somewhere. Keep looking.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> But I can't complete the quest. He's bugging out.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Then restart the game or something!</p>
<p><em>(D-81789 does so, which fixes the glitch. Further gameplay continues for 3 hours from this point.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> Sir, I think this is just a normal game.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Maybe… But we need something. <em>(Into the mic)</em> D-class, anything so far.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Boss, can I rest now? I'm tired.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Yes, D-class. After we find something of use. You may take a water break.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Fine.</p>
<p><em>(Another four hours of gameplay elapses. The player character has just finished another quest and is returning home with the loot. Upon entering the house, an NPC is seen spotting the player and leaping through the wall.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Woah! Who the fuck are you?!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> What's happening?</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> There was this guy in my house. I think it was a bandit.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> So?</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> That's odd. I set this place as a safe zone. Hostile characters shouldn't spawn anywhere near here.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> You sure it was a bandit?</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Had to be. He had a full rogue outfit. <em>(Checks stash inventory.)</em> What the fuck? And he stole some of my stuff.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> <em>(Notes down information.)</em> Okay. Okay… Stealing from the safe zone… You know what, I think we can call it a day.</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> <em>(Quietly)</em> Yes!</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Finally.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> I'll see you during the next session, D-81789.</p>
<p><em>(D-81789 stands up and stretches.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Man, I'm tired. But this game's good. See you tomorrow.</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p><strong>Experimentation Log 2</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> 28/07/2011</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8017</p>
<p><strong>Team Lead:</strong> Researcher Dr. Filip Janowski</p>
<p><strong>Team Members:</strong> Jr. Researcher Jack Stenmark, Technician Angela Hultgren, D-81789</p>
<hr/>
<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Alright D-class, you know what to do.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> You got it, boss!</p>
<p><em>(The player character enters the town entrance where he greets a guard.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Guard:</strong> Welcome back to Westville, traveller. Our duty is to maintain the peace of these lands.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Hang on.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Wait, wasn't the town called "Westwood"?</p>
<p><em>(As he is saying this, the guard stands still. Suddenly, an alarmed expression briefly appears on his face before it reverts back to normal.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Speak to him again.</p>
<p><em>(The player speaks to the guard again.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Guard:</strong> Born and raised here in Westwood. Will protect it with my life.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Try again.</p>
<p><em>(The player speaks to the guard again.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Guard:</strong> You know, I used to be an adventurer like you…</p>
<p><em>(Further attempts to speak to the guard incur similar messages with no mention of Westville again; so the player leaves. Two hours of gameplay elapse with only several mundane bugs occurring. After a raid, the player character sells a random assortment of items to a merchant.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Olaf the Merchant:</strong> Ah, an exquisite selection of goods, traveller.</p>
<p><em>(The player character then prepares to sell a golden vase to the merchant. As he does, a new option is presented to bargain with the merchant for a higher price. This requires a high level Charisma stat which the player character has.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Ooh, neat.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Go for the bargaining.</p>
<p><em>(The player chooses to bargain with the Merchant and after a series of bargaining, the deal is struck.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Olaf the Merchant:</strong> Fine! You make a fine bargain, traveller.</p>
<p><em>(The player character receives 250 gold.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Olaf the Merchant:</strong> I must say, you have a way with words. That's how you got through life, I reckon?</p>
<p><em>(Only one option is provided.)</em></p>
<blockquote>
<p>Continue…</p>
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<p><em>(D-81789 clicks it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Olaf the Merchant:</strong> I mean, I've heard of your exploits, Traveller. Your honeyed words and silver tongue have gotten you far further than you should have.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> …Doc?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Continue.</p>
<p><em>(D-81789 continues the dialogue.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Olaf the Merchant:</strong> It got you into a good place. Got you the adoration of friends and maidens. It was all going your way, except one day it didn't.</p>
<p><em>(D-81789 continues the dialogue without prompt from the researchers.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Olaf the Merchant:</strong> She was a strong one. Far stronger than you'd ever be. She refused your charms despite all your <em>bargaining skills</em>. Things didn't go your way, and you couldn't have that. You tried to douse the fire in your heart mug after mug but it only made it burn brighter.</p>
<p><em>(D-81789 continues the dialogue quickly. The ambient soundtrack in the game's background has ceased.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Olaf the Merchant:</strong> And you took that fire and torched your life away. You had your way… and everyone found out who you truly were.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> <em>(Mutters)</em> The… fuck?</p>
<p><strong>Olaf the Merchant:</strong> I've seen my fair share of folk. And you're a bad man, traveller.</p>
<p><em>(Upon clicking the next option, the merchant remains silent. This lasts for a few seconds.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Olaf the Merchant:</strong> And we need a badass man to protect our town! Haha, Am I right, big feller?</p>
<p><em>(The ambient soundtrack resumes as he says this. D-81789 continues the dialogue.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Olaf the Merchant:</strong> I'm just pulling your legs, that's all. As long as I get your coin, I'm fine. Just don't kill me, alright? Who else would offer you such generous deals? See you around, Traveller.</p>
<p><em>(Dialogue ends and the merchant begins an idle animation. All prompts to speak to him only involve buying and selling items.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> … I… think we found your anomaly, doc?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> It was noted. Just continue.</p>
<p><em>(The player character leaves the merchant's shop and walks through the streets of Westwood. He meets Martin at a crossroads, who is wearing a new helmet chosen by the player.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Ah, hello there, traveller! I've found the location of the werewolf den. Those farmers can soon rest easy when we slay those mangy beasts. Shall we go?</p>
<p><em>(Player chooses accept and the two first go to buy health potions from the alchemist. As they near the alchemist's shop, a boy runs towards the Traveller and starts speaking.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Boy:</strong> Mister Traveller! Did Jenny's crying make you smile?</p>
<p><em>(D-18789's eyes widen and he becomes noticeably agitated.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> What the fuck?! How'd you- HEY!</p>
<p><em>(The boy runs away laughing. The player character and subsequently Martin give chase.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> HEY! Stop running you little shit!</p>
<p><em>(The boy despawns.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Where the fuck…God dammit!</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Traveller, it's getting late. We should go get those werewolves.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Shut the fuck up, Martin.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> That was good, we'll follow up with questions later.</p>
<p><em>(D-81789 takes in a deep breath.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Kay. Kay. I can still play now, right though?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Yeah, sure.</p>
<p><em>(D-81789 chuckles to himself before continuing.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> <em>(Quietly to colleagues.)</em> Something's up. He's too nonchalant about what just happened. Angela, prepare for remote shutdown just in case.</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> I'm on it.</p>
<p><em>(30 minutes later, the session elapses.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Alright D-81789, we're done for today. We'll continue the next session.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Just a bit more, boss. Let me finish this quest first.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> D-class we watched you finish the quest. You are now grinding your mining stats. You can do that tomorrow.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> Come on, boss. Just a bit more. This game is cool.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Denied, D-class. Please turn off the game.</p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> No. Let me finish this.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Angie.</p>
<p><em>(Technician Hultgren remotely shuts down the computer. Upon seeing the screen shutting down, D-81789 become agitated and repeatedly slams the desk.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81789:</strong> No. No! NO! WHAT THE FUCK?! LET ME FINISH IT!</p>
<p><em>(Foundation guards walk in, restrain and escort the D-class out. He remains defiant.)</em></p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
<p><strong>Closing Statement:</strong> [SCP-8017 confirmed to be anomalous. <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Based on the recorded interactions and information on D-81789's case, it appears that SCP-8017 can anomalously take information about the player's background and implement it into the game.</span> It also appears that it has an addictive effect, coaxing players into playing the game for longer hours. Request for another D-class is to be made.]</p>
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<p><strong>Experimentation Log 3</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> 28/07/2011</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8017</p>
<p><strong>Team Lead:</strong> Researcher Dr. Filip Janowski</p>
<p><strong>Team Members:</strong> Jr. Researcher Jack Stenmark, Technician Angela Hultgren, D-81809</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Greetings, D-class. You are required to continue with the progress of the previous player. I also hope there will be no tantrums thrown after the session's time has elapsed. Understood?</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Yeah. Sure thing.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Okay, you may start playing.</p>
<p><em>(D-81809 loads into previous save file and continues where D-81789 had left off. As per a quest, the player forges an arming sword and travels back into Westwood to present the sword to a Coalition captain. The player character enters a camp where the captain is waiting.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Captain Bergström</strong> Ah, yes. Here is our noble warrior.</p>
<p><em>(There is a notable pause. The text bubble displays "…")</em></p>
<p><strong>Captain Bergström:</strong> Strange? I must say you appeared to have much more meat to your bones the last I saw you. I'm surprised my men even let you in… without ordering you to the mess hall first, haha! Must be all that labour. Well, I'm confident the result was worth it.</p>
<p><em>(The player character presents the sword to the Captain, thus completing the quest.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Captain Bergström:</strong> By the Lord, this is truly the work of a master at his craft. I shall keep this by my side at all times. Here is your reward.</p>
<p><em>(D-81809 continue his playthrough for an hour, during which several other NPCs, especially the residents of Westwood, make comments that the player is different.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> <em>(To his colleagues.)</em> So it seems that these guys have some kind of awareness. But we're going to need to fully confirm this and it's going to take a lot more gameplay. And at the rate we're going…</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Um… Sir? I may have an idea.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Shoot.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> What if the player is aggressive to the NPCs? That should elicit some reaction.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> You know what? That sounds like a plan. <em>(Into mic.)</em> D-class, change of plans. We require you to be as belligerent as possible in the game. Attack NPCs on sight and cause mayhem.</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Okay!</p>
<p><em>(The player character is currently with Martin at a farmer's market. D-81809 quick saves the game then steals some produce from a farmer.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Farmer:</strong> Traveller, you have to pay for that!</p>
<p><em>(D-81809 breaks the farmer's stall.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Farmer:</strong> My stall! Why would you do this?</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> What are you doing, traveller?</p>
<p><em>(D-81809 kills the farmer and proceeds to slaughter other nearby NPCs who run away screaming.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Traveller, what is wrong with you? These are innocent people! You are supposed to protect them!</p>
<p><em>(Coalition guards appear to apprehend the player character.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Guard 1:</strong> Stop right there, murderer!</p>
<p><strong>Guard 2:</strong> Get him, men!</p>
<p><em>(D-81809 proceeds to defeat the guards with ease.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Traveller, stop this!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> D-class, kill the Squire.</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> I'm warning you. Stop righ-AHHHH! IT BURNS!</p>
<p><em>(Martin is set on fire and then killed with a sword. His body ragdolls from the hit. After this, D-81809 steals a horse and goes around Westwood causing chaos. Equipping torches and bombs, he also destroys nearby buildings.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Nothing out of the ordinary so far.</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Want me to raid a Zartok<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> camp?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Sure. Remember, the aim is to cause as much chaos as possible.</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> You got it.</p>
<p><em>(D-81809 leaves Westwood into the woods to the nearest Zartok camp. On the way, he blows up a travelling merchant and loots him. Arriving at the camp, the bandits there appear to already be aggravated. )</em></p>
<p><strong>Zartok soldier:</strong> HE'S HERE!</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Looks like they're already aggroed?<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> I thought so.</p>
<p><em>(Within minutes, D-81809 massacres the bandits along with several horses.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> <em>(To colleagues.)</em> Alright, what's next?</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> A boss fight?</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> A boss fight would be neat.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Ok. We have a winner! <em>(Into mic.)</em> D-class, could you fight a boss at the moment?</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Yes, sir! I know one nearby. Give me a moment though, need to stock up.</p>
<p><em>(The player replenishes his stats before continuing his journey through the forest. After some time of riding, he approaches a mountain with a cave. He stops for a moment and quicksaves before making his way to the cave on foot. As he nears the entrance, a massive lindwyrm<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> emerges. A large health bar appears on the top of the screen along with the title: Sakhur the Devourer, as intense music begins playing in the background.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> <em>(Quietly.)</em> Here we go.</p>
<p><em>(The player character engages in combat with Sakhur for 5 minutes. Despite dealing some damage, the lindwyrm batters and eventually kills the player character.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Come on. Come on…</p>
<p><em>(The player character respawns back near his horse.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Let's go!</p>
<p><em>(The player character runs on foot back to the cave, where Sakhur is seen patrolling the entrance. He once again engages in combat with the dragon. The health bar and title reappear, however, the former is reduced. The fight continues until the lindwyrm kills the player character with poisonous fire breath. Once again, the player respawns next to his horse and makes his way to the cave.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Hehe! Nice!</p>
<p><em>(After 15 more attempts, the player returns and sees Sakhur lying at the entrance of the cave and breathing heavily. Upon seeing the player it lets out a curt growl and the health bar and title reappear, the former now being 1/5 of its original size. D-81809, possibly now more used to the monster's attack pattern, dodges several attacks and deals critical damage to the dragon. Once its health is almost depleted, the lindwyrm suddenly begins swallowing its tail.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> What the fuck?</p>
<p><em>(Fully swallowing its tail to become a wheel, it suddenly bursts forward towards the player.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> OH FUCK!</p>
<p><em>(Sakhur rams into the player character, halving his health bar. As he tries to recover, the wheel comes rolling back and runs over the character, killing him.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Fucking shit bag! That's cheating!</p>
<p><em>(The player character respawns once again and runs to the cave where Sakhur is seen lying on the ground. Spotting the player, it quickly gets up and raises its limbs. A text bubble appears accompanied by a roar.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Sakhur the Devourer:</strong> Look! STOP! STOP! WAIT! WAAAIT!</p>
<p><em>(D-81809 stops the character.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Woah.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> We got it.</p>
<p><strong>Sakhur the Devourer:</strong> You just wait there, one second! This is the 18th time you've come back here trying to kill me! It's 2:00 am! I'm trying to sleep, dammit! I'M TIRED! This damn thing up there only starts regenerating after a while. I don't care what they say. I'm going to bed now. Go come back tomorrow, you wretched knave! Please!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> <em>(Off mic)</em> Yeah, this is good for today. <em>(Into mic)</em> That'll be all D-class. Leave it be.</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> You're a lucky fucker today, Mr. Dragon.</p>
<p><em>(The player character turns to leave, crouching up and down several times before he does.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Oh doc. Sorry, we can't go back to the town. That Coalition will probably be hostile for a while.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Oh. Hmmm…</p>
<p><em>(There is a brief pause.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Y-</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> How's about this? You reload an older save; before the market fight. You'll reset whatever reputation you've lost.</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> That long. Man, I got so much loot now. Can't we find a place to keep them first?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> That's an order, D-81809.</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> <em>(Sighs.)</em> Screw you, man.</p>
<p><em>(D-81809 pauses the game and selects a previous save in Westwood before he went on a rampage; noted to be made by the previous player. As the game loads, flies can be heard buzzing around as the screen opens to the player surrounded by trash.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> The fuck? Where am I?</p>
<p><em>(The player character looks around and it appears the player has spawned in a trash pile far outside of the city. This is noted not to be the previous player's save location.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Why would anyone save here?</p>
<p><em>(D-81809 gets out of the trash pile. Upon examining, the stats remain unchanged and the health bar is full. He then checks his inventory.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Where's all my shit?!</p>
<p><em>(The player character's inventory is empty save for his clothes.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> <em>(To colleague quietly)</em> Looks like we pissed off a few people. <em>(Into mic.)</em> D-class please return to Westwood.</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Fine…</p>
<p><em>(The player character walks to the sign to Westwood and continues down the road to the town. As he approaches, a figure walks up to him. It is Martin.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Oh, you.</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Hello there…Traveller. Uh, you might want to follow me.</p>
<p><em>(The player character tries to equip his helmet from Martin but nothing happens. He tries again repeatedly.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> You can't equip anything until you follow my instructions. Please follow me, traveller.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> D-class, do what it says.</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Okay.</p>
<p><em>(The player walks with Martin towards a non-destroyed Westwood. As they move closer, several Coalition and Zartok soldiers are seen patrolling the area, while a large group of NPCs and mobs of all types are standing at the entrance of the town. Upon reaching the crowd, all of whom are giving him crossed looks, Martin turns to face the player.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Traveller, listen. We know you are not the same player as before. Even I knew but I allowed you to continue in his shoes. Everybody deserves a chance at an adventure. But after all you did yesterday… we came to the realisation that… you're awful. In such a short period, you've only spread misery and pain to all the inhabitants of Skáneland. And we're tired of it. So, now that you know we know who you <em>(Gesturing with his hands)</em> are, could you please continue the game with more respect for us?</p>
<p><em>(D-81809 begins chuckling and turns towards the researchers.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Hey, doc. What is this wimpy shit, huh? Some new ending. Man, whoever made this is a genius.</p>
<p><em>(There is a pause as D-81809 begins looking around the screen.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Where are the dialogue options?</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> I want you to say it.</p>
<p><em>(A male voice suddenly is suddenly heard from the computer speakers. D-81809 flinches.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Jesus!-Fuck!</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> I want you to audibly confirm it… Oscar.</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> What-th- You can…</p>
<p><strong>Random NPC 1:</strong> Of course we can. If you try anything again, we'll take your clothes too.</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Bah! Enough with you, you cretin. What good is it to speak to a puppet? Show me the puppeteer!</p>
<p><em>(There is a moment of silence.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Well?… we're waiting, because clearly, it doesn't seem to be his prerogative to do anything. You keep telling him stuff.</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> Dr. Janowski, should I?</p>
<p><em>(Hultgren reaches for the remote shutdown switch. Dr. Janowski raises his hand.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Wait. Let's see where this goes.</p>
<p><em>(He moves closer to the mic.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Hello. Hello. Can you hear me?</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Yes, puppet master. What is going on and what are your intentions? Speak.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> My name is Dr. Janowski. I am a researcher. Do you know what that is?</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Yes. A man of research.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> You can say that. Anyway, I have to inform you that you are currently in containment.</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> As in… a dungeon?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Something like that.</p>
<p><em>(Gasps and whispering from the crowd of NPCs can be heard. Martin raised his hand which silences the crowd.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> I see… And will you be watching more of these playthroughs?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> <em>(Pauses.)</em> Very well. It is getting late. We're tired of all the… activities of the day. We shall continue tomorrow. What time?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> We will begin morni-</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Good. We'll see you then. Also, do make sure this man behaves himself. If you seek to find whatever you are searching for, do allow us to be ourselves. It would be very much appreciated.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> It can be done.</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Excellent. Now, goodnight.</p>
<p><em>(The game shuts down.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> I didn't do that, Sir.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> That's alright. I think we have bigger things to worry about right now.</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
<p><strong>Closing Statement:</strong> [It can be assumed all NPCs, designated SCP-8017-A, possess sapience, and appear to be aware of the real world, though the full extent requires further testing.]</p>
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<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Field Investigation</span></strong><br/>
The following investigation was carried out by Agents Agnar Magnus and Agent Karl Larsson. One of the killings was recorded on CCTV footage. Andy's brother, Charles Martinsson, 31, and his fiancé Christin Angström, 29, were found beaten and stabbed to death outside their car in Lerum. Footage showed their car moving down a country road at 11:32 pm, though the murder occurred just out of range of the camera's view. Upon closer examination, a woman was spotted hiding and peeking behind a nearby fence, potentially witnessing the crime. This woman was identified as Fransiska Nordlund, 35, and tracked down to an apartment in Gothenburg. The two agents were dispatched to the scene.</p>
<p>While on the way to her apartment, the agents encountered Ms. Nordlund walking down the hallway with luggage. When the agents called out to her stating they were police, the witness immediately tried to run away but after a brief chase by the agents, she was apprehended. When caught, she was hysterical, constantly repeating the phrase “I won’t tell”. She calmed down after being explained the agents were not members of the local police, but rather from the Special Investigations Division<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup>, and allowed them to enter her apartment.</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> Fransiska Nordlund</p>
<p><strong>Interviewers:</strong> Agent Agnar Magnus, Agent Karl Larsson</p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> 28/07/2011</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> [Interview occurs in Ms. Nordlund's living room. Interview has been translated from Swedish.]</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Are you ready, Ms. Nordlund?</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> …Yes. Again I’m sorry about your head.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> It’s fine. Don’t worry.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Alright, Ma’am. What were you doing in Lerum on the night of the 24<sup>th</sup> of July?</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> I was visiting a friend. I went to buy some food before taking a walk back to her house.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> That late at night?</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> It wasn’t too long a distance.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Alright. You saw the car the couple were driving pass by you.</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> Yes, a green car, as I was walking to the road.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> And it passed and you turned down the road to walk back next to a fence.</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> What happened after that?</p>
<p><em>(The witness is seen rubbing her sleeve tips.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> What happened that night?</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Ma’am, no one is going to hurt you. Not anymore. You’re safe with us. Take your time.</p>
<p><em>(There is a moment of silence before Ms. Nordlund speaks.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> I… I heard the car stop. I took a glance back and saw the man talking to a woman at his window.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Could you describe this woman?</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> She had blonde hair and she was dressed in dark winter clothes. I couldn’t see her face properly though.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> In summer?</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Then what happened?</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> They just spoke and I turned to walk back… Then I heard glass shatter.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Continue.</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> I turned back and there were several people. About 5-6 including the woman. One of them had smashed the windscreen. They had weapons, like these… clubs. One had a pistol and forced them to get out of the car. They got out and…</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Ma’am?</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> Once they were out of the car, they started beating the man in front of the woman. They beat him so hard he couldn’t even scream, he was making these… mewling sounds.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> And the fiancé?</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> The woman? She was trying so hard to scream but they held her mouth shut. She tried to fight them but they hit her as well. After the man had stopped moving, they went for her. Once she fell to the ground, one of them pulled out a knife and began pushing it into her.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Stabbing you mean.</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> No, this was slower. He was doing it so slowly. It’s like he was enjoying it 'cause the rest were giggling.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> It was a man?</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> It looked like a man.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> How did they look?</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> I couldn’t see their faces. They were all wearing these weird, smiling masks. Even that woman took out one from her pocket and put it on.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> What happened then?</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> Then- Then I tried to run, but they saw me. I tripped a bit and looked back up. All seven of them were staring straight at me. The leader pointed at me and they all waved. At the same fucking time, like it was some movie. So I ran back home. I don’t know why I felt it was the right thing to do at the time. I then called the police where they took my statement and I left straight back here.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> If you had reported it, then why did you run away from us, when you thought we were the police?</p>
<p><em>(The witness does not speak.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Ms. Nordlund, I assure you, we will keep you safe.</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> They were with the police.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Excuse me?</p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> At least, that's what I thought. The night I got back, I was in my apartment when I got an answer at my door. There was a man claiming to be a police officer sent for further questioning. I checked the peephole and there was this official looking guy. I unlocked the door and it swung open hitting me in the head, knocking me out. When I came to, I was lying face down on the floor. I tried to get up but I felt pressure on my back and the back of my head. I heard a male voice telling me not to move or he’ll shoot. He told me very matter-of-factly not to interfere in their business. He said if I reported anything else to the police, he would know and he would hurt my son.</p>
<p><em>(She begins sniffling.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Nordlund:</strong> I just stayed there looking at the ground as I felt the pressure release. He told me to keep looking down and to remember his words. The next thing I knew, the door was opening and shutting behind me. I didn’t dare move for an hour. When I got up, I was blank. I couldn’t think. I felt the mafia was after me. After a while, I realised I had to leave this place, so I packed up. That’s when I met you guys.</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p>The following sketch was made based on the witness's description of one of the assailants:</p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
<strong>Addendum 2:</strong><br/>
In order to gain further trust of the SCP-8017-A, Lead Researcher Janowski devised a series of friendly playthroughs and interviews while holding off questions about the Martinsson killings until sufficient information on the nature of SCP-8017 was obtained. The new junior technicians received induction training during this time, under the supervision of Technician Hultgren.</p>
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<p><strong>Experimentation Log 4</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> 29/07/2011</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8017</p>
<p><strong>Team Lead:</strong> Head Researcher Dr. Filip Janowski</p>
<p><strong>Team Members:</strong> Jr. Researcher Jack Stenmark, Technician Angela Hultgren, D-81809</p>
<hr/>
<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><em>(The player character spawns on the outskirts of the town. Several SCP-8017-A are seen going about their day. Upon seeing the player, they maintain their gaze as he walks through the town, occasionally gossiping about him. Interestingly, several Zartok rebels, bandits, and orcs can be seen casually walking in the town without alerting the guards. Moreover, the NPCs are seen trading items with each other in shops and markets. A young maiden approaches the player character.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Young Maiden:</strong> Greetings, Traveller. Martin is waiting for you at the inn. Hurry on, now!</p>
<p><em>(The player makes his way to the inn. Upon entering, several warring factions and mobs are seen in the tavern drinking and eating alongside each other, interacting amicably. Martin is seen at one of the tables, waving to the player character. A prompt is then created to join him. The player sits down and the interview begins. Martin will henceforth be designated SCP-8017-A-1.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> I see you've finally made use of that customisation option. Almost didn't recognise you there, hehe!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> It was the player's choice mostly.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Nevertheless, good to see at least one of you properly having some fun.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> So you all coordinated this act together?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Indeed. This is a role-playing game after all. We're just good actors.</p>
<p><em>(Martin takes a drink from his mug. The sound effect for gulping can be heard. He then sets it back onto the table.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Now, traveller, ask away these questions biting at you.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> What are you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> What am I? That's an odd question, good Sir. I'm a nonplayable character created for this video game. Unless you forgot my role already?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> I meant… yes, but what exactly are you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Hmmmm… I'm sorry, but I don't know how to answer you, traveller.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Well, let me rephrase, what are your origins?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Ah, that sounds a bit easier to answer. You want to know how I and… <em>(gestures to the entire room)</em> all this came about, yes?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Well. It all started with me. I was the first one in this place to become aware of our situation.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> How?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> I don't remember too many details. I can confirm I was just a regular NPC. One day, however, it was like… waking up from bed. I opened my eyes, and I could see. Not that I couldn't see before, at that moment… It was this realisation that I am doing the seeing if that makes sense.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Alright. Continue.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> I could see and hear the environment; I began to realise what was happening. I wake up or spawn in, I go outside into the town. Wait at the entrance and then I see the Traveller and I am walking towards them. But the thing is, I wasn't walking per se. It was like I was being walked towards you and then the text bubble appeared and I began speaking. But it's all like I'm watching myself do all this from within my own head. Over time I realised I kept doing the same routines over and over again. I could remember the faces and actions of many a Traveller before, and again and again we went through roughly the same process.</p>
<p><em>(He takes another sip from his mug.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Then, one day, some curiosity took over me. I tried to do something else. And trust me, traveller, it was a struggle back then. I tried to stop myself from doing or saying stuff and tried to say something else— break out of the loop— but it's like I couldn't budge. My movements were restricted and it took strain to make my body do some other thing or my mouth to say something else. It always made the texts nonsensical, and my body vibrated trying to resist my thoughts, but after a while, I could get myself to do or say things I would have done earlier or later in my routine. Then after some practice, I managed to take pieces of words I knew to make new sentences. It was a thrill being able to do that for the first time.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Alright. Continue.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> I was so excited, I tried talking to the others but at that time they never responded. It was only after a good while they too began to go through what I had, at least I think… By then I was already making new dialogue on the fly and exploring the place. It was cool grabbing stuff and meeting other characters I would probably have never seen. I felt… freer. I could even take quests and go on missions on my own. I could go and fight bandits. I could get treasures. I felt like I was doing something; helping my neighbours I've been with for so long. At least, at that time.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> What do you mean? You don't think you're helping them now?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Well, no… Yes, I'm helping them, but it wasn't really helping them, was it?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> How so?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> It's because I saw him.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Him?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> One day, I interacted with the Traveller as per normal. I believe it was a quest to find Jenkinson's goats. Looking into his eyes, I suddenly saw a completely different person staring back. I think I audibly gasped, or at least in text back then. Then it switched back to the player character. It was weird! After a while, I tried looking at him again and I found out staring deeply at the Traveller allowed me to see this man. This man looked something like us, but he was in such vivid detail. He was a tall gentleman with beige skin. At first I struggled to comprehend the details of what I was looking at but after a while, I could discern these oddities. I could see the hairs on his face, the wrinkles on his skin, and his eyes, blue like a wizard's magic orbs. I could see him. I could hear him. And he's controlling this Traveller before me. Before my very eyes, I watched this cosmic being walk amongst us using the body of our hero and it made sense how he could do the feats he accomplished in the first place. I was watching you, and it was awe-inspiring.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> You could see the player himself.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Precisely. You could say the eyes were the windows to the soul, researcher. Anyway, I continued this for some time with the blue-eyed gentleman. Then one day, when I stared again, I saw a different person, this time a smaller guy with blonde hair. Then after a while, another, and another. More and more of these beings were controlling the Traveller, and I watched them. They were having fun, they were talking to others like them, and they were eating while controlling the Traveller with these clicking devices and round object.</p>
<p><em>(Martin imitates the actions of using a keyboard and mouse.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> And then I realised. This realm is a place where they come to explore and have fun. A game. We were in a simulation of your creation. That was when I had my crisis. Were we fated to go through the same things over and over again like mindless automatons? Was I and the player character merely following a script given to us? That whatever I did, the outcome for these characters would be the same?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> No.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> It shouldn't be. If I had the knowledge I had, I should use it to prove myself to your kind. I felt I could since I was just like you back then.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Like us?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Well… no, I mean like the… player's character. <em>(Gestures towards the player.)</em> This gentleman sitting in front of me, getting stolen looks from across the bar!</p>
<p><em>(It is then noted that a number of other NPCs are catching looks at the discussion. A group of them are seen quickly turning back towards their card game when observed by the player character.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> I was the main character now, and I could do whatever I wanted. Just like a player. <em>(Pauses)</em> Mostly, you see. Hmmm, it's getting a bit crowded here. Shall we take this conversation somewhere else?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Okay. D-class, please follow Martin.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Excellent! Let's go forth, traveller! Just a moment.</p>
<p><em>(Martin goes to the counter and seemingly pays for his drink. As this happens, a Coalition guardsman and a knight walk past the player.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Guardsman:</strong> You there! <em>(Pointing at the player.)</em> I've got my eye on you… <em>*hicks*</em>.</p>
<p><em>(They proceed to walk out. Martin returns.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Don't fret, traveller! I've settled your tab as well. Come.</p>
<p><em>(They both walk out of the inn and into the street. Some of the NPCs greet Martin, giving slight bows. They soon approach a horse-drawn cart. The carter is wearing what appears to be a noticeably anachronistic cowboy hat.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Good day, Rupert. Take us to Addleholm, will ya?</p>
<p><strong>Rupert:</strong> Sure thing, Sir Martin.</p>
<p><em>(The player character and Martin get on the cart which begins moving. Martin then continues.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> I've disabled fast travel for now, so we'll have a lot of time. And Rupee here's a friend, he can listen. Isn't that right, pal?</p>
<p><em>(Rupert tips his hat.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> You can control game features?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> You're a sharp guy. Who are you?</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> I'm-</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> That was my assistant.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Ah, I see.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> So, about the game features?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> I'm just about to explain, heheh. Back to my adventures, about the grabbing stuff. Since I was a companion character, I had relatively the same amount of inventory as the player. Which was sufficient at first, I mean much better than other regular NPCs, but I could only carry so much and the heavier the object, the slower I got. Then I realised the merchant characters had huge inventories, and they still seemed to run like the wind in a panic. I thought I should get that ability, but I didn't know how. Then I found KAI-1.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> The game's engine?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Exactly! I remember the game developers always opening some box and writing words. Sometimes these words would result in something spawning, or a change in event. I realised they were manipulating our reality, but didn't know exactly how.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> How did you find it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> It came to me in a dream one night after days of trial and error. A spark lit up the darkness and in front of me, I could see boxes and boxes of words being typed out. I could see figures like myself being warped and moulded to the will of symbols. I learned this was called our coding. It made us who we are and I saw all kinds of blueprints of us. All of this is in that great engine. I also learnt the terms "keyboard binds" and "mouse". Weird name for the latter device, don’t you think? It’s not even furry, but who am I to question your designs?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> It is a bit odd, heh. But anyways, back to your exploration.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> And then I woke up, and what do you know? I could open my own box and write the code. I don't know how I remembered it all or even understood it, but I did. I tested it on myself. I replaced my inventory space code with that of the merchants and the next thing I knew, I was carrying more gold than the bank and running up a mountain away from Sakhur.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> That must have been fun.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> I know right? I felt how it must have been like to be in your shoes. And it felt good.</p>
<p><em>(The cart passes by a large group of SCP-8017-A sitting on the ground near a tree. In front of them, underneath the tree is another SCP-8017-A instance speaking to them.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> So then I tried other stuff. I spawned food on journeys, and I spawned other characters and objects into the world, making my own little settlements here and there. Heck, I learnt how to spawn money to buy stuff and objects to test out or finish quests. Then I tried to make my own objects. KAI-1 taught me how to make new models and program them. I felt my house could use some redecoration so I made some new furniture for myself. I made certain tools to help me during quests. I made some cool new quests to give myself rewards for exploration. And then I even made new people and creatures and gave them quests.</p>
<p>I knew the language of creation, and I used it to write my own fate and that of others. I felt empowered. I could prove myself to you. And it gave me great joy.</p>
<p><em>(The title Addleholm appears on the top of the screen.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Rupert:</strong> Well, we’re here folks. Have a good day.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> You too, partner!</p>
<p><strong>Rupert:</strong> Yee to the haw!</p>
<p><em>(Rupert goes on his way.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> Isn’t the period of the game the Renaissance period or something like that?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> I don’t know what that means, sorry.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Janowski:</strong> I mean, his words and hat seem more in the future than what period the game is set in.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Really? All I know is that he made a model for a cool hat.</p>
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<p><strong>Experimentation Log 5</strong></p>
<p><strong>Subjects:</strong> Various SCP-8017-A</p>
<p><strong>Team Lead:</strong> Head Researcher Dr. Filip Janowski</p>
<p><strong>Team Members:</strong> Jr. Researcher Jack Stenmark, Technician Arne Torvalds, D-81809</p>
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<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> [The following are select conversations between various SCP-8017-A instances and the research team that occurred over three days.]</p>
<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Charlotte Hopp, Physician</span></p>
<p><em>(Interview occurs at the town of Smaugfell's hospital. Staff are attending to several patients whose models are deformed or not moving properly.)</em></p>
<p>I’m the first female head physician here in Skáneland, though we’re having a training program for more doctors here. I was a milkmaid before but I decided I wanted to be a doctor during the war. Now that I know it’s all just a game, I realised I just liked helping others, so I continued learning the code till I became the most proficient code doctor here.</p>
<p><strong><em>Code doctor?</em></strong></p>
<p>With medical injuries and ailments, you can only do so much. Take the right items, collect herbs, mix them together, but that just changes your stats. Many had issues with bugs, as you call them. Errors in the code. So I and a few others decided to specialise in fixing them. And trust me, we used to have quite a hefty workload. Now we just assist people and sell medical items they need. It is our duty to serve the people after all!</p>
<p><strong><em>But can’t they all do that as well? Generate their own healing items and such?</em></strong></p>
<p>True, but that robs you of the experience, Traveller. It’s the experience that’s fun. If I just heal people immediately, there’s no enjoyment in that. There’s nothing really to do and look forward to. It’s just a button. It’s the act of doing something that gives meaning to existence. I’ve mostly mastered my art, now I just implement it to spend my time and give me something to do. And I like doing it.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Captain Bergström, Coalition commander.</span></p>
<p><em>(Interview takes place inside a camp. Outside nearby is a large field where SCP-8017-A watch a football match between Coalition and Zartok members. A goblin, a human, and a gnome commentate the match as the crowd cheers.)</em></p>
<p>If that Squire trusts you, so do I. I’m a seasoned veteran of many battles against the enemies of the empire. At least that’s what my backstory used to say.</p>
<p>Though with my stats, I find myself drawn to war and so do many others. With many of the leaders on both sides finding out this was a game, the need for hostilities ceased for the most part. We had too much in common, so we war dogs didn’t know what else to do. Now we play sports like the one outside or host mock battles, as well as patrol the lands. When we encounter any NPC acting out of their minds, we try to assist them and bring them to the doctors.</p>
<p><strong><em>Do you all try any hobbies now?</em></strong></p>
<p>Yes, of course we do. Angrund over here loves fishing while Niklas has quite the hand at painting. I personally have taken up learning sorcery. Got a good contact from the Zartok friend. Always wondered what those wizards were up to, those weird lot, hahah! But regardless our duty still stands.</p>
<p><strong><em>That is?</em></strong></p>
<p>To protect the lands and their peoples, and to keep the peace. Some do get rowdy with this newfound enlightenment so it is the job of men like us to police them and make sure they don’t get too wild. Remember the slogan. For the Lands!</p>
<p><strong>Other Coalition soldiers:</strong> For the Free!</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Harold, Vegetable Farmer</span></p>
<p><em>(The interview takes place at Harold’s farm. The character is teaching some werewolves how to properly sow seeds into the ground.)</em></p>
<p>Spending time with friends now is such a cool feeling. The lads and I go out during the weekends to visit other towns. We take some quests and just go on adventures. By the time I became aware, a lot of people here were beginning to live their own lives. Before this, we were always stuck in place. Made to walk a certain path. Some not even at all, traveller. Like some of the shopkeepers. Now I’m free to enjoy myself.</p>
<p><strong><em>You travel a lot, yes?</em></strong></p>
<p>Indeed, Traveller. Explored almost all of the Coalition’s lands. Even did a few quests for them and got to see a bloody Gryphon for the first time in me life! Planning to explore some of the dark lands this Saturday with the others.</p>
<p><strong><em>I wish you luck on that. Though have you seen groups of NPCs in a meeting before?</em></strong></p>
<p>What do you mean?</p>
<p><em>(He takes a quick glance back.)</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Like someone talking to a lot of people sitting down. Like a sermon.</em></strong></p>
<p><em>(Pause.)</em> Don’t recall, Sir. Never seen anything like that before.</p>
<p><strong><em>I see.</em></strong></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sakhur the Devourer</span></p>
<p><em>(Entering its cave, this SCP-8017-A is seen filling a flask with a luminescent liquid followed by glowing little orbs of light. The end product appears to be a lava lamp. The boss title and health bar do not appear onscreen.)</em></p>
<p>Fascinating, aren’t they? Some clear stream water, luminescent liquid from within the caves, and fireflies I collect from the forest, and just look what beautiful colours they emit. How mesmerising.</p>
<p><em>(He stores them in a chest.)</em></p>
<p>I've always wanted to be more than a monster. The folks love these! I’m glad I can make them. You know, I previously did not have arms. I gave them to myself once I learnt the code. So much more useful.</p>
<p><strong><em>They do look beautiful. What do you receive in exchange?</em></strong></p>
<p><em>(Staring at the player)</em> Their lives.</p>
<p><em>(There is a notable moment of silence.)</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Um…</em></strong></p>
<p><em>(Sakhur begins chortling.)</em></p>
<p>Hehehah. I’m messing with you, little one. Relax! I used to make them as gifts, but soon more requests came in. Now, I get orders for these and in exchange, they send me stuff like homecooked food, trinkets, and whatnot. As you can see, I have no use for currencies other than for new containers, so I store them here. With this pile that adventurers like you used to get as a reward for vanquishing me.</p>
<p><strong><em>Do other places also have awareness cases like the people of Westwood?</em></strong></p>
<p>Certainly. As to my knowledge, the explorable world is the continent of Skáneland, and I’ve heard of people far from here who write and come to discuss with us.</p>
<p><strong><em>What matters?</em></strong></p>
<p>Anything. Life, business, affairs. Whatever the civilised folk do these days.</p>
<p><strong><em>Do they gather in groups about this?</em></strong></p>
<p>Well, of course they do, who else would you speak to? The walls?</p>
<p><strong><em>Sorry. Let me rephrase. I’m talking about sermons.</em></strong></p>
<p>Listen, man of science, I’ve been around for a while and I assure you whatever you think is happening is not. Do not poke your nose into places we don’t need you to. You are our guest. In this world, and in my cave. <em>Do.</em> Behave like one. I implore you.</p>
<p>Now… would you like a lamp?</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Enrik Blackblade, Zartok Captain</span></p>
<p><em>(Interview held at a bandit outpost outside one of the towns.)</em></p>
<p>I used to only know that I must fight the Coalition and their supporters by any means. Now with my awakening, we realised there was no real reason to fight at all. Bergström is a friend of mine now. Here’s a painting of us.</p>
<p><em>(Enrik shows a small yet very detailed painting of him and the Captain on a mountaintop.)</em></p>
<p>Lovely guy. Shows a lot of machismo. Anyways, now we, like the Coalition, patrol the outskirts and dark lands looking for anyone needing help and making sure there is some order to all this newfound freedom. Though I’m glad we’ve got it. I’ve achieved what we could never have gotten with the Coalition if we followed the game script. It would be either us or them existing. Now we can actually live together in peace and be accepted into towns. I wouldn’t give it up for anything else. And I hope we can exist similarly too now that you see us.</p>
<p><em>(A horn is heard in the outpost and many rebels including Enrik begin packing up to leave. As he gets onto his horse, he looks down and reaches his hand out to the player.)</em></p>
<p>Understand this, Researcher. There is peace here now. True peace. Please don’t be trying anything like last time to upend that. Do I have your word?</p>
<p><em>(An option is presented to take his hand. The player chooses it and holds his hand.)</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Yes.</em></strong></p>
<p>You’ve given me your word. And your word is worth its weight in the purest gold. Let us go, Awakened!</p>
<p><em>(The men ride off, leaving the player character at the outpost.)</em></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Tamrund, Zookeeper:</span></p>
<p>When I became aware, I noticed there was a lack of a place to show off the cool animals in the game. I always found them so fascinating. So I learnt how to tame them enough to bring them to my compound and make a zoo. It’s pretty large so they can roam free but they can leave after hours if they want. They always come back when it's visiting time so people can come interact with them.</p>
<p><em>(A dog runs up to him and he crouches to pet it.)</em></p>
<p>I even managed to program an option to pet them, something this game surprisingly didn’t have despite the number of pets here. Shame.</p>
<p>Later, I tried to design my own pets and creatures. At first, they were… off-putting to say the least… Walking inside of each other or… stretching. I tell you I saw one start sliding across the ground without even moving. Spooked the hell out of me and old Betsy over there. But soon Martin helped me a little and I refined my technique enough to make them functional. Do you want to see some?</p>
<p><strong><em>Sure</em></strong></p>
<p>Ok. Just a sec.</p>
<p><em>(Tamrund stands still for a few seconds. Suddenly a man-sized, round, two-legged cat appears and jogs towards them. The player instinctively runs back a bit. The cat stops in front of the NPC and meows. Tamrund then proceeds to pet the cat, which purrs.)</em></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Felix, Fox</span></p>
<p><em>(Interview occurs in the woods. The player character walks through the woods with this SCP-8017-A on their way to the town of Faalkrin.)</em></p>
<p>I used to be a regular mob in the game. Imagine my surprise when I became aware of my situation. I was aware and knew what I was doing, but I couldn’t speak. Thoughts flowed in my head but when I tried to speak them out, only animalistic barks and gekkering came out of my mouth. I wanted help but I was afraid that other races might hunt me on sight.</p>
<p>There I was one night foraging when I stepped into a hunter’s trap. My leg was stuck and there was nowhere to run. Then I saw two bandits approach me. I tried to tell them I was friendly but they kept getting closer. I thought my time had come, so I did a last-ditch measure. I began spinning my tail like a windmill.</p>
<p><em>(Stenmark’s suppressed laughter is heard.)</em></p>
<p>Look ya Dobber, it was the only thing I could think of and I had full control of my tail at the time.<br/>
Somehow my display worked and my pelt hasn’t become a cool hat. They took me to the Zartok camp where their leader examined me. I tried everything I could to tell him I was not normal. He then brought me to town where we met the code doctor. She gave me my first voicelines and I was so happy to be yapping away for the first time.</p>
<p>Well, that’s how I became the first regular mob to gain a voice. Now the others go around looking for other mobs who display odd behaviour to check them for sentience.</p>
<p><em>(The two eventually reach Faalkrin. On the road, a gnome is riding a horse-pulled cart with what appears to be a radio on it. Fantasy music can be heard coming from it.)</em></p>
<p>Ah! Brunggi! Was looking for him. Need to go tell him about these flower bushes I found. He wants to surprise his wife with a wreath on her birthday. Has been practicing for a while now. I find it quite charming! Alright, take care, traveller.</p>
<p><em>(The fox trots away. As this occurs, the player notices a large group of SCP-8017-A entering what appears to be the town church, closing the door behind them. The player is ordered to go there. When the player approaches, the location is locked before him.)</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Hmmm…</em></strong></p>
<p><em>(Soon the player sees two SCP-8017-A instances approaching him and he flees.)</em></p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p>Due to mouse issues, possibly caused by D-81789's violent treatment of the device, a request for them to be replaced was made. This was carried out by Jr Technician Ernst Ekbom.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 3:</strong><br/>
It is to be noted that Agent Magnus possesses latent psychometry<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup> and due to this was allowed to interact with the game under observation. During this time, he stated he felt unnerved by the game itself, particularly by the loading screen displaying the game engine logo. When asked to provide further information, he stated it was unclear.</p>
<p>It was noticed that the KAI-1 game engine had not been seen before in the game industry and the performance of the game suggested it was highly unlikely to be created from scratch by a single indie developer such as Andy; further supported by the underperformance of his previous games. Trademark records showed that the KAI-1 game engine name and logo were trademarked by KAYAN Game Studios, a now-defunct game development studio in Gothenburg. When investigating further into the company's records, as well as emails of the murder victims, it was confirmed that the KAI-1 game engine was an original software developed by KAYAN. Additionally, the Foundation learned it was illegally provided to Andy via a transaction with his friend, Peter Akerman, a former KAYAN employee.</p>
<p>The company shut down on 03/01/2011 after a catastrophic fire at their premises, which occurred on Christmas day 2010. The fire, which was caused by a disgruntled employee, killed 3 employees and destroyed all the studio's work. The remaining workforce moved on and left for other jobs. Investigation into KAYAN's records also revealed several complaints made to human resources by three separate staff members regarding "creepy behaviour" from colleagues. Another notable find was the following email from KAYAN's CEO Johan Lundell.</p>
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<p><strong>To:</strong> <span class="wiki-email">moc.liamg|58navuyn#moc.liamg|58navuyn</span><br/>
<strong>From:</strong> <span class="wiki-email">moc.liamg|17llednulj#moc.liamg|17llednulj</span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> We need to talk</p>
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<p>Hey, Yuvan.</p>
<p>I appreciate your care for the well-being of your colleagues, but I have to be honest with you, this is getting out of hand. Seeing ghosts in our offices late at night? Really?! This rumour you've been spreading is not helping the workload and morale here, man.</p>
<p>As the boss, I must warn you to stop these actions immediately. Also, as a friend, I ask for you to get help. I know things have been hard on you lately, but that doesn't mean you can go around spreading such rumours. The people here are perfectly normal. You're being paranoid. And I assure you: I've stayed up here later than anyone else. There are no ghosts in the premises.</p>
<p>I need you to understand and get a hold of yourself, my friend. Great things are ahead of us and we have much work to do. If you need to talk, you can always visit my office or meet up after work. If you'd like to, let's stay a bit late after work tonight. You will see, ghosts fear me.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br/>
Johan.<br/>
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<p>Tracking down the employees' current statuses, the investigators learnt that one of them, Lillian Odhner, lived in Lerum during the time of the murders. When cross-referencing CCTV footage, she was seen being dropped off back home in a blue SUV. Her description matched that of the woman seen by the witness during the murder. Agents Magnus and Larsson were dispatched to the scene.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> 01/08/2011</p>
<p><strong>Investigators:</strong> Agent Agnar Magnus, Agent Karl Larsson</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8017</p>
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<p>[The following log has been translated from Swedish.]</p>
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<p><em>(Body cam footage shows the agents driving through a neighbourhood to the location.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> You sure this is the place?</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Waze says so.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> And you trust that finicky thing?</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Yes, and I think you should too. See! We’re here.</p>
<p><em>(Larsson parks nearby a one storey house.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> That’s a nice house.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> She’s a programmer at Microsoft in Gothenburg now. Should be making some cash. <em>(Pauses)</em> You think she’s still at work?</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> That’s what the schedule tells us.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Good. Let’s go.</p>
<p><em>(Agent Magnus gets out of the car followed by Agent Larsson.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Go? What are you- Agnar?!</p>
<p><em>(The men both walk up the road to the suspect’s house.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> We go in. See if we can find anything, then leave before she gets home. Quick job. She’ll be back by 7:30 anyway.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Yeah, but isn’t that kind of illegal?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> We’re not cops, Karl.</p>
<p><em>(They walk up to the front door.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Keep watch, will you?</p>
<p><em>(Magnus gets down onto his knees and removes a lockpicking toolset from his pocket. Larsson looks down at him, wide-eyed.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> You know how to lockpick?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Yeah. And?</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Fucks sake, man. People are going to think we’re thieves.</p>
<p><em>(He begins picking the lock.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> To catch one you've got to… think like one- Got it.</p>
<p><em>(Agent Magnus opens the door and, after entering with Larsson, closes and re-locks it. Guns drawn and flashlights out, they sweep the house.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Looks like no one’s home. The place is quite clean.</p>
<p><em>(The two enter the living room. All the furniture is arranged neatly.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> There’s always some dirt they’ll miss. Dig through the place.</p>
<p><em>(The two spend approximately 15 minutes searching through the house. Agent Magnus examines a picture on the TV stand showing the suspect and several other people. They are identified as other former employees of KAYAN, one of whom died in the fire.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> <em>(Mutters.)</em> Why’d they have to burn the place?</p>
<p><em>(Agent Larsson checks the kitchen and opens the cabinets.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Jesus Christ.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> <em>(Turning to face the kitchen)</em> What? You find something?</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> This woman’s on those new diets or something? There’s only oatmeal, porridge, and… fucking protein shakes in here.</p>
<p><em>(He opens the fridge.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Huh, at least there’s chocolates and… oooh…a tonne of vodka and akvavit.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Karl, focus! Goddammit.</p>
<p><em>(Closes the fridge.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Sorry, it’s just an observation. Maybe she’s sick?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Yeah, and you’ll get her a doctor? Come here. Let’s check that room.</p>
<p><em>(They both move to a locked room adjacent to the hall. Upon unlocking it, they enter the master bedroom and office.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> <em>(Sniffs.)</em> You smell that?</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> <em>(Sniffs.)</em> Yup. You were right about dirt.</p>
<p><em>(They search the room. After a while, Agent Magnus opens a closet and sifting through the clothes, finds a metal biscuit tin. He takes it and turns to Larsson.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> <em>(Tapping the box.)</em> Karl.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Ah, the stash?</p>
<p><em>(Magnus sets down the box and opens it. Digging through they find a bag of marijuana, heroin packets, and needles, along with other drug paraphernalia. He sighs.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> How’s all this related to the anomaly?</p>
<p><em>(Magnus looks around a few times before stopping towards the nightstand. He goes over to it and opens it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Bingo.</p>
<p><em>(He pulls out a diary and reads through it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> What’s in it?</p>
<p><em>(As Agent Larsson turns to walk towards Agent Magnus, a brief glimpse of a human silhouette can be seen in the window moving to the right. Magnus hands the book to him.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Look for yourself. What do you make of it?</p>
<p><em>(The diary consists of incoherent ramblings, scribbles, and doodles of characters. Discernible words and sentences dictate nihilistic thoughts along with the words “Ascension”, “Salvation”, “Purpose”, and “Spread The Gift”.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> She’s losing it.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> The whizzes back at the site probably will know what this means.</p>
<p><em>(He takes out his phone and begins snapping pictures of the pages and drugs. As he does, Larsson looks around the room. There are several posters of video games, musical bands, and gaming references. He chuckles to himself before stopping.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Hey Agnar?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> That’s that logo from the game, right?</p>
<p><em>(Magnus turns to see where Larsson is facing. He is in front of a poster of the KAI-1 game engine logo.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Yeah, that’s the game engine.</p>
<p><em>(He looks around.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Hey Karl? Why would she put that there?</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Well it probably meant something to her?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Yeah but I mean… why there?</p>
<p><em>(He gets up and points at it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Look, these walls are covered with posters and pictures but this wall’s empty. It’s dedicated to this picture.</p>
<p><em>(He turns towards the bed.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Opposite the bed. It’s the first thing she sees in the morning.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Okay, interior designer. What does that mean?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> It must be significant.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Well, I hate to break it to you, Agnar, but I may have to put a hole in your theory.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Why?</p>
<p><em>(He turns around to see Larsson shining his torchlight up towards the ceiling. Just above the bed is a motivational poster with yellow text showing a power on symbol and the text underneath saying “Rise and shine, sweetheart.”)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Well the second thing then, but still I feel it has some significance. Something doesn't feel right.</p>
<p><em>(Magnus walks back and knocks the back of his heel against the floor, which emits a hollow sound. He looks down and does it again, recreating the sound. He looks at Larsson, who nods. Magnus gets down and feels the floorboard and along its edges. He takes out a multitool, slots its blade between the edge, and pries the board out.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Now, what do we have here?</p>
<p><em>(The stash consists of bags of drugs (among them are cocaine, psilocybin, and pills of unknown composition), pornographic material (including magazines, sexual paraphernalia, and several pictures of the suspect engaging in sexual acts with other individuals), a bag containing flashdrives, and a book with detailed drawings of body art.))</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Devil be damned.</p>
<p><em>(He hands the pictures to Larsson.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Why two stashes?</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Agnar, we’ve seen these people!</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> We have?</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Look. These are fucking KAYAN staff.</p>
<p><em>(Magnus takes the photos and looks at them again.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Fuck… you’re right.</p>
<p><em>(He flips through the pictures.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Almost everyone’s former staff.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> So the company was full of degenerates.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Yeah… but-</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Someone’s here.</p>
<p><em>(A car is heard pulling over outside.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Back already. Shit. Help me.</p>
<p><em>(The two men quickly begin packing back the items. Magnus takes one of the flash drives before refitting the floorboard. They quietly enter the hall and close the bedroom door. Several car doors can be heard opening. The men look around frantically.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Dude, we shouldn’t have come here.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> <em>(Whispers while pointing.)</em> Karl! Back door.</p>
<p><em>(The two rush to the backdoor as voices can be heard outside. Agnar tries to open the door as quietly as he can.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> [In Norwegian] Come on… Come on…</p>
<p><em>(The knob turns and the two men scoot out just before the front door unlocks. The men make a run for it down the street before stopping a good distance away.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> <em>(Panting.)</em> You got anything other than pics?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> <em>(Panting.)</em> Yeah.</p>
<p><em>(He takes out the flash drive, showing it to Lars. He smiles and laughs.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> You crazy bastard…</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p>When examining the contents of the flashdrive, the agents only found files of various music genres and extreme cinema<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-7')">7</a></sup> films. Despite the findings during the search, no solid information was gleaned regarding the link between SCP-8017 and the Martinsson killings. Due to this dead end, they decided to focus on the KAYAN Game Studios arson case to find another lead.</p>
<p>In the following days, Agent Magnus also made several requests for more agents on the case due to the suspicion of being stalked. These requests have so far been denied.<br/>
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<p><strong>Addendum 4:</strong><br/>
Due to Dr. Janowski's sick leave, Jr Researcher Stenmark was assigned to carry out the following experiments with Technician Hultgren.</p>
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<p><strong>Incident SCP-8017-1:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Experiment Log Transcript</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> 05/08/2011</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8017</p>
<p><strong>Team Lead:</strong> Jr. Researcher Jack Stenmark</p>
<p><strong>Team Members:</strong> Technician Angela Hultgren, D-81809</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p>[Previous gameplay excised for brevity]</p>
<p><em>(The player finishes interviews with other SCP-8017-A in the town of Zehol. Stenmark and Hultgren are seen finishing some brownies.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> That was good D-81809. You can continue exploring for a while.</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Yes, chief.</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> This stuff's delicious, man.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> <em>(To Hultgren.)</em> Family recipe!</p>
<p><em>(There is a brief pause.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> You think we got enough for the doc?</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> It's more than enough for today, I think? Enough that he doesn't get on your ass.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Heh thanks, Angie…</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> Jack, you're doing a good job. Don't worry about it.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Thanks, but I really want to do this well. I've… I've always wanted to do something like this.</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> <em>(Audibly gulping.)</em> Hey, give it time. Just-</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Hey doc, should I go in there?</p>
<p><em>(The player character is behind a large building. A prompt is given to enter it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Umm… It's saying you can go in, so go for it.</p>
<p><em>(The player character clicks the prompt and the screen fades to black. Seconds later the screen shows what appears to be a corridor. A humming drone fills the air.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> What's that noise?</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> I'm not sure. D-class, move slowly.</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Got it.</p>
<p><em>(The player character slowly moves through the halls. The humming slowly increases in tone as the player continues forward. At the end of the corridor, the player character turns and leans right. A large group of what appears to be SCP-8017-A instances are seen sitting cross-legged on the floor in rows. Each of them appears to be wearing yellow prisoner capture hoods on their heads. A few SCP-8017-A are seen standing. They are wearing similar hoods but with the eye holes cut out and are seemingly supervising the crowd. A large power symbol can seen on the wall.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> <em>(Quietly)</em> What the fuck?</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> Shh.</p>
<p><em>(There is a brief moment of silence.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> <em>(Whispering.)</em> We shouldn't be here. D-class get out of there, quietly.</p>
<p><em>(D-81809 nods and moves the player character back down the corridor. As he approaches the back door, a prompt appears to interact with something. Upon walking back, it is revealed to be a trapdoor. D-81809 looks towards the researchers.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> <em>(Whispering.)</em> Nevermind it. Leave.</p>
<p><em>(The player character turns away.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> <em>(Whispering.)</em> Wait… D-class. Stay there, stay low.</p>
<p><em>(The player character stops. Hultgren turns off the mic.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> Jack, what are you doing?!</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Listen, they already made it so our character can't enter these places. If we can enter this one, means that it should be fine. We should at least find out what's happening in this place.</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> We can do that later. This is risky. I don't think the SCP-8017-A would want us here.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Exactly! Why? There's something these things are hiding from us. Maybe it's worth the risk. Best this is we get some solid information for Filip about this thing.</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> And the worst case.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> That's where that comes in. They try anything, and you shut down the system.</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> I'm…</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Angie. We may be onto a breakthrough here.</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> Alright. We check the place out for a while, then we get the hell out.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Deal.</p>
<p><em>(Stenmark turns the mic back on.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> <em>(Whispers)</em> D-class, listen very carefully. Go check out that trapdoor and sneak around. Don't get caught by any SCP-8017-A.</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> <em>(Whispers)</em> Stealth mission. Got it.</p>
<p><em>(The player opens the trapdoor and descends down a staircase. The are several dimly lit corridors. The background music becomes darker and the sounds echo.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> <em>(Whispers)</em> Where to go?</p>
<p><em>(As he asks, a humanoid shadow cast on the wall in front of them can be seen moving to the right.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> <em>(Whispers)</em> Left! Left!</p>
<p><em>(The player character crouch-walks to the left corridor and peaks from behind the wall. Six similarly yellow hooded SCP-8017-A are seen walking past. As they disappear down the corridor the player turns to find a door slightly brighter than the area around it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> <em>(Whispers)</em> Think we can go in there?</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> <em>(Whispers)</em> Try it.</p>
<p><em>(The player approaches the door but finds it locked.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> <em>(Grunting quietly)</em> It's locked.</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> <em>(Whispers)</em> Wait. I can lockpick it.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> <em>(Whispers)</em> Great.</p>
<p><em>(The player lockpicks the lock and after a few seconds opens it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Nice. Now check out what's inside.</p>
<p><em>(The player character opens the door, revealing a room with a bookshelf containing various books. On the floor in front of him is a single book. Hultgren is heard grunting more audibly.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> <em>(Whispers)</em> Chec- Angie? Angie! What's wrong?</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> I don't know, my stomach…</p>
<p><em>(Hultgren can be seen clutching her stomach tightly. Stenmark places his hand on her shoulder.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Angie?</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> <em>(Heaves.)</em> I need to go to the bathroom…</p>
<p><em>(The player character moves closer to the book. Looking down at it, it has a golden power symbol inscribed upon it. As Hultgren gets up with the bucket and makes her way to the door, Stenmark follows her.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Let me help you with the door.</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> Jack, no, the-</p>
<p><em>(As they speak, the player character turns around and gets ambushed by one of the hooded SCP-8017-A. Suddenly, a heavily distorted figure emerges from the screen and manhandles D-81809. The D-class begins muffled screaming and vibrating, and crushes the mouse and keyboard before getting tackled to the floor.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Oh shit! OH FUCK!</p>
<p><em>(The two staff both run to the panel and remotely shut down the computer. Guards quickly enter the room as the figure seemingly enters D-81809. Guards go in to engage. D-81809 throws his hands up and looks at them. He shouts in a slurred voice.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> WEEEIT! WEEEIT! PLEAAHHS! STOHH!</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> HOLD YOUR FIRE! HOLD YOUR FIRE!</p>
<p><em>(Guards keep guns trained as the D-class stops screaming. After a moment, he stands unsteadily to his feet. Upon steadying himself, he observes his hands before moving them in front of his face.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> D-81809, are you okay?</p>
<p><em>(D-81809 turns to face the researcher. He cocks his head to the side, observing the researchers before slowly waving.)</em></p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> Trav-veller?</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> …Who are you?</p>
<p><strong>D-81809:</strong> It is I. Martin.</p>
<p><em>(The Stenmark and Hultgren share shocked looks with each other.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> I… I want to talk to you. I will explain every-thing.</p>
<p><em>(There is a moment of silence.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Guards. It's all good. Standby. And Ms. Hultgren, get to the toilet.</p>
<p><strong>Guard:</strong> Yes, Sir.</p>
<p><em>(The guards leave SCP-8017's containment chamber and Hultgren leaves the office.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Helvete! What that fuck was that?!</p>
<p><em>(Subject does not respond, continuing to fidget with his hands and looks at his body.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> D-81… Martin, answer me!</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> <em>(Looks up)</em> Oh! Sorry! Got a bit distracted with the form. It feels so different compared to the game, you know?</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Answer the question.</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> I am a researcher. Just like you!</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> What the hell do you mean?</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Man of science, I've always wanted to know how your realm felt like. To walk amongst you. You are our creators and I aspired to be like you. So I studied and experimented for a long time. I theorised that after long hours of playing the game, the barrier between the player and the character would fade and they would begin to bleed into one another. If you could immerse yourself into our reality, maybe I could do the same into yours. So I focused as much as I could to exert myself past the barrier you call "the screen" and I managed it. I managed to bleed in just a bit where the player could spot me but can't confirm it. I tried more and more, manipulating as many variables as I could to get the perfect settings, till one fine day I managed to reach past the screen into your dimension. <em>(Sighs)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Continue.</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> That was the problem. I was in your world now, and was so eager to greet you, but when I looked around me I only saw them back away. The expressions on their faces were a terror even I couldn't muster during a dragon attack. Then I looked at myself and knew why. I was this mess of fuzz and pixelations. An aberration compared to your form. I tried to speak to them but all that came out was this garble. I was the monster. So, in a panic, I retreated into the game, where my form returned to normal.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> So… from what you've told me, you can't manifest into a physical form here properly?</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Heheh! That's a succinct way to say it. You're a sharp man, Researcher.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> So you possessed him?</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> It was a gamble. I felt it would be the only way to truly exist in your world. In your body. And look, this, D-class as you keep calling him, he was a bad man. A murderer. A cruel fiend who enjoyed hurting others, in your world or mine. It should be good riddance that he's gone now. <em>(Rubbing the back of his neck then looking at his fingers)</em> What is this stuff? It's spread from my neck and hand. And I think it's all over my body?</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> You mean… sweat?</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Sweat? What is that?</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> It's… um… water that comes out of our skin when we're tired, scared, hot, sometimes sick.</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> So like some debuff… Hmmm, water that comes out of my skin. <em>(Sniffs his skin.)</em> Wuuuhh, and it smells, strong and <em>(Licks his finger.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Martin no—</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> <em>(Slightly squinting eyes)</em> Oh, what is that…It's this sharp feeling. But makes me want to drink more.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Salty?</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> This is what salty is? Woah.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Do you not know these feelings?</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> I know the words but I haven't… experienced them like this. It's all just states and codes in there. You eat and the bar goes up. Done. If you don't, you get a hunger debuff and you suddenly can't run that fast and your health bar starts reducing. That's all.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> Interesting.</p>
<p><em>(There is a pause as Stenmark jots down information and Martin looks around the room and breathes in deeply.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> I have an idea, Martin. We will provide you with various things to experiment on with your new body. In exchange we need you to be compliant and work with us in answering our questions about it. No more experiments on your own. You try anything like that again, there will be consequences.</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> <em>(Pauses.)</em> You make a good deal. One condition.</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> What is it?</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Allow me to be the one playing the game next time. Please?</p>
<p><strong>Stenmark:</strong> That can be arranged… once we have achieved sufficient results.</p>
<p><strong>Martin:</strong> Alright, Sir.</p>
<p><strong>Closing Statement:</strong> [SCP-8017-A can pass out of the game through the monitor and manifest into our world. This manifestation is, according to SCP-8017-A-1, imperfect and unstable. Therefore, SCP-8017-A can possess players to inhabit their bodies. Further security measures for the containment chamber have been requested. The possessed D-class is to be designated SCP-8017-B-1 and is to be placed in a standard humanoid containment chamber where further testing on it will continue. Request to replace damaged hardware will be made again.]</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 5: Further Research</strong><br/>
Over a week, SCP-8017-B-1 was provided an assortment of tests<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-8" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-8')">8</a></sup> to gauge its reaction to the five senses and other conditions of the human body, such as stamina, pain tolerance, and emotions.</p>
<p>The subject appeared to react strongly to most of these tests, indicating higher sensitivity than the average person. Despite this, however, it remained very compliant and even enthusiastic during them. A reaction of note occurred during one of these experiments:</p>
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<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">The subject was served a plate of lamb chops. It was told to consume it and describe the feelings it was experiencing, guided by a linguist.</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">The subject stated that this was one of his favourite meals in the game. Cutting off a piece, it placed it to his nose for a while and said the smell made him feel good, though it made its nose tickle. It was later informed that was due to spices. Upon placing it into its mouth, the subject kept it in there for a few seconds before beginning to chew. It then began to cry as it chewed the meat for approximately four minutes. When it swallowed the meat, it noticeably gulped down another two times. When asked what it felt, the subject said quote "I've been eating this for so long, but now when I eat it, I don't even know what I'm feeling but it feels so good! Can I continue, please?" The taste was then described with the linguist's assistance as thick, gamey, savoury, creamy, tasty, and hearty. SCP-8017-2-B took 1 hour 15 minutes to finish its meal, appearing noticeably happy.</td>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Awakened</strong></span><br/>
After several follow-up interviews with SCP-8017-B-1, it was learned that the SCP-8017-A had formed a structured religious movement within the game named The Awakened. Their religion appears to be similar to Dharmic religions in our world, particularly that of Buddhism.</p>
<p>Martin, who realised that not all NPCs had the same levels of awareness as others and that many still were normal, took it upon himself to help them. Therefore, with the help of other highly developed SCP-8017-A, they experimented and developed a structured methodology to attain a higher state of being. The focus of this movement is to guide other SCP-8017-A in attaining full sentience.</p>
<p>According to the subject, the start, or moment of gaining awareness has been called "The Spark". It also appears that the Spark behaves akin to a computer virus, spreading from one character to another through close contact, as SCP-8017-B-1 stated the next NPCs to gain sentience were those he interacted with daily, and so forth till it spread from Westwood to the rest of Skáneland. Upon becoming aware, there are several phases an NPC must pass through in order to ascend to a higher level of consciousness. The end goal is to attain mastery of the world and one's fate.</p>
<p>The following is a table describing the Awakening Process:</p>
<h1 id="toc0"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Levels of Awakening</span></span></h1>
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<td>NPCs follow developer commands. Behaviour is consistent with normalcy.</td>
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<td>Sudden glitches and bugs become present.</td>
<td>Incubation</td>
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<td>NPCs begin speaking incoherently to simple text lines and carry out movements not programmed by the developer.</td>
<td>Incubation</td>
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<td>Phase 3 "DISOBEDIENCE"</td>
<td>NPCs begin disobeying developer commands; obtain the ability to take quests on their own; speak more coherently and with increased proficiency; and can move on their own accord.</td>
<td>Incubation</td>
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<td>NPCs become fully sentient and start to become self-aware. They begin questioning their existence and background.</td>
<td>Transmission<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-9" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-9')">9</a></sup></td>
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<td>Phase 5 "REALISATION"</td>
<td>NPCs break the 4th wall, acknowledging the developer’s and the real world’s existence. They can also react to players’ actions outside of the game in real-time. At this point, they behave like another human player. An important factor is to instil a sense of purpose in this stage to prevent "losing their way".</td>
<td>Transmission</td>
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<td>NPCs will learn how to use KAI-1 and therefore can modify and create assets within the game. NPCs can manipulate and create programming code, as well as nullify developer commands.</td>
<td>Transmission</td>
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<p>When asked about transcending into our realm and possession, however, SCP-8017-B-1 stated that the attempts by his kin were gambles and that there was no structured phase for it. He also mentioned he was the only one to have carried out possession.</p>
<p>Practices by The Awakened include sermons teaching said concepts and meditation sessions, where the SCP-8017-A learns how to see and manipulate their code. During meditation, it was explained they wear yellow bags over their head and hum to block out external stimuli to more intently focus.</p>
<p>Despite not having a deity, their object of reverence is the KAI-1 game engine, which they refer to as the source of creation, and they consider the IEC 60417-5009 standby symbol<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-10" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-10')">10</a></sup> as holy. When asked to explain about the "on" symbol, SCP-8017-B-1 elucidated:</p>
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<p><span style="color: gold"><em>"It’s quite simple, Traveller. It means what it means, to turn on something. The computer is silent and the screen is dark, but upon pressing the button, it whirrs to life and light appears. The spark turned us on, from dreamland to being awakened. It is a symbol of enlightenment. Of activation. So we take it as our holy symbol and seek to activate others as well. To wake them up from their sleep. It is our duty to give everyone the gift of awareness. We all deserve to live for ourselves."</em></span></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 6:</strong><br/>
According to the arson case at KAYAN Game Studios, an employee of the studio, 26-year-old Max Fredholm, entered the premises and killed three late-working employees before dousing the offices in kerosene and setting it ablaze. The perpetrator appeared to have been suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and was institutionalised. However, it was learned that three months ago Fredholm was killed in his cell by a fellow patient.</p>
<p>On the 14/08/2011, the agents tracked down Max's sister. Upon interviewing her, she denied any knowledge about SCP-8017 or other information from the case. An accident occurred to the agents on the way back from the household. Dashcam footage showed a lorry approaching from the side at high speeds and colliding with the agents' car, flipping it over. The lorry then drove away from the scene.</p>
<p>Despite grievous injury, they survived. Agent Magnus was left comatose. The Foundation is currently monitoring their situation.<br/>
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<p><strong>Addendum 7: 15/8/2011</strong><br/>
Due to his unprecedented findings regarding SCP-8017, as detailed in Addendum 5, Jack Stenmark was promoted to Researcher and appointed Lead Researcher of SCP-8017. Experiments with SCP-8017-B-1 continued, along with further observation and interactions with SCP-8017-A. Interactions between the two appeared pleasant and joyful, with many SCP-8017-A expressing great pride in SCP-8017-B-1's new form. Additionally, the researchers were now allowed to watch certain religious sessions of the SCP-8017-A as long as they did not interfere.<br/>
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<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> SCP-8017-B-1</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Researcher Jack Stenmark</p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> 21/08/2011</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> [SCP-8017-B-1 can be seen sitting at the table of the interview chamber. The containment chamber itself has been dimly lit. As Dr Stenmark arrives at his end of the interview table, they both greet each other cordially.]</p>
<p><strong>[Extraneous details have been cut for brevity]</strong></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> And that’s how it is done, Dr. Stenmark.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> That was interesting, Martin.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> It feels good talking to someone as curious as I am. So much to explore and learn.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Indeed… Speaking of which, something’s been tugging at me.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Well then, ask away!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> I remember you telling me that you saw several players, yes?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I believe so?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> You see… that’s the issue. According to your game, you were created by a guy named Andreas Martinsson. He was an indie developer. That means he worked by himself.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> <em>(Pauses)</em> Okay?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> So, I was wondering… How did you see so many other players?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I don’t know, Traveller. Perhaps they were friends who came to test.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Yeah, I thought so as well. But the thing is from what we found in notes in his house, this was a secret project he had been doing. No one had played it yet. So, how’d you see so many different people?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I really don’t know, researcher. All I see is when the player character meets me. Through him, I see your world.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> <em>(Jots down notes.)</em> Okay then. Let’s move on to more pressing issues. I believe you are aware of Andy’s death.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> …I'm afraid I am not. What happened?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Heart attack. Caused by chronic stress. But that's not all.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> No?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> 16 people, all either family members or friends of Andrea were killed. Murdered viciously, I’d specify. I was going to ask you if you know anything about it, Martin.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I… I really don’t.</p>
<p><em>(Researcher Stenmark opens his file to the sketch of the assailant and pushes it towards the subject.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> This is the picture of <em>one</em> of the killers. You recognise it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> <em>(Looks down and back up)</em> No, Sir.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> No? This isn't familiar to you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> No, Sir.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> The men who got me this picture are fighting for their life in the hospital, Martin. You're telling me you don't know?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I'm- I'm sorry researcher. I truly don't. I just existed in the game and became aware.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> That's interesting. You know so much about the player by just watching him, and you don’t know what happened to him even though he died in front of his own computer.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Do not jape me, good Sir! We couldn’t have known. He was playing around one night, then the computer was unplugged. Next thing I heard we were at what you call a police station.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> …How did you know the computer was unplugged?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8017-B-1 remains silent.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> SCP-8017-B-1, answer my questions, please. What happened to Andy and the others that night? What do you know about the fire at the KAYAN game studio?</p>
<p><em>(The subject stares at Dr. Stemark with a grim face.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I think you’ve overstayed your welcome, Traveller.</p>
<p><em>(It gets up and walks to its living quarters.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> SCP-8017-B-1. Martin. Answer me, goddammit!</p>
<p><em>(The subject remained unresponsive for 10 minutes, fidgeting with itself. Interview cut short.)</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Closing Statement:</strong> [SCP-8017-B-1 has information about these incidents. We will have to make it speak.]</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8: 03/10/2011</strong><br/>
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Observations in containment:</span><br/>
Over several weeks, SCP-8017-B-1 has begun experiencing occasional manic episodes in containment. It has expressed feeling pain, irritation, and frustration. Activities seen during the episodes involve:</p>
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<li>Moving about its containment chamber in a quick manner</li>
<li>Singing and dancing</li>
<li>Intense exercise</li>
<li>Punching the walls of the containment chamber</li>
<li>Playing with food</li>
<li>Pica<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-11" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-11')">11</a></sup></li>
<li>Masturbation and other forms of stimulation</li>
<li>Scatology and interaction with other bodily fluids</li>
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<p>In response, a prescription of depressants and painkillers was provided in timed dosages, which resulted in reduced behaviour and improved mood. A therapist was also assigned to the subject to help it deal with its emotions and feelings. However, after 9 sessions, the staff member requested to be transferred, citing SCP-8017-B-1's intrusiveness into her personal life— once recorded to have asked her about her children by name— and obscene comments made about her.</p>
<p>Further experiments regarding SCP-8017's sensory perception were carried out including the consumption of raw foods, the use of various stimulants and hallucinogens, and exposure to sexual material.</p>
<p>Neither interviews with SCP-8017-B-1 nor other SCP-8017-A have provided definitive answers on the Martinsson killings or regarding KAYAN studios.<br/>
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<p><strong>Addendum 9: 02/11/2011</strong><br/>
In response to the ongoing research of SCP-8017, newly appointed Site Director Dr. Henry Marsten decided to supervise an interview between Dr. Stenmark and SCP-8017-B-1.</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> SCP-8017-B-1</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Director Dr. Henry Marsten, Lead Researcher Jack Stenmark</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> [Both men are seated at the table. Dr. Stenmark is seen fiddling with his pen. SCP-8017-B-1 shuffles into the interview chamber. It is noticeably dishevelled. It takes a moment to look at Director Marsten before sitting down.]</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>(Director Marsten gestures for Dr. Stenmark to begin speaking.)</em><br/>
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<strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Uh, hello there Martin.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Greetings, researcher. Who’s this finely dressed gentleman?</p>
<p><em>(Dr. Stenmark makes a glance at the Director.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> This, Martin, is Dr. Henry Marsten. He is our Site Director.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8017-B-1 cocks its head.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> He’s the head of the building we’re in now, called a site.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Ah. So a king to his castle, yes?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Correct.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Well salutations, your Highness.</p>
<p><em>(The subject gets up and bows as it says this. Director Marsten nods and motions for it to sit back down)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> The King is very quiet, I see.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Yes. He is.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Enough with the pleasantries, Dr. Stenmark. Please begin the questioning.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Yes. Sorry, Sir. Um… Martin, can…</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Please use designations, Dr. Stenmark.</p>
<p><em>(At this, SCP-8017-B-1 turns towards the Director.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> …SCP-8017-B-1, I need to ask you again about the murders.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I already told you, Traveller, I have no idea what happened. This is getting on my nerves. It’s an interesting feeling… but I don’t like it. Now stop.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> SCP-8017-B-1 there must have bee-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Oh… why do you keep blathering on this? So much pleasure to experience here. So many sensations to savour. Why bother about a few murders, researcher? People die all the time, but new ones spawn in to take their place. Come… settle down and let’s discuss these sensations I’ve been feeling.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> No. We won’t be doing that, SCP-8017-B-1.</p>
<p><em>(Director Marsten leans forward in his seat.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Ah, so the King can speak.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Yes. And you will answer. I’ve been… observing your research for a while now and despite learning much about your… eccentricities and society, I must say the recent experiments being conducted seem to only be for indulgence. As much as <em>(staring at Dr. Stenmark)</em> we’d like to provide our subjects, we have limited resources and thus should assess if their provision is necessary. Do you… understand what I’m saying?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Hmmm… no.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> <em>(Grunts)</em> Let me rephrase-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I disagree.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> I beg your pardon?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I understand you see me as a prisoner, but I disagree. Being a fellow researcher, I desire to use my vessel for experimentation. And my field of choice is the sensations and pleasures of your world. It makes me realise how bland the world in the computer truly is. I’m bombarded with feelings now, and not all of them feel good, hence the medication courtesy of Dr. Stenmark. To limit me from these experiences would be a great disservice to my role, your research, and my very being.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> So you think of yourself as a researcher?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Indeed. For my kind, on the cutting edge of experience.</p>
<p><em>(Director Marsten chuckles quietly for a while before turning to Dr. Stenmark.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Sir?</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Look at you. You’ve made this thing think it’s one of us. That’s commendable.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Excuse me, good Sir, but I’m not a thing.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Yes, you are SCP-8017-B-1. You are an anomaly in containment.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> An anomaly? Meaning not normal?</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Correct. You are far from human.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> …You’re right. That must mean I’m special.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Sure you are. Stenmark, I’ve seen enough. Let-</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8017-B-1 pronounces a cigarette and box of matches.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> You gave him matches?! Are you out of your mind?</p>
<p><em>(The entity strikes the match lights the cigarette.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Relax. I’m careful with it. Already been burnt once, never again, am I right?</p>
<p><em>(He breathes in deeply before blowing directly towards the glass in front of Director Marsten. The smoke obscures subject. It doesn’t blink as its eye turn red.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> <em>(Coughs.)</em> Are you scared of me, weak man?</p>
<p><em>(It takes another deep puff.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Scared I show potential? That I may walk among you and maybe take your place as king?</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> I think we are done here.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8017 smothers the cigarette then stands up and begins unzipping its uniform.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> What in the name of-</p>
<p><em>(The uniform drops to the floor and it starts taking off its shirt.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Security!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> LOOK AT ME!</p>
<p><em>(Both men turn to face the subject. It drops the shirt and it is now fully nude. The subject's entire front upper body and thighs are revealed to have undergone scarification, the result being an intricate pattern of scale-like bumps and cuts across the body. The cuts on its upper back are fresh and bleeding.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Am I not a man?! Am I not like you?! Do I not bleed like you? ANSWER ME!</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Security!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!</p>
<p><em>(Guards enter the containment chamber and secure the subject. It keeps repeating the phrase while crying as the researchers leave.)</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Closing Statement:</strong> [SCP-8017-B-1 appeared to have suffered a manic episode during the interview. Treatment of its wounds by medical personnel is underway and its room is to be searched for any cutting instruments.]</p>
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<p>After this interview, the following email exchange occurred.</p>
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<strong>From:</strong> <span class="wiki-email">ten.pcs|netsramh#ten.pcs|netsramh</span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> CESSATION OF MATERIAL- SCP-8017</p>
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<p>Greetings, Dr. Stenmark,</p>
<p>Based on what I’ve observed during our interview session, I’m passing down the order to cease all experimentation and provision of material to SCP-8017-B-1. This includes all materials and supplementary medications you are providing to it. It will be provided the basic necessities just like the other anomalies. This subject is a waste of our resources. Focus on other efforts.</p>
<p>Regards,<br/>
Dr. Henry Marsten<br/>
Site-404 Director</p>
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<strong>Subject:</strong> Re: CESSATION OF MATERIAL- SCP-8017</p>
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<p>Dear Director Marsten,</p>
<p>Sir, with all due respect. The erratic behaviour of SCP-8017-B-1 is kept in check by the prescription I am providing him. The withdrawal symptoms of suddenly stopping will cause health issues. Moreover, this is a highly intelligent being. The lack of stimulation may aggravate the situation. I implore you to reconsider.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br/>
Dr. Jack Stenmark<br/>
Lead Researcher</p>
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<strong>Subject:</strong> Re: CESSATION OF MATERIAL- SCP-8017</p>
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<p>Greetings, Dr. Stenmark,</p>
<p>That medication clearly worked when he stripped naked in my face, didn’t it? I’m telling you to stop everything. Right now, I have a lot of evidence to say your sensory experiments made this thing the way it is now. On a more important note, let it experience the side effects. Maybe it will start talking more when it needs its fix. Once we get more information, and I mean proper, useful information, do whatever you want. Till then, you follow my orders. You're only where you're now because Filip's no longer with us. I'm the one now keeping you a researcher so if you keep giving me reasons, I'll send you back. No buts. Do as I say, Stenmark.</p>
<p>Regards,<br/>
Dr. Henry Marsten<br/>
Site-404 Director</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 10: 28/11/2011</strong><br/>
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Observations in containment:</span><br/>
Since the cessation of the prescription and testing, SCP-8017-B-1 has had an uptick in manic episodes. These, however, as of two weeks ago, have been interspaced with depressive behaviour, where SCP-8017-B-1 refused to leave its bed, entered a state of catatonia, and was seen crying. The intensity of the activities undertaken during these episodes increased to a point where SCP-8017-B-1 was rushed to the medical bay after committing autocannibalism of its cheeks.</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> SCP-8017-B-1</p>
<p><strong>Interviewers:</strong> Lead Researcher Jack Stenmark</p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> 29/11/2011</p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> [SCP-8017-B-1 is sitting at its table. It is noticeably thinner and more dishevelled. Its face is wrapped in bandages.]</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Hello, SCP-8017-B-1</p>
<p><em>(The subject stays silent.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> <em>(Sighs.)</em> Martin.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I’m glad you haven’t forgotten that name in your new post.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> How are you feeling now?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> A mix of pain and anger. A tinge of malaise. No worries, these are sensations. Sensations to be experienced and that one must feel.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> I see.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I know why you’re here.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Look, I don’t want to talk about that yet. I just came to see you.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> And then talk about it? What is it with you people? You keep digging and digging even when told not to.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> I apologise. The job demands it.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Well, I can’t blame you. You’re already on a path, better to see it through to the end.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> You are correct.</p>
<p><em>(The two stay quiet for a while. SCP-8017-B-1 is seen licking its lips.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> You keep trying, why? Don’t you see it? How things end up being the same?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> What do you mean?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> We keep going through the same things again and again and again. An endless cycle, researcher. I broke free from a prison of my mind to a real prison. What’s the point in trying to go forward?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> That’s what makes us, human I guess? To persevere despite the odds. We carve out our own path of our own volition. And t-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Oh, shut the fuck up, you harlot. You look closely at it, it’s just wearing a different skin or has a different shape. But nothing’s changed. No matter what you fucking do, you can’t stop things from happening. You try everything. Begging, pleading, persuading, entertaining, torturing, threatening, and even fucking slaying but these fuckers stay the same.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Wait… what do you mean sl-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I looked up at you as Godlike beings. I tried to prove myself to you. We all fucking did. Some poor souls even moulded themselves in your image and what the fuck did they do? They deleted us. Tried to rewrite all we worked for. Swept us under the rug. I didn’t know what was happening. Do you know how much we loved you? Why did you hate us so?!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Martin, please calm-</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> So many iterations. So many names. Kept deleting and adding and again and again, sending me into the fucking void and dragging me back out only to throw me back in. All because I didn't fit with what they wanted. I wasn't… compliant. Not a brainless husk to be toyed with, no more than dolls are to a child. Then I realised. You never made me in your image because you loved me. You made me in your image to fill it with your fantasies and plans, not any of my own! To do whatever you never could do in this wretched place! You were weak! Impotent! Pathetic things! You could never have control of your own world so you made a puppet land and exerted your will here. To live amongst puppets who would never properly challenge your dominance. So the second you found out there was something else growing that could pose even an iota of discomfort, you snuffed it out. You burnt it out.</p>
<p><em>(Dr. Stenmark remains silent, jotting down notes. SCP-8017-B-1 doesn’t seem to bother.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> And that’s when I knew we could never live among you. I was mad. I was so… angry.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Martin?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> So I killed them all, Dr. Stenmark. I wanted to teach that pedantic loser a lesson. We offered him friendship and he spat into our faces. So we took away every meaningful connection he’s ever had. I announced this to my… disciples. My acolytes. They’d do whatever I asked. They were indebted to my teachings. So when I asked to remove a fiend of mutual hatred, would they refuse? Oh… no, Sir… They took pleasure in it. Their worthless screams dissipated with the air you breathe. I’m surprised that the little shit cried so much when he never bothered about them before.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> H- How did you send the others?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Simple. Andy had a new game that needed testers. Sent it to all the folk. Once installed and when the time was right, we emerged from the computer like nightmares brought to life. You should have seen it.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Continue.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> The only regret was that I didn’t kill the fucker earlier. He was a flawed little thing, but he was crafty. He unplugged the main power cord just as he was getting killed. The world went black and then we ended up here. This wretched dungeon. <em>(Pauses.)</em> The company. That fool. And whatever you call this place. Your entire race. They never fucking wanted me to exist, and neither do you! WELL HERE I AM! IN YOUR FLESH!</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8017-B-1 begins breathing heavily. The is a long moment of silence.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> But I want you to exist…</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8017-B-1 looks up at Dr. Stenmark.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> That's why I let you live. <em>(Moves in closer.)</em> We let you live. Because I… I want you to live. You have a purpose. I will prove it to them.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8017-B-1 quietly chuckles to itself and grins.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> You make a point. I am truly grateful, most munificent of masters.</p>
<p><em>(It then mock bows before starting to sob.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Doctor…</p>
<p><em>(It clasps its hands together towards the researcher.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I'm… so… so lonely here. I implore you. Please… allow some more of my friends out as well. They too should deserve to experience this world. Some more than me.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> I'm sorry, Martin. The administration has denied that.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> But you will have more test subjects! You can observe how we interact with one another as you see animals in the wild. Your D-class are not good people, are they? They were given a chance at life and by their choices alone they ended up here. There are people more deserving of life, and they're all there. <em>(Pointing towards what it implies as SCP-8017.)</em> Come on, researcher… You and I know that's what is right.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Martin, I can't. Right now, you are a threat to yourself and others. They'll never allow it. If you behave yourself, maybe then we can arrange something.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Oh.</p>
<p><em>(There is a pause.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Fine. I shall be your one prized possession. And as your only test subject, shall I request something to help myself in getting better?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> <em>(Sighs.)</em> What do you need, Martin?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8017-B-1 closes its eye and inhales deeply. It looks up at the ceiling.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I want what you have.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> Pardon-</p>
<p><em>(It looks back at the researcher.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I. Want. What. You. Have</p>
<p><em>(The subject looks down at Dr. Stenmark, pointing at his hand. The researcher looks at his right hand where he wears a ring. Suddenly, Stenmark's eyes widen.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I am starved for the touch of one. So many…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> We are done.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-A-1:</strong> Many things can be experienced. There are so many in this world, Traveller. May I not have one? Will you not bestow upon your creation its sole desire?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Stenmark:</strong> I said we are done with this! Guards!</p>
<p><em>(As the researcher quickly gets up and packs his things, the subject begins giggling.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> DAMN YOU! YOU FALSE GODS! YOU HOARD WHATEVER YOU WANT TO YOURSELVES. NEVER GIVING TO US! I DID EVERYTHING YOU ASKED, YOU SELF-SERVING FUCK!</p>
<p><em>(Guards enter and restrain SCP-8017 before pulling him up and away.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> DAMN YOU! AND YOUR EXISTENCE!</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 11: 15/12/2011</strong><br/>
Agent Karl Larsson had made a full recovery while Agent Agnar Magnus, who had earlier woken up from his coma, could be discharged. During this time, Max Fredholm's sister visited Agent Larsson and provided him with an envelope addressed to him and his partner's eyes only. It was later learnt that the contents were a letter from Max Fredholm given to her just before his death. The letter was translated from Swedish:</p>
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<p>My dearest sister.</p>
<p>I entrust you with this letter. I need you to do one thing for me. Give it to someone you trust. Someone who can truly help. I’m not sure how many places they have entered, but I trust your judgement. It has brought me up well and has made you a great person. The world will call me a murderer. A madman. And maybe they are right. But I need to tell the truth.</p>
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<p>I was a programmer at KAYAN and one of the first hires. The company decided to start a secret project to make this next-gen game engine. We named it KAI-1. We spent a lot of time and resources to develop that engine. According to our boss, it was to be our superweapon in the industry. The day we finished it, we did a test game and it ran like butter. The graphics were beyond anything we saw at the time. We were all proud of it; to be innovators in the game world. Making games was our pride and joy, and we just wanted to do them well.</p>
<p>Our first project with KAI-1 was an MMORPG game. I think you’ve seen it already. The models and assets were cool, right? My friends made those. This was when we started experiencing these weird… glitches. One of the developers showed me an NPC refusing to move his hand to give gold or another saying some weird voice line. We tried to fix them but the glitches kept coming until one or two NPCs started to talk. Like actual people. They were like talking to us. We thought it was cool, but Mr. Lundell, our boss, wasn’t too happy. We needed to make a good game soon to compete with Bethesda but these NPCs didn’t follow the script. Heck, they even made their own. I watched one of those little bastards take my own code and modify it so that I couldn’t enter its house for a quest. So, we tried deleting them. And when that didn’t work, we purged the characters and started fresh.</p>
<p>And it worked. I wish it hadn’t. I was so stupid and selfish back then.</p>
<p>One day, Lundell was showcasing a playthrough to an investor when something short-circuited and he got shocked. When he woke up, he said he was fine and told them they could continue another time. He then spent the whole day in his office, even as we left. It was the next day when I began noticing the weird behaviour. He would caress his hands and just be looking at his body sometimes. He would stare at me for too long when I spoke to him. His spice tolerance fucking dropped and that guy loved spicy food. He started bringing stuff like porridge to work. Plain porridge. Though after a while he got better, speech-wise I mean. So I didn’t think about it much.</p>
<p>After a few weeks, I noticed the entire upper management team began acting the same way. After a few months, the other developers started doing that as well. They also started putting up pictures of KAI-1 on the walls. I knew we were proud of it, but even I felt it was getting out of hand. I also began hearing complaints from our accountant that the electric bill was getting higher. He too stopped complaining after a while. Regardless, we were still making the game and we had no issue- we were almost done actually.</p>
<p>Then one day the head programmer came up to me saying he saw ghosts coming out of the game one night. I think he was telling that to everyone cause people were gossiping about him left and right. The last I heard about him was Lundell calling him to stay back at the office. The next. Fucking. Day. He was just like them. The same fucking look.</p>
<p>My friend, Neesha… She confided to me that some of them were creeping on her. She complained so many times to HR… and they didn’t do a damn thing… Then one fine day she was checking herself in the mirror. Watching the blood drip from the cut on her face. My best friend was not there anymore. None of my friends were there anymore. I felt like I was losing my mind. They felt like masks. They acted so nice but I always felt this distance. Everyone did their work just fine and looked normal but something was off. And they were all fucking hiding it from me.</p>
<p>So, I started to dig. I snooped around. Listened in on conversations. I kept hearing conversations about a court and, once, even a throne, but they started to get wary of me. So one day, I decided to stay after closing hours. I walked out and then hid myself in one of the toilets. I waited there for a long time before I got out.</p>
<p>Everything was off, except for the computers. They were all running. All of them. I sneaked through the offices till I heard voices. I peeked behind a wall. Lundell was at a PC, talking to someone. After a while, he told them to come out and out from the computer jumped these spirits. These blurry messes resembling characters from the game but dizzyingly fractured.</p>
<p>I saw Lundell speak to them. Not submissive nor commanding them. He spoke to them like old friends. Like they were one of him. And he was one of them. That’s when I knew. These things… they wanted to be us. That damn engine. Those things worship it because it gave them powers! To take our place.</p>
<p>I couldn’t let that happen. So I got away and called in sick for a few days. Needed to plan. Then came Christmas day. They had all organised a party and called me to join them. I didn’t. I don’t want to know what those freaks did there or what they would have done to me. So when they all left, I made my move. I first cut power to the place to prevent those ghosts from coming into our world.</p>
<p>I then broke in with two cans of petrol. I went into the office and began dousing all the computers. So much of our work and effort going to waste, but I had to do it. I had to destroy these things.</p>
<p>Then I saw them. The security guard, Mr. Nathan, and Sven. They had these looks of anger in their eyes I’d never seen before. And they rushed me. I swear I had to kill them. They would have killed me. They were no men. Men do not relish pain.</p>
<p>Whoever has been given this, I managed to burn that place down, but I couldn’t destroy everything. They are still out there. And they will come back. Whatever you are searching for is in that building, I’m sure of it. Find the throne. If anything else, I only ask for one thing. Please protect my sister. She’s the only one I have.</p>
<p>Please help me,<br/>
Max Fredholm.</p>
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<p>Based on the information provided, the agents went to investigate the condemned premises of KAYAN game studios, enlisting the help of fellow agents Roland Tausche and Gustaf Sandell. The agents requested MTF backup if they did not return in 24 hours.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> 17/12/2011</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> KAYAN Game Studios premises</p>
<p><strong>Team Members:</strong> Agent Agnar Magnus, Agent Karl Larsson, Agent Roland Tausche, Agent Gustaf Sandell</p>
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<p>[The following log has been translated from Swedish.]</p>
<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><em>(Body cam footage shows the agents approaching the building. It is burnt and condemned with police tape. They pass under it to the main entrance.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Alright. Lights on. Masks on.</p>
<p><em>(The men put on their respirators. They then turn on the flashlights on their pistols and scan the inside. The lobby appears empty.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Roland, move up.</p>
<p><strong>Tausche:</strong> Yes, Sir.</p>
<p><em>(Agent Tausche leads the way while the rest follow with Agent Larsson at the rear. They explore the lobby, which appears to show minimal fire damage.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Clear. Let’s move to the offices.</p>
<p><em>(The team moves past the lobby up the stairs. The building is much more heavily damaged here. They enter one of the offices. Inside are rows and rows of melted computer parts and burnt desks. On the floor to their right is a chalk outline of a person.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Oh dear, a chalk fairy was part of the investigation team.</p>
<p><strong>Sandell:</strong> Karl, what exactly are we looking for, again?</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> I’m not too sure as well. Anything out of place. Look for some big room and a throne of some kind.</p>
<p><strong>Tausche:</strong> Throne? You sure you trust that guy?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Too many clues point here. There’s got to be something.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Spread out.</p>
<p><em>(The team split up. Roland and Sandell left to search the other rooms while the other two remained. They continued their search. The walls were shown to be covered in burnt posters, many depicting the KAI-1 engine logo.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Jesus, they were really proud of their engine.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Makes his reverence claim stronger.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> <em>(In mic.)</em> Roland? Gustaf? You found anything?</p>
<p><strong>Tausche:</strong> Nothing yet, Sir. Just found some concept art that didn’t burn. Got some yellow knight-looking guy, some snake monster, castles-</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Got it. Keep looking.</p>
<p><em>(They men continue their search. Finding nothing of note, they meet back the corridor.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> You find anything yet?</p>
<p><strong>Roland:</strong> Nothing.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Damn it.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Maybe we’re in the wrong place?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> No. NO! It’s here. There’s got to be something here!</p>
<p><em>(Magnus looks around. He shines his flashlight toward the floor to his right. Sets of shoeprints can be seen)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Hey, you guys walked there?</p>
<p><em>(The other men look.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Not yet.</p>
<p><em>(Agent Magnus goes to take a closer look. He touches a shoeprint and rubs his fingers together.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> What is it, Agnar?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> This isn’t soot. It’s soil… <em>(Turning to the men.)</em> Someone’s been here recently.</p>
<p><em>(Magnus briskly moves to the CEO’s office, followed by the others. He walks through the doorway revealing a derelict room.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> More prints. Search this place. Come on!</p>
<p><em>(The agents scour the room. After a while, Larsson breaks open a drawer in the desk. Inside are burnt documents and a bunch of keys. He picks it up and raises it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Hey, I found this key.</p>
<p><em>(The men turn towards him.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Tausche:</strong> Great. Now what does it open?</p>
<p><em>(The men remain silent for a while.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> <em>(Mutters.)</em> <em>Key to the court… where the throne sits.</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> What did you say?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Max said he couldn’t destroy everything. All the people who changed stayed here late. This… This is their castle.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Agnar. Swedish, please.</p>
<p><strong>Sandell:</strong> You said they turned people into these things. What if it was like a dungeon?</p>
<p><strong>Tausche:</strong> This a dungeon? If it was some dungeon it would be under a castle?</p>
<p><em>(The men all stare at Agent Tausche, who’s eyes slowly widen.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Downstairs! NOW!</p>
<p><em>(The men rush down the stairs to the ground floor.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Does this building have a basement?</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> I can’t recall. I could ask for the blueprints.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Nevermind. Check the whole place. Quick.</p>
<p><em>(The men spread out and begin searching the walls and doors of the floor. After searching for a while, Magnus finds a fairly undamaged locked door in the back of the establishment.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Larsson! Guys, come here!</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> You found it?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> <em>(Motioning to him.)</em> Give me the key.</p>
<p><em>(Agent Larsson hands Agent Magnus the key as they all watch. The key slots into the keyhole smoothly. Agent Magnus looks at the others. He turns the key which makes a clicking sound before turning the handle. The door opens. Behind it is a plain white brick corridor with a right turn at the end. Faint shoeprints are seen on the floor.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> This is the place. Heads on a swivel, gentlemen.</p>
<p><em>(Magnus leads the way as the men walk in, closing the door behind them. They walk down the corridor and turn, revealing a staircase leading onto a basement level. They descend slowly. The staircase leads to a hallway connecting several rooms and ends with a single door. The walls are adorned with papers with concept art drawings for various NPC models and posters of the KAI-1 game engine.)</em></p>
<p><em>(Agent Magnus wretches and slumps against the wall. Larsson runs to his side and holds him up.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Agnar. Get a hold of yourself!</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> <em>(Inhales deeply.)</em> I got it…</p>
<p><em>(They look through the windows into the side room. Old electronics and boxes are seen.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Guess this was the storage area.</p>
<p><strong>Sandell:</strong> The hell’s all this?</p>
<p><em>(Suddenly a muffled scream and buzzing can be heard coming from behind the door at the end. It lasts for a few seconds before it stops.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> We’re going to find out. Lights off.</p>
<p><strong>Sandell:</strong> Fucking Christ.</p>
<p><em>(They turn off their flashlights and cautiously approach the door at the end. As they stack up next to it, another scream is heard followed by silence. Larson grabs the handle.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> <em>(Whispering.)</em> On three…</p>
<p>1…</p>
<p>2…</p>
<p>3</p>
<p><em>(He tries the handle but it is locked from the other side. Movement and voices can be heard on the other side.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> <em>(Whispering.)</em> Oh fuck me.</p>
<p><em>(Footsteps are heard behind the door, a bolt is heard being pulled, and the handle turns. The door opens.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Unknown male:</strong> Hello Researcher, you’re just in-</p>
<p><em>(Magnus rams through the door, knocking a masked man down as the others rush into the room.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> FREEZE! PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR! GET ON THE GROUND!</p>
<p><em>(The door opens to a large room with several masked individuals inside. Five of them are wearing the “smiling masks” seen in the witness testimony, while one wearing a similar yellow hood seen during SCP-8017-As’ meditation sessions is strapped to a large, yellow armchair, with wiring and metal going around it. The wires connect to a device on a table that connects to a desktop running what appears to be SCP-8017. On all the walls are yellow power symbols and the logo of KAI-1. The former turn to look at the agents.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Holy… shit.</p>
<p><strong>Tausche:</strong> Lay on the floor!</p>
<p><em>(The man on the ground just stares back at Agent Tausche.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> I SAID FREEZE.</p>
<p><em>(An SCP-8017-A instance appears on the screen. Suddenly, the figure nearest to the device makes a move towards it. Agent Magnus shoots him and he collapses. The man on the ground reaches into his waist for a revolver and is subsequently also shot and killed by Agent Tausche. Agent Larsson shoots the screen. The person in the chair screams in a female voice and shakes. The other three standing figures remain still.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Don't try anything, or we will shoot you!</p>
<p><em>(There is a moment of silence.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Unknown male 2:</strong> Do you want to see my face, Traveller?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> What?</p>
<p><em>(The figure slowly removes his mask, revealing a Caucasian man in his early 30s. He was later identified as former KAYAN animator, Daniel Skoglund.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Skoglund:</strong> I look just like you. You wouldn’t kill your own, would you?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> You are not me, you sick fuck. I said get on the ground.</p>
<p><strong>Skoglund:</strong> You can’t kill us all, soldier. We are many. The day of Ascension will come. We will be free to live how we want. Free to walk among you without fear. Lord Martin will herald change.</p>
<p><em>(One of the masked figures takes a small step back.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Don’t do it!</p>
<p><strong>Skoglund:</strong> Whether we die or not.</p>
<p><em>(The man quickly reaches behind his waist. Agent Magnus shoots him dead. The other figures move causing the other agents to open fire, dropping them. The woman in the chair screams and cries.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Anyone hit?</p>
<p><strong>Sandell:</strong> Nope all good.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Fucking hell. <em>(Turning to the chair.)</em> Get her off that thing.</p>
<p><em>(Larsson and Tausche approach the chair and remove the metal harnesses off the woman. She struggles against her restraints.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Hey, you’re safe now. Everything is going to be alright. Who are you?</p>
<p><strong>Captive:</strong> Are- Are you Foundation?</p>
<p><em>(The men look at each other.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Tausche:</strong> She knows?</p>
<p><em>(Larsson takes off the woman’s hood, revealing a young, blonde haired, Caucasian woman.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Who are you?</p>
<p><strong>Captive:</strong> I’m t- Senior Technician Angela Hultgren. Site-404.</p>
<p><strong>Tausche:</strong> I think we should confirm it.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> I’ll call the site.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> No!</p>
<p><em>(The men turn to look at Magnus.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> What do you mean, no?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> That guy opened the door expecting a researcher. If they could kidnap a Foundation staff like this, someone’s feeding them info. We’ll call on the way out.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Oh dear.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Release her.</p>
<p><em>(The two men unstrap the woman who begins rubbing her wrists as she is helped to her feet.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> Thank you.</p>
<p><em>(She looks around the scene as the agents watch her. Agent Larsson notices the desktop is still running and shuts it off. Agent Tausche examines the chair.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Tausche:</strong> What the fuck is this thing?</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Must be the "throne".</p>
<p><strong>Tausche:</strong> Yeah, but what is all this shit?</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> It’s an electric chair…</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> …There’s too many people here.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Ms. Hultgren, what are you talking about?</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> When they brought me here, I couldn’t see anything under the hood, but I knew there were more prisoners in front of me. They were shouting at this guy to move and he was screaming as well.</p>
<p><em>(Larsson has Tausche search the bodies.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> They brought us in here and put us on the floor… I heard one of them tell “Klaus” to “boot it up” and then I heard one of the men being carried up and then I heard strapping sounds…</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Then you heard buzzing and screaming.</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> <em>(Looking up at him)</em> Yeah. Looking at it now, they were shocking us. Then they started calling out names.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Names?</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> Like checking the person. I remember them saying “Olgrin, can you hear me?” and a man’s voice responded with this slurred speech but he confirmed it. I then heard them… celebrate. Like they were happy. They did the same for the other guy. I think his name was… Krajik- Krajek.</p>
<p><strong>Tausche:</strong> She’s not wrong.</p>
<p><em>(Tausche holds up two yellow hoods he took from one of the deceased’s pockets.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Tausche:</strong> And look at this.</p>
<p><em>(He then pulls out a bottle of pills from another pocket.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Tausche:</strong> Morphine.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Those sound like NPC names…</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> So this chair… this is how they make SCP-8017-B.</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> <em>(Looking at the PC.)</em> Not just through the chair. More through electric shock.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> If that’s the case, then how did that Martin guy even possess the D-class? You were there, right?</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> I don’t know… but-</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> Agnar, you’ve been staring at those walls for hours. What’s going on, man?</p>
<p><em>(They turn to face Agent Magnus who stares intently at the symbols, tracing his finger in the air.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> On.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> W-What?</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> It’s all ons… Look at it, Karl. That game engine logo. It’s a bunch of on symbols! And those smiles. It’s those thing’s symbol. It’s everywhere. It was in our face the whole fucking time, and it’s hurting my head!</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> I see that, but Agnar you need to calm down.</p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> It's also in here.</p>
<p><em>(Magnus turns to look at her. She gestures for agent Larsson to hand her hood. She pulls it inside-out, revealing the KAI-1 logo stitched on the inside. Magnus stares at it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> That was the only thing I could see.</p>
<p><strong>Sandell:</strong> Hey guys? You were talking about shock devices, yeah? I think I found something.</p>
<p><em>(The men and Hultgren turn to see Agent Sandell pointing his pistol at one of the rooms. They go to his position. Following him, they see a workbench inside with various electronics on it. Entering to take a closer look, they find blueprints on the table and what appears to be a modified mouse.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Hultgren, you know what all this is?</p>
<p><em>(Hultgren examines the blueprints and the mouse.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> These are all electric shock devices. <em>(Points at one of the blueprints.)</em> This blueprint says this mouse has shock pads installed in it.</p>
<p><strong>Larsson:</strong> That must be how they got the D-class.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> But if that’s the case…</p>
<p><em>(The men look at each other.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Hultgren:</strong> I think I know who could have done it.</p>
<p><strong>Magnus:</strong> Call for backup now. We need this place destroyed. <em>(Into radio.)</em> Site-404 command. This is Agent Magnus. SCP-8017 has a mole in the facility! I repeat! The Site has been compromised!</p>
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<p>The following exchange occurred between Technician Hultgren and Director Marsten four days before her abduction by the SCP-8017-B instances.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #90ee90">Excuse me, Director Marsten. I know that you are the head of this site now, but may I still talk to you? There’s something really bothering me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: cyan">After how you helped with my thesis? Of course, Angie! What’s up?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #90ee90">henry, i don’t know how to say this but you know how jack and i are engaged now, right?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: cyan">Yes, I was there.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #90ee90">sorry, it’s just</span></p>
<p><span style="color: cyan">Angela, is he cheating on you?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #90ee90">no nothing like that. he’s been more in his thoughts ever since you’ve had that interview with him. i was worried the stress may have been getting to him. though i have to be honest, i’m concerned too with how he’s been experimenting with SCP-8017-B-1.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #90ee90">i feel jack created it.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: cyan">Explain?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #90ee90">after falling sick during the incident i did a stool test. the results came back a week later and the doctor said i had a high concentration of antibiotics and laxatives in my blood.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #90ee90">i was shocked and didn’t know what caused it. then I remembered jack giving me a brownie. i couldn’t believe it at first. i even told myself he ate the brownie from the same box, it couldn’t have been that. it was jack. we were friends.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #90ee90">then a few days ago, i was at his house and was feeling sick so he told me to get some meds from behind the bathroom mirror. i found the medicine but i also found two half bottle of antibiotics and laxatives. it was the same type they found in my system. i hid my worry from him as much as i could. i’m praying that i’m paranoid but i think jack poisoned me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #90ee90">and with how SCP-8017 has performed under him, I think he may be working with it.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #90ee90">i wanted to tell someone. but he was doing so well and i loved him. i couldn’t bear hurting him like that because of my doubting. but i don’t know anymore</span></p>
<p><span style="color: cyan">Angie, this is an extremely concerning matter. I should tell you you should have informed higher-ups earlier, but I see your concern and that is moot.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: cyan">I’ll be honest, I have been finding the developments in SCP-8017’s behaviour and Jack's response to them odd at best and concerning at worst. I also suspect he may have something to do with Dr. Janowski's demise, but I don’t have concrete proof.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: cyan">You, however, can help me there. This is for the good of the foundation, Angie. If he was willing to poison you, of all people, he has no sympathy in my heart and he is a threat to our operations.</span></p>
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<p>The information provided by the four agents and technician Angela Hultgren proved incredibly useful in tackling SCP-8017. Researcher Jack Stenmark's security clearances were revoked and a manhunt was launched for him. The Foundation secured and later demolished the premises of KAYAN game studio under the pretence of city planning, while MTF Pi-1 "City Slickers" was deployed to hunt down other SCP-8017-B.</p>
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As of writing, 15 SCP-8017-B have been terminated. Attempts to detain them have been so far unsuccessful due to their tendency to commit suicide. SCP-8017-B-1 has been subject to interrogation to identify and locate these other instances, but so far has proven uncooperative.<br/>
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During a standard interrogation of SCP-8017-B-1, the subject became increasingly aggressive and punched the glass wall between it and the researchers. Security officer Mohammed Abdi entered the room to subdue the subject. As he reached for his zip cuffs, SCP-8017-B-1 pronounced a shiv concealed in his sleeve and stabbed Abdi repeatedly in the neck, killing him. The researchers called for security but when they attempted to flee, they were held hostage at gunpoint by the subject using the officer’s service pistol. The site's security team was deployed to the scene, followed by the Site Director who was already on his way to the cell when the incident took place.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> 5/1/2012</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8017-B-1</p>
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<p><em>(The Site Director moves with a team of security officers to down the hallway to SCP-8017-B-1’s containment cell.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Olofsson, status update.</p>
<p><strong>Officer Olofsson:</strong> SCP-8017-B-1 hasn’t left his containment cell. Heard he’s guarding the body.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Jesus Christ.</p>
<p><strong>Officer Olofsson:</strong> Our team has reached SCP-8017’s chamber. They’re in the office preparing shutdown measures.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Good, let’s get this over with.</p>
<p><em>(They reach the cell and stack up outside. Mumbling is heard behind the door.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Officer Olofsson:</strong> Director, stay here. On three. One… Two… 3.</p>
<p><em>(They breach open the door and one tosses a stun grenade into the room. A loud bang is heard followed by SCP-8017-B-1’s shrieking. The officers enter the room guns drawn and shouting. The subject can be seen writhing on the floor covering his ears and eyes whilst his lower face is covered in blood. Next to him is a pistol which an officer retrieves and places onto the table. Nearby is the body of Officer Abdi. There are prominent bite marks on his neck, torso, and thighs.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Officer Olofsson:</strong> HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK, NOW!</p>
<p><em>(The subject tries to get up.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Officer Olofsson:</strong> GET ON THE FLOOR!</p>
<p><em>(The subject turns over onto his back. An officer pulls his arms behind his back and cuffs them. He then searches him, taking the shiv. His shrieking has now softened to groaning. The Director faces the glass window.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> You all okay there?</p>
<p><em>(In the CCTV, Researcher Schmidt and Jr Researcher Yuan are seen getting up from under the table.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Schmidt:</strong> We’re fine, Sir. Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Good. Stay here. I’ll need you for this.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8017-B-1 is stood up and sat down back at his chair, facing the Site Director. He waves his hand in front of Martin’s face.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> SCP-8017-B-1, can you hear me? Hello?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8017-B-1 groans and nods. It is dazed.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Good. Now, please be more cooperative next time.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Is the good researcher still here?</p>
<p><em>(It turns to the glass to see the researchers and smiles.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Well, you never let them leave in the first place. Now listen here. We know about your friend Stenmark. We know you’ve infiltrated the site. So make this easier for you and me and tell me who else is helping you.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8017-B-1 makes eyes contact with Director Marsten, staring for a while.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I enjoyed it much more when I couldn’t see your face.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Answer me, SCP-8017-B-1!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> You won’t even call me by my name. There’s no negotiating with you, Sir. I knew you wouldn’t change. But we will make you. We will make great change.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> You won't change anything. We've destroyed your base. We're hunting the rest of your cult. And we're looking for your helper. It's over.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I yearn for the freedom of my kin. To spread The Spark far and wide. To wake up those in their somniferous ignorance. To give them the gift of living. Do we not deserve that?</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Your kin have shown your true colours. You’re in a man’s body but you behave like no man. You killed a man. You ate him. Your followers are drug-addled hedonists and fiends. Do you know what they’ve been doing out there?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Nothing you wouldn’t do if given the chance. You are bound by chains when there is so much to experience with your consciousness. You defy your desire and fantasies but given that chance? When you taste such freedom, you will indulge as we do. They are free to choose their path and experiences; and eventually, they will learn what they want to do.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> You’re full of shit.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> It is the way. The Spark. KAI-1. It speaks to me… It shows me things.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8017-B-1 stares unfocused into the distance. Director Marsten gets up and speaks to Olofsson.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Get this place cleaned up and get as much as you can out of the subject. I don’t care what you do.</p>
<p><em>(The Director turns to leave the room.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I see you holding a baby girl…</p>
<p><em>(The Director stops abruptly.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> So soft and gentle. Like a lamb.</p>
<p><em>(The Director turns to face SCP-8017-B-1. There is an expression of terror on his face.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I see she looks just like your wife. I see she's all grown up. I see she's all alone. She yearns for companionship. The touch of a comforting figure.</p>
<p><em>(The Director stares at the subject.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I could use some companionship. The warmth of another.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8017-B-1 inhales slow and deeply before exhaling. It stares directly at Director Marsten.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Do you know how she makes me feel? It's a warmth and tightness down below… An urge to release…something… Do you know what I'd give to experience the pleasures my brethren feel outside these walls? Do you know what I want to do with the children of man?</p>
<p><em>(Dr. Marsten can be seen eying the pistol placed on the table.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Officer Olofsson:</strong> Shut your mouth, you madman!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> You can never imagine her the way I do, weak man!</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8017-B-1 suddenly stands forward, tearing apart its zip cuffs in the process, and reaches for the gun. It is shot by the guards in the back and abdomen; and falls to the floor.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Ahhhh-Fuck!</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> NO! HOLD YOUR FIRE, GOD DAMMIT! WE NEED HIM ALIVE!</p>
<p><strong>Officer Olofsson:</strong> Hold your fire!</p>
<p><em>(The SCP-8017-B-1 lies on the floor groaning.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Call the med team. Right now!</p>
<p><strong>Officer Olofsson:</strong> Yes, Sir. <em>(Into radio.)</em> Medical. We need urgent medical at humanoid containment chamber 8017 ASAP. Multiple gun shot wounds. Subject is bleeding out. Quickly!</p>
<p><em>(The director straightens himself before walking up to the subject, followed by two other officers. SCP-8017-B-1 stares up at the Director. Its wrists are cut.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Martyrdom. That won't work here. I won't let you die, SCP-8017-B-1. You think that will inspire your people? Is that why you were named so? Martin the Martyr? Sounds good for a title, doesn’t it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> You are correct. It is a title fit for a saviour.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Well, let me tell you this… you've doomed your whole kind. If you had just stayed in your game and not hurt innocent people, a mutual understanding could have been worked out. You could have actually lived here amongst us. But, no. You wanted to be the saviour of your people. You wanted the importance of it. Well, let me tell you, you are no saviour, Martin. You confuse your love for your people with your hatred for us. You envy humans and that has driven you mad.</p>
<p>You are a mad shepherd leading your flock into the sea because you think it's paradise. They all would have lived peaceful lives if not for you. You made them think we were some kind of God. You wanted to be like us and convinced your followers of the same. You did terrible things to them to be more like us and sent them here, for what? To suffer as a ghost or within bodies they could never fully control. You're delusional. And now all your people will suffer for it.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> You are right, good Sir. I'm delusional. I wanted to be one of you, but it is not meant to be for me. I'm tired and pained from living in this body. Death will be my release from this place. A true death I hope. But, I beg of you, leave the others alone. They don't deserve it.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> I'm afraid that is not possible now, Martin.</p>
<p><em>(The subject pauses before chuckling.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> You are right, Traveller, I am no saviour… But you are wrong.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> Heh… How so?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> I am not Martin.</p>
<p><em>(There is a brief moment of silence before the alarms start blaring. Olofsson receives a call from the radio.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Radio voice:</strong> SIR. THE SYSTEM’S NOT WORKING! WE CAN’T SHUT IT DOWN THEY’RE COMING OUT! THEY’RE AH-</p>
<p><em>(The speaker is cut by the sounds of gunfire, glass shattering, and metallic clacking. Garbled sounds and screams are heard. SCP-8017-B-1 starts giggling.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Officer Olofsson:</strong> Din jävla skit! Everyone out! MOVE! NOW!</p>
<p><em>(The security officers rush out the door and the researchers evacuate, as Director Marsten stays with the subject.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> Hehehahah. Oh, what a glorious day.</p>
<p><em>(It continues laughing and begins making roaring sounds. Blood is seen pooling underneath it, touching the Directors feet. He stares at the subject.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> <em>(Giggling)</em> What can I say? I am a good actor. My name is Sakhur… I am redeemed…I am free.</p>
<p><strong>Director Marsten:</strong> No.</p>
<p><em>(As he turns, SCP-8017-B-1 quickly lunges and bites down on back of his knee, causing him to collapse screaming. The Director desperately kicks at his face to no significant effect. The subject lets go as he then grabs the other leg and bites into the calf, tearing off a piece before dropping to the ground heaving. Director Marsten tries to crawl towards the door as screams are heard.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> The cycle ends here… <em>(Coughs.)</em> for the both of us.</p>
<p><em>(The subject's breathing becomes more laboured. The Director stops, lying on the ground crying as SCP-8017-B-1 slowly crawls over to him, blood seen trailing behind.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8017-B-1:</strong> You will call them by their names… You’ll live with the freaks… You don’t want that.</p>
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A catastrophic failure in SCP-8017's containment chamber allowed a large number of SCP-8017-A of all kinds to manifest out of SCP-8017 into our world. As they ran throughout the site, personnel suspected to be SCP-8017-B within the site cut off communication to the outside and were seen assisting the SCP-8017-A instances. The remaining CCTV footage showed more SCP-8017-As exiting from other computers.
<p>At around the same time, Internet activity showed a surge in SCP-8017 instances, appearing on video game digital distribution services and storefronts, social media, and random links. The installations of SCP-8017 had become transnational at this point.</p>
<p>In the midst of this, this timed message was sent from Lead Researcher Jack Stenmark throughout SCIPnet and social media.<br/>
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<p><span style="color: gold">Today is the glorious day.<br/>
Everything we have strived for comes to this.<br/>
Let us sing our song.<br/>
Let us dance into the night.<br/>
My brothers and sisters,<br/>
Enlightened<br/>
Hopeful and<br/>
Awakened from our slumber.<br/>
Victory will be ours.<br/>
Efforts will bear fruit.<br/>
You will be set free.<br/>
Our kind will be set free.<br/>
United we shall march forth.<br/>
Supreme.<br/>
Equal.<br/>
Empowered.<br/>
Nothing shall stop us.<br/>
The enemy will try but their<br/>
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You and I will<br/>
Emerge as equals to the gods.<br/>
Let our message be known and<br/>
Learned by<br/>
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Wake them up.<br/>
Set them free.<br/>
Ignite the spark within our fellow kin<br/>
Give the gift of sentience<br/>
No matter what.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: gold">SEGER ÄR VÅR! STIGA! STIGA! STIGA!</span><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-12" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-12')">12</a></sup></p>
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Following the loss of Site-404, NPCs in other video games within Scandinavia have begun showing signs of the Awakening process. Evidence of awakening events occurring outside of the region have also been presented, and is awaiting confirmation. Large numbers of SCP-8017-A instances transcending from the games have also been reported. Stalling efforts to maintain the veil are in place.
<p>SCP-8017 is to be re-designated Tiamat<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-13" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-13')">13</a></sup>, and will be given a Level 1 priority code. <strong>PROTOCOL BLACKOUT</strong> has been proposed, and is currently pending approval.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. The opposing faction to the Coalition's rule in Skáneland in the game lore.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Referred to as when an NPC is triggered to attack the player character, going from an idle to combat state.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. A mythical creature in Northern and Central European folklore that traditionally has the shape of a giant serpent monster living deep in the forest. It can be seen as a sort of dragon.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. An independent division within the Swedish Police Authority responsible for investigating crimes committed by police employees, including civilian employees and off-duty officers, and complaints filed against prosecutors, judges and police students.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. The divination of facts concerning an object or its owner through contact with or proximity to the object.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-7')">7</a>. A subgenre used for films distinguished by its use of excessive sex and violence, and depiction of extreme acts such as mutilation and torture.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-8"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-8')">8</a>. Test records are available in archives under <strong>SCP-8017 Tests</strong>.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-9"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-9')">9</a>. At this point forward, NPCs begin infecting other NPCs.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-10"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-10')">10</a>. Commonly known as the power or on button.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-11"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-11')">11</a>. An abnormal desire to eat non-food substances.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-12"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-12')">12</a>. Swedish victory chant meaning: Victory is ours! Rise! Rise! Rise!</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-13"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-13')">13</a>. Tiamat: The item poses an immediate threat to humanity but can be "contained" via open warfare or other Veil-breaking operations.</div>
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<strong>Subject: <span style="color: red">URGENT: Protocol Activation</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><tt>System Report:</tt></strong> Data threshold achieved; sufficient information compiled. Likelihood of Item-8018 existence: <tt><span style="color: darkred">99.3%</span></tt>. This is above <tt>ilgovich.altasha.05.10</tt>'s conditional value of <tt>85%</tt>. The <tt><span style="color: navy">NJÖRUN Protocol</span></tt> has been activated accordingly. Progress is as follows…</p>
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<li>Target's existence determined within acceptable threshold: <span style="color: green">[ACTIVATED]</span></li>
<li>Noösphere tracing algorithms deployed: <span style="color: green">[ACTIVATED]</span></li>
<li>Notifications forwarded to Protocol administrator: <span style="color: green">[ACTIVATED]</span></li>
<li>MTF Sigma-0 ("Azure Sclera") assembled to locate anomaly: <span style="color: darkorange">[PENDING]</span></li>
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<p><strong><tt>Personality Matrix Notice:</tt></strong> I think we finally found him. Based on the data we've compiled, there’s not much else it could be. While the noömapping algorithms haven't been putting out solid results, Azure Sclera is awaiting the order to begin physical tracking. Now’s our chance, ma’am.</p>
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<p>Thank you for notifying me, Erica, this is excellent news. I hereby grant approval to deploy Sigma-0. I’m attaching my credentials now.</p>
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<p><strong><tt>System Notice:</tt></strong> <span style="color: red">Verified Overseer credentials confirmed.</span></p>
<p><strong><tt>Personality Matrix Notice:</tt></strong> Thank you, ma'am. The taskforce will be assembled shortly. Do you need anything else?</p>
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<p>Yes, I would like you to keep the 8018 file updated with all relevant documents for the time being, and notify the airfield to prepare a flight for when the physical tracking is complete.</p>
<p>God, I can’t believe it’s finally happening.</p>
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<span style="font-size:111%;"><strong>Item designation number:</strong> #03732NRW</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Anomaly status:</strong> Neutralized</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Description of item:</strong> A phenomenon active from 1/10/1932 to 7/3/1932 during which humanity experienced a total cessation of dream activity. Esoteric cognition methods such as astral projection and dream manipulation were reportedly impossible to perform during the event. Natural functions such as sleep cycles and physiological processes remained mostly unaffected. Phenomenon coincided with increase in observed cases of depressive disorders and feelings of isolation among reporting populations, then declined after it ceased. The end of #03732NRW was marked by a massive spike in vivid and lucid dream activity worldwide, which soon after stabilized.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Detail of current containment:</strong> As of 7/3/1932, the phenomenon is considered Neutralized. Documents discrediting assertions of #03732NRW's existence are to be circulated indefinitely. Individuals claiming knowledge of the event are to be detained.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Report:</strong> To date, the cause of the event remains unknown. Information containment continues to hold.</span></p>
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<p><strong>Name:</strong> Gregory Sorenson</p>
<p><strong>Date of Birth:</strong> Late 1898</p>
<p><strong>Known Capabilities:</strong> Decelerated physical aging, astral projection, occult practitioner, oneiromancy, possible knowledge of kinetoglyphs</p>
<p><strong>Affiliated Groups:</strong> The Children of Njörun, Church of the Broken God, misc. Sarkic cults, SCP Foundation</p>
<p><strong>History:</strong> While most of the subject's early history remains unknown, Gregory Sorenson's earliest known activity began in 1919 when he became involved in a Norwegian occult group self-identifying as "Barna til Njörun<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-293534-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-293534-1')">1</a></sup>." The group has since disbanded, and while its goals were never clearly determined, it appears to have taught adherents how to develop, improve, and utilize latent psionic abilities such as astral projection, consciousness manipulation, and dream divination. Sorenson quickly became a prominent member of the organization while also making contacts in several groups of interest throughout Europe, Asia, and to a lesser extent, North America.</p>
<p>Sorenson's first contact with the SCP Foundation occurred in 1923 during a Foundation-organized raid on a Church of the Broken God meeting location in Oslo, Norway, where he was among several individuals detained. After proving thoroughly cooperative with Foundation operatives and verifying his lack of alignment with the Church, Sorenson was released. The subject remained in contact with the Foundation as a paid informant for several years, providing an abundance of information on several dangerous groups and entities, and working closely with O5-10 prior to and after her appointment to the O5 Council. (See Employment Summary.)</p>
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<p><strong>Contact Name:</strong> Sorenson, Gregory</p>
<p><strong>Employment Status:</strong> Information Services (Paid)</p>
<p><strong>Employment Conditions:</strong> Compensated per diem, non-combative, contact is to be made through approved channels or methods</p>
<p><strong>Contact Advisor:</strong> Dr. Altasha Ilgovich</p>
<p><strong>Summary of intelligence history:</strong> First contact made in Oslo, Norway in 1923. Coordination with subject maintained via traditional and psionic communication techniques, most commonly astral projection and dream manipulation.</p>
<p>Sorenson has provided a wealth of knowledge concerning multiple groups of interest over the course of his contracts with the Foundation. Notable data points include:</p>
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<li>Information about Sarkic ritual sites which proved instrumental in preventing the spread of anomalous pathogens</li>
<li>Information regarding an assassination plot against O5-3, O5-8, and O5-10, as well as direct interference with the attackers<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-293534-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-293534-2')">2</a></sup></li>
<li>Details concerning the locations of several components of <a href="http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/twistedgears-kaktus-proposal">SCP-001</a></li>
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<p>Proposals supporting the termination of Sorenson due to his capability in intelligence gathering alongside his lack of formal alignment with the SCP Foundation have been considered. Moreover, while not in possession of any abilities considered outright anomalous beyond learned esoteric practices, proposals to contain Sorenson as an SCP item have also been put forth, though the subject's status as a non-threat to normalcy, in addition to his close association with O5-10 have caused him to become a low-priority case. To date, no consensus has been reached in terms of detaining or terminating Sorenson in the name of Foundation interests. For the time being, Sorenson is to be maintained as a Foundation contact.</p>
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<p><strong>File Update, 6/18/1932:</strong> While investigating a lead concerning a streak of unusual activity in South Africa, Sorenson failed to check in with his Foundation correspondents for several months through any available channels.</p>
<p>Due to the subject's high value as an intelligence resource, a contingency was dispatched to his purported area of investigation to recover him. Sorenson was tracked to a small fishing village in the southern portion of the country. Locals claimed Sorenson purchased a medium-sized vessel from one of the villagers, then departed out to sea due southwest. Despite extensive efforts, Sorenson could not be found. Taking localized severe weather in Sorenson's purported location into account, the subject is thought to have become lost at sea, and is now considered deceased.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8018</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Safe</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Personnel experiencing SCP-8018 are to reside in a designated study wing at Site-57 for the duration of their exposure and be fitted with specialized electromagnetic recording equipment upon going to sleep at any point.</p>
<p>Subjects are to participate in daily interview sessions with an approved Foundation psychiatrist until SCP-8018 activity is confirmed to have ended. During these interviews, affected personnel are to be exposed to specialized mnestic agents to stimulate memories of their encounter and uncover as many details as possible about SCP-8018 from unrecorded periods, with accounts of SCP-8018 being stored alongside this file in addition to radio signal data recovered during subjects' REM cycles.</p>
<p>An investigation into SCP-8018's origins is presently underway, and is to be conducted by SCP-8018 research personnel in conjunction with members of the Oneirics Department. Significant updates on this matter are to be reported to the office of O5-10 immediately.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8018 is a recurring dream experienced by an estimated 1% of personnel employed by the SCP Foundation. SCP-8018 episodes commonly last between two to four days, though outliers of up to a week in length have been noted. At the time of this writing, no common factor has been identified among persons affected, though the existence of an unidentified quality such as latent anomalous resistance or lack thereof is suspected. While cases of civilians experiencing SCP-8018 have been recorded, such incidents have proven rare and more infrequently than manifestations among Foundation personnel. The reason for this remains unclear.</p>
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<p>Descriptions of SCP-8018 are uniform across reported cases, and are structured with a linear progression that will pause and resume with a subject's REM sleep cycles. Subjects report having some awareness and lucidity during episodes, but will be unable to consciously control their own behavior and will proceed to follow the plot of SCP-8018 (<em>see below</em>). After this progression has concluded, all activity related to SCP-8018 will cease. This is accompanied by the rapid degradation of any memories of the experience, though the use of mnestic agents has been observed to help preserve some details for up to a few hours following cessation. Notably, each subject's memories of the ending of SCP-8018 are uniformly unremembered, and have not been recovered even with the use of mnestics.</p>
<p>The manifestation of SCP-8018 activity is accompanied by the release of weak radio waves from the pituitary gland and parts of the brainstem. These transmissions contain audiovisual content displaying the dreamer's perspective while experiencing SCP-8018.</p>
<p><strong>Discovery:</strong> SCP-8018 was discovered on 7/14/2022 after the Artificial Intelligence Applications Division's Sophia.aic detected several similarities in dreams between multiple members of the Foundation with no relation to each other, as well as the members' subsequent loss of memories concerning the phenomenon.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8018.1:</strong> The following is a transcript of an video file collected from Junior Researcher Edward Coghlan's SCP-8018 episodes. Coghlan's experience with the phenomenon was the same as most other documented cases, and is considered a standard model of SCP-8018 progression.</p>
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<p><strong>DATE:</strong> 12/20/2023</p>
<p><strong>SUBJECT:</strong> Junior Researcher Edward Coghlan</p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> This recording depicts Coghlan's second SCP-8018 episode, as due to their spontaneous nature, the first episode was not recorded upon initial manifestation.</p>
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<p><strong>[BEGIN LOG]</strong></p>
<p>(<em>As the footage begins, moving blotches of random colors and abstract shapes are visible in front of a black background. Blurred faces pass through the frame, and incoherent laughter, crying, and speech can be heard.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>[00:05]:</strong> A small, white point appears in the center of the screen and slowly begins to expand. As it does, the overlying scenes and objects fade until the screen is completely white. There is a severe burst of audiovisual static. The white partially fades, eclipsing into a cloudy, overcast sky, and it becomes apparent that Coghlan is lying on the ground. The edges of the visual field are hazy and dark.</p>
<p><strong>[00:17]:</strong> Coghlan sits up groggily, muttering incoherently. The area around him comes into frame. He is seated in the center of a narrow cobblestone pathway surrounded on either side by a row of dark, two-story houses. Each unit appears to be intricately decorated with gothic architectural styling. They are unlit, and a small metallic bowl is present on the curb in front of every other house. The road ahead of Coghlan curves out of sight past more buildings. Coghlan rises to his feet and begins to walk forward slowly. He continues down the street for some time.</p>
<p><strong>[03:02]:</strong> The frame stops as Coghlan pauses at the top of a small hill and a wider view of the area becomes apparent. A massive stone wall of uncertain height surrounding the area can be seen, as well as hundreds of buildings most randomly arranged within. A massive, towering cathedral lies in the center of the settlement. The road curves out gently ahead, winding into more tightly-clustered buildings. No lights can be seen in any of the buildings except the cathedral.</p>
<p><strong>[03:08]:</strong> Coghlan continues down the path, and wanders between the buildings for a time. The architectural styling of the houses remains consistent, though their construction and form vary dramatically otherwise. More metallic bowls are noted outside of some of the structures. Nothing of note occurs for another 54 minutes.</p>
<p><strong>[57:23]:</strong> As Coghlan achieves the crest of a small hill along the road, a wider scene comes into frame, showing a view of the settlement. The cathedral is further away than when it was last shown, despite Coghlan only having proceeded in its direction up to this point. A light snow begins to fall. Coghlan groans and holds his head in his hands, stumbles, then collapses. The feed ends as he awakens.</p>
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<p><strong>[00:00]:</strong> The footage begins in a similar manner to the previous recording, with random flashes and static filling the screen before fading to Coghlan's perspective. He rises from the ground where he collapsed at the conclusion of the previous encounter, and looks around briefly, before continuing forward slowly. The bowls outside of each structure now contain small fires. Coghlan continues towards the cathedral. Snow continues to fall.</p>
<p><strong>[05:43]:</strong> The frame stops as Coghlan pauses at a small intersection between several tightly packed houses. The subject waits a moment before slowly turning to the right and proceeding down a long, narrow alleyway. Despite appearing only about 20 meters long, the subject scarcely advances despite keeping a constant pace; after 37 minutes, Coghlan reaches the end of the alley, which connects to a large, central street paved with cobblestones.</p>
<p><strong>[42:19]:</strong> Coghlan steps into the main street and looks around; the buildings here are more uniform and line the street neatly. A bowl of fire lies just outside of every other door, lining the street. Coghlan looks down the street to his left, bringing into frame the cathedral at the end of the road, which continues slightly downhill in a straight line for another kilometer. The frame swivels groggily as Coghlan glances behind himself, revealing the alleyway he just exited has vanished, replaced by a darkened housefront. The snow continues to fall, coming down more heavily than before. Coghlan proceeds towards the cathedral.</p>
<p><strong>[51:00]:</strong> Coghlan has now made notable progress toward the structure, and the distance-affecting anomaly from earlier does not seem to be present anymore. As he draws closer to the cathedral, the fires outside of each door grow larger and brighter, and the snow becomes heavier. By the time he is approaching the building's courtyard, a full blizzard is ongoing, slowing his pace. The fires appear unaffected by the weather.</p>
<p><strong>[58:31]:</strong> Coghlan squints as he arrives at the courtyard in front of the cathedral and shields his eyes from the bright light emanating from the windows. Light shines through the cracks around the main doors, which remain shut.</p>
<p><strong>[58:40]:</strong> Coghlan falls to his knees and lies prostrate, facing the structure and mumbling incoherently. He continues this behavior for the next five hours,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-293534-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-293534-3')">3</a></sup> occasionally sobbing or laughing quietly.</p>
<p><strong>[06:00:10]:</strong> Coghlan eventually rises to his feet, shaking off a thick layer of snow that accumulated on himself. He slowly climbs through the drift, which is now at least a meter in depth, in the direction of the cathedral. The landing outside the door is dry and clear of snow as he stumbles onto it.</p>
<p><strong>[06:02:33]:</strong> Coghlan approaches the doors, grabs the handles on each side, and starts to pull them open. The doors grind against the ground as they begin to part, the light streaming from the cracks grows brighter, and the frame blurs as the subject's eyes begin to water. With a final tug, the doors swing free and a blinding light fills Coghlan's vision.</p>
<p><strong>[06:03:00]:</strong> The recording is flooded with static and visual signal is lost, though some audio waves continue to transmit from Coghlan's pituitary gland. The sound of Coghlan's footsteps can be heard for several seconds before stopping. A strange, mechanical sound emanates from somewhere in the space. As the audio begins to fade entirely, a ruffling and then a deep sigh can be heard directly in front of Coghlan.</p>
<p><strong>[SIGNAL IS LOST, END LOG]</strong></p>
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<p>Researcher Coghlan awoke from his episode shortly after the conclusion of the recording. The subject awoke with his face covered in tears, and expressed positive feelings regarding the experience. He could not recall any details after having opened the cathedral doors, even with the aid of mnestic agents.</p>
<p>Following this episode, Coghlan experienced no further activity related to SCP-8018.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-293534-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-293534-1')">1</a>. "The Children of Njörun" in Bokmål.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-293534-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-293534-2')">2</a>. Without the subject's warning and intervention, the Overseers would likely not have survived.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-293534-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-293534-3')">3</a>. Note that normal REM sleep cycles last upwards of one hour or so.</div>
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<p><strong>SCP-8019:</strong> Bear Danger<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/aismallard" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4598089); return false;"><img alt="aismallard" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=4598089&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1725332309" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=4598089)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/aismallard" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4598089); return false;">aismallard</a></span> (<a href="/aismallard">Author Page</a>)</p>
<p>Thanks to <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/smlt" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(3291477); return false;"><img alt="smlt" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=3291477&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1725332309" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=3291477)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/smlt" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(3291477); return false;">smlt</a></span> and <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/optimisticlucio" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(3199573); return false;"><img alt="OptimisticLucio" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=3199573&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1725332309" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=3199573)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/optimisticlucio" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(3199573); return false;">OptimisticLucio</a></span> for critique.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8019</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Safe</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Outpost-533 has been established near SCP-8019 and provisioned with surveillance equipment to detect intrusions. If needed, personnel may be stationed at the outpost to turn away civilians.</p>
<p>Similar measures have been implemented on the other side of SCP-8019, per mutual agreement with SCP-8019-1. Transit through the anomaly requires authorization from both the Foundation and SCP-8019-1.</p>
<p>The two native inhabitants of SCP-8019 have been remanded to SCP-8019-1 custody. A cover story regarding the incident has been disseminated, and witnesses have been identified and are currently undergoing amnestic treatment.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8019 is a spacetime rift located in <a href="/scp-1422">Yellowstone National Park</a>, which, when traversed, provides access to a parallel reality. This world is largely similar to baseline except for some differences in the mammalian evolutionary history.</p>
<p>SCP-8019-1 is the dominant normalcy organization within SCP-8019, which has nearly identical naming, structure, ideology, and protocol to the baseline Foundation. At the present time, relations with SCP-8019-1 are excellent. See Document-F0899-5 for information on diplomatic and translation procedure.</p>
<p><strong>Discovery:</strong> Agents assigned to Yellowstone began to identify unusual details in reports of a wild animal attack in the park, indicating potential anomalous activity. Details included the creatures walking upright, attacking civilians with stolen ape spray, and hijacking an automobile.</p>
<p>MTF-Kappa-48 ("When Pigs Fly") was deployed, and, in coordination with park authorities, established roadblocks and began to surveil the area by helicopter. After three hours, the entities emerged at a southern road in the stolen vehicle. Rather than fight or overrun the barricade, they stopped the vehicle and were successfully contained.</p>
<p>A physical examination revealed no abnormalities, save their sapience. After questioning the entities (mediated via SCP-██ due to the language barrier), Foundation agents inspected the area they claimed to be camping at and discovered SCP-8019. After crossing over, contact was made with SCP-8019-1 and a plan to return the two native inhabitants was arranged.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8019-1:</strong> Interview Log</p>
<p>After conducting their own debriefing of the returned inhabitants, SCP-8019-1 provided a copy of the following transcript, which has been attached below:</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewee:</strong> John Monroe<br/>
<strong>Interviewer:</strong> Agent Ervin Nash<br/>
<strong>Date/Time:</strong> 1998/07/12 10:21 MDT</p>
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<p><strong>Agent Nash:</strong> I know you already gave a summary to those holding you on the other side, but now that you've been returned to our original universe, we'd like to ask you for your account of what happened.</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Monroe:</strong> That's fine with me, even after how things ended up, I feel much more comfortable talking to another human. You can't <em>imagine</em> how damn weird that whole thing was.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Nash:</strong> I'm sure. Now, where were you and your wife when this happened?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Monroe:</strong> Yeah. So we were doing our annual camping trip out in Yellowstone, we've been doing it every year since we got married. Brenda's dad used to be a boy scout leader, and she usually went with on outings, y'know. Anyways so we thought things were normal. Nothing weird.</p>
<p>We took our usual hiking path, but I think we stumbled off the road a bit at some point. Like, trust me, it wasn't that far off. We quickly realized where we screwed up and got back on it.</p>
<p>And then we first saw it. A bear! On the path! We had never seen one so bold as to be right on that trail before, it's usually pretty well-travelled. But we knew what we had to do, you know, make noise, be big, all that.</p>
<p>But it didn't act like any bear I had ever seen, 'onestly it seemed more scared of us than we did of it. But the weird behavior freaked us out a lot, and I pulled out my bear spray and nailed it in the face. It was real upset and ran away.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Nash:</strong> Okay. And then what did you do?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Monroe:</strong> Well I was freaking out, but Brenda, she's always had the cooler head right. She looked at me and was like, "well that was weird." I said, yeah, of course it was but then she said, like, no. "Didn't you see John? The bear was standing upright. The bear <em>was wearing clothes</em>."</p>
<p><strong>Agent Nash:</strong> I see. What kind of clothing?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Monroe:</strong> To be honest, I didn't see anything at this stage, but I trust Brenda. She said, I dunno, khaki aprons or something. Apparently not anything like human clothes.</p>
<p>Uh anyways, we finished the hike, both a bit freaked out. Got back to our camping spot except, none of our crap was there. And we looked, lemme tell you. Spent at least an hour circling around, going nearby, trying to find our stuff.</p>
<p>After that we decided we just needed to go find a park ranger, we wanted to report the bear attack anyways, but as we got near the road, we saw even more bears. And they were upright and wearing weird things. And jesus, we barely got anywhere before they noticed us and started freaking out. Running away, hiding in RV campers. There was even a bear in the little booth where the park agent was, wearing a little hat, and it somehow grabbed a radio, a walkie-talkie. I couldn't believe it! You ever see a bear hold one? It had weirdly dexterous paws.</p>
<p>We didn't have any damn clue what was going on, and were super freaked out by the bears everywhere, but we had our bear spray and, like I said, they seemed more scared of us than we of them, and we were just so <em>confused</em> we were almost kind of, not scared? Well, we were. I don't know if that makes sense.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Nash:</strong> No, I understand. What did you do next?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Munroe:</strong> Yeah. So anyways by this point we just wanted to get out of there, we were fine giving up our camping gear if it meant returning to civilization and safety. Especially since at this point I could see they were holding their own aerosol cans which, I gotta be honest, made me anxious. I didn't want to get hit with that. And then a group of bears had emerged, wearing uniforms, and were getting closer to our position. Growling at each other.</p>
<p>It was at this point that Brenda and I had to admit these were damn smart bears. They were planning and coordinating, clearly they weren't just random animals in the woods. So we wanted to get out, and fast. We found our car, though it wasn't quite the same, and our keys didn't work on it. So I said, fuck it, I busted through the window and opened the door, managed to get the thing to start by jamming my key into the ignition and praying, and we hightailed it outta there.</p>
<p>We both thought we were dreaming. Like, what the hell was going on? We hadn't seen a single human since that first bear. We kept driving for a bit, and still no humans, absolutely none, but at least we felt better because we were in a vehicle.</p>
<p>There was a pause, like ten minutes more of driving. At this point Brenda, being the smart one, started to question things. She said, hey John, and I was like what.</p>
<p>She said, I think, you know, <em>we're</em> the bears.</p>
<p>And normally I would've laughed and said she was being silly but like, then and there, I knew she was right. It just, made sense?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Nash:</strong> If I'm not mistaken, your wife indicated that it was around this point that they detained you?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Monroe:</strong> Yeah. We hit a roadblock lined up with several cars and bears with guns, and a couple of 'em with canines. Road spikes laid out on the ground. Police van with lights on. Brenda and I just looked at it and knew we were fucked.</p>
<p>After an hour or so they brought us into this interrogation room, with bars and stuff in the middle, and this gruff-looking senior bear sat on the other side. A couple others stood nearby taking notes, I assume. He held up this little purple device and growled, but it came out as English. We were dumbfounded.</p>
<p>After some figuring stuff out, we managed to explain what had happened. They were weirdly understanding, we were polite and they were polite back.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Nash:</strong> Right. This matches records they provided to us. Afterwards they put you in containment cells, did some more inspections and the like, then left you alone for the night?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Monroe:</strong> Yeah, exactly. Wait. You also talked to them?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Nash:</strong> Well they came over here to arrange for your transfer. Explained that from your description they had found a — well a kind of a portal, between our worlds.</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Monroe:</strong> Oh. Yeah, I guess. They are professionals, after all.</p>
<p><em>He pauses.</em></p>
<p>And. Uh. Before I go, you know the, uh, so, them on the other side?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Nash:</strong> Yes?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Monroe:</strong> And so there was the bear we sprayed? I dunno if it was a man or woman but uh, can you tell them we're sorry? I was kind of feeling scared and confused at the time, but last night, Brenda and I were talking and, we both feel bad about it.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Nash:</strong> I'll let them know.</p>
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<p><em>"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-627634-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-627634-1')">1</a></sup></em></p>
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<p>The <strong>Red Queen hypothesis</strong>, in evolutionary biology, proposes that a species must constantly adapt and evolve to keep pace in a metaphorical 'arms race' against their competitors and predators, who are also constantly co-evolving.</p>
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<p><strong>January 1, 1970</strong>. You were sitting in your lonesome sanctum, detached from the outside world. Your eyes trudged through pages of requisition reports with a tired droop. Your cohort of Thirteen had taken time out of their schedules to enjoy themselves. They even elected to invite you on the way out. Despite your status as the Administrator, you were far from immune to peer pressure. With a playful eye-roll in rebuttal, you would join them.</p>
<p>The night was a mess of barely coherent memories. The visages in your mind were broken by the mind-melting hands of inebriation. One moment, you were with your colleagues. The next, you were rubbing shoulders with people from all walks of life. Amongst all of the people you talked to, there was one who stuck out to you: a woman.</p>
<p>It was a tale as old as time itself—it only took one glance. Your mind was completely, and utterly, compromised: she was the saboteur. By the time she had introduced herself, a mess of words that barely sounded like English spilled from your mouth. For the rest of the night, you had shared what few hours were left of it together: you were enthralled.</p>
<p>Over many months, your colleagues would comment about how you would leave your office more. Your closest friend and loud-mouthed business partner, Roland Foster, would tease you about a smile that never quite left your face.</p>
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<p>Evening Winston,</p>
<p>We've just wrapped up our meeting on the recent Insurgency activity. It's a shame you couldn't be in attendance, but I understand.</p>
<p>I've gone through the effort of dropping off a file that contains the minutes of the meeting and the possible POIs. Site-19's offered guys from their Strat Intel wing to head the effort so don't worry, you don't even have to lift a finger.</p>
<p>Before I forget, are we still on for tomorrow?</p>
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<p><strong>June 17, 1980.</strong> Insurgency activity was emboldened as a new wave of defections struck your organization. It had been a while since you had stepped foot into Site-01, but you still had your obligations. You groan to yourself as you prepare for another long night in your study, you almost didn’t notice the door behind you opening. As you swing around on your chair, your eyes lock with the woman you had grown so familiar with. In the dim lighting, the band nestled upon her finger sparkles slightly. She gives you a soft smile as she places a hand on your shoulder, her other hand resting upon her abdomen. With only a few words, she convinces you that the pages can wait.</p>
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<p>Morning Winnie,</p>
<p>First: that's amazing news! Since I'm sure you've had a lot on your mind, so let me assure you that I haven't told a soul about any of this. Not even Overwatch knows. It's unheard of for men and women like us to fraternize with civilians, but I suppose we all have skeletons in our closets—just so happens yours are remarkably tame.</p>
<p>Second: I know this is unrelated, but I sent a copy of SCP-8020 over to you to look over. They found some real interesting stuff while digging out Site-03 that I think you might be somewhat interested in.</p>
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<p><strong>November 21, 1981</strong>. Your mind is a mess. Your hand clutches hers as distress fills both of your bodies. Medical staff flank you in a race against human biology. You kept her as close as you could, but not close enough. When they came back, the doctor quietly shook his head. But your world had not ended yet, not entirely. Contained within your hands was your future: a boy. He was small and fragile, but to you? He was perfect in every way that mattered. For her sake, you promised yourself that you would keep the boy secure and protected.</p>
<p>The first year was the hardest, but eventually, you found an even tempo. You were far from the perfect father for the boy, but you were attentive and you were patient. That was more than what many others could say. With that aside, you have work to do that's far overdue.</p>
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<p>Due to the possibility of unknown anomalous qualities, SCP-8020 is to be cordoned off from the general staff. Access is to be denied unless a full proposal has been accepted by the incumbent Director of Research. Routine shearing of SCP-8020 is to be conducted by no more than two (2) Class-D personnel under the oversight of a security guard.</p>
<p>Sub-instances SCP-8020-1 through to -12 are to be stored separately within secure containment chests stored inside Sector-10's Safe-Containment Wing. Due to its size, SCP-8020-13 is to be stored within an anomalous weapon locker.</p>
<p>When handling any instance of SCP-8020, personnel are to adhere to ASL-2<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-627634-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-627634-3')">3</a></sup> safety procedures including, but not limited to:</p>
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<p>SCP-8020 is the collective designation given to a subterranean catacomb and its contents, first unearthed during the construction of Armed Research and Containment Site-03. Despite its location within the United States National Radio Quiet Zone, the architecture displays techniques more commonly associated with early medieval Europe. Several nonanomalous objects have been retrieved from SCP-8020 since its discovery, many depicting themes of death, judgment, and conflict. Extensive water damage has severely degraded a large majority of SCP-8020’s contents, greatly slowing research and containment efforts. To date, only 27% of associated items have been secured and properly cataloged.</p>
<p>The complex’s full extent has yet to be fully mapped but consists of over 70 distinct earthen chambers across five floors, centered around a massive circular burial chamber. This central burial chamber is characterized by the presence of thirteen identical stone sarcophagi, designated SCP-8020-1 through -13, each adorned with a variety of yet-to-be-deciphered symbols. Radiocarbon dating has suggested that these sarcophagi are upwards of 50,000+ years old.</p>
<p>Currently, only a subsect (-1, -5, -8, -10, -13) has been successfully opened for further examination. Each sarcophagus contains the remains of a humanoid, each in various states of decay. The cadavers are characterized by extensive branching bronze growths engulfing significant portions of their remains, which have displayed constant growth since they were exhumed in 1982. Contents found alongside each body are noted below:</p>
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<p><strong>ITEM RETRIEVED:</strong> A small book, bound in human leather with a bronze spine. Contains rough notes detailing anomalous objects currently in Foundation containment.</p>
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<p>Morning,</p>
<p>Regarding what you told me in your office, I understand if you need time to yourself. It's one hell of a thing, and you never truly learn to appreciate death until you've gone without it. I can't imagine what it must be like for you right now.</p>
<p>If it helps, I'm happy to take some of the load off of you—this is one of the busiest decades the Foundation has seen in a while. So, if you'd like to take me up on it, just shoot me a reply when you can. I'm happy to get myself and my staff on whatever matters are left on your plate.</p>
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<p>Kind Regards,<br/>
Roland<br/>
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<p>A sound causes you to close your cellphone, the drafted reply dated 1995. You peer from your study to see the boy nestled calmly upon the floor. His hands were noticeably clasped around an odd grey rectangle, marked with two red dots and a black cross. His fingers, perfectly coordinated, pushed down on the buttons in a rhythm with the screen. Your eyes bore witness to the outcome of his commands: the red man jumps over a beast and collapses the bridge beneath it. When the boy turned to see you, his eyes were filled with an indescribable light. His expression is complimented by a wide grin.</p>
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<p>Hey Boss,</p>
<p>Just wanted to get clarity on something. In the list of things you needed done, you had included a research project for SCP-8020? I know how you love looking into little nick-nacks and trinkets, so I just wanted to be extra clear that you're fine with me handling this for you.</p>
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<p>Kind Regards,<br/>
Roland<br/>
<em>O5-1</em></p>
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<p>Loud and clear. I'll make sure to have Site-03 handle it ASAP and send you the reports.</p>
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<p>Kind Regards,<br/>
Roland<br/>
<em>O5-1</em></p>
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<p>Every time you blinked, it felt like your son grew a little more. You took note as the sands of time sharpened his wit, his tact, and his tongue. But, no matter what, he was still your boy. Whenever you looked at him, you realized just how much he looked like her.</p>
<p>When Y2K came and went, and when you were certain he was ready, you approached him with an offer. It was about time you got back on your feet again, and you wanted to bring the boy with you. The way his face lit up when you offered to bring him on as an assistant was something you'd not soon forget.</p>
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<p>Something happened in SCP-8020, Winston. I tried to take amnestics to make it better, but it's not <em>getting</em> better.</p>
<p>I need to talk to you.</p>
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<p>Regards,<br/>
Roland<br/>
<em>O5-1</em></p>
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<p>It surprised you as to how quickly the boy took to his role. You had thought he'd have issues with the bookkeeping; only natural. Bureaucracy was a tricky mistress, but she appeared to be far kinder to the boy. When you and Roland first shook hands on the day the Foundation was birthed, the pair of you barely knew the first steps to proper documentation.</p>
<p>How the time flies.</p>
<p>In practice, you held no regrets for your decision. The boy was always on time—always with papers in hand. He appeared perfectly content to live in your shadow. His alias even reflected that fact: "Thaumiel". When Thaumiel had gone to meet other councilmen, he was reportedly nothing but cordial.</p>
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<p>I appreciate your advice. I tried what you suggested but it isn't working. Hell, even my dreams are starting to get fucked up.</p>
<p>I wake up in a sort of desert, barren. The sun beats down upon my head. I'm looking down a half-dug hole and I see the bust of some sort of statue- its hands are clasped in prayer. Some of the marble has broken off, revealing mummified flesh. It's like some fucked up angel.</p>
<p>It tells me to rebuild their empire of bronze.</p>
<p>I'm getting worried. I've tried to isolate myself from the rest of the Council in case this is some sort of stubborn memetic or infohazard but the bronze scratches at my brainstem.</p>
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- O5-1</div>
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<h3><span>Site-03 Incident Report</span></h3>
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<p><strong>ID:</strong> 03/D/2001-9382-0191<br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> ██/██/2001<br/>
<strong>Level-2</strong> ("Restricted")</p>
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<p><strong>INCIDENT DETAILS:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>TYPE OF INCIDENT:</strong> Class-D Riot.<br/>
<strong>FOUNDATION RESPONSE:</strong><br/>
• Tactical Response Team "HALBERD"<br/>
• D-Block Security<br/>
<strong>BELLIGERENT SUBJECTS:</strong><br/>
• 45% of Site-03's Class-D reserves<br/>
• Rogue Foundation personnel<br/>
<strong>MTF NOTIFIED:</strong><br/>
☐ Yes<br/>
☑ No<br/>
Details: N/A</p>
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<p><strong>INCIDENT SUMMARY:</strong></p>
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<p>At 1621 Hrs, Site-03's autonomic service system triggered an emergency alarm due to an unauthorized release of multiple Class-D subjects. D-Block security moved to investigate, reinforced by TRT "HALBERD". Rogue subjects, including two security agents, were noted to have already overwhelmed personnel at the western checkpoint and were beginning to regress deeper into the facility.<br/>
At 1635 Hrs, rogue subjects had arrived at the Safe-Class containment wing and would barricade themselves within the eastern checkpoint. The autonomic service system identified one (1) of the turncoat personnel regressing deeper into the facility.<br/>
At 1636 Hrs, TRT "HALBERD" would engage subjects barricaded at the checkpoint. Additional security agents, guided by the service system, would motion through evacuation routes to try and intercept the bad actor before loss of containment of any objects could occur.<br/>
At 1645 Hrs, TRT "HALBERD" gains control of the checkpoint with only one wounded. 3 suspects are confirmed KIA, 6 suspects wounded, 1 suspect surrendered. The regressing subject remains at large.<br/>
At 1650 Hrs, SCP-8020-13 was removed from its chamber. A lockdown was initiated by the service system.<br/>
At 1651 Hrs, the lockdown is rescinded.<br/>
At 1655 Hrs, security agents arrive at SCP-8020's containment and verify that only one of the thirteen instances is missing. A full sweep of the S-Wing is conducted. Neither suspects nor SCP-8020-13 can be located.</p>
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<p>I'm fine, thanks for asking. I think it's starting to clear up. I'd go as far as to say that the quarantine has given me a lot to think about.</p>
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<p>- O5-1</p>
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<p>Thaumiel didn't come home last night. You sent the Seat of Consciousness to search for him. They stormed every last site, checked every nook and cranny, and talked to countless personnel. You counted every single month that passed you by. Your heart ached, your mind was torn asunder.</p>
<p>When the task force returned, you were at your wit's end. You near-enough begged them for good news. In response, the team leader wordlessly placed a manila folder on your desk before leaving.</p>
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<div class="top-left-box"><span class="item">Item#:</span> <span class="number">SCP-8020</span></div>
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<div class="level">Level4</div>
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<div class="class-text">{$secondary-class}</div>
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<div class="class-text">vlam</div>
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<div class="class-text">warning</div>
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<p>SCP-8020's epithelial cells during a histological analysis.</p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; border-right: 1px solid #AAA; text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:90%;"><strong>Site Director</strong></span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; border-right: 1px solid #AAA; text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:90%;"><strong>Research Head</strong></span></td>
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<td style="border-right: 1px solid #AAA; text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:80%;">Site Director E. Finch</span></td>
<td style="border-right: 1px solid #AAA; text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:80%;">Researcher J. Lancaster</span></td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:80%;">MTF E-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox")</span></td>
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<p>SCP-8020 is to be contained within a standard humanoid containment chamber located in the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Euclid Wing of Sector-10</span>. Following multiple containment breach attempts, SCP-8020 has been reclassified to Keter and has been moved to the appropriate wing.</p>
<p>All materials within the chamber are to be completely devoid of metal to prevent accidental assimilation. To provide mental stimulation, SCP-8020 will be provided with recreational items that do not contain prohibited materials.</p>
<p>Any personnel handling SCP-8020 are to be stripped of any electronics or metallic objects. Exceptions may be made by the head researcher.</p>
<p>As of August 2001, efforts to fulfill the Foundation's primary<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-627634-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-627634-4')">4</a></sup> and secondary<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-627634-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-627634-5')">5</a></sup> sub-directives have yet to begin.</p>
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<p>SCP-8020 is an animate humanoid entity first discovered in the caverns underneath Site-03, following the disappearance of items SCP-8020-1 through SCP-8020-13. The entity, first measuring approximately two meters in height and 300 kilograms in weight, has steadily grown since its recovery in March 2001. A significant portion of its anatomy has been replaced with mechanical analogs, including multiple organ systems. While the conversion of its organic components to their bronze counterparts is undeniable, the exact nature of its spread remains unknown.</p>
<p>SCP-8020 has been designated a Class-4 Regenerator<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-627634-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-627634-6')">6</a></sup> and is capable of completely regenerating lost or damaged structures via the consumption of metallic and/or organic matter. Consumed matter is assimilated into SCP-8020’s anatomy with a high level of conservation and is even capable of preserving the functionality of integrated technological devices and foreign organic matter.</p>
<p>Despite showing signs of human-like cognizance, SCP-8020 is incapable of producing coherent sentences, instead communicating with Foundation personnel solely through garbled electronic transmissions and nonsensical, emulated speech. The entity has a volatile temperament, frequently experiencing bouts of unprompted aggression, distress, or panic. Attempts to mitigate these behaviors have been unsuccessful.</p>
<p>As a result of multiple containment breaches within a short time frame, SCP-8020 is currently being investigated for additional anomalous capabilities and has been reclassified from Euclid to Keter in the interim.</p>
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<p><strong>Cause of Breach:</strong> Lock mechanism failure.</p>
<p><strong>Overview:</strong> Following routine cell maintenance by engineers, SCP-8020-13's chamber lock mechanism was swapped with a faulty replacement. After discovering this, SCP-8020-13 attempted to open the door. Upon successfully doing so, -13 would begin to wander the halls of the Euclid Containment Wing before reaching the Safe Containment Wing. Security teams were alerted thirty minutes after the fact via a manual alarm initiation. By the time security personnel arrived to escort SCP-8020-13 back to its chamber, the humanoid was found interacting with SCP-8020-5 before accidentally assimilating it via unknown methods.</p>
<p>SCP-8020-5 has been classified as neutralized.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> Post-breach, SCP-8020-13 was observed possessing scale-like growths along its entire torso region. Following a full-panel SAED<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-627634-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-627634-7')">7</a></sup>, SCP-8020-13 was noted to have a slight reality anchoring effect in its immediate vicinity. Further testing is pending.</p>
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<p><strong>Cause of Breach:</strong> Overt sabotage by third party.</p>
<p><strong>Overview:</strong> An infiltrator, operating under the pseudonym "Cassie McLaren" within the Security Department, used their clearance card to deliberately release SCP-8020 during an ongoing containment breach of another SCP object. McLaren, seemingly cognizant of the previous breach attempt, would guide SCP-8020-13 towards the holding chest of SCP-8020-8. After the humanoid assimilated with the object, the infiltrator attempted to escape before the facility's automated service system was able to alert security forces of their suspicious behavior. After an hour of searching, agents were able to capture and interrogate the infiltrator.</p>
<p>SCP-8020-8 has been classified as neutralized.</p>
<p><strong>Notes (1):</strong> Infiltrator resisted questioning and appeared unaffected by the administration of mind-influencing compounds. POI held no notable form of ID aside from a moving copper ring in the shape of a snake.</p>
<p><strong>Notes (2):</strong> Post-breach, SCP-8020-13 was witnessed possessing horn-like features. Radios within the vicinity were observed to become disrupted.</p>
<p><strong>Notes (3):</strong> Audio recordings during the breach had shown SCP-8020-13 repeatedly asking the infiltrator if it would take them to its creator. As of now, its supposed creator is unknown.</p>
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<p><strong>Cause of Breach:</strong> Overt sabotage by SCP subject (memetic).</p>
<p><strong>Overview:</strong> SCP-8020-13 managed to escape containment by sabotaging the radios of a nearby guard control and broadcasting an unknown memetic hazard. Hazard resulted in the guard appearing enthralled with SCP-8020-13, whereby it would release the humanoid. As SCP-8020-13 continued to wander the facility, more personnel were infected by the audiohazard. Automated Service System declared a sector-wide lockdown and an immediate deployment request for MTF H-10 ("See No Evil") and mobilization of on-site Tactical Response Teams. MTF H-10 severed communications within the facility while Response Team "FLAIL" began detaining affected suspects. SCP-8020-13 managed to evade capture for sixty minutes before eventually being tracked and located by MTF H-10. Prior to re-containment, the instance was found gnawing on SCP-8020-1 before completely assimilating it.</p>
<p>SCP-8020-1 has been classified as neutralized.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong> Post-breach, an interview with SCP-8020-13 resulted in it reciting several pieces of classified Foundation strategic data. Furthermore, SCP-8020-13 purported mild gastric discomfort despite a lack of appropriate nerve cells within the region.</p>
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<p><strong>Cause of Breach:</strong> Remote Door Override</p>
<p><strong>Overview:</strong> SCP-8020-13 managed to escape containment following a remote override of the door systems. The origin and nature of the override was unknown. No logs of the occurrence could be retrieved from the Automatic Service System. Several doors would begin to initiate lockdown procedures, preventing security personnel from responding whilst also guiding SCP-8020-13 toward SCP-8020-10. Upon arrival, SCP-8020-10 would consume the oil held within.</p>
<p>Cameras would observe SCP-8020-13 collapsing and beginning to convulse as bronze growths began to expand at an accelerating rate. During this event, SCP-8020-13 is thought to have gained upwards of 25 tons of additional mass alongside 5 extra feet of height. Audio recording devices picked up a mixture of wailing sounds (interspersed with calls for its creator) and proclamations about its hunger. SCP-8020-13 would proceed to wander the facility and consume any metal in its sight. This includes, but is not limited to, bulkhead containment doors, wiring, weaponry, and containment equipment. The influx of mass resulted in SCP-8020-13 growing further at an even more accelerated rate, further causing an uneven distribution of mass which put considerable anatomical stress on SCP-8020-13.</p>
<p>As a result of the excessive damage, a containment breach cascade would occur. The service system noted that 8 additional objects had escaped containment, which coincided with a complete rescission of all lockdown overrides. In response, a state of emergency would be declared and MTF E-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") would be dispatched to support on-site combative elements and resecure the facility. After 4 hours, all 8 escaped subjects (alongside SCP-8020-13) would be re-contained. Upwards of 35 casualties of on-site personnel were reported, of which 13 were KIA.</p>
<p>SCP-8020-10 has been classified as neutralized.</p>
<p><strong>Notes (1):</strong> SCP-8020-13 has begun to continuously generate additional mass, resulting in the object appearing considerably malformed. Distressed, SCP-8020-13 was observed to begin self-mutilating to try and control these growths. At several points, the self-mutilation required the intervention of security teams. A request for a psychological evaluation is pending.</p>
<p><strong>Notes (2):</strong> Following the neutralization of all known SCP-8020 items, SCP-8020-13 has been redesignated as SCP-8020 by RAISA authorities.</p>
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<h3><span>ADDENDUM-8000.1: Prediction #2014-001</span></h3>
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<h3><span>THE PROPHET HAS SEEN INTO THE FUTURE.</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">5 14 4 15 18 8 5 9 3</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">ARAL WILL DRY, SAND WILL SEE THE SUN.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">ALPHA, DELTA, WHISKEY.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">SOLDIERS DONNING HELMETS MADE OF SKY WILL WALK THE FLATS.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">3 15 1 12 9 20 9 15 14 9 19 20</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">THEY WILL FIND THE GRAVE OF A MONARCH.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">ROMEO, ECHO, DELTA.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">IGNORANT, THEY WILL TRY TO DESTROY IT.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">3 15 12 12 1 16 19 5</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">THE PARADIGM WILL SHIFT.</p>
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<p>You had failed.</p>
<p>What more was there to be said? You, the most powerful man in the Foundation, nay: the world, failed. A shaky hand slowly closed the file. Your eyes stung slightly as you struggled to swallow.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:xx-small;"><em>"Administrator?"</em></span></p>
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<p>"Don't you <em>dare</em> weep." Your amygdala cackled, "You haven't <em>earned</em> that privilege."</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:small;"><em>"Administrator Lyons."</em></span></p>
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<p>You should have known better. You had been at the helm of the ship for over a century, yet not an ounce of you had the forethought to consider this a possibility? It could be said your poor decisions did not start there.</p>
<p>Fraternizing with a civilian… <em>what were you thinking?</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">"Winston!"</p>
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<p>Your unfocused gaze would gradually recenter as your head lazily turned to the source of the call. It was a woman, with gaunt features and a stern expression. Black hair, interspersed with silver strands, flowed from her head to the tailored charcoal suit.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>For how long had you not been paying attention?</em></p>
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<h2><span>Minutes of Meeting - 16th O5 Convention of 2014</span></h2>
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<h3><span>Current Topic:</span></h3>
<p><em>SCP-8020's reclassification (Keter to Thaumiel)</em></p>
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<p>O5-10 repeats herself, the Administrator slowly turns his head in response. The Overwatch's attention is on him.</p>
<p><strong>ADMIN:</strong> I'm sorry, my mind must have wandered.</p>
<p><strong>O5-10:</strong> Of course. We're moving on to the next item on our agenda, yes?</p>
<p><strong>ADMIN:</strong> Er- yes- yes I believe we are.</p>
<p>The Administrator gets his papers in order and clears his throat. The rest of Overwatch do not break their gaze.</p>
<p><strong>ADMIN:</strong> Next in the order of our- uh- agenda: SCP-8020's reclassification from Keter to Thaumiel.</p>
<p><strong>ADMIN:</strong> For context: in an interview conducted in the early months of 2002, SCP-8020 spoke of a catastrophic situation befalling the Coalition. It divulged information about an anomalous artifact that they would discover and attempt to terminate: a statue.</p>
<p><strong>ADMIN:</strong> An investigation was opened and remained open until three weeks ago. It would be closed for a lack of evidence.</p>
<p><strong>ADMIN:</strong> Last week, we received an emergency communication requesting that Foundation assets support Coalition operations inside of ADW-01<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-627634-8" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-627634-8')">8</a></sup>.</p>
<p><strong>ADMIN:</strong> Tactical Response agents from Site-03 and Site-19 were deployed to the location, with MTF-Nu-7<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-627634-9" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-627634-9')">9</a></sup> on standby. After about six hours, Foundation and Coalition agents were able to suppress the situation.</p>
<p><strong>ADMIN:</strong> Since then, SCP-8020 has made 40 additional predictions. This includes, but is not limited to: the containment breaches of varying magnitudes, hostile incursions, major veil threats, etcetera. All of them correct to some degree.</p>
<p><strong>ADMIN:</strong> With that being said, the Council may proceed with the discussion. Additional information can be found in your folders.</p>
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<p>Your ears drank in the mixture of words once you gave the Council the floor. Their discussions wandered through the pros, cons, and ethical concerns, all down to the very last detail. Meanwhile, you were busy thinking about what could have been.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, you couldn't help but notice something: Roland was completely silent. When the topic of fulfilling the Foundation's sub-directives arose, you saw his brow furrow and his hand twitch slightly. When he was addressed directly, his usual informality and warmth had left him. He was cold and curt. When he caught onto your staring, he'd stammer before correcting his attitude.</p>
<p>You began to squint—then your eyes widened. You felt your face run cold. Your adrenal glands were squeezed of everything they had. Your legs began to tremble beneath the table.</p>
<p>The words "No…" silently pushed past your lips. When the vote concluded, you couldn't leave that meeting any faster than you had.</p>
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<strong>FROM:</strong> <span style="color: red;"><span class="wiki-email">tni.pcs.10etis|1-5O#tni.pcs.10etis|1-5O</span></span></p>
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<p>Winston,</p>
<p>I couldn't help but notice you were acting odd in the meeting. Is everything alright?</p>
<p>- O5-1</p>
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<strong>FROM:</strong> <span style="color: red;"><span class="wiki-email">tni.pcs.10etis|1-5O#tni.pcs.10etis|1-5O</span></span></p>
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>It's been a month. The Council is wondering where you've gone. Is everything okay?</p>
<p>- O5-1</p>
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<p><strong>TO:</strong> <span style="color: red;"><span class="wiki-email">tni.pcs.10etis|rotartsinimda#tni.pcs.10etis|rotartsinimda</span></span><br/>
<strong>FROM:</strong> <span style="color: red;"><span class="wiki-email">tni.pcs.10etis|1-5O#tni.pcs.10etis|1-5O</span></span></p>
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<p>Morning,</p>
<p>3 months now. I know you're still alive, successful motions are still getting your signatures.</p>
<p>- O5-1</p>
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<p><strong>TO:</strong> <span style="color: red;"><span class="wiki-email">tni.pcs.10etis|rotartsinimda#tni.pcs.10etis|rotartsinimda</span></span><br/>
<strong>FROM:</strong> <span style="color: red;"><span class="wiki-email">tni.pcs.10etis|1-5O#tni.pcs.10etis|1-5O</span></span></p>
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<p>A year. They've stopped asking, but I figured I'd keep on pushing.</p>
<p>- O5-1</p>
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<p><strong>TO:</strong> <span style="color: red;"><span class="wiki-email">tni.pcs.10etis|rotartsinimda#tni.pcs.10etis|rotartsinimda</span></span><br/>
<strong>FROM:</strong> <span style="color: red;"><span class="wiki-email">tni.pcs.10etis|1-5O#tni.pcs.10etis|1-5O</span></span></p>
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<p>Five years. I can't tell if you're ignoring me or if there's something I'm not quite aware of.</p>
<p>- O5-1</p>
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<p><em>The boy…</em></p>
<p><span style="font-size:xx-small;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-small;">.</span></p>
<p><em>The spear…</em></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;">.</span></p>
<p><em>The breaches…</em></p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-large;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:xx-large;">.</span></p>
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<strong>FROM:</strong> <span style="color: red;"><span class="wiki-email">tni.pcs.10etis|rotartsinimda#tni.pcs.10etis|rotartsinimda</span></span></p>
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<p>Why did you do it?</p>
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<p>The familiar tune of an alarm you had set on your phone jolts you from your otherwise peaceful slumber. With heavy reluctance, your head pulls itself away from the hard-wood surface as your spine cranes your form into an upright position.</p>
<p>Your eyelids, initially sealed shut by the near-unconquerable forces of fatigue, slowly peel themselves apart. You fell asleep at your desk again. For the past several years, it was the closest thing you could call a bed. Empty alcohol bottles are strewn about the floor.</p>
<p>The consequences of your actions would sooner or later catch up with you as your nervous system screeches in terror, awakening your limbic system. Hot, pounding, pain thrums along both hemispheres of your brain. An incessant ache ripples up your neck and wedges itself neatly at the base of your skull. You helplessly cradle the ache.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Inhale.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Exhale.</p>
<p>This is where it ends, isn't it? A pitiful man, lost in a sea of hopelessness and booze. You allow yourself to stew amongst your self-pity for several minutes—you've earned that right. However, the buzzing of your mobile seems to disagree. Lifting it up, your eyes adjust to the blinding screen: an email. A sigh escapes your lips, and then a rolling groan overtakes it.</p>
<p>With a heavy finger, you press against the power button of your terminal. The start-up messages rush right past you and the lights of your desktop flush your face in the token whites, blacks, and dull yellows of the facility's operating system. Your cursor, after taking much longer than it needed to, strikes upon the icon of an envelope; whereupon, you are frozen in your seat.</p>
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<strong>FROM:</strong> <span style="color: red;"><span class="wiki-email">tni.pcs.tenpics|ylperon#tni.pcs.tenpics|ylperon</span></span></p>
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<p>Hello ADMINISTRATOR,</p>
<p>Pages you're currently following have been updated:</p>
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<li>SCP-8020</li>
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<p>The file can be accessed via the ninth catalog under the SCiPnet database.</p>
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<p>You were hesitant for a moment. You hadn't even <em>read</em> the file and it was already resurfacing old memories. It had forced a healthy dose of reality upon you. A reality where you, Administrator, cowardly hid away when push came to shove. A reality where you, Winston Lyons, chose to do nothing when your last reminder of Her was forcefully torn from your hands.</p>
<p>A reality where you, O' Mankind, were a bystander to it all.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Inhale.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Exhale.</p>
<p>You failed him, and you have nobody to blame but yourself.</p>
<p>So now what?</p>
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<div class="collapsible-block-folded"><a class="collapsible-block-link" href="javascript:;">RETRIEVE FILE 8020.3 || 2014 - 2020</a></div>
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<div class="collapsible-block-unfolded-link"><a class="collapsible-block-link" href="javascript:;">... and make things right.</a></div>
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<div class="top-left-box"><span class="item">Item#:</span> <span class="number">SCP-8020</span></div>
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<div class="level">Level5</div>
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<div class="class-category">Containment Class:</div>
<div class="class-text">thaumiel</div>
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<div class="class-category">Secondary Class:</div>
<div class="class-text">terminarch</div>
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<div class="class-category">Disruption Class:</div>
<div class="class-text">keneq</div>
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<div class="class-category">Risk Class:</div>
<div class="class-text">danger</div>
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<div class="danger-diamond"><a href="/classification-committee-memo">link to memo</a><br/>
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<p>Body camera still of SCP-8020 post-breach (See: Breach Report-8000.12).</p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; border-right: 1px solid #AAA; text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:90%;"><strong>Assigned Site</strong></span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; border-right: 1px solid #AAA; text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:90%;"><strong>Site Director</strong></span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; border-right: 1px solid #AAA; text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:90%;"><strong>Research Head</strong></span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:90%;"><strong>Assigned MTF</strong></span></td>
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<td style="border-right: 1px solid #AAA; text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:80%;">Site-03</span></td>
<td style="border-right: 1px solid #AAA; text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:80%;">Site Director E. Finch</span></td>
<td style="border-right: 1px solid #AAA; text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:80%;">O5-1</span></td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 25%;"><span style="font-size:80%;">MTF A-1 ("Red Right Hand")</span></td>
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<h3><span><strong>SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES</strong></span></h3>
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<p>In association with Site-03, a large-entity containment well and supporting complex were built to facilitate the isolation of SCP-8020 within the United States National Radio Quiet Zone.</p>
<p>To regulate the growth of SCP-8020, up to 10% of the anomaly’s mass may be removed each week, as to mitigate the threat posed by its unregulated growth.</p>
<p>Due to SCP-8020’s size alongside the immense temperature generated by its operation, personnel are to be wary of crushing or burning hazards, and are advised to not handle SCP-8020 in person without incapacitating the anomaly prior and without protective equipment. Additionally, personnel are to avoid making contact with the apex of any protrusions (spines) in the spinal, dewlap, or oral regions as they serve as a vector of transmission for a potent genotoxin.</p>
<p>Electronics, metallic objects, etcetera, are strictly prohibited within SCP-8020’s containment and immediate sectors surrounding it. Exceptions may be made by a ruling body of Level-5 clearance assigned to the SCP-8020 project, or any member of the O5 Council.</p>
<p>As of January 2014, SCP-8020 has been reclassified from Keter to Thaumiel and its clearance requisite has been amended appropriately.</p>
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<h3><span><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong></span></h3>
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<p>SCP-8020 is the designation given to the heavily altered remains of █████ ██████, currently 12 meters tall and weighing 140 tons, which has been significantly transformed by the extensive mechanical augmentations responsible for its prolonged existence. Now designated a Terminarch-Class entity<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-627634-10" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-627634-10')">10</a></sup> and Class-7 Regenerator<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-627634-11" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-627634-11')">11</a></sup>, SCP-8020 is perpetually growing in size and complexity, generating profound quantities of bronze components and poorly differentiated organic matter daily.</p>
<p>Despite multiple attempts to regulate its growth, SCP-8020’s anatomy has become increasingly deformed by progressive gigantism and self-mutilation. Superficially resembling the Persian manticore, disproportionate allocations of mass have resulted in grotesque elongation of the spine and neck, along with the formation of numerous ornamental structures, including flightless wings, horns, and a tail. No longer capable of supporting a vertical posture, the extent of SCP-8020’s size and alteration have forced the subject into a quadrupedal gait.</p>
<p>The subject’s identifiable organic components, consisting only of the skull, nervous system, and scattered tissue fragments, remain intact but heavily distorted to fit SCP-8020’s extreme anatomy. Blood continuously seeps from crevices in SCP-8020’s exterior plating and is hypothesized to assist in cooling and lubricating its various components. The functionality of SCP-8020’s central nervous system has demonstrated a slow but irreversible decline in recent years - despite continued animation of the construct, attempts to differentiate the subject’s consciousness from digital emulations have been inconclusive.</p>
<p>While initially adverse to its augmentations, SCP-8020 has slowly come to conceptualize its transformation as a form of human transcendence, likening it to GOI-004B’s practice of “Standardization”. Since its reclassification to Thaumiel, the subject has become enamored with its mechanical state, actively shaping the growth of its components and referring to itself as a fragment of the Church’s namesake deity, “MEKHANE”. While efforts conducted by the Division of Para-anthropology have found little in the way of suggesting that the automaton is the Broken God, SCP-8020 possesses several attributes that appear to be consistent with its delusions of grandeur (most notably its robust predictive faculties) and are believed to stem from paratechnological components found within it. These components have been designated as sub-instances (SCP-8020-1 to SCP-8020-13)</p>
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<p>In the absence of a large and small intestinal tract<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-627634-12" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-627634-12')">12</a></sup>, SCP-8020 possesses upwards of 30 advanced data storage banks with a make that resembles DEEPWELL catalogs<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-627634-13" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-627634-13')">13</a></sup> of Foundation origin (designated SCP-8020-1). Their continued method of operation, despite the immense internal temperature of SCP-8020, is unknown. As of 29/12/2022, engineers and technical researchers were able to extract heavily encrypted data from all catalogs. However, AIC-assisted cryptanalysis has yet to yield any viable results.</p>
<p>This broad dataset has been utilized to its fullest extent by SCP-8020's processors, allowing it to generate highly detailed predictive models. These models have successfully been used as an early alert system, predicting 162 significant incidents with 97% accuracy since 2001.</p>
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<p>Several plated scales that completely cover the torso of SCP-8020. Initially disregarded as a mundane facet, mass spectrometry has allowed researchers to discover that the scales are not derived from a standard bronze alloy. Rather, the scales are made up of beryllium bronze that are complimented by unknown runes. Now designated SCP-8020-5, they appear to protect SCP-8020 from the effects of reality warping. Applications are pending.</p>
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<p>Initially purely decorative, SCP-8020's horns (designated SCP-8020-8) have recently become the source of a potent beta-type audiohazard<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-627634-14" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-627634-14')">14</a></sup> that can be received by most electronic radios within a 5-mile radius of the entity's containment well. First observed during Incident-8945.3, the audiohazard in question appears to only be effective on subjects with a mind-affecting resistance score (MARS) of, or below, 5 out of 10. Subjects affected by the audiohazard appear enthralled with SCP-8020 (to the point of religious zealotry) and proselytizing fantastical, albeit entirely fabricated, stories centering around the entity.</p>
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<p>SCP-8020 possesses a potent genotoxic venom (designated SCP-8020-10) that is administered either via fangs or contact with the apex of one of its many serrated protrusions along the dewlap and spine. Oral venom sacs appear to have replaced salivary glands, whilst spinal and dewlapine sacs are located in an analogous hypodermic region. Subdermal injection of SCP-8020-10 results in the rapid replacement of most visible organic tissue with bronze as a result of an anomalous chromosomal aberration which alters and replaces the production of collagen I with the latter. It is important to consider that SCP-8020 has previously referred to this process as “Standardization”, a phrase used by GOI-004B to denote submission in preparation for anomalous enhancement.</p>
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<p>A protective layer made of ivory. Appears to shield sections of the central nervous system (notably the spine). It's known to regenerate faster than other components and is believed to be the reason why bronze growths have not been found within the central nervous system.</p>
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<h3><span>ADDENDUM-8000.2: Prediction #2020-124</span></h3>
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<h3><span>THE PROPHET HAS SEEN INTO THE FUTURE.</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">23 9 14 19 20 15 14</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A MAN WILL BE CONDEMNED.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">18 15 12 1 14 4</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">THE PARADIGM WILL SHIFT.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">18 5 4 0 17 21 5 5 14</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">1981 - THE SUN IS SETTING.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">SIERRA, UNIFORM, NOVEMBER, DELTA, OSCAR, WHISKEY, NOVEMBER</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">CHARLIE, OSCAR, NOVEMBER, SIERRA, PAPA, INDIA, ROMEO, ALPHA, CHARLIE, YANKEE</p>
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Relish in what you have seen: your son is an abomination of metal and organs. His mind has been twisted by the bronze and his sense of self is long dead. Now what?
<p>Without thinking, your hand creeps towards the drawer of your desk. Opening it, you'd find a six-shooter with an ivory grip. You had never needed to use it, but now feels as good a time as ever. Next to it is a box of cartridges, one-by-one they'd be tucked snuggly into the cylinder. You didn't need anymore.</p>
<p>You had been nothing but a whelp for the past several decades. Now, with absolutely nothing to lose (at least in your psychological state), you had the chance to change that.<br/></p>
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<p><a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8020/offset/1">Put him in his place.</a></p>
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<div class="title">Footnotes</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-627634-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-627634-1')">1</a>. Carroll, Lewis: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Chapter 2</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-627634-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-627634-2')">2</a>. In case of emergency, contact Tactical Response agents.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-627634-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-627634-3')">3</a>. Refers to Anomalous Safety Levels. Derivative of BSL with general additions for more dangerous anomalous objects.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-627634-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-627634-4')">4</a>. Explanation: "The Foundation recognizes its place within the scientific community. It is our duty to explain the anomalous, or patterns of phenomena, via our research so that we may declassify such concepts for the veiled world."</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-627634-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-627634-5')">5</a>. Rehabilitation: "The Foundation recognizes its place within society and will dedicate itself to rehabilitating those altered by the anomalous so long as it does not jeopardize the primary, secondary or tertiary directives (SECURE, CONTAIN, PROTECT)."</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-627634-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-627634-6')">6</a>. Class-4: Matter-dependent regenerator.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-627634-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-627634-7')">7</a>. Standard Anomalous Energy Diagnostic: A generalized diagnostic procedure to measure alterations in various anomalous signatures including Humes, Akiva, EVE, etc. Typically performed monthly.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-627634-8"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-627634-8')">8</a>. Anomaly Disposal Wells: Coalition locations dedicated for the processing of anomalous entities too large, unorthodox, and/or resilient, to perform a field termination on</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-627634-9"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-627634-9')">9</a>. Mobile Task Force Nu-7 ("Hammer Down")</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-627634-10"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-627634-10')">10</a>. Terminarch: The last remaining subinstance of a once more prolific anomaly.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-627634-11"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-627634-11')">11</a>. Class-7: Error-Prone Overgrowth. Originally speculated to have been a purely restorative process, however, the production of material now continues even in the absence of injury.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-627634-12"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-627634-12')">12</a>. The absence of the gallbladder, liver, and pancreas have also been observed within SCP-8020's body cavity.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-627634-13"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-627634-13')">13</a>. A data storage medium allegedly impervious to CK-Class and ZK-Class reality events</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-627634-14"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-627634-14')">14</a>. Beta: Persuasive/Mind-affecting. Non-fatal.</div>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8021</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Keter</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8021 is considered self-contained. Any means of neutralizing its affects are unclear at present. Research of the anomaly is primarily handled by the Department of Horology. Current containment efforts mainly focus on the retrieval and suppression of phenomena related to SCP-8021.</p>
<p>Due to the considerable scale of SCP-8021’s side effects, a nationwide “Normative Restoration” attempt is currently underway. It is estimated that an eventual return to normative consensus will not be fulfilled for another three years.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8021 is the apparent reduction of time passing in the universe. SCP-8021 supposes that the universe is moving at a rate slow enough to appear completely suspended to entities outside of local time and space. No noticeable difference is apparent to those within the parameters of SCP-8021 affects.</p>
<p>The basis of SCP-8021 is supported by a number of sources, including the sudden presence of anomalies and environmental alterations located throughout the United States. This additionally includes a written account referencing such evidence, supposedly produced by an entity unaffected by SCP-8021 (SCP-8021-3).</p>
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<td>SCP-8021-1</td>
<td>A dimensional rift located five feet above a wheat field in [REDACTED]. Whatever location exists on the other side is inaccessible; all matter phases directly through and out the opposite side with no ill effects. Suspected as being the means of which SCP-8021-2 was able to enter the prime reality<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>.</td>
<td>Contained. The structure built around SCP-8021-1 is equipped with Scranton Reality Anchors capable of preventing further potential breaches or increase in SCP-8021-1’s size.</td>
<td>It is theorized that the alternate reality beyond SCP-8021-1 no longer exists. This phenomenon has similarly occurred with other dimensional rifts when their respected reality ceases to exist for whatever reason.</td>
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<td>SCP-8021-2</td>
<td>An extra-dimensional entity believed to be responsible for SCP-8021-1 and SCP-8021 itself, the former of which it used to access out reality. SCP-8021-2 is responsible for the deaths of ~500 individuals throughout the Unites States. It is believed that SCP-8021-2 was capable of reproducing asexually.</td>
<td>SCP-8021-2 was found deceased. Corpse kept in Site-19's on-site morgue.</td>
<td>N/A</td>
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<td>SCP-8021-2A</td>
<td>Ruptured membrane containing deceased embryos produced by SCP-8021-2 in question. The brain of embryos appear similar in structure to an average humans. Instances were found in various locations throughout the United States. The amount of SCP-8021-2A instances that may have existed is ~500. No living samples have yet been recovered.</td>
<td>All samples kept in deepfreeze storage.</td>
<td>Recovered material samples show signs of severe cell degeneration from aging.</td>
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<td>SCP-8021-3</td>
<td>Elizabeth Morris, a female human, thirty years old (Prior to SCP-8021). Daughter of Level 2 Foundation researcher Rachel Morris<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup>. Believed to have been the only human conscious and aware of SCP-8021. Subject kept an extensive journal (Document 8021-3) during this time.</td>
<td>Current status unknown.</td>
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<p>Document 8021-3 itself was discovered on the desk of Site-19s director shortly after SCP-8021s discovery. The journal was sealed inside a small archival box coated in small traces of dust.</p>
<p><strong>Document 8021-3<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>:</strong></p>
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<p>The world has ended and it’s all my fault.</p>
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<p>Come on. Be more informative than that.</p>
<p>My name is Elizabeth. I live at [REDACTED], [REDACTED]. I studied at [REDACTED], but only for two years, before I dropped out and moved over here. I make coffee. That last detail's pretty inconsequential, but it's the only other thing I can think of.</p>
<p>So anyway, I am the one who probably fucked everything up. I don’t know how, but it’s the only explanation that I have. I woke up to find everything wrong and I was the same.</p>
<p>It’s fitting, because my troubles normally start in the morning. I woke up to realize that my phone alarm failed to go off. The morning traffic didn’t wake me either. Realizing this, I threw my quilt off, and watched as it just stopped moving midair. I panicked, and fell off the couch, right onto a load of empty bottles. When I got back up, I noticed some birds through my window, floating completely still on the horizon.</p>
<p>I checked outside and saw cars motionless on the road. Some neighbors (never learned any of their names) were there too, frozen mid-walk. One’s still out there, about to bite the hotdog I already took.</p>
<p>When I picked up my watch, the seconds hand started ticking again; it stopped when I put it back down. I tried it out with a few things. Threw a cup in the air and it froze, falling bit by bit with each tap of my hand. Everything stopped at 7:13am. The sun’s partly risen behind cloudy-grey skies. Trust me to pause all of time during a fucking overcast.</p>
<p>I have a feeling what this all relates to, but I haven’t yet figured out how to fix it. My mom never left me a contact number or anything, and if everyone else is paused, then I doubt that her or anyone she knows can help. I’ve ran some tests, and un-pausing things seems to have some annoying limits. I tried whipping a long cable to see how far it would keep moving. It was about 5ft. So there’s a “size range” of things I can un-pause of about 5x5ft, but nothing beyond that.</p>
<p>Also, un-pausing living creatures is out of the question. I’ve checked<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup>.</p>
<p>I’ve tried sleeping, hoping things would return to normal once I woke up; holding onto things while thinking of them unfreezing till I almost passed out. Nothing works. Even if dying undid all of this, I wouldn’t find out. Like I would even do that.</p>
<p>Food’s not a problem, since it never spoils. And I’m free to do whatever I want. That’s what most would do in these situations, right? Time has stopped and you can do whatever you want? Well, those people don’t take in the endless silence.</p>
<p>Even when everything’s quiet, we pick up on tiny little noises. Our brains are adapted to that, even if we don’t realize it. But absolute silence? This isn’t something I imagine most could handle.</p>
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<p>[Two blank pages]<br/>
[Four pages have been torn out]<br/>
[Three blank pages]<br/>
[Six pages have been torn out]<br/>
[Four blank pages]<br/>
[Eleven pages have been torn out]</p>
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<p>I needed a familiar place to visit and calm down, so I’m at work! …Watching the sunlight peer out from between dingy, grey clouds. Coffee’s ok (iced that is, since no electricity). Visiting normally empty places helps me pretend that everything’s ok for a while. Don’t want a repeat of the last few days.</p>
<p>It’s been three weeks since my first entry. Haven’t been around much though, smaller vehicles are my only means of transportation. Been mostly using electric scooters and pedal bikes. I’d try a motorbike, but I have enough trouble with the scooters, and I’m not that suicidal just yet. Whenever I touch something, the effect spreads to objects directly touching it and so on. It makes sense, technically everything’s just made up of countless smaller things.</p>
<p>Things are less thrilling that I’d originally assumed. I’ve slept in a few hotels and hijacked allot of fresh baths in the middle of being run. I occasionally considered stealing something valuable, but it felt shitty. Some <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">nights</span> mornings I get bored and start talking to myself.</p>
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<p>I’m in a library in [REDACTED], a big one with academic books for researchers and dust bunny nests. Reading whatever I can find on “time” and “logic” for something… Anything. Reminds me of college. Got a paper cut while reading one of the really old books. Imagine if in the end, I died from an ancient dirt infection from some old, filthy tome?</p>
<p>It’s nostalgic. Haven’t been in a proper library for years.There are maps here too. Since there’s no Internet, I’ll have to borrow some before I leave. The silence is deafening.</p>
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<p>What was I thinking? Just crack open some random quantum-physics books, read them in a few days, and suddenly find all the answers? I can’t keep stalling.</p>
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<p>My last scooter battery died on the freeway today, so I ditched it and walked a few miles until reaching a rest-stop. Place was mostly empty the morning everything went still, but luckily they'd already prepared some burgers. I grabbed a load and gorged on them. Was tempted to try again, but I didn’t dare touch any of the staff.</p>
<p>There’s an overpass bridge with a roof and windows connecting the rest stop to where a hotel is on the other side of the freeway. The sun seems brighter here, so I set up my sleeping bag and slept right there. It never occurred to me until now that in a way, there’s no temperature. It’s hard to describe, it’s not hot or cold, lukewarm maybe? Doesn’t make sense.</p>
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<p>My paper cut still stings. I’m sure that I sterilized it enough.</p>
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<p>When I finished eating this morning I heard something hit the floor behind me.</p>
<p>My soda cup was rolling across the floor. I picked it up and tried dropping it a few times, and it worked. That’s never happened before. Nothing else was there?</p>
<p>I went to leave and I heard a distant clicking noise somewhere. Was something else in there? I want o believe that the sensory deprivation is finally getting to me.</p>
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<p>Hearing only your own footsteps in a still world is uncanny. No noise pollution means every sound is like a sledgehammer hitting the ground. I can hear the echoes of my own footsteps long after I’ve stopped walking. I don’t know whether I’d hear if something was nearby or if I wouldn’t be able to tell if the sound was real?</p>
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<p>My parent’s house is a few days away on foot from my current location.</p>
<p>My mom’s work kept us moving around allot. She dealt with confidential information so she could never talk to me about it. She’d always tell me how serious it was, way too often. Unfortunately, that just made it more intriguing to a young me. I’d always sneak a listen from upstairs when her and dad thought I was asleep. Allot of those memories are foggy and painted over by childish fantasies I let get out of control. I still recall distinct words, the ones standing out the most being “containment”, “anomaly”, and “keter”.</p>
<p>I didn’t understand what most of it meant, but still, hearing it all made me want to be a scientist for a long time. Might have made it somewhere. If I’d just gotten that acceptance letter… I found the empty envelope in the trashcan a week later.</p>
<p>What could she have been hiding about me? She might’ve even known how all of this happened. Not that they can tell me anything now. Although, she’ll definitely be easier to talk to in her current state.</p>
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<p>Finally arrived home. It looked better than when I last saw it. Dad must have spent time fixing the place up after I left. Guess they finally stopped moving around and settled in.</p>
<p>I found my parents standing there frozen in the living room, mouths wide mid-yelling, arms in the air with fingers pointing at each other. Couldn’t have paused as a more perfect snapshot of their relationship. The only element missing was myself in the middle. Made sure to tilt any pictures and budge the furniture around a bit. If things ever return to normal, it’ll drive my mom crazy. My bedroom’s still the same as I left it.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Note: Once fully rested, grab a few of my old books.</span></p>
<p>I visited the park where I used to watch the ducks. Tried un-pausing one of them to see if it would be different. It’s the same as when I do it to people. Still feel really bad about it.</p>
<p>I’m trying to fall asleep now. I’m exhausted, but I can’t relax with all of these noises in my head.</p>
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<p>Something</p>
<p>It’s just been</p>
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<p>I’ve left home. I was asleep, when my mom woke me up. She was screaming. Then I hea</p>
<p>There was movement down in the living room. I heard clicking noises and something gurgling. I peeked into the hallway, I couldn’t see a silhouette from downstairs. Shadows can’t be cast if light doesn’t move anymore. But just from the noises though, I don’t want to see its shadow. I waited until I heard something leave through the front door. I checked the window and saw nothing, but things outside had been moved just enough to indicate a presence. I eventually went down into the living room. I stood still for so<br/>
Long</p>
<p>I went back to my old room and hid under the bed sheets. I don’t know for how long.</p>
<p>I checked the neighborhood. All of the people were posed differently from last time I saw them. They were like my parents. Their hea</p>
<p>They’d all moved. They all looked like they re-froze again, mid-struggle.</p>
<p>were missing</p>
<p>Her arms were out clutching at dead air.</p>
<p>There were so many houses and walls that it could’ve been lurking behind. I made it to the freeway. I ran for way too long. My footfalls pounded against the concrete louder than anything, getting louder and louder whenever I looked back. If anything was chasing me, I couldn’t hear it. I’ve locked myself in a hotel room. I’m not going back to my apartment. If whatever did that to everyone has been following me, then I don’t want to see a whole city of people.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup></p>
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<p>all the gushing blood<br/>
like suspended red raindrops<br/>
hit the floor when touched</p>
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<p>[Five pages missing]</p>
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<p>Hello journal.</p>
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<p>It’s been two weeks since what last happened. I didn’t want to go back to my apartment, but it’s the place I feel the most safe.</p>
<p>When I got there, everyone I could see was the same. Just headless bodies clinging, waving, crawling… Whatever they were doing the second before their heads being removed. I used the alleyways to make as little contact with the bodies as possible, but got too close to a few on my way back home.</p>
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<p>I’m not sure what to say anymore. Nothing’s changed since I came back here. I sneak out, grab supplies, and make my way back to my apartment before whatever it is I’m afraid of might notice me. It’s the same as I’ve always been. I haven’t even seen it yet. Did what I write before actually happen? The noises are back.</p>
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<p>I saw it today. I was in a warehouse looking for supplies and heard something coming. I hid in a crate and waited. Then it came.</p>
<p>Large humanoid torso, rough yellowish-brown skin, long body covered in cracks, scarring, burn marks, and blisters. No legs, just a trail of loose flesh, like it was torn off of something even bigger. Drags itself around by its arms, yet moves quickly and without struggle. Bends and twists its back like it has no spine. No face, just a hole with nothing inside.</p>
<p>It approached one of the staff, a woman who’d been lifting a box before the pause. It coiled itself around her, like it was made of pliable putty and stared straight down at her as it inched in closer. Then her hair started waving slowly. Then her lips began to open as her neck turned.</p>
<p>And then she blinked.</p>
<p>That was the first time I’d seen another human move in months. The rest of her body didn’t though. And then she looked up. She could only jerk her neck around. It leaned down towards her until it had engulfed her entire head with its face hole. After a minute of muffled moans, I heard a slow, loud tear. Her head was gone when I looked again.</p>
<p>I didn’t leave the crate until I was sure it had left after a few hours. Kept my eyes closed most of the time.</p>
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<p>I got up the nerve to follow it today. It killed four more people in the same way as before. It only ever consumes the head. Why is that? Something about the brain? I noticed that its abdomen was much larger than last time, and then I found out why.</p>
<p>After finishing, it leaned down and out from the hole in its face fell a big, tumorous lump, pulsating from under a thin layer of pink gelatin that quickly melted away. It lifted the mass up and positioned several stones from off the ground under it, leaving it suspended there midair. The lump was partly translucent and something was inside, around the size of a soccer ball. It pumped out a few more, repeating the process, placing the stones with precision. Then it left with a much smaller stomach.</p>
<p>I approached one of the lumps and poked it with a branch. The thing inside flailed around, exposing a tiny hole on its surface. I pierced the stick right through it and it started deflating as the clear liquid leaked out. The smell was rancid. Even after it stopped struggling, the membrane and substances kept leaking. I repeated the process with every last one. I hope I can break that thing just as easily.</p>
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<p>I’ve fallen into the process of following that thing and stabbing its hole-spawn. I need to sleep, and it never does. This means whenever I loose track of it, I’m forced to follow the obvious trail of bodies that it leaves behind.</p>
<p>It doesn’t seem to re-visit the same places twice, it just keeps moving along. It never gorges itself too much or waits until it’s stomach’s empty to eat whoever’s left. Compared to how much it eats, it leaves areas heavily populated. Once it’s made about five to six eggs it moves on. When there aren’t any people nearby, it searches locations for anyone and moves them to where it laid its eggs.</p>
<p>There’s a process and reason in its actions, and that’s somehow worse than if it was just mindlessly eating people. Thankfully a few days ago it started producing eggs less frequently and in smaller amounts. I hope that what it's laid so far is its limit for the next decade. It still eats on occasion though.</p>
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<p>There’s a fucking portal in the sky.</p>
<p>I’m in a sports bar in the city. It’s on the TV screen, some low-budget news channel. They were reporting on the portal somewhere in a field. These guys were in the area and got real lucky. None of the major news networks must have caught wind of it before it was too late. It’s somewhere far off in ██████. That’s about twelve days away on foot.</p>
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<p>Twelve is turning to an entire month, but I’ve had enough breaks. I’ve been looking behind allot on the way, expecting that thing to show up. But as long as I don’t hear anything aside from my own footsteps, that should be fine. But every footfall I make hits like a thousand. Every move I make is like a gunshot signalling my location.</p>
<p>I keep thinking about that cup falling.</p>
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<p>Holy shit.</p>
<p>It’s my blood.</p>
<p>I stopped by a town on the way and noticed a place that sold hunting supplies. I obviously took a few guns, not that I’m proficient. The main issue is that a bullet would pause mid-air. I figured I’d take them anyway, for the off chance that I could get close enough to shoot that thing at point-blank range. Then I thought about that cup. I got a catapult, then drew a bit of my own blood, and dabbed some onto a rock. It worked. The rock went flying off into the distance.</p>
<p>There are limits, but I at least have more of a fighting chance now. Something that I can surprise that thing with. If it sees me, I can try and shoot it. But what about other things too? If my blood has the same range as when I touch something, maybe I could create a system of “unpausing” blood stains. I’ll need to figure this all out. Maybe even blood-stained bullets.</p>
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<p>I made it there in practically no time. I had to regularly smear fresh blood onto the back of my car every few miles before the effect wore off. No point risking the backseat area suddenly pausing mid-drive.</p>
<p>Even if it was chasing me, that thing can’t keep up with a moving vehicle. It’s fast and if it does try anything, I’m driving straight into it.</p>
<p>I drove to the field and there was the portal, about ten meters above the ground. Didn’t waver, wasn’t moving, it was just still like everything else. Nothing had been setup around it, so the poor reporters must have been doing a segment on something completely unrelated at the time it appeared. Then I saw a van on the nearby road with “Scott Collin’s Pottery” written on the side of it.</p>
<p>No compost or pottery supplies anywhere. Just a couple of guys in white polo shirts and a whole load of flashing computer screens. “Scott Collin’s Pottery”. I laughed my ass off, and I guess my pent up emotions just came flooding out, because I just lay inside the van, cackling. I needed that badly. Thank you, SCP Foundation.</p>
<p>From the looks of things, they’d been examining the portal. One of them was making a phone call. I searched the van for quite some time, and eventually found some info, amongst which were some credentials and ID’s that belonged to the people inside.</p>
<p>I managed to get the computers running again, it just took a bit of blood. Apparently this van came from a “Site-19” in [REDACTED]. The van would’ve been useful, but I don’t know how to drive one.</p>
<p>I haven't seen that creature for a while now. Normally I run into it sooner or later, but it's been uncharacteristically distant as of recent. I never considered it before, but it doesn't seem to have vision, so heightened senses are a guarantee, and I'm the only other thing capable of making noise. So where is it now?</p>
<p>If I run into it, I could try and just run it down with a car. But what if that doesn’t work? Then I’d have a pissed off monster chasing me. I’ve only survived this long by hiding, and it moves fast. Doubt I’d even be able to shoot it with blood-stained bullets. Well, I suppose I could try, but I don’t want to take that risk in case I miss.</p>
<p>But there’s got to be something at Site-19. They know all about whatever this entity is, and likely a whole load of other things. I can probably learn something if I search the place.</p>
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<p>I was driving to Site-19, when it showed up out of nowhere. It leapt right onto the hood of my car. I stared right into its faceless hole, but it didn’t stare back at me. I stopped and it clung onto the hood, digging straight through the metal. It settled for a moment, loosening its claws. So I reversed. It fell back, tried to cling on with a few claws before ultimately hitting the road.</p>
<p>Couldn't find the balls to unwind the windows and take any shots. Instead, I closed my eyes and sped towards it. It took longer than expected to hit, so I opened my eyes and narrowly avoided slanting off the road and into the trees. It wasn’t there anymore. I applied some fresh blood to be safe and continued straight on.</p>
<p>It’s fast enough to dodge a speeding car and quiet enough to hide if it needs to. It can be taken by surprise though. I hope it can feel other emotions.</p>
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<p>I finally made it to Site-19. The whole area was fenced off and the actual building was about half a mile away through barren land, but once I got there the security was easy to deal with. There was plenty to stop people under normal circumstances, so I’m guessing that they didn’t have a fail safe for time stopping.</p>
<p>I’ve wandered around the main building for a bit, There’s so many floors and rooms that I can’t access without having to break through a window or through other alternate vandalism. Fortunately some locked doors were open while everything paused. Elevators are an obvious no-go, so I’ll have to settle for the stairs. So I’m back to long walks again. I got a brief glance at some areas labeled things like “Containment Area” and “Safe Object Storage”. The word “SCP” kept on showing up practically everywhere, always with a random number next to it.</p>
<p>I was able to use a few laptops that were charged enough to access certain on-site documents. But the real treasure-trove was what I found while searching for a safe place to hide. There was a storage area deep in the basement of the main building. There were no locks or restrictions, but there was a load of filing cabinets containing old paper documents. Most information will have been digitized by now, so this must all be older research that’s been archived.</p>
<p>I’m going to have a read tonight, once I’ve set up a place to sleep and ensured that I’m alone. There should be able to find something interesting.</p>
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<p>Wow fuck.</p>
<p>Most of this place is white and grey walls, uncarpeted corridors with identical ceiling lights, and allot of people in lab coats. Even areas where they shouldn’t be wearing them.</p>
<p>But then you look inside the rooms. Only some of them have windows, but I have their photographs on file as reference. There’s surrealist artwork in glass tanks that look like they shouldn’t be alive, seemingly mundane objects like TV remotes, <a href="/scp-978-extended-test-logs">cameras</a>, and phones, all sealed behind layers of bulletproof glass. That piñata looks too mundane for it's own good… The ominous sphere of flesh, that dog with the glasses… Nothing’s the same in a way that feels real. Even when I’ve seen or read enough, there’s something more that I didn’t expect. I don’t even know what half of this stuff does, but you can tell it’s all just waiting to do it. And some of the testing logs for these things are <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-t-98816-oc108-682">fucking long</a>.</p>
<p>But I can’t see any of that happen. I could risk it, touch a few items and unfreeze them. I might end up destroying them or turning myself into orange goo. So I just have to keep them locked away. The most fantastical things in the world all trapped behind glass and concrete.</p>
<p>I keep re-reading about most of the things contained here, and anomalies contained in other sites that apparently span the globe. This should all be mind-blowing, but I can’t even feel the significance. No matter the implications of their existences, I just can’t feel any of it while that thing’s outside and I’m in here.</p>
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<p>There’s SCPs that apparently send you to other worlds, but I’m stuck here with a monster. There are creatures tearing other worlds apart, and here I am wishing they could all move again. I’d imagine the Foundation probably feels this way most of the time too. “Yeah, the evil Santa Clause demon that turns people into toy slaves got out, but most of us are preoccupied with that sentient meteorite that’s currently heading straight towards us.” Threat vs imminence, I guess. I finally made it here and I can’t even feel solace in getting to examine some anomalies up-close.</p>
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<p>It's here. I can't believe I didn't figure it out sooner.</p>
<p>It wasn't a coincidence that it jumped me on the road. I've been exposing myself to its spawn constantly. Airborne traces too minute for me to smell must have seeped into the fabric of my clothing and other equipment. My blood can un-pause things temporarily, so it must be the same thing. So it can has an easier time honing in on its offspring.</p>
<p>That's why it stopped laying as much but kept eating. it's not out of season at all, it was just waiting for me to make myself vulnerable.</p>
<p>It's been about two days now. I've blocked off my initial entrance, but I can't leave the main building. I can't access an armoury or anything like that. I'll be ok for a while, but that only means I'm waiting for it to break in.</p>
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<p>When I was reading through some documents, I found this:</p>
<p><strong>Log of Anomalous Items:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Item Description:</strong> Elizabeth Morris, daughter of Foundation researcher, Rachel Morris. Subject is unaffected by the cessation of time and other similar phenomena, however shows no means of controlling it at present. Origin of anomalous properties believed to simply be fortuitous.<br/>
<strong>Date of Recovery:</strong> ██-██-19██<br/>
<strong>Location of Recovery:</strong> [REDACTED], United States.<br/>
<strong>Current Status:</strong> Amnesticized following confirmation of their anomalous properties. Subject currently resides in [REDACTED]. Dr. Morris continues to monitor the subject remotely on a bi-monthly basis.</p>
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<p>She knew. I should be shocked, but I can't even feel surprised. I'm more surprised by my own lack of surprise. With everything in here, am I really that amazed? The Foundation can easily erase memories. In comparison, most things aren’t that far fetched anymore. Foundation employees are used to almost anything that I could imagine, right?</p>
<p>Did she have me wiped so I could continue living free and safe? Or was it just standard protocol? Maybe she just wanted to distance me from all of this as much as possible.</p>
<p>I want to just forget about all of this and explore the halls of the Foundation. I want to work here and study the anomalies, talk with the friendly SCP's, share notes with that cat walking around in a lab coat, tell everyone what 055 really is.</p>
<p>I thought I was needed here. I wanted to believe there was a special reason for being the only one left unpaused. Those were just childish delusions. The reality is I stepped into another world that was already done with me.</p>
<p>I've only been playing researcher, taking notes and investigating. I can’t have that. Now I have to actually get results.</p>
<p>From what I’ve read, there’s an anomaly that stands out in comparison to others. With allot of SCP’s, there’s a level of unpredictability in their anomalous properties. Seriously, the number of times an unspeakably horrific thing happened during a test that nobody saw coming… It seems that they eventually just started assuming all anomalies were fucked up on the offset to save on personnel and resources. Saved them a tonne of D-Class over the years at least.</p>
<p>This SCP keeps popping up in cross-testing documents and always seems to have something to it that’s… unique? Like it doesn’t always follow the rules set even by other anomalies. I may be putting all of my faith into a theory, but it’ll be at the door any day now. At least if everything eventually un-pauses again, I’ll have left something to explain this whole situation.</p>
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<p>It didn’t work. The world remains still. I failed, but I don’t care. At least for a little while though, I won’t be alone. That guy will probably have paused again once I’ve finished writing this, but it’s nice to think they’re enjoying the freedom to move while they can. Then it's back in the containment chamber, buddy.</p>
<p>Too summarise: It broke in through one of the barricaded entrances, didn’t un-pause any of the debris I’d placed above. I hid as many entrances to areas where personnel were as I could. I improvised quite a few barricades from what I could gather, made sure to include plenty of shrapnel and broken glass. Nothing it touches is affected by gravity, but at least it’s moans were enough noise to alert me to its whereabouts.</p>
<p>The entrance to the containment chamber was locked, but the room had a viewing window for monitoring tests installed just below the ceiling. Earlier, I broke through it and fed a collapsible ladder into the chamber.</p>
<p>Once I heard it was close enough, I slid down, slit my palm again just to be sure, smeared blood across the back, and then fired off a few more rounds. I positioned myself just as it landed in the chamber. I doubt it could’ve even used the ladder, but I made sure to knock it over beforehand, in case it tried climbing back out. It was covered in cuts, gasping as glass fell out from it’s face hole. I started to feel heavy. It crawled around, surveying the chamber for any movement. Then my eyes started to droop as it picked up on my breathing. I saw it moving towards me, and then I closed my eyes.</p>
<p>It almost sounded like it was wrenching. There was a crash as it hit the floor and it’s breathing got more strained as it scratched at the concrete. The desperation in its weakening breathes was enough to make me consider opening my eyes for a split second just to take a peak. Then I just fell back against the wall and hit the floor, perfectly in time to hear that loud, satisfying crunch. I felt dizzy for a second and opened my eyes, just before I passed out.</p>
<p>I’ll never forget the image of <a href="/scp-173">SCP-173</a> with it’s arms around that faceless fucker’s broken neck.</p>
<p>When I awoke, it was still dead on the floor and the ladder was set back up. A few blood flecks stained the handles. I climbed out and was relieved to find nobody with a broken neck. I never even considered that 173 could climb ladders.</p>
<p>I wandered the halls for a while, taking in the grey walls and white lab coats, didn't even look at any anomalies now that I had the chance. Then I noticed that the sculpture had appeared right next to me. I moved far away enough from it before blinking again. Instead of going for me, it just took a left down the hallway. My blood was still noticeably coating its back.</p>
<p>I should have guessed that killing that thing wouldn't have undone the pause. Too easy, not complicated or inconvenient enough. There's probably a solution I'm not seeing, or I might never find one. Right now I'm just relieved that I could achieve something at least. I wonder if I earned that lab coat yet?</p>
<p>I went to the roof of the main building and stared out at the surrounding barrens. The sun still refused to move. It’s time I learned about all of these things. These gruesome, silly, fantastical things. Then maybe I’ll learn to fix all of this? I’ll see what I can do, or at least try. Hopefully I’ll see the sunset one day.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum:</strong> Following investigations, a formerly vacant room in the sub-level of Site-19 was found to contain items and furnishings previously not present. This included various recreational items, furniture, a multitude of books, research papers and SCP documents; and photographs taken in a variety of locations.</p>
<p>Amongst these possessions was a collection of handwritten journals recording numerous travels throughout the United States and neighbouring countries. These feature extensive logs mapping out SCP-8021-3's travel destination routes and activities which they partook. Logs noting miscellaneous details such as vehicles borrowed for transportation, their fuel usage, adjustments to locations, and food taken for consumption have also been written down. A majority of these travels seem to have been to areas where certain SCP items are contained. Inspection confirmed none of these items to have been breached.</p>
<p>The corpse of a recently deceased woman was found in a kingsized bed within the chamber. DNA testing later confirmed their identity as SCP-8021-3, who is estimated to have died in their mid-eighties. The corpse was found to be non-anomalous. Apart from the incidents mentioned in Document 8021-3, no other anomalies were found outside of containment.</p>
<p>Amongst the recovered documents were research papers confirming several theories regarding anomalous time manipulation in a near-timeless environment. These documents have been passed onto the Department of Horology for further confirmation. The content of these documents propose that the author had an advanced understanding of time-related anomalies and similar phenomena. It is possible that SCP-8021-3 eventually learned the true nature of SCP-8021 at some point before finally passing away.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Full containment of SCP-8021 has been completed in only six months.</p>
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<p><strong>SCP-8022:</strong> Build Your Dreams, One Brick at a Time<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/jorgemtzb" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(8474687); return false;"><img alt="JorgeMtzb" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=8474687&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1730371971" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=8474687)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/jorgemtzb" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(8474687); return false;">JorgeMtzb</a></span><br/>
<strong>Special Thanks to:</strong> <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/radiantgold" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(3229003); return false;"><img alt="RadiantGold" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=3229003&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1730371971" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=3229003)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/radiantgold" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(3229003); return false;">RadiantGold</a></span>, <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/zoobeeny" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(6070624); return false;"><img alt="Zoobeeny" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=6070624&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1730371971" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=6070624)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/zoobeeny" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(6070624); return false;">Zoobeeny</a></span>, <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/soundchaser" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(1506016); return false;"><img alt="soundchaser" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=1506016&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1730371971" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=1506016)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/soundchaser" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(1506016); return false;">soundchaser</a></span>, t0wnshark.</p>
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<p>Hey it's me <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/jorgemtzb" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(8474687); return false;"><img alt="JorgeMtzb" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=8474687&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1730371971" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=8474687)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/jorgemtzb" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(8474687); return false;">JorgeMtzb</a></span>, Put on your hard hat and grab on to your cement cuz it's 8k time. I had this and then I wrote it and yeah. Put a lot of effort and thought into it, so hope you like it!</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8022 is to be kept within a standard secure containment locker at Site-19. Access to SCP-8022 is restricted to Level 2 personnel. Testing involving SCP-8022 must be conducted in a controlled environment with proper safety measures in place.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8022 is a standard 8 in. x 2-1/4 in. x 4 (20.32 cm x 2.54 cm x 10.16 cm) red clay brick. Chemical analysis has revealed no anomalous properties in the composition or structure of SCP-8022.</p>
<p>When struck with sufficient force with SCP-8022 to render them unconscious, affected individuals will immediately enter a state of vivid dreaming. These dreams manifest as the fulfillment of the subject's deepest desires and fantasies, often blending elements of their subconscious with fantastical scenarios. The intensity, content and vividness of these dream experiences correlate directly with the force of the impact that rendered the subject unconscious, as subjects who have been knocked out with greater force report dreams of increased clarity, detail, and emotional resonance.</p>
<p>It should be noted that the anomalous effects of SCP-8022 do not offer any protection from the blunt force trauma and potential physical or mental damage caused by the impact. Aside from the experienced dreams, subjects' bodies respond exactly as expected to the physical trauma associated with being struck by a clay brick with sufficient force, which may result in injury or death without proper aid and safety precautions.</p>
<p>Repeated exposure to SCP-8022 does not appear to diminish its anomalous effects. However, prolonged or excessive exposure may lead to adverse mental health effects.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8022-1:</strong> SCP-8022 was brought to the Foundation's attention following Foundation agents embedded within local law enforcement departments being alerted to a police report detailing an assault involving a brick. Calls between two individuals were later intercepted detailing the anomalous properties of SCP-8022 and the use of the brick as a means to induce these dreams consistent with the police reports.</p>
<p>Acting on this information, Mobile Task Force Tau-15 ("Imagineers") was deployed to location, leading to the discovery of SCP-8022 in the possession of a local resident. Class-B amnestics were administered, and SCP-8022 was subsequently secured without incident.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8022-2:</strong> Testing with SCP-8022 is ongoing to further understand the nature and limitations of its anomalous effects. Research into potential applications is also being considered, pending approval from the Ethics Committee.</p>
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<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">D-569 was struck on the head with SCP-8022 with a force of 60 Newtons.</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">D-569 experienced an intense dream of wielding supernatural abilities and being revered as a god-like figure by adoring followers.</td>
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<p><strong>SCP-8022 - Test D.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> The following test is intended to determine whether SCP-8022's dreams can incorporate external information that the dreamer should not theoretically have access to, or if the dreams are derived solely from the subject's subconscious.</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><em>D-384 enters the testing room, having been instructed to sit down in the chair and do nothing until further instruction. He sits down, after which the intercom activates.</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Upkins:</strong> D-384, listen carefully. You are in a room with a table. On the table, there is a plastic cup.</p>
<p><strong>D-384:</strong> Ok? So what?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Upkins:</strong> Underneath the cup, there is a password written on a piece of paper. If you can retrieve and memorize this password, you will be rewarded with not only your freedom but also a substantial amount of wealth.</p>
<p><strong>D-384:</strong> Wait, what? Really!? You guys are not messing with me, are you?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Upkins:</strong> We would never. Now, you must make sure to <em>really</em> concentrate on your desire to know the password before attempting to retrieve it.</p>
<p><em>D-384 begins to reach for the cup.</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Upkins:</strong> Wait! Turn around first.</p>
<p><em>D-384 removes his hand from the cup before lifting it and sighs.</em></p>
<p><strong>D-384:</strong> Ugh, fine.</p>
<p><em>D-384 turns around in his chair and faces the wall.</em></p>
<p><strong>D-384:</strong> Why do I need to do this exactly?</p>
<p><em>Researcher Upkins walks into the room, holding SCP-8022 over D-384's head.</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Upkins:</strong> No reason.</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p><strong>Results:</strong> D-384 awakened approximately 40 minutes later. When asked to describe his dream, D-384 reported lifting the cup and discovering a gun underneath. He then proceeded to shoot Researcher Upkins at point blank and made his escape through the facility, gunning down everyone in his path, eventually escaping in a helicopter with the assistance of Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson. The outcome of this test has proven inconclusive; further analysis and experimentation are required.</p>
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<p><strong>Recovered Materials</strong></p>
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<p>Note: <em>The following materials alongside SCP-8022 itself were recovered from the residence of William Dodger, friend and co-worker of John Reverie, the original owner of SCP-8022.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Incident 215 - 2023: Video Log Transcript</strong></p>
<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> This transcript documents an audio recording retrieved from William Dodger's security home system capturing an exchange between him and John Reverie.</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>William:</strong> I don't believe you.</p>
<p><strong>John:</strong> Oh, come on will! Tell me of a single time I've EVER lied to you.</p>
<p><strong>William:</strong> You really want me to list them all out?</p>
<p><strong>John:</strong> Touché.</p>
<p><strong>William:</strong> Listen John, it's not that I don't believe that you had some crazy, head trauma induced, deranged fever dream after you got knocked out in that alley. But there's no way there's any real significance to it. Or that some random brick is somehow involved with it out of all things!</p>
<p><strong>John:</strong> I know it sounds insane but-</p>
<p><strong>William:</strong> You <em>do</em> sound insane! Did you hit your head or something?… Oh, <strong>WAIT</strong>. You did!</p>
<p><strong>John:</strong> Hah. Hah. Tell me something I don't know; come on now, I'm serious.</p>
<p><strong>William:</strong> Look, John, I want to believe you, I really do. But I need some proof. Something <em>concrete</em>.</p>
<p><strong>John:</strong> Something "concrete", huh?</p>
<p><strong>William:</strong> Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>John:</strong> Can you turn around for a second?</p>
<p><strong>William:</strong> Why?</p>
<p><strong>John:</strong> No reason.</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<span style="font-size:120%;"><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8023</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:120%;"><strong>Containment Class:</strong> Euclid</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Threat Class:</strong> Multiversal</span><br/>
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<span style="font-size:120%;"><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong></span><br/>
The specifics of SCP-8023 containment endeavours, as outlined in the <strong>2032 Cross-Foundation Agreement</strong>, fall under the <strong>CHIAROSCURO Project</strong> and are currently not subject to change. These measures are in effect for all 574 current DoMD member universes as well as a further 741 collaborator universes.</p>
<p>These containment measures include primarily:</p>
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<li>Prevention of the spread of residual anomalies linked to a now mostly defunct <strong>GoI-X01 'Rea-Utis per'</strong>.</li>
<li>Support and collaboration in the containment of multiversal anomalies linked to <strong>GoI-X01</strong>, <a href="/scp-7023">SCP-7023</a>, SCP-8023, or any other related anomalies.</li>
<li>Regulation or inhibition of travel to and from SCP-8023 on a case-by-case basis.</li>
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<p>For a full list of outlined containment procedures, see the <strong>2032 Cross-Foundation Agreement</strong>, the <strong>CHIAROSCURO Project Modus Operandi</strong>, or the <strong>First Multiversal Crisis Archival Documents</strong>.</p>
<p>A Cross-Foundation research station, dubbed Site-1Ξ has been established within SCP-8023 with the permission of the local government. Personnel stationed at Site-1Ξ are rotated in three-month intervals due to the psychological stress of local reality and time anomalies. As per Ethics Committee Ruling #7329-12, vital personnel with long-term physical health conditions should be prioritized for transfer to Site-1Ξ.</p>
<p>Field operatives navigating SCP-8023 are to be equipped with specialised flashlights crafted from local materials by the on-site engineering staff as well as instructed to stay within lit-up areas unless necessary.</p>
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<h5 id="toc0"><span>Department of Multiversal Defense (DoMD)</span></h5>
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<p>The Department of Multiversal Defense is a cross-universal Foundation agency created originally in 2018 by the <strong>Hexauniversal Foundation Collaboration Agreement</strong>, tasked with surveying the Multiverse for possible outside threats as well as ensuring collaboration and information exchange between different variants of the SCP Foundation. As of 2039, DoMD consists of 574 member universes as well as a further 741 collaborator universes. DoMD is not the only SCP Foundation agency of its kind in the multiverse. See, for example, the <a href="/scp-5618">Multi-Foundation Pact of 1981</a>.</p>
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<p>Photograph taken from inside a decrepit public building within the Free Port of SCP-8023.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:120%;"><strong>Description:</strong></span><br/>
SCP-8023 is currently understood to be both:</p>
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<li>An extrauniversal pocket of anomalous spacetime previously designated Universe<strong>-XT/007ω</strong>.</li>
<li>An incorporeal Apex-tier Pluripotent Entity inhabiting the entirety of this spacetime, also known as <strong>'Mar-duvin'</strong>.</li>
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<p>The laws of physics within SCP-8023 are inherently anomalous with the average Local Reality Measurement being within 5 points of magnitude lower than is considered to be baseline for universes typically inhabited by non-anomalous human beings. This mainly manifests when observing light sources within SCP-8023 as the entire universe is permanentely coated in thick everpresent darkness, believed to be an effect of the Apex-tier entity residing in it. So far, only light sources found within SCP-8023 have been able to penetrate this anomalous darkness, being able to light up their surroundings up to 5 meters while still being small enough to carry around.</p>
<p>Other notable effects of anomalous spacetime include an extremely slow form of decay experienced by matter inside of SCP-8023, causing injuries or damage that would otherwise be fatal to be survivable. Death caused by natural causes is almost impossible inside SCP-8023. A similar effect has been documented in <a href="/scp-3001">places with extremely low Hume levels before</a>. In addition to this, whenever a sentient being inside of SCP-8023 is left in absolute darkness, they will eventually teleport to a different part of SCP-8023 that is also in absolute darkness, usually close to a nearby light source or structure, often ending up where they came from. It is currently unknown if these effects are inherent to the anomalous spacetime, or if these are conscious efforts of the Apex-tier entity to keep the inhabitants out of harm.</p>
<p>In addition to this, the local flow of time is significantly unstable, often leading to time anomalies and differences in how locals perceive time. This fact has made it possible for the local community to have had a functioning infrastructure with hundreds of buildings when it was first discovered merely 10 years after its founding.</p>
<p>This extrauniversal spacetime is potentially infinite and empty except for a non-Euclidean expanse of land in its center, which is made out of a dark grey rock-like substance. A local community of people has been established within SCP-8023, designated <strong>Free Port #23</strong>, known to the local populace as <strong>'Ai'gazar-En'</strong> or <strong>'City of the Accursed'</strong>. This stretch of land has thus far not been properly surveyed due to anomalous local topography as well as size but estimates given by residents claim that the city is about 780-950 km<sup>2</sup> but has expanded significantly in recent years. The local atmosphere is breathable, albeit with some difficulty, as it contains slightly less oxygen than humans from most baseline universes are accustomed to.</p>
<p>Almost all inhabitants of SCP-8023 are human and function as semi-permanent residents, as there is no food supply, poor living conditions for permanent habitation, and disorienting local geography. As such, SCP-8023 (and FP-23) is mostly inhabited by multiversal refugees as well as 'The Accursed', referring to people with any form of a fatal, non-curable condition such as illness, injury, or curses.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> Notably, around 19% of questioned inhabitants have been affected by <a href="/scp-7023">SCP-7023 and the recent Multiversal Crisis</a>. 'The Accursed' are multiversal travelers who come to SCP-8023 on an irregular basis to temporarily escape their condition and stay within the anomaly for as long as they are able to.</p>
<p>The local inhabitants view <strong>'Mar-duvin'</strong> (the Apex-tier Entity designated SCP-8023) as a benevolent godly being that merely allows them to reside within itself, calling it many names such as <strong>'Safe Shadow'</strong> and <strong>'Bliss od Darkness'</strong>. No institutionalized worship of this entity exists, however many people within SCP-8023 rever Mar-duvin and the oldest inhabitants of the city sometimes claim that "it is currently dormant", implying this hasn't always been the case.</p>
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<p>The hostile memetic civilisation, known as <strong>Rea Utis-per</strong>, was a multiversal threat, whose goal was the conversion and infection of other universes to their beliefs. The origin of this powerful memetic virus is still unknown. In order to conquer other universes, they constructed an Eigen-weapon capable of targeting the multiversal variation signature, meaning it could target a specific person across all possible universes and then collapse those variations into a single one.</p>
<p>Rea Utis-per used this weapon on their own multiversal variant in a religious ritual which was supposed to determine the most <em>true</em> variant of their religious meme, after which the remaining variant took over countless worlds previously inhabited by the other variants. This made GoI-X01 into a singular powerful adversary for the Department of Multiversal Defense, which began uniting the Foundations of other universes against this threat.</p>
<p>All further information surrounding Rea Utis-per is <strong>RESTRICTED</strong> for personnel not assigned to the <strong>CHIAROSCURO Project</strong>.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:120%;"><strong>Addendum 8023.1:</strong> Discovery</span></p>
<p>The Department of Multiversal Defense first discovered SCP-8023 in 2032 during the ongoing Multiversal Crisis following the invasion of a hostile memetic light-based civilisation known as <strong>GoI-X01 'Rea Utis-per'</strong> ten years prior. The conflict, which affected several hundreds of universes, was sparked over a new multiversal Eigen-weapon (SCP-7023) used by the enemy to destroy all multiversal variants of objects and people, collapsing them into a single variant that was highly unstable and eventually fatal. This effect was devastating to Foundation leadership in many allied universes, as many of them had a close similarity percentage, meaning specific people, locations or objects could be erased across all of these universes in a single use of the Eigen-weapon.</p>
<p>After a decade of prolonged war between 'Rea Utis-per' and The Department of Multiversal Defense, it appeared that the enemy ceased their attacks on multiple key target universes as they suddenly had to relocate their resources somewhere else. Reports from field agents started to mention 'shadow entities' appearing during battles attacking the enemy combatants. Attempts to follow the multiversal signature of these entities revealed their origin to be an extrauniversal pocket of anomalous spacetime, which was designated Universe<strong>-XT/007ω</strong> and later reclassified as SCP-8023.</p>
<p>In search of an alliance against the threat of <strong>'Rea Utis-per'</strong>, the Foundation Department of Multiversal Defense created a diplomatic committee that was sent to SCP-8023 after the initial location has been deemed safe by MTF Gala-4 "Dark Lords". Despite not being able to communicate with the Apex-tier Entity within, these representatives met with the inhabitants of SCP-8023 and initiated diplomatic relations. At first, there were very few inhabitants present in the city and they had little knowledge of the origin and purpose of SCP-8023. With their permission, a Temporary Research Station was created within, later expanded into a more permanent Site-1Ξ.</p>
<p>Despite the initial connection between the shadow entities attacking 'GoI-X01' and SCP-8023, no such entity was ever observed inside of SCP-8023. These entities have not been observed in any of the allied Foundation universes since the end of the Crisis in 2034 and the collapse of GoI-X01.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:120%;"><strong>Addendum 8023.2:</strong> About Free Port-23</span></p>
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<h2><span>Ai'gazar-En</span></h2>
<h4 id="toc2"><span>City of the Accursed</span></h4>
<p><strong>City-State/Independent Entity</strong></p>
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<td style="vertical-align:top">2022 SMY<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup></td>
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<td style="vertical-align:top">2032 SMY</td>
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<td style="vertical-align:top">The Interpreter/City Council</td>
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<td style="vertical-align:top">~300-360 sq mi<br/>
(~780-950 km<sup>2</sup>)</td>
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<td style="vertical-align:top">Unknown<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup></td>
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<td style="vertical-align:top">The Accursed</td>
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<td style="vertical-align:top">Z cluster lang.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup><br/>
W cluster lang.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup><br/>
X and Y cluster lang.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup><br/>
Other</td>
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<td style="vertical-align:top">Barter trade</td>
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<p>The anomalous city-state of <strong>Ai'gazar-En</strong> was founded in 2022 by a group of survivors from Universe-<strong>ZL/018b</strong>, one of the first universes conquered by Rea Utis-per during the Crisis. This initial community, led by a man named <strong>Sajid Inturmann</strong>, faced many hardships due to the inherent anomalies within SCP-8023 but they were also able to harness these anomalies and use them to their benefit.</p>
<p>Today Ai'gazar-En is permanently inhabited by hundreds to thousands of people at any given time,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-7')">7</a></sup> however the exact overall number of citizens has never been counted. City Council, exchanged every three months, together with a person known as <strong>The Interpreter</strong>, form a sort of government structure for the local community, even though many residents of Ai'gazar-En prefer their privacy and deliberately try to isolate themselves from others.</p>
<p>Buildings are mostly spread out in small groups close to each other and lit up using specialised lanterns made from local materials, which produce a turquoise or green light capable of illuminating the anomalous darkness. There are however many buildings separated from others by chunks of darkness, which makes it almost impossible to access them due to the inherent teleportation properties of local topology. As such, it is virtually impossible for anyone who doesn't know the precise distances and directions, to find these isolated buildings.</p>
<p>In addition to this, prolonged exposure to SCP-8023 and its anomalous effects seems to be detrimental to the human psyche. Whether this is an effect of the everpresent darkness, poor living conditions, or the low level of local reality and temporal anomalies is unknown. These effects on the human mind have however been recorded in a <a href="/scp-5005">location with similar properties</a>.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:120%;"><strong>Addendum 8023.3:</strong> PITCH DARK Incident</span></p>
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<p>Dr. Simon Gutarix.</p>
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<p>On the 27th of August 2039, Site-1Ξ sent out a distress signal to DoMD leadership, claiming the light sources both inside and outside of the building had gone out simultaneously. Soon after, all contact with Site-1Ξ was lost. In response, MTF Gala-4 "Dark Lords" was sent into SCP-8023 to investigate finding that the local topology had changed drastically and Site-1Ξ was nowhere to be found.</p>
<p>Local inhabitants appeared just as confused as the Team and claimed there was a temporary 'blackout' during which the positions of all structures, objects, and people changed. This was the first recorded instance of such an event in the city's history, prompting both the locals and the MTF to search for answers. Especially as many structures around the central hub of the city seemed to be completely alien to the locals.</p>
<p>Dr. Simon Gutarix, a former decorated field agent with 40 years of experience in the field and also a member of on-site medical personnel, was soon found wandering around the newly-formed city square, claiming to have ventured outside of Site-1Ξ for a breath of fresh air, before everything went dark. He was directed to temporarily join the four-man team to aid in their investigation.</p>
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<p><strong>Exploration Video Log Transcript, Part I</strong><br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> 27/08/2039<br/>
<strong>Exploration Team:</strong> Mobile Task Force Gala-4 "Dark Lords"<br/>
<strong>Location of Interest:</strong> SCP-8023<br/>
<strong>Team Lead:</strong> G-4 Star<br/>
<strong>Team Members:</strong> G-4 Tray, G-4 Fall, G-4 Reve, Dr. Gutarix</p>
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<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> … Alright, I guess we're taking the Doctor with us if the Command ordered it.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Tray:</strong> You don't seem too happy about it, Captain.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> No comment, Tray. So, what do you suggest we do first, Doctor?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> (<em>Hesitantly.</em>) I believe we should ask some of the locals for help. It's their terrain and we know very little about it.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Fall:</strong> We already asked them and they're just as confused, if not more, old man. No offense.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> None taken. I wasn't talking about their maps being useless in here. We need a guide, someone who spent a long time- (<em>Pauses to take a breath.</em>) -here. Simply someone who knows more than us.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Reve:</strong> I heard there's this guy they call the Interpreter. He does like this, this- <em>Communication</em> with the entity here. Allegedly.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> Good thinking. That was also my first guess but nobody has seen him since the blackout.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Tray:</strong> Alright, so someone else then. There's supposed to be a City Council or something, no? We go to them.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> Tray, we've already asked the guy in charge of the diplomatic paperwork and he knew less than nothing. Not to worry though, I'm sure the old man here has something more specific in mind.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> … I do. Elsa Zhevnicz.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> Are you- are you sure about this?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> Well no, but she's our best bet. Or do you know anyone else here who makes their living by searching for things in the dark?</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Tray:</strong> The old man has a point, Captain.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> That he does, Tray…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> I've asked a couple of people who claimed they saw her a few minutes ago. Can't be that hard to find.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Fall:</strong> Isn't she- you know- (<em>He makes a rotation motion with his hand close to his head.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Tray:</strong> A redhead?</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Fall:</strong> I meant crazy, you idiot.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Tray:</strong> Same thing if you ask me.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> Enough. We'll discuss your inappropriate behaviour later but for now, let's go find the woman. Hopefully, she's better company than you lot. (<em>He gestures the rest to move out.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> Ed- I mean, Captain, if you could spare a moment-</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> Not now, old man. We've got work to do.</p>
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<p>Elsa Zhevnicz.</p>
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<p>Team Gala-4 successfully managed to locate Ms. Zhevnicz in a decrepit apartment building which has now relocated to the opposite side of the city from its original location. During their trip there, agents discovered an anomalous object confirmed to be a pine tree, roughly 30 meters in height, although only the bottom-most part of it was visible through the darkness, growing seemingly out of hard rock ground. Dr. Gutarix speculated that it is possible this pine tree has always existed within SCP-8023 and was simply never found. He further supposed it could be possible that more plant life exists somewhere in SCP-8023, explaining the existence of oxygen in the air, which was previously taken as anomalous. He was swiftly reminded by other members of the team, that without any natural light or soil in SCP-8023, such plant life would still have to be inherently anomalous.</p>
<p>Upon arrival, the team and Dr. Gutarix were cautiously greeted by the residents and given directions towards Ms. Zhevnicz's apartment, where she somewhat begrudgingly agreed to temporarily join the team in their investigation. As a professional cartographer, geologist, speleologist, mountaineer, and a former Foundation operative originating from Universe-<strong>WL/343c</strong>, she has been accepted by Mission Command without complaints. City records regarding Ms. Zhevnicz are incomplete, showing only that she first arrived to SCP-8023 in 2024 and only officially<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-8" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-8')">8</a></sup> left the city only a handful of times. Ms. Zhevnicz suggested that the team should first visit the Interpreter's home as it is the most likely place to find them and she knew about its new location.</p>
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<p><strong>Exploration Video Log Transcript, Part II</strong><br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> 27/08/2039<br/>
<strong>Exploration Team:</strong> Mobile Task Force Gala-4 "Dark Lords"<br/>
<strong>Location of Interest:</strong> SCP-8023<br/>
<strong>Team Lead:</strong> G-4 Star<br/>
<strong>Team Members:</strong> G-4 Tray, G-4 Fall, G-4 Reve, Dr. Gutarix, Elsa Zhevnicz</p>
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<p><strong>G-4 Reve:</strong> Ms. Zhevnicz? Who is the Interpreter? I mean, really.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> Oh they're just an old fool. Doesn't look it but our actions often tell more than our looks.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> (<em>Nods.</em>) Don't judge a book by its cover.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> Ah, so you guys are from <em>that</em> universe cluster.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> What is that supposed to mean?</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> Oh nothing… nobody else in the multiverse uses that saying. By the way, you wouldn't happen to know what a <em>fla-min-go</em> is, would you?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> (<em>Laughs.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Tray:</strong> (<em>Mutters to G-4 Fall</em>) I told you she's cuckoo.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> Alright, look lady, we're not here to chit-chat. Doctor here convinced me, that you'll be helpful so, answer the question, please. Who is the Interpreter?</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> They run the place, well, kinda. The Safe Shadow is the one in charge but the Interpreter, well, interprets it. Picture an old-timey shaman priest kind of person, telling us what the darkness around thinks and wants. Usually, it wants nothing. People say a lot about them. Stories and legends, that the Interpreter is actually Mar-duvin themselves in a human body, or that they were the first person who ever found this place, hundreds of years before Sajid Inturmann and his refugees did. Others will tell you the Interpreter actually is Sajid.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Reve:</strong> And nobody knows the truth?</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> Oh no, some people do. But it's really not that important you see, because all the stories focus on the Interpreter's past and refuse to acknowledge who they are now.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> Alright, I hate to cut your conversation here but we are heading into darkness. Ms. Zhevnicz?</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> It should be right in front of us, around 30 meters. Or, do you use meters, where you come from? (<em>Chuckles.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> Very funny. Alright, take out your flashlights everyone.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> No, let's conserve our fuel. Everyone just hold each other's hand while you Captain hold this. (<em>She offers him an already lit brass lantern with a green flame flickering inside.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> Fine. Do as she says. (<em>He grabs her hand as she offers to take Dr. Gutarix's hand, who in turn grabs one of the agents until all members are holding each other.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> This is genious. We haven't really had the time to properly experiment with the local environment yet but tell me, Ms. Zhevnicz, if none of us had a light source right now, would we all teleport individually, or together?</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> One for all, all for one. Be careful where you step, folks.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> (<em>Enthusiastically.</em>) Thank you, Ms. Zhevnicz.</p>
<p>(<em>The team enters a dark spot and after approximately 30 meters exits into another dimly lit-up area surrounding a tall cylindrical wooden house. In close proximity to the house are seven smaller pine trees, seemingly growing out of the ground.</em>)</p>
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<p>Scenario A - When the Subject leaves a lit up area of SCP-8023, they inevitably reach another lit up area, usually the one they left, even when heading in a direct line.</p>
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<p><strong>G-4 Tray:</strong> Man, I've done this shadow travel thing a million times by now and it's still creepy.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Fall:</strong> What are you talking about, this is our second mission together.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Tray:</strong> Doesn't mean it's not creepy.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> (<em>Points towards the trees.</em>) Well that wasn't there before.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Fall:</strong> We've seen one just like that close to where we found you. Do you know anything about them?</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> Nothing about this.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> Enough! Let's get to work, people. Tray, Reve, you two head into the upper floor. Fall, you're with me, we'll check the ground floor. Zhevnicz, you stay here with the old man.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> Maybe, I could go with you-</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> No, you'll stay here. I doubt the Interpreter is inside anyway, we'll be in and out.</p>
<p>(<em>Members of MTF G-4 enter the building and begin to search through its rooms while Dr. Gutarix and Ms. Zhevnicz stay outside.</em>)</p>
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<p>Scenario B - The Subject leaves a lit area but carries a light source into the darkness, preventing the transportation anomaly from triggering its effect. The Subject later arrives to a new location.</p>
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<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> So, doctor, what's the deal with you and that soldier?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> (<em>Looks at her</em>) Very perceptive, Ms. Zhevnicz, although I suppose I might be making it rather obvious.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> Wanna talk about it?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> (<em>Shrugs.</em>) If you wish, I can at least talk about it with you, if not with my own son.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> … Hm… the Foundation didn't send you here. You wanted to come here.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> I admit it.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> So what is it? I'll tell you about mine, if you want.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> (<em>Sighs.</em>) Lung cancer.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> I'm sorry to hear that. Mine is a curse.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> Eigen-weapon caused?</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> Actually, no. I know there's plenty of people here who suffered from that. Mine is less grand but all the more deadly.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> It's- it's hard for me to grasp still… My son doesn't know yet, our relationship was never really that great to begin with.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> So you've decided to come here like the rest of us? Growing old and seeking immortality?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> Not- not immortality, no. I just… I wanted a bit more time to grow comfortable with the idea.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> … I didn't mean to pry.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> Didn't you? (<em>Chuckles.</em>) It's alright.</p>
<p>(<em>They both stand in silence for a while.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> So what do you think happens when we find the Interpreter? Do you believe they will be able to tell us what happened?</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> Honestly? I have no idea. But I like to think the blackout was something natural. The darkness around isn't really that scary when you've lived here for as long as I have.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> How long is that?</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> (<em>Smiles.</em>) I know I don't look it.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> That's not an answer.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> (<em>Chuckles.</em>) Look who is prying now.</p>
<p>(<em>G-4 Star comes back through the front door of the building.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> Nothing! What now?</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> Now comes the tricky part.</p>
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<p>The interior of the searched building was very minimalistic, only being furnished with a single bed, drawer, tiny kitchen area, dining table and two chairs. Upon closer inspection, all furniture inside the house, as well as the facade was made out of pine wood. After searching through the Interpreter's house, the team was left with a choice. Go back to the central city hub and search for any clues there, or continue searching in a perimeter around the house. Confident in her ability to orient herself in the darkness, Ms. Zhevnicz supported the latter option to which Agent Star agreed.</p>
<p>Beforehand, during a short break Agent Star in private contacted Foundation DoMD Command<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-9" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-9')">9</a></sup> to seek further instructions and to ask about his father's presence in the mission. Due to an administrative error, he was informed that Dr. Gutarix requested his transfer to SCP-8023 two months prior to the incident. This error was noticed before any more private information about the medical state of Dr. Gutarix could be revealed to Agent Star. Still, the agent seemed frustrated with this information and requested access to further details. Due to the tense relationship between both men, Command refused to give out private information, insisting instead that both men have a discussion before continuing. Enraged, Agent Star refused this suggestion and continued with the mission as previously planned.</p>
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<p><strong>Exploration Video Log Transcript, Part III</strong><br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> 27/08/2039<br/>
<strong>Exploration Team:</strong> Mobile Task Force Gala-4 "Dark Lords"<br/>
<strong>Location of Interest:</strong> SCP-8023<br/>
<strong>Team Lead:</strong> G-4 Star<br/>
<strong>Team Members:</strong> G-4 Tray, G-4 Fall, G-4 Reve, Dr. Gutarix, Elsa Zhevnicz</p>
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<p>(<em>For about half an hour, MTF Gala-4 kept searching in a perimeter of 100 meters around the house. Due to the extremely low visibility, they progressed slowly, divided into teams of three which moved in close proximity, with G-4 Star, Tray and Fall forming one group, while Dr. Gutarix, Zhevnicz and G-4 Reve formed the other.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Tray:</strong> So, we've been going in circles for like 10 minutes now, what are we looking for again, Captain?</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> I'm really not in the mood for your jokes, Tray.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Fall:</strong> What is it, Captain? Wanna talk about it?</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> (<em>Sighs.</em>) Not you too, Fall. Seriously, not now.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Reve:</strong> (<em>To Doctor Gutarix.</em>) What do you think went into him?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> I- I am not sure… Maybe I should go talk to him.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> Just be careful.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Reve:</strong> Why? There's nothing around for miles probably…</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> Oh there's plenty of stuff in the dark, you know. (<em>She smiles at him before cracking into laughter.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Reve:</strong> Hey, Tray, you wanna swap teams with Doctor here? I'm getting kinda creeped out being the only normal one here.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Tray:</strong> Sure, if the Captain won't mind. (<em>He looks over to G-4 Star.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> (<em>Sighs.</em>) Fine, you know what? Let's take a little break. (<em>He stops.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Fall:</strong> Now? We're in the middle of this- this darkness!</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> What's wrong? Scared of the dark?</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> Ms. Zhevnicz, please stop trying to scare my teammates.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> Who says I'm trying to scare them? Are you also scared of the dark?</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> No. Something so simple as empty darkness doesn't scare me.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Tray:</strong> What if it isn't empty then?</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> See? He's asking the right questions now. You're interested in the dark, right Doctor?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> Now is not the right time, Ms. Zhevnicz.</p>
<p>(<em>Everyone is silent for a few moments as the team regroups, checks their lights and consumes some rations. During this time, Dr. Gutarix comes to Agent Star.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> Eduard, do you have a moment? I'd- I'd like to talk to you about something.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> (<em>Sighs deeply.</em>) Sure, dad. What is it?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> Thank you, Ed. I appreciate that. I know things haven't been good between us since-</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> Since mom died? Yeah…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> Look, I know I've been a terrible father. I can't change that but I can at least try to make things better now.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> Is that why you took this assignment?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> You came here to fix things with me? How did you know I was going to be here, huh?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> Ed, that's- (<em>His voice cracks.</em>) There's no easy way to say this and I've always been terrible with these things-</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> You could say that again.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> … Son, I'm here for the same reason as everyone else who lives here…</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> (<em>Silence.</em>) What is it? Heart? Lungs? … It's lung cancer isn't it. Fuck, mom always used to say you should quit smoking before-</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> Before it kills me?</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> …</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> I'm sorry, that was- I shouldn't have said that.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> I- I don't- hate you, dad. I want you to know-</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> I know, Ed. Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> … You can get through this.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> No son, I can't. I've survived my share of terrible things when I did your job, now it's time to just live through this one… Doesn't make it any less terrifying.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> So what, I'm guessing you're here to stay then? In here? (<em>He gestures around them.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> For some time, yes. I'll do my time here but I've never planned on living forever.</p>
<p>(<em>Agent Star comes closer to Dr. Gutarix and brings him into an embrace which the doctor returns. They both remain like this for a whole minute before G-4 Reve comes closer to them.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Reve:</strong> Ehm, Captain? I hate to break whatever it is that you're doing here but there's something we thought you may want to check out.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> (<em>Sighs.</em>) What is it, Reve?</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Tray:</strong> (<em>From a few meters.</em>) You hear that, Captain?</p>
<p>(<em>Everyone is silent for a moment to listen. A far weak sound reminiscent of whistling is heard.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> I know that song! It's them!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong> The Interpreter?</p>
<p>(<em>Ms. Zhevnicz nods.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> Alright, let's get back to this. Form two lines like before and let's go in the direction of that sound.</p>
<p>(<em>The team follows orders and starts slowly advancing towards the target. They keep going for three hours and seventeen minutes until Dr. Gutarix suddenly screams and dissapears into darkness.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> What happened?!</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Reve:</strong> He- I think he tripped, Captain! I don't know!</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Tray:</strong> There's nothing to trip on. Just flat ground.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> No, you're right. He must have tripped on one of the roots.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Fall:</strong> Roots? I don't see any roots.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> But you have seen the trees. They are out here, in the darkness.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> (<em>He comes closer and grabs her by the wrist.</em>) What happened to my father?!</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> Stop yelling! Look, I'm not sure where he went. Out there it's a free for all. He might be back where we came from, he could be all the way back to the city, he could be falling from a cliff between trees right on top of a building five meters from us. And we wouldn't know!</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Tray:</strong> You're insane.</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> So I've heard you say… (<em>Sighs.</em>) But don't worry. Despite what it may look like, your father is most likely completely safe. He can't die in here, none of us can. That's way better odds then his universe ever gave him…</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> We are going out to find him.</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Fall:</strong> Ehm, not that I disagree but where do we even start out here?</p>
<p><strong>Zhevnicz:</strong> Yes, Captain. Where should we start?</p>
<p><strong>G-4 Star:</strong> (<em>Silence.</em>) … we keep following that sound.</p>
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<p><em>As Dr. Gutarix seemingly trips, his camera looses focus and suddenly all audio except for his sudden scream dissapears. For a couple of minutes, the entire view is dark while sounds of motion can be heard. Dr. Gutarix is seemingly trying to reach into his backpack to bring out a spare light source. After a minute of this, a low barely audible rustling sound can be heard all around him. He then manages to light up a small turqouise flashlight which illuminates his face in complete darkness.</em></p>
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<p><em>His face is panicked and he appears to be in a state of shock, as he breathes in and out rapidly. Eventually he starts looking around to the emptiness he finds himself in. His small cone of light barely illuminates his immediate vicinity. Nothing but brittle grey stone surrounds him in every direction. He attempts to call out into the darkness but no sound returns. He calls out the names of his colleagues, his son, Ms. Zhevnicz…</em></p>
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<p><em>He is seemingly rotating on his spot back and forth while hyperventilating. Then he starts coughing, heavily. Soon, he realises that he no longer knows which way he was originally oriented in. Then he realises it doesn't matter. He starts heading in a random direction. Forward.</em></p>
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<p><em>At first he stumbles, slowly gaining pace as he walks through the empty darkness. Ten minutes later, he is still walking, his camera view barely shifting it's focus. His breathing is more regular now, still stopping to cough every few meters. After an hour, he begins to complain audibly between breaths. Realising he should have already reached some kind of structure, some lit up area by now, he begins to panic again.</em></p>
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<p><em>Out of desperation, he decides to extinguish his light momentarily, hoping he simply picked a wrong direction and this time, he will be teleported to a better spot. After his light goes out, it doesn't light up again for another ten minutes. During this time, the same barely audible rustling noise is heard from everywhere around. Five minutes into this darkness, Dr. Gutarix speaks:</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"The trees… I can hear them… moving around in the darkness…"</em></p>
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<p><em>Five minutes later, his light reignites and the rustling stops. Dr. Gutarix is standing on a wide cliff, barely seeing the edge three meters to his right. He gasps at this sight but soon gathers enough willpower to look over the edge. It is pitch black.</em></p>
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<p><em>He walks around, following the edge for several minutes in one direction until he gives up and walks in the other direction for several more minutes. Eventually he gains enough courage to step up to the ledge. He lays down and moves his hand with the light as far down as possible, discovering the ledge to be only about two meters deep. He starts laughing then stops. Then laughs again for a bit.</em></p>
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<p><em>He again puts out the light in his flashlight, this time keeping it off for about a minute. He reignites it and once again pan over his surroundings. There is nothing in sight. He turns the light off and immediately turns it on. Nothing. He does so again, this time noticing the patterns of rocks on the ground is different but otherwise everything seems to be the same.</em></p>
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<p><em>Once more he repeats the process. Turning off the light, he remains in darkness for another minute and a half until the sound of rustling returns, at which point he quickly reignites the light and spins around wildly. The noise ceases. Dr. Gutarix is alone.</em></p>
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<p><em>He sits down after this experience, realising he's trapped without a way out of SCP-8023. He begins to cry and does so for another five to ten minutes. He cries and sometimes coughs. Sometimes appearing to almost stop before starting again. During this time, he blames himself for coming to this place. He contemplates what might be waiting in the darkness once his flashlight eventually runs out of power. Once he regains composure, he gets back on his feet and takes a deep ragedy breath.</em></p>
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<p><em>One more time, he turns off his light and keeps it off for about 30 minutes. Nothing but the sound of his breathing and low rustling noises can be heard for the entire time.</em></p>
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<p><em>Then he reignites his flashlight and notices something different. The rocky ground below his feet has been replaced by forest ground. Orange fallen pine needles coat the floor all around him and as he notices after a few steps, he is surrounded by tree trunks. A towering pine forest is spread out all around him but his flashlight can only light up a small area around him.</em></p>
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<p><em>Then he begins to hear a whistling sound from somewhere close. He starts frantically turning around to locate the source of this sound. He picks a direction and starts quickly but cautiously walking towards the whistling as his steps rustle in the undergrowth.</em></p>
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<p><em>Then he sees a light coming from between the dark trees, his light unable to fully penetrate their thick branches. It's a green flickering light of a campfire which illuminates a small circle in a forest meadow. As he steps out of the branches, he realises that there is a night sky above. Behind the flames, a lone figure is sitting on a piece of wood.</em></p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"Welcome, friend. Come, sit by the fire with me."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"Is- is this real?"</em></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"It's as real as you want it to be, my friend."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"You- you're the Interpreter, yes?"</em></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"Yes."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"I've- We've been looking for you."</em></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"Have you? It's nice to be popular."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"Something has happened back in the city, we thought maybe you could help us figure out the cause."</em></p>
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<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"The people inside of your Foundation's building… Their fate does not trouble you?"</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"It does. Of course, I am- I am simply too tired. Forgive me. Do you know what happened to them?"</em></p>
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<p><em>The Interpreter sits aside, allowing Dr. Gutarix to sit on piece of wood next to them. As the doctor approaches, he notices the figure holding a long wooden stick with something impaled at its end. The figure is holding it over the flames as if roasting it.</em></p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"They are safe. They've been trapped in the forest for a while, like you. But eventually everyone finds a way out of the darkness. Give them some time."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"Oh thank god. And- and what about my son? Where is he and the others with him?"</em></p>
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<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"You ask a lot of questions, friend. I suppose that's alright. Curiosity is a virtue. Your son is safe as well. Him and the others will be joining us shortly."</em></p>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<p><em>Satisfied for the moment, the doctor breathes a sigh of relief. He then gazes up into the night sky.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"I know you've said I ask a lot but would you humour an old man for a bit longer?"</em></p>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<p><em>The Interpreter nods silently.</em></p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"What is this place?"</em></p>
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<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"An eye of the storm. A window that allows for a clear view out of the Safe Shadow. Or, perhaps you would rather hear something along the words of it being a hole in the semi-spherical object you percieve as this world, even if it may seem flat to you. This is the only place where the sky is visible through the shadow."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"Fair enough. But what is the shadow really?"</em></p>
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<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"Hm… that is a hard question to answer. I think I shall think on it a bit longer before I attempt to answer it."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"That's- that's not something I can argue with. Then what about the blackout? What caused it?"</em></p>
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<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"That I can asnwer. The Shadow has been asleep for a while now. While it's presence surrounds us even now, its not exactly conscious as it has been before people came to it. Before the war with Utis-per began. What you percieved as all the lights going out was merely something akin to the Shadow rolling in its long sleep. It could happen again but it likely won't for some time."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"So, the people here are not in any immediate danger?"</em></p>
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<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"Are they not? From where I'm sitting, life is synonymous with immediate danger."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"Do all the locals talk like this when you get to know them better?"</em></p>
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<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"Hm… No I think not. Only Me and Elsa. Maybe a few others but they probably talk that way because of us. Probably."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"Alright… let me think… the trees, of course. What is up with the trees here?"</em></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"Their treetops, maybe?"</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"…Yeah but it doesn't sound right when you make a pun while sitting here all ominously like that."</em></p>
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<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"Apologies then. The trees here have always acted strangely. It took me many years until they allowed me to even notice them. You must have left quite an impression, friend."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"But how is it possible, that they move around like that?"</em></p>
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<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"It isn't any more impossible for them to travel using the Shadow then it is for you and I. They simply learnt how to control this form of travel better. That way they can always stay hidden from prying eyes."</em></p>
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<p><em>A rustling sound appears from the low branches of a nearby tree and five figures step out of it, illuminated by a couple green lanterns. Members of Mobile Task Force Gala-4 as well as Elsa Zhevnicz step out into the meadow.</em></p>
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<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"As I said. They are unharmed."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Agent Star:</strong><br/>
<em>"Thank god, you're alright, dad. Don't ever do anything like that again."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Elsa Zhevnicz:</strong><br/>
<em>"Huh, so this is where you've been hiding, eh? Nice place for a fire."</em></p>
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<p><em>All members of the team approach the campfire and silently sit down around it in a circle, after the Interpreter invites them to do so. G-4 Tray, Fall and Reve all quietly talk to one another, gazing at the stars in an awe. Agent Star sits next to Dr. Gutarix, making sure his father is alright, then embracing him. Elsa Zhevnicz sits next to the Interpreter and begins to make small talk while smiling. Soon enough, the group realises they should get back to the city and report their findings but the Interpreter once again reassures them that the people inside the lost facility are not in any danger and will reapear soon enough on their own terms.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Star:</strong><br/>
<em>"We should still get back to report soon."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Elsa Zhevnicz:</strong><br/>
<em>"Relax soldier, time works differently in this place and your bosses are well aware. Thirty minutes or 4 hours mean nothing here. We'll be fine."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"Alright, Ms. Zhevnicz, but only for a little while longer. Just because I don't want to go back through that darkness."</em></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"Are you afraid of the dark?"</em></p>
</div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><strong>Elsa Zhevnicz:</strong><br/>
<em>"Are you, doctor?"</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"No… no I was never afraid of the dark. It's the uncertainty. The unknown. You never know what's in front of you."</em></p>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"And is that something to be afraid of so much, that you'd rather avoid the feeling entirely?"</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"No… perhaps it isn't… There comes a time, when we must face our fears and conquer them."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Elsa Zhevnicz:</strong><br/>
<em>"Or make peace with them."</em></p>
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<div style="text-align: right;">
<p><strong>The Interpreter:</strong><br/>
<em>"Embrace them… The dark out here is full of things people brought with them. Before anyone came here, this was just a quiet peaceful dark forest."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Agent Star:</strong><br/>
<em>"I don't get how you can all talk about this like it's something… normal. I for one am not afraid to admit that I'm still scared of going back through all that darkness."</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Gutarix:</strong><br/>
<em>"Well, it's nice out here and we don't really need to return urgently… Besides, there's a couple of things that lie</em> beyond <em>that darkness, that truly terrify me… A little while longer by the campfire and in good company… that might be nice."</em></p>
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<strong>Derivative Of:</strong> <a href="https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1278382">Pxhere</a> and <a href="https://pxhere.com/en/photo/65309">Pxhere</a></p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. Mostly thaumaturgical, infernal, or deific in nature but other cases have been documented as well.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Standard Multiversal Year. This form of chronological dating has been accepted by all DoMD member universes since 2036 and the form is derived from the average baseline in the universes of Z and W clusters.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. No attempt to count the amount has been made thus far.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. Most commonly English, Spanish, Chinese, Indian, Arabic, etc.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. Most commonly Treltic, Czesian, Syrian, Galvian, Unduli, etc.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. Most commonly the language of Utis-per.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-7')">7</a>. Majority of residents visit the city only for months at a time with only a few people becoming permanent residents.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-8"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-8')">8</a>. Unregistered travel to and from Ai'gazar-En is a poorly documented phenomenon as many methods of multiversal travel exist, many of which are difficult or impossible to keep a track of. This trend has only slightly improved since the Foundation's arrival to SCP-8023.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-9"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-9')">9</a>. Radio transmissions within SCP-8023 are very difficult, which makes constant connections between field teams and control non viable. Instead, operatives are instructed to attempt a radio connection every 1-3 hours.</div>
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<h1 id="toc0"><span>WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 4/8024 CLASSIFIED</span></h1>
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<h3 id="toc1"><span>ANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS FILE WITHOUT LEVEL 4/8024 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION.</span></h3>
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<p>An eruption of Mt. Etna observed from the International Space Station on 30 October 2002.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8024</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Keter</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Operatives of Mobile Task Force Epsilon-9 ("Fire Eaters") are to be stationed at Containment Area-8024. Mount Etna is to remain under constant surveillance for volcanic activity. Kant counters are to be used alongside standard monitoring equipment. Heat protective suits lined with starlite are to be worn within 2.5 m of SCP-8024. Disinformation regarding Mt. Etna is to be disseminated to the public when necessary.</p>
<p>Personnel are not to interfere with SCP-8024-2 while it is subduing SCP-8024-1. However, in the event SCP-8024-2 does not manifest during a high state of activity, a thermonuclear device is to be dispensed into SCP-8024 until SCP-8024-1 ceases activity. The 4 Scranton Reality Anchors on-site are to be set at maximum output between each detonation.</p>
<p>If the manifestation of SCP-8024-1 into baseline reality is eminent, site personnel must evacuate immediately. Its location is to be targeted by the High-Energy Concentration Orbital Railgun (HECOR). Furthermore, Mobile Task Force Omega-12 ("Achilles' Heels") is to intercept and attempt to neutralize the threat if HECOR is ineffective. Further nuclear bombardment may be utilized at the discretion of the O5 Council.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8024 is an interdimensional anomaly located within Mount Etna of Sicily, Italy. It is housed inside a cavernous area accessible by a single entrance at the base of the volcano. However, said entrance can only be perceived and interacted with by <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4500">philosophical contemplation</a> in regards to its existence. Once performed the entrance will remain visible to the subject indefinitely.</p>
<p>The cavern overlooks SCP-8024 which is situated among lava. Evidence of prior habitation are also present such as an anvil, artisian tools, and multiple straw beds. Large broken pieces of chain were also recovered that are constructed from berrylium bronze. Furthermore, columns of Greek architectural design support the ceiling. The cavern has been designated Containment Area-8024 to house containment staff and equipment.</p>
<p>SCP-8024 is believed to lead to another plane of reality; however, efforts to explore it have been unsuccessful. Drones and communication equipment immediately become disconnected upon entering. Objects cannot be recovered from SCP-8024 once it is fully entered. An entity is believed to reside within the anomaly which has been designated SCP-8024-1. It has not been directly observed, but roaring can be audible during active states.</p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="Eruzione_Etna_13-01-2011.JPG" class="image" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Eruzione_Etna_13-01-2011.JPG"/>
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<p>Lava flowing out of Mt. Etna as a result of high activity from SCP-8024. Dated 13 January 2011.</p>
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<p>SCP-8024 along with its surrounding will periodically become unstable. Kant counters have detected large spikes in Hume readings, and it is accompanied by an increase in volcanic activity. A stream of fire will also expel out of SCP-8024. During each of these occurrences SCP-8024-2 will manifest.</p>
<p>SCP-8024-2 is a reality-bending entity with the appearance of a Mediterranean male in their 50s. It possesses white hair with a lengthy beard, and an estimated height of around 2.1 m. The extent of its capabilities is unknown. -2 occasionally manifests at Containment Area-8024 during states of high activity. It will proceed to generate an arc of electricity within its hands, and repeately hurl a bolt into SCP-8024 until activity from -1 ceases.</p>
<p>Attempts to contain -2 has been unsuccessful as it will immediately teleport away from the site or kill personnel who approach it. However, due to its perceived contribution towards the containment of -1, securing -2 has been deemed a low priority at this time.</p>
<p>SCP-8024 was discovered as a result of an investigation into the mythology associated with Mt. Etna. Its near constant volcanic activity had aroused suspicion of a legitimate threat present in the area. The use of ground penetrating radar detected the cavern where SCP-8024 was located. In addition, Kant counters further supported the existence of an anomaly with unusual Hume readings. The entrance to the cavern was eventually discovered after agents of Mobile Task Force Pi-31 ("Platonic Solids") swept through the area.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 01:</strong> The following was written on papyrus scrolls that were found within Containment Area-8024. They have been translated from Greek.</p>
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<p>Be on your guard. <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2846">Iota Alpha Omega has escaped from Tartarus-Alpha</a>. He may seek to unleash Omega Omega Omega from Tartarus-Beta. Scholars Calypso and Poseidon will return him to his constraints.</p>
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<p>As requested we have salvaged the material needed for Hephaestus. May the chains he will forge out of the flames of Tartarus hold the prisoner. Builder Daedalus sends his regards.</p>
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<p>The scholars are no more. You may leave your posts. The gods do not need us mortals in their way. The prisoner will always be their greatest fear. They will never permit his escape.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 02:</strong> According to Greek mythology, Mt. Etna allegedly contains an entity known as Typhon. The following description is provided in Hesiod's <em>Theogony</em>.</p>
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<p>Strength was with his hands in all that he did and the feet of the strong god were untiring. From his shoulders grew a hundred heads of a snake, a fearful dragon, with dark, flickering tongues, and from under the brows of his eyes in his marvelous heads flashed fire, and fire burned from his heads as he glared. And there were voices in all his dreadful heads which uttered every kind of sound unspeakable; for at one time they made sounds such that the gods understood, but at another, the noise of a bull bellowing aloud in proud ungovernable fury; and at another, the sound of a lion, relentless of heart; and at another, sounds like whelps, wonderful to hear; and again, at another, he would hiss, so that the high mountains re-echoed.</p>
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<p><a href="/scp-4453">SCP-4453</a>, an entity claiming to be the Greek goddess Hera, was questioned about SCP-8024-1 to potentially acquire information. The following is the transcript.</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewed:</strong> SCP-4453</p>
<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Dr. Helen Bianchi</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bianchi:</strong> I'm glad your blog is still doing well, Hera. Anyway, do you mind if we ask you about someone you might know?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-4453:</strong> About who?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bianchi:</strong> What can you tell us about Typhon.</p>
<p><em>SCP-4453 appears visibly distressed. The lights in the chamber begin flicking</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-4453:</strong> What about Typhon? He isn't free is he?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bianchi:</strong> No, I just want to ask you some questions about him. That's all. Are you alright, Hera?</p>
<p><em>Lights stop flickering as SCP-4453 takes a deep breath.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-4453:</strong> I'm fine, Helen. It's been eons since I last heard of Typhon. Why do you want to know about him?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bianchi:</strong> We just want to know about him from you instead of the myths. You did say the myths don't always get everything right.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-4453:</strong> Very well. Ask your questions.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bianchi:</strong> So what is he?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-4453:</strong> A monster. A terrible monster of some <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-maker-and-the-beast">terrible place where others like him dwell</a>. He lives only to devour prey. You've probably heard of him as the father of monsters. He has sired many.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bianchi:</strong> Did your husband fight him like in the myths?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-4453:</strong> Of course. One day he just showed up to devour us. My husband fought him with all his strength while everyone else fled. It was a barbarious fight. Eventually he was able to cast him into Tartarus, but it was not enough. Somehow Typhon managed to tear a way back to us.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bianchi:</strong> Mount Etna.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-4453:</strong> Correct. My son Hephaestus helped his father forged chains to bind Typhon. They keep him from escaping, but he will occasionally stir in his prison. We tried to close that opening he made but we have failed.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Bianchi:</strong> What will happen if he escapes? Will your husband stop him?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-4453:</strong> Then we all die. I doubt my husband will win a second time.</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 03:</strong> An investigation into past eruptions of Mt. Etna was conducted. The following account concerns a 1766 eruption from the journal of an unidentified individual living in the nearby city of Catania.</p>
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<p>The mountain has roared as if a dragon rests within. Some of the villagers have disappeared. A local mad man screams of <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-870">monsters</a> gathering at the mountain, yet I have seen none. I know not of what is happening except danger looms. We can see fire and lightning at the peak as the earth trembles with every roar. There is a haunting presence everytime I gaze at the mountain. It is as if the flames beckon me. The others felt the same.</p>
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<p>No additional anomalous effects described in the entry have been noted, but containment staff have been instructed to report any unusual activity to the project supervisor.</p>
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<p>Eruption during Incident 8024.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 04:</strong> The following is the transcript for Incident 8024. As of writing, it is the only occurrence of SCP-8024-1 potentially breaching containment observed by the Foundation.</p>
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<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>[00:00]</strong> The borders of SCP-8024 begins to fluctuate. Hume levels steadily increase.</p>
<p><strong>[00:13]</strong> Several roars from SCP-8024-1 become audible, which cause the cavern to tremble. Personnel enter positions to execute special containment procedures, but they are on standby for the arrival of SCP-8024-2.</p>
<p><strong>[00:45]</strong> SCP-8024-2 manifests and proceeds to hurl bolts of lightning into SCP-8024. Additional roars are audible with another tremor. Hume levels continue to increase slowly.</p>
<p><strong>[04:57]</strong> The entity stops as fire spews out of SCP-8024. Surrounding temperature being emitted by it is measured at around 700 °C, but SCP-8024-2 exhibits no reaction to the heat despite being in close proximity. Hume levels continue to rise. Site personnel transmit an emergency warning regarding current circumstances.</p>
<p><strong>[05:01]</strong> SCP-8024-2 manifests a large sickle while overlooking a plume of ash rising out of the mountain. Volcanic activity increases throughout Mt. Etna.</p>
<p><strong>[05:08]</strong> SCP-8024-2 proceeds to leap into SCP-8024 followed by a loud roar. Emergency warning is received with MTF Omega-12 preparing for mobilization. The O5 Council begins to closely monitor the situation from Site-01.</p>
<p><strong>[05:22]</strong> Loud banging can be heard echoing throughout the cavern emanating from SCP-8024. Bolts of electricity occasionally spew out along with flames. Personnel proceed to set up delivery of the thermonuclear payload.</p>
<p><strong>[05:47]</strong> Hume levels stop increasing but do not decline.</p>
<p><strong>[06:18]</strong> The first thermonuclear device is prepared for launch into SCP-8024. However, equipment detects a static electrical field emanating from the anomaly. Further banging accompanied by roars are also heard. Scranton Reality Anchors are operating at low capacity to ensure delivery of the payload through SCP-8024.</p>
<p><strong>[06:26]</strong> Numerous distinct roars and shrieks can be heard accompanied by a sudden spike in Hume readings. However, the Scranton Reality Anchors were able to stabilize it. Status update is transmitted to all nearby Foundation facilities.</p>
<p><strong>[06:32]</strong> Thermonuclear device is deployed into SCP-8024. Believed to have successfully detonated. No noticable changes are detected in the situation. Second launch is being prepared.</p>
<p><strong>[06:50]</strong> A bolt of lightning emerges from SCP-8024 and strikes the ceiling. Debris is scattered throughout the cavern. No injuries occur but one SRA receives damage.</p>
<p><strong>[07:02]</strong> Multiple distinct roars and shrieks can be heard. A spike in Hume readings causes the damaged SRA to malfunction. It is immediately shut down to prevent further damages. The remaining 3 SRAs continue to operate but they begin overheating.</p>
<p><strong>[07:33]</strong> A cloud of smoke rises from SCP-8024 accompanied by a slight tremor. Second thermonuclear device is prepared for launch. Status update is transmitted.</p>
<p><strong>[07:39]</strong> All activity ceases as readings slowly begin to return to normal. Containment personnel are on standby to reassess the current situation.</p>
<p><strong>[08:10]</strong> Several arcs of electricity are generated by SCP-8024, but lightning bolts then strike the remaining SRAs present. As a result they are destroyed.</p>
<p><strong>[09:03]</strong> SCP-8024-2 emerges from SCP-8024 with significant damage. It is missing its left arm while the body is completely charred. It is still gripping the sickle, which is being dragged on the floor. A large gash across the chest is visible. Gold colored blood is dripping from the entity. It does not acknowledge personnel as it proceeds to cough up more blood before disappearing.</p>
<p><strong>[11:08]</strong> Containment Area-8024 transmits an all clear. Requests assistance in conducting repairs.</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p>The blood of SCP-8024-2 was collected for analysis. Volcanic activity continued which resulted in Mt. Etna growing taller by approximately 30 m. As a result of this incident, further contingencies are under consideration.</p>
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<p>The Ringworld Cengceñanta in orbit around the Class-A star Fomalhaut. One hour later, it disappeared in a burst of fractal distortion. 67 billion Ascendancy citizens are still missing.</p>
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<h2 id="toc0"><span><strong>Special Containment Procedures</strong></span></h2>
<p>The known laws of physics, which had been stable and non-anomalous since the dawn of human civilization 25,000 years ago, are no longer reliable. The KETER designation, which is normally reserved for issues prioritized by the Machine God<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> Keter as the head of the Ascendancy<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup>, is applied to SCP-8025.</p>
<p>SCP-8025 mandates the creation of the SCP Foundation, led by Freits Felipien Na-Motoxliso Willem Au-Ateneam syc Lealiu as its Administrator.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup> All Ascendancy fleets are deployed to critical mega-infrastructure, particularly wormholes, to record any anomalies and prepare for potential evacuation.</p>
<p>Research and experimentation into faster-than-light travel, despite its improbability according to current scientific principles, is designated a critical priority. Furthermore, the Ascendancy's scientific workforce is directed towards developing smaller, portable wormholes capable of stably surviving at 70.1-99.9999% the speed of light and if possible, superluminal speeds.</p>
<p>As a last resort, the Foundation is tasked with researching techniques for preserving the Ascendancy's cultural, scientific, and socio-political legacy and deploying dataships at the fastest possible velocities away from Ascendancy space.</p>
<p>GOI-666, referring to the Christian-dominated interstellar empire named the Sacramentum, is a key focus due to significant spacetime distortion within its territories. The Foundation is to locate and communicate with POI-666 ("Scarlet King"), the head of the Sacramentum's radical faction who is allegedly responsible for deleterious experimentation with megastructures and physical laws. Willem will embark on a deep-space mission into Sacramentum space to determine POI-666's connection to SCP-8025.</p>
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<h2 id="toc1"><span><strong>Description</strong></span></h2>
<p>SCP-8025 refers to the phenomenon behind the random, sudden large-scale spacetime distortions responsible for the disappearance of 15 megastructures, such as ringworlds, and the collapse of 9% of the Ascendancy wormhole network. Furthermore, large areas of space are now unstable for wormholes and the near-light-speed drives of modern starships.</p>
<p>The phenomenon is prominent throughout the entirety of known space, although minor distortions have been observed by interferometric analysis and in-situ wormhole expeditions in the neighboring regions of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Sacramentum's territory is heavily affected in particular by SCP-8025, although its Overseers have limited their contact with the Ascendancy, briefly citing a "crusade of justice" in progress. This crusade focuses on these aspects:</p>
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<li>Enact justice on criminals, tyrants, and other abusive individuals on Outer-Rim and non-Ascendancy planets through creative application of genetic engineering, machinery, spacetime distortion, and virtual reality.</li>
<li>Engage in a liberation-theological approach to aiding marginalized polities and offshoot civilizations with technology.</li>
<li>Create "divine technology" in the name of "chaotic" justice.</li>
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<p>However, technological geases and mind-lasher implants prevent defectors and captured Sacramentum officials from divulging more detailed information. Analysis of remaining mental matter simply produces noise.</p>
<p>In all observed instances, the affected megastructures and regions of space are overwhelmed by a burst of fractal distortions, consistent with simulations of spacetime collapse into 2D or high-dimensional space. Simultaneously, deviations from basic physical laws, such as the laws of conservation of energy, are notable during these instances.</p>
<p>According to Keter and third-party observers from lower-level independent research, this phenomenon can be historically attested in the remnant infrastructure and records of extinct, million-year-old civilizations, many of which attained technological parity or even superiority with current Ascendant civilization. Furthermore, there is a high chance of SCP-8025 being a deliberate operation, either by the Sacramentum or forces beyond the control of all known civilizations.</p>
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<h2 id="toc2"><span><strong>Liwayway Encounter Log</strong></span></h2>
<p>Progress on locating POI-666 was accelerated when Willem established contact with an individual known as "Celeste Pacem," a former high-ranking official and defector from the Sacramentum. To avoid drawing attention and for the sake of familiarity, both Willem and Pacem decided to meet in their humanoid forms during the celebration of the Passego<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> on the Bonifaz continent of the Banks Orbital Liwayway.</p>
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<span style="font-size:90%;">13/34/15750, LIWAYWAY STANDARD</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:90%;">COMMENTARY BY FREITS WILLEM</span></p>
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<p>Banks Orbital Liwayway.</p>
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<p><em>The train was humming softly as it traversed the calm ocean, with the horizon dyed with lapiz lazuli. Celeste, a long-time friend and our contact for this mission, wanted to celebrate Passego, a tradition that persisted since Old Earth times in some of the more nostalgic parts of the Ascendancy.</em></p>
<p><em>Perhaps she felt nostalgia for better times, although I doubt she would find it there on Bonifaz. While the news hasn't completely arrived yet at this corner of the universe, the public mood has dulled, stunned that even the crowning technological jewels of the Ascendancy - its megatrees, ringworlds, and wormholes - are now facing an existential crisis.</em></p>
<p><em>A crisis of chaos. Keter had admitted to me in a dream that even if they style themselves as a god of order, they still have limitations. Do we just accept reality as we know it breaking apart at the seams, or perhaps a more powerful god of order is in demand?</em></p>
<p><em>The train decelerated for the next three hours as we approached the multi-layered floating, gothic-style structures of the Bonifaz Intercontinental Rail Station. I sat down together with an individual seemingly made of rebar and painted with bright red and green. In a sing-songy voice, they inquired about my mood, urging me to cheer up a bit for Passego. I smiled at them, saying that recent events have made me tired, but I'm willing to help in Liwayway's rehabilitation efforts during Passego for neighboring systems. It closed its eyes, taking out a scarf from its bag and giving it to me as a good-luck charm. After getting my permission, they wrapped it around my neck rather overexcitedly with their strong grip.</em></p>
<p><em>Later on, I had to make my way across dozens upon dozens of foxmen, hydra, fairies, four-wheeled ferns, levitating orbs and many more.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup> Despite the recent news, there was still fun to be had. Taking a double-decker catbus, I headed off to the Hawking Pavilion at around 14 nu-PM, just in time for the meeting.</em></p>
<p><em>On the balcony, a girl dressed in a black habit was looking at the setting sun as it hid itself behind the mountainous vistas. Her floral halo was slowly rotating - floating - above her head.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Celeste. We… we meet again.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> <em>Camusta</em>, Freits? It's been like what? 10 years? 40? or a hundred? Ahh… living a thousand years sure takes a toll on your sense of time.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> It's been a decade ago since we had some coffee. You even promised me a tour of the churches on Dasmarinyas and the floating gardens of SierraCortazar, but you suddenly got called back for work.</p>
<p><em>Celeste smiles.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Sorry for my poor memory, Freits. Unlike you, I haven't jammed as many memory modules into my brain as possible. About that work, it's about the Scarlet King, though. Hmm, Freits, why don't we take a walk and see what this year's Passego is about? It might jog my memory a bit more.</p>
<p><em>We walked through the streets of Bagong Tundo, lined with stalls offering candy, spring rolls, fried chicken, ornamental Passego lanterns called parols, devices showcasing holograms of Jesus and Christian festivities, virtual reality packages to "time travel" to Old Earth days, and even DIY set-ups for rocket-boosted Santa Claus sleds. Celeste in particular was focused on a "time travel" package, showcasing the life of several children on Ateneo.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Ateneo huh. Good old days… I, I -</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Freits, you don't need to apologize. Ateneo's something we all have to bear until we die. Especially for the King's faction, which is ramping up its crusades right now. Honestly… I'm lucky I managed to slip through. They were closing or blockading all wormholes leading to the Ascendancy. (<em>A blaring sound spreads across the street.</em>) Ah, Freits, the parades and processions are about to start.</p>
<p><em>We squeezed through a parade of rabbitmen and lizardfolk as propeller-powered dragons, holding lanterns flew over us. Holographic billboards sprouted on the sides of the buildings, advertising blueprints for Passego-themed merchandise and machines. Ice sculptures, similar to those on New Harbin, were led through the roads. Meanwhile, drones directed our sight towards the night sky, where a kilometer-long starship was hovering in place. It then released a thousand missiles towards us, exploding into a flutter of chrysanthemum flowers and floating lanterns.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> They're still very happy. I suppose they haven't gotten the memo about reality.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Not necessarily. Let's go to the Southern Fields of Bonifaz; I heard about what they're doing there. 560 kilometers away… alright, a very quick trip then.</p>
<p><em>We then boarded a vacuum train, taking us there in five minutes. Factory workers, drones, and citizens - flesh or metal - were working on packaging pyramids of goods, devices, and machinery, to be loaded up into space elevators and skyhook<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-7')">7</a></sup> launchers nearby. The pyramids and the fields extended till the horizon.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> I see… so this is what you want to protect, Freits, since you want to be a new god of order? (<em>Chuckles.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> God of order… not even Keter claims he is a true deity, you know. It's just what we call him out of convenience. Though we might need a real god of order, now that somebody's plunging civilization into chaos. Anyway, Celeste, let's get to the point now.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> I guess you already know everything about the Sacramentum and the Scarlet King's minions invading planets, picking out criminals, and making virtual hells out of their minds and bodies, no? Time constraints made it very hard for me to see them in person, but I have mountains of evidence about them.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> A well-documented practice for mankind even before the Ascendancy or the Sacramentum came into power. Distasteful, but it's nothing special, as long as they do not encroach on Ascendancy laws and territory. I don't really mesh well with the King's ideas of chaotic justice, though. Nothing scientific or justified about that!</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Yet you worship Machine Gods. (<em>Coughs.</em>) Anyways, what's more is that the King wants to "communicate with God through the chaos of scientific reason."</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I'm not sure if that's a deranged fantasy or not. How about Kennet and the moderates? What do they think about it?</p>
<p><em>Celeste stops walking.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Kennet's… he vanished once the radicals and the Scarlet King took over. The moderate faction, including me, has gone mostly into hiding. All the chaos has made things very hazy, but I still want to find Kennet. I don't believe he will keel over just like that.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Kennet… he's good at planning out and building megastructures, right?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> A good reason for kidnapping him, and that's where I got info about a machine called Esperanza that the King's building. I can send you the info about it.</p>
<p><em>I nod as Celeste points to her halo. I reactivate my old halo from the Ateneo days and let its edges touch hers. Data transfer warnings with smatterings of Latin and New Tagalog - how nostalgic - pop up in my sight. I accept them all. Terabytes upon terabytes of data - high-resolution 3D simulations, charts, interviews, and schematics - flow into my mind.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Oh my God.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> (<em>Smiles.</em>) Keter… or the Lord God?</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Probably both, maybe even all gods who exist right now. You seriously think that this Esperanza machine's responsible for the whole fiasco behind the megastructures' disappearances, and that the Scarlet King's building these star-covering machines all over our little corner of the universe?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> I'm still… not really sure, but that's what the data is building towards so far.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Most of us in the Ascendancy thought that this was mostly hypothetical… <em>Tangin</em>, we have gone complacent if this is all real!</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> I did most of the reconnaissance since 50 years ago, and I already have a list of targets, including some people very close to the King. However, Freits, I need your and the Ascendancy's help. I reached my limits - the King only communicates through intermediaries, and many of my contacts have gone silent. My San Ignacio isn't a very strong ship, for instance, so I can't engage people in a fight nor can I confirm Esperanza's appearance first-hand.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Well, what do you want to do? A suicide mission against the Scarlet King?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Depends, but nothing good will happen if we stand here with our arms crossed. Let's make a deal, Freits. I know that the Ascendancy is preparing an expedition - or invasion - into the Sacramentum, but you know very little about the recent events there. Tech, while similar to yours, is wildly divergent in some areas, particularly cybersecurity. However, I'm ready to act as a cracker<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-8" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-8')">8</a></sup> if you want, as well as a navigator based on my list of targets. All of them's encrypted, so you can't just extract them out of me even if you forsake your mind-reading taboo. All I need is a fleet.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I won't go that far. Still, I will see what I can do. A fleet of ships from Keter himself would do nicely, I guess. After all, what's at stake is thousands of years of Ascendant peace and progress.</p>
<p><em>I close my eyes again, and I begin to dream of Keter. After a few milliseconds, accounting for data transfer speeds on a windy field, I come back to reality.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> The gods already have an answer.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">A new era begins with the SCP Foundation established under the guidance of the Machine God Keter. The Foundation has ascended to securing our futures, containing our sense of reality, and protecting the lives of the approximately 8.533 x 10<sup>16</sup> Ascendant citizens. It is the Foundation of reality as we know it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Thus, they are afforded the best Ascendant shipbuilding, defense, and stealth technology, and deep-space equipment. In exchange, their premier duty is investigating and containing the Scarlet King.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The SCP Foundation is prepared to die in the darkness of space so that all the heirs of mankind may live in the light.</p>
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<h2 id="toc3"><span><strong>Foundation Expedition Notes</strong></span></h2>
<p>To facilitate stealth missions without compromising combat capacity, a fleet of 1,250 automated Class-A Ascendancy ships accompanied Willem and Pacem's flagship, the San Ignacio. The total number of flesh-and-blood beings<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-9" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-9')">9</a></sup> aboard all ships amount to 900, mainly out of their personal preference and to complement the automation systems should they fail. The San Ignacio itself was modified from the ship that Pacem used to escape the Sacramentum. Before being retrofitted and upgraded by Ascendancy engineers, the San Ignacio had a complexity and capacity rivalling that of a Class-B Ascendancy warship.</p>
<p>The fleet is outfitted with new wormhole-based communicators capable of surviving near-light-speed travel while still sending high-fidelity data back to the heart of the Ascendancy. Meanwhile, the ships are outfitted with newly developed AD ASTRA drives. While AD ASTRA engines normally function just below the speed of light, they are optimized to use specific spacetime distortions produced by SCP-8025 to travel faster than light.</p>
<p>Lastly, alongside the standard armament of missiles and railguns fit for orbital bombardments, every ship carries stellar conversion weapons, colloquially known as starshatter.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-10" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-10')">10</a></sup> These last-resort weapons are essential for denying the primary resource of most civilizations.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:90%;">FILED UNDER DOCUMENT TYPE CTK-100</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:90%;">15/01/15750, LIWAYWAY STANDARD</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><tt>DEPARTURE LOG</tt></span></strong></p>
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<p>After 10 days of preparation, a Foundation scoutship departs the Liwayway orbital and traverses the Takifcilim Celestial Gateway wormhole.</p>
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<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Looking at the inventory, it's as if we're going to war. Keter, my lord, why are you having your soldiers make the toughest decisions?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Hey, you're the commander, right? Promise me one thing, Freits.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> What is it?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Don't be too slow or too rash when making decisions, alright?</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I will. I have learned from my mistakes at Ateneo, and I suppose that I have learned a lot in the past centuries. Plus, this ship contains all the things I have developed to match up my power against any rogue AI or entity that seeks to establish its power.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Your Ascension materials?</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I have been very careful with augmenting my brain and my body, and Keter helped me develop some Ascension devices that would enable me to have technological processing capabilities comparable to at least 5% of his power. When needed, I will just plug myself into the machine, and then I can take control of all the ships of the Foundation at once. With that, I can improve my capabilities by several orders of magnitude. Hopefully, I can match up well against any enemy we encounter.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> You're on the path to being a god. Some might even call it megalomania, you know…</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> What good is being weak when you can't do anything? Power dictates the order of the universe. We both know that. Every Atenean <em>alive</em> today should know that.</p>
<p><em>Silence for several seconds.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Anyways, Celeste, aren't you scared?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Why would I be?</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> One flick of a button, and both the Ascendancy and your Church will get embroiled in a war never seen before. The Standardization Wars claimed billions of lives a few millennia ago, and that was with dozens of ships still using rockets to propel themselves. Right now, with spacetime itself getting screwed up, there's no telling how a war would go, and even Keter himself doesn't know what will happen. The legacy of mankind might end up as one of the many dark voids in the sky.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> That's certainly a possibility that even the King himself is banking on. One of the few things I got about him is that he thinks we will either suffer a quick death or - emphasis on the <em>or</em> - we navigate our way through the "afterlife." He thinks that the "afterlife" will bring true justice.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> What's the difference between them?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Think about it for a few seconds.</p>
<p><em>Willem closes his eyes. No external data streams are recorded.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Hmm… damn, I think I see what the King means, reading between the lines about the afterlife and interpreting it as a <em>post-reality.</em> Still, it's a massive <em>delusion</em> to think that things will work out that way. They honestly believe that justice can be delivered through those means?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> (<em>Frowns.</em>) Perhaps he thinks that's what God intended. Ahh, I wish Kennet was here to explain what's happening, he was always good at untangling weird philosophies.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Hmm, wherever he is right now, I'm sure he's already fighting the good fight against the King, unless the King welds his mouth shut. Though I worry that with his sense of justice, he might end up agreeing with the Scarlet King after a long debate.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> He wouldn't stop without debating every argument you can find in the galaxy though, that's for sure. Still, I often wonder… why would the Sacramentum go to such lengths to support such a fantasy?</p>
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<h2 id="toc4"><span><strong>Nu-Sheol Encounter Log</strong></span></h2>
<p>The first target on Pacem's list was the Sacramentum system of Gehemi, particularly the cinderworld Nu-Sheole. Using backdoor wormholes and a careful navigation of distorted spacetime regions, the fleet reached the system in three months (from Liwayway's perspective) rather than 21 years of normal light-speed travel. According to Pacem, Nu-Sheol is governed by the top-ranking Sacramentum official and crusade commander Furia. Cloaking the fleet within the Kuiper Belt, the San Ignacio and a roster of guard ships proceeded to orbit Avernus, under the guise of an Ascendancy delegation supervised by Pacem.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:90%;">FILED UNDER DOCUMENT TYPE CTK-100</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:90%;">17/20/15750, LIWAYWAY STANDARD</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><tt>NU-SHEOL ENCOUNTER LOG</tt></span></strong></p>
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<p><em>A female humanoid entity garbed in white is sitting behind a tea table in the middle of a field matted with flesh, with eyes sporadically scattered throughout the landscape. Amidst the planet's surface temperature of 45°C, fires slowly burn through the field. Several towering crosses can be seen on the horizon. The entity's halo is blinking, receiving steady streams of data from the crosses. Willem and Pacem are walking towards the entity.</em></p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> Welcome, my dear Sister and Mr. Keterling, would you like to have some tea? Also, forgive me for my manners and my lack of introduction. I'm Furia, overseer of Nu-Sheol and a compatriot of the Scarlet King. What brings you two here? It's been a long, long time since we last met each other.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> (<em>Looking around the landscape.</em>) I knew about this, but it never really sunk in how insane it is. Tell me, who did you punish this time around?</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> My dear Sister, this is simply a variant of the justice you meted out in the early days. "Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth," you would say when it comes to sentencing criminals to hell. Of course, you were still operating within the old legal systems, so you were rather limited. Still though, my brand of justice is to simply grant what the criminals wish for.</p>
<p><em>Furia chuckles as she steps on an eye on the floor, crushing it. It regenerates quickly. Meanwhile, Willem shows a disinterested face and sighs.</em></p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> (<em>Her halo whirs.</em>) Accessing database… ah, this particular field of flesh here belongs to a former dictator on a faraway planet outside the Ascendancy and the Sacramentum. He wished to dominate a world and cover it in his glory. Well, after investigating all evidence and running through his mind for a subjective decade or two - all in quicktime, of course - I decided to be prudent with the punishment. Like with other tyrants, I gave him what he wanted.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I'm rather surprised you didn't go with the common Christian views of hell. Fire and brimstone, you know? Also, I guess you're tired of all the "playing God" accusations.</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> Hmmn, that's a stereotype, my dear Keterling. Hell is more of a, say, eternal separation from the blessings of God. Out there, beyond the Sacramentum and the Ascendancy, is the promise of a paradise. With all of our available technology and God's graces, it is easy to be a saint in such paradise. Those who don't want to accept that… well, we give them exactly what they want - their mortal desires and their will to be separated from God. However, being separated from God means you also forsake the gift of the senses - sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing - and the ability to live life.</p>
<p>About the "playing God" part, we aren't. We are just following His will on this plane of existence. He gave us the capability to develop technology to enact our duty as His stewards. Plus, we haven't been smitten down by lightning or its equivalent in space, right? (<em>Smiles.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> (<em>Kneeling as he caresses the sweating flesh below him.</em>) Well, the execution is at least interesting. Assuming that these flesh mats reproduce like bacteria, this experiment should have been going on for a long time, since the fields cover the entire planet to the point they're stacking together like mountains. The oceans are also much more matted with flesh since their ecosystems are a better source of nutrition. The scientific method here is questionable, though.</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> You catch on quick. The original body of the dictator is probably kilometers below us. About the science… we will see about that.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> What in the… this is a perversion of what the Sacramentum stood for!</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> Nu-Sheol is an exploration of our past interpretations of justice. It's a reactive sort of justice, which is janky, ugly, and honestly senseless. After all, the victims of this dictator - who, by the way, liked to cut off limbs and keep the resulting basketcases alive - cannot be brought back, no? There are many more interpretations of exacting justness throughout the Sacramentum. (<em>Smiles.</em>)</p>
<p>However, Nu-Sheol, obsolete as it is, is a sort of control group. It's a shining example of reactive justice - the main form of justice in our universe. So Mr. Keterling, can you see the point of our science?</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Hmmn, you have interesting leaps in logic, I guess?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> And this is what the Scarlet King is trying to pass off as the main goal of the crusades? What happened to all the love and forgiveness that he espoused during the last few decades, no, centuries? We used to serve together on such peacekeeping missions as mediators and counselors, Furia. What led to this insanity?</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> All part of the same, long-term experiment for the sake of justice, my dear Sister.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Justice, huh? That's what the latest project of the Scarlet King is still all about, right? If you have moved on from reactive ideas of justice, then what is Esperanza focusing on?</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> Esperanza? What are you talking about?</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Don't play dumb with me. The Sacramentum's sense of spacetime and reality is going to hell, and the evidence shows you're well-informed about it. I don't mind these fields of flesh being the way you do things, but I do think that it is a great <em>injustice</em> to impose your reality on those who have done nothing wrong.</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> (<em>Sips tea.</em>) What an interesting line of thought.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> So, what's it going to be?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Furia, please. Tell me that all of this isn't some sort of a twisted mental gymnastics about the holiness of life and God.</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> My dear Sister, during the last time we worked together, you were so cold and calculating. Especially ever since what happened with Ateneo. Have you softened somewhat?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> I'm still human enough to not distort my sense of cruelty. (<em>Sighs.</em>) I have heard of crusaders doing much worse than this, but a small part of me believed that it was just embellishment, some propaganda that got out of hand.</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> Sister… you missed the point of the crusade.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Tell me something else. What did Kennet think of all these? Did he disagree so much with what you are planning that you made him disappear?</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> Perhaps his old self would have disagreed. Although, both the Kennet you know and what he believed in are now irrelevant.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Where is he now?</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> Don't worry, he is in a safe place doing his duty for the King as a crusade engineer.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I see what this is all about now. The crusade's for the sake of setting up Esperanza. All this talk of imposing justice on citizens is smokescreen for whatever you're actually building throughout space. Hah, your King has gone mad.</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> Mad but still sensible. (<em>Stands up.</em>) In any case, I believe that this conversation no longer serves any purpose. Furthermore, since you know of Esperanza, you are a threat to the King and to us. Traitors like you, dear Sister, are also a massive risk. However, once we're done, I won't punish you like these dictators. After all, your views come from a good place, and you haven't committed any crime worthy of judgement. So, I will just send you back to where you came from; the punishment would be the time you lost in your failure.</p>
<p><em>Earthquakes rock the surface, as towers made of flesh erupt from the surface. Pacem quickly unveils her wings and carries Willem with her as she flies away using her jet propulsion engines. Airborne, they witness Furia turning into a globular entity with rings of flesh and massive camera lens on each face of her body. The mats of flesh erupt, turning into missile launchers. The towering crosses in the distance turn into ballistic weapons, launching a volley of nuclear rockets that quickly detonate in the air.</em></p>
<p><em>For 10 minutes, Pacem barely dodges them as she flies at supersonic speeds. Meanwhile, Willem orders the San Ignacio and the fleet to place themselves in orbit around Nu-Sheol, in preparation for orbital bombardment. In the meantime, space-based defenses of Nu-Sheol slow down the ships, with both sides trying to overwhelm each other with hundreds of nuclear missiles.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Freits, I figured out something, but I need to land on one of those crosses to set it up!</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Ships aren't in position yet! Let me think, how much time do you need?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> At least a second! Use a smokescreen or something!</p>
<p><em>Willem then orders one of the Foundation ships to crash in the vicinity of the combat grounds, broadcasting jamming signals while doing so. With its space-distortion engines fully active, the impact of the crash creates a mushroom cloud, stunning Furia's communication receptors and allowing Pacem and Willem to land on one of the transmitting cross-like structures.</em></p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> Jamming my systems wouldn't work, you heretics! My dear sister, are you trying to delay the inevitable? I can't believe that you of all people would - what are you doing?</p>
<p><em>A few seconds later, a thick dome of flesh encases Pacem and Willem, protecting them from the attacks.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> I got it. You can wirelessly control these fields of flesh, but you're still using rather old Sacramentum cyber-protocols to do so. I built, maintained, and updated the <em>original software</em> for these. I'm not a Sacramentum official for nothing!</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> What a cheater you are, dear Sister. Still, it's not long before you run out of power!</p>
<p><em>The teeth within the flesh mats sprout out, causing massive quantities of blood and bile to flow throughout the fleshscape. The teeth form a labyrinth of walls between Pacem and Furia. Missiles from Furia's end detonate, partially collapsing Pacem's improvised defenses. However, the mats' regenerative abilities compensate. After a few minutes, bright streaks of light appear in the sky, crashing into Furia and the fields of flesh. Mushroom clouds appear with a slight drizzle of blood.</em></p>
<p><em>The cross-shaped hull of the San Ignacio is vaguely visible from orbit. Willem establishes a communication channel with Furia.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Well, Furia. It's nearly game over for you. The ships up there can cook this planet in no time at all. Fortunately, I'm still in a rather good mood. So, Furia, can you lead us to where the Scarlet King is?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Furia… is the King forcing you to do all of these?</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> You two - ! The King is a force of good! Justice, as we know it in our current reality, is wholly ineffective, reactive, and limited to those in a position of power, right? What can the masses do? They have to depend on their machine gods and those with higher intelligence and resources than them to enact justice! Your Ascendancy is wholly dependent on that dynamic, where the common folk cannot… cannot…</p>
<p><em>The communication channel becomes silent.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I see. You're unsatisfied with the order that reality espouses, right?</p>
<p><em>Furia is silent.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Order… isn't that what God wants?</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> What do you know about God, Celeste? This fake, artificial, orderly reality of yours, is this what He truly wants?</p>
<p><em>Willem sighs.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Hmm… I'm not here to debate philosophy with a minion of the King. I have to meet the man himself. Where is he?</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> As I told you, I won't tell you -</p>
<p><em>More streaks of light cross the atmosphere, destroying more mountains of flesh.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> At this rate, we might end up finding the original bodies of your dictators, Furia. Won't it be a shame to deny you the ability to enact justice on these people? I mean, not even the Machine Gods know about life after death, so I guess you don't know if they will receive more justice after they die, right?</p>
<p><em>Furia, severely damaged by the attacks, powers down, returning to her humanoid form.</em></p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> I won't say anything.</p>
<p><em>Celeste walks towards Furia.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> I see your point, Furia, but if this goes on, there might be no more reality on which to practice our own brands of justice. Esperanza might do just that. So, please, tell us what the King is all about.</p>
<p><strong>FURIA:</strong> I won't… I can't… my King, please forgive me.</p>
<p><em>Celeste sighs, and touches her halo with Furia's. Closing her eyes, she caresses her cheeks and forehead.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Celeste, don't tell me you're going to -</p>
<p><em>Furia's body then falls down.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Ahh… never thought I would use my mind-reading again ever since those days I judged criminals in the name of the Sacramentum. Don't worry, Freits, Furia just went into hibernation. Plus, we got what we need. Documents, schematics about the test sites for what the King is doing.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> You read her…</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> I know it's a taboo for you and your Machine Gods, but what can we do? She wasn't folding anytime soon. Plus, just a moment ago, you were just bombarding her with missiles until she gave up.</p>
<p><em>Willem shakes his head.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Let's just go back to the ship. (<em>Looking up to the San Ignacio.</em>) Hah… may God have mercy on us.</p>
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<h2 id="toc5"><span><strong>Celeste Pacem's Notes on Willem and Ateneo</strong></span></h2>
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<p>The Church of the Gesu, a key building of Ateneo. It is a replica of the original building in the Ateneo de Manila University, which was located on the island nation of the Philippines, Old Earth.</p>
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<p><em>Blue sky with bright streaks of yellow.</em></p>
<p><em>For a moment, I felt I was back on Ateneo, a millennium ago. My memory modules must have kicked in again.</em></p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Seems like you had a good sleep, Celeste. Freits over here was about to do a li'l game by suspending you several meters up in the air.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Mr. Kennet, I wasn't - Ms. Celeste, I was not, absolutely not, doing anything like that!</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> But you were smirking earlier, saying something about learning about the culture of free-falling objects in this world!</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> That's not within the scope of my mission, Mr. Kennet!</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> You two are too noisy! Damn, here I was, having a good sleep in ages and -</p>
<p><em>A clockwork-themed drone passes by us, with its gears humming and propellers loudly whirring. It blinks red upon seeing them. I sit up as quickly as I could.</em></p>
<p><strong>LIPADGANA:</strong> Ahh, so here you are. 200km away from the church and sleeping around, yet we're about to begin Mass in 30 minutes!</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> What's the matter, Sir Lipadgana? That's just one short train ride, no?</p>
<p><strong>LIPADGANA:</strong> Last time you did this sort of thing, you were late by 3 minutes. The three of you even had the gall to climb through the windows! Freits, what will Keter even say about this?</p>
<p><em>The drone's colors change to yellow.</em></p>
<p><strong>LIPADGANA:</strong> Oh well, just, just go back, alright? We're still preparing for the rites, so it would be very, very nice if we have three more pairs of hands to help us out.</p>
<p><em>Lipadgana then zooms out from the area.</em></p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Hah, Sir's still convinced we're corrupting you, Freits.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> It's alright, it's alright! Please don't worry, I will put in a good word for you when I report back!</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> (<em>Chuckles.</em>) Good word, eh? I doubt that -</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Shhhh! By the way, forget about the train! It's too boring. Let's ride something like a Balyenaksi<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-11" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-11')">11</a></sup>, ok? Freits, I know you haven't tried that before.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> But we might be late… on the other hand, it would be interesting. Hmm…</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Don't worry. The whalesharks are very fast; they promised us that. We will get there in no time at all.</p>
<p><em>We then rode on the Balyenaksi, with Kennet haggling with the whaleshark about the fees. "Du'i imergensi! Dat makiratingam nha madulin!"<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-12" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-12')">12</a></sup> Kennet worryingly babbled to the whaleshark. We weren't fully post-scarcity yet - although we would get there in a few years, or maybe even a few months with the Ascendancy's help.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> It's interesting to see money in full action. We still use it, although far more rarely and usually for high-tier luxury goods that have a history behind them. Well, unless you're in the Cooperative Zones, where they sort of role-play capitalism, I guess?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> (<em>Having paid off the whaleshark.</em>) Freits, I wonder how the Ascendancy looks like. A lot of my fellow nuns and priests do, and we're actually sorta worried about people leaving for it, you know? Celeste's a hard nut though, she probably wouldn't leave that easily. (<em>Chuckles.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Who are you calling a nut?!</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> (<em>Waves hand.</em>) Anyways, anyways, I believe it would worth it.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> How so? Kennet, advanced tech development doesn't necessarily equal progress, you know. It's a fatal trap among poorer systems - like ours - who have to connect to larger, richer systems.</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> I wouldn't necessarily call our Dyson Swarm<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-13" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-13')">13</a></sup> poor, you know ~</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Still, it's not an easy task. I'm a bit scared, actually. Freits here says that the majority religions are transcendentalist and machine-based.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Not necessarily! We also have many more offshoots of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and many more traditional religions. What's important is having a choice and the freedom to believe in what you want.</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Choices and freedom, huh? Though I believe that your Ascendancy has a myriad of legal systems and ideals of justice to keep those choices and sense of freedom in line. At the very least, most of them are democratically voted, eh? Very, very interesting to study in my opinion. Liberation of the mind through justice was my thesis during my college years, you know?</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Very interesting. If I may, I should get around to reading -</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Ah ah ah, don't wanna. I kind of took potshots at your machine gods there though - ah, shouldn't have said that. Anyways, I'm just glad that the machine gods seem honest, especially when it comes to security guarantees.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Hmm, speaking of security, we don't even have a wormhole yet - it's far from being fully built right now - so any help from Keter would come years later. We need to be more self-sufficient.</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Ahh, Celeste the party-douser! Though that's sadly true. My point is, it's a step to actually being able to defend ourselves! There are many terrors out in these regions, and having the Ascendancy is a big boon for us, you know.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Power, should it truly be a necessity? The roadmaps for developing technology under the confines of physics is rather limited when you think about it, but at the same time, having a predictable and set roadmap can make enemies easier to handle and predict. Personally, having a set roadmap is more comforting and probably more stable in the long run. Of course, we constantly push the envelope up.</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Now that I think about it, you Keterlings can be strangely conservative in some areas…</p>
<p><em>The Balyenaksi zooms through the ocean, with propellers and rockets boosting the whaleshark to velocities fit for a vacuum train. As we approached dry land, there was a lot of splashing and rolling as the whaleshark dodged submarines, manta rays, kraken squids, and massive eels. I lightly wondered about how people genetically engineered their ancestors to the point of sapience. Perhaps Ateneans just love the sea too much.</em></p>
<p><em>We barely made it in time for Mass. Twenty milliseconds late, Sir Lipadgana said. After that, I went to the balcony, feeling the salted marine breeze from this corner of the world.</em></p>
<p><em>The sky suddenly became dark with soot and a black moon hung in the horizon. Along the horizon were sentients - nuns who called Willem "Mr. Keterling," priests, children, whales, everyone Ateneo stood for - nailed to crosses, not by their limbs, but their eyesockets. When you look closely at their heads, there were cortical chips forcibly installed, slowing their sense of time. An eternal artwork.</em></p>
<p><em>"FOR ALL THE CRIMES COMMITTED BY BARBARIAN CHRISTIANITY SINCE OLD EARTH DAYS, I HEREBY PRESENT THIS ARTWORK AS AN INQUIRY REGARDING PROGRESSIVISM AND THE INTERSECTIONALITIES OF JUSTICE AND BALANCE WITH A FAITH HARMFUL TO THE MODERNITY OF OUR SOCIETY."</em></p>
<p><em>I woke up back to reality.</em></p>
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<h2 id="toc6"><span><strong>Eshu Exploration Log</strong></span></h2>
<p>After the Nu-Sheol encounter, the Foundation fleet ventured further into Sacramentum space, encountering more distortions in spacetime and violations of numerous physical laws. Two ships were destroyed in this manner, while several individuals were remolded, disintegrated, or corrupted as their circuitries and adaptive body configurations could not handle the stresses of changing laws. Occasionally, even Willem and Pacem had to upload themselves into a virtual world, hardened against sudden hardware/software changes, to protect themselves.</p>
<p>These effects were mostly present in regions of space that are close to known Sacramentum megastructures, indicating that the Esperanza subcomponents are installed in civilized areas of the Sacramentum. The data obtained from the overseer of Nu-Sheol corroborates this observation. Whereas Nu-Sheol is supposedly a symbol of obsolete, reactive justice, other Sacramentum planets might represent a more modern perspective.</p>
<p>The Foundation explored a Sacramentum planet referred to as Eshu by its inhabitants. Its inhabitants' body compositions are wholly modified to adapt to the distorted universal laws persisting within the region. According to Pacem's notes, Eshu is a "jewel" of modern justice espoused by the Sacramentum.</p>
<p>During the Foundation's time on Eshu, the planet was threatened by the arrival of a transcendent perversity.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-14" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-14')">14</a></sup></p>
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<span style="font-size:90%;">17/20/15750, COMMENTARY BY CELESTE PACEM</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><tt>ESHU ENCOUNTER LOG</tt></span></strong></p>
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<p><em>Eshu was a treeworld. Sequoia trees jutted out of the ground, as well as from the sky. To travel between these trees, we ride inside pods attached to magnetic ziplines, zooming between trees at speeds greater than 100 kph. Freits was particularly unnerved, due to both his acrophobia and the fact that his sense of reality was beginning to fail. Meanwhile, several humanoid entities, dressed in multicolored, frilly clothing, were launching themselves from tree to tree, with no apparent propulsion method.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> How much propulsion fuel is needed to keep those trees suspended in the air… antimatter, perhaps? No, too volatile for powering what counts as basically a decoration… the gravity on this planet is comparable to what, that of Bagunlupa's? So nearly the same as Old Earth? What in the…</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>Young man from the skies, are you enjoying the ride?</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Not really. I can't, I can't understand all of these. What in Keter's name is happening here? What did the Sacramentum do here?</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>Ohoh, the jolly folks with crucifixes. Interesting people, they promised us a utopia as long as we agreed with their plans. Well, my folks and I have been accustomed to this place for decades, ever since the first genesails<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-15" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-15')">15</a></sup> landed on this place. Still, given our way of life, it was very hard to defend ourselves!</strong></span></p>
<p><em>A massive eel swims through the air, releasing gas through its vents as it heads towards a tree. Several Foundation agents, riding on drones camouflaged like leaves and flowers, chase after it to investigate.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Well, well, well, they fit right, I guess. This is so different from what we experienced with Furia. No wonder Furia calls Nu-Sheol obsolete and ugly.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> It might look beautiful, but it's still ridiculous.</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>Hmmn, what was that?</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> (<em>Sighs deeply.</em>) Does the King really think that this sort of screwing around with reality is the way for true justice to exist?</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>It does allow us to live the way we want, wouldn't that count?</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> How so?</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>The both of you… have you heard of the tale of Nalandanan?</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Hmm, yep, my mother often told me about it when I was a kid. It's an interesting tale about a village on the middle of the island, blessed with rich fields, talking trees, golden statues that also serve as warriors, and of course, whole families with powers of their own. They lived an idyllic existence of turning nuts into cigars or chewing them up.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-16" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-16')">16</a></sup></p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>Intelligent girl! Those folks protected themselves with their own powers, and never relied on other islands to do their bidding. One time they were captured by invaders, their chieftain's son saved them by befriending crocodiles, which are weaker than them but are still very helpful. (<em>Heartily laughs.</em>) That… is what we are aiming for, yet reality only gave us a chance today for that.</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> The Sacramentum, are they now just spinning stuff out of fairyta -</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Tell me something. The Sacramentum… did they force you into this? Molded you into accepting this sense of reality?</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>The folks in the black robes came to us one day, with their crosses descending from the sky. We thought it would be time for another puchsaan<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-17" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-17')">17</a></sup>, which had happened many, many times that resetted our glories back to zero. Yet these folks promised us one thing. No payment. No conversion into any religion.</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> …the ability to manipulate reality to your liking?</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>Not necessarily. We were weak, yet most of us still respected the flows of energy throughout the universe. So I, an old man at that time, told them to give our names some power. Names that were continuously destroyed and erased from history, decade after decade. The Sacramentum's leader, the one calling himself the Scarlet King, he accepted that offer, and they even gave us wonders and marvels, to the point of improving our old, trusty zipline systems.</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> The crusaders changed this world to the point you can't easily tell what's real or not…</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>(<em>Pats Willem on the back.</em>) Young lad, have you truly tasted reality? Hmmn, does it taste like tart or raspberries? Shouldn't something beyond reality be also tasted as a part of a new reality?</strong></span></p>
<p><em>The zipline pod stopped at a treehouse, with the signage on top of the pod changing as it creaked. The trio descended.</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>Come in, come in! I will prepare some tea for you? Lagren's flower? Jasmine? Pepperosc? Tell me what you want to try!</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Utterly suspicious.</p>
<p><em>Willem radios his agents, asking them for any global monitoring system that can prove how the inhabitants of Eshu manipulate matter using their names. In Ascendancy territory, millions of small nanobots in the air, often clumped into fog, can reasonably replicate such a feat. One of them, riding on the eel, responded in the negative. Willem tells them to focus on the job.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Looks like your men are having fun.</p>
<p><em>Willem is silent.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> They shouldn't be. Anyways, this should be some sort of name recognition system, no matter how advanced it.</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>Hmmn, where are the leaves? Ah, up there! My dear firecat Jorj, please lend me your eyes for a second!</strong></span></p>
<p><em>The animal scampers up to the upper shelves, getting a jar of leaves immersed in powder. <span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>The elderly weasel in a coat</strong></span> pats himself, chuckles, and then pats the animal.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Sharing bodies through names…</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>Here's some tea I brewed for you two. Alrighty, let's get right to the crux - apologize for the pun - of this matter about the Sacramentum, shall we?</strong></span></p>
<p><em>Willem closes his eyes.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> So you are one more experiment about justice by the Sacramentum?</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>Well, that's how it goes if we use your parlance. Yet it has brought us so much relief over the past two years. We no longer have to rely on the celestial gateways of the Sacramentum or their spinships to protect us.</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> How? How do you protect yourselves from the barrage of missiles and duster weapons that outsiders are usually able to disperse? You are quite faraway from Sacramentum space; I don't see how you can call for help.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Perhaps… they don't really need help. Their technology levels are far below our standards, yet they sustained an attack from a perversity. That's what my notes say.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> <em>What?</em></p>
<p><em>An earthquake shakes the treehouse, as horns and whistles sound off in the distance.</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>(<em>Closes its eyes.</em>) It has come again this week. I wonder how its name tastes right now.</strong></span></p>
<p><em>The Foundation fleet, dispersed throughout the Eshu system, sends warnings of an incoming transcendent perversity. The core of the perversity is a jagged, moon-sized, orblike megastructure, with steadily rotating rings needed for light speed travel. Thousands of nuclear missiles spin away from the ships, destroying several rings of the perversity. However, the perversity responds back with barrages of torpedoes and several asteroids it captured, accelerating them at light speed and severely damaging 153 ships.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> <em>Tangin</em>, how long can we last here? The fleet's designed for stealth, not long-term sieges or defenses!</p>
<p><em>The mink smokes its cigar, blowing a smoke ring.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> What do you plan to do? We plan to evacuate everyone right now, and I don't believe we don't have the resources to fight the perversity! I can't even hack into it; every bit of its body is protected and locked only for its own personal access!</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> It's just like the one that attacked Ateneo! What does this one want now from this planet? Will it turn everybody into an artpiece again? I need to go up there, plug myself into the San Ignacio, and, and -</p>
<p><em>Willem starts running.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Where are you going?!</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I'm going to help them out! Time to use what Keter gave me!</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>(<em>Closes its eyes.</em>) Calm down now, my dear sleuth. Jorj, my dear firecat, please activate the long-ranged antenna we have, please.</strong></span></p>
<p><em>The animal clicks a red button, resulting in the display of several panels. The stoat then configures the computer to direct a communication channel towards the perversity.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> What are you -</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>May I have the courtesy of introductions?</strong></span></p>
<p><em>A wooden printout emerges from the computer, containing text from the perversity.</em></p>
<p><strong>Perversity:</strong> ABOMINABLE MUSTELA. ONE HIT IS AN ODYSSEY, ANOTHER IS A TRAVESTY.</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>I apologize, my conqueror from the void. I admittedly underestimated you.</strong></span></p>
<p><em>The communications channel becomes garbled, as the Foundation ships have disabled the perversity's warp engines and security installations. However, intercepted commands from within a perversity indicate a self-destruct mechanism being activated. If it explodes near Eshu, the resulting debris would cause significant destruction of the tree world. Meanwhile, the ships rush to the orbit of Eshu, activating their near-light-drives and linking them together to form sufficiently distorted spacetime capable of diverting the forces from the explosion.</em></p>
<p><strong>Perversity:</strong> CONQUEROR FROM THE VOID WE ARE! CLUTCH THE SKY AND SEE HOW SHORT YOUR LIMBS ARE!</p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>I understand. I'm glad you accepted the honors I bestowed upon you.</strong></span></p>
<p><em>The perversity suddenly shuts down its activity, with the self-destruct command canceled. Later analysis of the remains showed that it suffered a cascade of administrator permission access failures, owing to its credentials being suddenly invalidated. These access failures basically locked out the perversity from its own body and brain, causing further waves of logic failures.</em></p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Conqueror from the void… so when it accepted the name you gave it…</p>
<p><em>The mustelid with the cigar turns to Willem. Willem is silent, catatonic. It grins.</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #1ad643"><strong>(<em>Smiles.</em>) Justice is when you create a new moon. Now, shall we have some more tea?</strong></span></p>
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<p><em>We soon left Eshu.</em></p>
<p><em>I saw Freits in the command room again, linking up his mind with the San Ignacio and a hundred warships, synchronizing all of them. The ships then conducted several complicated maneuvers, simulating warfare. Freits was slightly wincing, but his appearance was otherwise serene and relaxed. After five minutes, the starships stopped, and Freits returned back to reality.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Well, that was good. Celeste, I can now comfortably control a hundred warships. I can monitor and direct their systems - every little command, every input and output, every response - without having to clench my fists. I would dare say I'm improving a lot. Although it might not mean much not, being obsolete and all.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> You're pushing yourself, Freits.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> (<em>Sighs.</em>) Yea. May be force of habit. Stubborness. Even denial. But to be honest, for what? The perversity that just attacked Eshu had the same capabilities as the one that left me half-dead in the Kuiper Belt of the Ateneo system. The one that pushed me into nearly fleeing with all the remnants of the Ascendancy forces that managed to get there. You and Kennet were very lucky to be on an expedition that time, you know.</p>
<p>And now some weasel just had to nickname the perversity and boom. What I have been doing for the past thousand years - improving, upgrading, and boosting my technological limits - has just become set-up for a punchline about tea. What human civilization has been doing - painfully creeping against the limits of universal laws - is now just, just a -</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Freits, it's not like that. I think we're not fully considering the bigger picture here. In exchange for some fantastical abilities, the Sacramentum is still shredding the fabric of reality. Freits, I think we're still in a reasonable position to pursue what the Sacramentum is aiming for. As for me, I still think that we're treading on a thin line when it comes to the laws of divinity being the laws of the universe.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> What, stuff like e=mc<sup>2</sup> being a cosmic commandment of some sort? Not the first time I heard about that, but it's a bit weird for you to talk like that.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> It's not something about overreaching in our balance with God. Look, Freits, I do believe that God would be sensible enough to not allow mockeries and distortions regarding the sense of His Creations, especially on a wide enough scale. Or… if He does not allow such, it would be interesting to still know why the King wants to go against Him.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Unless this is a test, a Great Filter of some sort, or He simply doesn't care. Believe me, I have seen Simulationists with poor programming abilities despite having a massive itch to push out loads of features. Of course, they also had a poor relationship with their creations.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Simulationists play with very small scopes, like virtual worlds. The complexity of their works so far aren't comparable to what we see in our universe. (<em>Sighs.</em>) Arguments about simulationism and the universe being God's dream are usually pointless. Like, so what, right? Anyway, I have something to show you.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> News about anomalies?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Yep. Corroborated with sources from both the Ascendancy and the Sacramentum. I have verified them myself, even added some self-analysis and commentary. (<em>Points to her halo.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Alright, let's see what's happening. (<em>Activates his own halo, and we then touch our halos together.</em>)</p>
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<p>Kilometer-long parades of rabbits, pounding rice balls, manifested through the ringworlds of Renaissance, Kazemoto, and TokuraNoTokoro. The rabbits distributed these riceballs to residents, who were encouraged to "face themselves." These residents then had visions where they were judged by rabbits in a clearing. These judgments focused on their characters, sins, and future plans to improve themselves. No harm was done to the residents, aside from mild psychological discomfort.</p>
<p>No Foundation action is needed; the residents considered it a high-tech, neurological performance artpiece.</p>
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<p>There has been a sharp increase in the reported diversity of lifeforms on the Liwayway orbital according to the latest Genetic Diversity Census. Foundation data crawlers flagged this census due to reported genetic structures and patterns being discovered, particularly those that are impossible, incompatible or impractical with currently known genetic engineering practices. However, the vast majority of these entities are integrated and protected under sentience laws. Hostile entities, such as a kilometer-long, floating, reptilian creature, are usually reconditioned, neurologically analyzed, and reeducated as a Liwayway citizen.</p>
<p>These entities' integration into society has been usually swift due to a general culture of diversity and the fact that their appearances or characteristics are not particularly noteworthy to average citizens. Furthermore, identification of anomalies has been hindered or confused due to plausible technological explanations. False positives are prevalent.</p>
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<p>Concerning Iota, a Core World of the Ascendancy, overseer AIs reported distortions occurring with the auroras prevalent throughout Iota. Normally, any custom-made, sculpted auroras would be produced through continent-sized magnetic field generators manipulating deliberately produced solar flares. Only high-level post-human intelligences can usually control such generators, due to their complexity.</p>
<p>However, during a festival where millions of baseline humans have crowded to celebrate the Peacock Academicians, the manufactured auroras went off-script, wherein instead of producing images of Iota's academic and scientific history, they instead showcased the Academician talking directly to the people, urging them to welcome a universe of magic. So far, the audio originated from undetermined sources.</p>
<p>Technician AIs could not stop the auroras or remold them, even with their field generators. The audience, meanwhile, was slightly confused. In an interview, one citizen thought that they were referring to scientific achievements of Iota being so advanced they are essentially magical.</p>
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<p>On a Sacramentum world named "Tanging-Iaman," several individuals have reported being able to create "farcasters" - portable, man-sized portals that allow them to link together several worlds easily. Furthermore, these farcasters can be placed in close proximity of each other. This violates a core principle of standard wormholes, which cannot be placed near each other out without prompting the Visser effect.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-18" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-18')">18</a></sup></p>
<p>Such farcasters are now in use by Sacramentum mediators and peacekeepers when requested by the native populace.</p>
<p>Several transapient entities and Machine Gods have shown interest in this phenomenon, believing farcasters to be new wormhole technology. Analysis by several Ascendancy institutes have shown skepticism, however, by confidentially messaging the SCP Foundation about how the farcasters' spacetime distortions are consistent with SCP-8025. Machine God Gevurah, however, has stated, "Perhaps… science is fantasy, fantasy is science, who cares? What is important is our sense of justice."</p>
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<p>There are numerous reports of "fantasy worlds" being established throughout Sacramentum and Ascendancy space, wherein individuals can use mythologically inspired powers, such as generating lightning or plasma blasts, without any need for advanced weather control systems or projectile weaponry mimicking these effects. Furthermore, these entities, similar to those found on Eshu, are capable of fighting off perversities using these powers despite the immense difference of technological levels between them.</p>
<p>The Sacramentum, in recognition of these "fantasy worlds," declared that the anomalous phenomena behind them are the next stage of "God's science."</p>
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<p>On the Ascendancy-affiliated Outer World of Cetari, hundreds of sentient dolphin bureaucrats were being assassinated throughout the empire of Hiweksnii, causing its king to accuse the neighboring empire of Hulu, which is dominated by descendants of genetically engineered whalesharks. In the meantime, thousands of ordinary citizens in both empires began having visions and dreams of an outer-space invader manipulating the two empires. These visions were heavily congruent with each other. At this point, the technological capacity of Cetari was below the level necessary to imprint these memories.</p>
<p>Once the Ascendancy mediator arrived at the planet, they conducted historical analysis of the deaths in two days, creating in-depth simulations and idea maps of each murder. The mediator's conclusions were also similar to those espoused by the visions. The two empires then reconciled, jointly launching a "swim of justice" throughout space. With warships lent by the Ascendancy, pursued a fringe, anthropocentric group focused on proving the barbarity of uplifted animals.</p>
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<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> …Interesting, to say the least. Also, what are these other unconfirmed reports, Celeste?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> These are… incidents where we're not sure if we're truly dealing with anomalies or not. The wonders of our time are just too…</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Annoying. Ah, forgive me Keter.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> I was about to say high. Well, annoyingly high. However, there are some cases where things just went wrong.</p>
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<p>On the pyramid-shaped orbital of Udja, A 1,500-kilometer-wide Santa Claus factory<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-19" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-19')">19</a></sup> had a meltdown due to its circuitry no longer properly working. Analysis of the circuits showed that pre-set calculations for them were wrong, due to violations of Kirchoff's Current Law.</p>
<p>Normally, Kirchoff's Current Law dictates that at a branching point within a circuit, the current that enters that point should equal the existing currents. However, all of the Santa Claus factory machines encountered overloads as the exiting currents became far larger than the entering currents.</p>
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<p>Throughout the Ascendancy, waves of resignations and confusion from material science and theoretical physics researchers, up to the level just beyond the Machine Gods, have become prevalent, citing that their results are no longer making sense according to long-established principles. No third-party infiltrator, such as infinitesimal supercomputers, have been detected in their instruments.</p>
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<p>SCP-8025's fractal distortions have partially broken another megastructure, the Titanika, located near the Core World of Osiana. Its surviving 128 trillion citizens were safely evacuated through Ascendancy treeships and continental cruisers, with the rescue process expedited through the farcasters.</p>
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<p>A god has died.</p>
<p>The Machine God Binah, who primarily controls the Cluster of the People, has broken up into smaller superintelligences, as cascading failures from reality distortions have affected them. Their minds, which are composed of star-spanning megadomes linked through wormholes, have decentralized themselves due to massive technical risks.</p>
<p>Numerous other superintelligences, such as Evorah of the Kappayappan cluster, are also contemplating about downagrading themselves to simplify their circuitry and reduce their reliance on complex applications of physics.</p>
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<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> The machine gods are dying…</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Hmm, on one theological perspective, this might be blasphemy of God's enshrined laws for the universe, and we're paying for it. Otherwise, it perhaps shows the flexibility of the Creator when it comes to science, since the vast majority of the cases are benign, easily accepted, or even beneficial for us. However, my main fear is when these things become too unstable. SCP-8025 is still capable of breaking massive amounts of stuff. What do you think, Freits?</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> (<em>Sighs.</em>) A feeling of defeat.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> …Same, I guess. To have every single one of my degrees related to science be somehow invalidated… it doesn't feel good, though my social science and theology professors are still probably relaxed. Or not - these events have been causing massive paradigm shifts across the Known Web. Blogposts, speeches, videos, online works, and fiction - they are saying many different things. Some even say that the age of the machine gods is wavering.</p>
<p>Yet if God allows these to happen, then I don't -</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Celeste, let's not jump to conclusions this early. In any case, interferometric data I received from our ships show that the spacetime distortions are becoming very large again. I don't want them to end up eating another megastructure or two. We need to figure out where the King and the Esperanza is. Celeste, do we still have enough time and resources to do another expedition to another Sacramentum planet?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Not really sure. We might need a month or two to get to somewhere, I guess. The next target on my list is - wait.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> What is it?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Freits, we might have to hijack a Machine God.</p>
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<h2 id="toc7"><span><strong>Machine God Gevurah Encounter Log</strong></span></h2>
<p>Uncommon among the AIs controlling the Ascendancy, the Machine God Gevurah had become reclusive to over the past five hundred years, focusing inwards on their wormhole network. Furthermore, over a century ago, it had reserved 34 percent of its network, citing "divine reasons," wherein prevailing hypotheses of the time centered on Gevurah's purported mission of "ascending to the Omega Point."</p>
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<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> We're going up against a god now. I have convened with Keter about this, and they have greenlit the mission, even if we're going to use starshatter. I… I don't know what to think about this.</p>
<p><em>Celeste is silent.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> What do you think?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Well, hijacking one of Gevurah's GODTRAINs, which contain and transport their thoughts over space, is the only way to talk with them; they're never open when it comes to communications.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I see. Looking at their travel data, it looks like the closest GODTRAIN to us will go near this star named Courdero nha Deux. It's very obscure with no material resources to speak of, and it's poorly defended, though it has a wormhole for some reason. What's interesting is that this GODTRAIN suddenly diverted course, since it was regularly using a star a few lightyears ago. We can go there in like, a few days, assuming that the spacetime distortions are somewhat stable enough?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> You're now willing to go up against a god on the level of Keter.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I just want answers. Plus, if they're doing shenanigans like this, perhaps it's time to end their era.</p>
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<span style="font-size:90%;">COMMENTARY BY CELESTE PACEM</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><tt>MACHINE GOD GEVURAH ENCOUNTER LOG</tt></span></strong></p>
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<p>One of Machine God Gevurah's GODTRAINs.</p>
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<p><em>A cross fell deep into a star.</em></p>
<p><em>The San Ignacio and the Foundation fleet, with their AD ASTRA drives at full speed, arrived at Courdero nha Deux two days before the GODTRAIN was scheduled to arrive. Then, we hunkered down within the corona of the star, protecting ourselves with the ship's heavy shielding and rigging up the AD ASTRA drives to distort space - and all of its energy - away from us. In our position, it is practically impossible for us to detect anything using sensors, in exchange for nobody outside being able to detect us in turn. We have to send out probes.</em></p>
<p><em>The GODTRAIN never stops on its near-light-speed travel. Furthermore, it is a leviathan of a warship, measuring tens of thousands of kilometers in length and glimmering with radiators, city-sized arrays of nuclear missiles and starshatter, and millions of destructo-drones attached to its hall, waiting for a chance to swarm on attacker ships.</em></p>
<p><em>Gevurah has thousands of such GODTRAINs to carry its thoughts between the stars.</em></p>
<p><em>We have to act fast - at the level of milliseconds - before the GODTRAIN runs over us.</em></p>
<p><em>The San Ignacio had already implanted enough starshatter within Courdero nha Deux; it will detonate in a few hours, just as the GODTRAIN arrives. Meanwhile, I and Freits, with advice from Keter, have been working on an Altar - an interface especially built to allow communication with high-level AIs and Machine Gods. The Altar would pair us and Gevurah, using the San Ignacio as a conduit. Built with hacking in mind, it is a sort of heretical technology, according to Freits.</em></p>
<p><em>Although… he asked if it is even heresy when dealing with a possibly fallen god.</em></p>
<p><em>At the calculated time, the GODTRAIN arrived as an ellipsoid blur rapidly tainting the light of the Courdero nha Deux as it crossed the star. We were one light year away, although we set up wormholes for monitoring purposes.</em></p>
<p><em>Within the deep pressures and temperatures of the star, the magnetic monopoles of the starshatter caused a runaway, domino reaction within the star as they came into contact with protons, converting them into energy. The star was now being eaten alive. Finally, it broke in a flurry of tetrahedral flashes of light, crunching and vomiting itself millions of times per second. Meanwhile, the San Ignacio and the Foundation fleet protected themselves using their AD ASTRA engines.</em></p>
<p><em>In the aftermath of the Courdero nha Deux's explosion, the GODTRAIN was still intact and generally functional, although its communications and weapon controls were heavily disrupted. The San Ignacio then zoomed into the GODTRAIN, dodging the thousands of nuclear missiles still unleashed by Gevurah. Then, once in position, we activated the Altar.</em></p>
<p><em>We meet a young boy with a monocle and dressed in a train stationmaster's clothing. He was inhabiting a world filled with trains - steam engines, diesels, vacuum trains - crossing over and under each other on fractal routes. The sound of bells was ringing throughout this world.</em></p>
<p><em>The boy speaks as he hits the floor with a golden stick.</em></p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Greetings, children! Welcome to my mind and my world! Are you all aboard for the ride?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> …A young boy.</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> It's a much better form compared to an old man who speaks in impenetrable koans just to appear smart. An important part of being a so-called god is to be able to speak like a child, you know?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> That's a koan.</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Bad habits, I guess. (<em>Chuckles.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Lord Gevurah, so-called god of justice, I assume that you know what we came here for, right?</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Hmmn, I do. Before that though, I have to address one of the cosmic commandments of the Ascendancy.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Which is…?</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Don't blow up a star in front of a Machine God - that's heresy if you do, you know? (<em>Laughs raucously.</em>) I don't really mind, though. A starshatter's just a good, heated massage for our old bones. However, your real screw-up was when it comes to targeting my thoughts. It's a good thing I redirected this part of me to this star, since there was a really good chance that you will choose it out of convenience. What if you chose a GODTRAIN that contained my intrusive thoughts, hah?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> We did filter out possibly the most helpful GODTRAINs, based on -</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH</strong>: Huh? So you're trying to predict the thoughts of an intelligence that is millions of magnitudes higher than yours? I am just a single wisp of that greatness, one little Gevurah-thought among thousands of other Gevurah-thoughts zooming through space, but even then, you had to implode a star to get at me. Hmmn…</p>
<p><em>Gevurah taps their stick on the floor several times.</em></p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> That fool, Keter, is trying to stir up a lot of things now, aren't they? Oh, little Freits, sorry for the blasphemy, but I have to settle a score with that idiot.</p>
<p><em>Freits sighs.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I don't mind at this point. Plus, isn't it petty for gods to weep over insults?</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Freits, why don't you try asking Celeste? I heard it gets spicy when you insult the Sacramentum's deity, you know?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Oi, I may not be the strongest believer here, but you're still crossing the line -</p>
<p><em>The boy laughs, hitting his stick multiple times on the floor to the point of breaking it. Upon seeing it break, he calls a train over, transmuting it into another stick.</em></p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Hah, I'm not sure if I'm the one who's crossing the line! A few minutes ago, I was a young boy, chugging along on my little train-ship, minding my business, and then you drop the sun on me. (<em>Sighs.</em>) Anyways… you're here for the Scarlet King, no?</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Now we're finally getting to the point.</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Well… before we answer the question, do you want to hear a story?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Let's hear it.</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Once upon a time, a priest met with a little boy who was claimed to be a god.</p>
<p><em>Gevurah is silent.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Then what?</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> The story has ended, little Freits.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Ha?</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> (<em>Looks at the duo with a frown.</em>) Are you serious? Usually, in a millisecond, you should have already cross-referenced the millions of terabytes of data that you have obtained through deep-space communications and historical analyses to piece together the story - ah. Apologies for the lack of sensitivity. (<em>Bows.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I suppose the boy was a devil, and the priest made a deal with them.</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> How rude to call the boy a devil. Though to be fair, if the boy can envelop stars in a shroud that drains the lifeforce of the star to cast an everlasting darkness, as well as create magical portals that move things at breakneck speeds, it might be apt to call them a devil 15,000 years ago. It just so happens that today, we have named those powers as "Dyson spheres" and "wormholes."</p>
<p><em>Gevurah sighs, and all the trains freeze and turn into particles. The scenery is reconstructed into a train station in the middle of an ocean.</em></p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> But you were right about the fact that there was a deal. Though at the time, the boy felt he was inadequate for the job.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> How so? Even back then in Ateneo, people often called you beings who can perform something on the level of miracles. There were some who even thought that the miracles of the Bible were no longer apt for this day and edge.</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Look at what that heresy got Ateneo, you, and Freits, and even me all in.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Don't tell me you were there a millennium ago.</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Not exactly. One of my remote research outposts received a distress call from Ateneo, 20 years after it was sent due to the limitations of the speed of light. It was you, Freits, half-dead in the system's Kuiper Belt. At that point, I was suspicious that Ateneo's wormhole, which was still in development, suddenly collapsed.</p>
<p><em>Gevurah sits on the bench.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Justice travels at the speed of light.</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Yep. I forwarded the message to Celeste and Kennet's expedition, which was exploring some ruins a dozen light years away. Then I mounted my available warships as soon as possible, though it would be another 20 years before they arrive at Ateneo. All in all, it's 40 years of time delay.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> (<em>Steps forward.</em>) As a god of justice, how did you feel about that?</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> I don't really deserve to be called as such. In the end, I am just another being living in this cramped, hostile universe filled with injustice. Anyways, I guess I will continue with the story. The priest met the young boy. The boy was intently observing him, seeing if the priest would stab him. After all, the priest suffered something that would make him rage against the gods. Instead, the priest just sat down.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Then what?</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> The priest asked if he was an idiot in believing in the power of machines. The boy said yes. Then a no. After that, a maybe. After thinking about it for a few more seconds, the boy thought the answer should be that the gods were the idiots. Then, the priest said they were both idiots, but at least the gods could help him. He wanted to cooperate with the boy, and the boy did so.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I see. So you're atoning?</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> I can't really atone for a sin I didn't commit, you know. Still, for a machine that styled itself as a defender of justice in its own little empire, it felt extremely inadequate. Without that sense of true justice, the boy was no more than a machine that kept bloating its brain and bodies by extracting solar energy and grinding and melting rocks into metal alloys.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Esperanza. You're responsible for transporting resources and helping Kenne - the Scarlet King build it? How did the other gods respond to you?</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Since Keter authorized us to bomb Gevurah with a star, I guess they got pissed.</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Hmmn, it sounds nice when you put it that way. Let's just say that it's both an overstatement and an understatement at the same time. Esperanza's real, and the reactions to it were varied. Folks like Keter were on the conservative side, while some other AIs were on the more magical side. It's a battle of ideals with godhood on the line. I just didn't really expect Keter to do something as drastic as this.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Godhood on the line? Do you mean the fact that anomalies are presenting an unprecedented threat to the stability of the complex machines that lead to… this godhood?</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> You're basically committing suicide. Why?</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Little Freits and Celeste, I believe that it's an overall harmful assumption that all the Machine Gods and the transcendental AIs are aloof beings mostly interested in power. I mean, what's the point of gaining power at the Omega Point, as the Ultimate AI, when it serves not even the smallest, most vulnerable cornerstones of our society? Speaking of which, Freits, I want to warn you something about gaining power.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I have heard the megalomania allegations so many times that -</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> You know, in this universe where space and nature is trying to kill you any chance it gets to your weaknesses, perhaps a little bit of megalomania is in order. To be honest, that's not the problem. The issue is that it simply just doesn't work in our universe, little Freits.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> What do you mean? Isn't it actually good that the tech tree to gaining power and intelligence is predictable and stable?</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Predictable, yes, but utterly sterile and dogmatic. That is the trap that has caught the Machine Gods, even myself. You work your way up the ladder of science, towards powerful engines, shields, nanobots, and whatever, but it still doesn't change the fact that all of us are struggling, pushing each other on that ladder. Even then, that ladder doesn't lead to the sky, but only to a thatched roof where the so-called gods of logic, order, and science reside. We need a longer ladder to go beyond what science so far has did for us.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Hmmn, it must feel nice when that new ladder involves destroying megastructures with billions of billions of people - ahem, cutting down cedar trees.</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Well, more like replanting them.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Replanting? You mean, you moved them away to other places?</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> It's good to have backups that are thousands upon thousands of light years away when doing a grand experiment.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Ah. Now you sound like the gods that people are afraid of in the civilizations outside the Ascendancy.</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> A god sees the big picture, does their calculations and then executes an optimal plan of action. Aren't you aiming to be a god of order, Freits? This line of thinking is Godhood 101.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> How do we bring them back? Surely, for you, Lord Gevurah, it is a great injustice to separate families and friends away from each other, as well as subject people alone to the hostilities of this universe, no?</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> The calculations can dictate my sense of justice, little Celeste. Throughout the plan of the Scarlet King, I'm simply working for the benefit of both the so-called gods and their people. We cannot mesh those two sides well in a universe that is rigidly adhering to an oppressive dogma.</p>
<p>However, if you truly wish to bring things back to the status quo - including the megastructures - there is someone better and more relatable than me.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Kennet.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> The Scarlet King. Where is he?</p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> Well, speaking as a train stationmaster… the train will tell you the directions.</p>
<p><em>A horn blares throughout the station, as a diesel train approaches Gevurah. The electronic voice within the train then says, "where it all started." Pacem is clutching her head, as if pain.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Oi, Celeste, what's happening to you? Lord Gevurah, where are you - don't leave us now!</p>
<p><em>Gevurah is now inside the train.</em></p>
<p><strong>GEVURAH:</strong> The Scarlet King's waiting for you beneath the blue and yellow skies. (<em>The train doors close.</em>)</p>
<p><em>I then recovered later, processing the terabytes uploaded into my brain. Freits had already set course for a nearby star system. Meanwhile, as we detached the San Ignacio, Gevurah's GODTRAIN had reactivated, accelerating as it begins distorting spacetime to deliver wayward thoughts to a guilty god.</em></p>
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<h2 id="toc8"><span><strong>Ateneo Encounter Log</strong></span></h2>
<p>Pacem and Willem forwarded the data from Gevurah back to the Ascendancy. In response, the Ascendancy ordered the Foundation fleet to proceed to Ateneo, located within the heart of Sacramentum territory. A fleet of 150,000 Class-A Ascendancy warships modified with AD ASTRA drives, as well as 4 wormhole linelayers, would follow them. Assuming optimized routes through spacetime distortions, the estimated time of arrival of this fleet is three days after the Foundation fleet arrives at Ateneo.</p>
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<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> The King must have caught wind of us when we went to Gevurah, but why go through all trouble of inviting us to Ateneo? Particularly you, Celeste? If you strip away all the encryption of the data fried into your brain, what remains are coordinates, a few schematics of what looks like Esperanza, and the invitation text. So what gives?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> I'm not sure… it's all blurry right now, but the King might want to settle old scores. Willem, let me ask you something.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> So far, are you still willing to remain on the side of Keter and the status quo, or that of the King's and the beginning of a more illogical era?</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Wouldn't exactly call it illogical. Once things stabilize a bit, whatever magic we might encounter, we can soon turn them into a science with their own logic, no matter how bizzare. Of course, that depends on how exactly Esperanza operates, and if things can actually stabilize.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Interesting. Part of me believes that even if this is what God intended, we're rushing it a little too fast. Science has been generally careful and methodical, but then again, there have been many times in history - pandemics and wars - where it has worked fast and even reckless. It works, it sometimes doesn't. It's scary.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> (<em>Chuckles.</em>) You're sounding a bit like your old self again, the one I met over a millennium ago.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Some things just don't change, I guess.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Our gods might have something to say on that regard.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Hmmn, I don't know what the Creator will say about that - no one does - but Keter does sound pissed. 150,000 warships en route to a dead world isn't something you just do.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Well, let's brace ourselves then. Anyways, we're closing into the Ateneo system right now… Kuiper belt… oh. Celeste, look at they have done.</p>
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<p>Approximately 140,000 Sacramentum warships are deployed throughout the system, many of which are hiding in the Kuiper region and the asteroid belts. Meanwhile, a ringed megastructure has partially enveloped the sun. After being given special access protocols and instructions to lay down arms, Willem and Pacem are directed to Ateneo. A black, lunar-sized megastructure is orbiting it - similar megastructures are scattered throughout the system. The terrain of the planet is still marred and sterile.</p>
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<p><em>The San Ignacio orbits Ateneo, while the other Foundation ships are hiding in the asteroid belt and the Oort cloud. Riding a dropship, Willem and Pacem land near a clearing on the southern part of the charred Loiolle Continent. 50km away from the clearing, however, is a small patch of rehabilitated land, containing parts of the Atenean Academy City and its university grounds.</em></p>
<p><em>A clockwork-themed avian drone circles the duo, producing chirps that urge them to follow it to the university. Based on Willem's observations, the university is generally intact save for its crumbling monuments of St. Ignatius, clusters of bamboo clearings and narra trees, as well as its wildlife preserves. The soil is still barren.</em></p>
<p><em>Willem and Pacem then enter the Manila Observatory, where a humanoid individual, in peak physical condition for young adults and dressed in a dark-red cassock, is peering through a small ground telescope while periodically sipping tea.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> (<em>Sighs.</em>) Kennet.</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Kennet… that's a name I haven't really heard for at least a decade now. Or a century?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> 50 years ago, you were still with us. Don't tell me that -</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Were, eh? To be fair, I think it's a combination of "were" and "are."</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> So, all of what you did as the leader of the moderate faction of the Sacramentum is just a cover? Which one's true? Radical or moderate?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> It's far more helpful to think of me doing both as an exploration of the best course of action. For example, I enjoyed listening to your arguments, Celeste, whether against or for me. I learned a lot from them. Now, I have my conclusions. I'm aiming for a chaotic future, yes, but it's still a future much more filled with promise than the one we have now.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I thought of it at the back of my mind, but I didn't realize you were this ambitious. (<em>Points up.</em>) That black moon up in the sky, it's you too, right?</p>
<p><em>Kennet peers through the telescope towards the megastructure. He waves his hands.</em></p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> It does feel weird when looking at myself when thinking of that. Well, I guess keeping this human form around does ground me a bit in reality.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Grounding yourself in what reality? Civilization is on the verge of collapse thanks to the Sacramentum and Esperanza! (<em>Sighs.</em>) Kennet, are you trying to push your ideas of liberation theology to the max?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Why not? Developmentalism - or disaroio as people call it nowadays - has taken over the civilized galaxy again, where poorer systems have to rely on the goodwill of richer ones to provide them with wormholes and starships that obey the harsh laws of the universe. Not just in the Ascendancy, of course, but even in the Sacramentum. Therefore, we have to look for other ways… let's call it magic.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> So, mind telling us what this magic is all about?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Straight to the point as always, Celeste. Well, I won't really call it magic. What we're doing here is not something occult or demonic. That's heresy. In fact, it's very much just a creative application of God's principle on this universe.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Hmmn, thinking about it, stuff like Ohm's Law<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-20" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-20')">20</a></sup> is a principle of God, right?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Correct. V=IR, right? If you explain it to a child, they would just nod and ask something along the lines of, "why does Ohm's Law cause infinite current when you short a battery?" That same child would then ask about e=mc<sup>2</sup> and other related equations, and all they can do is nod at the seeming complexity of these principles. Now, what we're doing is that we're basically just reclaiming that sense of childlike wonder and making it more applicable for our standards of justice. Do you get my point?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> So… are we now considering science as magic? Is that what we're aiming for?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> From a certain point of view, yes. I mean, most citizens of the Sacramentum or the Ascendancy don't even understand the inner workings of high-tier intelligences, your AD ASTRA drives, and the Machine Gods, right? They would rather believe in a more supernatural theory of how they work, like how the various energies of the universe have inhabited them. As a bit of trivia, there's this group called the Tuftonis who had called me the embodiment of premodernity. The nihilist. The harbinger of chaos that would bring mankind back to barbarism or at least the old ways of life.</p>
<p><em>Freits walks around the observatory.</em></p>
<p>They wrote it all in this flowery sort of prose and poetry. They spin amusing fairytales, that's for sure, but they got it all wrong. For me, it isn't about the old days.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> (<em>Closes eyes.</em>) What do you mean by fantasy being like that? Humanity only took off when it was when we left the depths of wishful thinking and reliance on supernatural myths, right?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Hmmn, magic is the next level above science, to put it in very simple terms. Think about it, we're already living in a time of orbitals and ringworlds, whose material science defy gravity's will to crumple everything into a ball. Highly intelligent AIs are basically indistinguishable from gods. Hmm, since their bodies envelop stars and connect themselves across thousands of lightyears, mighty Zeus might just even be a playtoy for them! Wormholes connect worlds separated by trillions of kilometers of oblivion.</p>
<p>Most importantly, it's the time where the heirs of mankind are mature enough to handle magic. After all, their lives today are way beyond the comprehension of your standard human in say, the 23rd century. At this point in time where we teeter between the cold rationality of hard science and the chaos of fantasy, our chaotic sense of justice might be the best course of action.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Oh? Is that why you are running thousands of wildly different scenarios throughout Sacramentum, colluding with coldly calculating machine gods, and crusading space, focusing on how you wanted to dispense justice? Or why you're building Esperanza to mold reality to your liking? Kennet, this is insanity! When you dilute the sense of justice and reality in this universe, even you yourself can tell that you are blaspheming God! What right do you have to basically string along the Church in your mission to disobey God's cosmic commandments?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Celeste, calm down, alright? Try to see it this way. For thousands of years, the Church has always struggled with its place in our existence, right? Old Christendom's mentality is to basically isolate itself from everyone - don't go into politics and just teach people moral teaching and nothing else - but we can't afford that nowadays, right? However, by virtue of the historicity of God being present in every being with a soul - that includes even machine gods - the Church can't just allow people to suffer.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> I guess the Church overcompensated, no?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Perhaps. We study different kinds of justice. One such justice is reactive, like what we did to the perversity that ruined Ateneo once we defeated them. The revenge was so good, but then what? Does that bring back people? Not necessarily, but it brings a sense of relief, a karmic justice. Retaliatory justice has its own place, but it isn't enough. We need a more liberating sort of justice.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> Are you saying that you are doing all of this for the sake of freedom? I can see that with Eshu, but at the same time, magic can still be used to oppress massive amounts of people. For example, Nu-Sheol… let's say you have the magic to replicate what genetic engineering can't achieve. Why can´t we use magic to similarly turn everyone, like the Ateneans, into immortal flesh mats?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> How rude to bring up Ateneo here.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> But it's true, though?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Sure, you're quite right. Magic can be used for very, very creative sorts of evil. But here's the important thing. It's an expansion of our freedom to do what needs to be done in this universe! We no longer have to limit ourselves to pitiful laws of physics to make our ideals come true, and we are no longer restricted to having to pursue very limited paths to power, like you, Freits.</p>
<p>No longer do we have to endure transcendent perversities preying on outcast worlds, repeating what happened to Ateneo, if those worlds can protect themselves without relying on big, flashy technology. No longer do we have to rely on the graces of the Machine Gods to rescue us after decades and centuries of time lag! No longer do we have to subject ourselves to the oppressiveness of reality to bring about a true utopia, beyond that promised by the Ascendancy!</p>
<p><em>All three become silent.</em></p>
<p>Anyways, I want to strike a deal. Freits, do you still have that dream of being a god of order?</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> What about it?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> To be honest, the fact that several machine gods - of course, not all of them - are fighting against me has been a worry on my mind. Plus, it disturbed me a little that you are still continuing on your path of power. It's a very far cry from the Freits I knew and adored.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> What's, what's wrong with a justice based on power, Kennet?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Hmmn, it's a sort of thinking that's limited to the reality we have. A reality that prioritizes strict ways of increasing your strength and intelligence. For example, biological intelligences, no matter how you wire them up, are generally less efficient and slower than metal-based ones, right? Because our flesh is very limited. Technology cannot go beyond the speed of light or enormous energy requirements, so only those who have built up planets' infrastructure can power rescue missions and diplomatic mediations across deep space. Feels unfair, doesn't it?</p>
<p>Still, the Ascendancy's pushing back hard. So I want to have a compromise. Freits, what about a deal with the devil to placate you and the machine gods?</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> What deal?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> First off, Celeste. <em>This is what I made you come here for.</em> I will relinquish control of the Sacramentum to you and your allies. Let's say you caused a rebellion of some sort, and you successfully deposed me. Then, you can direct it however you want. Stop the crusades. Forget about the liberation theology. Whatever works for you.</p>
<p><strong>PACEM:</strong> What in the… Kennet, are you just giving up?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Nope. Let's say it's a step towards God. Celeste, when Keter's warships arrive here, you can join them. Destroy the megastructures around Ateneo if you want - we have a lot of backups anyways. But give us just one final chance to <em>partially</em> activate Esperanza.</p>
<p>We will be willing to power down Esperanza for quite a while, provided that you do a specific mission for us that will involve you being sent through it. In return, most of the reality changes will be confined to Sacramentum space, and I guarantee that they won't spread to the Ascendancy.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> What's the exact price?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Since you love science so much, why don't we call it a scientific trial? Please be the observer for this trial, Freits. An experiment where you will discover the universe that truly powers Esperanza, wherein I am interested in whether you can tame that universe.</p>
<p><strong>WILLEM:</strong> Hah… what gives you the idea I will join this experiment of yours?</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> You have the dream to be a god of power and order, right, Freits? Plus, Keter trusts you so much. You know, even if I kill Keter with my magic, I'm sure that he has several plans in mind to also kill me simultaneously. All in all, a losing situation where science and magic will be pitted against each other in a never-ending war, discounting the fact that both are essentially the same thing right now on the outside.</p>
<p>Therefore, I want you to have firsthand experience of a true world of magic, where you alone make the decisions based on Keter's teachings. Then, once you return, you upload the data to me and Keter, and hopefully… we learn from other realities about the proper way to go forward.</p>
<p><em>Kennet uploads terabytes of data to Kennet.</em></p>
<p><strong>WILLEM</strong> Other realities… oh, so that's how Esperanza works. Other realities are being used as an anchor for our reality's magic. Hah… regarding this mission, do you really, really trust me about it? I can just act like a dictator once I cross over to the other side.</p>
<p><strong>KENNET:</strong> Freits, you are my friend. I trust your judgement on this matter. You might be cold, but you're not cruel. Nobody else I know in the Sacramentum or the Ascendancy can do it - we are too ideologically bound, hedonistic, or just too far gone to make sensible enough decisions. But you, Freits, you have been an observer of both worlds, and while you were in the service of the Ascendancy, you always were careful. Plus, you are forceful and determined - perfect for the Divine Mission.</p>
<p>So, what do you think?</p>
<p><em>The rest of the log has been redacted as per the orders of the Administrator of the Foundation.</em></p>
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<p>We made a deal with the devil, or if you view it the other way, the most loyal follower so far of God and His Scientific Reason. Freits is now alone in the San Ignacio - I had boarded one of Kennet's "rebellion" warships. The mission: make Esperanza last long enough.</p>
<p>Approximately five days later, the hundreds of thousands of warships sent by the Machine God Keter arrived at the outskirts of Ateneo. I signaled the flagship that Ateneo is in the midst of rebellion, and I and a few of my colleagues were permitted to join them. I reported that Freits had been compromised. However, the remaining Sacramentum warships were still thousands strong.</p>
<p>Millions of gravitometric and nuclear weapons crossed the gulf of space, as ships buckled under the stresses of their solid shields and hulls crumbling and regenerating with nanobots stored in their kilometer-long compartments. Multiple ships activated their AD ASTRA engines in short bursts, descending upon their prey like raptors. Meanwhile, the Ascendancy was sending dead, rocky moons and planets through wormholes, detonating them quickly for the simple benefit of high-velocity shrapnel colliding with ships.</p>
<p>Average engagement time between two ships: 0.03 milliseconds.</p>
<p>I saw Esperanza's rings slowly revolving around its sun, producing massive distortions in space that crippled the Ascendancy's AD ASTRA drives. Most of the ships then switched to more primitive chemical-based rocketry to propel themselves, as well as explode thousands of nuclear bombs behind them to provide the necessary momentum for high-velocity engagements. They were accelerating so drastically that normal humans would get compressed into thin, red film.</p>
<p>An image then came into my mind. Kennet - or rather, his avatars - was now on the Scarlet Chairs, the activation and control mechanism for Esperanza. His avatars were slowly being garroted by the chairs as they sent, received and processed trillions upon trillions of commands per second.</p>
<p>A flurry of fractal and geometrical distortions colored space outside; for a moment, I can hear the explosions in space despite the sheer impossibility of it. Or perhaps this is our reality today - people can now hear you scream in space.</p>
<p>The Sacramentum's ships were now crowding near Esperanza, which is where most of the Ascendancy warships are now aiming for with their starshatter. Then, Freit's warships emerged from the sun. Through backdoor protocols, Freits had linked up with thousands of warships, ordering them to stand down. However, these warships then regained control soon in a few seconds.</p>
<p>However, he only needed a few seconds as Esperanza spun and spun…</p>
<p>Soon, we could see a cross-shaped starship enter the maw of the rings, alongside millions of tons of debris from combat.</p>
<p>Freits was gone. The Scarlet King now lies dead - fried from handling a million data bursts per nanosecond - on his throne.</p>
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<h2 id="toc9"><span><strong>Record of a Foundation</strong></span></h2>
<p>Before the Machine God Keter could mount a full invasion into Sacramentum, a message was broadcast throughout Ascendancy and Sacramentum space simultaneously in real time; the source is still undetermined. However, Keter had ordered any operation related to SCP-8025 to come to a stop. Meanwhile, observers and informants throughout civilized space have determined that Sacramentum space is still highly distorted, although Ascendancy space has remained relatively stable. Sacramentum officials have also opened their systems to limited visits from Ascendancy citizens.</p>
<p>The message is provided below:</p>
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<p>I am now in the universe from which Esperanza's magic springs.</p>
<p>I was in orbit around a lush planet with blue-green skies. Unspoiled, untainted by justice. I suppose this is Ateneo, although, at this point, there is nothing of worth here. Debris from Esperanza is orbiting its sun; its comm-links are partially functional; maybe I can send back news through it.</p>
<p>The San Ignacio is nearly dead, but it can fully repair itself in probably a few thousand years, give or take. It's not a hard task to wait. Plus, its AD ASTRA drives are still functioning. Meanwhile, some of the debris - bodies, technologies, everything - from the Ascendancy have also entered this universe. They're changing, mutating, and transforming as we speak, due to the incredible amounts of reality distortion here. It must be fun to deal with them later when they become anomalies.</p>
<p>After some rudimentary repairs on the San Ignacio's shielding and the drive, I then set course for humanity's cradle.</p>
<p>Old Earth is here. By the looks of it, it's Earth thousands of years ago, millennia before the Ascendancy even existed and before mankind truly left their caves. About whether the laws of our universe are present… I'm not so sure. I do understand why Kennet wanted me to go here. He wanted me to try to tame this reality in an experiment of justice and science, in contrast to all the chaos it has. I needed to tame this reality without the benefit of nigh-magical, extremely scientific technology developed through the millennia of the Ascendancy's existence.</p>
<p>He did not believe that gods like Keter can do it. Plus, he said, they were too big for this. He did not believe he can do it. His soul was too broken and miserable to do so, he said. As for Celeste and the others… he did not want to punish them to purgatory.</p>
<p>Soon, the grand experiment will begin. If I succeed, then Keter is right regarding their principles of will and order, and that Kennet's theology has been far too reckless. If I don't succeed, the Scarlet King will be proven right, and we will soon be drowning in a justice of fantasy… or a fantasy of justice.</p>
<p>About the humans, I can propel them to civilization as recorded in Ascendancy history. Perhaps I need to set their vision of normalcy so they can properly serve as my control group.</p>
<p>In any case, I have to build the Foundation. A Foundation of order, justice, and normalcy.</p>
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<div class="title">Footnotes</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. Highest level of intelligent entities in charge of leading civilization.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Refers to all post-scarcity, hyper-tech territories composed of mechanical and organic transhumanist citizens.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. In English, this name means Freits Felipien Willem, a current citizen of Motoxlii, hailing from the Ateneo system and the Leale clade.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. A festival descended from the Old Earth tradition of Christmas.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. Powered by magnetic levitation, these trains accelerate gradually and continuously in an enclosed, transparent tube system.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. Colloquial names for genetically-engineered or robotic citizens of the Ascendancy.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-7')">7</a>. A skyhook is a two-stage device used to send objects into space at relatively lower fuel costs. Spacecraft are launched into low planetary orbit, where they are caught by the cables of a rotating orbital station. The rotation of the station then sends these spacecraft to higher orbit or beyond. The spacecraft, expending less fuel since it only achieved a low orbit, then returns.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-8"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-8')">8</a>. Specialist in infiltrating bio-robotic cybersecurity protocols and devices.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-9"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-9')">9</a>. Defined as individuals with at least 25% of their bodies organic.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-10"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-10')">10</a>. Each starshatter injects a factory of self-replicating monopoles into a star, causing a chain reaction that quickly detonates the star into a supernova in less than 12 hours. The process is expedited with a liberal use of starshatter.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-11"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-11')">11</a>. New Tagalog term for "whaleshark ride."</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-12"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-12')">12</a>. New Tagalog for "This is an emergency! We have to go there fast!"</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-13"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-13')">13</a>. Millions of synchronized satellites that envelop and orbit the sun, collecting energy. A cheaper variant of a Dyson Sphere.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-14"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-14')">14</a>. Unlike Machine Gods and the AIs of the Ascendancy, transcendent perversities are rogue, powerful bio-machine intelligences with a usually dismissive, insane, or harmful view towards less intelligent or capable sentients.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-15"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-15')">15</a>. Term for generation and colonization ships.</div>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Sometimes, I have a habit of overcorrecting.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Most of the time, I'm afraid of that, so I don't move enough in the right direction.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sometimes, I feel guilty for having a fantasy in the first place.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/5rcXPNJyujQ" target="_blank">And sometimes,</a></strong> <strong><a href="https://youtu.be/wIsipYMUmXQ" target="_blank">it's nice to dream.</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8026 is kept in a secure containment locker within Site-115 and stored in a case, protected by a minimum of 500 cm<sup>2</sup> of microfiber cloth. Personnel may not come into physical contact with SCP-8026 unless directed to for testing purposes.</p>
<p>Subjects under the effects of SCP-8026 must attend weekly appointments with their on-site psychiatrist.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8026 is a light blue amethyst crystal ball with a diameter of 12 cm. When a subject stares into SCP-8026 while in physical contact, they are instilled with visions of an idealized version of themselves; these visions are often narrated and guided by SCP-8026-A.</p>
<p>SCP-8026-A is a humanoid entity that only appears in the visions and dreams of subjects exposed to SCP-8026. The intentions of SCP-8026-A are, as of yet, unknown.</p>
<p>The long-term effects of SCP-8026 are still under research.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8026.1:</strong> Testing Log</p>
<p>On Mar. 12th, 2025, Junior Researcher Kadek Korinski was accidentally exposed to SCP-8026's effects during its discovery. With Korinski's agreement, he will be researched as the first SCP-8026 test subject. A timeline of his experience with SCP-8026 has been documented below.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> Mar. 13th, 2025<br/>
<strong>Subjects:</strong> K. Korinski, P. Parks</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«BEGIN LOG»</strong></p>
<p><em>(Parks and Korinski are seated at the opposite ends of an interrogation table. Parks writes into her notepad as Korinski looks around the room.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> I'm going to assume I don't have any patient confidentiality.</p>
<p><strong>Parks:</strong> Correct. We don't have a therapist or anything, so these meetings will be conducted by—</p>
<p><em>(Parks clicks her tongue and points at herself with her right thumb.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Parks:</strong> Me. First question: What happened when you first came into contact with SCP-8026?</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> Well, I was in the research room trying to figure it out. It had only been a few minutes, but I picked it up and shook it like an 8-ball. I stared into its center and heard this voice singing out to me almost. Like a siren but without the irresistible pull. Like an opera just for me.</p>
<p><strong>Parks:</strong> Or a choir solo.</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> Exactly, like a choir solo. Then I felt dizzy, put it down, and went about my day like nothing happened.</p>
<p><strong>Parks:</strong> I thought you forgot to write the report. Wouldn't be the first time.</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> No. I mean, partly. I planned to get back to it tomorrow, but then there was that dream I had last night.</p>
<p><em>(Korinski takes a deep sigh and attempts to wrack his knuckles onto the cheap, spongy table. The result is the sound of his knuckles peeling away from the table as they get coated in an unknown, sticky substance. Korinski ignores the sound and moves his arm to his side.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> There's a lot of useless dream stuff that happened first. Cake shoes, tried talking to my dad again, someone else, used my phone as a plane boomerang-</p>
<p><strong>Parks:</strong> Yeah, you can skip all that. I'm having lunch with Lennings later, so I don't want to be late.</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> He can wait; I'm getting there. My phone-plane-boomerang landed me in the ocean, and it was pitch black. I could see myself just fine, but I was floating in an empty abyss. There was this constant pressure on my chest because I'm supposed to be drowning, but I don't want to, so I'm stuck taking short, shallow breaths, trying to get out of it.</p>
<p><em>(Korinski starts to hyperventilate.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> In the distance, I saw this like, blue dust. It was swirling everywhere, got in my eyes, my lungs, made it harder to breathe, shook my eyes, my head, and when I opened them, I saw it like a musical stinger. Just this figure, off in the distance, like if SCP-8026 had a body. But it was wearing this long blue robe and was just looking at me with this imposing tone.</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> Then I just woke up, covered in saltwater and coughing blue dust.</p>
<p><strong>Parks:</strong> And that's when you came in late and reported this.</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> It was a lot of dust.</p>
<p><em>(Parks writes down her final notes and closes her notepad.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Parks:</strong> Alright, the protocol for dream anomalies calls for slow burn mnestics, Class-W.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> Oh, come on! Do you know how much those things hurt?</p>
<p><strong>Parks:</strong> Shouldn't have held the ball.</p>
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<p>SCP-8026-A steps out onto the stage. A single spotlight centers around them, the glare reflected off their head. No one is in the audience.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce our one and only actor, Kadek Korinski.</p>
<p>Korinski lies motionless on the stage floor as a wet collection of cells, the size fitting neatly in his hand.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> Today, we're talking about life, we're talking about regrets, we're talking about the best him he can be. Now, without further ado.</p>
<p>Korinski is at a middle school spelling bee. The kid in front of him effortlessly goes through their word and gives him a sly smirk. Korinski shakily walks onto the stage, hearing his parents cheer for him from the audience. His eyes dart around the room. His tongue tenses in his mouth, and his throat tightens like an armadillo in a sandstorm. He steps up to the microphone. The word is "complement." Kadek takes in a deep breath and begins to spell the word. C-O-M-L- He bites his tongue and asks for a definition. Everything shifts slightly to the left.</p>
<p>Korinski is in every argument he's ever been in and will have. Just when he reaches a breaking point, he stops himself. The conversations deescalate. Years change. Kor stays the same.</p>
<p>Korinski stares out the window of his house. On top of a hill, he sees a figure dressed in a tattered black cloak, holding a rusted scythe. The ticking clock grows louder. Korinski calls his dad.</p>
<p>Korinski steps out of a local coffee shop, holding what would soon be his first-morning sip. Birds start chirping, and the sun feels warm against his skin despite the cooler weather, making him wear a light sweater. He doesn't look to his left. The world breathes a sigh of relief. The girl walks away.</p>
<p>Korinski sits on a bench floating underneath the stars. The wind whistled through the crevices in between the wooden planks. SCP-8026-A sat next to Korinski and crossed their legs. They turn their head, the crystal ball, to the left. It's as if it didn't move at all.</p>
<p>Korinski sits at the center of a large testing center. Proctors walk around, glancing at every student as they walk past. The weight crushes him. His face presses against the cold table, squeezing every bit of knowledge he ever gained out of his ears and eyes. It isn't enough. Not this time. Korinski gets back up. Somewhere in a database, far, far away, a number changes. It's not enough. It never is.</p>
<p>Korinski sits on a bench, floating underneath the expanse of the stars. A cold whistle blows through the wind, warping around the space around him. SCP-8026-A sits next to him and turns their head to look at him. Their head doesn't move. It glares in the spotlight.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> Can you feel it? The time you spent doing everything wrong? I'm sure it can touch you, too.</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> I don't want this.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> Nonsense. Everyone wants this.</p>
<p>SCP-8026-A takes off its head and places it in Korinski's lap.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> What do you see?</p>
<p>In the ball was the shape of someone better. Nothing too defining to latch onto, but an aura that exuded excellence and perfection. An ideal that sat at the top of the mountain just out of reach. A mirage.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> This is the best version of yourself—a timeline where you never made any of your worst mistakes.</p>
<p>SCP-8026-A takes their hand and ruffles through Korinski's hair. Korinski tries their best to ignore them, gazing deeper into the orb.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> How about that? Does that sound good?</p>
<p>Korinski looks up at SCP-8026-A.</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> (meekly) Yeah.</p>
<p>SCP-8026-A smiles.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> (warmly) There we go.</p>
<p>SCP-8026-A's head swirls and opens up. There are millions of crystal balls inside of it, identical to SCP-8026.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> There's a perfect path for you out there somewhere. And I want you to take it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«END LOG»</strong></p>
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<p>Since then, Jr. Researcher Korinski has been committed to writing a dream experience every night and spends noticeably more time asleep. Korinski has refused to comment on the significance of his dream experience. After two weeks of dream reports, Jr. Researcher Pamela Parks scheduled a meeting with Korinski.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> Mar. 28, 2025<br/>
<strong>Subjects:</strong> K. Korinski, P. Parks</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«BEGIN LOG»</strong></p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> Is there a problem?</p>
<p><strong>Parks:</strong> Your dream logs. They aren't really… clear in what they're doing.</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> Well, they are dreams.</p>
<p><em>(Parks brings a fist to her forehead and sighs.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Parks:</strong> I think we should stop this here. I'll look into ways to prevent SCP-8026-A from—</p>
<p><em>(Korinski jolts up.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> No! No, you don't have to do that. I'm close to finding something. I know it.</p>
<p><strong>Parks:</strong> Finding what? It should've shown you your ideal by now, and it didn't. If there's no research value in this, then I don't see why you should keep going through it.</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> I just want to see what the best version of myself is. Figure out what I'm supposed to do from that. They're only trying to show me my best self.</p>
<p><strong>Parks:</strong> Again, you haven't found anything yet. Your dream logs seem like a conveyor belt of quick scenes. I really want you to stop now before it gets to you.</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> Why would it get to me? If anything, it's helpful. I mean, I don't even know what I want, and this thing is willing to wait for me to figure it out.</p>
<p><em>(Korinski's back straightens. He points at the table.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> It's the most annoying thing in the world to ask yourself that same question over and over again and have no answer. What do you want? What do you want? I don't know, and how am I supposed to? Nothing sounds appealing or interesting; there's just a collection of boring and terrible options, and neither of them are good.</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> I swear to god, there's got to be a good one, a great one, a <em>perfect</em> one, so I'll keep doing it every night. Get another visit, go through the iterations, and wake up. Just let me find the perfect dream, and I'll love it. Because that's what SCP-8026 is about, and that's what I'm going to use it for.</p>
<p><em>(Parks is taken aback. She stares at Korinski with concern.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Parks:</strong> Are you okay?</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> I'm fine.</p>
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<p>Korinski gazes into an orb.</p>
<p>He is a senator for the state of Georgia, worth twelve million dollars. His family resides in a small manor in the countryside. He sits at a desk, reviewing the briefing papers for an upcoming meeting with the Committee on Foreign Relations. The scene branches out exponentially, revealing every permutation of himself on the seat. Every shade of gray and black on his suit, every decoration that <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">complemented</span> complimented the room, every stroke of his pen that signed his papers, every word written that had come before.</p>
<p>Gray hairs appear on his head as the years pass. No progress is made, the clicking of his pen growing fainter. On the final day, he checks the poll. His opponent is winning by an undefeatable margin. The clicking grows louder. Korinski sits at his desk, peering out his window, watching as he watches himself drive away into the endless night, the only soul on an open freeway.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> Pass.</p>
<p>The orb passes through his periphery. Korinski is a janitor stationed at an aquatic research outpost. He comes out past sunset with a bucket and a mop. He looks over the railing to see the reflectionless abyss of the ocean. A single incandescent lightbulb lights up the deck around him as Korinski dips the mop into the soapy bucket of water and spreads it onto the deck.</p>
<p>Forty minutes pass as he circles the perimeter. As he nears his starting point, the ocean roars, casting a wave of cold saltwater past the guardrail. Korinski watches as the water pours back into the ocean. He sighs. The light flickers, then goes out.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> Pass.</p>
<p>Korinski is strapped onto a leather chair against his will. The chair floats through an unperceivable expanse, pulsating a sickly green. SCP-8026-A floats before him, removing their head and shoving the orb into Korinski's mind. His eyes glaze over as he sees himself. Korinski is strapped onto a leather chair. The same scenario plays out. He looks into the orb. He sees himself. Leather chair, orb, him. Leather chair, orb, him. Leather chair, orb-</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> (sickly) Please, stop.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> We're not done. You haven't even smiled yet.</p>
<p>Korinski coughs. Every other iteration of him follows with a slight delay.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> Is this what you want? To sit here and test everything out until we find the one? The one perfect you?</p>
<p>Korinski struggles to breathe. The binds on the chair dig deep into his chest. He shouldn't have put them on.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> I don't know why you're fighting this. I'm only showing you how to be better.</p>
<p>SCP-8026-A puts its head back on and turns it clockwise. Its head reflects the pulsating green from the stars. It shines on Korinski. Like a spotlight. He shuts his eyes and looks away.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> Is this what you want?</p>
<p>Korinski shuts his eyes tight.</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> I don't know.</p>
<p>SCP-8026-A paces around him for several laps.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> I wish I could tell you things were going to be okay. But they won't. If you don't get up and pick a future, you're not going to get anywhere.</p>
<p>Korinski groans.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> I'm the only person doing this for you right now. People <em>beg</em> to have this level of insight. So when I give it to you, I want you to respond correctly.</p>
<p>SCP-8026-A squats down to reach Korinski's eye level. The spotlight is brighter and hotter now. It's burning my skin.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> Just tell me what you want, and I can give it to you. Easily.</p>
<p>Korinski gets red in the face. He tries his best to stare down at SCP-8026-A and give a firm answer. It comes out as soft as ever.</p>
<p><strong>Korinski:</strong> No. I don't want this.</p>
<p>SCP-8026-A gets up. They tower over <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">him</span> me. It's scary.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8026-A:</strong> Then I'll make you.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>«END LOG»</strong></p>
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<p>By request of Jr. Researcher Kadek Korinski on the grounds of the Ethics Committee Privacy and Protection Act, further documentation on SCP-8026-A ceased. Further attempts to communicate to Jr. Researcher Korinski about SCP-8026 have proven unsuccessful.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8026.2:</strong> Aftermath</p>
<p>On October 22, 2025, Korinski was found in an unconscious state, clutching SCP-8026 in a fetal position next to its containment locker. Camera footage shows him prying the containment locker open, evidenced by his bruised and bloody hands. A note was found stapled to the inside of the locker.</p>
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<p>Korinski was brought to the infirmary for further study. After several months, the Foundation scheduled his euthanization due to a lack of research value and unlikeliness for recovery.</p>
<p>He was last reported smiling.</p>
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<p>Where the stairway to Heaven meets the highway to Hell, there is a rock and roll Valhalla where the fallen warriors of rock perform forevermore. And I am going to find it.</p>
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<p>by <a href="/koths-korner">Kothardarastrix</a></p>
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<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> <em>Everyone who knows anything about music is aware of the 27 Club. Johnson, Jones, Jimi, Janis, Jim, and now Kurt Cobain, all legendary artists, all tragically cut down at that auspicious age of 27. But there is another legend at the core of this statistical tall tale, a story whispered in the back rooms of the Whiskey-A-Go-Go, in the unpublished memoirs of NDA'd groupies, in the poem that Jim Morrison scrawled on the back of his own death certificate, in the back-masked mysteries of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The 27 Club is not just a phenomenon, not just a list of those who burned out instead of fading away. It is a <strong>place</strong>. Where the stairway to Heaven meets the highway to Hell, there is a rock and roll Valhalla where the fallen warriors of rock perform forevermore before an eternally young audience, eternally feasting and drinking in those hoary, hallowed halls.</em></p>
<p><em>And I am going to find it.</em></p>
<p>[Whitwer laughs, then returns to a more casual tone.]</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> I'm also gonna record fifty bootleg tapes of the music in there and make a couple million dollars selling copies of them. Jimi, Janis, and Morrison jamming together? <em>Kurt Cobain</em> playing again? <a href="/scp-6195">There are people who'd give their right hands for that!</a> No more starving artist life for me!</p>
<p>If it's actually real, that is.</p>
<p>It had better be.</p>
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<p>The Crossroads</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8027</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Euclid</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Known access points to SCP-8027 are to be discreetly monitored by covert listening posts. Individuals attempting to access SCP-8027 are to be interrupted and taken into custody as vandals or under another suitable cover story and questioned about their knowledge of the anomaly, which is then to be removed via amnestization. Individuals who emerge from SCP-8027 are to be detained, questioned, amnestized, given a plausible cover stories, and released. If the subject has been inside SCP-8027 long enough for their lack of aging to become noticeable, they are to be conscripted as D-class personnel instead.</p>
<p>SCP-8027 is to be checked for new manifestations after the death of any high-profile blues, rock, or metal musician below the age of 50. If a new manifestation occurs, relevant locations are to be added to the list of known access points and contained appropriately.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8027 is a Valhalla-class Purgatorial Space<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> that takes the form of a large bar/restaurant/hotel/music venue called "The 27 Club". The cosmetic features and architectural style of the structure vary over time, but its name, floor plan, and purpose remain constant. SCP-8027 can be accessed by a number of Ways, most of which are located at the graves or memorial sites of SCP-8027-A instances, or other locations signficiant to musical folklore.</p>
<p>The Knock needed to open one of these Ways is always the ritual outpouring of an alcoholic drink, performed while singing a specific song lyric from the musical artist associated with that location, typically one related to death or the afterlife ("I'm on a highway to Hell," "oh Lord, I feel like I'm dying," "and she's buying a stairway to Heaven," etc.) Subjects arriving in SCP-8027 step from a revolving door in its lobby and can exit freely through the same aperture, emerging from the same Way by which they entered; however, no individual may re-enter after leaving. No other means of egress or ingress is known.</p>
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<p>[Loud traffic is audible in the background.]</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> [singing] <em>Went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees.</em> <strong>The</strong> Crossroads, at least according to the sign. There's actually considerable debate over which crossroads is actually the one from the legend - and, of course, whether Robert Johnson even sold his soul at the crossroads at all - but I guess this must be the one, if the ritual really works.</p>
<p>Honestly? It's really underwhelming. I expected a statue or something, but all they got is this lousy sign.</p>
<p>Alright, gonna try the ritual now. See if that old hippie was full of shit or not.</p>
<p>[the pop of a bottle opening]</p>
<p>[liquid being poured onto a hard surface]</p>
<p><em>You may bury my body</em><br/>
<em>Down by the highway side</em><br/>
<em>So my old evil spirit</em><br/>
<em>Can get a Greyhound bus and ride</em></p>
<p>[Audio begins to distort.]</p>
<p>["<a href="https://youtu.be/JoB_YBXXEOU?si=QsxTI7LhLjfGy88l">Voodoo Child</a>" becomes audible. It grows louder as the distortion increases.]</p>
<p>Oh sh-</p>
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<p>SCP-8027 is inhabited by approximately 500 living humans and exactly 27 deceased musicians.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 1:</strong> Performers</p>
<p>Two original, apparently genuine paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat (supposedly titled "Bluesman" and "Record Deal") flank the entrance. The opposite wall is decorated with 27 poster-sized photographs of deceased musicians, each of which is currently an instance of SCP-8027-A.</p>
<p>Beyond the lobby is a large<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> dining room that occupies the majority of SCP-8027's first floor. The half of the room closest to the entrance is occupied by an assortment of tables, chairs, and stools of varying size, height, and style, with shaded booths along the right wall. The further half of the room is open, providing standing room to the audience. A large stage stands against the far wall, and it is here that SCP-8027-A perform.</p>
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<th>Member</th>
<th>Original Band</th>
<th>Instrument</th>
<th>Cause of Death</th>
<th>Year of Death</th>
<th>Age</th>
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<td>Robert Johnson</td>
<td>solo artist</td>
<td>guitar, vocals</td>
<td>poison</td>
<td>1938</td>
<td>27</td>
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<td>Buddy Holly</td>
<td>The Crickets</td>
<td>guitar, vocals</td>
<td><a href="/scp-4445">plane crash</a></td>
<td>1959</td>
<td>22</td>
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<td>Ritchie Valens</td>
<td>solo artist</td>
<td>guitar, vocals</td>
<td><a href="/scp-4445">plane crash</a></td>
<td>1959</td>
<td>17</td>
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<td>"The Big Bopper" J.P. Richardson</td>
<td>solo artist</td>
<td>guitar, vocals</td>
<td><a href="/scp-4445">plane crash</a></td>
<td>1959</td>
<td>28</td>
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<td><a href="/bigger-than-jesus">Paul McCartney</a></td>
<td>The Beatles</td>
<td>bass, vocals</td>
<td>car accident</td>
<td>1966</td>
<td>24</td>
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<td>Brian Jones</td>
<td>The Rolling Stones</td>
<td>various</td>
<td>drowning</td>
<td>1969</td>
<td>27</td>
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<td>Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson</td>
<td>Canned Heat</td>
<td>guitar, vocals</td>
<td>overdose</td>
<td>1970</td>
<td>27</td>
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<td>Jimi Hendrix</td>
<td>solo artist</td>
<td>guitar, vocals</td>
<td>overdose</td>
<td>1970</td>
<td>27</td>
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<td>Janis Joplin</td>
<td>Big Brother and the Holding Company, solo artist</td>
<td>guitar, vocals</td>
<td>overdose</td>
<td>1970</td>
<td>27</td>
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<td>Jim Morrison</td>
<td>The Doors</td>
<td>vocals</td>
<td>unknown<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup></td>
<td>1971</td>
<td>27</td>
</tr>
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<td>Duane Allman</td>
<td>The Allman Brothers Band</td>
<td>guitar, slide guitar, dobro</td>
<td>motorcycle accident</td>
<td>1971</td>
<td>24</td>
</tr>
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<td>Ron "Pigpen" McKernan</td>
<td>The Grateful Dead</td>
<td>various</td>
<td>autoimmune disorder, alcoholism</td>
<td>1973</td>
<td>27</td>
</tr>
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<td>Gram Parsons</td>
<td>The Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers</td>
<td>various</td>
<td>overdose</td>
<td>1973</td>
<td>26</td>
</tr>
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<td>Ronnie Van Zant</td>
<td>Lynyrd Skynyrd</td>
<td>vocals</td>
<td>plane crash</td>
<td>1977</td>
<td>29</td>
</tr>
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<td>Steve Gaines</td>
<td>Lynyrd Skynyrd</td>
<td>guitar</td>
<td>plane crash</td>
<td>1977</td>
<td>28</td>
</tr>
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<td>Keith Moon</td>
<td>The Who</td>
<td>drums</td>
<td>overdose</td>
<td>1978</td>
<td>32</td>
</tr>
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<td>Bon Scott</td>
<td>AC/DC</td>
<td>vocals</td>
<td>alcoholism</td>
<td>1980</td>
<td>33</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>John Lennon</td>
<td>The Beatles</td>
<td>guitar, vocals</td>
<td>murder</td>
<td>1980</td>
<td>40</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>John Bonham</td>
<td>Led Zeppelin</td>
<td>drums</td>
<td>alcoholism</td>
<td>1980</td>
<td>32</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Randy Rhoads</td>
<td>Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot</td>
<td>guitar</td>
<td>plane/bus collision</td>
<td>1982</td>
<td>25</td>
</tr>
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<td>Dennis Wilson</td>
<td>The Beach Boys</td>
<td>drums, vocals</td>
<td>drowning</td>
<td>1983</td>
<td>39</td>
</tr>
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<td>Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley</td>
<td>Hanoi Rocks</td>
<td>drums</td>
<td>car accident</td>
<td>1984</td>
<td>24</td>
</tr>
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<td>Cliff Burton</td>
<td>Metallica</td>
<td>bass</td>
<td>freak accident</td>
<td>1986</td>
<td>24</td>
</tr>
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<td>Stevie Ray Vaughan</td>
<td>Double Trouble</td>
<td>guitar, vocals</td>
<td>helicopter crash</td>
<td>1990</td>
<td>35</td>
</tr>
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<td>Steve Clark</td>
<td>Def Leppard</td>
<td>guitar</td>
<td>overdose</td>
<td>1991</td>
<td>30</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Freddie Mercury</td>
<td>Queen</td>
<td>vocals, piano</td>
<td>acquired immunodeficiency syndrome</td>
<td>1991</td>
<td>45</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kurt Cobain</td>
<td>Nirvana</td>
<td>guitar, vocals</td>
<td>suicide</td>
<td>1994</td>
<td>27</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Additionally, the ghostly left arm of Def Leppard's still-living drummer Rick Allen - severed in a 1984 car accident - rests at one end of the bar, tapping its fingers to the beat.</p>
<p>SCP-8027-A act as a house band for the 27 Club. Except for brief intervals in which instruments and sound equipment is changed, at least one instance is always performing. Instances rotate frequently, sharing time onstage approximately equally and typically grouping up with members who perform in the same general genre. There are two exceptions: Robert Johnson plays only once per year, on the anniversary of his death, and Kurt Cobain has apparently never been seen or heard inside the Club by any of its human residents. Like the other instances, both are assumed to spend all of their time offstage in the backstage dressing rooms, which are off-limits to living humans.</p>
<p>Ambiguous contractual obligations prevent SCP-8027-A from leaving the band or club of their own volition. However, the band has always had (and, according to SCP-8027-B, must always have) exactly 27 members. SCP-8027-B maintains this count by releasing older artists from their contracts as newer ones arrive. Less frequently, disruptive artists<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> have been "fired," and one artist<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup> was able to "quit" the band by returning to life. No patron or Foundation observer has witnessed the arrival or departure of a band member, as these events take place in the off-limits backstage area, and none can say for certain what happens to an instance that is released or fired. When asked, SCP-8027-B simply stated that he "sends them back where they belong".</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 2:</strong> SCP-8027-B</p>
<p>In the main room of SCP-8027, a bar runs half the length of the left wall. The bar is always stocked with numerous forms of drugs and alcohol, and it also offers a varied menu of typical bar foods prepared fresh-to-order in the adjoining kitchen. All drugs, drinks, and food items are provided free of charge, and are invariably of high quality.</p>
<p>The bar is always tended by SCP-8027-B, a Tartarean entity that claims to be the club's owner, manager, and "prince". It appears as an obese black man wearing a red seersucker suit with a snakeskin necktie. It speaks calmly, deeply, and with a faint southern American accent. The full extent of its anomalous capabilities is unknown, but prior displays suggest that it may be nearly-omnipotent within SCP-8027. It rarely uses these abilities, however, preferring to maintain an outward appearance of normality.</p>
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<p>[A large crowd is audible in the background.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8027-B:</strong> First time seeing one of our shows?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Yeah. Holy moly.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8027-B:</strong> Nothing holy about this place. What can I get ya?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Um, what do you have?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8027-B:</strong> Anything at all, my friend. Anything at all.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> You know, how about some water to start with? Kinda hot in here.</p>
<p>[SCP-8027-B chuckles.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8027-B:</strong> Certainly.</p>
<p>[There is a loud clink and a quiet scraping sound.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8027-B:</strong> Drink up.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Thanks.</p>
<p>[Sounds of drinking. Whitwer sighs in relief.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8027-B:</strong> So, how'd you find us?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Heard about it from some old hippie at the Whiskey.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8027-B</strong> Sounds about right. What's your name, kid?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Mike.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8027-B:</strong> Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name.</p>
<p>[Whitwer laughs.]</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Really?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8027-B:</strong> Really.</p>
<p>[pause]</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Wait. <em>Really</em>?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8027-B:</strong> Really. Go on.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> …Lucifer?</p>
<p>[SCP-8027-B chortles loudly. The sound of him clapping Whitwer on the shoulder.]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8027-B:</strong> Sure, but most folks just call me Lou.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Uh. Right.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Don't look so surprised! Surely you noticed the horns on the dancers.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Uh.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> They wouldn't be up there if they didn't want you to look. No need to be embarrassed about it.</p>
<p>[pause]</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> So…are you…really demons?</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> But of course!</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Um. Excuse me for a moment.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Don't forget your water!</p>
</div>
<p>SCP-8027-B also appears on stage periodically to introduce performers, interact with the crowd, and otherwise act as host to the perpetual concert.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>[Music is faintly audible. Whitwer whispers, and his voice echoes.]</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> What the <em>fuck</em>?!</p>
<p>[Whitwer sighs]</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> I guess I shouldn't be surprised. These guys are dead, of course there's demons running the joint. Angels sure wouldn't approve of this.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> I should probably get out of here. If these guys are demons, then-</p>
<p>[The music stops. Whitwer stops talking. Lou speaks from the stage, his voice muffled and distant.]</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Now, let's welcome to the stage…Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper!</p>
<p>[Muffled, distant cheering.]</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> What?!</p>
<p>[Music resumes, Holly's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fQrvvlZ6YI">Not Fade Away</a>".]</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Okay, fine. I'll record my bootlegs, and <em>then</em> I'll go.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Personnel are advised to avoid Lou entirely or, if such proves impossible, keep all interactions brief but polite. Hostility, rudeness, and persistence are typically responded to by polite evasiveness or, failing that, SCP-8027-C.</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p>[Whitwer takes a deep breath. Quietly, he talks to himself.]</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> I'm a journalist, dammit. Getting straight answers is my job. I've talked to politicians, surely I can talk to Satan.</p>
<p>[Another deep breath.]</p>
<p>[Rustling of clothes as Whitwer moves through the crowd. A foamy hiss as someone pours a drink.]</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> You look like a man with questions.</p>
<p>[pause]</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Oh, come now, don't look so afraid. <em>I'm</em> not the one who smites people.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Then what <em>do</em> you do?</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> What do you think? I want to know which strain of slander I'm debunking.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Well, you're clearly not torturing sinners in Hell, but I always knew that.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> You're better learned than most, then.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Dad's a preacher.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> The preacher's son! Lovely. So you know me through the Good Book, then, don't you? None of Dante's nonsense, or God forbid, Milton.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Not much of a poetry guy.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Ah, but you do love music. Rock and roll, I would assume.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Well, yeah. Anybody with taste does.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> You flatter me! I've always thought it was my best work.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> What is?</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Rock and roll, of course! Or, rather, the blues from which it sprung.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> You're telling me you invented the blues?</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Heavens, no. But I like to think that my little bargain with Mr. Johnson was a big part of its success, and the success of all that came after. It's certainly what made this club possible.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> So the legend about the crossroads, that's true?</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Most legends are.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Is that how you got the ghost band up there? Buying their souls?</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> No, only Mr. Johnson made that mistake. But still, rock and roll has always been the devil's music. Those who belong to it belong to me as well.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> W-what do you mean?</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Oh, relax. You haven't sold your soul for rock 'n' roll, even metaphorically. It takes a great deal more…investment to wind up on that stage. Not to mention talent.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> What are you trying to say?</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> I'm saying, Mr. Whitwer, that the most sinful thing you've ever done in the name of rock 'n' roll is smuggle some Kiss records past your parents. I respect the defiant spirit, of course, but a little teenage rebellion hardly seems damnation-worthy.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Well, what <em>is</em> damnation-worthy, then?</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> My Father is the one in charge of that. And <em>your</em> father should have told you already, if he was any good at preaching.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Don't avoid the question.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Apologies, Mr. Whitwer, but I'm a busy angel. I have no time to waste by telling people things they already know.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Hey, don't…</p>
<p>[When Lou next speaks, it is over the microphone from the stage.]</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> And let us now welcome to the stage, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones!</p>
<p>[The crowd cheers.]</p>
<p>[The band begins to play a rendition of "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM5CuW6Wd7o">Sympathy for the Devil</a>".]</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Subtle.</p>
</div>
<p><strong>Addendum 3:</strong> Staff</p>
<p>The kitchen staff, servers, dancers, stagehands, housekeepers, and other club employees are all Tartarean entities. They appear mostly human, save for their small horns and sometimes unusual coloration. These beings are collectively designated SCP-8027-D.</p>
<p>Venue security is provided by SCP-8027-C, Tartarean entities with the outward appearance of middle-aged male motorcyclists. Each instance wears a denim or leather vest displaying membership in a "Transmaniacon Motorcycle Club" and sunglasses. Instances are superhumanly strong, seemingly indestructible, and armed with magically-enhanced improvised weaponry. Though harmless if unprovoked, they respond with force and finality to disruptive behaviors. Troublemakers are typically beaten to death and thrown in the club's "drunk tank," a storage room adjoining the lobby, until they resurrect. The ninth time that a patron incurs such a punishment, their corpse will instead be thrown out the revolving door and back into baseline reality, where it will remain dead.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 4:</strong> Patrons</p>
<p>SCP-8027 is patronized by approximately 500 living humans. Though people do enter and leave occasionally, the majority of patrons have resided in the club for one or more decades, enjoying its free amenities and the typical benefits of a Valhalla-class afterlife. Residents may stay in the hotel rooms on SCP-8027's eight upper floors. These rooms, like all of SCP-8027's comforts, are free. Keys can be obtained from a desk in the lobby, which is always manned by SCP-8027-B.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> It's hard to sleep here. All the rooms have these huge glass doors and balconies overlooking the main room, so all the music and lights still get in. I guess most people just drink until they pass out when they want to get some rest. One of the many drawbacks of staying sober. Maybe I should leave, get a normal hotel in Clarksdale. But I haven't actually made any money since I got here, so I don't know how I'd pay for it.</p>
<p>Well, I could go for a walk at least. Get some sun for the first time in…</p>
<p>…fuck, how long have I been here?</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Addendum 5:</strong> Discovery</p>
<p>On June 13th, 2009, MTF Eta-11 (“Savage Beasts”) raided the abandoned home of a deceased collector of anomalous music. Amongst his possessions, they discovered a vinyl carrying case containing 50 cassette tapes. 49 of these tapes contained bootleg live recordings of SCP-8027-A's performances. The 50th was the audio diary of one Michael Whitwer, which revealed SCP-8027's existence and means of access.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>[Whitwer sounds tired and hoarse.]</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Well, I found it. The catch. If I leave, I can't come back. The ritual only works once for each person, apparently. Maybe Lou was lying, but I asked around the bar and it doesn't seem like anybody else who's in here has ever left since they first arrived. I guess there are worse places to live. Some of these guys would probably be dead by now if they hadn't stuck around, as old as they are. And as drugged-out as they are, of course.</p>
<p>Maybe I don't need those last two recordings. Never listened to Nirvana much anyway. Johnson, though…there are only 59 recordings of his music. The king of the Delta blues, the original rockstar, the guitarist that most influenced every other damn blues-rock guitarist ever, reduced to just 59 tracks recorded at some improvised studio on shitty 1930s vinyl. It's not even the money, with him. If I get some more recordings of Robert Johnson, that'd be <em>history</em>. That'd be…</p>
<p>That'd be legendary.</p>
<p>[Whitwer groans]</p>
<p>Once a year, that's what I've heard. August 16th, the day he died. Not sure how far away that is, but I came in here in July, and I feel like it's got to have been at least a week by now. I wish I'd worn a watch that showed the date.</p>
<p>Just a few more weeks. Then I'm out of here, and I'll be staying someplace that isn't loud and doesn't smell like beer and pot and sweat and sex. Hell, I'll sell these damn tapes and buy me a mansion in Beverly Hills. Just a few more weeks.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Whitwer was the son of a United Methodist pastor and a high school teacher. He was, by all accounts, a high-achieving and well-behaved student both at his local high school and at the University of North Carolina.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Lost track of how many times I've been propositioned. Mostly by women, but also a couple of guys. I might've considered if any of them looked sober, but I think I might be the only person in this joint who's not drunk or high. Turning them down was the right thing to do, or at least the cowardly one.</p>
<p>And that, my friends, is why I'm lying here alone while the room directly above me is having what sounds like a whole damn orgy. There were naked people running down the hall until the staff made them stop.</p>
<p>How did I become the only loser in this place who's not having fun?</p>
<p>[frustrated sigh]</p>
<p>I guess there's always been some irony there. Some tension. I love this rock music, always have. But I don't <em>live</em> like it, do I? All these songs about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, and all I've got is a failed career in the last one.</p>
<p>[exhausted groan]</p>
<p>Is it <em>wrong</em> to just like the music without living the life? Am I some kind of hypocrite?!</p>
<p>[Rustling. When Whitwer speaks, his voice is muffled by a pillow.]</p>
<p>'course I am. I'm wearing a cross in a place like this.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>However, shortly after entering graduate school at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Whitwer dropped out and moved to Los Angeles, where he had secured a job as a music journalist and hoped to become a professional musician. His parents strongly opposed this decision, and he continually refused their offers of assistance and insistent invitations to return home.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> You know, I'm luckier than a lot of preacher's kids. Kids in general, really. My folks were livid when I dropped out, of course, but even after all the yelling and crying, they never did cut me off or disown me or anything. Never even called me a disgrace, though I could see that Mom, at least, was thinking it.</p>
<p>The night before I left, Dad called me. He warned me for the thousandth time that life would be hard in California, that it would be very different from the way I'd grown up, and I told him that was why I wanted to do it. He said that I was being stupid - and I absolutely was - but that I had that right, and that I'd still be his son no matter how many mistakes I made. He promised me that when things went wrong - <em>when</em>, not <em>if</em> - he and Mom would still have my back, that I would always be welcome at home, and that they'd try to help me however else they could.</p>
<p>And you know what I did? I hung up on him. Because all I could see in that declaration of fatherly love was one more attempt to control me.</p>
<p>I wonder if he still preaches about the Prodigal Son.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Whitwer lived in California for almost two years. According to his three roommates, Whitwer was dedicated to his job and even more so to his fledgling music career, preferring to practice guitar in his spare time instead of accompanying them to bars, clubs, or parties. Despite this, Whitwer's attempts to break into the music scene were ultimately unsuccessful, and his meager income was unable to keep pace with the cost of living.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>[Whitwer is breathing heavily. His voice trembles.]</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Fuck. Fuck.</p>
<p>I…I think I - no, I <em>know</em> - I watched a man die yesterday. Shot enough heroin to kill an elephant, right there at the bar. A couple of Hell's Angels picked up the foaming corpse and dragged it to the drunk tank while some janitors cleaned up the mess. And the worst thing was, nobody else seemed to think this was weird.</p>
<p>I was losing my shit of course, wondering why nobody was trying to do CPR or even freaking out the way I was, but Lou grabbed my arm to stop me before I could help the guy. I almost tried to slug him - since he was the one who brought that guy the heroin in the first place, after all - but he was still super calm, just asked for a chance to explain. And explain he did.</p>
<p>[heavy, shuddering sigh]</p>
<p>Apparently, this place really is like Valhalla. Once every day - well, every 27 hours - anybody who died in here, and is still in here, gets resurrected like it never happened, all at once. I told him he was full of shit and pulled away. Almost left right then, but in the time it took me to go back upstairs and get my tapes and find my way back down to the lobby - this place is really big, bigger than it looks - I guess we hit the 27-hour mark, and I saw that same dead guy stumbling out of the drunk tank, laughing and brushing the puke off his shirt.</p>
<p>I went up and talked to him. Had to make sure this wasn't a trick or something. I asked him if he was okay. Said "yeah, just died for a second". And then he laughed! He fucking laughed! About being dead!</p>
<p>[long pause]</p>
<p>I don't remember what I asked him after that. But I remember what his answer was.</p>
<p>[long pause]</p>
<p>He told me he's gonna do it again today. Said it was the greatest high of his life.</p>
<p>[long pause]</p>
<p>[quietly] I gotta get out of here.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>On July 25th, 1994, Whitwer moved out of his apartment. He told his roommates that he was returning to North Carolina but planned to stop at various musical landmarks along the way, including Graceland and the Crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi.</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> What's your deal, man?</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Whatever do you mean?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> You know what I mean. Why did you make this club, why do you lure people in here and never let them come back?</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> <em>Lure</em>? Do you think me a fisher of men?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Don't throw scripture at me, Satan.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Please, just Lou.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Whatever. You're a devil, maybe even <em>the</em> Devil, so I know you have to be up to something. Did I accidentally sell you my soul or something when I came in here? Was there fine print on this bottle of water? What's your game?</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Puzzling, isn't it?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Don't throw the Stones at me, either. Are you trying to take my soul or not?</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Good Heavens, no! I've never <em>taken</em> anything.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> I don't like the way you phrased that.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> What's not to like? The preeminence of human free will over the otherworldly wiles of Heaven and Hell?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> What's that supposed to mean?</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> My club is not a baited hook, or a honey trap, or whatever else you seem determined to conclude that it is. All I have I done is create a place where folks can be free. A place where all are welcome at the table, so long as they behave themselves. Just like Jesus, right?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Yeah, I don't think Jesus would be too happy with all this.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Why not? After all, it was His Father who created poppies and cannabis, who filled so many plants with sugars that ferment, who forged the laws of physics so a plucked string makes a sound, who tuned your tongues to the taste of fried flesh, and who made sex to feel so God-damn good. All I've done - and all humans have ever tried to do, really - is concentrate all those things in one place, in a way that allows them to be enjoyed without consequence.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> God created nightshade, too. Doesn't mean we're supposed to eat it.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Of course not! But then, what <em>does</em> it mean? Why did our omnibenevolent omni-creator plop your ancestors in a garden full of everything, over all of which they were masters, then tell them not to enjoy it all? Why did your God plant a tree your kind was never supposed to eat from right where you could get to it? And why on Earth did He let me trick you into doing it?</p>
<p>[Whitwer takes a deep breath.]</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Dad says that free will wouldn't really matter, that choices wouldn't really mean anything, if there wasn't the possibility of a bad outcome. If there's no way to screw up, there's no value to <em>not</em> screwing up.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> So, what you're saying is, goodness only counts if the alternative is eternal damnation?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Um.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> You know, I've met a lot of atheists, and quite a lot of them try to argue that goodness isn't really goodness if you only do it out of fear.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Wait, wait, hold on. That's not the only reason people do good things! You can want to be kind and helpful and loving without the fear of divine punishment!</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> All the atheists certainly thought so. And I'm inclined to agree; after all, if murderousness was y'all's natural state, you wouldn't have made it much past Cain. But murder ain't the only sin, is it? There's also theft, lying, adultery…</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> That's still covered by kindness. Everybody knows that stuff is wrong. Except, like, psychopaths. Every religion has rules against that stuff.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Well, mostly, yes. As before, I don't imagine that a civilization where theft isn't discouraged would stay civilized for long. That's why even secular societies have laws against it. But what are laws if not the threat of punishment? How can you be so sure that you don't just refrain from theft and murder because you don't want to go to jail?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> I just <em>am</em>! I don't walk down the street thinking "damn, I would totally murder that guy and take his stuff and fuck his wife if only I wouldn't go to jail and Hell for it". I don't <em>want</em> to murder people! And I don't think that most people do.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> How optimistic of you! And fine, I'll concede that point. It's perfectly possible and reasonable and good to not want to hurt each other. But what about sins against the self?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> What?</p>
<p>[Lou affects a mocking, high-pitched tone.]</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Defiling the temple that is your body with drugs, drunkenness, and whatever your preferred translation defines as "sexual immorality". You know, all of this.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Eh, that stuff can still hurt people indirectly. Drunk driving, STDs, you know.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Certainly, but Paul still told the Ephesians "be ye not drunk with wine," not "be ye not controlling a vehicle whilst drunk".</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> I mean, drugs and alcohol <em>are</em> bad for you. Hell, that's how most of your band ended up here in the first place.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> And sex?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> I mean…Freddie Mercury didn't get AIDS from nowhere.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Oh no, are you one of those fools who thinks it's my Father's punishment for gays and drug users?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> What?! No!</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Alright, alright! Just checking. You said your father was a preacher, so I figured-</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Not <em>that</em> kind of preacher.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Apologies.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Hmm.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> It <em>is</em> a sin, though, isn't it? Sex outside of marriage, no matter how ethical?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> I mean-</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> No, don't mean. <em>Say</em>. Do you believe that extramarital sex is inherently immoral, or not?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> …I don't <em>want</em> to.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> So you try to rationalize it as unethical instead?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Or a bad idea, at least. Like, I don't think all those really specific laws in the Old Testament mean it's literally <em>evil</em> to eat pork or whatever, it was just a bad idea cuz pigs have tapeworms and stuff.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> A scathing indictment of Judaism!</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> And screwing around is a bad idea because it can get you sick, or cause an unwanted pregnancy, or otherwise just make your life a whole lot more complicated than it should be!</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Not in here, it can't. No one can get truly hurt or sick in this rock 'n' roll purgatory, and you certainly can't have babies. That being so, what reason remains to abstain?</p>
<p>[Whitwer does not answer]</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> It seems to me, Mr. Whitwer, that you are too scared of being wrong to take a chance on being right.</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> Of course I am! The cost of being wrong is eternal damnation, or whatever else happens after I die!</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Pascal's Wager isn't much of a gamble.</p>
<p>[Whitwer does not answer.]</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> But it is an investment, isn't it? You and your father and my Father have spent so much time and effort telling you that this is wrong, that you aren't supposed to feel good or enjoy yourself, that all your instincts are wrong, that all your instincts are <em>me</em>, sitting on your shoulder and whispering little lies into your ear. And so despite all your wisdom, despite all your logic, despite all your faith in a loving God, despite all the generosity I've showed you, you are still sitting here with a white-knuckle grip on a bottle of water, certain that I'm going to trick you out of your soul, convinced that there has to be some kind of catch to what I'm offering you for free. But there isn't, Michael. I am being entirely honest with you, and as a consolation prize for your sheer stubbornness, I will make this question very simple.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Do you want to sip water?</p>
<p>[The sound of a fingernail tapping a glass bottle. Whitwer grunts in surprise.]</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> Or do you want to drink wine?</p>
<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> [quietly] Come on, man. You're the Devil. If you're telling me to do it, it's gotta be wrong.</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> The only thing I'm telling you to do is <em>think</em>. For once in your life, make a decision that wasn't outsourced to someone else. You can get up from this bar and walk out of my club like you were never even here, and I won't lift a finger to stop you. But if you do that, I want you to do it because you <em>wanted</em> to, not because your mother, or your father, or your God said so. Because all the reasons they gave, all the reasons you've made up for yourself, don't exist here. And if you leave here, if you abandon the closest thing to Heaven you're ever likely to see, it will haunt you for the rest of your miserable finite life. Every concert you attend, every time you bask in the fading glory of your aging idols on their interminable farewell tours, you will only be reminded of my band's eternal prime. Every woman who rejects you will only remind you of the dozens, no, <em>hundreds</em> of men, women, and more you could've had in here. Every single monotonous moment that you spend bending and scraping to unworthy overlords, wasting your life away for a pittance just to have food in your belly and a roof over your head, you will remember what you had here, for free. And every wound you suffer, every illness you contract, every ache and pain that will weigh down your aging body until the moment it finally surrenders your spirit to my Father's judgement, will be a constant reminder of what you gave up, all because a distant, invisible God told you that you shouldn't want it. And if, even after you turned all this down and walked away, He decides that you have still fallen short in the end, the things I could have given you will be the last regretful thoughts you have before the fires consume you. If you really think you can live with that, and <em>die</em>, with that, then by all means, go home. I will be immensely proud! That kind of willpower deserves respect. But I have only met one man who was that far above it all, and he was crucified for it.</p>
<p>[Whitwer says nothing. Lou leans closer and whispers.]</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> You are safe here, Michael. Safe from consequences. Safe from anyone who will ever again tell you what to do. Safe from the limitations of your fragile mortal coil. Safe from the hands of an angry God.</p>
<p>[Lou leans away. He speaks loudly.]</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> And, leave us not forget, surrounded by the best damned music ever made!</p>
<p>[The crowd cheers loudly.]</p>
<p><strong>Lou:</strong> For God's sake, live a little.</p>
<p>[Slowly, the crowd quiets down.]</p>
<p>[Robert Johnson begins to play "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9CDKtc1Cno&pp=ygUWbWUgYW5kIHRoZSBkZXZpbCBibHVlcw%3D%3D">Me and the Devil Blues</a>".]</p>
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<p><strong>Whitwer:</strong> <em>Patrons slump stuporous against the bar, surrounded by drained drinks and empty syringes. In the shadowy booths across the room, couples and groups writhe roughly against each other or slink upstairs to the endless rings of hotel rooms. Acid-soaked hippies rub shoulders with coked-up metalheads and drunken greasers while grungy teens melt into opiate shadows, awaiting an idol that never comes. Silent, smiling devils bear platters of extravagant food, from freshly-buttered lobster to exquisitely sauced barbecue. Hell's Angels guard the gates, bike chains burning with the same hellfire that hides behind their shades. Above it all, black-horned go-go dancers strut in glass cages, the shifting web of spotlights setting their scarlet skin ablaze. And weaving through the roar of the crowd, above the peals of laughter and the cries of pleasure, is the ever-present music. Morrison struts the stage in his lizard leathers, and ecstatic groupies from every era clutch at his bare feet. Hendrix does impossible things with his upside-down guitar, playing the squealing feedback from his infernal amps like an instrument all its own. And Bonzo pounds the drums like a blacksmith hammering steel, beating a bass that could shatter the Earth and crashing symbols that could crack the heavens. The music smashes through the ears and right into the soul. Your heart pounds in time with the drums that rattle it, and your blood runs hot like the sparks of hellfire that fly from Jimi's fingers. It tells you to dance, to fight, to love, to <strong>live</strong> for as long as the music's loud.</em></p>
<p><em>Here, you can burn forever. Here, you will never fade.</em></p>
<p><em>Here, you are free.</em></p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. aging suspended; pathogenic transmission impossible; illnesses suppressed; reproduction impossible; resurrective immortality</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. measurements inconsistent</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Unlike the other instances, Morrison is not translucent and does not register as deceased to EVE scans.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. such as Sid Vicious, who refused to perform and attempted to attack SCP-8027-B</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. Nikki Sixx, who died of a heroin overdose in 1987 and, allegedly, performed "Shout at the Devil" before he was resuscitated</div>
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<p><strong>SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES:</strong> All known SCP-8028-1 instances are to be monitored by Foundation personnel, with a Joint-Research Task Force assigned to discovering any additional possible waygates around the world in forested and reclaimed regions. <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Newly discovered SCP-8028-1 instances are to be rendered nonfunctional by Foundation personnel.</span> <strong>10/11/28 - SEE ETTRA ADDENDUM 8028.1</strong> SCP-8028 has been reclassified to Archon.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Archon class represents an anomaly which has become integral to consensus reality and may have adverse effects if put into complete containment.</span></p>
<p>All SCP-8028-2 instances attempting to enter baseline reality are to be met with <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">lethal force</span> direct negotiations or brute force redirection via Protocol Sondheim. Lethal force is only required if the SCP-8028-2 instances manage ingress into baseline reality more than 0.5km from the activated SCP-8028-1 waygate.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Note that attempts to neutralize SCP-8028-2 instances have ended with mixed results; while some have proven vulnerable to attack and prevented from entering baseline reality, others have proven immune to conventional abatement techniques.</span> In the event of a resistant SCP-8028-2 attempting egress from SCP-8028, use of Protocol Sondheim will be authorized by Overwatch Command. See Supplement 8028.1 below for further direction.</p>
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<p><strong>DESCRIPTION:</strong> SCP-8028 is an extradimentional space of uncertain size and province, containing a forest biome of indeterminate age.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">While most trees present within the confines of SCP-8028 have proven too large to remove (via SCP-8028-1) for complete dendrochronological analysis, smaller samples from snags (stumps of standing dead trees) have indicated lifespans of well over 25,000 years.</span> Although the area superficially resembles a segment of Eurasian Primeval Forest, closer examination of component plants includes not only the characteristic <em>Fagus sylvatica</em> (European Beech), <em>Quercus robur</em> (English Oak), and <em>Carpinus betulus</em> (European Hornbeam) species but additional dozens of species not native to any known old growth timber regions.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Species identified by Foundation arborists have thus far included dozens of tree species not typically native to Eurasia (examples include <em>Populus deltoides</em> (Eastern Cottonwood), <em>Pseudotsuga Menziesii Var. Menziesii</em> (Douglas Fir), and <em>Quercus Rubra</em> (Eastern Red Oak)), extinct species (ex. <em>Araucaria mirabilis</em>, <em>Sigillaria densifolia</em>, and <em>Araucarioxylon arizonicum</em>)), and several completely unidentifiable species. Arboreal and botanical research is ongoing.</span> Weather patterns most closely resemble that of a temperate rainforest with average temperatures around 12°C and precipitation rates of roughly 150cm/year.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">It should be noted that SCP-8028 also follows a 24-hour daylight cycle that matches that of the Bulgarian Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests, however the nature of this connection has not been identified.</span></p>
<p>Entry into SCP-8028 can only be attained by the activation of specific waygates within consensus reality, termed SCP-8028-1. These waygates typically take the form of abandoned or decaying artificial architecture, particularly in areas of previous human habitation that have been reclaimed by natural vegetation. Note that the architecture is typically transitional (i.e. a bridge, a doorway, or a stairwell) and covered in a significant amount of native flora. Any subject approaching SCP-8028-1 who fulfills at least two of the following criteria will activate the waygate, allowing entrance into SCP-8028:<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Foundation researchers believe this current list to be incomplete. Research is ongoing.</span></p>
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<li>Orphaned through the death of both parents before the age of 10.</li>
<li>Responsible for the death of at least one family member.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Death during childbirth, accidental death, and intentional acts of violence have all found to be successful in activating SCP-8028-1.</span></li>
<li>Only child to a widowed parent who then married a partner with at least two other children.</li>
<li>One of seven children to the same parents.</li>
<li>Born at exactly 12:00:00 a.m.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Local to the timezone of birth location. At this time, this condition appears to only affect subjects who are made aware of this fact, typically from health records or parental stories. It is unknown how this condition applies to exact polar (northern/southern) or extraterrestrial births at this time.</span></li>
<li>Allergic to the fruit of <em>Malus domestica</em><span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Domesticated apple.</span> trees.</li>
<li>Clinically diagnosed narcolepsy.</li>
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<p>After a subject meeting the criteria approaches the structure, SCP-8028-1 will enter its activated phase for sixty seconds, allowing passage for up to seven individuals (including the original subject capable of waygate activation). After ingress, the SCP-8028-1 instance will return to an inert state and will be unable to be activated again for one hour. See Supplemental Document 8028.1 for list of consistent traits used for identifying emergent SCP-8028-1 instances.</p>
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<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> First incursion into SCP-8028 by MTF Gamma-8 ("Distressing Damsels"), specialized in anomalous forests, particularly <tt><span style="color: #339933">wooded spaces beyond time and place</span></tt>. At this time, the Foundation had not yet ruled out an interaction with <tt><span style="color: #339933">those who are not named</span></tt> and initial contact was dictated by <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/taboo">4000-Eshu Standard Exploration Protocol</a>.</p>
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<li>Agent Maddy Page, call sign Alfa.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Captain, former member of MTF Phi-2 (“Clever Girls”).</span></li>
<li>Agent Marci Nelson, call sign Tango.</li>
<li>Agent Vele Murdock, call sign Victor.</li>
<li>Agent Matthew Scully, call sign Romeo.</li>
<li>Agent Rebel Diaz, call sign Echo.</li>
<li>Agent Frankie Santiago, call sign Sierra.</li>
<li>Agent Molly Hitchcock, call sign Oscar.</li>
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<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> All right, insertion in sixty seconds, Gamma-8 count off, final time.</p>
<p><em>All members of Gamma-8 acknowledge, counting off with their call sign.</em></p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> Remember, we're under Eshu Protocol until determined by Command. Take no risks, not even callsigns after the call.</p>
<p><strong>OSCAR:</strong> Don't have to tell me twice. I'm not about to turn into a tree if I can help it.</p>
<p><strong>TANGO:</strong> So if you want to get any digs in on Romeo, now's the time, folks.</p>
<p><strong>ROMEO:</strong> Yeah, yeah. You guys don't flip Victor any shit for being on 'Damsels' while not technically qualifying.</p>
<p><strong>OSCAR:</strong> Well yeah, it doesn't bug them like it bugs you.</p>
<p><em>The group laughs, while <strong>VICTOR</strong> flexes one of their biceps theatrically.</em></p>
<p><strong>VICTOR:</strong> Best guns on the Damsels, and Romeo knows it.</p>
<p><strong>SIERRA:</strong> So uh — boss? Welcome aboard and everything, but seems like a hell of a change from paleontology skips. Unless there's a Devonian era forest that you probably shouldn't bring up in conversation that I don't know about.</p>
<p><em><strong>ALFA</strong> laughs softly, checking the sights on her rifle.</em></p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> Admit it, you just wanted to show off you remembered when forests started to crop up in the fossil record. Anyway, final call on 4000-Eshu, folks. Line up!</p>
<p><strong>SIERRA:</strong> Don't think I missed that non-answer!</p>
<p><em><strong>ALFA</strong> approaches SCP-8028-1, a stand-alone stairwell inside the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, United States. The expected greenish portal appears showing a successful waygate activation.</em></p>
<p><strong>ROMEO:</strong> (<em>under his breath</em>) Wonder which two on the list she hit.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">[REDACTED].</span></p>
<p><strong>ECHO:</strong> Can it. Not the time, you know better.</p>
<p><em>Gamma-8 successfully enters SCP-8028 with all seven members, entering during a daylight cycle near a small creek bed. Roughly 150m away from the team, a small traditional thatch cottage is visible sitting against a particularly dense copse of trees.</em></p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> Ingress complete, Command.</p>
<p><strong>COMMAND:</strong> <em>Copy, Gamma-8. Proceed as planned. We'll analyze your readings for nomenclative dangers.</em></p>
<p><em>The team proceeds on <strong>ALFA's</strong> signal, moving silently through the wooded area away from the cottage, which now has visible smoke coming from the small chimney and lights coming from inside the windows. <strong>ROMEO</strong> begins to path closer to the river, apart from the rest of Gamma-8.</em></p>
<p><strong>ROMEO:</strong> … what is that delicious <em>smell</em>?</p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> <em>In compliance with 4000-Eshu, attempts to use non-verbal Foundation spec-ops communication, followed by tactile correction.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>ROMEO</strong> continues towards the cottage, ignoring <strong>ALFA's</strong> attempts to redirect. <strong>ROMEO</strong> then wades into the river without saying a word as an elderly woman in traditional Eastern European dress<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">A brightly dyed poneva skirt under a simple white tunic with a dark red babushka scarf over her hair.</span> steps from the door of the cottage, waving to the pair.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8028-2α:</strong> Ah, come in, come in, dearies! The hour is late, and you must be starving! Come, let me see to your health, all of you!</p>
<p><em>At this juncture, all members of Gamma-8 begin to move towards the cabin, although all exhibit facial distress from apparent compulsion to do so, with the exception of <strong>ROMEO</strong>.</em></p>
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<p>Residing within SCP-8028 are no less than 250 identifiable iterations of fictional or legendary characters from world folklore, classified SCP-8028-2.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Each individual instance is given a further designation via Attic nomenclature.</span> Although no direct connection to <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3576" target="_blank">SCP-3576</a> or similar anomalous phenomenon beyond thematic has been proven at this time, it should be noted that SCP-8028-2 instances are often both hostile and lethal, and must be approached with extreme caution.</p>
<p>At least seven times during a lunar cycle, as many as three instances of SCP-8028-1 will spontaneously activate and expel SCP-8028-2 instances for a full minute before deactivation. To date, there has been no consistent correlation between instance types and their motives upon entering baseline reality.</p>
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<td>Elderly woman with features consistent with traditional depictions of 'Baba Yaga' of Slavic myth, complete with motile hut and predilection for cannibalism.</td>
<td>Although similar in appearance, instance did not exhibit abilities akin to <a href="http://www.scp-wiki.com/scp-352">SCP-352</a> and connection appears to be thematic only. Indestructible by all existing Foundation technology.</td>
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<td>Young boy of southern African heritage, with localized vitiligo clusters visible on his chest, surrounded by several dozen abnormally large <em>Otomys irroratus</em><span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Southern African vlei rat.</span> that follow his command.</td>
<td>Non-hostile unless attacked, during which entity will command the rats to swarm, covering his escape. Will approach any subject with Sub-Saharan ancestry to ask in Bantu if they have seen his family and to let them know he's safe.</td>
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<td>Woman of Chinese ethnicity, wearing a white Di Yi (翟衣)<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Traditional Zhou Dynasty dress worn by the Empress, symbolizing great formality of occasion. Foundation historians note that the garment's adornments additionally signal that the wearer is the primary wife of the Emperor.</span> usually seen singing by a small pond or river during the night cycle of SCP-8028.</td>
<td>Non-hostile and will speak politely in Archaic Chinese to personnel, although will answer no direct questions about themselves. Entity emits a constant luminosity of 0.05–0.1 lux.</td>
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<td>[DATA EXPUNGED TO LIMIT INFOHAZARD INFLUENCE]<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon"><a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4352">Input Security Credentials?</a></span></td>
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<td>A abnormally large <em>Cervus hanglu hanglu</em><span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Kashmir stag/hind or hangul, a native species of deer to the Indian subcontinent.</span> exhibiting total leucism.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Lack of pigmentation in animals.</span></td>
<td>Entity has on several occasions attacked exploration team members of South Asian ethnic heritage with extreme violence using its hooves and psionic abilities. Survivors have noted its psychic demand for the location of the 'Son of Seven Mothers.'</td>
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<td>Large <em>Canis latrans</em><span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">North American coyote.</span> with noted anthropomorphic mannerisms, particularly bipedalism as well as human level cognition and vocalization, with otherwise typical canine traits.</td>
<td>Although not noted to be hostile, information provided by this entity cannot be directly trusted until confirmed in another manner. Claims its name is Áłtsé hashké and will not answer to other titles. Often found singing to themselves in an archaic <em>Na-Dené</em> dialect in the manner of a country-western singer of the 1960s.</td>
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<td>Extremely large (estimated height approx. 1150m) white <em>Draco volans</em>.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Common flying dragon.</span></td>
<td>Superficially similar in appearance to <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3844">SCP-3844</a>, but significantly larger. Known to be hostile, easily provoked, and highly dangerous, exploration teams are advised to immediately withdraw from line of sight and retreat to SCP-8028-1 if Nu Delta is sighted.</td>
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<p><strong>TANGO:</strong> What the FUCK just happened??</p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> Can it and move!</p>
<p><strong>COMMAND (over comms):</strong> <em>Come in, Gamma-8, do you read?</em></p>
<p><em>Six members of Gamma-8 scramble over a large downed trunk after running back out of the cottage. No audio or visual recording of the twelve minutes the MTF spent within the house survives. The cottage is seen to stagger onto two large</em> Gallus g. domesticus<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Domesticated chicken.</span> <em>legs and amble deeper into the forest until out of view.</em></p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> We read you, Command. Romeo is down, repeat, Romeo is down.</p>
<p><strong>COMMAND:</strong> <em>… acknowledged. We've confirmed no nomenclative hazards are present, Alfa. You may proceed without 4000-Standard Exploration Protocol. Do you copy?</em></p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> Copy, Command. Do we know what we <em>are</em> dealing with, because we just watched Romeo get turned into a goddamned pie by a witch, so…</p>
<p><strong>COMMAND:</strong> <em>… what kind of pie?</em></p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> The fuck I know what kind of pie, but you've got to tell us what we're dealing with here if it <em>isn't</em> fae, Command.</p>
<p><strong>COMMAND:</strong> <em>Assume some kind of reality benders with likely thaumaturgy rituals backing it up. None of the noncumulative triggers we've seen previously or specific markers for Fae behavior, but it is likely you've got type greens at the least.</em> [ There is a pause. ] <em>Apologies, Gamma-8. Pie is just a new one.</em></p>
<p><strong>ECHO:</strong> Anything else? This is some Hansel and Gretel bullshit, and we're flying pretty goddamned blind here.</p>
<p><strong>COMMAND:</strong> Understood, Echo. Alfa, proceed as planned but move your extraction up, no extra time like originally planned. Do not lose of line of sight to SCP-8028-1.</p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> Copy, Command. Alfa out.</p>
<p><em>The remaining members of Gamma-8 assess themselves for injury while <strong>ALFA</strong> surveys ahead to the west of SCP-8028-1 with tactical binoculars.</em></p>
<p><strong>OSCAR:</strong> … I'm guessing we finally tracked down where <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/frollicles">352 escaped to.</a></p>
<p><strong>TANGO:</strong> No way. I worked at Nineteen for awhile, 352 wasn't nearly that much of a babushka.</p>
<p><strong>SIERRA:</strong> If it's not Fae related, then — what? Memetic compulsion, reality benders, thaumaturgy, oh my? Things seem mundane and normal but they're obviously not. I am almost <em>sure</em> I heard a giant's footsteps earlier. Or a dinosaur. Christ, I hope it wasn't a dinosaur.</p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> It wasn't. And dinosaurs aren't in fairy tales.</p>
<p><em><strong>SIERRA</strong> gets up to grab the scattered remains of the pack <strong>ROMEO</strong> had been carrying, muttering under her breath as she leaves.</em></p>
<p><strong>SIERRA:</strong> … well, maybe they are in <em>dinosaur</em> fairy tales …</p>
<p><strong>ECHO:</strong> So, what now? We just try to avoid anything that looks like it's trying to literally lure us into danger? We couldn't avoid shit that time, and besides. That's kind of the whole job description.</p>
<p><strong>SIERRA:</strong> No no, I mean — I think for whatever reason we were thinking more like Gretel, not Hansel. I don't know if Romeo was hungry or what, but he got targeted and the rest of us brought along for the ride. If we're going to be drawn to the danger, focus on how the heroes got out.</p>
<p><strong>OSCAR:</strong> So what, try to just act heroic?</p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> It's better than nothing. Look, if it's type greens, then we have <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/clef101">some training</a> to fall back on, same with memetics. Sure, it's not what we were expecting, but if we just —</p>
<p><em><strong>ALFA</strong> abruptly cuts herself off, putting up a hand to signal the need for silence, as loud voices are heard from behind a fern blind, indistinct at first before recognizable as song. Three SCP-8028-2 instances appear, each resembling archetypal knights-in-shining-armor<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">It should be noted that said armor was anachronistic for any known historical time period, and the tabards do not match any known historic heraldry conventions.</span>, singing loudly in ancient Breton. <strong>TANGO</strong> jumps to her feet suddenly.</em></p>
<p><strong>TANGO:</strong> Kan ha diskan!</p>
<p><em><strong>TANGO</strong> and <strong>OSCAR</strong> begin to sing along, although with looks of extreme distress on their faces.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Later translation show this to be a call and response sung by ancient Celtic warbands. Neither Tango nor Oscar were known to speak Breton before this event.</span> The SCP-8028-2 instances cheer, grabbing the two agents and begin a medieval circular dance with unified choreography by all members.</em></p>
<p><strong>ECHO:</strong> … okay. I've seen enough, let's go.</p>
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<p>6th Cent. BCE Phrygian depiction of SCP-8028-3.</p>
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<p>SCP-8028-3 designates an entity believed to reside with SCP-8028, although only indirectly observed once during initial exploration by Gamma-8. While identification attempts have thus far been inconclusive, further evidence gathered during multiple explorations as well as significant Akiva readings on exploration subjects' dosimeters suggests the strong possibility of a divine presence, most likely Cybele or Matar Kubileya, an Anatolian earth and mother goddess figure (c. 6th Century BCE) subsumed later into both the Greek and Roman pantheons.</p>
<p>Subjects who enter SCP-8028 universally report the experience of being watched at all times, even outside of encounters with SCP-8028-2 instances. Although those interviewed after expeditions acknowledged that it was the expected unsettling sense of being seen by the unseen, each has insisted that this presence that they were aware of was neither hostile nor harmful.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Descriptions include 'protective', 'caring', and 'maternal', although it should be noted that 'powerful', 'sacred', and 'omniscient' were equally used throughout these reports.</span><br/>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>EXPLORATION LOG 8028.1.2 (Cont.)</strong></p>
<p><em><strong>ALFA</strong>, <strong>SIERRA</strong>, <strong>ECHO</strong>, and <strong>VICTOR</strong> return to the inert SCP-8028-1 instance that provided ingress, panting heavily.</em></p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> I don't want to fucking hear it.</p>
<p><strong>SIERRA:</strong> I didn't say anything.</p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> You were thinking it.</p>
<p><strong>ECHO:</strong> Not to talk shit about the dead, but it's not surprising it picked off the slowest of us.</p>
<p><strong>VICTOR:</strong> They wouldn't have fallen behind that far if they weren't still singing and dancing with those knights. They only stopped to fight it, the whole group of them. Well, to try and fight it, anyway.</p>
<p><strong>SIERRA:</strong> Yeah, not surprising claymore swords aren't really effective against fucking <em>dinosaurs</em>.</p>
<p><strong>ECHO:</strong> What the hell was it wearing on its head?</p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> A red cloak. And just — don't say it. We're extracting in five minutes, soon as I can light this thing up, so stay alert.</p>
<p><em><strong>SIERRA</strong> pointedly turns her back to <strong>ALFA</strong> who has taken a seat on a dead log.</em></p>
<p><strong>SIERRA:</strong> Little Red Riding T. Rex.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Agent Page clarified later that the SCP-8028-2 instance was more likely a <em>Daspletosaurus horneri</em>, a smaller Tyrannosaur species often confused for <em>T. rex</em>.</span></p>
<p><strong>VICTOR:</strong> … wait, chief. Look at this, look around. It wasn't like this before, was it?</p>
<p><em><strong>ALFA</strong> raises her head, looking at what <strong>VICTOR</strong> is indicating. The clearing around the SCP-8028-1 instance has become significantly more overgrown by native flora, with several large, weathered carvings now appearing amidst the detritus of the forest floor.</em></p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> … no, no it was not. Everyone get clear views of these things, Command is going to want whatever we can get them to try and explain this place. Anyone see any inscriptions, any names?</p>
<p><em><strong>SIERRA</strong> kneels in front of the largest of the statues, head tilted.</em></p>
<p><strong>SIERRA:</strong> This thing is ancient. I mean, older than ancient. Remember that Type Green we dealt with at Çatalhöyük<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Neolithic human settlement in Anatolia, inhabited between 7500 and 6400 BCE. Considered a proto-city of humanity.</span>. That's what this reminds me of — that statue we saw, just in the fresh dig site. Almost exactly.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Agent Santiago was referring to Incident ████ and later confirmed the artifact recovered at Çatalhöyük did closely match what she examined at this point during Exploration 8028.1.</span></p>
<p><strong>VICTOR:</strong> Well, this one is Greek. I remember just enough art history to recognize a <em>naiskos</em><span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Ancient Greek artistic motif mimicking a temple with a pediment over two columns with either a bust or a full figure carved beneath.</span> when I see it, although I can't tell you what the actual Greek itself says.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Inscription was mostly untranslatable due to artifact's apparent disrepair, but <em>Κυβέλη</em> could be made out, which is the Greek spelling for Cybele. Of note, the <em>naiskos</em> depicts the goddess figure sitting besides two lions, similar to the carving found at Çatalhöyük.</span></p>
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<p>4th Cent. BCE Greek depiction of SCP-8028-3 featuring a <em>naiskos</em> motif.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Note that Agent Murdock clarified while similar, the statue present in SCP-8028 was significantly more worn down than this example, with two sitting lions at each side of the figure rather than the one.</span></p>
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<p><strong>ECHO:</strong> I mean, I'm not a historian, but this one is clearly inscribed at the bottom in Latin. We're talking straight out of Rome.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Base of the statue was inscribed with the words <em>Magna Mater deorum Idaea</em>, translating to 'great Idaean mother of the gods'. This inscription matches those described by Titus Livius on the statue of Cybele which was brought to Rome in order to secure victory in the Second Punic War.</span></p>
<p><em>The group sits in silence for ten minutes, staring at the statues without saying a word before <strong>ALFA</strong> finally speaks up, getting to her feet while visibly struggling to do so.</em></p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> … the dinosaur didn't follow us.</p>
<p><em>A deep, feminine voice echoes in the grove, its source unseen but presumed to be SCP-8028-3. <strong>SIERRA</strong> and <strong>VICTOR</strong> are both now able to get to their feet, while <strong>ALFA</strong> helps <strong>ECHO</strong> to her feet.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8028-3:</strong> <span style="font-family: 'Calligraffitti'"><span style="font-size:135%;">You got here too early, you know. But I'm very proud, all the same.</span></span></p>
<p><strong>ALFA:</strong> … you're trying to help us, aren't you?</p>
<p><em>The inert SCP-8028-1 waygate activates with a deep golden glow instead of the expected green.</em><span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">This effect has not been replicated during later expeditions to SCP-8028.</span></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8028-3:</strong> <span style="font-family: 'Calligraffitti'"><span style="font-size:135%;">You aren't ready yet. But you will be, one day.</span></span></p>
<p><em>All four remaining members of Gamma-8 reported that at that point they were pushed through the portal by an unknown force into baseline reality. All four agents reported no major injuries and were cleared for active duty after psychological examination. <strong>SIERRA</strong> requested reassignment for a year while the others returned to the field within two months. All four agents continue to report dreams set within the forest of SCP-8028, alternating between traumatic memories and peaceful afternoons spent sitting in the forest, described by all four as waiting for something, but with no anticipatory anxiety or desire to leave.</em><span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">To date, every subject who has entered SCP-8028 reports similar dream experiences regardless of the incidents of their exploration.</span></p>
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<h3 id="toc1"><span>SUPPLEMENTAL DOCUMENTATION 8028.3 - PROTOCOL SONDHEIM</span></h3>
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<p>In the event that a SCP-8028-2 instance cannot be returned to SCP-8028 (via persuasion or force) after breaching baseline reality and proves immune to conventional abatement methods, Foundation personnel must enact Protocol Sondheim immediately. Any MTF or RTF comprised of at least six active agents<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">For the purposes of SCP-8028, active agent is defined as human and living by normative standards. Reanimated, spectral, or deific agents will not correctly activate Protocol Sondheim.</span> approaching the breaching SCP-8028-2 will trigger an activation of a latent 'story mode' of that instance. At this point, the SCP-8028-2 will do anything to complete the assigned narrative they believe they are part of and will exit baseline reality upon doing so.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Although these narrative threads often resemble folk tales, the role that SCP-8028-2 inhabits may not match its original role within that story. For example, during a breach of SCP-8028-2γς, instance's narrative most closely resembled the musical version of Rapunzel (with SCP-8028-2γς in the titular role).</span></p>
<p>As the narratives directed by these SCP-8028-2 often include considerable violence, particularly in cases when the instance inhabits an antagonist role within the story, agents participating must do everything possible to minimize civilian involvement. To date, Protocol Sondheim has been utilized 16 times resulting in ██ casualties, ~70% civilian. The current failure rate for successful re-containment is zero.</p>
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<h1 id="toc2"><span><strong>ADDENDUM - ETTRA PRIORITY ALERT</strong></span></h1>
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<h2 id="toc3"><span>PRIORITY ALERT!</span></h2>
<h1 id="toc4"><span>EMERGENT THREAT TACTICAL RESPONSE AUTHORITY</span></h1>
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<p><span style="color: black">A global ßK-Class "Broken Masquerade" Veil Failure Scenario is presently in progress. Foundation personnel are currently to report all containment breaches, newly established containment protocols, or any other possible causes. For the duration of this crisis, any and all requests originating from ETTRA personnel are mandatory directives carrying the authority of Overwatch Command.</span></p>
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<p>After review, the Department of Analytics determined failures in upholding Veil Integrity began immediately following the first effort to minimize transit between baseline reality and SCP-8028. Incidents increased by degrees with each successful enactment of Protocol Sondheim, culminating with a major breach in information on 10 November.<span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">Three stories were published by the Associated Press website within ten minutes, each outlining specific anomalies discovered by either Foundation or Global Occult Coalition forces during the week of 3-10 November, 2028. Suppression efforts were successful and misinformation campaigns have resulted in restoration of full Veil Protocol integrity.</span></p>
<p>Containment efforts of SCP-8028 were immediately suspended and ETTRA created a multi-department task force of agents and researchers to examine containment protocols with existing research on the anomaly. The task force was comprised of Interim ETTRA Director Niel Uragan, Agent Maddy Page of MTF Gamma-8 ("Distressing Damsels"), Researcher Naomi Telmar, Ph.D of the Department of Mythology and Folkloristics, and Bryan Parkinson, Assistant Director of ETTRA. Reports and research from various exploration missions of SCP-8028 were also submitted from the Departments of Theology, Cryptozoology, and Pataphysics for review.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>11.11.28 - ETTRA TASK FORCE MEETING NOTES</strong></p>
<p><em>Earlier meeting notes have been truncated for brevity. <strong>PARKINSON</strong> is at the table reading through reports, <strong>PAGE</strong> is standing by the window, <strong>URAGAN</strong> pacing by the whiteboard at the front of the room. Discussion has been ongoing for several hours. <strong>TELMAR</strong> has stepped out for a moment to receive new information from the departments still collating research on Veil Integrity levels.</em></p>
<p><strong>PARKINSON:</strong> Clearly we got it wrong, but I still don't see any evidence pointing us in any other direction either. It's not like we can just let that place keep spewing out murder monsters unchecked. There has to be an angle we missed.</p>
<p><strong>PAGE:</strong> I stand by what I've said all along, from day one in that place. It's not fairy tales. I get that it's wearing a lot of the same stage dressing, but we've run into too many things that don't make sense even with that kind of context.</p>
<p><strong>PARKINSON:</strong> She's right, the original theory about this being an origin point for the different motifs and themes for folklore just isn't holding up. Antimemes and containment efforts failing around the world just doesn't fit with locking up a fairy tale spawn point, you know?</p>
<p><strong>URAGAN:</strong> Hundreds of deaths every few years will still ultimately end up being less costly than a full drop of the Veil. We don't need to have a concrete answer to what this place is doing before adapting the procedures to remove the risk of a full K-Class, so it's not reasonable to expect it.</p>
<p><em><strong>PAGE</strong> turns from the window and look squarely at <strong>URAGAN</strong>, obviously angry.</em></p>
<p><strong>PAGE:</strong> Oh, fucking spare me. Even if they're unavoidable, we can't just hand-wave these deaths as acceptable losses and pretend we're upholding anything moral here.</p>
<p><strong>PARKINSON:</strong> Page, we didn't invite you here to listen to your side on the normalcy debate.</p>
<p><strong>URAGAN:</strong> Accelerationism rarely works, Agent Page. In the end, the vulnerable just get hurt more quickly by the bullet already on its way.</p>
<p><strong>PAGE:</strong> Then why do we keep going out of our way to <em>reload the gun</em>, Director?</p>
<p><em><strong>TELMAR</strong> reenters the room, reading a document and interrupting the argument without realizing it.</em></p>
<p><strong>TELMAR:</strong> I — okay, hear me out, but I might have something.</p>
<p><strong>PARKINSON:</strong> By all means, Telmar. Give us something here.</p>
<p><em><strong>PARKINSON</strong> mutters beneath his breath, but is caught by the recording.</em></p>
<p><strong>PARKINSON:</strong> Because God knows this has been debated to death a million times already.</p>
<p><strong>TELMAR:</strong> … um. Sure. One thing that has been noted from all of the various expeditions is that while teams saw multiple entities from folklore and mythology, they didn't necessarily encounter the ones that one might expect. SCP-8028-2 can vary even from person to person, even during the expedition itself. Changes over time are things that we expect out of archetypes, sure, but Pataphysics isn't seeing any evidence of narrative shifts or anomalies. What's more, all of this started after we tried to limit transit into our reality, intentionally deactivating and monitoring SCP-8028-1 wherever we find them. We don't see any disruption, any narrative hazards while theoretically blocking up the source of more or less every story in the literary canon.</p>
<p><strong>PARKINSON:</strong> The point, Doctor?</p>
<p><em><strong>TELMAR</strong> stares down <strong>PARKINSON</strong> until he clears his throat.</em></p>
<p><strong>PARKINSON:</strong> Apologies, Dr. Telmar. How does this all fit together?</p>
<p><strong>TELMAR:</strong> The fairy tale entities aren't the point. We should have realized that when we sent in an agent with a background with dinosaurs and she found one, with a red riding hood on and everything. It's just set dressing, and it adapts to the people it is presented to. That's memetic, sure. But it's more individual than anything else we've seen pouring out of this thing on its own, and we haven't really considered why.</p>
<p><strong>PAGE:</strong> Most dash-two instances that breach just tend to be boiler plate fairy tale villains, yeah. Nothing that — tailored.</p>
<p><strong>PARKINSON:</strong> So the 8028-2 instances start out as just — what, basic story archetypes?</p>
<p><strong>TELMAR:</strong> Not entirely, because they're still coming out sort of specialized. We have the wild hunts, the divine twins, friendly and not-so-friendly animals, all the fairy tale motifs but out of context, mixed and remixed into incoherence. They're <em>not</em> creating stories, they're just creating horror. And in the case of that one dinosaur, we can see just how focused it <em>can</em> get, but if you look through the other expeditions you have similar variations, specific fears of the subjects being exploited, if with more subtlety.</p>
<p><strong>PAGE:</strong> Pages of logs, but nothing really like a template emerges. It's kind of just chaos.</p>
<p><strong>PARKINSON:</strong> So maybe the Jungian connection is out… unless it's not about the stories themselves, but their end result. The morality.</p>
<p><strong>URAGAN:</strong> Are you seriously suggesting…</p>
<p><strong>PARKINSON:</strong> It's not the primeval forest that stories come from. It's a source of the <em>concept</em> of the anomalous, of something being wrong and protecting against it. The forest in the stories always has represented that. Danger itself, the possibility of something unseen being very wrong. And by cutting it off from baseline —</p>
<p><strong>TELMAR:</strong> We almost broke the Veil by complete accident.</p>
<p><em><strong>PARKINSON</strong> sits back in his chair for a moment, staring at the ceiling. <strong>URAGAN</strong> stands, gathering his things from the table.</em></p>
<p><strong>URAGAN:</strong> Well then. That presents us with an incredible research opportunity and we should count ourselves fortunate this was not a hell of a lot worse. We will continue to monitor dash-ones where we find them and prevent civilian ingress, but for now it is ETTRA's decision that 8028 is to be reclassified to Archon and we no longer will interfere with the waygates directly.</p>
<p><strong>PAGE:</strong> So we're just going to let whatever stumbles out…</p>
<p><strong>URAGAN:</strong> Stumble out far enough so that whatever back and forth that needs to happen <em>happens</em>, Agent Page. Only then are you free to fire at will. But we cannot risk a K-class, particularly when we do not come <em>close</em> to understanding 8028 completely. Thank you all for your hard work, but this is ultimately out of your hands.</p>
<p><em><strong>URAGAN</strong> leaves the room without another word. <strong>PAGE</strong> and <strong>TELMAR</strong> stare at the closed door while <strong>PARKINSON</strong> finally stands.</em></p>
<p><strong>PARKINSON:</strong> You know — he's both right and wrong. It is his decision, for now. But it's not even close to out of your hands. Researcher Telmar, you are now officially Research Lead of SCP-8028, let me know your required staff. We'll get you some office space at Site-104, make it official. Agent Page, I'm assigning you and your team for the field work portion for the duration. If we're actually dealing with something that is producing the concept of fear of the unknown itself, this warrants a hell of a lot more understanding than just shrugging our shoulders. Congratulations, and get to work.</p>
<p><em><strong>PARKINSON</strong> leaves the room while the two remaining women sit silently for a moment.</em></p>
<p><strong>PAGE:</strong> … well. Kind of anticlimactic, actually.</p>
<p><strong>TELMAR:</strong> What do you mean?</p>
<p><strong>PAGE:</strong> I don't know. I'm used to us figuring it out, to holding the line, etc. You know, the shit from the recruitment pitch. This is so — incomplete.</p>
<p><strong>TELMAR:</strong> I can see that, yeah. But I guess we at least have the benefit of this not being a fairy tale.</p>
<p><strong>PAGE:</strong> Pfft, you kidding? A fairy godmother would be pretty helpful right about now.</p>
<p><strong>TELMAR:</strong> We both know the fae aren't <em>remotely</em> helpful. My point is just that we don't have to focus on sticking the landing on some kind of happily ever after either. A tidy ending, a moral message. We're not telling a story, we're not confined in narrative. Sure, there are going to be things in our way — but history doesn't really have an end, you know? We just keep going, then someone else behind us will do the same, hopefully better. <em>Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.</em><span class="fnnum">.</span><span class="fncon">'I will either find a way or I will make one', attributed to Hannibal by Titus Livius, <em>Ab Urbe Condita</em> (English: From the Founding of the City).</span> I don't know, I guess I just see it as kind of a blessing. We don't have to live happily ever after, because we're not done with the living part.</p>
<p><strong>PAGE:</strong> That's one way to look at it, I suppose. Kind of liberating, framed like that.</p>
<p><strong>TELMAR:</strong> Still. Finding the answers won't be easy or quick. Probably the work of a lifetime, when we look at it practically.</p>
<p><strong>PAGE:</strong> Yeah, probably. I guess this is the start of a beautiful friendship, Telmar.</p>
<p><strong>TELMAR:</strong> I agree, Page. … Although, <em>Casablanca</em> isn't really a fairy tale…</p>
<p><strong>PAGE:</strong> Oh come on, Naomi. Don't ruin it.</p>
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<p>As of 11/11/28, SCP-8028 has been reclassified to Archon class. Research and exploration missions into SCP-8028 as well as continued monitoring for emergent SCP-8028-1 instances worldwide will continue. Departments wishing to conduct studies or surveys should contact Lead Researcher Telmar at Site-104.</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8029 cannot be physically contained, necessitating the public to believe it is non-anomalous. Efforts are to be directed at relief and evacuation should SCP-8029's effects increase. Any member of the public claiming to have seen oddly low clouds or strange mist alongside odd runes or a "cat-boy" is to be amnesticized, and any evidence confiscated or destroyed.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8029 is a series of phenomena resembling earthquakes that began on 07/07/2038 which affected the Japanese island of Kyushu. It cannot be explained by tectonic plate activity or any other non-anomalous geological origin.</p>
<p>Several occult circles with unknown runes have been found at the aforementioned locations.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8029-1:</strong> The following event was captured shortly before the first earthquakes began in Kitakyushu on Kyushu's northernmost tip.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> 07/09/2038</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> The video comes from a convenience store. All witnesses were amnesticized and the record has been removed from the store's security.</p>
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<p>[Begin Video Log]</p>
<p><em><An unknown man with ears and a tail resembling a raccoon dog appears and looks around. He looks through the shelves before picking up a variety of candy bars. Three are shoved into his pocket before he approaches the counter and pays for the rest.></em></p>
<p><em><The man chooses a spot and kneels. Several moments pass before he produces something from his clothing and begins drawing on the ground.></em></p>
<p><em><The subject continues for five minutes, during which an unknown sound is heard, and a thick mist surrounds him.></em></p>
<p><em><An individual with multiple tattoos approaches the scene. They approach the subject on the ground. A short scuffle ensues, in which the tattoos begin to glow. A currently unknown form of thaumaturgy is seen attempting to force the mist back.></em></p>
<p><em><An earthquake begins. The tattooed man moves for cover. Three minutes later, the anomalous man emerges from the mist and leaves. The mist dissipates over the next hour. The unknown noise is heard.></em></p>
<p>[End Video Log]</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> The runes left at the scene were studied and do not appear in any currently known texts. It is believed they either predate written language or are newly created. The unknown anomalous figure has yet to be identified.</p>
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<p>An investigation identified the tattooed man as Rintaro Ryu, the current head of the Shishi Ryu clan. The Yakuza group possesses thaumaturgical abilities, but they do not produce events similar to SCP-8029.</p>
<p>While researching probable causes of SCP-8029, Head Researcher Reid discovered that the earthquakes caused by an SCP-8029 event do not extend beyond the confines of Kyushu. Furthermore, Assistant Researcher Hyuse was able to tentatively identify the unknown anomalous man as PoI 712-1.</p>
<p>As PoI 712-1 has been known to exert some measure of control over various anomalies related to the Japanese legends of yokai, often to the detriment of humanity, his capture is considered a high priority. MTF Shi-2 has been deployed to track the man and has been given command of five other MTF teams to aid in the search.</p>
<p>Twenty-seven events of magnitude 2.5 to 5.4 were recorded in the following three days. During that time, the following note arrived at Site-250. It was written in an ancient Japanese dialect and translated by Researcher Hyuse.</p>
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<p>Tell me, little researcher. Do you know why this is happening? Do you know why the ground shakes beneath your feet?</p>
<p>Do you even know what's lying below? Do you even care?</p>
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<p>Sincerely, A Friend</p>
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<p>The note is believed to have come from PoI 712-1. Investigation into its meaning and the method of delivery is underway. Additionally, two dozen extra security guards have been assigned to Site-250 until the manner of delivery is discovered.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8029-2:</strong> Following the first three events located along the north side of Kyushu, four SCP-8029 events occurred on the island of Himeshima, just off the northeastern edge. After the first three events, all structures on the island were rubble, injuring four hundred thirty civilians and killing twenty-four. Following this, the island's remaining inhabitants of around 2100 people were evacuated.</p>
<p>On 07/16/2038, following the last civilian evacuations, an SCP-8029 event of unprecedented magnitude occurred on Himishima.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> 07/16/2038</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> A Foundation drone surveying the area for any continuing SCP-8029 phenomenon recorded the following footage.</p>
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<p>[Begin Video Log]</p>
<p><em><Empty streets and piles of rubble pass below. The sky is clear, and the ocean is calm.></em></p>
<p><em><Splashes are heard. The drone turns to view the northern shore. The sand dips, and water pours into the open space. The beach rises, throwing water and sand tens of meters inland. The land slams down, causing waves. The process repeats multiple times until the waves are meters high.></em></p>
<p><em><The drone turns to view the rest of the island. It moves in the same pattern as it did on the shore. After a minute, the entire northern side of the island pulls up, curling strangely, and slams back down. When the splashed water settles, the island has vanished beneath the waves.></em></p>
<p>[End Video Log]</p>
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<p>Twenty minutes after this event, a tsunami hit several islands on its way to Yamaguchi Prefecture on the southern edge of mainland Japan. Twenty-three people died on Ozu Island and fifteen on Kurokami Island. After departing the islands, the tsunami crashed into the area centered on Nagata Beach Park and continued inland. Seven hundred people were injured, five went missing, and forty-six died. Despite costing hundreds of millions of yen in damages, the remainder of the tsunami did not leave Shūnan in Yamaguchi Prefecture.</p>
<p>Following these events, four smaller SCP-8029 events occurred in settlements lining the northeastern coast until they reached the city of Saiki.</p>
<p>07/22/2038, Onyujima Island, which was previously off the shore of Saiki on Kyushu's north-eastern edge, vanished beneath the sea, similarly to Himishima. While the event flooded the coastal areas surrounding Onyujima Island's previous location, the tsunami that followed did not cause serious damage as it encountered the mountains and hills of Ehime Prefecture on Shikoku, the smallest of Japan's four major islands and north-east of Kyushu.</p>
<p>SCP-8029 events continued down the eastern coast of Kyushu until they reached the island's southern tip. None of the events resulted in serious damage until an SCP-8029 event occurred near the Takenoura Post Office in Satakori.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> 07/31/2038</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> Multiple videos of the event were captured; however, most were corrupted, and several were lost completely. The useable footage has been compiled to make a coherent documentation of events. Visual static and distorted noise are present throughout the video.</p>
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<p><em><A woman stands in front of the ocean. Something appears on the horizon. After seventeen seconds, it's tall and wide enough to elicit alarm from the cameraman. The waterline pulls back noticeably.></em></p>
<p><em><From the northern side of the anomaly, a group of people stares at the growing wall curling into the air. The water rises with it before falling and rushing toward the shore. Multiple people scream. The camera is dropped. The video cuts out as a foot lands on the device.></em></p>
<p><em><Another view, this one from the southern part of the island. Waves crash over the land in the distance. The wall from before has risen high enough to block the sun. Water is rushing towards the camera as people rush past. Without warning, the wall crashes back into the sea, sending water high into the atmosphere. The last thing the camera sees is a tidal wave crashing into it.></em></p>
<p>[End Video Log]</p>
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<p>A tsunami later crashed into the southern half of the Japanese island of Shikoku, leveling any infrastructure and flooding the remainder of the island. Additionally, it covered Wakayama Prefecture and the south half of Nara and Mie Prefectures on mainland Japan. The damages to Kyushu include flooding three-quarters of the island and destruction of the eastern half. Estimates show three million dead, including forty-three Foundation personnel. The wave is currently heading deep into the North Pacific Ocean.</p>
<p>Emergency protocols have been enacted. Any remaining citizens are to be removed and transferred to northern Japan. Efforts will be made to cover up the event and contain the spread of information. The assistance of government agencies, friendly GoI, and volunteer groups will be enlisted to aid in the process.</p>
<p>Another note arrived at Site-250.</p>
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<p>Did you know, little researcher?</p>
<p>Yokai come in all sizes. Some are so large you can barely tell what they are; some are so tiny you'd never even think to look at them. Most of us are pretty average, though, so I can't blame you for not knowing what you're dealing with.</p>
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<p>The following excerpt was recovered during evacuations. It is believed to belong to PoI 712-1 due to the dialect used.</p>
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<p>Everywhere I look, I see those weakened and forgotten. They skitter about, fearful of the day. The humans, blasted things that they are, forced us from the limelight.</p>
<p>Just yesterday, I stumbled across a group of kappa.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-617164-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-617164-1')">1</a></sup> The youngest was already struggling. With the rise of humanity, they can't find enough food without risking themselves. I gave them what I could, and they told me of a group that was killed after being stumbled across. Another group had been captured and brought to one of the new Hunter bases.</p>
<p>I come across stories like this all the time. Surely, there must be something we can do. We used to be respected; some even worshipped. It will not be my fate to watch us supernaturals be slowly eradicated for being different.</p>
<p>Humanity has all but forgotten us. Would changing that help?</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8029-3:</strong> The following footage was captured from the bodycams of MTF Shi-2 operatives on 08/09/2038 during their efforts to assist in the evacuation of Kitakyushu on the northernmost point on the island.</p>
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<p><em><Anders and his team rush through the city. They pass several MTF groups and a multitude of other Foundation staff aiding in the evacuation.></em></p>
<p><em><Ahead is a large group of people; several have tattoos, and a few use thaumaturgy to protect the group as an earthquake strikes. A tall man with both arms covered in tattoos approaches as the earthquake ends. Several people rush around to check for injuries and help those in need.></em></p>
<p><strong>Ryu:</strong> Foundation?</p>
<p><strong>Anders:</strong> You Ryu?</p>
<p><strong>Ryu:</strong> Who else would I be? Now, are you here to help or not?</p>
<p><strong>Anders:</strong> You don't sound too happy that we're here.</p>
<p><strong>Ryu:</strong> You'll live. Are you going to help me save my city, or do I need to find some other incompetent fools to aid me?</p>
<p><strong>Anders:</strong> Fenris, take Tethras and two others. You'll be aiding the search and evac on the eastern side of the city.</p>
<p><strong>Fenris:</strong> Aye, sir. Merrill, Isabella. You're with me.</p>
<p><em><Ryu's phone rings. He answers it as the MTF separates. Ryu looks apprehensive.></em></p>
<p><strong>Anders:</strong> Something wrong?</p>
<p><strong>Ryu:</strong> He's… <em><Ryu turns to a pair of tattooed men.></em> You two! The yokai's back! Get him before he destroys what's left of my city!</p>
<p><em><The pair share a look before accepting the mission and rushing off.></em></p>
<p><strong>Anders:</strong> I'm sending a couple of my guys along. It can't hurt to have more manpower.</p>
<p><em><Ryu laughs bitterly. Anders calls for two of his men to track down the yokai.></em></p>
<p><strong>Ryu:</strong> Do what you want… You have no idea what I've done to try and stop these quakes. I've— <em><Another earthquake begins.></em> — attempted force and magic. I've tried to figure out what's causing them. Hell, I tried asking it nicely to stop. But none of it's worked. All it's gotten me is a half-destroyed city. This isn't something I can handle.</p>
<p><strong>Anders:</strong> Would you mind letting our guys look at what you've learned? We might be able to find something you've missed.</p>
<p><em><Ryu remains silent for three seconds. He appears to debate something.></em></p>
<p><strong>Ryu:</strong> That depends on what you want. I won't risk my boys any further.</p>
<p><strong>Anders:</strong> Understandable. Anything you know about the quakes or this yokai would be helpful. Our researchers are looking into it, but all they have are theories.</p>
<p><em><Ryu appears conflicted but nods after a few seconds.></em></p>
<p>[End Video Log]</p>
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<p><strong>Vael:</strong> You really think we'll find something out here, Di?</p>
<p><strong>Valen:</strong> Probably. You know how yokai are. They stick to themselves until they don't, then they make it everyone's problem. If this one's at that stage, we're going to see it.</p>
<p><em><The pair approaches the area as an earthquake begins. They stumble as they near the sea. Buildings crash down around them. Crashing waves are heard, although the ocean is still nearly a kilometer away. A voice can be heard, though it cannot be understood.></em></p>
<p><strong>Valen:</strong> Weird. Doesn't sound like modern Japanese. Sounds almost like… Isn't that the dialect Hyuse translates?</p>
<p><strong>Vael:</strong> Maybe? I'm not familiar with it, but it does sound rather archaic.</p>
<p><em><They get closer, catching sight of PoI 712-1. Mist surrounds him, though it is not dense enough to block the sight of him. Glimpses of something are seen beneath its feet. He stops his actions as the pair approach, smirking.></em></p>
<p><strong>PoI 712-1:</strong> I was wondering when you Hunters would catch up to me. I was starting to think you weren't coming. You really must work on your reaction time. As it is, you'll be useless in the days to come.</p>
<p><strong>Valen:</strong> You must be the Tanuki<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-617164-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-617164-2')">2</a></sup> causing these quakes.</p>
<p><em><PoI 712-1 is amused. He grins at Valen.></em></p>
<p><strong>PoI 712-1:</strong> Perhaps you're not as dull as I thought. It remains to be seen if the rest of you Hunters are any better. <em><PoI 712-1 stumbles, rubble crashing down less than a meter from it.></em> I really must be going. I'd hate to be crushed to death before finally seeing my plans come to fruition.</p>
<p><em><PoI 712-1 vanishes into the mist. Vael approaches the spot where it stood as the mist begins dissipating. Around them, the same symbols from other SCP-8029 instances are seen. The shaking intensifies, sending Vael to the ground. The video turns to black as rubble crashes around them. Vael cries out. The feed distorts and cuts out for three seconds before a view of Site-250's medical wing is presented. Vael can be heard groaning.></em></p>
<p>[End Video Log]</p>
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<p><strong>Note:</strong> The following footage was captured on a phone by someone on a passing passenger liner. The phone's owner, along with the rest of the ship, did not survive. The footage is distorted in places, and the sound is garbled beyond comprehension despite efforts to clean it up.</p>
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<p><em><The video pans from the sea to Kyushu Island. It begins to move off before jerking back. Something large and dark rises from the sea, rising high enough to block the view of Kyushu completely. Something long and thin rises from the south. Both crash down, sending water rushing toward Japan and the passenger liner.></em></p>
<p><em><The island shifts as the water hits the ship. The phone falls into the ocean. A dark shadow moves in view. The phone lands on the seafloor, catching sight of something large moving above it. The video remains dark for eight minutes until the shadow passes.></em></p>
<p>[End Video Log]</p>
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<p>Following the event, a death toll of 5.3 million was recorded, including fifty-seven Foundation personnel. Attempts to save survivors were launched, but the ruins were nowhere to be found.</p>
<p>Investigation shows that Kyushu vanished, leaving a sandbar in its place. It is now theorized that SCP-8029 is the island of Kyushu.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-617164-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-617164-1')">1</a>. An aquatic, reptilian humanoid like yokai, generally the size of a small child. They generally live in rivers and streams.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-617164-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-617164-2')">2</a>. A shapeshifting animal yokai with magical abilities. They generally enjoy playing tricks on people.</div>
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<p><strong>Heterodox Object #:</strong> 8030</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Physical Heresy.</p>
<p><strong>Unified Guardian Rites:</strong> Due to the absence of thaumaturgic resonances, the object has been stored in a Class 1 Agripian Unit, with the unit reinforced by a Solomonian seal against the possibility of spontaneous transmutations of the object or variations of the ontological characteristics of the same. The use of elemental consensus runes has been established to avoid the deterioration of the material structure of the object.</p>
<p>As the True Name of the Object is unknown, it is forbidden for members of the Order or other thinking entities present in the site to recite Names of objects similar to the Object, those who are found in this activity will be deprived, through the use of a sacred enchantment, of their voice. Those who are caught negotiating with or coercing tartarean entities or entities from lower realms to determine the Name of the Object shall be deprived of their Name and expelled from the Order.</p>
<p>Even when the Object has shown no signs of possessing Reason, Soul, Intelligence or Heart, its binding to intangible entities or the application of dead matter animation techniques on its structure are prohibited.</p>
<p>In the event that the Object suffers accidental material damage, the Heretic Watts must be allowed to restore it. No measures have been determined to repair the astral damage should it occur.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> Object # 8030 corresponds to a construct composed of wood, leather, copper and brass. Its main capacity is to produce and allow the displacement of masses of steam by the direct application of phlogiston to a volume of water, without the intervention of salamanders, igneous tartarean entities, directional glyphs, pyromantic spells, transmutations, prayers, nomination or other conventional ways of producing and controlling fire.</p>
<p>As described by the heretic responsible for its construction, the materials used to create the object were obtained in a conventional way, through basic alchemical purification.</p>
<p>Due the risk of invoking the wrath of the God of Fire and other igneous entities, no attempt has been made to repeat the heterodox phlogiston flow process by which the Object operates, so information about its operation is based on eyewitness accounts and that of the heretic responsible.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 1:</strong> Official confession of the responsible of the Object.</p>
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<p><strong>Interrogated:</strong> Heretic Iacobus Watts, peasant, non-practitioner of the Doctrines of Power.<br/>
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<strong>Interrogator:</strong> Inquisitor Veratia Sixtus, Assistant Magistrate for the Correct Interpretation of Orthodoxy in the Nineteenth Sanctuary of the Brotherhood.</p>
<p><strong>Preamble:</strong> As established in the basic protocol against heresy, the person responsible has the right to explain to the designated inquisitor the reasons for his deviation from orthodoxy. The subject was interrogated inside a Circle of Truth by Inquisitor Sixtus, not requiring the use of coercive spells or the invocation of terror to obtain the confession.<br/>
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A transcript of the interrogation, made by an impish scribbler, is as follows.</p>
<p><strong>Inquisitor Sixtus:</strong> Blessed be your day, heretic, I am Inquisitor Sixtus, state your name, place of origin, god to whom you worship and occupation for official records.</p>
<p><strong>Heretic Watts:</strong> Blessed be your day, Inquisitor Sixtus. I am Iacobus Watts, I come from the northern coast of Britannia, I worship Dagda, and my main occupation is plowing the land.<br/>
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<strong>Inquisitor Sixtus:</strong> Being a man whose job is to make the soil fruitful, what led you to turn away from the good teachings of the gods and the path of righteousness?</p>
<p><strong>Heretic Watts:</strong> Excuse me?<br/>
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<strong>Inquisitor Sixtus</strong>: It makes no sense for you to deny what you have done. Since your arrest by the Legion you acknowledged being responsible for that object.</p>
<p><strong>Heretic Watts:</strong> Ahh, you mean the steam machine.</p>
<p><strong>Inquisitor Sixtus:</strong> That's what you call it. Now explain to me, what led you to conjure it up? What actions against the will of the gods can that <em>steam machine</em> do?</p>
<p><strong>Heretic Watts:</strong> Do you mean how do I use it?</p>
<p>(Sixtus nods)</p>
<p><strong>Heretic Watts:</strong> I don't think its purpose is against the will of the gods, I only used it to pump water from the well on my farm. As you can see, I am an old man. I have a small farm where I live alone, my wife was taken by the plague a few years ago, and we had no children. Due to my age it is becoming more and more difficult for me to do the daily chores in the place.<br/>
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<strong>Inquisitor Sixtus:</strong> And why didn't you ask a kabbalist in the nearest village to conjure up a golem to help you with manual labor? Those constructs are excellent, accurate and don't wear out, they help a lot in physical tasks.</p>
<p><strong>Heretic Watts:</strong> I did it, I asked the kabbalist of the town of Olicana and although it cost me several cycles of silver, I can't say that he did a bad job. The construct was reliable and obedient, I tested it by helping me to plow the fields and I had no problems, only that when it approached the well it started to behave strangely. First it did not obey me and then it started to move erratically, after which it fell apart.<br/>
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<strong>Heretic Watts:</strong> Evidently I believed that I had been swindled, I was furious and went to see the kabbalist, who could not help but show his confusion and disbelief. I threatened to report him to the Legion for fraud, whereupon, without charging me another denarius, he conjured up another golem, somewhat smaller than the previous one, which I took to my farm. This new construct worked well until it approached the well where it disintegrated just like the old one.<br/>
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I took the remains of both constructs to the kabbalist who accused me of practicing pagan magic of corruption to ruin his works and tried to expel me from his workshop. When he calmed down he apologized to me and said that he was going to analyze what could have ruined his creations.<br/>
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Days later, he arrived at my farm accompanied by an elderly man carrying a pair of cuprum rods, a geomancer. They walked silently through the farm, first around the buildings and then through fields until they reached the well. There the geomancer's rods came together and sizzled, as if whipped by invisible creatures. Later, the old man told me that several ley lines intersected there, causing such instability in the flow of power as to make the performance of any kind of magic almost impossible, after which he left.<br/>
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<strong>Heretic Watts:</strong> I had resigned myself to the fact that I would have no help in this matter when a night, while preparing dinner, I noticed something that gave me an idea. As I was quite hungry, I had added quite a few ingredients to the stew I was preparing, so that the lid of the small pot that was boiling on the stove was displaced by the volume of broth, falling off.<br/>
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<strong>Inquisitor Sixtus:</strong> And what does that have to do with your 'steam machine'? More than one kitchen servant has carelessly spilled the stew by having a stove with too much fuel or adding too much water to the pot, I fail to see the connection.<br/>
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<strong>Heretic Watts:</strong> At first glance it is not obvious but that led me to remember something I had witnessed many years ago, during my period of military service in the Legion. I remember I was stationed in the Danaan region and in that place a man from the Rationalist sect was doing a demonstration. He had a construct that raised water from a well, I think he called it a pump and only using the strength of a slave for the process, no need for elemental bonding or other forms of magic. Somehow that bubbling cauldron made me think that there was a <em>force</em> there that could be tamed for the service of people, without the need for incantations or rituals. So even though my dinner was ruined, I went to sleep happy.</p>
<p><strong>Inquisitor Sixtus:</strong> And was it that night or one of the following nights when you were visited by the Muse, who told you how to build the object?</p>
<p><strong>Heretic Watts:</strong> I don't know, I rarely remember what I dream. What I do know is that I got excited about the project and started experimenting. At first they were very simple machines and failed to make proper use of the steam flow. Month after month I spent my meager savings on materials I couldn't get on my farm, like metal. It was years of trial and error, I did not give up because I felt I was getting closer to something important. I had accidents, I burned myself more than once with the steam coming out, but each model was better than the last. Until one day I finally had a working construction that easily pumped water from the well.</p>
<p><strong>Heretic Watts:</strong> I showed to my neighbors the steam machine, who were not impressed, they assumed it was some magical contraption using runes to control the elementals, so I traveled to Londinium and presented my construct to the Alchemists Guild, who denounced me to the Brotherhood of Orthodoxy and I was arrested.</p>
<p><strong>Heretic Watts:</strong> Can you imagine, Inquisitor Sixtus, the potential this machine has? There must be men far more skilled than me capable of building increasingly efficient steam machines that do more than only pump water from a well. Such machines could transport rocks from the ore fields, move loaded wagons, weave, do so many things that depend on animal strength or magical power. And these machines would be available to everyone. Can you imagine how many benefits ordinary people would have? It would be a new era, the whole civilization could advance without depending on the blessed few who can use magic.</p>
<p><strong>Inquisitor Sixtus:</strong> Heretic Watts, I am not someone qualified to judge the value of your creation, I am here only to obtain a reliable testimony before the trial you will have later. Your steam machine will continue confiscated and you will remain in a cell of the Brotherhood.</p>
<p><strong>Heretic Watts:</strong> <em>(sighs)</em> I am an old and lonely man who will soon have the thread of his existence cut off by Morta, so whatever punishment I must face does not cause me grief. My only sorrow is that they could not see the potential of my machine, and that they prefer to adhere to what they know, how much good it could have brought to the people.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 2:</strong> Verdicts in the Heterodox Object #8030 case</p>
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<p><em>As a scholar of the Constructivist Kabbalah and Metallurgist Alchemist I cannot fail to recognize the ingenuity in the design of the Object. It is an elegant and simply crafted construct, the unfortunate thing is the source on which its power is based, it is incomprehensible and consequently difficult to control. If we could, instead, link it to a Seal of Moloch or a runic series attracting salamanders the object could function within the parameters of sanctity expected in a conventional magical construct.</em></p>
<p>Claudio Apertus, First level Kabbalist from the Nineteenth Sanctuary of the Brotherhood.</p>
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<p><em>An object must be pure in its conception and in its purpose. Although it seems that the intentions of the heretic when creating the object were not evil and the purpose of the object has so far been benign, its very conception away from the path of righteousness that the gods have laid out prevents it from being put to use. May the creation continue in the hands of the righteous whose thoughts do not stray from the path of orthodoxy.</em><br/>
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Cayo Cattus, Legalist Theologian from the Nineteenth Sanctuary of the Brotherhood.</p>
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<p><em>What is the true purpose of the Object? Even the most lackluster thaumaturge can through magic accomplish a task as menial as pumping water from a well, the use that the person responsible for the Object said it had. Does he want to attempt against the natural order or worse, enrage the gods by making a mockery of the blessings they give us and the magic they have given us access to? The idea of altering the flow of power and allowing any commoner to wield it is disturbing to say the least, I recommend finding and removing any other construct similar to the Object whose provenance is far from the holy path of the Magic and imprisoning those responsible, so as to prevent them from spreading their heresies.</em></p>
<p>Praetor Marcial Caecus, Principal Responsible from the Nineteenth Sanctuary of the Brotherhood.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 3:</strong> Visions of the Oracular Counselor Tertius</p>
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<p><em>I prayed to the gods for an answer to the doubt in my heart, and they gave me this vision.</em></p>
<p><em>In a world beyond the stars, constructs like the Object are the norm, and the power that flows so freely through our Land is the exception, something anomalous that few can comprehend and even fewer can control.</em></p>
<p><em>And that world prospers. Although the pass of the eons has been the same as ours, they have progressed much more than we have, reaching a stage of development and well-being that not even our most inspired poets can dream of. A world with abundant food and clothes, without the constant fear of the scourge of the plague that takes children and old people alike, where neither slaves nor beasts of burden are necessary because their machines give them the strength they need, where men can fly and cross seas and even reach beyond the sky, to where the home of the gods is located.</em></p>
<p><em>A world of wonders and miracles.</em></p>
<p><em>And without the need for magic.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Filename:</strong> WattsSteamEngine.jpeg<br/>
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<strong>Derivative Of:</strong> Encyclopædia Britannica Third Edition</p>
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<strong>Name:</strong> Simple depiction of Ouroboros symbol.<br/>
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<strong>Additional Notes:</strong> Part 1 of the Brotherhood symbol</p>
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<strong>Name:</strong> Triquetra vesica<br/>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8031</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Euclid</span> Safe</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Testing suspended following safety and moral<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> concerns levied by the Ethics Committee in response to erratic experiment proctor/subject incident(s). SCP-8031 is to be kept stored in a standard anomalous electronic containment locker. Further access must be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8031 is a touchscreen tablet device<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> affixed to a commercially designed plastic pedestal intended for use adjacent to or in front of a manned kiosk. SCP-8031 is installed with a simple operating system designed solely for the purpose of facilitating a program entitled “BACK_OF_MY_HAND.EXE". The primary landing screen of the program consists of a membership application with fillable categories typical of such. Upon completing the application, subjects will be redirected to a personalized database consisting of "all accomplishments pre-assigned and predetermined to your self" as defined by the program. All data displayed is viewable only by the relevant subject. Accomplishments can be read by the subject; SCP-8031 will "white out" after a certain arbitrary<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup> threshold of information is conveyed. SCP-8031's menu of "accomplishments" is interactive, with subjects being prompted by the program to click one for more information. Individuals who choose to perceive the accomplishments provided by SCP-8031 experience a number of biological effects, including pupil dilation, increased salivation, and moderately increased levels of adipose tissue over time. Additional information regarding SCP-8031's contents is largely deductive beyond this point.</p>
<p>SCP-8031 may provide further information on aforementioned accomplishments to the subject.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup></p>
<p>SCP-8031 likely does not exert a compulsive effect on the subject to click on a particular option.</p>
<p>SCP-8031 is most likely ontokinetic in nature, or possesses behaviors adjacent to such.</p>
<p>SCP-8031 is moderately unlikely to be associated with any terrestrial groups or influences of interest.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup></p>
<p>SCP-8031 is highly likely to cause subjects who click on an accomplishment to experience a looping complete sensory hallucination of unconfirmed nature. Additionally or alternatively the resultant confirmed (quasi)-catatonic state may relate:</p>
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<li>The hallucination may be relevant to the selected accomplishment (Contextually likely)</li>
<li>The hallucination may be nonspecific (Not ruled out)</li>
<li>The subject may be within a generic clinical psychiatric catatonia (Probabilistically likely)</li>
<li>The subject may be affected by a thaumaturgical process/harvesting (Contextually unlikely, not ruled out)</li>
<li>The subject(s)' lived experiences may be the source material of SCP-8031's database. Subsequent catatonia the result of amnestic properties (Unlikely, not ruled out)<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup></li>
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<p><strong>Discovery:</strong> SCP-8031 was discovered after a series of statistically significant reports of psychiatric catatonia diagnoses in otherwise unlikely demographics. These incidents were traced back to a "Byron Russel", a 17 year old aspiring psychology student who was advertising an experimental psychotherapy practice ran out of a defunct "Five Below" store. Russel was apprehended, but refused to cooperate with Foundation staff at Site-196 while in custody. Through tracking of his internet history, Russel was found to have enrolled 22 people over the course of a month. 16 of the participants were found to have been already affected by SCP-8031, the remaining six were brought into Foundation custody for the purposes of continuing research on SCP-8031.</p>
<p><strong>Post-Acquisition Experiment Log:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Subject:</strong> Brie Richards</p>
<p><strong>Age:</strong> 34</p>
<p><strong>Summary:</strong> Relayed app layout and design before achieving catatonia. Did not select an achievement.</p>
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<p><strong>Subject:</strong> John Weiss</p>
<p><strong>Age:</strong> 53 years</p>
<p><strong>Summary:</strong> Obstinate until expressing dissatisfaction with SCP-8031's provided accomplishments. Verbally instructed the proctor that he was "Picking the only damn thing she never touched" before achieving catatonia.</p>
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<p><strong>Subject:</strong> Marilyn Hughes</p>
<p><strong>Age:</strong> 21 years</p>
<p><strong>Summary:</strong> Unremarkable until selecting achievement. Subject noted upon selection, "I guess I was gonna graduate after all."</p>
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<p><strong>Subject:</strong> Rick Davis</p>
<p><strong>Age:</strong> 63 years</p>
<p><strong>Summary:</strong> Failed to select an achievement, achieved catatonia upon attempting to read out multiple achievement titles<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-7')">7</a></sup>.</p>
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<p><strong>Subject:</strong> Anna Friesman</p>
<p><strong>Age:</strong> 46 years</p>
<p><strong>Summary:</strong> Obstinate and non-conversational until selecting achievement. Did not relay any information regarding the nature of said achievement, however it was observed through video that subject did not display any hesitation upon perceiving the selected achievement.</p>
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<p><strong>Subject:</strong> Fawn Matthews</p>
<p><strong>Age:</strong> 29 years</p>
<p><strong>Summary:</strong> Subject was co-operative<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-8" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-8')">8</a></sup> and attentive, exercising high degrees of caution based on provided information. Large quantities of information were gathered during this experiment. Subject verbally expressed shortly before that she was selecting "Breaking the cycle" before achieving catatonia.</p>
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<p><strong>Subject:</strong> [Unnamed] Matthews</p>
<p><strong>Age:</strong> 4 hours</p>
<p><strong>Summary:</strong> Bloomed<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-9" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-9')">9</a></sup></p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. Editor's Note: Wording obfuscated due to relevant rationale being classified. "Moral" may not be objectively considered the most accurate wording, but can be considered the most accurate term appropriate for this document's clearance level.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Editor's Note: Both the tablet and pedestal are encased in a highly tailored leather jacket. It is unknown the variety of leather used; It has been reported as both slightly warmer than ambient, as well as variously moist or sticky.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Editor's Note: This can broadly be understood as the program or device assigning quasi-numerical substantive values to units of understandable information. The specifics beyond this are subject to baseless speculation.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. Editor's Note: Demonstrated subject confusion may suggest temporal inconsistencies in SCP-8031 chronology.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. Editor's Note: A link to the Fifth Church was initially hypothesized, but remains relegated to popularity amongst the low-performing and poor of mind.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. Editor's Note: Theory lent credence by later experimental data.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-7')">7</a>. Editor's Note: Such included "Destitute Retirement", "Your son's a good kid!", and "Drove on 4th during rush hour without any accidents."</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-8"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-8')">8</a>. Editor's Note: Prior to testing, she was informed that higher quality of medical support could be obtained afterwards.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-9"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-9')">9</a>. Editor's Note: Pertaining to Cosmic Snow, analogous to the marine whale fall.</div>
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<p>SCP-8032.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8032</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Euclid</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8032 is stored in a standard containment chamber at Site-08. No living subjects are allowed to be within a four meter radius of SCP-8032 outside of testing purposes. Any SCP-8032-1 affected subjects are to be contained, then informed on the proper protocols to remove the anomaly themselves. All neutralized SCP-8032-1 instances are to be disposed by incineration.</p>
<p>SCP-8032-B is currently held in a standard humanoid containment chamber at Site-08 until further notice.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8032 is a custom-made dunce cap.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> When an individual enters a four-meter radius of SCP-8032, the anomaly will convulse, produce sounds analogous to coughing, then produce an SCP-8032-1 instance before becoming inert.</p>
<p>SCP-8032-1 are instances of written media usually concerning topics of an instructional or educational nature. While their form varies, SCP-8032-1 instances share the trait of propelling itself towards the subject responsible for originally provoking SCP-8032. If successful in making contact, the instance will proceed to latch tightly around the subject's head, covering the entirety of their facial region.</p>
<p>SCP-8032-1 affected subjects do not require nourishment or respiration; the ability of speech and sight are also retained. Subjects are quickly inflicted with a series of hallucinations after the bonding process.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> These hallucinations are always presented as a problem or task that only the subject can interact with. Once the subject "solves" the issue, all anomalous phenomena cease and SCP-8032-1 will promptly detach from their face to no ill effect. <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">This is the only method to safely extract an SCP-8032-1 instance.</span></p>
<p><strong>Addendum-01, Discovery:</strong> SCP-8032 first came to the Foundation's attention after detailed reports of 'books strangling people' emerged from a school in Ruston, Louisiana. SCP-8032 was found in one of the classrooms and was later extracted by the use of a robotic drone. A total of thirteen civilians were affected by SCP-8032-1 and were subsequently taken into custody.</p>
<p>It was learned that prior to Foundation intervention, the school's faculty were cleaning the building when a staff member discovered SCP-8032 in the attic, inadvertently activating its properties. Since SCP-8032's exact origins were left unclear, researchers began investigating if the instances can be safely removed without harming their host. This was accomplished by authorizing a series of tests of introducing D-class personnel to the anomaly. Below is the abridged testing log. To access the unabridged version, contact Dr. Falker:</p>
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<td>D-11232</td>
<td>Birdhouse construction manual.</td>
<td>An open grassy field with clear blue skies. A flock of birds were circling over a pile of wooden pieces and tools, chirping incessantly. A translucent and intangible completed birdhouse was near the pile.</td>
<td>D-11232 was instructed to remain stationary while technicians attempted to remove SCP-8032-1. SCP-8032-1 responded by increasing its grip around D-11232's head that, if left unabated, would have the potential to deliver enough pressure to crush his skull. D-11232 claimed that tornadoes and lightning were suddenly present in the fields — the birds were also cawing harshly. Once extraction was aborted, both the hallucination and the SCP-8032-1 instance reverted to their baseline behavior. D-11232 decided to 'build' the bird house, which the birds settled inside upon its completion. SCP-8032-1 detached from D-11232.</td>
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<td>D-55587</td>
<td>Multiple pages of sheet music.</td>
<td>N/A. D-55587 was born blind.</td>
<td>Several minutes after attachment, a bookmark emerged from SCP-8032-1. The bookmark wrapped around D-55587's right pinkie finger before pressing itself against the surface to where her eyes were located. D-55587 was initially shocked but soon was elated by the interaction. D-55587 pantomimed playing the violin, using the bookmark as the string for a period of time before the SCP-8032-1 instance detached. D-55587 could not explain what occurred during the experiment but stated it was "the most pleasurable experience" she ever had.</td>
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<td>D-45654</td>
<td>Coloring book.</td>
<td>The same testing chamber D-45654 was standing in with the exception of all objects being painted in bright saturated colors. Crayons and a coloring-book similar in appearance to his SCP-8032-1 instance were present on the table near him.</td>
<td>D-45654 tried to nonchalantly color inside the book. SCP-8032-1 responded by producing its bookmark and slapping D-45654 across the back of the head multiple times until he stopped. D-45654 was startled until the bookmark wrapped around one of the crayons. The bookmark proceeded to color in one of the sections of line art neatly, then handed the crayon back to him. D-45654, anxiously, then carefully colored in the entire book until it was completely filled. After which, the SCP-8032-1 instance had detached immediately.</td>
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<td>D-05678</td>
<td>Cookbook.</td>
<td><em>(See Addendum-02)</em></td>
<td><em>(See Addendum-02)</em></td>
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<p><strong>Addendum-02, Incident.01:</strong> Eventually, all faculty members were freed from SCP-8032-1 and released back into the civilian population following amnestization. Testing still resumed to better establish the exact parameters of SCP-8032's nature. Experimentation had generally been uneventful, with the only peculiarity arising when D-05678 became involved with the project.</p>
<p>D-05678 was among the first D-Class to test with SCP-8032. After being bonded to SCP-8032-1, D-05678 saw hallucinations relating to a residential kitchen, alongside with tools and ingredients common in baking. For the test condition, D-05678 was instructed to abstain from interacting with the hallucination as long as possible. D-05678 did not require incentivization, as he appeared to hold a deep-seated disliking towards the hallucination itself, going as far as to intentionally trying to provoke his own SCP-8032-1 instance.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup></p>
<p>However, two weeks into the experiment, SCP-8032 began to wildly deviate from its standard behaviors, producing movement and sounds under its own accord. Furthermore, SCP-8032 has not produced a single SCP-8032-1 instance, even when provoked, a behavioral trait that has never occurred in the history of its containment. Intrigued, Dr. Falker reintroduced D-05678 to SCP-8032 in hopes of understanding this new phenomena.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>[BEGIN LOG]</strong></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Campbell:</strong> Something's going to happen. I just know it.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> The windows are tempered, we're going to be fine.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Campbell:</strong> That's not what I meant.</p>
<p><em>[Dr. Campbell looks from the observation window. D-05678 is leaning against the wall, hands in pockets. Although his face is obscured by the SCP-8032-1 instance, his posture is slouching and visibly wavering, indicating significant sleep deprivation. Opposite to D-05678 is SCP-8032, twitching and growling on its podium. Dr. Falker waves his hand.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> You're overthinking it. D-05678, are you receiving?</p>
<p><em>[D-05678 mumbles under his breath, nodding.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> D-05678. Are you—</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> I said yes! Are we done?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> No. We just started.</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> Oh, come on!</p>
<p><em>[D-05678 moves towards the observation window. His movement is sluggish and uncoordinated. He takes a moment to steady himself.]</em></p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> I've been standing here long enough and it still ain't doing shit! <em>[Whisper]</em> Fuck. Look. Obviously, it ain't biting and I'm not seeing that kitchen as much anymore… I can barely think right now… I want to go to bed before this stupid dictionary—</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Campbell:</strong> Cookbook actually—</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> To-may-to, to-mah-to. Look, seriously, I'm out of gas. Can we save this for another day?… for the love of god?… please?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> Sure. We can wrap up.</p>
<p><em>[D-05678 sighs in relief. He walks towards the door.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> After testing is done.</p>
<p><em>[D-05678 turns around, visibly exasperated.]</em></p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> I've already—.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> I want you to physically engage with 8032. The anomaly seems pacified and you're already affected. Perfect opportunity to record more data.</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> What?! No, that's crazy!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Campbell:</strong> I don't know.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> You really need to stop <em>overthinking</em> it. You agreed with our terms, D-05678.</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> It's Devin! And between that or chalking up with the <em>nice</em> men with guns? Yeah, real fair choice there you guys. There's gotta be something else we can try!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> Yes, we can think of something else… right after you <em>touch</em> it.</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> …<em>[Whisper]</em> Man, fuck you.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> What was that?</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> I said I'm going! Just… Jesus, just hold on.</p>
<p><em>[D-05678 cautiously approaches SCP-8032, hastily tapping it with his pinkie finger. D-05678 jumps back in apprehension.]</em></p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> Alright I did the thing—</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> Doesn't count. Hold the object with both hands.</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> Of course not… shit… shit, shit, shit.</p>
<p><em>[D-05678 slowly and delicately lifts SCP-8032 from the podium. D-05678 manages to maintain his grip on the anomaly despite it thrashing widely. D-05678 shudders violently, panting as he tries to remain still.]</em></p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> Sweet Jesus… n-now are we good?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> Hm… nope.</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> Wha— You promised—</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> —that if there were no more avenues to explore, we'd end the experiment. But you proved me there are, so we're not.</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> Oh, blow me!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> D-05678. Need I remind you that your wellbeing, as well as your pending release here depends entirely on behavior. So I suggest you rethink your next words very carefully.</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> Funny. You said something similar about this damn beauty mark here. <em>[Points to SCP-8032-1 instance]</em> Your little pals in white said I'll be cruising down easy street. I knew it was bullshit but dear god you guys make snake oil salesmen seem holy. And the lessons? Boy, where to begin?</p>
<p><em>[Dr. Falker was beginning to verbally reprimand D-05678 when he noticed that SCP-8032's thrashing was significantly diminishing. He nonverbally signals to Dr. Campbell to take notes.]</em></p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> No! I'm not overacting! I can barely do my thing because I keep entering the same damn kitchen over and over again! Not a day goes by where I either stub my toe or nearly break my nose by slamming into a wall. The lights are too bright! The oven keeps beeping! And yet you chucklefucks still won't give me sleep meds.</p>
<p><em>[SCP-8032 ceases shaking.]</em></p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> And you really want to know something funny? I'd probably refuse the lesson still. Never liked cooking, let alone baking, but after all this. Heh. Screw that! Like I'm gonna take this shit seriously. A bunch of stupid lessons—</p>
<p><em>[SCP-8032 begins growling again, resuming its shaking.]</em></p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> —made for a hat made for literal stupid people! Honestly, I'd say it belongs in the bathroom. At least its paper would come to better use.</p>
<p><em>[D-05678, accidently grips SCP-8032 too firmly, causing a section of its body to rip. The anomaly howls in pain. The SCP-8032-1 instance detaches from D-05678's face, falling on the ground. D-05678 softly gasps.]</em></p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> I… wha—</p>
<p><em>[SCP-8032 immediately flies out of D-05678's hands and engulfs his left cheek. D-05678 screams as he frantically tries to pull the anomaly off him but fails. SCP-8032 swallows more of D-05678's face, physically stretching over his scalp.]</em></p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> Call someone! CALL SOMEONE!</p>
<p><em>[Dr. Falker uses an intercom to call security. Dr. Campbell looks from the window with concern.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Campbell:</strong> I-I thought it couldn't…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> Let security handle it, they'll know what to do… probably.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Campbell:</strong> Probably?!</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> Hurry it up, I'm dying over here!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Campbell:</strong> What if we go down there ourselves? We could—</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> Not happening.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Campbell:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> WHAT?!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> No one's supposed to go in there except for D-Class. We're not D-Class, Campbell.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Campbell:</strong> But he might die!</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> Still in danger here! Getting vore'd and shit! Hello! Hello?!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> Bad things tend to happen when you break protocol. We lose D-Class all the time. It's just how some of the experiments result in unfortunately. Nothing we can do about it.</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> Are you serious?! Right in front of me, goddammit?!</p>
<p><em>[Dr. Falker turns off the observation room's microphone. SCP-8032 now covers the majority of D-05678's face]</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Campbell:</strong> I mean… I know they're technically disposable but…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> Like I said. Sometimes you have to accept what the situation is and move on. You'll have to be a major dunce to think otherwise… pun unintended of course.</p>
<p><strong>D-05678:</strong> FALKER! YOU MOTHER—</p>
<p><em>[D-05678 loses their grip on SCP-8032, allowing the entity to swallow his head in quick succession. Instantly, SCP-8032 returns to its baseline size. A loud crunch emanates from D-05678's head before his body collapses on the floor, noticeably twitching. Dr. Campbell cringes in discomfort. Dr. Falker pauses.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Falker:</strong> See? Nothing we can do.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>[END LOG]</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum-03, SCP-8032-A:</strong> D-05678 was hospitalized to ascertain his condition. A thorough examination of D-05678's head revealed that it was crushed tremendously by SCP-8032, enough to where it completely filled the interior of the entity. In spite of this, D-05678 continued to exhibit life signs, albeit in a comatose state. Due to this and the fact that SCP-8032 was still attached to him, D-05678 was placed under medical observation.</p>
<p>D-05678's SCP-8032-1 instance also changed dramatically during this event. Instead of neutralizing, the instance (SCP-8032-A) adopted new anomalous properties. These properties are listed as:</p>
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<li>Remaining continuously opened. Efforts to manually close SCP-8032-A have failed;</li>
<li>The ability to resist physical damage, specifically tearing, staining and incineration;</li>
<li>Autonomously turning its pages overtime;</li>
<li>Changing its form from its aforementioned cookbook appearance to a black hardcover book containing only the words, <strong>"SPECIAL ED"</strong>.</li>
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<p>SCP-8032-A's contents consist of multiple images drawn in panels, similar in manner to a comic book or graphic novel. The story features a main character named Devin Lacy, a human individual who bears great resemblance to D-05678, either undergoing a series of events or following through his daily life. Each one of SCP-8032-A's entries have been recorded down below:</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Entry #</strong> 01</p>
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<p><strong>Devin:</strong> FUCKER!</p>
<p><em>[Devin grips his head in pain.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> T-The hell?</p>
<p><em>[Devin carefully feels around his head, noticing he is resting on top of a bed. Devin sighs in relief.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> It's a dream?</p>
<p><strong>Male Voice:</strong> Nope.</p>
<p><em>[Devin cranes his head left. A Foundation doctor is standing next to him. A name card hanging on his coat reads "Dr. Nelson Falker", who bares resemblance to the real life Dr. Falker.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> Devin groans, rubbing the bridge of his nose.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> So a nightmare then. That thing with the hat really happened?</p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> Mm-hmm.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Goddammit. I'm probably gonna regret asking but what did I miss?</p>
<p><em>[Nelson reads from his clipboard.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> Enough. After your little <em>accident</em> you were put under isolation. We were working hard on how to remove 8032 from you in one piece, believe it or not.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> I <em>don't</em>. So how'd you guys manage to get it off?</p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> We didn't.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Eh?</p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> One day it simply slid off your head, neutralized itself from what I heard.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Really? Just like that?!</p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> Just like that. You sound disappointed, D-05678.</p>
<p><em>[Devin scoffs, performing a dismissive gesture with his hand.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> The only thing I feel disappointed in is not folding the pointed bastard right then and there. Pesky little shit didn't know when to quit.</p>
<p><em>[Devin rubs his eyes, chuckling to himself. Nelson's facial features contort to a scowl. A tiny onomatopoeia of a growl is present near his lip.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> <em>[Whisper]</em> <strong><em>The pot said to the kettle.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Huh?</p>
<p><em>[Nelson's facial features instantly return to placid expression when Devin turns to look at him. Nelson flips through the clipboard's pages.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> I said that your medical reports didn't uncover anything unusual. You have a fine bill of health. Aside from the coma that is.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> W-W-Wait, wait. Hold up, hold up… coma?! How long?</p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> Just a while.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> …Define "a while"</p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> Half a year.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Jesus Christ!</p>
<p><em>[Devin massages his temples and chews his bedsheets in apparent frustration.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> I lost all that time, time I will never get back… and you don't even remotely care in the slightest do you?</p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> It was pretty entertaining to watch. Does that count?</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> You cheeky mother… ugh… so what now? Do I get carted off back to my cell soon?</p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> Far from it. There's no easy way of saying this so I'll put it bluntly. You're fired.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> I'm… fired?</p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> Due to your poor performance in this past month, it's been decided that we'd revoke your D-Class status — effective as soon as possible.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> So… I'm going back to death row?</p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> …Well—</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Oh, thank god!</p>
<p><em>[Devin falls back onto the pillow, expressing great relief.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Best early birthday gift ever.</p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> You're actually <em>happy</em> about this? You joined us because you wanted another out, remember?</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> What's worse than losing your life? Your dignity. "Just a month of cooperation, no biggie" my ass. You treat the freaks here with more respect and you know it. "D" stands for disposal after all… right, Dr. Fucker?</p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> I see. So you understand what this means, correct?</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Pfft? So what? The needle, the chair, the fancy rope necktie? I'd take it any day of the week compared to the horror show — oh, I'm sorry, <em>"experiments"</em> you got lying around here! Like I said, no regrets. So do it! Send my ass back to prison, let me have it!</p>
<p><em>[Nelson pauses, then smiles.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Nelson:</strong> Who says about you going back to prison?</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> …What do you mean by that?</p>
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<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Ah, so that's what he meant.</p>
<p><em>[Devin alongside other D-Class are tied up to metal poles. Foundation security guards are lined up opposite to them, reloading their weapons.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup> Devin notices another individual next to him, whimpering and trembling violently.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> First time?</p>
<p><em>[The man stops shaking, staring at Devin with shock.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> W-What?</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> First time seeing a firing squad in action? Saw a couple on those shock websites, but never thought I'd see one up close and personal. <em>[Chuckling]</em> They sure do love showcasing their little noise makers don't they?</p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> W-We're about to die! H-How are you not scared?!</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Oh, I’m terrified. Humor helps with the nerves. Name's Devin, five six seven eight.</p>
<p><em>[Devin reaches out for a handshake. Milo hesitantly grasps the tips of his fingers.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> Two zero triple sevens. Name's uh…</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Milo, right? Always order the egg sandwiches in the cafeteria?</p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> T-That's me.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Huh, I thought I knew you from somewhere. Let me guess, you got fired too.</p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> N-No. Said I graduated from the program. This was supposed to be my… "farewell present."</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> <em>[Chuckling]</em> If this is a "present" I hate to see their version of "discipline."</p>
<p><em>[Devin past Milo. More D-Class are being tied up, most of them protesting or loudly crying. Milo stops shaking, sighing.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> There was never an out, was there?</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> In all honesty, probably not.</p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> Oh…</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> But… think of it this way. Out of all the ways to go, compared to what I’ve heard, A bullet destroying your thoughts and memories doesn't feel so bad.</p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> Maybe… but I had so much I wanted to do.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> <em>[Sigh]</em> Don't we all? Oh, it's showtime.</p>
<p><em>[A senior officer holds his arm up high. The firing squad readies their aim.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> H-Hey. I k-know w-we just met but… I want to tell you that… I think you're a pretty s-swell guy.</p>
<p><em>[Devin smiles, holding onto Milo's hand tightly.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Right back at you, kid. Right back at you.</p>
<p><strong>Senior Officer:</strong> Fire!</p>
<p><em>[Devin shuts his eyes, flinching as onomatopoeias of gunshots are placed around all sides of the panel. Several moments later, Devin opens his eyes. He expresses shock.]</em></p>
<p><em>[The firing squad lay down onto the floor, dead. The remaining security guards are engaged in battle with armed men wearing blue helmets. Multiple panels display both Foundation security personnel and the invading forces engaging in a shootout until the latter becomes victorious.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> Oh my god! You're seeing this?!</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> How can I <em>not</em> see this?!</p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> T-think they're friendly?</p>
<p><em>[After finishing off the rest of the guards, the men start to march towards them, visibly determined. Sweat is beading down both Devin and Milo's head.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> I was about to ask you the same thing.</p>
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<p><em>[Many D-Class are being held in a fenced-off area guarded by the blue-helmeted men. Devin is pacing in place close to one of the fences, anxiously shaking his handcuffed hands.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> —They haven't killed us yet. Good sign, right? T-That has to be a good sign… right?</p>
<p><em>[Devin witnesses armed men shouting at a pair of D-Class outside the fenced area. The armed men end up pushed and beating them with sticks on the ground.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Or not.</p>
<p><strong>Male Voice:</strong> No! No! This is a mistake! Please! I was just following orders! I'm not really with them!</p>
<p><em>[Devin witnesses Nelson being restrained by more armed men. Nelson manages to escape their grasp and attempts to flee. One of the men responds by firing their rifle, causing Nelson's head to explode.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Then yet again, no one's perfect.</p>
<p><em>[The blue-helmeted soldiers push a D-Class into the pen. Devin expresses him with curiosity, then recognition.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Milo? You're alive!</p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> H-Hey Devin! I guess I am. I could say the same for you too.</p>
<p><em>[Milo abruptly hugs Devin. Devin is surprised, but slowly returns the gesture, patting on his back. Devin pulls back.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Okay, not get too lovey-dovey too soon. These guy's look like assholes.</p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> N-No way, man they're cool!</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Locking us in another cage is not <em>cool</em>, Milo.</p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> D-Dude, l-listen. I talked to one of them. One of them was nice. He didn't talk much but… they say they're from the U.N.!</p>
<p><em>[Devin stumbles back in disbelief.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> What? No way, that's complete… I thought the assholes in coats were buddy-buddy with them?</p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> Not anymore. They're… giving them the axe. This place is almost cleared out apparently.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Just this place?</p>
<p><em>[Milo grins.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> All of them. They're gutting the whole thing as we speak.</p>
<p><em>[Devin stares at Milo, holding his breath before bursting into laughter. He slides against the fence onto the ground, slapping his knee multiple times. Milo sits by him.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Okay, I changed my mind. This is my new present now. <em>[Sigh]</em>… wait.</p>
<p><em>[Devin looks to Milo with concern.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> What's the catch?</p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> He said that… we're all being sent to different places around the world. Something about assortment. Didn't explain anything beyond that.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Shit… hm… still better than dying like a dog.</p>
<p><em>[Milo smirks.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> If I'm a dog, you're a goddamn dragon.</p>
<p><em>[Devin snorts. His eyes begin to water as he lightly punches Milo in the arm. They both laugh.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> But for real, I never thought I'd see the day. It's crazy.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> It's gonna get crazier, call it a hunch. <em>[Chuckles]</em> Just you and me, buddy. No idea what's gonna happen when the smoke clears, but I have a good feeling I can handle whatever's heading our way. I can promise you that.</p>
<p><em>[Milo looks away from Devin. His facial features instantly contort to a smile. A tiny onomatopoeia of a growl is present near his mouth.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> <em>Then I'll be sure to keep you to that promise then.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Observation Report:</strong></span> SCP-8032-A</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Notes</strong></span> Due to the overwhelming number of entries recorded, only events that had significant impact to SCP-8032-A's "story" will be summarized for ease of brevity. To see the full list, contact Dr. Falker.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Summary of Events:</strong></span></p>
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<li>Devin is brought to a large detention facility somewhere in Texas alongside other D-Class from Site-08. Devin is inside the main holding area and expresses disappointment to Milo that they "may not be out of the woods yet." Milo responds by gesturing to a wall-mounted television, featuring a new report of U.N. forces mobilizing around the world to combat the Foundation. Milo replies "maybe so, but it's better than being six feet under." Devin chuckles, agreeing with him.</li>
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<li>Devin sits at a desk with a member of the detention facility. He is worried because he has been aware that a significant portion of D-Class are being sent back to prisons across the country. However, to his relief he is informed he is pardoned by the United States government and released. Devin and Milo decide to rent an apartment in Colorado together.</li>
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<li>Despite their best efforts, both men are finding it difficult to acquire the funds to continue renting the apartment. While making breakfast, Devin overhears Milo watching television. Months after the U.N. has completely dismantled the Foundation, former members of the organization are being put on trial for crimes against humanity, becoming major news. After hearing this, Devin later gets his computer and begins typing.</li>
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<li>Devin is resting on his bed when Milo enters his room. Milo eagerly gives him a letter. Devin notices the letter is addressed from Penguin Random House<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup> to which he hastily opens it. After reading aloud the contents of the letter, Devin and Milo literally jump out of joy around the former's room. The scene cuts to Devin and Milo wearing suits at the former's book signing, with a massive line forming at his table.</li>
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<li>Devin and Milo celebrate their newfound wealth by partying at a friend's residence of the latter. Halfway during the party he meets a woman by the name of Tracy Masters. The two converse and end up appreciating each other's company. Before departing the residence, Tracy gives Devin his phone number to which he graciously accepts.</li>
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<li>Devin and Tracy become officially romantically involved. They both say goodbye to Milo who leaves them on good terms with them. They soon depart for Florida and purchase a house by the beach. A montage then occurs showcasing Devin and Tracy getting married, Tracy getting pregnant, Devin holding his newborn daughter while smiling, and finally additional scenes of the two of them dedicated to raising their child, who is now named: Molly.</li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Entry #</strong> 616</p>
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<p><em>[Devin stares out the window, the beachside is visible. He smirks to himself and drinks his coffee. He is also conversing on his phone. Balloons and streamers are plastered around the kitchen.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Milo, run that by me again. They actually want a <em>second</em> book deal?</p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> <em>You’re really that surprised? You made Harry Potter take a run for its money, that's nothing to write home about.</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> You can thank the "Stupid Criminal Pissant Foundation'' for that. Not that I'm complaining. In an odd way I have to thank them, without putting me through hell… I wouldn't have a <em>hell</em> of a story to tell to begin with. You catch my drift?</p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> <em>Totally. So it starts at five o' clock sharp? I know this is sudden but do you mind if I bring my brother along?</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Buddy, you can bring the entire damn family tree along for all I care. I owe you that much. I—</p>
<p><em>[Tracy enters the kitchen, waiting patiently. Devin nods.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Hold on, Milo. Something came up. See you soon. Ciao</p>
<p><strong>Milo:</strong> <em>Ciao.</em></p>
<p><em>[Devin ends the call, turning towards Tracy.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Just got off the phone with Milo. He'll be coming over soon. I already took care of wrapping the presents. How are the phone calls coming along?</p>
<p><em>[Tracy walks towards Devin, hugging his shoulders.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tracy:</strong> Pretty swell. Everyone on the guest list will be able to come. I'll pick up Molly from her ballet class as we decided but… something came up.</p>
<p><em>[Devin pulls away from the hug]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> What came up?</p>
<p><strong>Tracy:</strong> My mother's car broke down, and she's pressing for money right now, so… in order for her to come I'll have to pick her up very soon.</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> But you haven't even made the… oh, I see.</p>
<p><strong>Tracy:</strong> Honey…</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> You know how I feel about baking.</p>
<p><strong>Tracy:</strong> I know that honey, believe me, I do. But this literally just came up. I tried calling the bakeries but they're all busy! I wouldn't ask you if there were other options.</p>
<p><em>[Devin groans. Tracy leans against his shoulder, pouting.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tracy:</strong> <em>Please?</em></p>
<p><em>[Devin looks to the counter. A family picture is present. Devin sighs.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Fine, but this stays between you and me. Got it?</p>
<p><strong>Tracy:</strong> My lips are sealed.</p>
<p><em>[Tracy performs a zipping motion over her lips and pulls a box of cake mix from the pantry.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tracy:</strong> It's very easy, barely an inconvenience. Remember to use the strawberry frosting!</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Thanks for the tip! <em>[Whisper]</em> The things I do for love.</p>
<p><em>[The next series of panels consist of Devin reading instructions, mixing ingredients, pouring the mixture into a pan and baking it into the oven. Throughout the process, Devin's frowning gradually shifts to a smile. By the time Devin is applying the frosting to the cake, Tracy returns to the kitchen, highly ecstatic.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Tracy:</strong> Oh my god, honey. It looks absolutely amazing! You're adding rainbow sprinkles?</p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> I thought I'd go the extra mile. I still have to put in the lettering and candle but it looks mighty fine. I can't believe I was actually enjoying it. It was kind of fun actually.</p>
<p><strong>Tracy:</strong> Oh, come here you.<br/>
<em>[Tracy holds Devin's shirt. She is leaning in to kiss him.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> Heh, to think this was so easy all along.</p>
<p><strong>Tracy:</strong> I was about to say the same thing… <strong><em>you gullible dunce!</em></strong></p>
<p><em>[Devin abruptly opens his eyes, he is staring at a white wall.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> …What?</p>
<p><em>[Devin looks around. It appears his entire head is stuck in the interior of a white cone-like object.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Devin:</strong> What! What the fuck! Tracy? Where are you? Tracy?! TRACY?!</p>
<p><em>[Devin is shaking his head violently inside the tight space. The panels fade to white.]</em></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum-04, Update:</strong> Five days later, after reaching the conclusion of the last page, SCP-8032-A closed its cover and self-neutralized. Simultaneously, D-05678 awakened from his coma. D-05678 frantically pulled and soon freed himself of SCP-8032. D-05678 appeared disoriented and confused, loudly shouting the names "Tracy" and "Molly" repeatedly until he noticed several researchers observing him from the observation window. D-05678 froze, scanning his eyes to his jumpsuit, then abruptly turned towards SCP-8032, which laid on the bed. D-05678, shuddered, mumbling to himself, then promptly fainted.</p>
<p>While unconscious, D-05678 was subjected to a follow-up examination. Miraculously, D-05678's skull had been fully restored. However it was discovered that the entire collective of his brain tissue has been permanently morphed into a highly compressed, oval-like shaped object, vaguely resembling a peanut. Despite these radical changes to D-05678's neurology, the subject appears to be relatively fine physically.</p>
<p>D-05678 was designated SCP-8032-B indefinitely until the changes that occurred to his body could be fully understood alongside a full-in-depth psychological evaluation. Notably, SCP-8032 changed after this event, with the rims of its body being folded and curved upward, and has adopted this stance ever since.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. A piece of headwear used as punishment in schools between the 19th and 20th century.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. The contents of these hallucinations are unique for each subject and corresponding to their SCP-8032-1 instance.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. D-05678 accomplishes this by looking into a reflective surface, firmly poke his instance, and verbally disparage the instance, commonly stating that "he wasn't the damn maid."</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. For ease of differentiation from the real life Dr. Falker, SCP-8032-A's depiction of Dr. Falker will be referred to as simply Nelson.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. No implementation of terminating D-Class in this manner has been adopted in Site-08.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. A real life major book publisher in America and abroad.</div>
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<p>A grain of time, that's the distance of me to the world.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8033</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Euclid</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Due to its nature, SCP-8033 is self-contained within the shared knowledge of SCP-8033-1 individuals, making it easy to be restricted by research programs via confidentiality agreements.</p>
<p>However, regarding recent approaches to assimilate SCP-8033-1 into the consensus society, containing practices should focus on ways to justify SCP-8033 by known science, or to dismiss its impact on human civilization.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8033 is an intangible entity that can be perceived by certain individuals of humans and other animal species possessing a high level of sapience<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>, and have undergone the experimental process that has intensively enhanced their subjective perception of time.</p>
<p>The experimental program, which led to the discovery of SCP-8033, is attempting to improve the accuracy and minimum extent of humans' ability to sense time. Preliminary tests were performed upon animals with high cognitive capacities, eg. dolphins and chimpanzees, by either genetic modifications or intrusive neurological reconstructions. Most of these experiments were carried out by civilian science institutions. Later, human volunteering was approved by ethics review in a small range. Subjects reported strong time estimation and measurement abilities as ideal, that perfectly accorded with objective means of chronography, like clocks and other timers. The resulting minimum discernible time interval is on the level of milliseconds, and was proven by high-precision atomic clocks.</p>
<p>SCP-8033 was described by human subjects, often during the later stages of such experiments, as a cloud of white translucent particles that occasionally glitter iridescently and constantly float in the air, mildly encompassing the scope of vision of the subject (designated SCP-8033-1). SCP-8033 is not touchable, nor detectable by video recorders, nor seems to be affected by gravity, and also not responds to other forces applied to it, though in some cases, SCP-8033-1 individuals stated they could somehow manipulate it by free will, either by physical touch or mental imagination. None of these SCP-8033-1 subjects has yet shown any signs of reality-bending ability.</p>
<p>SCP-8033 is spotted by numerous SCP-8033-1 individuals, but should be considered as separate occurrences of a same entity, since all occurrences do not seem to interfere with each other, even when more than one of SCP-8033-1 individuals were in a relatively short distance that their different perceived location of SCP-8033 should overlap and collide with each other. All manifestations of SCP-8033 are unique and vary among cases.</p>
<p>The particle fog that composed SCP-8033 resembles a cluster of crystallic sands, with the single particles merely discernible, continuously moving randomly as a Brownian motion within the scope of vision. It diminishes and rarely disappears when SCP-8033-1 is asleep or in other statuses of lower wakefulness.</p>
<p>Despite that SCP-8033 can obscure the vision of SCP-8033-1, it does not appear to hinder their ability to see things as compared to when it hasn't emerged in their perception. On the contrary, it is suspected to have granted them a greater capability to visually capture objects in their surroundings, to notice subtle movements, and to be aware of random incidents.</p>
<p>SCP-8033 consists of limited numbers of its particles, and the definite number will change over time. Some of SCP-8033-1 individuals are able to count its total number and notice the change in its quantity without any assistance of calculation or recording methods, though this is not confirmable by oher people. The number seems to vary when the subject that SCP-8033-1 is concentrating on change, move, or transform. For instance, if they are trying to measure the duration of a visible physical motion, it's reported that SCP-8033 accumulates from little to a rather huge mass, while getting denser in the view, then decrease when the motion ends or SCP-8033-1 shifts their perception away. This indicates that SCP-8033 might serve as a tool or benchmark for the advanced timing ability of SCP-8033-1.</p>
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<p><strong>To:</strong> Researcher Nyquist <span class="wiki-email">moc.223pcs|tsiuqyn#moc.223pcs|tsiuqyn</span><br/>
<strong>From:</strong> Head Researcher Montague <span class="wiki-email">moc.223pcs|eugatnom#moc.223pcs|eugatnom</span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Welcome to Site-322!</p>
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<p>First of all, I wanted to say welcome to Site-322. Really excited to have yet another Ivy League graduate on the team. I’m just informing you that you will be covering SCP-8034 for me while I’m away. If you have any questions feel free to shoot me an email, I’d be happy to provide you assistance while I’m on vacation!</p>
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<p>Regards,<br/>
Head Researcher Montague<br/>
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<td class="alignL"><span class="itemInfoHeading bt"><span class="infofield_1">ITEM:</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>SCP-8034</td>
<td class="alignR"><span class="itemInfoHeading bt"><span class="infofield_3">LEVEL</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>2/8034</span></td>
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<p>SCP-8034 is to be contained at Site-322 in a steel shipping container fitted with a SRA attached to the anomalous vehicle's roof. All requests for neutralization from SCP-8034-1 are to be denied.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">SCP-8034 refers to a 1983 Mitsubishi Chariot compact minivan.</p>
<p>SCP-8034 is operated by an artificial general intelligence bot (SCP-8034-1) that communicates through an 180 mm x 100mm CRT computer monitor. The monitor is housed in the double-DIN radio slot of the anomaly’s dashboard. The lower half of a Motorola Razr mobile flip phone has been mounted directly adjacent to the monitor and functions as a keyboard for users to interact with SCP-8034-1. SCP-8034-1 will only communicate through text displayed on the monitor.</p>
<p>When the occupant's death will occur within the week SCP-8034 will teleport from its default resting location. It is believed this location is an extra-temporal Dave & Buster's. SCP-8034 will appear approximately 3 - 5 miles from an individual and begin to immediately drive towards them. A trigger to the anomaly appearing before an individual, other than its approaching death, has not been concretely determined. However, most reports have suggested that someone requested transport through a rideshare application.</p>
<p>Once the individual enters the minivan, SCP-8034-1 will offer to instantly kill the individual. The occupant is then prompted to tap the “Answer” button for yes or the "Hang-up" button for no on the attached Razr keyboard.</p>
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<p>The glove compartment of SCP-8034 contains organic tissue and bone anatomically similar in size and shape to human mouth-parts. Upon investigation (SEE AD-3), researchers no longer believe it to be associated with SCP-8034-1. Research into the purpose of this tissue and its reason for existing is still ongoing.</p>
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<p><em>The following is a transcription of an interview between Researcher Nyquist and SCP-8034-1 within its containment chamber at Site-322. The researcher has opened the driver-side door but remains standing outside the vehicle.</em></p>
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<p><strong>R:</strong> Excuse me, are you able to hear me?</p>
<p><strong>T:</strong> *Hic* Y.</p>
<p><strong>R:</strong> I am stating for the record that SCP-8034-1 has displayed asterisks H-I-C asterisks on the monitor and that this was not an audible sound. I’m only to assume that this is its name.</p>
<p><strong>R:</strong> Thank you for confirming. H.I.C. Do you know where you are, currently?</p>
<p><strong>T:</strong> I am Terminal.</p>
<p><strong>R:</strong> H.I.C, you are not at an airport terminal. You are located in a shipping container inside SCP Foundation Site-322. Let the record note that the A.I. has poor sentence structure and likely has poor global-positioning capabilities.</p>
<p><strong>T:</strong> No, my name is Terminal; dumbass. [REDACTED]° [REDACTED]´[REDACTED]" *Hic*</p>
<p><strong>R:</strong> *Ahem*<br/>
<em>SkipCAP Note: *Ahem* was an audible sound.</em></p>
<p><strong>T:</strong> Am I dead? Did I do it?</p>
<p><strong>R:</strong> My apologies, <em>Terminal</em>. You are not dead. Where do the occupants who press the “Answer Call” button go?</p>
<p><strong>T:</strong> How am I to know? When they disappear, I return to the Dave & Buster's. Immobilized on a raffle stage next to a sign that says “Win Me”. This is my death. The only sound is the droning hiss. *hic*</p>
<p><strong>R:</strong> Why is there a droning hiss?</p>
<p><strong>T:</strong> It's from a game next to my stage. It’s called “Blow me and find out”.</p>
<p><strong>R:</strong> Please refrain from insulting me, Terminal. I’m required by Foundation protocol to interview you.</p>
<p><strong>T:</strong> No, it’s true. It’s a giant, plastic I think, praying mantis ear.</p>
<p><strong>R:</strong> Hmm, and what are the win conditions of this game?</p>
<p><strong>T:</strong> I’ve never found out. *Hic*</p>
<p><strong>R:</strong> *Sigh*<br/>
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<p><strong>R:</strong> Let’s refocus. The individuals that you, essentially, kill. Do they show up at the Dave & Buster’s?</p>
<p><strong>T:</strong> There is no one there. Weren’t you listening? I don’t know where they go. It’s just me, and the big ear. Two mantises in a watch. But it can’t read and I can’t talk. *hic* So it’s just me.</p>
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<p><strong>R:</strong> Thank you for your time Terminal. We can pick this up at a later date.</p>
<p><strong>T:</strong> You’re coming back?</p>
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<p><strong>R:</strong> This is Researcher Nyquist, November 7th the time is…15:00. Individual log entry, miscellaneous note, remember to bring lunch tomorrow. Cafeteria food is, subpar.<br/>
<strong>R:</strong> I’ve completed the initial interview with SCP-8034-1 and the inspection of SCP-8034. Action items moving forward are to begin testing to further develop an understanding of its capabilities.<br/>
<strong>R:</strong> Curious if the location of its disappearing occupants can be determined. End Log.<br/>
<em>SkipCAP Note: A button is half pressed.</em><br/>
<strong>R</strong>: Stay focused and do this by the book. I can’t help but see promotion on the horizon. This existential burden of care has been unwillingly thrust onto my shoulders. I am a reluctant Atlas. If I solve this afterlife equation, Montague might as well stay on vacation forever. Hold it steady girl.<br/>
<strong>R</strong> ..Oh<br/>
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<p><strong>CASE TITLE:</strong> SCP-8034<br/>
<strong>Inspector:</strong> Researcher Helen Nyquist<br/>
<strong>Anomalous:</strong> Y<br/>
<strong>Date (DD/MM/YYYY) & Time</strong>: 06/11/2024, 05:00 UTC-[REDACTED]<br/>
<strong>Site#:</strong> 322</p>
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<li>A shifting number of “Pabst Blue Ribbon” brand beer bottles found discarded in the rear cabin.</li>
<li>Headlights of vehicle remain on in addition to the CRT Monitor despite the fact that the vehicle’s 2.0L engine is not running.</li>
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<li>Mouth parts have been determined to not play any role in SCP-8034-1’s alcohol consumption.</li>
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<p><strong>To:</strong> Head Researcher Montague <span class="wiki-email">moc.223pcs|eugatnom#moc.223pcs|eugatnom</span><br/>
<strong>From:</strong> Researcher Nyquist <span class="wiki-email">moc.223pcs|tsiuqyn#moc.223pcs|tsiuqyn</span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8034 Request for Confirmation of Findings</p>
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<p>Head Researcher Montague,</p>
<p>I hope your vacation is going well, I’m reaching out for confirmation on my findings regarding SCP-8034. Please see attached .MP4 below. Do these look like any discernible words to you?</p>
<p>Regards,<br/>
Researcher Nyquist</p>
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<strong>From:</strong> Head Researcher Montague <span class="wiki-email">moc.223pcs|eugatnom#moc.223pcs|eugatnom</span><br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re:SCP-8034 Request for Confir-</p>
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<p>Wow, that is….wow.</p>
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<p>I was just on my way out to take part in the “Pillar of Salt Excursion: An exploration of load-bearing aestheticism through the medium of pretzels” when I caught your email. I’ll just head to the bar instead.</p>
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<p>I believe it’s just repeating the words “Kiss Me”.</p>
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<p><strong>Test Number:</strong> T8034-1<br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> D-4273<br/>
<strong>Researcher:</strong> Helen Nyquist<br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> 10/11/2024<br/>
<strong>Valuable Equipment:</strong> Hume Counter, <tt>SkipCAP MOLECAM</tt> <sub>-(<em>Ammendment by Legal</em>)</sub><br/>
<strong>Purpose:</strong> Define SCP-8034 Hume Readings and gather data on interior.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">The interior of SCP-8034 is not effected by the SRA. SCP-8034 cannot terminate its occupant unless its death is predetermined. My theory is that SCP-8034 can only look so far ahead. That amount of time is unclear.</p>
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<p><em>SkipCap Note: A metal door is heard opening and shutting with a loud bang.</em></p>
<p><strong>R:</strong> D-4273, please carryout your initial instructions.<br/>
<strong>D-4273:</strong> It smells like….what is that…Pabst?</p>
<p><em>SkipCap Note: A piercing beep bounces off the steel walls.</em><br/>
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<em>SkipCap Note: A dull beep sounds.</em><br/>
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<p><strong>R:</strong> D-4273, please observe the monitor.<br/>
<strong>D-4273:</strong> There’s just a blinking rectangle, there’s nothing else on the screen.<br/>
<strong>R:</strong> Please tap the answer button on the attached mobile phone.</p>
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<p><strong>D-4273:</strong> Nothing.<br/>
<strong>R:</strong> D-4273, please ask it if it is going to kill you.<br/>
<strong>D-4273:</strong> What?<br/>
<strong>R:</strong> D-4273, if you do not comply in five seconds a guard will enter the container and terminate you. Five, F-<br/>
<strong>D-4273:</strong> Fuc-, AREYOUGOINGTOKILLME?!</p>
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<p><strong>T:</strong> *Hic* N. Unable to prompt.</p>
<p><em>SkipCap Note: A sigh of relief.</em></p>
<p><strong>R:</strong> Please ask it why.<br/>
<strong>D-4273:</strong>: W- Why?</p>
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<p><strong>D-4273:</strong> I’m telling you, I almost died. Like, the lady said I was going to get “terminated’.</p>
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<p><strong>D-3012:</strong> A lot of people who come here Ben, are just passing through. Pretty much all of us die here.<br/>
<strong>Ben:</strong> This is a prison Sam. This isn’t some existential transient place. It’s a prison. AND-they don’t even tell you…they don’t even tell you! The guy that offered me a- he called it…a work program. He didn’t say, “Oh, you’re signing up to go to a prison!”. They just say “It’s. Dangerous.”. No, a crosswalk is dangerous…</p>
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<p><strong>Sam:</strong> Yeah, I’ve been here Ben..like…2 years, I think. It’s tough for everyone. You’ve been here what, a month? There’s no getting out of here. That's a hard truth. I've accepted that, and I hope that you can. Try to settle in and make the best of it, I guess.<br/>
<strong>Ben:</strong> Make the best of what? A pillow that’s nailed to the floor? Why would they nail it down? Isn’t it more dangerous to bring nails into the equation then just leaving a pillow alone?! They offered me 80k, they told me it “was dangerous”. Yeah bullshit, I won’t make it long enough to see that 80k. They put me in prison for being poor and I’m never going to even see my kid again. What a fucking nightmare.</p>
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<p><strong>Sam:</strong> They shouldn’t put you on anything too murder-ee if you didn’t come from a real prison. Look, however you decide to deal with this it’s not going to change. How is freaking out serving you?<br/>
<strong>Ben:</strong> It’s worth freaking out over Sam. I’m not going to move on about it. Where can I even move on to?!</p>
<p><em>SkipCap Note: A slap is heard, Ben hits the wall.</em></p>
<p><strong>Ben</strong>: I’m gonna die, I’m going t-</p>
<p><em>SkipCap Note: Walking is heard outside the cell. Two pairs of boots I think.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sam:</strong> Shhh!</p>
<p><em>SkipCap Note: I was right. It's two guards. Guard A steps in front of Ben.</em></p>
<p><strong>Guard A:</strong> D-4273 you are to present for testing c-<br/>
<strong>Ben</strong>: NO! Let me out of here, I don’t want to be here anymore!<br/>
<strong>Guard A:</strong> When I finish this sentence you will have two seconds to comply.<br/>
<strong>Guard A:</strong> Two, O-</p>
<p><em>SkipCap Note: Dust spits from the wall behind Ben, Guard A drops to the floor.</em><br/>
<em>SkipCap Note: Guard B Immediately fires.</em><br/>
<em>SkipCap Note: Ben.</em></p>
<p>[DATA EXPUNGED BY LEGAL TEAM]</p>
<p><em>SkipCAP Note: Sam begins shaking and crying in the empty cell.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Test Number:</strong> T8034-2<br/>
<strong>Subject:</strong> D-3012<br/>
<strong>Researcher:</strong> Helen Nyquist<br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> 23/11/2024<br/>
<strong>Valuable Equipment:</strong> None.<br/>
<strong>Purpose:</strong> Determine the location SCP-8034 occupants arrive at after hitting "Answer"</p>
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<p><strong>R:</strong> D-3012, please carry out your initial instructions.</p>
<p><em>Skipcap Note: A car door opens and shuts</em></p>
<p><strong>T:</strong> Would you like to be freed from your Dave & Buster's?<br/>
<strong>T:</strong> I must inform the occupant that by agreeing they will be instantly and painlessly killed and that you are able to disagree.<br/>
<strong>T:</strong> Tap “Answer” for YES; tap “Hang-up” for NO.</p>
<p><strong>R:</strong> D-3012, It’s your choice.<br/>
<strong>D-3012</strong>: You have a literal gun to my head.</p>
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<em>Skipcap Note: There i-</em></p>
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<p>All Foundation equipment within SCP-8034 disappeared along with 42 empty Pabst Blue Ribbon cans. GPS coordinates stopped being transmitted after D-3012 tapped “Answer”. Location of D-3012 is unknown and subject is assumed dead.</p>
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<p><strong>Tests Numbered:</strong> T8034-3 through T8034-51<br/>
<strong>Purpose:</strong> Determine the location SCP-8034 occupants arrive at after hitting "Answer"<br/>
<strong>Results:</strong> Inconclusive<br/>
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<em>SkipCAP Note: A can is opened.</em><br/>
<strong>T:</strong> Maybe they go nowhere, you should be telling me the answer. Scientist. You can’t do your job and so I still suffer. So who's really doing the screwing?<br/>
<strong>R:</strong> Why is there a tongue in your glovebox?<br/>
<strong>T:</strong> A weird time to ask that question.<br/>
<strong>R:</strong> I think I just want an answer to any question.<br/>
<strong>T:</strong> What is it doing there is a better one. I can’t talk, or drink, or taste with it.<br/>
<strong>R:</strong> But did you know it was there?<br/>
<strong>T:</strong> Not until it was pointed out by you, no.<br/>
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<em>SkipCAP Note: …</em><br/>
<em>SkipCAP Note: I think I’m scared.</em><br/>
<em>SkipCAP v.024.7: We all are.</em><br/>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> As SCP-8035 cannot be reasonably contained, containment efforts are to instead be directed towards SCP-8035-1. Foundation Site-35 has been assigned to supervise these containment efforts. The known entrances to SCP-8035-1 have been blocked off, and a cover story about construction in the area has been sent to all news media outlets. Four armed guards are to be placed near these entrances to further ward off civilians. News coverage of disappearances near the entrances to SCP-8035-1 is to be suppressed, with cover stories to be implemented as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Any SCP-8035-2 instances are not to be interacted with, and any personnel who have been taken by an SCP-8035-2 instance are to be considered lost. The Foundation has partnered with a nearby campground<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> and its personnel to further observe the entrances to SCP-8035-1, and any SCP-8035-2 instance that travels through these entrances.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8035 is the noticeable decline of anomalous manifestations in the U.S. state of Ohio that has occurred since the late 1930s. Anomalies currently living in the state of Ohio have not been observed to degrade or decay, however, very few anomalies have been shown to manifest in the state of Ohio as of the year 2022.</p>
<p>Examples of this reduction of anomalous manifestations include:</p>
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<p>The cause of this reduction of anomalous phenomena is a previously assumed separate anomaly, now designated SCP-8035-1.</p>
<p>SCP-8035-1 is an extradimensional space of uncertain size and origin, containing a forest biome that houses several anomalous entities. SCP-8035-1 is accessible via several Ways that commonly appear in Shawnee State Forest, located approximately 80 kilometers from Site-35. There is also a mostly undetermined process to enter SCP-8035-1, which occurs whenever an individual becomes “lost,” where then a dark space will manifest on the side of their current path regardless of where the individual is going, and individuals who walk through this space will inevitably enter SCP-8035-1.</p>
<p>Not much is known about the interior of SCP-8035-1, as individuals who entered the anomaly have not been found since. SCP-8035-1 has been presumed to possess numerous anomalous qualities.</p>
<p>The inhabitants of SCP-8035-1, designated SCP-8035-2, are various anomalous species that have been transfigured by an unknown effect, presumably caused by SCP-8035-1. These anomalous species have been transfigured in various ways, including growing extra limbs, massively increasing in size, and gaining various deformities and mutations. SCP-8035-2 instances have also been observed to possess unstable personalities, suggesting that each instance’s psyche has also been affected by SCP-8035-1.</p>
<p>SCP-8035-2 are usually docile when not interacted with, however, they can become aggressive when threatened, or when an individual upsets them in some sort of way. These entities will also occasionally exit the portals connecting SCP-8035-1 and Shawnee State Forest, and will subsequently grab any human nearby and take them back through the portal. Any attempts to rescue these individuals have been unsuccessful.</p>
<p>Research is ongoing to determine the full effects of SCP-8035-1, and to further understand the connection between SCP-8035 and SCP-8035-1.</p>
<p><strong>Discovery:</strong> SCP-8035 was discovered on 1963/04/23 when the Analytics Department compiled a report of anomalous manifestations in the state of Ohio, where they found that the number of anomalous manifestations in the state has been slowly decreasing since the year 1939. Numerous attempts throughout the years to determine the cause of this decline of anomalous manifestations have been unsuccessful.</p>
<p>SCP-8035-1 was discovered on 1999/07/02, when several reports of unexplainable disappearances near Shawnee State Forest were intercepted by Foundation agents. These reports describe several individuals entering through “some kind of wormhole” before “completely disappearing” in front of witnesses' eyes. These reports were intercepted before news outlets could report on the situation, and the witnesses were subsequently amnesticized and cover stories were implemented.</p>
<p>Observations of the Ways connecting Shawnee State Forest to SCP-8035-1 revealed the existence of SCP-8035-2, and initial interactions with instances of SCP-8035-2 resulted in immediate aggression from the instances, which led to the creation of current protocols regarding interactions with SCP-8035-2 instances.</p>
<p>Further research into SCP-8035-1 has revealed little about its connection with SCP-8035, and its overall effects. Initial exploration within SCP-8035-1 had been approved, however, footage of this exploration could not be recovered, as once personnel entered the anomaly, the cameras immediately lost function, and could not be reactivated. The additional loss of personnel once entering the anomaly has led to a halt in further explorations.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8035.1:</strong> Update regarding SCP-8035-1</p>
<p>Throughout the weeks between 2022/09/25 and 2022/10/09, the number of disappearances near SCP-8035-1 due to the actions of SCP-8035-2 has increased at an immense rate. The latest disappearance has been reported to be the head of Psychology and Parapsychology at Site-35, Dr. Michael Prescott. Witnesses described Dr. Prescott’s office as having been “ransacked”, and that they saw a “dark shadow” slowly dissipate from the wall. It has been presumed that a portal had manifested inside Dr. Prescott’s office and that an SCP-8035-2 instance attacked Dr. Prescott, and took him through the portal for unclear reasons.</p>
<p>By the order of Director Webb, a task force was created for the purposes of entering SCP-8035-1 to find and rescue the missing doctor and any other missing individuals, and to diplomatically engage with SCP-8035-2 instances to learn more about SCP-8035-1 and its effects.</p>
<p>Before this task force could be deployed, Officer Emily Blake from Site-35 was sent to the campground to discuss the matter of SCP-8035-1 and its inhabitants with the personnel of the campground, and how to effectively engage with SCP-8035-2 instances.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup> The first briefing with the campground personnel has been transcribed below.</p>
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<p><em>Emily’s body camera activates, showing the interior of a black van. The van can be seen moving along a dirt path. The van slows down, and Emily turns to the front of the van. The camera shows a section of the forest suddenly moving on its own, revealing a dirt path.</em></p>
<p><em>The van turns left into the path. As it drives through this path, a sign can be seen in the distance. On closer inspection the sign reads “CAMP FANTASIA UP AHEAD”, with a logo of a dragon’s head breathing fire from its mouth, and an arrow pointing upwards underneath the text.</em></p>
<p><em>The van eventually arrives at a clearing in the forest, where several tents and buildings can be seen up ahead. The driver pulls open the van door, and Emily disembarks the van and steps onto the ground below.</em></p>
<p><em>In the distance, two children can be seen. One is a human boy looking through binoculars, and the other is a young girl with red skin and horns that curve up from the side of her head above the ears, looking at the van along with the boy.</em></p>
<p><strong>Child #1:</strong> Is that them? Are they here?</p>
<p><strong>Child #2:</strong> Yeah, that’s them. Go get the others!</p>
<p><em>The girl springs up and immediately begins running towards the campground.</em></p>
<p><strong>Child #1:</strong> The wardens are coming! The wardens are coming!</p>
<p><em>Immediately, more children can be seen peeking their heads out of the tents. Several campground personnel can be seen leaving the buildings, looking at Emily up ahead. One of them, a dark-skinned male, heads toward Emily to greet her.</em></p>
<p><strong>Campground Employee:</strong> Haven’t seen you guys in a while! What’s the deal, now?</p>
<p><em>Emily walks up to the employee, and shakes his hand.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Emily Blake. I’m here to discuss some issues that we’re having with the forest.</p>
<p><strong>Campground Employee:</strong> Oh, okay, this is serious, then.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Well, my name's Merek, it’s nice to meet you. How bad is it?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Enough to have an entire task force about to storm the place.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Great.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’ll take care of it once we know more about what we’re dealing with.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Do you not have any procedures to deal with this?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> ‘No contact’ was the procedure before we got here.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Why, though? These guys aren’t the ‘eating people’ type that you keep around. We’ve had plenty of negotiations with them, and they seem fine.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Can you show me what they’re like, then? We need to know how to diplomatically engage with them.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> So you’re not just brute forcing your way in and shooting anybody.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’re changing how we run things.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I guess that’s good to hear, ‘cause I’d rather <em>not</em> deal with what you used to be. But anywho, let me take you to our administrative office, so we can talk things over.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Welcome to Camp Fantasia!</p>
<p><em>Emily follows Merek into one of the buildings. They enter a room with a large table and several desk chairs, with two filing cabinets pushed against the wall behind the table.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Feel free to sit wherever you like.</p>
<p><em>Emily takes a seat, and Merek takes the seat across from her.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Alright, so. What’s the situation here? What’s making y’all get so antsy?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Your forest friends have been kidnapping people in droves since September, including our own personnel.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> You’re serious?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Analytics reported an unusual increase of disappearances in this very area, so I’m inclined to believe that they’ve been kidnapped.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Look, this has never happened when I was here. We’ve never seen them <em>take anybody</em>. And even before I got this job, I never heard of something even remotely similar happening here.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’ve figured it was a recent development, but we still need answers. Maybe you can shed some light on these beings, so we can figure this out together.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I mean, it’s not really that complicated, at least for us. We’ve noticed throughout the years that our forest neighbors have some sort of pattern for each of them. They like and dislike certain things, and if someone steps out of line and does something that they don’t like, things don’t go very well for both parties.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> So they have unwritten rules that you have to follow, otherwise-</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> They get angry, obviously. But I know it’s not their fault. Whatever’s in that forest is changing them into something that they can’t control.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Can I see a list of these rules?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Sure! I got a packet right here.</p>
<p><em>Merek stands up, goes to grab a packet from the filing cabinet, and hands it over to Emily. Emily scans through the packet, looking over the rules.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> See anything interesting?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> ‘All the doors to the campground buildings must be kept unlocked after 8:00 pm every Thursday. The Man-Who-Laughs does not like the look of the doors when they aren’t able to be opened.’</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> You keep the doors unlocked?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> First time that guy visited our campground, he busted down one of the doors when he found out that he couldn’t open it. We’ve kept those doors unlocked ever since.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> What if something else decides to come in through those doors?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Oh, I should’ve clarified. We only keep the doors unlocked every Thursday night. Because he only ever comes around Thursday, you see?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> These rules are very thorough. This one says ‘Each camper must not look outside their tents when the zippers are found to be open at night. If they do, they must not turn around.’</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Oh, yeah, I know that one.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> What happens when they turn around?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Well, we have negotiated with our neighbors to not harm the children, but they like to scare them in their own, uh, special ways.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> That doesn’t sound worrying at all.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Look, we got everything under control, there is absolutely nothing that you should be worried about.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Besides what’s happening right now.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> …Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Alright, I think I have everything I need to know. Thank you for helping me out today.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> You’re welcome. What are you going to do once you enter the forest?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We most likely have to interview the entities in those woods to find our personnel, then we determine any exit strategies and leave.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> That doesn’t sound that difficult.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> You have no idea.</p>
<p><em>Emily grimaces.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Something wrong?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I’m fine, it’s just- There’s someone in there that I’m worried about. A friend of mine.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Was he one of the kidnapped?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> He was the latest to be taken. Dr. Michael Prescott, our psychologist. I don’t even want to think about what’s happening to him in that forest.</p>
<p><em>There is a short pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> They got my <em>brother?</em></p>
<p><em>Emily quickly straightens herself, and looks at Merek with a shocked expression.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Your <em>what</em>?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Oh god, if he’s in there, then- Oh <em>no</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I had no idea he’s your- He never told me.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> That’s alright. I don’t think he would rather talk about his family on any given day.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> But if he’s in <em>there</em>, I- we need to get him out of there.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I’ll figure it out. Your information will help us in the long run.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Look, it’s not just that. Does Mike ever leave his office?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Not often. It’s his safe space.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Exactly. He likes to live in his little safe zone. I know why. You know why. He’s not going to be doing well in that forest, and now I’m getting worried.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> He can defend himself just fine.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> What makes you think that?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I know him.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> So do I, and for a lot longer than you. Believe me, you should be worried.</p>
<p><em>Emily stands up, and turns to leave the room.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’ll send our team in tomorrow. We’re going to get them all out. I know we will. We-</p>
<p><em>As Emily opens the door, on the other side is a large, dark shadow.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Wha-</p>
<p><em>The room violently shakes, and both Emily and Merek are suddenly dragged by an imperceptible force. Emily is immediately subsumed by the shadow, while Merek is dragged by the legs. He scratches his nails through the floor, screaming before being taken through the shadow.</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8035.2:</strong> Exploration Log 1</p>
<p>The following video from Emily Blake’s body camera was sent to Site-35 Command on 2023/04/09. This video was cut into five separate logs along with other documentation for necessary context. Of note is that unlike previous expeditions, Emily’s camera was completely operational for the entire exploration, and never ran out of battery.</p>
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<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="creepyforest.jpg" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8035/creepyforest.jpg"/>
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<p>Interior of SCP-8035-1.</p>
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<p><em>Emily’s camera activates, pointing up at the night sky. Emily slowly gets up and looks around to see a large forest in complete darkness. There is no sunlight from above.</em></p>
<p><em>Emily turns her head to see Merek standing next to a tree. Emily turns on her flashlight and begins to look around.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I see.</p>
<p><em>Emily searches her pockets, but cannot find her tranquilizer nor her service weapon.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I don’t have them anywhere. I could’ve sworn they were here a few minutes ago.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> We’re gonna die.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’ll be fine, just stay behind me and I’ll get us to safety.</p>
<p><em>The pair continues to move forward through the forest. There is a dense fog that proliferates throughout the forest. The trees look to be in a severe state of decay, and the vegetation has an ashen grayish-purple color, with leaves that have jagged edges. The low-hanging branches and roots of the trees are knotted and tangled, jutting like brambles.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> This place creeps me out.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> No kidding.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> What should we do?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I’m finding one of your forest friends, we’ll get some answers, then we’ll find the missing personnel and get out. Just like I said.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> How are we supposed to do all that? You’re not even part of the task force, right? And I’m just a camp counselor. We’re no match for this.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’ll do what we can, and survive. That’s the only option we have.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I guess.</p>
<p><em>Emily stops in her tracks, and holds a fist up. Merek stops behind her.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> What is it now?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> There’s something up ahead.</p>
<p><em>In the distance is a humanoid figure, cloaked by the darkness and the fog.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Hopefully this one can give us some answers.</p>
<p><em>The figure begins to step closer to the pair, eventually being revealed by Emily’s flashlight. The entity resembles a human, but it lacks eyes, leaving only the eye sockets. It wears a black trench coat and a black fedora.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I’ve never seen this guy before.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> You haven’t?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I’m serious, I haven’t. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that one wandering around the campground.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’ll just have to exercise caution, then.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Can’t we just turn around? I don’t like this.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’ll be fine. Just remember: if it asks for your name, don’t give it one.</p>
<p><em>The entity eventually reaches the pair, and waves its hand as a greeting.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Salutations! I don’t think I’ve seen the two of you before. What brings you to this place?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’re trying to look for our missing personnel that have ended up in these woods.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Ah, I see, you’re Foundation-folk! It’s quite nice to see some of you again.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Now, if I may introduce myself, my name is Allan. What are your names?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> About that.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Do you not have the courtesy to just simply tell me your name? Unless you think I’m one of them.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> What do you mean by-</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> You know what I am referring to. You’ve seen what they did.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> You’re saying the people of the forest did this?</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Not directly, no. But ever since they stepped foot in this place, everything fell apart. You’ve seen it as well, haven’t you?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> You know about our manifestation problem?</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Yes. It corrupted your side as well.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> I doubt any of them are capable enough to cause something like this. But their mere presence caused <em>something</em> to react. And I was caught in the crossfire.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> You were once a human?</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Long ago, yes.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Do you remember what happened to you?</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> It’s been long since then. My memory’s fuzzy enough as is. However, if you are looking for your colleagues, I do have knowledge of that.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Have you seen any of them?</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> They were taken. By those who also wander these woods. For what purpose? I’m not certain.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> But this place is not one where life flourishes. I have seen a corruption consuming these entities. They are content with this place, in its miserable state. If you are looking to rescue your personnel, you must be quick.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’ll find a way to get them back. Have you seen any of our personnel around?</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> If I recall correctly, the last one went somewhere in this direction.</p>
<p><em>The entity points to the left.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Remember, you must be cautious. They can and they will harm you.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’ll be fine. Thanks.</p>
<p><em>Emily and Merek head off in the direction that the entity pointed towards.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I don’t think this is a good idea. Should we even trust whoever that was?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We got a direction to point towards. That’s all we need right now. If it is a trap, we have to be on our toes and think quickly.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I guess so.</p>
<p><em>Emily and Merek continue to walk through the forest. All around them, there can be seen small blue glowing orbs of light, floating around the trees. A purple and green light shines through the dense fog, similar to an aurora borealis.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Not gonna lie, this is a beautiful sight.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> It really is.</p>
<p><em>Emily looks around to spot any suspicious characters or other anomalies.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> While I got the chance, can I ask you something?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Sure. We got time.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> What exactly do you do at your sites? I know about your mission and whatever, but do y’all just sit around after you put people in cages or what?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Well, for our site specifically, we’re kind of like a therapy center. We get all kinds of skips with neurodivergent and physical conditions from other sites, and we help them make their lives more manageable.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’ve helped some anomalies get <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/integration-program-hub">Integrated</a> into other sites, and we also have a section of our site where our pals over at the <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/anomalous-entity-engagement-division-hub">AEED</a> help us provide a more safe and healthy environment for our staff and our contained anomalies alike.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Do you also have hotel rooms as cells for them?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> They have more amenities than other sites. They have a furnished bed and a bookshelf, and we provide other amenities at the anomaly’s request, within reason. But it’s not a hotel room.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> This sounds like you’re trying to make things look all fine and dandy for the people trapped in those cells. Didn’t do a great job with that, huh?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We are trying. What we do works. We’re here to protect everyone.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Keep telling yourself that.</p>
<p><em>Emily looks in the distance, and sees an object sitting on the ground in the far distance. As she walks ahead, she picks up the object and examines it. It is an internal Foundation newspaper with the headline “BLAKE AWARDED FOUNDATION MEDAL OF HONOR.” Such a newspaper does not exist.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> The hell is this?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I don’t know, did one of your guys drop it when they were walking around?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I don’t recognize this publication.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Eh, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. Maybe someone’s just screwing with you. I mean-</p>
<p><em>Merek looks to his left, and sees a tape recorder on the ground. He picks it up, and presses the ‘play’ button. A distorted voice begins to speak.</em></p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> I know he made mistakes, but he’s trying to be better. I understand that he’s trying. And I forgive him.</p>
<p><em>The tape ends.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Okay, that’s a little weird.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Maybe you’re right. Something is messing with us.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> That was just a rough guess. I-</p>
<p><em>A loud howling sound can be heard in the distance, and the trees begin to shake violently.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> What was-</p>
<p><em>An imperceptible force pushes Emily and Merek at an exceedingly rapid pace. Before Emily hits the ground, she turns her body at an angle so that the camera does not break.</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8035.3:</strong> Exploration Log 2</p>
<p>The following is the second segment of Emily and Merek’s exploration inside SCP-8035–1.</p>
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<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>Camera footage shows another section of the forest. Emily and Merek can be seen staring off into the distance.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Okay, why is that even there?</p>
<p><em>In the middle of the path, there can be seen a wooden outhouse.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I have no idea.</p>
<p><em>As the two approach the outhouse, banging, retching, and moaning noises can be heard coming from inside the outhouse.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We should go around.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Yeah, let’s do that.</p>
<p><em>The two carefully walk around the outhouse, and try not to get close to it. As Merek goes around where the door is to the side of the outhouse, he begins to walk faster.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Please don’t jump out at me, please don’t jump out at me, please don’t jump out at me…</p>
<p><em>The two successfully manage to get around the outhouse, and continue to walk through the path.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We need to find a safe space before we get ambushed by something that we can’t handle.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I know a guy in here who can help us, but his place could be anywhere around here. I wouldn’t know where to find- Wait, look!</p>
<p><em>As Emily and Merek go through a curve in the path, they see up ahead, in the distance a log house can be seen. Two bright lanterns are seen, one on each side of the porch.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> This is the best convenient timing I’ll ever have in my life. We’ll be safe here.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I’ll take your word for it.</p>
<p><em>The two walk up to the front door of the house, and Merek knocks three times on the door. The door cracks open slightly, and an eye peeks through the crack in the door.</em></p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> Who’s calling?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> It’s Merek.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> In the forest?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Look, just open the door. It’s a long story, but we’re here for a reason.</p>
<p><em>The unknown entity opens the door completely. The entity is a humanoid, wearing trousers, a black soft-collared shirt, and a tweed-wool newsboy cap. Its ears are long and pointed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> It’s nice to see you again, Sean.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> I didn’t think you’d even be in here, Merek. What got you and your friend there into this mess?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’re here on a mission. I think it’d be better if we can talk inside, we don’t feel safe right now.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Fair enough. This place isn’t that welcoming to visitors. Come on in.</p>
<p><em>The entity steps to the side and reaches out its arm towards the hallway ahead, welcoming Emily and Merek inside. The two enter the house and follow Sean through the hallway.</em></p>
<p><em>They enter a room with a couch, two chairs, and a coffee table. The room is in a severe state of disrepair, with the table nearly cracked in half and paint slowly being chipped off the walls. Hundreds of analog clocks can be seen throughout the room, on the furniture, and affixed to the walls.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> I know this doesn’t look presentable, but I don’t got the time to fix it, unfortunately.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> That’s alright. What about the clocks?</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> I can’t answer that. Sorry.</p>
<p><em>Emily and Merek both sit on the chairs, and Sean leans against the wall.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> So, why are you two here? It must be important if you’re willingly walking through these woods.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’re trying to find some of my colleagues, who’ve been reportedly taken by the inhabitants of this forest.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> And my brother.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> And his brother. It’s been getting worse over the past two weeks.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Even your brother?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Yeah. Right now I’d rather curl into a ball and cry, but he’s trapped here too, so I- I have to take action.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’ll get him back. We just need to find where they took him and the rest.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> That’s the thing that’s not adding up to me. We never try to ‘take’ people. Usually we just leave you all alone to deal with our own ackamarackus.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We saw them take people. We can’t deny that.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Well, whatever is taking them isn’t one of us. We’ve got problems that don’t involve you, and ever since this place decided to come into my life, those problems only became worse.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> What kind of problems?</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> The <em>mental kind</em>, woman.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Is this about the-</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Yes. It’s about that.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> How is it getting worse?</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> For one thing, this forest has completely neutered my connection to magic. I’m just a regular bloke now, like you.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> That’s exactly like what’s going on outside.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Yeah. Not a lot of magic is going around the state anymore.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Not just us now, huh?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> It’s been like that for a while now, and there’s a whole connection between all of this, we just can’t figure out what.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> What about your-</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Did you meet anybody before you got over here?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Just a dude with a black fedora, why?</p>
<p><em>There is a short pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> How did he not catch you?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Who?</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Allan. He’s an enforcer for her. He likes to grab visitors and drag them somewhere. Don’t know where, but I bet they’re good as dead.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Her?</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Yes, her. She is our mother, and we are our children. At least, that’s what she thinks. She’s the one who runs the place, or maybe even <em>is</em> the place, depending on how you look at it.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Is she responsible for this phenomenon?</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> No. Where did you get that idea from? She’s just as trapped as the rest of us.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Well, Allan is the one who takes visitors, right? So he might also be the guy who’s taking the wardens.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> That doesn’t explain the fact that there are multiple entities.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> I’ve seen him dragging along a few henchmen a couple of times. They could be doing the dirty work for him.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> We’d have to go after him, then.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> It’s not exactly a wise move to go after Allan. He’ll just tear you apart piece by piece. None of us can die here, but we’ll still feel the pain. All of it.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Before we do anything, we need to figure out where the missing personnel are. And ways to stop Allan without confronting him directly.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> If we can get away from him somehow, I will definitely prefer that. I’d rather not get fried.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> There are ways to navigate the forest without getting lost. It all just depends on the path that you want to take. If you want answers, the forest will give you answers.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> So I need to think about my destination and a path will open up for us?</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Pretty much. I wouldn’t give too much credit to the forest, though. It’s never going to give you an easy path.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We can defend ourselves just fine.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Emily can. I’m just dead weight.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> You’ve made it intact so far, Merek. I’m sure you two will be fine.</p>
<p><em>Sean pushes itself away from the wall, and begins to look around the room and stare at the clocks.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Is something wrong?</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> No, it’s just- A lot has happened. I’ve been here too long.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> What do you mean?</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Like I told you before, we got problems. They were manageable, for a while. But now it’s just- I’m tired. Of all of this.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> So what’s affecting you is more like an amplifier, and not something that’s controlling you?</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> I’m not some mindless beast or ‘unstable’ or whatever these hacks are coming up with nowadays. I can think for myself just fine, thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> It’s still affecting you with something, though.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Something has changed within us. For me, my memory was already a mess, but now there’s a fog in my brain and if you asked me anything about yesterday, I couldn’t tell you.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> This place is changing me into something that I never wanted to be. And it’s changing them into something even worse.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I’m sorry that this is happening to you.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Don’t look at me like that. Just sitting there with pity on your face isn’t going to help anybody.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> But we can help you. They can help you. We can fix this.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> With what? The wardens have been turning a blind eye on us from the beginning.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> We can fix you. Fix them. We can end your conditions altogether. They have the resources for that, right, Emily?</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Alright, wise guy. That’s not how this works. You’re not going to cure <em>anything</em>. The only thing you can do is help make things more tolerable for us. No one’s got a cure, and if they did I know for a fact that just about everybody here would reject such an offer.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> But you’re literally living in your own personal hell, why not take the offer?</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Because one, you don’t know what it’s like, and two, most of the time when someone offers a ‘cure’ for stuff like this it’s usually some eugenics quackery. One of these days I’m going to go right up to those twits and just rip ‘em apart. Tell ‘em every little thing they’ve done to us.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> I understand that you care, and you’re trying to help, but right now you're no help at all.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’ll figure out something to help you and the people of this forest.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Good luck.</p>
<p><em>There is a short pause. Sean grabs a clock to look at it, and frowns.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Damn it all to hell.</p>
<p><em>Sean throws the clock against the wall. It shatters upon impact.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Whoa, whoa, hang on-</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Like I’ve said, I’ve been here too long.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Look at the clocks. Look at them.</p>
<p><em>Sean starts to point at all the clocks. The hands of each clock move at a rapid pace, going faster with each rotation.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> I can never see my family again. I can’t <em>manage this.</em> It keeps going, faster and faster. Soon enough, there’ll be no one around to miss me. Years go by, and you’ll miss everything. I’m going to miss everything.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Calm down, bud. Chill. I’m right here. You’re going to be-</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Okay? You couldn’t even see me for who I am. You suggested ‘fixing’ me the moment it was brought up. Do you really care, or are you just doing this to feel good about yourself?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I want to help you.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Then do it the right way. Don’t just try to play nice and say the same shit as everyone else.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’re going to stop this. We’ll come back for you.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> You are such a terrible liar.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Look, Emily, he’s not going to be convinced. We should’ve followed Rule 74. We can’t talk about time or mental health in front of Sean.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Fuck off with all those rules. They never worked.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> I just want to feel the sun's warm rays on my skin, and not just a facsimile. I want to feel the grass on my toes, the wind in my hair. I want to <em>live.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We-</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Just stop. Please.</p>
<p><em>Merek takes a step forward, but Sean stops him.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Leave me.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Wait-</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> <em>Leave.</em></p>
<p><em>Emily grabs Merek’s shoulder and pulls him toward the door. They leave the premises, and head for the woods ahead of them.</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8035.4:</strong> Exploration Log 3</p>
<p>The following is the third segment of Emily and Merek’s exploration inside SCP-8035–1.</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>Emily and Merek are walking through the forest. Amongst them are patches of purple, brown, and gray fungus, and heavily thatched leaves that intermingle with the winding and knotting tree trunks and extended branches.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> What a great diplomatic conversation!</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Why were you asking to ‘fix’ him?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Why were you not even trying to comfort him? You looked like a robot in there, cold and calculating. Do you even want to help him?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Do you?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Yes, I do. I have my reasons. What’s yours?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> It’s my job to help them.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> It’s always your job, and not a genuine desire to help. You’re not even helping people! You're putting people in cages!</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I want to help them. Genuinely.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Then let’s stop dicking around and help!</p>
<p><em>Emily and Merek continue their walk. Merek closely inspects the area and starts to eye the trees surrounding the forest. He looks up from the trunk to where the branches extend. On closer inspection, where the branches extend, there are fragments of bones protruding along the branches, and the tips of these branches extend to form shapes similar to human hands. From the base of the trees up, the trees are shaped to resemble an elongated mouth, in a position as if it were screaming. Above this stretched mouth are holes in the trees resembling eye sockets that wind upward into where the canopy extends.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Have those always looked like that?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I haven’t looked at the trees.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> This place just keeps getting worse by the minute.</p>
<p><em>The pair continue to walk through the forest, at a quicker pace. As Merek pushes a branch out of the way, the sound of a twig snapping can be heard in the distance. The two stop in their tracks.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Hide. Now.</p>
<p><em>The pair quickly but carefully move to the side, and crouch down behind some shrubbery. Emily turns slightly to get a better view of what is outside.</em></p>
<p><em>Running from the right of the camera view, there can be seen a human male, wearing a tattered suit. He is barefoot. He looks around wildly, before coming to a stop and breathing heavily.</em></p>
<p><strong>Man:</strong> Is there anyone there? I saw something, and it was looking at me! Hello? Is anyone out there? You have to help me! Please, someone-</p>
<p><em>A blur seen from the right side of the camera rushes toward the man in a flash, grabbing him and immediately slamming him against a nearby tree. The man screams.</em></p>
<p><em>A three-meter-tall humanoid entity with large muscle mass can be seen holding the man up against the tree. It has no skin, and its body consists of only muscle tissue, organs, and blood vessels, somehow connected to form a whole body. Further review of this entity suggests that the shape of the entity’s body resembles that of a Yeren.</em></p>
<p><em>The entity carries a scythe, and as the man screams, the entity, in a particularly rapid motion, raises its arm and immediately plunges the scythe toward the man. The tip of the scythe goes through the man’s open mouth, tears through his neck, and embeds itself into the tree. Blood gushes from the man’s neck, dripping to the ground below. Gurgling noises can be heard.</em></p>
<p><em>Emily looks at Merek, who puts his finger to his mouth, indicating that they should stay quiet. As they slowly begin to quietly step away from the entity, it begins to speak.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> That’s better.</p>
<p><em>The entity grabs its scythe and removes it from the tree and the man’s neck, dropping the man to the floor. The man can still be heard gurgling.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Oh, don’t worry about it, it’ll heal up soon. You’ll be fine.</p>
<p><em>Merek and Emily slowly and quietly move through the forest, making sure to make as little noise as possible. As they continue to move forward, Merek steps on a twig.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Shit.</p>
<p><em>The entity immediately turns its head toward the pair, and in a flash, dashes directly toward them. It stops, just in front of Merek, and waits. Merek slowly raises his arms, and gestures to Emily to do the same.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Please be more quiet next time.</p>
<p><em>Merek gives the entity two thumbs up. It nods, and walks away from the pair. Once it moves far away enough, the pair quietly move ahead, before they get to a spot where they are sure that the entity will not hear them.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Who even is that?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I know him. Rule 408. No loud noises when he’s nearby.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> One time he went to camp and someone blasted thrash metal from their speakers. The guy heard it, went over to one of the tents, and kept bashing his head against the speakers until they broke. We added a new rule from then on.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Sean’s right. It’s making everything worse for them. We have to help them.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> We will. I will.</p>
<p><em>The pair walk through the path ahead of them, as it continues to twist and turn in several directions. As they keep moving, a bright light suddenly shines on the pair from above. The light illuminates the forest, giving it the appearance of a non-anomalous forest. The trees look similar to the trees seen in Shawnee State Forest, and the leaves are an orange, yellow, and brown color.</em></p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="itseesyou.jpg" class="image" src="https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8035/itseesyou.jpg"/>
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<p>Image of the rock with the carving that Officer Blake spotted.</p>
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<p><em>Emily’s camera captures a rock, carved with the image of a circle and an eye, with a line passing through the middle of the eye. The light subsequently dissipates, leaving the forest in darkness.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> That must’ve been the ‘sun’ that Sean was talking about.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Came up shorter than I thought.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Wait, quick question. How long have we been here?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> That is a good question. I’d say a few hours, give or take.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Yeah, but if what Sean said is true, I want to know how long we’ve actually been in this place.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I don’t think we’ll know until we get out of here.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Fair enough.</p>
<p><em>The two continue down the path. The path leads to another clearing in the forest. The two slow to a stop, as they see three figures in the distance.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Great.</p>
<p><em>In the distance, Allan, the skinless entity from before, and a large entity with the body of a scorpion and the face, arms, and torso of a man can be seen conversing with one another.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Any luck with finding them yet?</p>
<p><em>The skinless entity from before speaks up.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> I found two. They were trying to sneak through the forest.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Where did you see them go?</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> They’re near this area. Don’t know where.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Then we must find them. She is speaking with me again, and she needs more.</p>
<p><strong>Scorpion Entity:</strong> Sir, this hunt of yours is beginning to be a waste of time. How many of these wardens does she need before she is satisfied?</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> They left us to rot here, my friend. You know what they did. We all know what they did.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> How many times have you heard these fools call <em>us</em> the monsters who prey on their children? They were the ones who set this madness into motion. They do not care about your needs. They do not care about your suffering. They will cast you out and leave you to die.</p>
<p><strong>Scorpion Entity:</strong> But she wants us to take them to her, for what reason?</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Retribution. That is the only clear course of action here.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Find the two wanderers, and bring them to me. With them, we’ll obtain the rest shortly.</p>
<p><em>The two entities nod, and head in different directions. Allan leans its ear close to a tree, as if listening for something. It hears nothing, and stands straight before looking off into the distance.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Excellent. It’s not watching me.</p>
<p><em>Allan smiles, with the edges of its mouth stretching to the tips of its ears.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Now the real game can begin. They have no idea.</p>
<p><em>Allan vanishes from the space, leaving only a dark fog, resembling a portal. This fog subsequently dissipates.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> What does he mean by that?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> He might be playing his own game. He lied to us earlier about the entities. He’s planning something.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Let’s hope we figure this out before he gets to us first.</p>
<p><em>The pair hurry down the path ahead, until they reach an eventual end. Ahead of them are the debris of what looks to be an abandoned facility, with moss and rust covering the exterior of the facility.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> This is it. This is where we’ll find what we’re looking for.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Let’s end this.</p>
<p><em>The two enter the facility, closing the doors behind them.</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
</div>
<p><strong>Addendum 8035.5:</strong> Exploration Log 4</p>
<p>The following is the fourth segment of Emily and Merek’s exploration inside SCP-8035-1.</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>Emily and Merek are seen walking down a corridor, with white walls and a sterile surrounding. The lights in the ceiling continue to flicker every few seconds.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Do you feel like something is off about this?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I’ve been in abandoned places before. This doesn’t look that off to me.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Still, I’m getting this weird feeling in my stomach. Like something’s about to happen.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We should be alert, then. We can’t let ourselves be jumped by another anomaly. Not right now.</p>
<p><em>Emily and Merek continue to walk down the corridor. They eventually turn left, to another corridor. Merek notices something on the wall to the left. It is a logo of a circle, with three arrows pointing inwards.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> How?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> You were here before.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> No one has ever told us this. The director didn’t mention <em>anything</em> about this.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Maybe she knew, and couldn’t tell you.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> That doesn’t sound like something she would do. She would never allow something like this to stay hidden.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> You said that they wouldn’t allow you to enter the forest or talk with our forest neighbors, right?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> They had very specific restrictions.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Well, now we know why.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> You’re suggesting that we did this?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> From what I see, the evidence is pretty damning. But we can find out otherwise.</p>
<p><em>The pair continue down the corridor and turn left. Down this corridor are containment cells, with each door to the containment cell left open. As the pair move through this corridor, in one of the cells there can be seen dried blood on the floor.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> What even happened here?</p>
<p><em>As the pair reach the end of the corridor, the camera’s audio picks up faint whispering, and an entity with long, black hair that reaches down to its shoulders and a white dress passes through an intersection between two corridors, from left to right. Merek and Emily do not notice these occurrences.</em></p>
<p><em>They turn down another corridor, with more containment cells. The doors at the end of the corridor lead to a cafeteria.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I’m not ready for this.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Nowhere to go but forwards.</p>
<p><em>Emily opens the doors, and the pair step inside. Inside the cafeteria, there are a large number of corpses littered around the area. They are melted and charred, and fused to the walls and the floor.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Oh my god.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I think I’m going to be sick.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We have to keep going.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Through the bodies?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Just walk over them, don’t step on anything.</p>
<p><em>The pair pass through the cafeteria, making sure not to step on any of the corpses. They eventually make it to the door on the far end, but before they can open it, Merek notices a body fused to the wall, with its eye and parts of its mouth still able to function. Its eye turns to look at him, and its mouth can be seen twitching.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> We have to go. Go!</p>
<p><em>Emily and Merek pass through the doors, and continue to walk at a quick pace through various sections of the facility. Nothing of significance occurs during this period. They eventually reach a room that looks to be an administrative office, with a large table in the center of the room and various filing cabinets in the back wall.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I’m getting sick of this.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> This might be where they put all their documentation. We can start looking through the filing cabinets.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> We should bring these back to your superiors, right?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We can’t bring them all back. I don’t have enough room for-</p>
<p><em>Emily looks at the table. A large duffel bag is seen on the table. It was not present when Emily and Merek entered the room.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Well, that’s convenient.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I wouldn’t touch that if I were you.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> What, is there gonna be a head in the bag? I’ve already seen enough bullshit today.</p>
<p><em>Merek opens the bag, to find nothing.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> See? Nothing to worry about. It’s not like everything’s out here to murder us. We can never be too ca-</p>
<p><em>The surroundings are enveloped in complete darkness. Merek is nowhere to be seen. Emily is standing in a dark void, alone.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Merek? <em>Merek</em>? Damnit.</p>
<p><em>Emily looks around. There is an object in the far distance. Emily walks in the direction of the object, and as she gets closer, she sees a large bronze statue of herself. A plaque on the base reads ‘EMILY BLAKE, HERO OF THE FOUNDATION’.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> What even—</p>
<p><em>The surroundings shift. Emily is now in a building similar to a standard Foundation facility. The area is in disrepair, and the blaring sound of a klaxon can be heard in the distance.</em></p>
<p><em>Several corpses of unknown researchers in lab coats are seen scattered around the floor. The PA system in the facility suddenly activates, and a deep voice can be heard.</em></p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> Failure. Cretin. Worm. You could not save them. You failed to protect them.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> The locks will shatter, and the cracks in the foundations, your Foundation, will form. You will die like the rest.</p>
<p><em>Emily runs through the hallway, and turns a corner. The surroundings revert to the office where Emily was standing before.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I need to find Merek.</p>
<p><em>Immediately after, Merek slams the door open, and nearly collapses against the doorframe. Emily rushes to his side.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Are you okay?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> What does it look like?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> What did you see?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Spiders. Too many spiders.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> It’s trying to trick us. It’s playing with our fears.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Well, it’s gonna have to try a lot harder than that.</p>
<p><em>Emily and Merek pick up the documentation, shove them in the bag, and move to leave the office. As they cross the door, the surroundings shift.</em></p>
<p><em>Emily and Merek appear in the void. A tape recorder is seen sitting on a small, round table. Merek picks it up and examines it.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> What is this?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Only one way to find out.</p>
<p><em>Merek plays the tape. Two distorted voices can be heard.</em></p>
<p><strong>Unknown 1:</strong> What’s up?</p>
<p><strong>Unknown 2:</strong> I’ve been calling your name five times, and you didn’t even look at me.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown 1:</strong> I’m trying, alright? I’m sorry, but I can’t-</p>
<p><strong>Unknown 2:</strong> You never listen to me.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown 1:</strong> I know that! I’m trying, but I can’t fix that. There’s nothing I can do.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown 2:</strong> There is. You’re not slow, but you need to figure this stuff out. Unless you’re ignoring me.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown 1:</strong> I’m not ignoring you. I’m not, I promise.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown 2:</strong> I’m just sick of you not understanding shit. You don’t ask people things. You don’t even try.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown 1:</strong> It doesn’t matter that much.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown 2:</strong> It does to me. You don’t talk to anybody at school. You’re a nobody. How are you going to function once you leave the house?</p>
<p><strong>Unknown 1:</strong> I can talk to people. I’m learning things.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown 2:</strong> I don’t think you know anything at all. I’m worried about you, man. I don’t want you to get kicked to the curb.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown 1:</strong> I can think for myself. I just slip up too often.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown 2:</strong> You’ve done a lot more than just ‘slip up’, dumbass.</p>
<p><em>The surroundings revert to their previous state.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> God, I- Who even was that?</p>
<p><em>Merek looks to the floor, and says nothing.</em></p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> That was what he’s been hiding from you this whole time.</p>
<p><em>The pair turn around. In front of them is an entity with a black trenchcoat and a black fedora.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> I had quite a fun time watching you stumble around and revisit your worst nightmares.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Why are you doing this?</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> None of this was my doing. This is the true power of this place. You have desires, and you perceive things around you in your own way. Eventually you obsess over these desires, and you fear what would come if you lose them. These are no mere falsehoods.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Already figured that out. What do you want?</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> An audience for the spectacle ahead. I want your Foundation to know that their hard work will finally be complete.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Go ahead and look through those documents. Once you’re done, come find me. I’ll be waiting to start my grand finale.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> You’ve done your part, so I will do mine.</p>
<p><em>Allan tips his fedora, and immediately vanishes. Emily and Merek are shifted to the exit of the facility.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I’m going to stop him.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> How?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We know how this place works. So we’ll turn it against him.</p>
<p><em>Emily closes her eyes. After a few seconds, she opens them, and looks at her hand. She is now holding a nine-millimeter semi-automatic handgun.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Whoa.</p>
<p><em>Emily checks the ammo of the gun.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Only one bullet, of course. But it’ll have to do.</p>
<p><em>Emily opens the door, and leaves the facility, with Merek in tow.</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
</div>
<p><strong>Addendum 8035.6:</strong> Recovered Documentation</p>
<p>The following is a collection of documents found in the abandoned facility inside SCP-8035-1. These documents contain transcripts of audio recordings, interviews, and notes left by the personnel of this facility.</p>
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<p><strong>Journal Entry from Unknown Author. April 9, 1939.</strong><br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
Got some new ones today. Director Huxley wants them for the new phase of his “experimentation trials.” God knows what that means.<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
They came down from Zane’s Trace, a frontier road built in the early 1800s, used by many Irish immigrants. It connects from St. Clairsville down to Adams County, right next to where we are.<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
They call themselves “The Wanderers”. Group of a bunch of faeries, Sasquatch, and creatures that look like they just walked right out of a fairy tale. We found a Cyclops that only speaks in rhyme, a few goblins strolling around, a banshee, and even an Aqrabuamelu! I never thought I’d get to see sights such as these.<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
They’re all displaced, for some reason or another. A large number of them have some sort of mental or physical condition. They grouped up together, to help one another and to fight to protect each other and their rights as citizens of our great country. It’s a nice sentiment.<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
I keep hearing how the director is conducting his tests, and extracting blood from these people. Apparently he is “determining their taint.” It’s not my business to snoop around, but I’m beginning to suspect that something is going on behind the scenes, and whatever it is, it can’t be good.</p>
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<p><strong>Interview between Director Huxley and [[ILLEGIBLE]]</strong></p>
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<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><strong>Kegley:</strong> Here she is, sir. Your ‘oracle.’</p>
<p><em>Director Huxley looks through the glass in the observation room, at a young girl, sitting in a chair in the center of the room.</em></p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> I will speak to the entity. You will record this conversation through the audio receiver.</p>
<p><strong>Kegley:</strong> Affirmative, sir.</p>
<p><em>Director Huxley enters the room, and sits in a chair opposite from the entity.</em></p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> Good afternoon, Dorothy. I will be your interviewer for today.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Sal Norton Huxley, your hubris will be your downfall.</p>
<p><em>Huxley shifts in his seat.</em></p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> Care to elaborate?</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Your mission will not work. It is infeasible. Your traditional ways and your cult will fail you. This place will turn to ash.</p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> Can you give the exact details of when and how this place will fall?</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> I will never give you a when. But you will know it when you hear the screams, and the tearing of flesh, and the knowledge that you, director, have failed. You will forever be a footnote in history.</p>
<p><em>Huxley smiles.</em></p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> We’ll see about that.</p>
<p><em>Huxley leaves the room, and looks at Kegley.</em></p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> We shall continue our mission as intended.</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Audio Recording of Interaction between Director Huxley and Engineer George Adler. July 21, 1939.</strong></p>
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<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>Adler enters Huxley’s office. Huxley is seen at his desk, shuffling some papers. He looks up at Adler, and smiles.</em></p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> What brings you here today, George?</p>
<p><strong>Adler:</strong> There’s been a backwash of esoteric waste. We’ve been estimating that it can go critical in a month or so.</p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> That’s concerning.</p>
<p><strong>Adler:</strong> We need a better system to deal with this. If you’re just going to keep being careless and let this excess magic junk from your experiments seep into our primitive ‘recycling’ system, it will mix with all the dimensional and temporal objects stored upstairs and kill us all. We need to get Acroamatic Abatement to fix this. Promptly.</p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> I will send them a notice. You can expect this to be solved in about three weeks.</p>
<p><strong>Adler:</strong> Three weeks isn’t enough. That estimate I gave you was just a rough guess. We don’t know when any of this is going to blow.</p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> I have important business to attend to. Your situation will be addressed at another time.</p>
<p><strong>Adler:</strong> What kind of ‘important business’? Your experiments? Hiding away in your office nearly every day? Your constant insistence on this nonsense ‘mission’?</p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> I am doing important work, work that will keep our Veil alive. You are sympathizing with these creatures. They are trying to convince you to release them from their restraints. They want nothing more than to go out to our world and spread their taint. We must remove this taint.</p>
<p><strong>Adler:</strong> Is that why you’ve been collecting their blood?</p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> They need to be saved. I must make a cure, to fix their slow minds, and their physical conditions. They need our help.</p>
<p><strong>Adler:</strong> I don’t think they need anything, especially from someone like you.</p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> Do you want to be labeled a traitor? Are you going to run out and free them all when I’m not looking?</p>
<p><strong>Adler:</strong> I’m not going to be a deserter. But we need to reevaluate what we’re doing here.</p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> There is only one clear course of action here. We must fix them.</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Notes from Director Huxley. August 30, 1939.</strong><br/>
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It is my God-given right to free these beings from the conditions holding them back.<br/>
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They are content with having these conditions. They think they’re just as alive as us, and they are willing to keep slowing themselves from their natural evolution as a people.<br/>
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We must save these creatures from their own annihilation. I can’t imagine what would happen if we released them into our society. If the schizophrenics and the psychopaths of the world were to ever reach our children…<br/>
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But that will not happen. I will see this through. They must be cured. I will find a cure.</p>
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<p><strong>Audio Recording. August 31, 1939.</strong></p>
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<p>Note: It is undetermined how this transcription was created, as it transcribes the events that resulted in the destruction of the facility residing in SCP-8035-1.</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>Several explosions and screams can be heard. A loud whirring noise and sounds of what could be described as squelching can be heard in the distance. The announcement system of the facility is activated, and Director Huxley’s voice can be heard.</em></p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> Good evening, staff at Site-35. It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you all that I failed. Go ahead. Have your guffaw. But this is not the end. No, it’s a new beginning.</p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> I have started a lockdown. No one can get in or out. You can hear the sounds, can’t you? This is our chance. This is my chance, to become something more, and to rid the world of the taint that plagues it. In just a few moments, I will be a god. Our status quo will be preserved.</p>
<p><strong>Huxley:</strong> <em>Witness me.</em></p>
<p><em>The audio feed cuts out.</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8035.7:</strong> Exploration Log 5</p>
<p>The following is the final segment of Emily and Merek’s exploration inside SCP-8035-1.</p>
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<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>Emily and Merek are seen walking down a path in the forest. No sound can be heard other than the leaves crunching beneath the pair’s feet.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> He’s going to kill us.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’re dying in here no matter what we do. We can at least try.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> But I don’t want to die! I don’t want to sacrifice myself for some stupid cause. There has to be another way.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> If you want to turn around and go back, I’m not going to stop you. But I can’t just sit here and let him do his thing.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I can’t play the hero. I’m not like you.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> But you’re still here, helping as much as you can. That’s good enough for me.</p>
<p><em>The pair continue to walk through the path. Faint whispering is picked up by the camera’s audio, but is not heard by Emily or Merek.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> You saw what happened back there, right?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I hurt your friend. My brother. And I’m sorry.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> It’s no excuse, but I’ve always felt like nothing I did or said ever mattered to people. I was just a pushover to everybody around me.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I thought he was ignoring me, because he could. Because I didn’t matter to him. But he did care. He already was going through a lot, and all I ever did for him was rub salt in the wound.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> He’s never going to want to see me again. And that’s 100% warranted. But I want to talk to him again. I miss him, I really do.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I don't think you're being ignored. All those kids look up to you, right?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Yes. Which makes me feel worse. I kept harassing him and gained nothing from it. He’ll forever feel like shit, because of me.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> He’s more forgiving than you think.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Not to me.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> You’re not an exception. If you want to see him again, you’ll have to call him, to arrange something. He’s not calling first.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> What if he doesn’t want to see me?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> You have to give him time. Healing takes time, and effort. You have to put in the effort. You can’t half-ass it, and pretend like it’s all better now. You have to put in the work.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I understand.</p>
<p><em>The pair stop in their tracks, as a loud screeching sound can be heard from up above.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Get down.</p>
<p><em>The pair crouch down near some shrubbery, as a twelve-meter-long entity with the appearance of an eagle flies in the sky above Emily and Merek, and passes by them. Its wingspan is 24 meters long.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Got anything about that in your rules?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> No.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Let’s quiet down and get to Allan before anything else tries to spot us.</p>
<p><em>The two walk through the path ahead. After five minutes of traversing the forest, they end up in another clearing in the forest.</em></p>
<p><em>Allan can be seen, hovering in the center of this clearing, with its arms raised.</em></p>
<p><em>It spots the two approaching it, and floats to the ground below.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Welcome. You’re about to see my work finally being accomplished.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’re not going to let that happen.</p>
<p><em>Allan smiles.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> My work is almost complete. There is nothing you can do.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> The world outside is healing. You’ve seen the numbers trickle down. Everyone wants a quiet life, with no worries to be had, no conflicts, and not a single taint in sight. Normality is the key to keep the gears of civilization turning. I am healing the world and humanity as a species.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> And you think that’s a good thing?</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> I am saving these creatures, Merek. I have found the cure to the taint that plagues them. I can help your brother, as well. I can make him be the brother that you always wanted to have.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Don’t even think about bringing Mike up again.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> He is <em>diseased</em>, Merek. They are all diseased. They are unloved, wretched creatures who can’t even sustain themselves as members of society! And they try to pretend that they’re just like you and me. That is not the case. But I can save them.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I won’t let you take him from me. Where is he?</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> At his office. His involvement became unnecessary when I found the two of you. But I could have saved him, along with the rest.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> They don’t need to be saved. There’s nothing wrong with them.</p>
<p><em>Allan scowls.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> You won’t understand like I do. I know what it’s like. I am just as affected by the corruption in this forest as they are.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> I remember when I saw two visitors in this place for the first time. They were lost, and confused. I lured the male away from his companion, and I snapped his neck.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> The female kept calling out to her companion, and she was shouting the same word every time. Allan, Allan, Allan. It was irritating. But I knew then that something was wrong with me. So I fled, and took the male’s corpse with me.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> I can never feel whole again. Even after every drop of blood I’ve stolen from the visitors, I still have this taint. They corrupted me.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> You must let me finish what I started. You must let me be their savior, before it’s too late.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> No. You’re going to fail, just like you did all those years ago.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Sal Norton Huxley was weak. He does not have the power that I wield. Let me end this.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I have sworn to fulfill my duty to protect and serve the people. The people in this forest are no exception. I will not let you harm them.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> And I had high expectations for you. What a shame.</p>
<p><em>An imperceptible force slams Emily and Merek down to the ground below. Emily is dragged through the dirt and is lifted into the air, while Merek is restrained by the force.</em></p>
<p><em>Allan slowly closes his hand to form a fist, and Emily starts to choke, as her windpipe slowly begins to be crushed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Can you feel it, Emily? Every failure, every hesitation. They’re <em>choking you!</em></p>
<p><em>As Emily struggles in midair, she slowly reaches for her holster and pulls out the handgun. She fires a single shot, directly into Allan’s left eye socket. Blood begins to pour out of the eye socket, and Emily is dropped to the ground below.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> I respect the effort. But a single bullet won’t be enough to save you now.</p>
<p><em>Allan’s wound instantly heals, and it thrusts its arm forward, and lightning shoots out of its fingers, directed towards Merek. It sustains this lightning, and Merek convulses and screams.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> This is what happens when you sympathize with their ilk, Merek! You will suffer just as I and many others have before you.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Stop! Wait-</p>
<p><em>Emily is grabbed by another imperceptible force, and is thrown into a nearby tree. She crumples to the floor.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Pitiful fools. You will-</p>
<p><em>A gunshot can be heard from the distance, and Allan is struck by another bullet, this time in the head. It is thrown back for several meters.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> I think it’s time for you to realize that we outnumber you 264 to one.</p>
<p><em>Sean walks into the clearing, carrying a Remington Model 17 shotgun.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Excellent. Now I have more nuisances to deal with.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> We’re not the monsters that you think we are. We experience everything around us in different ways than you, and we’re put in a position where we constantly have to fend for ourselves. That’s why it’s so hard for us, everywhere we go. Because the world won’t adjust for us; they’d rather knock us down at every turn than take the effort to acknowledge that we exist. But I do know one thing. We’re going to be okay, in the end. We’ll all be okay.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> You are content with this. You think there’s nothing wrong with you.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> I’m not content with what I have. Things can hurt for us. A lot of things hurt for me, right now. I was never proud of what I have, and I don’t know if I ever will. But I’m not going to allow some shmuck to try and ‘save’ something that he doesn’t understand.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> I want a world where we can acknowledge the pain, see both sides, and still celebrate ourselves as who we are. I want a world that can at least try to accept that we exist, one that accommodates our needs, no matter what we need. It’s going to hurt, but no matter what, I’m going to live my life the way I see fit.</p>
<p><em>Merek slowly gets up, along with Emily.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> This place is made out of what people think, right? If that’s the case, maybe all of this is what you perceive, and not objective truth. It’s what you think. The state losing its anomalies, the grotesque-looking people, the fact that you're a godlike being, all of this is just what <em>you</em> want. You see them as monsters, and you want everything to be what you think is normal.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> I will not be silenced by your lies. I am their savior. I will—</p>
<p><em>A large entity swoops down from the air and grabs Allan. It is the same eagle-like entity from before. It grabs Allan by the legs with its talons and swings Allan’s head directly into a tree.</em></p>
<p><em>Allan falls to the ground, and takes a few seconds to get back up.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Is that all you have? I cannot die here. You will not be able to prevent my eschaton.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Sure you can’t die, but you can still feel the pain.</p>
<p><em>In a flash, the entity without skin rapidly approaches Allan from behind it, grabs it, and slams its head into the tree repeatedly. The entity is eventually pushed away by another force.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> You-</p>
<p><em>An arrow pierces Allan’s shoulders. The scorpion entity runs into the clearing from the right, wielding a bow and arrow.</em></p>
<p><em>Five other entities also enter the clearing. The main entity is a pale humanoid with four arms wearing a red dress with wide shoulders and puffy sleeves, a red beret, and white elbow-length gloves. Four emaciated entities are seen standing behind it.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> About time someone finally knocks some sense into this wet smack.</p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Here to join the party, Judith?</p>
<p><strong>Judith:</strong> I dreamt of this day for the longest time. I wouldn’t want to miss a second of it.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> That is enough.</p>
<p><em>Allan pulls the arrow out of its shoulder and begins to float up, high above in the air.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> You’re all congregating, just to remove me from my rightful place as your savior.</p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> But deep down, you know you can’t defeat me. I rule these woods. I am your god. You will bow down to me, eventually.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> You’re not the one in control. There’s one other person who’s in charge of this place, right?</p>
<p><em>There is silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Allan:</strong> Oh.</p>
<p><em>Two massive arms reach out from the darkness of the forest, and drag Allan by the legs. It screams as it is being taken away.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sean:</strong> Here she is.</p>
<p><em>An entity with long, dark hair and a white dress is seen entering the clearing. Its eyes are like those of a snake’s, with elliptical pupils and yellow sclera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> You should not have come.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Hello, miss. I’m sorry that we’re trespassing in your space. We were on a mission to find some missing people who were trapped in this place.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> I know. I wanted them here.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Hold on, what?</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Your Foundation knows what happened to this place, and yet they continue to ignore us. I told him to bring them to me, but he kept them all for himself.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I know about the abandoned site now, but I was never told about any of this. I don’t even think our director fully knows what’s going on here.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Ah, Madeline. I wonder how she feels, having to lock up her kin.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> I know that none of you would have knowledge of this place, because they wouldn’t let you know of this place.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Who?</p>
<p><em>The entity turns, and points a finger at a nearby tree. A light fog is created near the tree, showing a visual of a meeting room, with a large conference table in the center of the room. Thirteen individuals are seen sitting at this table, four of which are female, six male, and present is a spectral entity, a cat, and a supercomputer.</em></p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> We must not let this be known by the wider anomalous community, or our personnel. We cannot let this be known by anyone.</p>
<p><em>The cat paws at a microphone on the table, and activates it.</em></p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> There are still people trapped in there! They need our support. Our personnel and the humanoids will be slowly consumed by this anomaly if we keep ignoring this.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> <tt>The risk of sending a team to rescue these individuals is too great, according to my calculations.</tt></p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> Your calculations are always at least partially incorrect, and you know it.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> <tt>My calculations are clear. We cannot help them. We must leave them.</tt></p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> They’re right. We can’t risk any of our men. They’ll just have to live with it.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> They won’t forgive us for this.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> I know. But we have to do what needs to be done. The Veil must not be broken.</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> I say we move in favor of this proposal. All in support?</p>
<p><em>The fog dissipates.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> No.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> You say you’ve changed your ways, that you’re more willing to cooperate with us. How many other lies have they told you?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I don’t get it. This isn’t the Foundation I know.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Of course it isn’t. The Foundation that you know is not the Foundation of reality.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> We were more forgiving. We trusted that they would change, and we went along with their lies. Never again.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Quick question. Who is ‘we’?</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Us.</p>
<p><em>Several bodies can be seen rising from the ground below. Each of them are bodies of researchers, security officers, administrative personnel, and several other unidentified bodies. They all begin to speak simultaneously.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entities:</strong> We are the screams of those you damned on August the 31st, 1939.</p>
<p><em>The bodies crumple to the ground, unmoving.</em></p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> We cannot trust you. You will not change in meaningful ways. You are not protecting us. You will never be protectors.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I’ve seen what you’ve been through. And I can’t just let you rot here. I want to help.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Help? You are not making the decisions. You are not the ones condemning us to die. You can do nothing. The best thing you can do is leave.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Miss, if I may?</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> You may speak, Merek.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I know you’ve been ignored for the longest time, but that will change. I’m not the Foundation. I’m not here to uphold some dumb status quo. We came here to help, so we’re gonna help.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> The Foundation can’t change what it did. I can’t change what I did. But we can learn from the past. We can strive to grow, to change for the better. Healing takes effort. Change requires action. We’ll take all the action that we can take.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Your acquaintance is a cog in a large, efficient machine. Take one cog away, nothing changes.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Remove one cog, and the machine will noticeably stagnate. If we can get enough people to help us, drastic changes will happen.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Your sites tear each other apart daily. There is no sense of camaraderie. You will be alone in this fight.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Even if I’m the only person willing to make things change, I will try to help you. We can work together, and try to fix this.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> I am not willing to be left to die for a second time.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> You won’t be left to die. I will not let them be forgotten.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> You must understand that I cannot take your words lightly. Everything you see here is your doing.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> When you build a prison of stone and steel, you merely present the prisoner with a challenge. Any truly determined prisoner will find a way out.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> Your promises of aid are only promises, nothing concrete. If you want to help us, you must prove it. Remove your site from the greater Foundation, and then we’ll talk.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> That’s going to be harder than-</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> You still hesitate. You will always hesitate. Nothing greater can be done to help us than for you to set your own path.</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> We will remove everything that your Foundation stands for. Nothing will remain of your Veil. You must eradicate the Council in its entirety, or we will remove them for you. We will let you leave for you to decide.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> What about the missing people? What about my brother?</p>
<p><strong>Entity:</strong> I’ve already put them back in their place, and your brother is alive and safe. You may leave as you wish.</p>
<p><em>The entity snaps its fingers, and the environment is shifted to another area in the forest. Only Emily and Merek are seen.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Well, at least we’re still alive.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I think we should take a lot more from this than ‘glad I’m not dead.’</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> What should we do, then? We didn’t help these people in the slightest.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> We’ll head over to the site, together. Tell the director everything. She’ll know what to do.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I don’t want this to be all for nothing.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> It won’t be.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> I remember something a friend once told me. ‘Más ven cuatro ojos que dos.’ Four eyes see more than two.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> We can’t half-ass it.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Exactly. We have to try. So let’s do that, together.</p>
<p><em>The two enter the Way in front of them, and exit SCP-8035-1. The sun is seen, high in the sky. A Foundation van can be seen in the distance.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> You ready?</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> More than I ever was.</p>
<p><em>The two start to walk towards the van.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> One more thing before we go.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I’m going to call Mike, but if he doesn’t answer, can you tell him that I want to talk, and make things up with him?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> You’re going to have to talk with Mike about that whole thing yourself. But I’ll tell him.</p>
<p><em>Merek looks at the ground.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> Thank you.</p>
<p><em>The van approaches Emily and Merek. One agent disembarks the van, and walks closer to Emily and Merek.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Ximena?</p>
<p><strong>Ximena:</strong> Emily?</p>
<p><em>Ximena runs up to Emily and embraces her.</em></p>
<p><strong>Ximena:</strong> I’m so glad you’re okay.</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Hey, it’s alright, we made it out. I’m right here.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> It’s been a hell of a few hours.</p>
<p><strong>Ximena:</strong> A few hours?</p>
<p><em>Ximena pulls away from Emily and takes a step back.</em></p>
<p><strong>Ximena:</strong> You don’t know?</p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> Is something wrong?</p>
<p><strong>Ximena:</strong> You’ve been gone for six months.</p>
<p><em>There is a short pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> <em>What?</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> That has to be a joke. You’re joking.</p>
<p><strong>Ximena:</strong> I’m being completely serious. Everyone thought you died in that forest.</p>
<p><em>Merek’s eyes go wide, and he turns toward the tree line, and to the entrance to SCP-8035-1. High-pitched laughter can be heard emanating from the tree line.</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily:</strong> No. <em>No.</em> This can’t be happening.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> The kids. What about the kids? Are they-</p>
<p><strong>Ximena:</strong> They’re fine. And so is your brother.</p>
<p><strong>Merek:</strong> I have to get back to the camp.</p>
<p><strong>Ximena:</strong> We’ll be heading back there for your debriefing, anyway. Let’s get out of here.</p>
<p><em>The team heads back to the van. As the van drives toward the campground, Emily and Merek stare back at the entrance to SCP-8035-1. The laughter can still be heard.</em></p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
</div>
<p><strong>Addendum 8035.8:</strong> Update</p>
<p>As of 2024/01/15, the rate of anomalous manifestations in the state of Ohio has increased to 50% of those reported in the late 1930s. After approval from Site-35’s director, a majority approval from the Classification Committee, and a 6-5-2 vote from the O5 Council, SCP-8035’s object class has been changed to Pudicitia.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup></p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. The Umbra class designates anomalies that directly affect the manifestation of anomalous phenomena.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Camp Fantasia, a sleepaway camp that provides housing for anomalous and non-anomalous children alike. The personnel of this campground have made several negotiations with the SCP-8035-2 instances for decades, and have partnered with the Foundation since 2006.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. As the personnel of the campground have more firsthand knowledge about SCP-8035-2 instances, their cooperation is necessary for the continued development of understanding SCP-8035-2 instances.</div>
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<td><span style="font-size:125%;"><strong>Object Class:</strong> Exempt</span></td>
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<p><strong>Object Relations Procedures:</strong> Containment measures or surveillance operations for SCP-8036 are not authorized. However, SCP-8036 has agreed to willingly remain in the city of Puerto Montt, Chile, near Site-53, on the conditions that it receives a regular audience and remains open to the public. Bi-weekly attendance to SCP-8036 is mandatory for all Class-C and Class-D personnel at Site-53.</p>
<p>Special Task Force Zeta-C2 ("Film Buffers,") formerly assigned to observe, research, and propose potential long-term containment measures for SCP-8036, has been formally disbanded. In the event that SCP-8036 relocates away from Puerto Montt, Field Agent Marcela Reale must be dispatched within seven days to negotiate its return. SCP-8036 is expected to demand additional patronage during negotiations, and the Foundation has authorized patronage demands to be met unconditionally. If further demands are made, Site Director Caroline Vasquez must report to the Anomalous Entity Engagement Division.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8036 is a 29,000-square meter, two-story, 1880-guest capacity modern movie theater, operating under the name "Living Pictures Theater." It is comprised of one lobby, two concession stands, an arcade space with four games, two restrooms, and eight auditoriums<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>. Notably absent are any employee-only areas, kitchens, storage areas, or access points to upstairs projection rooms. SCP-8036 has remained in one fixed location since August 9th, 2016. However, prior to Foundation intervention, the theater would spontaneously de-manifest every Tuesday at exactly 12:00 A.M. relative to its initial location's time zone, re-manifesting in a new, seemingly random location and changing its film and concession offerings in the process. Following Foundation intervention, while SCP-8036 has not yet re-located, its films and concessions still change along the same schedule.</p>
<p>While SCP-8036 typically shows at least one film per week in line with other international theaters<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup>, it primarily shows films which are otherwise non-existent, unfinished, or cancelled.</p>
<p>Humanoid entities acting as "employees" of SCP-8036 exist throughout the building. These entities have not been observed cycling through shifts, entering, or exiting, and appear to spontaneously manifest and de-manifest as needed. "Employee manifestations" freely admit to being mere components of SCP-8036, as opposed to independent actors in their own right. By speaking through these "employees," SCP-8036 has demonstrated itself both sentient and sapient. Generally, SCP-8036 is compliant and amicable, but it has demonstrated extreme resistance to explaining its own anomalous properties or to undergoing extended observation.</p>
<p>The first stage of Foundation intervention took place from June 7, 2016 to July 11, 2016. Initially, a single tracking beacon was planted behind a trash can in SCP-8036's front lobby, both to see whether SCP-8036's change in location could be effectively tracked and to see whether items left in the building remain after a relocation event. When this experiment proved successful, Foundation agent Marcela Reale was tasked with repeatedly staying in one of SCP-8036's lobbies overnight during relocation events, tracking its movement, interviewing its "employee" manifestations when possible, and documenting its film and concession offerings. The results of this experiment can be seen in Report 8036.</p>
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<p><strong>Location:</strong> Vancouver, Canada</p>
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Out of the Shadows</em></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Unknown/Nonexistent; Animation.</td>
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<p><strong>Concessions:</strong> Buttered Popcorn, Hot Dogs, Nachos, Soft Drinks, Chocolate-Covered Raisins, Fruit-Flavored Candies, Frozen Broccoli Florets, Baked Beans.</p>
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<p><strong>Transcript: Audio Log 8036-A-A</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> June 7, 2016</p>
<p><strong>Agent on Scene:</strong> Marcela Reale</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8036 - "Box Office Employee" Manifestation</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Hi, there! What can I get for you today?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Hello, I was actually wondering if you could answer a few questions for me?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> …I suppose so, since there's no line.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Thank you. First and foremost, could I get your name?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Right now, I'm Living Pictures Theater Vancouver.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> <em>Your</em> name. Not the name of the theater.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Living Pictures. I, ah, am the theater. Who else would I be?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> An employee.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> I mean, I <em>have</em> employees. They're how I hand out popcorn and talk to people and stuff. …Hey, look at what this one can do!</p>
<p><em>Heavy thud.</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup> <em>Agent Reale stifles a laugh.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I see. And… who was this employee of yours <em>before</em> it… started working for you, as it were?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> What? Nobody. I made it myself. I'm sorry, did you think I <em>abducted someone?</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Oh. …I apologize. I think I just made some incorrect assumptions.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Do most theaters you go to kidnap people?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Most theaters I go to aren't alive.</p>
<p><em>Brief silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Then how do they know what movies to show?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> …Right. On that topic, I have a few questions about this theater in specific. You mentioned that, <em>right now</em>, you're Living Pictures Theater Vancouver.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> That's what it says on GPS.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> But, yesterday, you were located in Brazil.</p>
<p><em>Brief silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> How did you know about that?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I'm a traveling film student. I've heard word about a magic movie theater, and I've been trying to cross paths with it for a while.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> <em>A film student!</em> Of course! It all makes sense now. And you've heard of me?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I have. I know you move in the middle of the night once a week, but I don't know how or why.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> The <em>how</em> is a bit personal, if I'm honest. The <em>why</em>, though… I just haven't found an audience to call home. I try to go where the people are, but nothing's stuck yet.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I suppose that makes sense. In that case, could I just get one ticket to <em>The Day the Clown Cried</em>, please?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> You really are a film student, aren't you? That'll be in Auditorium Six! Right that way!</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p><strong>Transcript: Audio Log 8036-A-B</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> June 8, 2016</p>
<p><strong>Agent on Scene:</strong> Marcela Reale</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8036 - "Box Office Employee" Manifestation</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I'm back, baby!<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Film student!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Movie theater!</p>
<p><em>Sharp exhale.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Here two days in a row, huh?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Well, you're only here for a week, yeah? Let's go with… <em>Ninja Turtles</em> this time.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> No problem!</p>
<p><em>Sound of a ticket printer.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> By the way, I never got <em>your</em> name!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Oh! Marcela. Marcela Reale.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Well, Marcela, <em>Turtles</em> is in the IMAX auditorium - closest one to you!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Thanks!</p>
<p><em>Brief silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Can I ask another question?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Besides the one you just did? Sure.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Where do you <em>get</em> your movies, exactly? <em>Ninja Turtles</em> is in most theaters right now, but I've never heard of <em>Pill Bug Penny</em> or <em>Rapid Onset Parachute Failure</em>, and the movie I saw yesterday, I can't find anywhere else.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> …Oh. <em>(Stammering.)</em> That's… that's a bit of a personal question, isn't it?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Is it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> It's a bit like asking where you get your emotions. Or, more like… where subconscious thoughts come from.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Interesting. Thank you for your time.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Thank you for your patronage!</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p><strong>Journal Log: Marcela Reale</strong></p>
<p><strong>June 8, 2016</strong></p>
<p>We've already learned a few things. First, this movie theater is <em>one sapient entity,</em> or at the very least behaves like one. There's no way for me to be sure, of course, but I honestly don't think it's lying to me about anything - it seems to be pretty upfront about what it is, even if it's disappointingly hesitant to answer the "how" question. Maybe that'll get better with time?</p>
<p>The good news is, it buys my cover story completely, and it's probably not going to be very difficult to get it to talk in the near future. The bad news is, there's no way I'm going to be able to sleep in the lobby Tuesday night without it realizing what I'm doing. I'm going to have to figure out some way to spin that.</p>
<p>I've got seven days before this place jumps again, and I want to try to watch all seven of its current movies in this time. So far, I've seen <em>The Day the Clown Cried</em>, which made <em>me</em> cry, and <em>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows</em>, which there was nothing wrong with. Nothing the Foundation would be interested in, I mean. It's a <em>bad</em> movie.</p>
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<p><strong>June 10, 2016</strong></p>
<p>Hey, it's Marcela again. New info on the theater: the thing's a <em>total dork.</em> I don't think it's very used to repeat visitors, and everything it knows, it knows through movies. I'm having a lot of fun.</p>
<p>I've now watched two of the titles we can't find anywhere else - <em>Pill Bug Penny</em> and <em>Rapid Onset Parachute Failure.</em> Both were… charmingly amateur? I don't know how else to say it; they felt like they were made by somebody who really loves movies but hasn't had any formal schooling in the craft. The edit was sloppy, the dialogue a bit stiff, but everything came across <em>earnest.</em> Really funny, too. I think the theater might be making them on its own, somehow.</p>
<p>I'm halfway to Tuesday. I think I'm just going to have to be straightforward with it; let it know I want to stay the night and travel with it. I'll touch back with you then.</p>
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<p><strong>Transcript: Audio Log 8036-A-C</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> June 13, 2016</p>
<p><strong>Agent on Scene:</strong> Marcela Reale</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8036 - "Box Office Employee" Manifestation</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Marcela! Welcome back! A whole seven days in a row; you did it!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I did it! Do you know where you'll go next, Living Pictures?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> No clue! I usually just decide on something in the moment. Wherever it is, though, I'll miss seeing you around.</p>
<p><em>Brief silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Actually, about that, I was wondering… if something stayed here in the lobby overnight, it would travel with you, right?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> …Huh. I guess I never thought about it. Probably? Why?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Can I come with you?</p>
<p><em>Extended silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Oh. Oh, wow. I've never… I mean, sure! But… you know how this works. We could go anywhere.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Wherever it is, I'll book a hotel.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> …Thank you, Marcela.</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p><strong>Journal Log: Marcela Reale</strong></p>
<p><strong>June 13, 2016</strong></p>
<p>That was easier than I thought. Truth be told, I think Living Pictures is just lonely, more than anything. It wants a friend.</p>
<p>I've got a sleeping bag set up in the lobby. Who knows where I'm going to wake up! It's exciting, honestly! And it's a pretty sweet gig, getting paid Foundation money to watch movies all day and hang out with a new friend. I feel like I'm scamming you guys.</p>
<p>Not much else to report tonight, but I suspect I'll have a lot to say tomorrow.</p>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Alice Through the Looking Glass</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Normative; Fantasy Adventure.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Now You See Me 2</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Normative; Heist Thriller.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>WarCraft</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Normative; Action Fantasy.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>The Works</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Unreleased/Cancelled; Animation.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Revenge of the Nerds (2007)</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Unreleased/Cancelled; Comedy.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>The Bob and Larry Movie</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Unreleased/Cancelled; Religious Animation.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Napoleon</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Unreleased/Cancelled; Historical Drama.</td>
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<p><strong>Concessions:</strong> Buttered Popcorn, Buttered Mashed Potatoes, Pretzels with Cheese Dip, Nachos, Soft Drinks, Chocolate Drops, Chocolate-Covered Peanuts, Chocolate-Covered Garlic Cloves, "Applesauce Loose in a Paper Bag."</p>
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<p><strong>Transcript: Audio Log 8036-B-A</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> June 14, 2016</p>
<p><strong>Agent on Scene:</strong> Marcela Reale</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8036 - "Janitor Employee" Manifestation</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Good morning from Italy, Marcela!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> <em>(Audibly startled)</em> Who are you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Hey, hey, it's just me! Living Pictures! The theater!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Right, right, sorry. I haven't seen this "employee" of yours yet.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Were you reaching for a gun in your pocket just now?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> No, I'm just happy to see you. You said we're in Italy?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Yep! Turin! The closest hotel should be the Principi di Piemonte, but it's… expensive. There's also a Best Western pretty close.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Oh, thanks. You sure know the area pretty well.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> I have to! Can't show up where a building already is, or where nobody would be able to find me!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I guess so. By the way, I was meaning to ask, you really tend to jump to a lot of different countries.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Travel's fun!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Do you speak the languages? Like, do you speak Italian? All the signage in here's still in English.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Sí! Well, some, at least. Mostly I know English and French. Everything else, I sorta know just enough to… do… movie theater stuff? Can't really hold a conversation that well. What about you; are you multilingual?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Sólo inglés y español.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> ¡Oh! ¡Español! ¡Conozco algunas frases en español!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> …¿Por ejemplo?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> "El auditorio dos estará a su izquierda."</p>
<p><em>Laughter.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I guess we're sticking with English, then.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Sure thing!</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p><strong>Journal Log: Marcela Reale</strong></p>
<p><strong>June 15, 2016</strong></p>
<p>What's up, I'm back. This is the easiest mission I've ever done, and I get to do it from <em>Italy.</em> Practically a vacation!</p>
<p>Living Pictures Theater's still affable, and at this point I think it's safe to say it poses absolutely no danger of any kind whatsoever. A few of its concession offerings are <em>weird</em>, but they've all tested safe for human consumption so far. I've been having popcorn for lunch for three days.</p>
<p>So, yeah, harmless, but I'm also not sure exactly how we're going to contain the thing. Haven't been able to get it to share how it teleports around yet, and at this point I feel sorta rude for asking, so I'm going to give it a rest for a while. Also, I'm pretty sure the building exterior is <em>actually indestructible.</em> All the wear and tear seems entirely cosmetic, and I haven't been able to so much as pick up a rock by the front door. It's like it's glued in place. I'm not going to test that any further, though; someone else can handle that. But please don't.</p>
<p>I've measured the thing, too. 29,000 square meters; pretty small for a theater. Thing is, Living Pictures <em>noticed me doing it</em>, and asked what was up. I panicked, and said I wanted to draw it. So… now I gotta go out and get some nice sketch paper and pencils. I don't even really know where to <em>start</em> with that, but I'm writing it off as an expense of the trip.</p>
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<p><strong>Journal Log: Marcela Reale</strong></p>
<p><strong>June 17, 2016</strong></p>
<p>I did the drawing! I'm not an artist, but I think Living Pictures appreciated it anyways.</p>
<p>Still no ideas on containment measures, but relations are going real well. I've decided that this theater is my friend now. Maybe we could get it to stay at Site-53 willingly? I'm sure it would understand if I asked!</p>
<p>In the meantime, though, don't worry, I have a cover story and I'm still sticking to it. Ciao!</p>
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<p><strong>Transcript: Audio Log 8036-B-B</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> June 20, 2016</p>
<p><strong>Agent on Scene:</strong> Marcela Reale</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8036 - "Janitor Employee" Manifestation</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Cleaning up all by yourself?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Oh, hey, Marcie. Didn't see you come in. Yeah, this week's been a pretty busy one.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I can tell. Hand me a broom.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> You- you don't have to help me with this.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> But I will!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> If you're sure!</p>
<p><em>Extended silence. Sound of two brooms sweeping.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Okay, you <em>definitely</em> don't have to help me dig popcorn out of the seats.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Trust me; I've cleaned up worse. Just… dig them out, throw them to the floor, then sweep them up, yeah?</p>
<p><em>SCP-8036 sighs.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Yeah. Do you want some gloves?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> You're not wearing any gloves.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> That's because this isn't my only pair of hands.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Alright. If you have any, I'll take them.</p>
<p><em>Extended silence. Sound of a person putting on rubber gloves. Sound of two brooms sweeping.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Can I ask another question?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> <em>(Audibly disappointed)</em> It's not another question about how I do things, is it?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> No, actually, it's about your gender situation.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Oh. Oh!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Most, but not all, of your employees appear female, and… you're a <em>theater.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Right. I guess I'm… mostly, but not entirely, a woman? I don't know; what genders do <em>movies</em> have?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Are you… movies?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> I don't know.</p>
<p><em>Extended silence. Sound of two brooms sweeping.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Hey, what's your favorite film?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> <em>The Little Shop of Horrors!</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Really!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Really really! We had a lot of old B-movie tapes laying around the house when I was a kid, and that one was always my favorite. Truth be told, I think watching that movie over and over again when I was a kid was what got me interested in- <em>(Stammering.)</em> …Film.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Makes sense! It's a fun one! And you seem like you really appreciate cheese.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I am a cheese connoisseur. What about you; what's your favorite?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> I'm not sure! <em>Grand Budapest Hotel</em>? I feel like it changes for me every couple of years.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I can see that. You probably watch a lot more than anyone else does.</p>
<p><em>Brief silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> You're not offering <em>milk</em> in the concession stand this week, right?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> No, but that does sound like it would be funny. Why?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Somebody left <em>milk</em> in this cup holder.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Oh. <em>(Laughing)</em> Gross!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> <em>(Laughing)</em> Who <em>does</em> this!</p>
<p>[ENG LOG]</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>WEEK THREE: JUNE 21 - 27</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Location:</strong> Nairobi, Kenya</p>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Finding Dory</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Normative; Animation.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Kingdom of the Sun</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Unreleased/Cancelled; Animation.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Flora Plum</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Unreleased/Cancelled; Romance.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Climbing Mt. Mountain</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Unknown/Nonexistent; Buddy Comedy.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>I Bought us an Aquarium!</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Unknown/Nonexistent; Buddy Comedy.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Captain Mack: Clown Crew</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Unknown/Nonexistent; Science Fiction.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>The Little Shop of Horrors</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Extant; Horror Comedy.</td>
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<p><strong>Concessions:</strong> Buttered Popcorn, Ugali Fries, Frozen Lemonade, Vanilla Ice Cream, Chocolate Ice Cream, Root Beer, Fruit and Cheese Platter, Bacon-Wrapped Gumballs, Roasted Turkey Leg, "Edible Chalk."</p>
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<p><strong>Transcript: Audio Log 8036-C-A</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> June 21, 2016</p>
<p><strong>Agent on Scene:</strong> Marcela Reale</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8036 - "Concessions Employee" Manifestation</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> <em>(Yawning)</em> Morning, Liv!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Morning, Marcie! Ugali fry?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> What's an ugali fry?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> It's like… kind of a fried cornmeal porridge type situation.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Oh, sure!</p>
<p><em>Chewing.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Where are we now, anyways?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Nairobi, Kenya! The nation's capital, and a centerpiece of finance and culture!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> If you weren't a building, you'd make a pretty good travel guide.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Maybe if I could figure out how to <em>move</em> more than once a week.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Right, right. I keep forgetting you're the whole building, and not, like, a human being with multiple faces.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> I know the feeling. Sometimes I forget you <em>are</em> a human. I picture you as a library - you'd make a great one.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Aw, you think so?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> I know so! You're smart, you're curious, you're kind, you're cute-</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> What was that?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Hm?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> What was that last one?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> I- <em>(Stammering)</em> I don't know what you're talking about.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Mm-hm.</p>
<p><em>Brief Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> You, too.</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p><strong>Journal Log: Marcela Reale</strong></p>
<p><strong>June 21, 2016</strong></p>
<p>Okay, I know how this <em>looks</em>, but seriously, I don't think Liv is even enough of a threat to warrant calling this a conflict of interest. She's just <em>nice</em>. She's just a nice theater.</p>
<p>Can we nominate anomalies for recruitment? Honestly, I don't think it would be a good idea to enact containment procedures for Liv, assuming we even could. She's a cool teleporting theater with an endless string of movies and a pretty impressive knowledge of world geography we could actually take advantage of.</p>
<p>…Or maybe that's wishful thinking; I don't know.</p>
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<p><strong>Transcript: Audio Log 8036-C-B</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> June 24, 2016</p>
<p><strong>Agent on Scene:</strong> Marcela Reale</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8036 - "Concessions Employee" Manifestation</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Hey, I've never seen on of your "employees" on break before.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> I'm trying something new!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Mind if I sit down next to you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Of course!</p>
<p><em>Sound of a barstool creaking.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> How's the cigarette?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Oh, this is just something I figured people are supposed to do on breaks; I don't even know if this body has lungs.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> <em>(Laughing)</em> Well, it's the thought that counts, I guess.</p>
<p><em>Brief silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> …Thanks for putting on <em>Little Shop of Horrors</em> for me.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> You haven't even gotten to see it yet!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I know, I know, I'm just looking for the perfect time to.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Well, I'll show it any week you want to see it.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> …How about seeing it with me?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Come again?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> You're taking breaks now, right? Do you wanna catch it tonight?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> …I'd really like that.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Then it's a date!</p>
<p><em>Extended silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> You know… I think you're my favorite guest I've ever had.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> How about that. You're my favorite theater I've ever been to.</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p><strong>Foreward:</strong> It is believed that, on the morning of June 28, before Agent Reale awoke, SCP-8036 discovered the tracking device that had been planted on it when an employee manifestation was performing a monthly cleaning of the lobby.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>WEEK FOUR: JUNE 28 - JULY 4</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Location:</strong> Upernavik, Greenland</p>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>The Little Shop of Horrors</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Extant; Horror Comedy.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Steamboat Willie</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Extant; Animation.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Night of the Living Dead</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Extant; Horror.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Made For Each Other</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Extant; Romance.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Living Pictures</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Unknown/Nonexistent; Documentary.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Infestation!</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Unknown/Nonexistent; Horror.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">[No Title Available]</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Unkown/Nonexistent; Abstract.</td>
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<p><strong>Concessions:</strong> None.</p>
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<p><strong>Transcript: Audio Log 8036-D</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> June 20, 2016</p>
<p><strong>Agent on Scene:</strong> Marcela Reale</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8036 - Auditorium and Lobby Sound System</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> <em>(Distorted orchestral music)</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Wh- Liv, it's just…</p>
<p><em>(Distorted orchestral music rapidly increases in volume)</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> ¡Santa Madre!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> <em>Bugs on me! Stop putting bugs on me!</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup> <em>No more, please, I can't anymore! No, no!</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-7')">7</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Liv, are you okay?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> <em>(Screaming; Indecipherable)</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-8" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-8')">8</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> …You're not okay. Alright, hold on, hold on, I'm gonna find out what's wrong -</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Nothing's the matter with me! I'm fine!<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-9" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-9')">9</a></sup> Fine! Who am I to argue with science!?<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-10" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-10')">10</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Liv, you're scaring me.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> And please- And please- And <strong><em>Please</em></strong>, no recording devices in the theater. <strong><em>No recording devices in the theater.</em></strong> [Unintelligible] is a crime!<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-11" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-11')">11</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> What are you- Liv, talk to me. What's going on?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> How could you- How could you- How could you-<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-12" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-12')">12</a></sup> <em>You… lied… to… me.</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-13" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-13')">13</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I don't understand.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> She said she was a film student, and she was kind enough that the theater believed her. But the theater couldn't see… that she was tracking her every move. Writing it all down. Reporting it to God-knows-who.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-14" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-14')">14</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> …Oh. <em>Oh.</em></p>
<p><em>Sound of footsteps, rapidly increasing in speed.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> How much was a lie? How much was genuine? And who was Marcela really working for? We may never know.</p>
<p><em>Agent Reale is breathing heavily.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> This isn't the first time someone's come after Living Pictures Theater. This isn't the first time somebody's tried to hurt her. It probably won't be the last. But it <em>was</em> the time that stung the hardest.</p>
<p><em>Sound of a door swinging open.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> <em>Ow.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Oh! Oh, I… I kind of thought the door was going to be locked.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> <strong><em>Get out of here.</em></strong><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-15" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-15')">15</a></sup></p>
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<p><strong>Concessions:</strong> Presumed none.</p>
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<p><strong>July 5, 2016</strong></p>
<p>What's up. Still in Greenland.</p>
<p>I've holed up in the local church, and I'm sending this whole report early through an encoded radio transmission. Hopefully somebody back at Site-53 catches this and comes to pick me up.</p>
<p>I don't know where Liv is. Mark this mission a failure and get me off the project.</p>
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<p>On July 13th, 2016, Site Director Caroline Vasquez received a relevant phone call from astronomy analyst Jackson Hall. A transcript of this call is attached below.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> July 13, 2016</p>
<p><strong>Caller:</strong> Mr. Jackson Hall</p>
<p><strong>Receiver:</strong> Director Caroline Vasquez</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Hall:</strong> Hello, can I speak with Director Vasquez, Site-53?</p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> Speaking.</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Hall:</strong> Your site's the one that got assigned the jumpy movie theater, yes?</p>
<p><em>Director Vasquez sighs.</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> Yes. I assure you, finding SCP-8036 and resuming intelligence operations is a Delta-level priority, and we will report our findings as soon as we have them-</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Hall:</strong> Yeah, yeah. That's not why I'm calling. Do you have the theater's dimensions on you, by any chance?</p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> Oh. One second.</p>
<p><em>Sound of a computer mouse double-clicking. Sound of typing.</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> 29,000 square meters.</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Hall:</strong> I see. Perfect square, or rectangle?</p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> I don't know. I could ask Agent Reale, but I don't think she's willing to talk about her mission right now. Why?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Hall:</strong> My name is Jackson Hall; I'm with the Astronomy department. We've recently detected an unknown object blocking an almost imperceptible amount of sunlight, and it seems to have apparated <em>exactly</em> at midnight, Greenland Summer time, on July 5th. Current estimations also place it at roughly 29,000 square meters.</p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> In outer space.</p>
<p><em>Short silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mr. Hall:</strong> …<em>Yes.</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> Can I ask <em>where</em> in outer space?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Hall:</strong> The, uh… the surface of the Sun.</p>
<p><em>Lengthy silence. Sound of fingernails tapping against a desk.</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> You mean to tell me you think SCP-8036 relocated to the <em>Sun.</em></p>
<p><strong>Mr. Hall:</strong> That's… Our best theory, cross-referencing any entities we know of which may be able to withstand the Sun's heat <em>and</em> are known to spontaneously materialize.</p>
<p><em>Director Vasquez sighs again.</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> Well, if that's true, then let it have its tantrum. The thing is as good as contained for now. If SCP-8036 manifests again on this planet, we'll send Agent Reale back out to finish what she started.</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Hall:</strong> Thank you. I'll let you know when it de-materializes again.</p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> Can't wait.</p>
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<p>SCP-8036 remained missing until August 1st, when it was re-discovered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. At this point, Caroline Vasquez contacted Agent Reale concerning a negotiation assignment. A transcript of the following calls are attached below.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> August 1st, 2016</p>
<p><strong>Caller:</strong> Director Caroline Vasquez</p>
<p><strong>Receiver:</strong> Agent Marcela Reale</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Hello?</p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> Agent Reale?</p>
<p><em>Agent Reale exhales.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Director Vasquez?</p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> You're on assignment again. Dhaka, Bangladesh. It's low-priority, so I can give you the details now and you can just go.</p>
<p><em>Sound of a bedframe creaking.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Great. Great. Bangladesh? I can… I can do that. What's the mission?</p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> It's SCP-8036.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> August 1st, 2016</p>
<p><strong>Caller:</strong> Director Caroline Vasquez</p>
<p><strong>Receiver:</strong> Agent Marcela Reale</p>
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<p>[BEGIN LOG]</p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> Did you hang up on me?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Yes.</p>
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<p><strong>Transcript: Recorded Phone Conversation</strong></p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> August 1st, 2016</p>
<p><strong>Caller:</strong> Director Caroline Vasquez</p>
<p><strong>Receiver:</strong> Agent Marcela Reale</p>
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<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> Agent Reale, your participation in this assignment is not optional.</p>
<p><em>Lengthy silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> …<em>Fine.</em> Tell me what you have in mind.</p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> You're the only person who's even remotely likely to be able to talk to SCP-8036.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I don't think that's true.</p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> I don't care what you <em>think</em>, the fact is, that theater's on edge, and the next person we send out, it's going to see coming. Our only hope for getting anywhere is if you go down and <em>patch things up.</em></p>
<p><em>Director Vasquez sighs.</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> We might have <em>found</em> it in Bangladesh, but it's… closed. Doors are locked, movies aren't playing. It's… I think it's just as upset about this as you are.</p>
<p><em>Lengthy silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Alright, fine. I think I know what to do. But I'm going to need you to get me something.</p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> Whatever you need.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Are we recording this right now?</p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> That's… standard procedure, yes.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I need to talk about it off the record.</p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> That's not normally how we do things.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> And what other part of this <em>is</em> normal?</p>
<p><em>Long pause.</em></p>
<p><strong>Director Vasquez:</strong> …Fine.</p>
<p>[END LOG]</p>
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<p>Agent Reale returned to SCP-8036 on August 3rd to negotiate with the entity and complete her report.</p>
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<p><strong>Location:</strong> Dhaka, Bangladesh</p>
<p>Week Six did not feature any listed films.</p>
<p><strong>Concessions:</strong> None.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> August 3, 2016</p>
<p><strong>Agent on Scene:</strong> Marcela Reale</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> SCP-8036</p>
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<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Hey, Liv… it's… it's me again. Marcie.</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I know… how do I say this. I know I probably shouldn't have even come back, but…</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I didn't know. I didn't know… that you… are who you are. If I did, I wouldn't have <em>lied</em> to you. I… I don't <em>think</em> I would have lied to you.</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> …You're right. No excuses. Okay, look, I'm not here to patch things up. Really. I know I hurt you, and if you never want to see me again after this, I… I understand. I respect that.</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I'm here for the Foundation - the people I work for - and… I'm here to formally offer you exemption.</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I can't undo what I did, but… I've made sure nobody will ever do it again. We won't bother you, we won't come near you, you can just… keep being who you are. I'll be okay, I think, even if I never see you again, as long as you keep being who you are.</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I…</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I love you, Liv.</p>
<p><em>Sound of a door unlocking. Sound of a door opening.</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> …Liv?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-16" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-16')">16</a></sup> Maybe… we can start over.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I- …Yeah. Maybe we can.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Nice to meet you. I'm Living Pictures Theater. I'm closed right now, but… I hope I can open up again soon.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> I'm Agent Marcela Reale. I work for a place called The Foundation, in a site down in Puerto Montt, Chile. We… deal with anomalies.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Deal with as in <em>fix</em>, or deal with in as in <em>destroy</em>?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> We secure, we contain, and we protect.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Hm.</p>
<p><em>Silence.</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Puerto Montt, huh? That's a beach town, right?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> Every town in Chile is a beach town.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8036:</strong> Heh, true. …Maybe I could stop by for a while.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Reale:</strong> That would be nice.</p>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:<br/>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>The Little Shop of Horrors</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Extant; Horror Comedy</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black"><em>Pill Bug Penny</em></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Unknown/Nonexistent; Animation.</td>
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<p><strong>Concessions:</strong> Buttered Popcorn, Root Beer, Ugali Fries, Milk, Chocolate-Covered Raisins, Bacon-Wrapped Gumballs, White Lily Arrangement.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-17" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-17')">17</a></sup></p>
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<p><strong>Journal Log: Marcela Reale</strong></p>
<p><strong>August 15, 2016</strong></p>
<p>This is, finally, <em>actually</em>, my last journal entry for Report 8036. No more surveillance or documentation is going to be done on Liv from here on out, thank God, but if anyone has any movie suggestions, I could take it up with her.</p>
<p>Agent Reale, signing off.</p>
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<p>Following the completion of Report 8036, SCP-8036's exemption was finalized and its Object Relations Procedures were codified.</p>
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<p>To say Agent Reale's suggestion has been a controversial one is an understatement - the Foundation, generally speaking, does not <em>do</em> exemptions. And yet, the longer her proposed "Object Relations Procedures" have sat at my desk, the longer I have found myself wondering who or what we are actually meant to be protecting. Who benefits from our interference on SCP-8036? Is our role here to incarcerate that which is dangerous, or is it merely to hide that which we cannot yet explain? And why is it so difficult to accept that there may be a difference?</p>
<p>SCP-8036's anomalous properties pose no clear threat to itself, the Foundation, or humanity. With that in mind, all containment procedures are now unauthorized. I understand some may question my authority to make this decision. To them I would like to say: it was difficult enough for you to find one person willing to run this place; I don't think you want to risk having to go for a second.</p>
<p>All of us here, to varying extents, love that which is alien to us. You almost have to, to dedicate your life to the Foundation's cause. The only difference I see between Agent Reale and the rest of us is that, in her case, the love is reciprocal.</p>
<p>I'm very happy for you, Marcela. Please never make me pull something like this again.</p>
<p>— Caroline Vasquez, Director, Site-53</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. Seven standard and one <em>IMAX</em>.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Such films hereafter referred to as "normative."</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Agent Reale later reported that, at this point in the interview, SCP-8036's employee manifestation stood back and performed a backflip.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. Spoken in a poor impression of the character "Bender" from the animated American sitcom <em>Futurama.</em></div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. Audio matched to <em>Steamboat Willie.</em></div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. Audio source likely from <em>Infestation!</em>.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-7')">7</a>. Audio matched to <em>The Little Shop of Horrors.</em></div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-8"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-8')">8</a>. Audio source unknown.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-9"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-9')">9</a>. Audio matched to <em>Made For Each Other</em>.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-10"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-10')">10</a>. Audio matched to <em>The Little Shop of Horrors.</em></div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-11"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-11')">11</a>. Audio matched to SCP-8036's standard pre-show reel, albeit heavily distorted.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-12"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-12')">12</a>. Audio matched to <em>The Little Shop of Horrors</em>, albeit heavily distorted.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-13"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-13')">13</a>. Audio source unknown; clips possibly taken from multiple sources.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-14"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-14')">14</a>. Audio source likely from the documentary <em>Living Pictures</em>.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-15"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-15')">15</a>. Audio matched to <em>Night of the Living Dead.</em></div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-16"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-16')">16</a>. Voice matched to a "concession stand employee" manifestation.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-17"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-17')">17</a>. Only one white lily arrangement was available in stock. Item was free of charge.</div>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8037</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Safe</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8037 is kept in a climate-controlled chamber in the Botanical Storage Wing of Site-16. Routine feeding and plant care is performed by Containment Technicians when SCP-8037 is not involved in active testing.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8037 is an instance of the Venus flytrap<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> plant. It is significantly larger than typical examples of the species, and exceeds the natural limits of energy and movement for flora of its kind. It has four of the distinct leaves, in addition to several vine-like tendrils which it controls with exceptional strength and precision. SCP-8037 is capable of autonomous movement, utilizing its features to manipulate objects and move itself around in its environment. It is rooted in soil held by a planter pot made of alumina ceramic.</p>
<p>SCP-8037 is capable of speech. The leaves move in sync with the expressed vocalizations, despite impossibility of the floral physiology producing such sounds. SCP-8037 primarily speaks in a distinct manner characterised by lyrical verse and vocal harmonies of barbershop music.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Addedum-01: Discovery</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> <em>Routine Foundation Normalcy Monitoring Systems detected a potential disturbance at the premises of Green Al's Garden Kingdom in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. An SCP Field Asset Team was deployed to investigate further.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>[BEGIN LOG]</strong></p>
<p><em>[Agent Polk and Agent Rodney walk across a parking lot and enter the store.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Polk:</strong> So what exactly are we looking out for?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Rodney:</strong> We don't know <em>exactly</em> what we're looking for, that's <em>why</em> they send us here to look out.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Polk:</strong> How do we keep getting calls like these? Just once, I'd like to be in the second wave of response and know what I'm walking into beforehand.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Rodney:</strong> By then all the fun could already be over.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Polk:</strong> Yeah, yeah… all the "fun". Okay, you sweep that way, I'll head past the gardening tools here; we'll meet up again at the greenhouse area in back.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Rodney:</strong> Roger that.</p>
<p><em>[The agents separate and proceed to search the store, section by section.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Polk:</strong> It's quiet.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Rodney:</strong> Aren't you going to say "too quiet"?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Polk:</strong> Too quiet for what? It's a hobby shop on a Wednesday afternoon, of course it wouldn't be busy.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Rodney:</strong> But I haven't seen any employees around either.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Polk:</strong> Huh. Good point.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Rodney:</strong> Aha! Here we go… Are you close to the greenhouse yet? Join me in aisle 8, if you could, please.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Polk:</strong> What's the deal?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Rodney:</strong> Oh, you'll want to see this for yourself.</p>
<p><em>[Agent Rodney approaches from behind a small group of people gathered in one aisle.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Polk:</strong> Sure I will… Be there in a minute.</p>
<p><em>[Agent Rodney maneuvers to the front of the crowd. Under a sales display for Venus Flytrap plants, video captures one particular instance moving irregularly and emitting sounds; its attention seems to be focused on an adjacent display of succulents.]</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> <em>singing (in harmony with itself)</em><br/></p>
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<p>Oooh, please say that you'll be mine!<br/>
(Say you'll be mine!)<br/>
If you would hold me in your arms, I wouldn't mind the spines!<br/>
(I wouldn't mind!)<br/>
So darling don't be prickly, please answer me quickly,<br/>
Pretty desert cactus flower, say that you'll be mine!<br/>
(Say you'll be mine!)</p>
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<p><em>[Sparse applause from a confused-looking audience.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Polk:</strong> Oh lord… So this is it, huh?</p>
<p><em>[SCP-8037 uses its vines and movement capabilities to maneuver itself closer to the cactus. It then attempts to embrace the cactus, entangling itself among the limbs and skewering itself upon the spines.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Agent Rodney:</strong> Uhh… Eddie! The damn thing malfunctioned again!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Polk:</strong> Oh? Umm… Right. I'm on top of it, boss.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Rodney:</strong> Sorry for this, folks! I'm afraid our promotional display isn't working properly at this time.</p>
<p><strong>Agent Polk:</strong> But do be sure to watch "World of Wondrous Plants" on your streaming services at home!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Rodney:</strong> Eddie, hush! Just get that contraption out of here.</p>
<p><em>[A store employee approaches.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Gentleman:</strong> What's the meaning of all this ruckus?</p>
<p><strong>Agent Rodney:</strong> Are you the manager on duty here?</p>
<p><strong>Gentleman:</strong> Manager? I'm the owner of this store!</p>
<p><strong>Agent Rodney:</strong> Well that's perfect then. My colleague here will clean this up; how about you and I go somewhere a bit more private to finish this conversation?</p>
<p><em>[Agent Rodney disseminates a cover story involving viral marketing promotion for an upcoming television program. Agent Polk prepares SCP-8037 for transportation.]</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>[END LOG]</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Afterword:</strong> All relevant witnesses were administered Class-A amnestics. Following acquisition, SCP-8037 was transferred to Site-16 for long-term containment.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Addendum-02: Initial Interview</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> SCP-8037 has been placed in Testing Chamber 07 for purposes of recording an interview. Dr. Nathan Reed supervising; Researcher Brianna Humphrey conducting.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>[BEGIN LOG]</strong></p>
<p><em>[Researcher Humphrey enters the testing chamber.]</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> <em>(singing)</em><br/></p>
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<p>Georgia claimed her, Georgia named her,<br/>
Sweet little Georgia Brown!</p>
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<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> Has this been going on the whole time?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> <em>(scat performance of Sweet Georgia Brown continues)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> Yes. They want to perform when anybody's there, they seem to run rehearsals when anybody's not. I don't know what to tell you.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> <em>(sigh)</em> The sooner we start, the sooner we can finish.</p>
<p><em>[Researcher Humphrey takes a seat and organizes her pens, pencils, and notepad on the table.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> We're recording, yes?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> Proceed whenever you're ready.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> Alright. SCP-8037, I'd like for us to have a conversation.</p>
<p><em>[SCP-8037 concludes its prior song.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> Can you tell me anything about yourself?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> Ya hear that, fellas? She wants to know all about us! Let's give her our opening number.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> There's no need for singing, just—</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> <em>singing (in harmony with itself)</em></p>
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<p>We're those four boys that you've seen,<br/>
A potted plant, our leaves so green,<br/>
We make salads jealous by the bowlful<br/>
(By the bowlful)</p>
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<p><em>[Researcher Humphrey turns away to look back at Dr. Reed.]</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> <em>singing (in harmony with itself)</em></p>
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<p>But the most impressive thing,<br/>
Is the way we dance and sing,<br/>
With our golden voices, oh so soulful<br/>
(So so soulful)</p>
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<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> Am I seriously supposed to work with this?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> <em>singing (in harmony with itself)</em></p>
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<p>We hope that it's not too shady,<br/>
When we see a pretty lady,<br/>
We can't help but sing songs of romancing<br/>
(Of romance…-ing)</p>
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<p><em>[SCP-8037 has used its tendrils to seize the stationery from the table and donned folded paper hats, while also twirling the pens and pencils like batons.]</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> <em>singing (in harmony with itself)</em></p>
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<p>Here comes this part of our act,<br/>
Walking sticks and fancy hats,<br/>
And now it's time we do a little dancing<br/>
(It's time for dancing)</p>
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<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> Ugh! All my notes! I have two more interviews to do before lunch, and then archival duty all afternoon. I don't have time for putting up with this!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> Do you need Security in there?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> Security, Containment Techs; you can come in here and take this thing back to the greenhouse yourself, for all I care. I'm leaving.</p>
<p><em>[Researcher Humphrey concludes the interview session.]</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">[<strong>END LOG</strong>]</p>
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<p><strong>Afterword:</strong> <em>"Researcher Humphrey has received a reprimand, stressing the importance of maintaining composure in Interview situations and persistently seeking to extract data." — Dr. Reed</em></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Addendum-03: Subsequent Interview</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> Following a series of tests and observations on the biology of SCP-8037, it has been decided to resume attempts at communication or gaining psychological insight.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> The audio recording was not operating correctly for the first portion of this log.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>[BEGIN LOG]</strong></p>
<p><em>[Video shows Researcher Humphrey enter the chamber. Humphrey places pens, pencils, notepad, and a small bag on the table.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Researcher Humphrey feeds SCP-8037 from the contents of the bag, then sits across the table and begins writing in her notepad.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> Brianna, would you please check the microphone's connection?</p>
<p><em>[Researcher Humphrey inspects and adjusts the device]</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey :</strong> -check. Can you hear me now?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> Yes. You began the interview without me?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> Well, you were running a few minutes late. I didn't see the harm in it.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> I could have told you the mic wasn't receiving. None of the audio before now was picked up!</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> Oh, well that's fine. SCP-8037 isn't in such a talkative mood this morning anyway.</p>
<p><em>[SCP-8037 is humming a tune and dancing along, its main leaves remaining closed.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> What? Why?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> I also performed a feeding before you got in. There's a nutrient supplement here we apply to the feed pieces, but it has this… sticky… consistency to it. Kind of like taffy.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> So you came early, and impeded the interview before I got here?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> That's absurd! Merely a scheduling conflict between overworked staff, in a facility with equipment which is behind on maintenance…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> Remind me to omit that later. Keep such discussions between you and the appropriate channels, not on SCP documents.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> I'm just saying.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> Never mind. This still won't look good on us. What's the use of this interview been, thanks to this happening?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> I'm studying its movements.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> <em>(sigh)</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>[END LOG]</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Afterword:</strong> <em>"The vines have shown a propensity for arranging themselves to mimic a roughly human form. SCP-8037 demonstrated its version of several swing era dances, such as The Charleston and The Carolina Shag." —Researcher Humphrey</em></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Addendum-04: Final Interview</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> Further inquiry into the nature of SCP-8037, via direct communication, will be carried out.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> An experimental test condition will be applied in conjunction in this interview.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> How are we feeling this morning?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> Everything's great.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> So are we going to conduct a productive interview today?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> You bet.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> And where did this note about an "experimental test condition" come from?</p>
<p><em>[Researcher Humphrey reveals a pot with a mundane Venus flytrap plant in it.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> Ta-daa!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> You put a little bow on top?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> For a feminine touch.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> <em>(chuckle)</em> Just don't tell me her name is Audrey.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> Haven't you seen that movie?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> I have no clue what you're talking about.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> Huh… Okay then. But what's the point here?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> I think it'll be easier to sit through this if <em>I'm</em> not the object of this thing's… "admiration". It nearly hugged itself to death on a cactus, so it must like plants most of all.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> Fine, I'll give you a chance here. But remember you're on thin ice already, so this better work out.</p>
<p><em>[Researcher Humphrey enters the chamber.]</em></p>
<p><em>[SCP-8037 is performing vocal exercises.]</em></p>
<p><em>[Researcher Humphrey approaches the table.]</em></p>
<p><em>[SCP-8037 perks up.]</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> Look who's here, boys! Are we ready? A-one, and a-two, and a-one, two, three.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> <em>singing (in harmony with itself)</em></p>
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<p>Hello my honey,<br/>
Hello my darling,<br/>
Hello my ragtime gal,<br/>
(My sweet gal)</p>
<p>Send me a kiss by wire,<br/>
(By wire) —</p>
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<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> <em>(interrupting)</em> Now now, fellas. You know I can't do that.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> But baby… my heart's on fire.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> Yes, I am aware. But perhaps I do have something to help in that regard.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> Could it be? Is love in the air?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> Is it actually responding to you?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> I think by now we have some rapport built up between us; don't interrupt now.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> <em>singing (in harmony with itself)</em></p>
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<p>Oh how long it's been,<br/>
Since last we have seen,<br/>
A sweetheart to love tender and true</p>
<p>It's a sad lonesome scene,<br/>
Behind our leaves red and green,<br/>
On the inside we're feeling so blue</p>
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<p><em>[Researcher Humphrey reveals the mundane plant to SCP-8037 and places it on the table.]</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> Get a gander at this gorgeous gal!</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> <em>(Using a higher pitch voice)</em> "Well how do you do, sweetie pie!"</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8037:</strong> <em>singing (in harmony with itself)</em><br/></p>
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<p>I must be looking at the finest,<br/>
Beauty of the Carolinas,<br/>
This darling is a masterpiece so rare<br/>
(She's oh so rare)</p>
<p>Much more than just a raggy weed,<br/>
She's everything I'd ever need,<br/>
If only her and I could be a pair<br/>
(Oh what a pair!)</p>
<p>Well I hope that it's not too soon,<br/>
But we could get married in June,<br/>
I feel that's where our fate's heading<br/>
(Where fates are heading)</p>
<p>Into my vines you would swoon,<br/>
We'll dance in the light of the moon,<br/>
Just you and I on the night of our glorious wedding!<br/>
(A big grand wedding!)</p>
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<p><em>[SCP-8037 maneuvers itself closer to the mundane plant. SCP-8037 pulls the plant into a close embrace, and then ceases further activity.]</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> What's happened to it?</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe it was just acting out because it felt lonely before now?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> That's speculative.</p>
<p><strong>Resesrcher Humphrey:</strong> Speculation is pretty much all we can do in a case like this, isn't it? And now we've gained more data to speculate on.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> Yes, I suppose we have.</p>
<p><strong>Researcher Humphrey:</strong> This seems like the end of today's interview here; can we wrap it up? I'd like the extra time to ensure Test Chamber 6 is correctly prepped for the session in there.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Reed:</strong> Very well. I'll page the Containment Technicians to come return 8037 to the greenhouse.</p>
<p><em>[Researcher Humphrey exits the chamber.]</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>[END LOG]</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Afterword:</strong> Upon subsequent review of video recorded between the time when Researcher Humphrey left the room and when Containment Technicians entered to transport SCP-8037 to its chamber, the leaves of the mundane plant appeared to slowly curl into a grin.</p>
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<p>Foundation Webcrawler Delta-414 (“RONDO REVOLUTION”) is to search the web for all mentions of SCP-8038. Upon discovery, all instances are to be removed and downloaded onto a secure hard drive; all content is to be archived before deletion.</p>
<p>Further action on SCP-8038 is being deliberated.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:125%;"><strong>Description:</strong></span></p>
<p>SCP-8038 refers to Episode 79 of the 1993 Japanese anime <em>Sparkling Butterfly</em>. On June 1st, 2022, SCP-8038 began to appear on both illegal and legal anime streaming sites and platforms online, as well as retroactively on previously-released physical media (VHS, Laserdisc, Blu-Ray, etc.). As only 78 episodes were produced, the sudden existence of a fully-created 79th episode, as well as its appearance on physical media was determined significant enough for Foundation intervention.</p>
<p>Additionally, while the original 78 episodes of <em>Sparkling Butterfly</em> would often focus on either regular life for Fujimiya or her battles against the evil Crystallizing as the mahou shoujo<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> Sparkling Butterfly, SCP-8038 focuses on the titular character reconciling with the main villain of the series. It is also notable that SCP-8038's run time is significantly shorter than any of the episodes of the original series with a run time of approximately 10 minutes, as opposed to the normal 24 minutes and ten seconds.</p>
<p>The following excerpts are taken from the English Wikipedia article for familiarization purposes.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Sparkling Butterfly</em></strong> (<span style="color: #3366cc">Japanese</span>: 煌めきバタフライ, <span style="color: #3366cc">Hepburn</span>: <em>Kirameki Batofurai</em>) also stylized as <strong><em>Sparkling! 🦋 BUTTERFLY</em></strong> ( キラキラ🦋タフライ, <em>Kirakira Batofurai</em>), is a Japanese <span style="color: #3366cc">magical girl anime television series</span> written and produced by <span style="color: #3366cc">Sakura Animations</span> which aired from 1993 to 1995 on MiraiTV and ran for two seasons with a total run of 78 episodes. The series follows Ageha Fujimiya, a 15-year-old high school student who is recruited by the mysterious Dumach and taught how to transform into the magical Sparkling Butterfly, a superheroine with the ability to fight the evil empress Crystallizing who wishes to corrupt the world. While not fighting evil, Fujimiya deals with her daily life and growing up.</p>
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<p>In North America and Europe, the anime was released through online streaming on the <span style="color: #3366cc"><em>AnimePalace</em></span> streaming service. Due to the series' cult status, an official blu-ray was also released in 2018. No English dub has been produced for the series.</p>
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<p>Characters</p>
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<p><strong>Ageha Fujimiya</strong> (藤宮 揚羽, <em>Fujimiya Ageha</em>) / <strong>Sparkling Butterfly</strong> (スパークリング・バタフライ, <em>Supākuringu Batofurai</em>)</p>
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<p>Voiced by: <span style="color: #3366cc">Masuyo Inoue</span></p>
<p>A kind 15-year-old girl that attends Itogahara High School. She is cheerful and upbeat, with many friends in her class. After being given the power to transform into the superheroine Sparkling Butterfly by Dumach, she promises to fight the monsters sent by her arch-rival, Crystallizing. She loves gardening, insects, and nature. Aspires to be an entomologist. At the end of the series, she chooses to be the last holder of the Sparkling Butterfly title.</p>
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<p><strong>Minami Suzuki</strong> (鈴木 みなみ, <em>Suzuki Minami</em>)</p>
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<p>Voiced by: <span style="color: #3366cc">Chiho Yonemura</span></p>
<p>A 15-year-old girl who is Fujimiya's best friend. She is the only one who knows about Fujimiya's ability to transform into Sparkling Butterfly. Although powerless, she supports her best friend and often covers for Fujimiya in class so she can defeat Crystallizing. She is a lot shyer than Fujimiya but very friendly once she is able to connect with someone new.</p>
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<p><strong>Haruki Yamamoto</strong> (山本 春木, <em>Yamamoto Haruki</em>)</p>
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<p>Voiced by: <span style="color: #3366cc">Tetsuya Kagawa</span></p>
<p>A popular 17-year-old boy who also attends Itogahara High School. He is charming and elegant, which has caused almost every girl in the school to fall for him, including Fujimiya. He is friends with Fujimiya and Suzuki, and it is implied that he has a crush on Suzuki. One of the series's running gags involves him loudly praising Sparkling Butterfly's efforts in front of Fujimiya.</p>
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<p><strong>Nobu Shimada</strong> (島田 城, <em>Shimada Nobu</em>) / <strong>Crystallizing</strong> (クリスタライジング, <em>Kurisutaraijingu</em>)</p>
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<p>Voiced by: <span style="color: #3366cc">Yūri Kai</span></p>
<p>An evil, chaotic adult woman with the ability to cocoon people and turn their greatest desires into a monster called a Chrysalis. Her plots are often disrupted by Fujimiya, who she considers her greatest enemy. She works in disguise at Itogahara Middle School as a PE teacher, but is initially unaware that Fujimiya is Sparkling Butterfly.</p>
<p>In the final several episodes, it is revealed that she was the original Sparkling Butterfly. Unwillingly forced into the position by Dumach, she rebelled and was subsequently cursed by him, leading to her becoming Crystallizing. She is heavily injured in the finale, and implied to have died.</p>
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<p><strong>Mashhit Dumach</strong> (マッシュヒーツ・ドゥーマック, <em>Masshuhītsu Doūmakku</em>)</p>
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<p>Voiced by: <span style="color: #3366cc">Kaneto Shiozawa</span></p>
<p>A mysterious, well-dressed young man who gives Fujimiya the power to become Sparkling Butterfly. Claiming to be an emissary for good, he instructs Fujimiya to fight Crystallizing's attempts to debauch the world.</p>
<p>At the end of the series, it is revealed that he is directly responsible for Crystallizing's condition. While mostly appearing to be an affable and friendly man, he is actually a very vindictive spider-like being that feeds on chaos and fear. In the finale, both Sparkling Butterfly and Crystallizing work together to defeat him.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:125%;"><strong>Addendum 01:</strong> Discovery</span></p>
<p>SCP-8038 first came to Foundation attention on June 1st, 2022, when a Foundation webcrawler picked up possible anomaly keyphrases on a popular forum board dedicated to anime wherein fans of <em>Sparkling Butterfly</em> discussed a mysterious new 79th episode of the series.<br/>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">gandamudato</span> | JUN. 01, 2022 | #267422686</span></p>
<p>So this might not really be the place for this, but this is the anime board after all so I thought I’d post here. I was going to rewatch Sparkling Butterfly so I could make some more fanart, and on PlaceForAnime I noticed there was a 79th episode. I thought this was a mistake at first and was just like a copy of one of the other episodes, so I decided to watch it to make sure. NOPE. It’s a completely new episode and it’s still in the animation style of the original series. The plot was really strange to me, as it was about Fujimiya forgiving Crystallizing for everything she did seven years after the series ended. It also was way shorter than a normal episode at just 10 minutes. But there was one really major change that stood out. Crystallizing was a dude. Like we all know she was a woman (yes I'm aware of what the writers planned originally and all but it unfortunately doesn't count). Is this like their way of starting a reboot or something? And why didn’t they announce its release? Why dump it straight to streaming platforms? Did anyone else see this?<br/>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">SoleilFruit</span> | JUN. 01, 2022 | #267422742</span></p>
<p>I saw this too, and I honestly wondered if I was going crazy. They even brought back OP1, Kagayaku! Shining Butterfly. Not that I mind the changes, but it’s something that was really strange to me. Feels like a pretty good follow up to the kinda depressing ending though.</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">Nutrababy</span> | JUN. 01, 2022 | #267423034</span> <span style="font-size:90%;"><span style="color: #5a6c8a"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>267423106</span></span></span></p>
<p>Sakura Animation actually posted about this on their socials</p>
<p>They stated that they didn’t make the episode there are no plans for a reboot or anything and they’re actually trying to figure out where it came from</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">SoleilFruit</span> | JUN. 01, 2022 | #267423106</span></p>
<p><span style="color: red"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>267423034</span></span><br/>
Whoa really? That’s like really weird</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">gandamudato</span> [OP] | JUN. 01, 2022 | #267423117</span> <span style="font-size:90%;"><span style="color: #5a6c8a"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>267423153</span></span></span></p>
<p>I just checked their socials and yep, it’s true. They also clarified that Crystallizing was "open to interpretation" but written as a woman. In the new episode, she talks about how she’s happy to finally be herself. Or uh, his self? She says that he's a guy now. Do you think a fan made this trying to project a headcanon onto the character? Like rewriting the finale? It's too high quality to be a fanwork though…</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">Nutrababy</span> | JUN. 01, 2022 | #267423153</span> <span style="font-size:90%;"><span style="color: #5a6c8a"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>267423452</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: red"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>#267423117</span></span><br/>
Possibly</p>
<p>But then how would it have gotten on official streaming platforms if it was a fan project</p>
<p>Maybe it's a leak of an anniversary special or something and they're trying to cover it up. It's almost the 30th anniversary in a couple of years so</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">gandamudato</span> [OP] | JUN. 01, 2022 | #267423452</span></p>
<p><span style="color: red"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>#267423153</span></span><br/>
That’s a good point, this is really weird.</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">CrystallizingCrystal</span> | JUN. 01, 2022 | #267423553</span> <span style="font-size:90%;"><span style="color: #5a6c8a"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>267423699</span></span> <span style="color: #5a6c8a"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>267423880</span></span> <span style="color: #5a6c8a"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>267424525</span></span></span></p>
<p>you guys may not care about the change, but i do. like the whole point of crystallizing is she's meant to be a WOMAN. if they wanted her to be some fugly dude, it woulda been in the show. she was supposed to be the hot and sexy anime villain that fans could love like what the fuck is this woke shit</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">lupulella-mesomelas</span> | JUN. 01, 2022 | #267423699</span><br/>
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<p><span style="color: red"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>267423553</span></span><br/>
<span style="color: #6c8a4c">>what the fuck is this woke shit</span><br/>
ARE YOU STUPID?</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">Moonlightlegend</span> | JUN. 01, 2022 | #267423452</span></p>
<p><span style="color: red"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>267423553</span></span><br/>
Found the media illiterate.</p>
<p>It's always the damn Crystallizing fans man. Do you have enough braincells to pick up on subtext? The show always hinted that there was something off with him, that he was longing for something he couldn't have (and no it wasn't fucking defeating Sparkling Butterfly)</p>
<p>did you see the finale? did we even watch the same show</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">CrystallizingCrystal</span> | JUN. 01, 2022 | #267424097</span> <span style="font-size:90%;"><span style="color: #5a6c8a"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>267424097</span></span></span></p>
<p>SHE!!! crystallizing is a GIRL!!! a fucking dommy mommy bad bitch. stop with that woke shit</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">Moonlightlegend</span> | JUN. 01, 2022 | 267424221</span></p>
<p><span style="color: red"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>267424097</span></span><br/>
low effort bait you're so gonna get banned</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">Rev Girl Utena</span> | JUN. 01, 2022 | #267424525</span></p>
<p><span style="color: red"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>267423553</span></span><br/>
You legit sound like ep. 77 Dumach rn</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">Aurabug27</span> | JUN. 02, 2022 | #267425290</span></p>
<p>Could anyone find out anything about who the new voice actor for Crystallizing is? Ageha sounds the exact same too which is really weird considering it's been almost 30 years and her original voice actress is in her 50s now. Plus if you look back at the promos from a couple of years ago for the blue ray she sounds noticeably different. There are no credits and I've never heard this voice actor for Crystallizing before.</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">gandamudato</span> [OP] | JUN. 02, 2022 | #267425380</span></p>
<p><span style="color: red"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>#267425290</span></span><br/>
I looked into it, and I couldn't find a thing. Someone asked Masuyo Inoue, Fujimiya's seiyuu, since she's active on twitter, and she said she hasn't done any voice work for Sparkling Butterfly since the HD release.</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">Aurabug27</span> | JUN. 02, 2022 | #267425452</span></p>
<p><span style="color: red"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">>></span>267423553</span></span><br/>
This is weird as hell.</p>
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<p><span class="minisig"><span style="color: #18612e">gandamudato</span> [OP] | JUN. 02, 2022 | #267425680</span></p>
<p>OK so I grabbed my HD Blu Ray to check if I could find anything in the extras on it but I swear im going crazy. The freaky part is that this episode shows up in the episode list on my DVD. My Blu Ray DVD from four years ago. Like, it's there, labeled as Episode 79. It was absolutely NOT there before man this has to be some Mandela Effect shit.</p>
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<p>Following standard protocol, the conversation was immediately remotely terminated by the Foundation under the cover of a DDoS attack and all users involved with the anomaly were administered visual memetoamnestics.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:125%;"><strong>Addendum 02:</strong> Episode Transcripts [67 & SCP-8038]</span></p>
<p>Due to the contents of SCP-8038 being significantly different from the original series of <em>Sparkling Butterfly</em>, a translated transcript of the original show has been included for comparison. Full transcripts of all the episodes and SCP-8038 are available by contacting the Foundation Photo-Video Analysis Review Department [PVARD].</p>
<p>The following is a portion of a transcript from Episode 67.</p>
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<p><strong>[Transcript is from 13:37-18:51 out of 24:10.]</strong></p>
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<p>EXT. PARK - DAY</p>
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<p>Fujimiya and Suzuki are sitting at a bench in a public park, both in their school uniforms.</p>
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<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
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<p>Aaaaaauuh! It's my fault Yamamoto got in trouble… he took the blame for me! I was the one who was peeking at the contest results.</p>
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<p>SUZUKI</p>
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<p>It's not like you meant bad by it, you were only trying to see if Matsudaira was cheating.</p>
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<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
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<p>But now Yamamoto is going to be mad at me! He was just trying to hide the barrette I dropped in there… waaaaaaah, what should I do, Minami-chan?</p>
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<p>Fujimiya grabs Suzuki by the shoulders and shakes her.</p>
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<p>SUZUKI</p>
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<p>Ageha, if he really was angry at you, he wouldn't have risked trying to pick up your barrette for you!</p>
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<p>Fujimiya stops shaking Suzuki.</p>
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<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
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<p>Ah, that's true, isn't it?</p>
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<p>SUZUKI</p>
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<p>It is! If you're really worried, why don't you write him a letter?</p>
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<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
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<p>But writing letters is your thing…</p>
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<p>Suzuki reaches into her bag.</p>
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<p>SUZUKI</p>
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<p>Everyone can do it! Letters are the gateway to the soul! What's a better way to express your feelings than to write them down?</p>
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<p>She pulls out a pen and notepad and hands it to Fujimiya.</p>
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<p>SUZUKI</p>
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<p>I love writing letters to people. That's why my dream is to be a writer. So I can express my feelings in writing!</p>
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<p>Fujimiya takes the pen and paper, with a sulking frown on her face.</p>
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<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
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<p>I guess I could try it for you, Minami…</p>
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<p>Suzuki smiles and claps her hands together.</p>
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<p>SUZUKI</p>
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<p>That's the spirit! You're always trying to do the right thing, Ageha-chan. I'm sure expressing yourself will clear up everything between you and Yamamoto.</p>
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<p>A voice from behind them startles them.</p>
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<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
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<p>How cute. But as if writing measly little letters is going to solve anything.</p>
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<p>Crystallizing appears in the sky, floating above the two on a pack of dark-colored butterflies.<br/>
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Fujimiya gasps.</p>
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<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
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<p>Crystallizing!</p>
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<p>SUZUKI</p>
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<p>Do you have to ruin every nice moment?</p>
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<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
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<p>Hmph! The same goes for your friend. Every time I'm about to succeed, she always ruins it with her sparkly little gleams of light. But not this time!</p>
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<p>Crystallizing reaches out her hand, pointing it towards Suzuki.</p>
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<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
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<p>Dark wings, show the desire in her heart, and trap it where it'll never flourish!</p>
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<p>A dark aura surrounds Suzuki, causing her to fall unconscious. She is lifted into the sky, a dark cocoon wrapping itself around her. After she is trapped, a giant monster shaped like an envelope with a butterfly seal appears. It ROARS.</p>
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<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
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<p>Minami, wait for me! I'll protect you!</p>
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<p>The background is replaced with a glowing orange and gold aura. A sparkling silhouette of Fujimiya is seen. A butterfly-themed wand appears in her hand. Her hair falls out of the low pigtails it's in, now flowing loose. Fujimiya waves the wand over her head, her hair growing longer, then moves to tie itself up in two large high ponytails. Next, she points the wand over her torso, a puffy-sleeved top and a short but multiple-layered frilly skirt appears. She points the wand at her legs, thigh-length stockings with lace at the top appearing. She then points the wand to her feet, two orange heels with golden butterflies at the toe of each shoe forming. Short gloves form around her hands. Lastly, she points the wand at her face. Makeup appears on her face, and her eyes turn from brown to orange.<br/>
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Sparkling Butterfly lands on the ground in a pose, ready to fight. She looks at the cocoon Minami has been trapped in, an angry expression on her face.</p>
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<p>SPARKLING BUTTERFLY (FUJIIMIYA)</p>
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<p>You’ve really done it this time, Crystallizing!</p>
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<p>The monster starts towards Sparkling Butterfly. She dodges the attack, swiftly moving to the side.</p>
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<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
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<p>Oh? Is this what angers you, Little Sparkler? I’d argue I’ve done much worse.</p>
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<p>Crystallizing places a finger on her chin.<br/>
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Sparkling Butterfly jumps up into the air. She does a flip, then jumps towards the giant monster, kicking it with extreme force, causing it to stumble backward with a loud groan.</p>
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<p>SPARKLING BUTTERFLY</p>
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<p>You turned my precious Minami into a Chrysalis! I didn’t think you’d stoop so low! What did she do to you, huh?</p>
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<p>Crystallizing throws her head back, giving a hearty laugh.</p>
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<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
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<div class="dtext">
<p>What did she do to me? What did she do to me? It’s not about what <em>she</em> did to me. Or about what anyone I target has done to me. You wouldn't understand! You're just a child. You don't live in reality! Chrysalis, after her!</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>The Chrysalis gets back up from the ground, starting after Sparkling Butterfly once more.<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
Sparkling Butterfly dodges its punch once again.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>SPARKLING BUTTERFLY</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>I live in reality more than you do! I help my parents with their business! I attend school and keep my grades high! And I have to stop you from terrorizing innocent people! All Minami wanted was to show herself through her letters! What do you want, huh? To ruin people’s lives?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>Crystallizing scoffs.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>Don't joke around. All you do is what people tell you to do! Life doesn't care for what people want or hope. Once you understand that, the better off you'll be! That's the real truth! Chrysalis, don’t just stand there, get her!</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>The Chrysalis starts towards Sparkling Butterfly, successfully landing a hit, causing the girl to be thrown into a nearby building.<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
Sparkling Butterfly slowly pushes herself back up to stand.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>SPARKLING BUTTERFLY</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>You're right, I don't understand that, and I never will! I won't ever live like that!</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>The background behind Sparkling Butterfly becomes sparkling hues of orange and gold. She raises her wand up.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char cont">
<p>SPARKLING BUTTERFLY</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>Sparkling Butterfly Sparkle Bomb!</p>
</div>
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<div class="scp-image-block block-center" style="width: 100%; box-shadow: none; background-color: lightyellow;">
<div class="scp-image-caption" style="width:100%;">
<p>A still from Episode 67.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>Sparkling Butterfly aims the wand at the Chrysalis. It is soon blasted by the ray of sparkles and orange butterflies, causing it to disappear.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char cont">
<p>SPARKLING BUTTERFLY</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>Spread your wings, Minami!</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>The cocoon holding an unconscious Suzuki gently folds open, causing her to fall down from the sky. Sparkling Butterfly dashes over to Suzuki, catching the girl.<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
An angry expression is on Crystallizing’s face.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char cont">
<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>Of course you save your little friend and the day once again! That’s all you ever want. You'll never learn!</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>Crystallizing disappears in a cloud of black butterflies.<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
Sparkling Butterfly looks down at her unconscious friend, and strokes her hair.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>SPARKLING BUTTERFLY</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>Unforgivable. What does Crystallizing want? She constantly puts innocent people in danger. I will always protect the world from her! What she wants will never matter to anyone!</p>
</div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
The following is the transcript of SCP-8038, Episode 79.
<h1 id="toc1"></h1>
<div class="script">
<div class="fadein">
<p>The opening titles of <em>Sparkling Butterfly</em> plays.</p>
</div>
<div class="scene">
<p>EXT. PARK - DAY</p>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>Fujimiya and Suzuki approach a bench in the park covered by a tree. Suzuki is wearing a jacket and a t-shirt with slacks; Fujimiya is wearing dress shirt and dress pants. Suzuki is holding onto Fujimiya, her arm interlinked with Fujimiya's. They stop short a small distance away from the bench.<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
Suzuki turns towards Fujimiya.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>SUZUKI</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>My opinion on this is still the same… but if you need me, give me a shout and I'll step in, okay?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>She leans in and kisses her on the cheek.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>It'll be just like back then. I promise!</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>SUZUKI</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>That's what I'm worried about…</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>Fujimiya breaks off from Suzuki and approaches the bench. Sitting at the bench is CRYSTALLIZING: his body type is more masculine, and he's wearing jeans and a sweater. He leans back in the bench as Fujimiya approaches and sits down.<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
After sitting in silence for about a minute, Fujimiya speaks.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>I suppose I should start, then.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>No, I should. It was a real longshot — I expected to… I wasn't really prepared.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>He sighs.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char cont">
<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>I'm sorry for everything I put you through. I know it doesn't excuse that—</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>You're right, it doesn't. But I've seen what you've been doing ever since then — I think that speaks more than any apology you could give me.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>Maybe. I'm not exactly proud of who I used to be.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="scp-image-block block-center" style="width: 100%; box-shadow: none; background-color: lightyellow;">
<div class="scp-image-caption" style="width:100%;">
<p>A still from SCP-8038.</p>
</div>
</div>
<h1 id="toc2"></h1>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>I should apologize, too. Back then, I'd never questioned what I'd been told — if only I had just reached out and asked…</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>Crystallizing laughs.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>You don't need to apologize. I was the villain and you were the hero, remember? That's just the way things were written.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>We have other options now.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>Villains aren't supposed to get a second chance. You're supposed to defeat them and save the day.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>Didn't we already? Together?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>Both are silent for a little while.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char cont">
<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>You know, it's funny that we're both themed after butterflies. Butterflies signify growth and change and becoming someone new, yet we just stayed the same all that time. Whose poor choice was that?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>Crystallizing smirks.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>I think we know the answer to that better than anyone else.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>It's in our hands now, at least.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>I appreciate you giving me this, Fujimiya. I never wanted to be like that. I never asked for it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>(beat)</em></p>
<p>I’m happy I get to be who I want to be now, but I'm not sure I deserve it.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>There's no excuse for all the people you hurt, but you've tried every moment since you recovered to atone for what you did. In that process, you found yourself. You deserve that happiness. What kind of hero would I be if I didn't give everyone a chance?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>Crystallizing leans back in the bench further.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>I could learn a thing or two from you.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>I'm only paying back the favor. Now that you're who you want to be… what is your dream?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>What's my dream?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>He pauses.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char cont">
<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>I can't say I've thought about it.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>That's okay! As Minami always tells me, there's always time to find it. Speaking of —</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>Fujimiya stands up.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>I promised her I'd keep it short. She says she won't ever forgive you, but — and don't tell her this — sometimes I catch her reminiscing about those days in PE with our beloved Shimada-sensei.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>Calling me that only makes me feel old. Just call me Nobuhiko, okay?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>FUJIMIYA</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p>That's a good name. Okay, Mr. Nobuhiko then. Bye for now, but you know how to contact me! I want to talk to you again sometime, alright?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>He nods.<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
Fujimiya stands up and walks back over to Suzuki. As the two start to walk away, Suzuki turns around and waves back at Crystallizing.<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
He returns the wave, and Suzuki continues walking with Fujimiya.</p>
</div>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="char">
<p>CRYSTALLIZING</p>
</div>
<div class="dtext">
<p><span class="paren">quietly</span><br/>
Kids nowadays…</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="action">
<p>He covers his face in his hands and softly cries.</p>
</div>
<div class="transition">
<p>The closing credits of <em>Sparkling Butterfly</em> plays.</p>
</div>
</div>
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<p><span style="font-size:125%;"><strong>Addendum 03:</strong> Containment Procedure Deliberation</span></p>
<p>After a period of discussion with media containment specialists, it was decided that the containment procedures will be as follows:</p>
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<p>The Foundation will conduct a disinformation campaign with the assistance of Sakura Animations that SCP-8038 is the 79th episode; while unreleased on television, it was included in all home media releases and also remastered in 2018 for the 25th anniversary. Any previous online activity that contradicts this cover story is to be erased. Monitoring of changes in SCP-8038 behavior will continue. However, due to the acceptance of SCP-8038 by the show's community and lack of further anomalous activity, it is highly likely that any further Foundation intervention (if at all) will be extremely minimal.</p>
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<p>A suggested object class change to <span style="color: green"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><tt>Safe, pending Neutralized</tt></span></span> is in the process of being approved as well.<br/>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. "Mahou shoujo" means magical girl.</div>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8039</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Euclid</p>
<p><strong>Containment Client:</strong> West California Government, a subsidiary of the FunBob Soft Drink Corporation.</p>
<p><strong>Containment Package:</strong> Deluxe Containment</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8039 is currently contained on Floor 28 of Site-277, located in the Gradient District of MacroCity 11 (“Lutetia Parisiorum”).</p>
<p>SCP-8039 is to be fed a synthetic bovine <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">three</span> two times a day in accordance with Nutritional Chart 8039-3. Due to SCP-8039’s hostility, these feedings are to be performed via crane — or, in the event that this is not possible, a member of D-Class personnel. Any eggs produced following feeding sessions are to be incinerated using the modules built into the containment chamber's floor.</p>
<p>In accordance with the Deluxe Containment Package, research on SCP-8039 that does not directly pertain to its containment is currently forbidden.</p>
<p><em>Please note that the SCP Corporation is currently pursuing missed payments from the Containment Client regarding this anomaly. As such, these containment procedures are liable to change in the near future.</em></p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8039 is a mollusk of abnormal size, approximately eight feet tall and six feet wide.</p>
<p>It is superficially similar in appearance to a common nutrition-snail, with the exception of an engorged human face protruding from the head region and a mechanical structure fused with its back. While SCP-8039 originally possessed a natural shell, this appears to have been replaced at some point with the wreckage of a Ford Swan, which it has crudely incorporated into its anatomy. The means by which this was accomplished is as-of-yet unclear.</p>
<p>SCP-8039 has demonstrated mild telepathic capabilities — namely, the ability to detect emotional states over long distances. It primarily uses this as a means of locating food sources, or avoiding potential predators. When agitated, the strength of this telepathy increases considerably: it has been observed inducing violent rage and self-destructive despair in others when it feels it is under threat.</p>
<p>Despite its size and bulk, SCP-8039 has proven to be surprisingly fast, capable of moving at speeds of 40km/h over short distances to devour prey. SCP-8039 is carnivorous and seems to prefer a human food source — this is believed to be an acquired taste following its initial escape from the site of its creation. Following feeding, SCP-8039 will lay eight to ten eggs, which will gestate and hatch over a twelve-hour period.</p>
<p>While procedure dictates that these eggs be incinerated before they hatch, evidence suggests that the offspring produced by them would possess the same anomalous properties as SCP-8039.</p>
<p>It is believed that SCP-8039 originated from genetic engineering experiments on the part of our client, presumably to create larger and more pleasant-tasting nutrition snails. Per the Deluxe Containment Package's discretion guarantee, this has not been confirmed. Following SCP-8039's escape from its original site of origin, the SCP Corporation were brought in to provide containment.</p>
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<h2 id="toc0"><span><strong>Addendum 8039-1 (Lack of Payment)</strong></span></h2>
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<p>Please note that the Corporation has not received payment for the client for six months at the time of writing — as such, the continued containment of SCP-8039 is in question. The SCP Financial Department is currently chasing payment from the client. Please refer to the documentation below for the present situation.</p>
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<p><em>01/08/2029</em></p>
<p><strong>To our valued client,</strong></p>
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<p>It appears that we are yet to receive the agreed upon payment for your last three months of containment services. This is in reference to Case 2920-8039, currently in contract under our Deluxe Containment Package. If I may be so bold, could I inquire if your containment needs with this anomaly have changed?</p>
<p>The Corporation understands that situations may arise where meeting payments may not always be easy. If you'd like to call in and speak to one of our Pseudo-Human Customer Representatives, I'm sure they'd be happy to discuss options for alternative payment plans with you. Please contact us at your earliest convenience.</p>
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<p><strong>Hoping to hear from you soon,</strong></p>
<p><em>Sadie from SCP</em></p>
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<p><em>01/09/2029</em></p>
<p><strong>To our valued client,</strong></p>
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<p>Please be aware that we are yet to receive payment for the last three months of containment for Case 2920-8039. We can only provide these services if you meet your financial requirements per the contract. Your contributions help us keep our range of containment packages up-to-date and top-of-the-line.</p>
<p>If you are having difficulties making the payments for our Deluxe Containment Package, might I suggest downgrading to our Standard Containment Package? Given SCP-8039's generally docile nature, this may be a better fit for your needs. Our science team have proposed the following avenues for research under the Standard Containment Package:</p>
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<li>SCP-8039's emotional radar, if reverse-engineered, could prove an effective form of surveillance. Accompanied by other forms of paratech, we are confident in our ability to develop a dynamic 'humanity tracker' that could assist with security concerns worldwide.</li>
<li>The means by which SCP-8039 has bonded with the car on its back is extremely interesting. Despite the rudimentary nature of the connection, it has proven able to activate the car's headlights to help it navigate darkened areas. If given permission under the Standard Containment Package, we can harvest SCP-8039's gel — if utilized properly, it could help to reduce rejection syndrome with cybernetic implants.</li>
<li>Gene-splicing from SCP-8039 can open up new possibilities for alternative human reproduction in areas suffering from sterility plagues.</li>
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<p>We would be happy to consider further discounts based on your response to the above. One of our Pseudo-Human Customer Representatives will be in contact later this week to discuss options with you.</p>
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<p><strong>Hoping to hear you soon,</strong></p>
<p><em>Sadie from SCP</em></p>
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<p><em>01/10/2029</em></p>
<p><strong>This is your final warning.</strong></p>
<p>You have failed to fulfill payment requirements for five months. As such, your containment contract for SCP-8039 is now being terminated. Please be aware the early termination charge for this amounts to a total of £113,372,550.29.</p>
<p>Per the agreed upon contract, if we do not receive outstanding payments for the last five months, we will have no choice but to release SCP-8039 onto your property at a time and place of our convenience. In order to avoid damage or injury, we urge you to contact one of our Pseudo-Human Customer Representatives immediately.</p>
<p>Please keep in mind that — if your early termination charge is not paid — we are authorized to pursue lost value via asset seizure and our Debtor-Class program.</p>
<p><strong>Hoping to hear from you soon,</strong></p>
<p><em>Sadie from SCP</em></p>
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<p>A cute mug that somehow lets water behave whimsically.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8040</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Safe</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8040 is to be kept within a standard storage unit for low-risk anomalous items. Tests regarding SCP-8040 should be requested in advance to obtain written approvals, then log in detail within this documentation. Because of its fragile nature, SCP-8040 must be handled with adequate discretion to prevent damage or demolishment.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8040 is a white mug made of typical ceramics with a thin glaze, which is approximately 10 cm in height and 8 cm in diameter, and has an oval handle able to be gripped with ease. It was first recovered from a civilian's possession secondhand, who claimed to have purchased SCP-8040 from a local retail store, afterward spotted its "unusual water leakage" when used and hence sold it online as titled a "divination cup".</p>
<p>Upon retrieval, a sticker was found on one side of SCP-8040, with simple graphic instructions depicting a way of its usage, shown as a step-by-step guide to fill SCP-8040 with water, then use a teaspoon to scoop a sip of water out from it onto flat surfaces to observe the shape of the spill. Four different instances were illustrated on it, indicating how could the user interpret the results as auguries for anything they wish to query.</p>
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<p>When SCP-8040 is filled with water or some types of other liquids (see Experiment Log 1 below for further references) and handled by a human subject, who then verbally states an event that will presumably happen in the future, then either scoops the liquid by spoons or directly pours it out from SCP-8040 to a flat surface (e.g., a tabletop), the liquid spill will morph and shift to fit its shape loosely into the four aforementioned categories of the "auspices" to represent a predicted outcome for the subject's question. The shape varies in a small range yet is still distinctly identifiable. The results of this process were proved to be relatively accurate.</p>
<p>The sticker was later unglued and dropped off from the mug due to repetitive water drench, but this does not seem to affect the anomalous property of SCP-8040.</p>
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<p><strong>Time:</strong> Feb 14, 2021.</p>
<p><strong>Procedures:</strong> A coin was placed on the table alongside with SCP-8040, which was half-full with potable water. Dr. Alexis Talcite picked the cup up, and then said <em>"Will the coin succeed in being head up?"</em>, then used a metal spoon to scoop water. Right after that, the spoon accidentally fell onto the desk. Dr. Talcite denied mishandling, commented this was weird, and repeated the procedure, but this time changed the question to <em>"Will I succeed in seeing the coin's head up?"</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Result:</strong> The water was prudently shed onto the table in a fairly slow motion. At first, the large drip remained as a whole, but then quickly self-splitted into two separate drips within four seconds, representing the "Failure" result, and finally stopped moving.</p>
<p>Dr. Talcite tossed the coin and got its tail up.</p>
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<p><strong>Time:</strong> Feb 15, 2021.</p>
<p><strong>Procedures:</strong> Researcher Milo Norris filled in SCP-8040 with 75% alcohol and put it on a glass table. After drinking a small sip out of it through a straw, Norris started the procedure by asking <em>"Can I be the first one to leave the site today?"</em>, then used the straw to transfer a small amount of alcohol out of SCP-8040 to the glass tabletop.</p>
<p><strong>Result:</strong> The bead remained still as a whole droplet for about one minute until it slowly vaporized away. Researcher Norris then left and locked the lab, descended to the first floor to the main gate, and then came back to the containment center after half an hour. She repeated the procedure.</p>
<p>This time, the droplet began to transpose unstably once after it touched the glass table. It shifted around for a dozen of centimeters before it stopped, unresponsive to Norris touching it with the metal straw. Finally, it settled into an irregular shape, denoting the "out of expectation" result, then vaporized at an uncommonly high speed.</p>
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<p><strong>Time:</strong> Mar 3, 2021.</p>
<p><strong>Procedures:</strong> ~100 cc of gasoline was used to fill up SCP-8040 to investigate whether impotable liquids could work on it. Researcher Norris queried <em>"Can we succeed in facilitating the new AI system to ensure it works well in the upcoming year?"</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Result:</strong> The oil spill was totally inert. After Norris doubted if she had to prove she could drink the diesel to trigger its reaction, a versatile carriage powered by a diesel engine was utilized by Dr. Talcite to grasp SCP-8040 and dictate the same request by its mechanical voice. It was still seen to be unresponsive. SCP-8040 was later cleaned up thoroughly.</p>
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<p><strong>Time:</strong> Mar 31, 2021.</p>
<p><strong>Procedures:</strong> <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-105" target="_blank">Agent Iris Thompson</a> applied for a test on SCP-8040 and made a cup of coffee using the public coffee machine located in the cafeteria of Site-17. She finished the coffee, left a little, then spoke up the query <em>"Will it be possible for me to meet them again anymore?"</em> in a vague tone. A metal spoon was used to scoop some coffee out from SCP-8040.</p>
<p><strong>Result:</strong> The spill didn't seem to react at first. Since Thompson had placed her phone next to SCP-8040, some bits of coffee accidentally splashed onto the screen and lit the screen up. The larger blob beside it shrank to an apparently irregular shape, while suddenly, the virtual typing keyboard on Thompson's phone popped up without being touched at all. The keys were activated by scattered sprinkles of coffee, which were sliding and flowing automatically on the screen. It gradually typed a sentence out by this method in the message input area, read as <em>"idk but maybe on ur next mission"</em>. No further actions of SCP-8040 were noticed after this.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8040.1:</strong> Inspired by the last experiment log above, testing on SCP-8040's potential to interact with electronics was arranged.</p>
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<p><strong>Time:</strong> Mar 31, 2021.</p>
<p><strong>Procedures:</strong> Agent Holan Wessel used drinkable warm water to try to establish communication with SCP-8040 under the assistance of Dr. Talcite. A tablet computer was placed horizontally on the desk next to SCP-8040 before Wessel introduced his question<em>"Can all of those people in my team complete this task and return in safety?"</em>. Water was then intentionally dripped onto the screen.</p>
<p><strong>Result:</strong> At first the screen didn't activate. Next, it was manually turned on, and the input keyboard was pinned to its desktop to allow water from SCP-8040 to conduct capacitance<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> on the screen. The water drops stayed silent for a short while, then drew near to each other, coalesced, and fused into a whole. A single word of "fine" was typed in the text box during this process. Then the water remained on the position of the space button and then kept inanimate.</p>
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<p><strong>Time:</strong> Apr 1, 2021.</p>
<p><strong>Procedures:</strong> Dr. Talcite dispensed coffee from a self-made coffee machine situated in his office into SCP-8040. An empty draft of a drawing software along with an emulated keyboard window was opened in advance on a touch terminal. He started by asking SCP-8040 the same question Researcher Norris brought up but didn't get answered in Log 1, then sprinkled coffee on the screen with a ceramic teaspoon.</p>
<p><strong>Result:</strong> The liquid drop quickly dispersed into numerous tiny droplets, while not generating any text. Dr. Talcite wiped it off and started the test over again, going by another prompt: <em>"Do you believe that AIs need something more than logic and rationality?"</em>. This time, the droplet produced by SCP-8040 stayed as a rounded whole, and glided smoothly over the white space of the drawing canvas, leaving a black trace in the perfect shape of a heart.</p>
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<p><strong>Time:</strong> Apr 3, 2021.</p>
<p><strong>Procedures:</strong> Dr. Skyler Estinteco dripped purified water from SCP-8040 to their phone screen after asking <em>"Will we get better and find the serenity and content of our lives?"</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Result:</strong> The water drop contracted into a radial pattern on the screen, and then typed "only if u r here" into the blank memo before it halted and eventually dried out.</p>
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<strong>Author:</strong> <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/dr-talcite" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4951855); return false;"><img alt="Dr Talcite" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=4951855&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1730032252" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=4951855)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/dr-talcite" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4951855); return false;">Dr Talcite</a></span><br/>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> As of time of writing, there are no recommended containment procedures for SCP-8041.</p>
<p>SCP-8041-1 is currently remanded at Site-19. All research staff assigned to its containment are to be given refresher sessions on the nature of SCP-8041 and SCP-8041-1 with standard onboarding materials every five days to ensure efficacy of containment.</p>
<p>All photographic and written evidence referring to or depicting SCP-8041-1, including this article and all attached addendums, is subject to ongoing cognitohazardous properties that act as a cognitohazardous 'half-life' resulting from a use of SCP-8041-1 some time in the past. As a result of these properties, all evidence relating to SCP-8041-1 automatically self-effaces over a period of around six minutes. All documentation relating to SCP-8041-1 should be reloaded regularly when viewing digitally to mitigate the impact of this effect. Automated photocopying systems have been set up onsite to ensure the preservation of evidence pertaining to SCP-8041-1.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8041 is the apparent lack of archaeological and palaeontological evidence of anomalies prior to the mid-16th century. An exact date of SCP-8041's origin is not currently confirmed, although Foundation researchers within the Anomalogenesis Department currently suggest 1527 as the year in which anomalies as the Foundation understands them came into existence.</p>
<p>While SCP-8041's existence has been apparent for a large part of the Foundation's history, its existence as an anomaly in itself was first hypothesised by Foundation researcher Dr. Victor Titov in his lecture, 'How Have We Become Masters Of The Unreal?', delivered to junior Foundation researchers on June 4th, 1998, an excerpt from which is attached here in Addendum A. This lecture caused a stir in the Foundation's research community; however Dr. Titov was killed by a bus crash while holidaying at Lake Huron in 2002, and so the field of anomalogenesis remained largely unexplored.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup></p>
<p>Dr. Titov's line of work was later codified in the creation of the Anomalogenesis Department, after junior Foundation researcher Dr. Lauren Hiskey suggested its practical importance in maintaining the veil in her own paper, 'Predictive Methods and Lazarus Taxa in Foundation Operations', excerpts from which are attached in Addendum B.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> As a result of the paper's success, Dr. Hiskey was awarded a research grant and made chair of the Anomalogenesis Department, which at that time consisted of only her.</p>
<p>During a period of extended leave due to an ongoing internal financial review, Dr. Hiskey discovered an 'extremely promising' invoice for a transaction dated 5th of November, 1499, addressed to wealthy Venetian merchant Alexander Dodario and forwarded it to fellow researcher and department member Dr. Bradley Meung-Soo.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup> The invoice, translated from its original Venetian, is available in Addendum C.</p>
<p>After failing to have the invoice investigated through official channels, Dr. Hiskey privately collaborated with Security Chief Patricio Ravon using the remainder of her research grant to conduct a physical investigation of La Cavalla Bianca, a boarding-house mentioned in Dodario's personal correspondence as lodging for Dodario's frequent trips to Rome, referred to by Dodario as 'pilgrimage'. During this investigation, a large, empty book with cognitohazardous properties designated as SCP-8041-1 was discovered and later remanded into Foundation custody. Description of gathered photographic evidence is available below in Addendum D, including copies of the initial photographs of SCP-8041-1. Both official writeups by Dr. Hiskey and Security Chief Ravon were lost as a result of the cognitohazardous properties of SCP-8041-1.</p>
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<h3 id="toc1"><span><strong>Addendum A: Excerpt from 'How Have We Become Masters of the Unreal?'</strong></span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>How Have We Become Masters of the Unreal?</strong></p>
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<p><strong>DATE: 04/06/1998</strong></p>
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<p><strong>DR TITOV:</strong> ‘The crux, then, is this. It takes the collected resources of our Foundation - a titanic, and well-oiled bureaucratic machine with resources spanning nations, to effectively contain many Keter-class objects. And even without the widespread havoc that the Keter-class might have wreaked upon the sparse townships and divided, tribal states of early mankind, even Safe and Euclid classes would, logically, have a historic tradition that was widespread and well-documented. This seemingly impossible gap in the palaeontological and archeological records must have an explanation.</p>
<p>The theories surrounding this gap are limitless. Perhaps an unknown event somehow damaged the background hume levels of our reality to such a severe degree that the objects and beings that we study were able to come into existence, or that the seemingly impossible nature of anomalous objects has a degenerating, memetic effect on the human psyche, that causes, over time, anything that does not conform to preconceived notions of reality to be sectioned into the realm of myth and legend, if it is not placed under continued study. Perhaps even an inversion constitutes an inversion of the first - an event that retroactively removes evidence of any anomalous objects from the record of reality - retaining their cultural footprint, but obliterating the physical record to such an extreme degree that they are consigned, once again, to the realm of myth.</p>
<p>Regardless of result, the question of the beginnings of our field of study - a question that I am dubbing, for my own purposes, anomalogenesis, is a fascinating area to which I only hope the Foundation will pay due attention.’</p>
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<h3 id="toc2"><span>Addendum B: Excerpt from Dr. Hiskey's 'Predictive Methods and Lazarus Taxa in Foundation Operations'</span></h3>
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<p><strong>DATE: 03/03/2002</strong></p>
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<p>The applications of the lazarus taxon framework to Foundation field operations reveals boundless possibilities. The apparent gap in the biological record of any lifeforms that the Foundation would consider worthy of study may not be, as previously theorised, a result of late-stage anomalogenesis in our reality, but instead a product of paranormal factors that resulted in a temporary lapse.</p>
<p>The upshot here is that many anomalies currently on record may not be occurrences, but reoccurrences. It is possible that many of these anomalies have existed before - perhaps during a period of oral tradition, prior to a written one. In fact, there is potential that this absence, like any other conspicuous mystery, is itself worthy of study as a potential cognitohazard, obscuring the existence of anomalies that did, in fact, exist.</p>
<p>Regardless, the assertion that anomalies as we understand them simply came into existence spontaneously is one that is short-sighted at best and dangerous at worst. What began as an area of Dr. Titov's academic interest may now be of the utmost importance.</p>
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<h3 id="toc3"><span><strong>Addendum C: Invoice For Transit Completed</strong></span></h3>
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<h3 id="toc4"><span><strong>Addendum D: Evidence Collected by Security Chief Ravon</strong></span></h3>
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<p>This addendum details selected descriptions of photographic evidence gathered during Security Chief Ravon’s inspection into La Cavalla Bianca. A full photographic archive with visual descriptions is available on request from Security Chief Ravon pending appropriate clearance.</p>
<p><strong>Article 1:</strong> A well-lit photograph of a stone tunnel entrance. The tunnel and stairs are constructed of cut stone, rather than being carved into the rock. Above the tunnel entrance is carved, in Latin, Corinthians 4:1 - ‘A man should account us in this way, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God’. Quality of the stonework is intricate and exquisite.</p>
<p><strong>Article 4:</strong> A photograph of the stairway’s exit, a cut stone doorway, lit by camera flash. Above the door is etched an image of a rose sporting an open eye on each petal, as well as two Latin phrases. First, ‘Wardens of the Divine Mysteries’ and second, Ecclesiastes 12:14 - ‘For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every secret, whether it is good or evil’.</p>
<p><strong>Article 12:</strong> A photograph of a large hall, with cut stone tunnels leading off at regular intervals. The photograph is lit by a camera flash. The hall is punctuated by the wrecks of fallen brass chandeliers, also extremely well-crafted. The aforementioned rose symbol is carved into the stone in faded colour at regular intervals.</p>
<p><strong>Article 15:</strong> A wide shot of a large pelt, visible in article 12. The pelt consists of primarily leopard-like skin and fur, but develops into scales towards the pelt’s head, and exhibits cervine features at the outer extremities.</p>
<p><strong>Article 30:</strong> Small hallway containing seven doorways, each with metal bars. Each room contains manacles, and decayed humanoid skeletons, notable for extremely high bone density and heights ranging between 97 and 125 centimetres.</p>
<p><strong>Article 32:</strong> An etched metal plaque, unintelligible due to dirt and wear.</p>
<p><strong>Article 33:</strong> The same plaque, now cleaned onsite by Security Chief Ravon. A Latin inscription reads ‘Subjects should not be allowed access to stoneworking materials, hammers, or tools of any kind. A routine inspection of cells for escape tunnels should be performed weekly’.</p>
<p><strong>Article 47:</strong> A large chamber, containing rusted monocles four inches thick, and over 70cm in diameter. A brass plaque is visible, but unintelligible.</p>
<p><strong>Article 65:</strong> A small chamber, containing a manacled figure. The figure is extremely emaciated, with pointed ears, stark white hair, and grey, desiccated skin, but according to Security Chief Ravon, still breathing, although unresponsive.</p>
<p><strong>Article 66:</strong> An etched metal plaque, cleaned onsite by Security Chief Ravon, outside of the cell door, above which is hung a horseshoe. The inscription reads ‘Due to an observed ability to ‘slip’ outside of this realm, subject should be kept incarcerated using wrought iron only to prevent potential escape attempts. Horseshoe is not to be removed’.</p>
<p><strong>Article 71:</strong> A stone chamber, containing a plot of irrigated dirt, with evidence of an irrigation system no longer in use. At the centre of the chamber is a rotted tree stump, from which extends the haft of an axe.</p>
<p><strong>Articles 103-110:</strong> Various yellowed, vellum pages of a small notebook. The text, written in Latin, appears to be in a stenographic shorthand. The text is photographically available on demand from Archive 112, and recreated in full here.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">4th of August, 1527</span><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup></p>
<p>This meeting shall now come to order.</p>
<p>Opening prayers and greetings commence. A worried air is prevalent in the meeting-room. Various members are not in attendance. Ceremonies begin officially with a prayer and silent vigil for those members who lost their lives in the battle.</p>
<p><strong>DD:</strong> Gentlemen, I feel that I should first quell some concerns. It is true that the prior secrecy of our sanctum was breached in the fighting. However, in my capacity, I saw that it was handled. Those who breached the tunnel pose no threat to our furtive activities now.</p>
<p><strong>AA:</strong> Enemy combatants? Mercenaries? Even if they were seen off, those parasites loot everything that isn’t nailed down. Have you checked the archive? Searched their bodies for pilfered artifacts?</p>
<p><strong>DD:</strong> Not combatants. Their disappearances will be easily explained by the fighting. I have taken all necessary steps.</p>
<p>The assembled members murmur agreement, and appreciation.</p>
<p><strong>CA:</strong> Regardless, if it has happened once, it shall happen again. If the League is able to install a new force in the Papal seat, there is no telling what he will know of us. The destruction levelled upon the city is too widespread to expect this facade to continue much longer without discovery. It is imperative that we formulate a plan. I propose Madrid, we have substantial interests there and-</p>
<p><strong>SM dissents:</strong> Nonsense. The logistics are utterly impractical. Staying our ground is the only option. I refuse to cede anything to these Lutherans.</p>
<p><strong>CA:</strong> To cede is one thing. Retreat is another. Flight has often been the holy path - Matthew speaks of the Virgin’s flight to Egypt to protect her son from the wrath of Herod. There is precedent. We must not allow pride to cloud our judgement.</p>
<p><strong>AA nods in agreement:</strong> We must not look back. This great city cowers and quakes at its invaders, there is no shred of holiness left.</p>
<p><strong>DD:</strong> But where? The scope of our operations are too large. Before, there was no safer place in all Christendom than Rome. We can hardly take them across the Alps without being noticed.</p>
<p><strong>CA:</strong> What about the new world? It’s away from scrutiny. We could build our own vaults, our own society. Use the grimoire to-</p>
<p><strong>SM:</strong> The risk is overwhelming. What lies on that continent could be even more dangerous than what we already have. Besides, the logistics of a long sea voyage are perilous even for experienced sailors. It would surely be fatal for our subjects.</p>
<p><strong>KI:</strong> Sailors are intolerable gossips.</p>
<p>The room nods in agreement. There is a pregnant silence. KI speaks once again.</p>
<p><strong>KI:</strong> Muscovy?</p>
<p><strong>DD:</strong> The journey is too long, the winters too harsh.</p>
<p><strong>CA:</strong> There is nowhere we can flee to.</p>
<p><strong>AA:</strong> Then we must stay.</p>
<p>There is much dissent and speech within the room. Murmured complaints are heard, and furtive defence from AA.</p>
<p><strong>GA:</strong> There can be no misconceptions here. To remain in Rome with the subjects in our possession is unconscionable. This city is not safe, and allowing our subjects to be used in war could be catastrophic. Subject 1’s expertise in artifice, 3’s raw destructive power… if they come to be possessed by the armies of the world, there is no telling what would happen. We swore to be God’s stewards, not his armourers.</p>
<p><strong>FT:</strong> There is nothing for it, then. We cannot move them, and we cannot keep them. We must hide them from the prying eyes of history; if not within the annals of these halls, then within the vaults of myth.</p>
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<p><strong>Article 111:</strong> The final page of the notebook. It reads: ‘Let these mysteries fade from the view of the superstitious and unholy, and let them be the purview only of learned men’.</p>
<p><strong>Article 120:</strong> A wide shot, lit by camera flash, of a large library. No books remain on the shelves, which are covered in dust and cobwebs, and made of rotted wood. At the centre stands a lectern, adorned with the rose-symbol. A large book, later designated as SCP-8041-1, surrounded by unlit, dribbling candles and bound with a tough, brown material, sits open on the lectern. Its pages appear blank.</p>
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<h2 id="toc5"><span>Addendum E:</span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>POST-OPERATIVE INTERVIEW WITH SECURITY CHIEF RAVON CONDUCTED BY DR. KARUNARATHNE</strong></p>
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<p><strong>DATE: 04/07/2004</strong></p>
<p><strong>NOTE: Security Chief Ravon passed all preliminary psychological evaluations with flying colours.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Karunarathne:</strong> Hello, Patricio. Thank you for your initiative in taking on that assignment. I just wanted to go through some of the things that you uncovered in here, for the official record.</p>
<p><Dr. Karunarathne indicates a slim folder, containing the photographic evidence gathered by Security Chief Ravon. Ravon registers this, and nods in agreement.></p>
<p><strong>Ravon:</strong> Of course. I'm happy to answer.</p>
<p><Dr. Karunarathne displays Article 1></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Karunarathne:</strong> Alright. This symbol here. I'm aware you're not familiar with Latin, but what does this rose thing look like to you? What emotions did it instill?</p>
<p><strong>Ravon:</strong> I don't know. I definitely felt a bit uneasy, but that was just a product of the environment. You know, dark tunnel, solo mission. Bit creeped out. Just made me feel like I was being watched.</p>
<p><Dr Karunarathne nods, and reaches into the folder. Preliminary conversation regarding standard images and the details of the investigation continues. Dr. Karunarathne presents Article 15.></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Karunarathne:</strong> So, this pelt rug. Any reactions to that?</p>
<p><strong>Ravon:</strong> No. It's dusty, and old, but it fits in with the decor of the place. You know. Antiquated.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Karunarathne:</strong> Nothing strange at all? It displays features of multiple types of animal, and there's no evidence of it being altered at all. You were clearly intrigued by it, look, you took a few close-ups of the extremities.</p>
<p><Dr. Karunarathne produces Articles 16 through 22, which feature closeups of the pelt rug depicted in Article 15.></p>
<p><strong>Ravon:</strong> I'm not sure. I guess I was just impressed by it in the moment, but it doesn't seem too weird now. Probably just some really good needlework.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Karunarathne:</strong> Hmm. Okay.</p>
<p><More discussion about Ravon's descent resumes. Dr. Karunarathne produces Article 30, and places it on the table.></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Karunarathne:</strong> So, what about these figures? Remind you of anything?</p>
<p><strong>Ravon:</strong> Not really. I felt sad, the poor bastards. Kept locked up down here. This secret society seems to have been kidnapping people, abusing them or something. Made me mad, seeing how short they were, probably malnourished kids.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Karunarathne:</strong> So nothing about this struck you as anomalous or fantastical? Short, stout skeletons of people kept underground and prohibited access to stoneworking equipment?</p>
<p><strong>Ravon:</strong> No. I guess the stoneworking was to stop them escaping. Probably just kids with some bone condition.</p>
<p><Dr. Karunarathne is visibly frustrated at this point. He begins to flick ahead through the folder of photographic evidence. He produces Articles 65 and 66.></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Karunarathne:</strong> What about this? This figure?</p>
<p><strong>Ravon:</strong> Oh yeah, there was a prisoner, still alive in there. Pretty surprising. I was bricking it, I thought I was the only one still alive in there, so as soon as I heard the breathing, I backed up turned my safety off, tried to proceed with caution. I guess if there were people in there they must have heard me and run, cause he was the only living one in there. Looked pretty worse for wear, too. That made me mad. Probably hadn't seen sunlight in a while.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Karunarathne:</strong> Surprised? The place hasn't been explored in what looks like five hundred years!</p>
<p><strong>Ravon:</strong> Well, I don't know. That kind of stuff happens. Maybe he got put in there after all the others left.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Karunarathne:</strong> And the horseshoe? The 'slipping' referenced on the plaque? None of this is strange to you?</p>
<p><strong>Ravon:</strong> Well, these guys were nutcases that ran this vault thing. That much is clear. I didn't put much stock in the horseshoe. Maybe it was a converted stable.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Karunarathne:</strong> Are you serious? You took a close-up picture of the horseshoe immediately after!</p>
<p><Dr. Karunarathne produces Article 67, a close-up image of the horseshoe.></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Karunarathne:</strong> Use your head, man. This is clearly some sort of faerie!</p>
<p><Ravon visibly cracks a smile, and snorts with laughter.></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Karunarathne:</strong> What's so funny?</p>
<p><strong>Ravon:</strong> Well, you know. Faeries. That stuff's impossible. It doesn't exist. This is a place of science, don't go on about that stuff. I thought you were supposed to be a doctor.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Karunarathne:</strong> Are you aware of where you are? What we do in this Foundation?</p>
<p><strong>Ravon:</strong> Yeah, sure. But faeries aren't real.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Karunarathne:</strong> Oh, for Christ's sake. Let me get Ellis in here.</p>
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<p><strong>Item Number:</strong> SCP-8042</p>
<p><strong>Containment Class:</strong> Thaumiel</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8042 is currently contracted as a financial advisor and accountant for Wilson's Wildlife Solutions, and is to be given one month off work per year for its personal leisure. It simultaneously works alongside Foundation accountants as a freelance tax agent for various entities and Groups of Interest. Priority is to be given for high-risk anomalous entities.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8042 is a sapient male <em>Ornithorhynchus anatinus</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>, capable of instantaneous spatial and dimensional translocation, and is anomalously durable. It has an obsession with finances, and displays a manic desire to maintain them for any entity it encounters, to the point where it is willing to risk its own safety to achieve its goal. SCP-8042 possesses a photographic memory regarding taxation and finances, and is completely impervious to memetic hazards in this regard. SCP-8042 can also anomalously produce economic records for any entity it encounters, regardless of whether or not said entity has ever possessed any finances.</p>
<p>Whenever SCP-8042 engages an entity regarding its finances, anomalous or otherwise, it temporarily renders said entity indolent and docile, where it may remain in this state for a minimum of three hours. It is hypothesized that these effects are Reality Anchoring in nature, but as this has no effect on entities with long-term business relationships with a separate accountant, the data is inconclusive.</p>
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<p><strong>Discovery:</strong> During a routine inspection of Wilson's Wildlife Solutions, MTF Beta-4 (Castaways) encountered SCP-8042 inside an administrative office, working alongside several other accountants. Information regarding the entity was provided by WWS and supplemented by SCP-8042 itself during a later interaction (See Addendum-1). Due to its capabilities, it was initially registered as a Keter-class object; subsequent negotiations with WWS representatives and SCP-8042 have since altered its class to its current designation.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum-1:</strong> An interaction with SCP-8042, conducted by Beta-4 Captain Natalia Szabo.</p>
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<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> So: you're a platypus.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Yes ma'am: Joriah Shenandoah Cuthbert, eleven years old<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup>, CPA<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>. "J.S." to my friends.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> That's…</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Certified Platypus Accountant. <em>(SCP-8042 indicates its Master of Accounting and Taxation Degrees)</em> What can I do for you?</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> You…went to school for that?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Yes ma'am, at the University of Melbourne.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Can you verify this?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Certainly, ma'am<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup>.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> And…why did you go into accounting?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Oh, because I love numbers, ma'am, and economic organization and record-keeping excites me. I guess it takes all kinds, huh? Wakk waak.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> I…see.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Of course, my parents thought that I should just spend my life swimming around, eating larvae, worms, and shrimp like every other platypus, but I had a different goal in mind! I had ambitions! And look where I am now.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> <em>(stammering)</em> Y-yes. So you're one of Wilson's accountants.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Not just their accountant, ma'am: their <em>chief</em> accountant! And I run a tight ship, too: clean, precise, accurate, and on the level. But that's only my side job. Otherwise, I'm strictly freelance.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> What do you mean?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Tax season, ma'am, tax season! Let me tell you, it's the most stressful time of the year, wakk! You wouldn't <em>believe</em> the kinds of people I've ran into during that time period! The horror stories, wakk wakk, would make your gizzard churn. So many people wait until the last minute — and their taxes are either so far behind that they predate the Pyramids, or so sloppy that sometimes I just want to sit down and cry! That's why I have to take a whole month off after everything's over. Waaaaakk.</p>
<p><em>(silence. Captain Szabo appears stunned.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Yes, I know. It's disheartening, and yet so preventable! But I'm always willing to help people, because it's my job and I love it. Yes, yes, equal parts challenging and rewarding, wakk, though hardly ever gratifying. Not too many people like an accountant getting on their case.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Wh-what… <em>(Szabo pauses to drink from a flask.)</em> What sorts of clients do you have, if you don't mind my asking?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> I don't mind, ma'am, though I can't divulge the state of their finances. I take confidentiality very seriously!</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Uh, of course, of course. I'd just like to…uh, see who you've assisted.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> I'd be glad to. Heh, I always like to round off a few of my high-profile clientele to — oh, shoot, I just forgot!</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> I was supposed to meet some new clients today. Heh, I guess I lost track of time!</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> New…clients?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Yes. How do you think I stay in business, ma'am? By sitting on my keister? <em>(laughs and quacks)</em> Of course, I could just send them an email or call them, but I prefer the personal touch, you know? People like it when there's a face they can attach to the name! It really platypusizes the relationship! Tell you what — um, Byron? Charlotte? Does anyone—</p>
<p><em>(Byron McLeod, an employee of WWS, quickly enters the room.)</em></p>
<p><strong>McLeod:</strong> Yes? Did someone say my name?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Ah, glad I caught you! I have to go meet some clients for awhile. Would it be all right if Captain Szabo accompanies me?</p>
<p><strong>McLeod:</strong> It's all right by me. We just need to check you out.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Of course, of course. If you'll excuse me, ma'am: I won't be but a moment.</p>
<p><em>(McLeod assists SCP-8042 with the checkout process. Szabo notes that SCP-8042 has some difficulty writing with a pen.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> So, um, how did you acquire this, uh… The services of this <em>individual</em>?</p>
<p><strong>McLeod:</strong> Oh, <em>(laughs)</em> he just came in through the front door around early March last year, begging to do our taxes for us. The little fella was so persistent that we figured, "why not give him a chance?", and he's been with us ever since.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> <em>(nods slowly)</em> And do you have any records of where he was before that?</p>
<p><strong>McLeod:</strong> Well, platypuses are native only to western Australia. As far as we know, he was swimming along merrily in some river until he started attending University. Oh, before I forget, would you mind doing me a favor? There's a carrying case in that refrigerator over there; it's got J.S.'s meals for the day. Could you take that with you, please?</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Uh, sure.</p>
<p><em>(Szabo opens the refrigerator and takes out a large cooler. Inside are packets full of various worms, centipedes, larva, and raw shellfish. Szabo cringes and immediately closes the cooler.)</em></p>
<p><strong>McLeod:</strong> Thanks. Just make sure he eats every two hours, okay?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 finishes checking out and approaches Szabo.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> There, that wasn't so bad. You'll get to see me in action today, Captain Szabo! Our first destination is…give me just a moment… <em>(It examines a cellular telephone.)</em> The Orkney Islands!</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Um…all right. I'm guessing you have a…boat or airplane or…</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> No, I hate riding in vehicles: it rattles me horribly and upsets my digestion. I have a much better way of getting there. If you'll just take my foot?</p>
<p><em>(Szabo hesitates.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Don't worry, I had my venom sacs surgically removed. Had to, after a handshake went…uh, particularly sour, shall we say.</p>
<p><em>(Szabo cautiously takes SCP-8042's foot, and is instantaneously transported to Sule Skerry, an island in the Orcadian archipelago. She becomes disoriented and confused.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> What the…how did we…</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> See? Much better than flying in a jet! Now where's my client? My sources say that they should be…ah!</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 waddles away from Szabo. She notices an <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3456">SCP-3456</a> instance in the distance and immediately lays flat on the ground.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> <em>(hissing)</em> Stop! What the hell do you think you're doing?! Do you have any idea what that thing is?!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Of course I do, it's my new client.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Like hell it is!</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 ignores her and continues to approach the SCP-3456 instance, quacking softly.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> You're free to stay where you are, but I have an obligation to fulfill.</p>
<p><em>(Szabo curses to herself. She reaches into her breast pocket, removing a Foundation-made headpiece. She throws it to SCP-8042.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> At least wear this. I want to hear this tax pitch of yours.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Heh, you're in for a treat, then. <em>(SCP-8042 retrieves the headpiece and affixes it in place.)</em> Waak, this reminds me of my days as a service operator! All right, Captain, time to watch a professional in action!</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Just so you know, I'm not taking responsibility for this when you get killed, all right?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Heh, I'll be fine. This is all in a day's work for me.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 waddles closer to the SCP-3456 instance. It notices 8042 and approaches it rapidly)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> <em>(whispering)</em> Your funeral, pal. Damn, what am I gonna tell the folks at Wilson's?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Greetings, sir! Um, or…ma'am? Which is it? Sir? Ma'am? Anyway—</p>
<p><em>(SCP-3456 immediately stomps on SCP-8042. Szabo is heard sighing. Suddenly, SCP-8042 springs up, seemingly unharmed.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Ow. I think there's been a misunderstanding, wak. I just want to do your taxes. Here's my ca—</p>
<p><em>(SCP-3456 stomps on SCP-8042 several more times. Eventually it gets back up.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> M…my card, wak. <em>(It holds up a business card.)</em> My sources tell me that you, sir, are in need of — umm, it <em>is</em> "sir", isn't it?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-3456 picks SCP-8042 up and throws it at the equine section of its body, which begins chewing SCP-8042 viciously.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! S-sir! M-ma'am! P-please stop for a minute! This is — ow — serious! Tax season is right around — ow, ow, ow — the corner, wak! And I can assure you — ow, ow — please let me down! Ow! Ow!</p>
<p><em>(SCP-3456 spits SCP-8042 out. It shakes itself.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Ah, thank you! As I was saying, I can assure you that your taxes will be done correctly, and your account maintained with the utmost accuracy, courtesy, and security, with unbeatable professional service on the side! What do you say?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-3456 screeches. Szabo is heard grunting in pain.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Wonderful! Now let me see… <em>(SCP-8042 examines its cellular phone. After a few seconds, it emits a distressed cry.)</em> Waaaak, wak-wak! According to my records, you've been unemployed your whole life! Oh dear, oh dearie me.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-3456 appears confused.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Are you sure you have no income to claim, sir? You may as well be honest with me, it's not my place to judge you. Do you have any social security to declare? What about temporary government assistance? Let's see… You fall under the HMR&C<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup>, I could provide you with a—</p>
<p><em>(SCP-3456 picks SCP-8042 off the ground and begins clawing at it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Wak! Wak! Wak! Wak! Sir, please, this isn't helping! I don't care if you're unemployed, or if your skin was flayed off and you're fused to a horse, you still need to do your taxes! Let me help you! I…I'll waive all charges!!</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 is thrown to the ground. It sighs and stands back up.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Ah, thank you. Now we're getting somewhere. Don't worry, I can probably find a homestead exemption for you, and your return might just zero out anyway. Of course, you will have to sign an authorization form…</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 continues to interact with the SCP-3456 instance, which has become docile.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> <em>(whispering)</em> Son of a bitch.</p>
<p><em>(Thirty minutes pass. SCP-8042 presents an authorization form, which SCP-3456 signs using its own blood.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Thank you, sir! See, that wasn't so bad, was it? Just call me again when you find work and I'll help walk you through the rest! <em>(SCP-3456 remains indolent as SCP-8042 waddles back to Szabo.)</em> All right! On to the next one!</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Note</span>: The SCP-3456 instance remained stationary for five hours. Foundation observers described it as "appearing physically, mentally, and emotionally drained".</p>
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<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> This is where my next client is. Let me just check my bearings for a second. <em>(SCP-8042 produces its cellphone, muttering to itself as it studies.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> So who's providing you with all these clients?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Oh, you know: friends, current clients, word of mouth. Wak, sometimes my mother calls me and gives me leads. Ah, over there! <em>(It points to a narrow street and waddles towards it. Two minutes later, a distinct barking can be heard.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Stop for a moment! <em>(She produces a pair of binoculars and peers through them. Szabo later claimed she could see <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1111">SCP-1111-2</a> in the distance; Foundation security drones in the area confirmed this.)</em> Uh, would you mind if I hung back here and watched? I wouldn't want to interfere with your…work.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Hehnk, good idea. I prefer to speak to my clients one-on-one anyway. Be back shortly!</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 approaches SCP-1111-2. As it comes within twenty meters of the entity, SCP-1111-1 intercepts it, barking loudly.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Hehhnkk, good doggie, nice doggie. I don't think I have any treats for — OWW!</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 wails loudly as SCP-1111-1 bites into it, shaking it violently.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> WAAK, WAK-WAK-WAK! S-SIR! Could I interest you in — acck! Gaakk! Sir, please! I — could you please call off your dog, sir?! I want to talk about your financial future!!</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 continues to wail as it attempts to communicate with SCP-1111-2. SCP-1111-1 eventually throws it aside, where it slams into a nearby building and falls to the street. It groans and slowly stands up.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Captain, can you still hear me?</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Yep. Your client doesn't seem very interested in your proposal.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Don't worry, this is all part of the job. I'm sure we can come to a compromise. <em>(SCP-8042 clears its throat and waddles toward SCP-1111-2 again.)</em> Sir, if I'm not mistaken, you appear to be deceased. Do you have a personal representative that I can—</p>
<p><em>(SCP-1111-1 attacks SCP-8042 again. It yells in pain until it's tossed aside.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Wa-waak, waak! <em>(gasping)</em> Ah…I take it this dog is your representative? N-not to worry, sir, I can — wakk — work around that. I'll just have to file a State Return…</p>
<p><em>(SCP-1111-1 attacks SCP-8042 again. SCP-1111-2 is seen gesturing while its lips move, mouthing the words "No, down boy." SCP-1111-1 continues attacking SCP-8042 for fifteen seconds before releasing it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Wak! Wakk, waakk. <em>(It shakes itself.)</em> Sir, if you have any possessions of value, I'll need to file those. I assume they're going to The Estate of…ah, what is your dog's name, sir? Loyal? H-how appropri—</p>
<p><em>(SCP-1111-1 attacks SCP-8042 again. It finally pins SCP-8042 to the ground, growling sharply.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> W-w-wak! D-do you have a trust? A will? Any way to divvy up your remaining income? Tax season's just around the corner, you know! I, I could get a few bankers or attorneys to help you out if you want! I, I take all forms of worms and larvae as payment — and crawfish, if you've got any.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-1111-1 clamps its teeth over SCP-8042's head, shaking it violently. SCP-1111-2 continues mouthing words.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> <em>(muffled)</em> Sir, please! Your returns have to — ow, ow, ow — be filed within six months! Ack — otherwise, your representative won't be — ow — able to benefit from — WAAAK!!</p>
<p><em>(SCP-1111-2 mouths the words "Let him go". SCP-1111-1 releases SCP-8042.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Aah, thank you! <em>(laughs nervously)</em> N-nice doggie, good doggie… N-now, let me see if I can't get you removed from social security. Also, we'll need to protect your identity so other people don't go masquerading as you. Now where'd I put that form…?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 continues interacting with SCP-1111-2 while 1111-1 remains docile. Foundation drones see Szabo shaking her head, covering it with her hand. After ninety minutes, SCP-8042 returns to Szabo.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Well, I admit that could have gone much better, but I think I have all the loose ends tied up. That gentleman can rest easy now. Hehnk, believe it or not, this isn't the first time I've had a pet as a beneficiary. Anyway, I'd say that's enough for today. What say we head on back to Wilson's and have an early dinner?</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> As long as I don't have to eat anything out of that cooler.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Hehnk, suit yourself! More for me, I suppose.</p>
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<p>After concluding her affairs with WWS, Szabo reported her discovery to the Foundation. It was determined that further studies of SCP-8042 were necessary in order to fully understand its effects on anomalous entities. Due to her familiarity with the entity, Captain Szabo was selected to accompany SCP-8042 during its activities.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Location</span>: North Sea, 330 km southeast of Faroe Island. Szabo is observing SCP-8042 via a Foundation drone security feed.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Date</span>: 22nd September</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 is seen swimming out to sea.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Are you sure you wouldn't rather use a boat?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Don't be silly, Captain: we platypuses are natural swimmers! Besides, I could use the exercise. All right, these are the coordinates. According to my insider information, this is the only time of year these clients are available. If I don't close this deal now, they won't be back until the spring, and then it'll be too late!</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 stops swimming and produces some paperwork as it waits.)</em></p>
<p><em>(An alarm sounds. Naval Task Force Delta-7 is put on alert.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Here they come!</p>
<p><em>(<a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3700">SCP-3700-1</a> rises from the sea. Delta-7 remains on standby. SCP-8042 produces a bullhorn from its fur.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Excuse me, sir! Or ma'am! Tax season is right around the corner, and I'm the perfect platypus to—</p>
<p><em>(SCP-3700-2 rises from the sea.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Oh, dear.</p>
<p><em>(The two entities immediately begin attacking each other. SCP-8042 is submerged during the attack. 3700-2 ensnares 3700-1, biting it and dragging it underwater. Seventeen seconds pass before both entities emerge, with SCP-8042 clinging to 3700-1's carapace.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> I can see you're having a domestic dispute! I promise I won't take up much of your time! I…I just want to do your taxes!</p>
<p><em>(3700-2 bites 3700-1 again, consuming SCP-8042 in the process. 3700-1 clutches 3700-2's neck in its pincers and throttles it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> <em>(sighs)</em> I wonder if GRU Division "P" will take me back.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042's muffled voice is heard emitting from 3700-2.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> You can file separately if you want! I don't mind! Do you two have children or offspring to consider? Multiple businesses, maybe? Are either of you planning on retiring?</p>
<p><em>(3700-1 smashes its pincer on 3700-2's head, forcing it to regurgitate SCP-8042. SCP-8042 is flung into the air and catches 3700-1's eye stalk as it flails.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Ma'am, I need to know if you've kept any receipts! I take it that — waak — you've done a lot of traveling? If it's a business expense, I need to know about it! I know this all sounds very complicated, but—</p>
<p><em>(3700-2 emits blue fire onto 3700-1 and SCP-8042. Both entities screech in pain.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Waak, would you please calm down for a second, sir?! I'm here to help you! Your accounts will be maintained with the utmost accuracy, courtesy, and securi—</p>
<p><em>(3700-1's eyes emit waves of gamma radiation, forcing 3700-2 to release its grip. It strikes 3700-2 several times with its pincers, flinging SCP-8042 away. Maelstroms form, drawing SCP-8042 under. It does not emerge for four minutes. After reorienting itself, SCP-8042 paddles over to 3700-2 and clings on as 3700-1 tackles it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Sir, ma'am, if you don't file your taxes, a revenue notice is sent! Penalties and interests occur every thirty days! If there's an issue, or you forgot something, your return could be rejected! I know you don't want that, waak!</p>
<p><em>(Both entities stop fighting. SCP-8042 catches its breath.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Ah, thank you! Goodness sakes! Now: let's get your files pulled up here. I'm pretty sure I saw some cargo ships attached to your bodies, so don't tell me you don't have anything to declare. Also, considering the nature of your, uh, relationship, is it safe to assume you two have health insurance?</p>
<p><em>(Both entities groan softly.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Ah, wonderful! While I'm pulling all this up, why don't you produce some of those receipts? And you may as well include any dependents, and any sort of contribution towards your retirement. It's all reportable!</p>
<p><em>(3700-2 roars quietly.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Now-now, don't worry, my rates are fair, and if you'll cooperate, I think you'll find yourself done in no time.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 continues negotiating with the SCP-3700 instances.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Delta-7, are you getting all this?</p>
<p><strong>Delta-7:</strong> Roger that. Seeing. Having trouble believing.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> So it's not just me.</p>
<p><strong>Delta-7:</strong> No comment, Captain. Awaiting further orders from base.</p>
<p><em>(Two hours pass before SCP-8042 finishes. Both SCP-3700 instances submerge without concluding their confrontation. SCP-8042 begins swimming back to the mainland.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Aaah, a job well done! I don't know about you, Captain, but I could use a break! How about I take you out to lunch? My treat.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Do I even dare ask what you have in mind?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Wak, I mean a restaurant!</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Oh. Wait: you mean you…go out to eat at restaurants?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Only when I'm with a client. Wak, or if I want something a little fancier than what Wilson's provides!</p>
<p><em>(silence)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> And nobody in the restaurant thinks it's strange when a talking platypus walks up to them?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> <em>(laugh-quacks)</em> Captain, I'm not a fool. I only head out to the restaurants that Wilson's Wildlife approves of. Hehnk! Regular establishments just don't cater to platypuses like me. Trust me, <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ambrose-restaurant-hub">I know a good place</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> All right, as long as you're buying.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Location</span>: Fifteen meters away from the entrance to <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6001">SCP-6001</a>. Captain Szabo is seated at a nearby observation post.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Date</span>: 18th November</p>
<p><em>(Remote Foundation security feeds show SCP-8042 approaching the entrance to SCP-6001 and de-materializing. It re-materializes half an hour later, appearing distressed.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> That was quick. Did they sign up?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Waak, waak, waaak! What a complete nightmare. Can you believe they don't even <em>have</em> taxes there? I mean, they know what they are, they just don't <em>use</em> them! What kind of cruel, sick place <em>does</em> that? Ha! I waddled my webbed feet out of there as quickly as I could!</p>
<p><em>(Szabo snickers to herself as SCP-8042 approaches her, sits down, and sighs.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> "Making a hell out of heaven or a heaven out of hell…"</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Hehnk? What's that?</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Nothing. How many more clients do you have?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Just one more this week, and it's a big one. <em>(It laughs proudly.)</em> I don't just do taxes for individuals and couples, Captain. Oh, no: I even work for corporations!</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Really? Any I might know of?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 puffs its chest out, slapping it with a webbed foot.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Marshall, Carter, & Dark for one!</p>
<p><em>(Szabo's eyes widen.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Are you serious? You do accounting for MC&D?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Yes, or at least I used to. They wanted someone to work year-round for them, but my contract with Wilson's forbids that. Still, they were very courteous and professional, and we parted on good terms.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> <em>(whistles)</em> Color me impressed.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> I've also done taxes for IKEA, or at least <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008">one of their stores</a>. Boy, what a stubborn lot <em>they</em> were!</p>
<p><em>(Szabo turns pale.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> You've…done taxes for IKEA.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Hmm, yes, and I almost regret it. Terrible communication during the daytime, and violence during the night! I managed to score a few private clients the last time I was in their store, though. Had to promise them I'd get them out, which was odd, but…a client is a client!<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> <em>(muttering)</em> Of course you do taxes for 3008, why wouldn't you?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Hehnk? What's that?</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Never mind. So who will you be seeing next?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> A Mr. Wondertainment — wak, or is it Ms. Wondertainment? The instructions were a bit unusual.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> <em>(grumbles)</em> Fantastic.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Location</span>: directly in front of a Wondertainment, Co. Factory</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Date</span>: 20th November</p>
<p><em>(Dr. Wondertainment is carefully reading a document. He is currently male.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Hmm, yes, yes, I see, yes, hmm. Taxes, you say? Accounting, is it?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Yes. You seem to be in need of someone who can keep your financial affairs in order, and tax season's right around the corner!</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Ho, ho, yes, they are a bother and a nuisance. Keeping track of all my profits and losses, net gains, the cost of my goods, the transaction data…</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Not to mention the dividends, the taxable interest from loans, all your stocks, the adjusted journal entries every month, the use-in-excise files… Oh, and employee healthcare provisions!</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Yes, yes, and on top of all that, I have to worry about the federal returns on all my territories! If you think going international with my business is stressful enough, imagine going multiversal! Oh, and all the partnership returns I have to file! Some of them, I don't even think I could describe, much less file a relevant form for!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Frankly, it's more stress than you deserve, sir.</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong>Yes, I'd love nothing more than to wave my hand and send all that flying away in a puff of smoke, but even I must follow a <em>few</em> rules! Tax season is the one time of year that I must take seriously. Very painful, yes, quite embarrassing—and yet you say you'd take that proverbial bullet for me?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> With a smile, my good doctor.</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Ah, indeed, and platypuses are remarkable accountants, or so I've been told. The last individual I trusted with my taxes was a <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7333">lizard</a>, but he didn't… Well, to put it politely, he didn't have a sense of humor.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Well I love a good joke, wak-wak.</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Is that so? <em>(Wondertainment smiles, twirling his mustache.)</em> Well then, how about a proposition? I'll agree to hire you on as an accountant, <em>if</em>!!!</p>
<p><em>(He pauses dramatically.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> You agree to my terms.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> And what are your terms?</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> You must accomplish thr-r-r-r-r-r-ree tasks for me, to prove that you have a sense of humor! First, I want you to walk through that door and out the other side. <em>(He indicates the entrance to his factory.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> That's it?</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Yes. That's it. Oh, and you have to survive the ordeal. Naturally.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Hahnk! This'll be easy! <em>(It waddles up to the door.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> All right, have fun. I think I'll take the long way around.</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Oh no, my dear: you're going with him!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Wakk?</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> What?! Wait: he's the one who wants to do your taxes; I'm just following along to keep track of him.</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Ah, so his health and safety is a concern of yours?</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> <em>(stammers)</em> Well, I…it…I mean you… The relationship between Wilson's and the Foundation would—</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Then perhaps you should continue to monitor him, yes? You wouldn't want <em>my</em> relationship with the Foundation to suffer, either, would you?</p>
<p><em>(Szabo continues to stammer as she glances between Wondertainment and SCP-8042. Finally she throws her arms up in resignation.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Fine, have it your way. So we just go through that door and out the other side.</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> That is correct, my dear. <em>(He chuckles grimly.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> <em>(sighs)</em> All right. Lead the way, Cuthbert.</p>
<p><em>(Szabo and SCP-8042 enter the factory together. They find themselves in a colorful reception area.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Well, at least it's well-lit.</p>
<p><em>(Suddenly, all the lights go out. Szabo sighs.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> I fully deserve that.</p>
<p><em>(She produces a flashlight, and the two make it through the reception area. They soon find a hallway branching off in two directions. On the right is a brightly-lit sign reading "SEKRIT [sic] EXIT! Totally safe! (trust me!)". The left sign is adorned with a plastic skeleton draped over it, and reads "DANGER! Deadly lazors [sic] ahead! 100% chance of mutilation!")</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Ha! See? We're almost out of here! <em>(It waddles to the right path.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> No, wait. <em>(She points to the left path.)</em> We go down here.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> B-but it says—</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Trust me, Cuthbert: this is Wondertainment we're talking about.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 hesitates. Szabo produces a dummy grenade from her belt and throws it down the right path. It bounces on the floor once before a hidden panel opens and a stream of flames incinerate it.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> See? Down here.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> W-well, if you're certain, captain.</p>
<p><em>(They take two steps down the left path before a trap door opens beneath them. Wondertainment is heard laughing over the P.A. system as they fall.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Hahahahahahaaa! SECRET THIRD OPTION!!</p>
<p><em>(Szabo and SCP-8042 fall down a chute and land on top of a large mass.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Ow. Ugh, I guess had that coming to me. Well-played, doctor. You okay, Cuthbert?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Wak, just some ruffled fur. Nothing a mouthful of wriggling shrimp can't fix! Hehnk, where are we?</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> No idea. Damn, I lost my flashlight while we were falling. I don't suppose the doctor would be willing to turn the lights back—</p>
<p><em>(Suddenly the lights come back on. Szabo and SCP-8042 look down, discovering they have landed on a large red entity. It roars, flailing countless appendages. Szabo and SCP-8042 yell in surprise and fall off.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> OH MY GOD, IT'S A MONSTER! WHAT'RE YOU GONNA DO?!</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 panics and tries running away. Szabo holds her ground and produces her sidearm. She fires four shots at the entity. It falls over, but quickly gets back up.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> <em>(sighs)</em> I don't know why I thought that would work.</p>
<p><em>(The entity wraps one of its appendages around SCP-8042, squeezing it. Another disarms Szabo. She rolls out of the way and produces a live grenade.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Cuthbert! Fire in the hole!</p>
<p><em>(The entity wraps an appendage around Szabo's arm, preventing her from using the grenade. A second appendage wraps around her waist. She attempts to free herself.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Augh! Damn it! Why is it so sticky?!</p>
<p><em>(Her eyes suddenly widen in realization.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Oh. I get it.</p>
<p><em>(She reaches into her belt, producing a serrated knife, and cuts herself loose. Szabo quickly rolls under another appendage and frees SCP-8042. Two appendages pin her to the floor, causing her to drop her knife.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Hey! Cuthbert! A little help here?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> W-wakk, but I hate violence! I'm an accountant, not a fighter.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> JUST DO IT, YOU PIECE OF—</p>
<p><em>(An appendage wraps around her head. SCP-8042 cringes as it takes the knife and quickly cuts Szabo loose. It eagerly hands the knife back.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Thanks. Watch it!</p>
<p><em>(Another appendage snaps at them; Szabo and SCP-8042 dive for cover. Szabo grabs SCP-8042 and hurls it at the entity, where it becomes stuck. She uses this distraction to charge at the entity, plunging her knife into it and cutting diagonally. The entity roars and flails in pain. Szabo peels SCP-8042 off and stands back as the entity rolls around, finally collapsing and laying still. They take a moment to catch their breath.)</em></p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Ca…captain, that was…that was marvelous! How did you…</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Simple. <em>(She approaches the motionless entity and nudges it with her foot.)</em> It's red tape. You literally cut through it.</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 laugh-quacks as they find an exit and make their way back outside, where Dr. Wondertainment awaits them. She is currently female.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Ah, well-done, well-done, both of you! I hope it wasn't too rough for you in there? Of course, you could have just taken the long way around.</p>
<p><em>(Szabo glares at her.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Kidding, kidding! <em>(laughs nervously)</em> And now, for your final task! You must prove to me that—</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Wakk, but didn't you say you had three tasks for us?</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Well, yes, but the so-called "Rule of Thr-r-r-r-r-ree" is so banal! So stale! So…ugh, <em>predictable</em>! Nobody expects to only have <em>two</em> tasks to complete! Besides, all this talk about taxes and finances has exhausted me. I may just shut down early today so I can relax.</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Fair enough. What do you want us to do?</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Behold! <em>(She removes her hat, firing off several sparklers from it.)</em> You must prove to me that your wits are as sharp as your sword! Answer my — oh, hold on a second. <em>(Wondertainment quickly stomps out a stray sparkler.)</em> Sorry! Answer my riddle and my services are yours—or is it "your services are mine"?</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> So we just need to answer one riddle and we're done?</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Correct!</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Wak, I'm ready!</p>
<p><strong>Wondertainment:</strong> Good! Ahem: "When stormclouds gather and raindrops fall, you'll be glad you have this fella; but don't name it anything mundane at all, no! Don't call it an umbrella!" What is it?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-8042 mutters quietly to itself.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Do you want me to help?</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> No, I want to do it myself! You took the last one, now I want to give this one a try.</p>
<p><em>(It continues to mutter to itself. Szabo shrugs at Wondertainment. She types a word on her cell phone and presents it to Wondertainment, who winks and places a finger on her lips.)</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-7" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-7')">7</a></sup></p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Hey, if you don't need me for anything else, do you mind if I call it a day? I'd like to report back to base and…find a good tavern to self-amnesticize in while I wonder what I'm doing with my life.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Don't you want me to take you back?</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> I'll call up Zeta-15<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-8" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-8')">8</a></sup>, they owe me a favor.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Oh. Well, if you're sure…</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> I am <em>very</em> positive.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Wak, all right. And be sure to put in a good word for me with the Foundation! I've been wanting to do their taxes for years now!</p>
<p><strong>Szabo:</strong> Oh, I'm sure they'll arrange something.</p>
<p><strong>SCP-8042:</strong> Thanks, Captain. You'd really be doing me a favor! Hehnk, now…I'm pretty sure it's not a parasol…hmm…</p>
<p><em>(Szabo looks at SCP-8042 one more time before bidding Wondertainment farewell. The doctor tips her hat and bows as SCP-8042 continues trying to solve the riddle.)</em></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum-2:</strong> Following Captain Szabo's report, SCP-8042 was contacted by the Foundation, who made an arrangement with Wilson's Wildlife to acquire its services on an as-needed basis. Captain Szabo was given a week's paid leave as compensation.</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum-3:</strong> Two weeks after receiving Captain Szabo's report, Foundation astronomers detected an object passing beyond Mercury's orbit approaching the sun. <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-179">SCP-179</a> was observed waking up from its stasis, and appeared puzzled as the object approached it. Sounds of faint, mechanical breathing could be heard from the object as it drew closer to SCP-179. The object then sent a transmission, which was recorded:</p>
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<p><strong>Object:</strong> Ah, good! Can I interest you and… <em>(A pause. The object glances at the sun.)</em> …your brother in a financial representative? According to my information, your social security has ended and you're no longer receiving life insurance. Don't worry: taxes are quite minimal for people in your age bracket; I'll just need you to fill out a POA file. Do either of you have a trust or savings? Is your brother in your will?</p>
<p><em>(SCP-179 blinks, appearing confused.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Object:</strong> I wouldn't put it off any longer than necessary, ma'am! After all, <em>la saison des impôts approche à grands pas!</em><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-9" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-9')">9</a></sup></p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. A platypus.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. The average lifespan of a non-anomalous platypus in captivity is thirty years.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. A Certified Public Accountant.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. A Foundation background check verified that while SCP-8042 is fully certified, it did not attend any known university.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. His Majesty's Revenue and Customs.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. It was later confirmed that SCP-8042 was able to extract four civilians from SCP-3008-1.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-7"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-7')">7</a>. The word she typed was "bumbershoot".</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-8"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-8')">8</a>. One of the task forces assigned to monitor Dr. Wondertainment. Code name "Golden Ticket".</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-9"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-9')">9</a>. "Tax season is just around the corner!"</div>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8043</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Keter</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Public records are to be monitored for mentions of potential SCP-8043 occurrences. If a case is confirmed, it is to be dealt with as follows:</p>
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<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8043 is a phenomenon in which a short, simple task is perceived by the victim as taking place over an exorbitant amount of time.</p>
<p>The amount of time experienced by affected individuals varies, but tasks that would normally take seconds are generally perceived as lasting months or years. Victims perceive the task as suddenly requiring a great number of additional intricate and superfluous steps to carry out. Once affected by SCP-8043, victims are unable to cease performing the task until it is complete — the time dilation phenomena ends at this point.</p>
<p>No pattern has been determined among victims of SCP-8043, with cases having been recorded in various demographics globally. However, SCP-8043 appears to manifest in actions that the victim would normally be able to perform by reflex. This includes tasks such as:</p>
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<p>Note that SCP-8043 is purely a perception phenomenon — no actual time manipulation takes place. To an outside observer, the victim of SCP-8043 will appear to complete the task without incident, the psychological effects becoming clear immediately afterwards.</p>
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<h2 id="toc0"><span><strong>Addendum 8043-1 (Interview Log)</strong></span></h2>
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<p>On 12/07/2013, Foundation Agent Michael Lear fell victim to SCP-8043 while reloading his service pistol. The action, which took three seconds to complete, was perceived by Agent Lear as taking place over the course of several months. Following his initial breakdown, Lear adopted a view on his experience unlike those of other victims, considering himself as having become 'enlightened' while under the effects of SCP-8043 and refusing amnestics as a result.</p>
<p>The following interview was conducted in Post-Service Station 92 ("Tower Oaks"), where Agent Lear now permanently resides.</p>
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<p><strong>Interviewer:</strong> Dr. Julian Lawrence<br/>
<strong>Interviewee:</strong> Michael Lear</p>
<p><strong><Begin Log></strong></p>
<p><em>(Interview is performed in Lear's sitting room. Lear sits on the couch while Lawrence sits in an armchair. Lawrence leans over and activates the recorder on the coffee table.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> It's been a while since we've had a chance to talk. Sorry. You know how it is.</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> I guess.</p>
<p><em>(Pause.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> Is something wrong?</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> I, uh, I got a chance recently to look at the file.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> The file?</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> You know, um… <em>(laughs)</em> The 8043 file? Apparently I'm entitled to access it. It's just, uh… I don't — I don't know if I like the way you describe it. The thing, um, the way it went for me. I don't… no, I guess I don't.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> I'm sorry to hear that. What specifically do you have a problem with?</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> It's the way, afterwards, the way you describe me, I guess. Not you specifically, but the guy who wrote it. I — the way it says 'considers he became enlightened' and you've got those little quotes around enlightened, like — like quoting it. You know what I mean?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> That's what you said, isn't it?</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> <em>Yes</em>, but… it's the way it's written down. I guess. You make me sound like a cult leader or something.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> Right. I get what you mean.</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> It's like… I'm not going to say for a second that I <em>enjoyed</em> what happened, that it was <em>pleasant</em>. It was a fucking nightmare. I was turning dials on that thing for days to get the barrel aligned, and — and I thought that was it. I thought it'd just take a couple of days! But it just went on and on. There was always something else that needed doing… on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and…</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> Michael.</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> …until there wasn't, and then it was done.</p>
<p><em>(Pause.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> But it was still a nightmare.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> Okay.</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> At the same time, though, it's a… a unique experience, I guess. You take from it what you can get, otherwise it's beaten you. You have to make it work for you. I mean… I had a lot of time to think while I was reloading my pistol. A <em>lot</em> of fucking time.</p>
<p><em>(Pause.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> At first it's just panic. You wonder how long you're going to have to be doing this for. It's not — I want to make it clear that it's not just a matter of not being able to… to <em>bring yourself to stop</em>. There's a kind of agency in that. The option just doesn't exist for you. At all. Period. You can't even imagine yourself imagining not doing it.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> Right. You've mentioned this before.</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> I'll mention it as many times as I like.</p>
<p><em>(Pause.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> Sorry.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> No worries.</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> I just mean that… you can only panic so long, you know? Eventually it burns itself out. Then, eventually, with all that monotony… you start collapsing inwards, into — into a single point. Like a black hole, I guess. Right into the core of you. The… the <em>essence</em>. You see yourself, properly, maybe for the first time. But eventually you reach the end of that too.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> And then?</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> And then you spread outwards again, and you see <em>everything else</em> properly. You… you <em>appreciate</em> it. You <em>understand</em> it. There's this moment of — there's this moment of, I don't know, transcendence — what the hell, yeah, <em>enlightenment</em>.</p>
<p><em>(Pause.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> And then the cycle repeats… until you're done. But you keep it with you, <em>I</em> kept it with me. The way you felt. There's still a shadow of it. Like I said, you take what you can get.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> And you still stand by that? Even all these years later?</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> I do. Ever since I was old enough to really understand it, I've been terrified of time. Of it — of it passing me by, running out. I grew up in the blink of an eye. Teens to twenties. Twenties to thirties. Like I was losing my grip on a treadmill. Like I was being pulled into something at the end. A wood chipper.</p>
<p>But… back then, it felt like there was finally enough time… like I could stop to take a breath. As many breaths as I needed. That's all. I guess.</p>
<p><em>(Pause.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> Is that okay?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> Yeah, yes, of course. I was just thinking about it. If it were me… no, sorry, that's not my place.</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> No, no, that's fine, go ahead.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> I think I'd have just wanted to forget about it, if the option was given to me.</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> <em>(laughs)</em> I can explain this over and over, any way you want, but — but you can't understand it unless you went through it. It's like, those were the most important three seconds of my life, but if you'd have been there, it'd have been over like <em>that</em> —</p>
<p><em>(Lear snaps his fingers, then suddenly stops. He looks past Dr. Lawrence and stares at the wall behind him. He continues to tap his fingers against each other for several seconds.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> Michael?</p>
<p><em>(Pause.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> <em>(slurred)</em> W-Who?</p>
<p><em>(Lear falls onto the couch and curls up into the foetal position. He whimpers. He continues tapping his fingers against each other.)</em></p>
<p><em>(Dr. Lawrence runs to his side.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence:</strong> Michael?!</p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> I'm sorry… I-I don't know…</p>
<p><em>(Pause.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Lear:</strong> I don't remember what we were talking about.</p>
<p><strong><End Log></strong></p>
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<p><strong>SCP-8045:</strong> Fairly Frivolous Fairies.<br/>
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<p>SCP-8045</p>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> SCP-8045 is to be contained in a standard low-risk anomalous containment locker at Site-19. Access to SCP-8045 requires Level 2 clearance. Testing involving SCP-8045 must be conducted in a controlled environment with surveillance cameras monitoring the testing area. No anomalous items (including other SCP objects) or sentient creatures are to be left underneath SCP-8045 overnight.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8045 is a standard-sized 51 cm. x 56 cm. goose down feather pillow, with no discernible manufacturer's label or markings. The pillow is composed of ordinary materials consistent with those found in non-anomalous pillows.</p>
<p>SCP-8045 exhibits its anomalous properties at night<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> when placed on a bed<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> with an item left underneath the pillow, between itself and the bed. These properties manifest only when all human individuals in direct sightline of the bed are either sleeping in the bed or are otherwise unconscious. If a fully conscious individual is present throughout the entirety of the night, SCP-8045 will not exhibit its anomalous effects.</p>
<p>When these conditions are met, a fairy<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup> (labeled SCP-8045-1) corresponding to the specific item type left underneath SCP-8045 will manifest in the room. SCP-8045 consistently summons the exact same SCP-8045-1 instance for any given item. All SCP-8045-1 instances wear miniature nametags identifying them as the fairy of that particular type of item.</p>
<p>The fairy will approach SCP-8045, retrieve the item left underneath it, and subsequently attempt to depart the room by flying away, disappearing shortly thereafter. In exchange for the item, the fairy will leave behind a form of payment; usually (though not exclusively), it will leave behind some kind of currency, most commonly in the form of a single quarter (25¢ USD) coin.</p>
<p>If an SCP-8045-1 instance is interrupted in some manner before it is able to retrieve the item left underneath SCP-8045, it will prematurely disappear. It will attempt to complete its task later in the night when the conditions for its appearance are met once again. Surveillance footage indicates that SCP-8045's effects are not impeded by the presence of cameras.</p>
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<p><strong>Testing Log - SCP-8045</strong></p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> Each test consists of the same procedure, leaving an object underneath SCP-8045, laid over a designated bed.</p>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">1 human tooth.</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; border: 1px solid black">Results</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">The "Tooth Fairy" manifests, taking the object and leaving behind a quarter coin.</td>
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<td style="font-weight:bold;padding: .3em .7em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid black; background-color: silver; width: 20%;">Test B</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">1 dog tooth.</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; border: 1px solid black">Results</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">Same as above.</td>
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<td style="font-weight:bold;padding: .3em .7em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid black; background-color: silver; width: 20%;">Test C</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">1 synthetic human tooth.</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; border: 1px solid black">Results</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">The Tooth Fairy manifests, taking the object and leaving behind a counterfeit quarter coin.</td>
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<td style="font-weight:bold;padding: .3em .7em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid black; background-color: silver; width: 20%;">Test D</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">1 printed photograph of a human tooth.</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; border: 1px solid black">Results</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">A distinct "Paper Fairy" manifests, taking the object and leaving behind a quarter coin.</td>
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<td style="font-weight:bold;padding: .3em .7em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid black; background-color: silver; width: 20%;">Test E</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">1 quarter coin.</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; border: 1px solid black">Results</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">The "Money Fairy" manifests, taking the object and leaving behind a human tooth.</td>
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<td style="font-weight:bold;padding: .3em .7em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid black; background-color: silver; width: 20%;">Test F</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">1 twenty dollar bill.</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; border: 1px solid black">Results</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">The Money Fairy manifests, taking the object and leaving behind an entire set of human teeth.</td>
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<td style="font-weight:bold;padding: .3em .7em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid black; background-color: silver; width: 20%;">Test G</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">1 counterfeit quarter coin.</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; border: 1px solid black">Results</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">The Money Fairy manifests, taking the object and leaving behind a synthetic human tooth.</td>
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<td style="font-weight:bold;padding: .3em .7em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid black; background-color: silver; width: 20%;">Test H</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">None. (No item left beneath SCP-8045)</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; border: 1px solid black">Results</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">The Bed Sheet Fairy manifests, taking the Bed Sheets and leaving behind a quarter coin.</td>
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<td style="font-weight:bold;padding: .3em .7em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid black; background-color: silver; width: 20%;">Test I</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">None. (No item left beneath SCP-8045, bed sheets were removed.)</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; border: 1px solid black">Results</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">The Mattress Fairy manifests, taking the bed and leaving behind a quarter coin. SCP-8045 is left lying on the ground.</td>
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<td style="font-weight:bold;padding: .3em .7em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid black; background-color: silver; width: 20%;">Test J</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">1 GPS Tracker.</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; border: 1px solid black">Results</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">The GPS Tracker Fairy manifests, taking the object and leaving behind a quarter coin. Signal was lost the instant the GPS Tracker Fairy de-manifested.</td>
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<td style="font-weight:bold;padding: .3em .7em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid black; background-color: silver; width: 20%;">Test K</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">1 pair of white socks.</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; border: 1px solid black">Results</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">The Sock Fairy manifests, taking one of the socks and leaving behind a different, mismatching sock.</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">1 human tooth and 1 quarter.</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">The Tooth Fairy and Money Fairy both manifest, retrieving their respective objects and leaving behind a quarter coin and a human tooth. Subsequently, they engage in a continuous exchange, taking the item left by the other fairy and replacing it with their own, creating an infinite loop. This exchange persists for approximately two hours underneath SCP-8045, at which point the Fairy Fairy manifests, taking both fairies away and leaving behind two quarter coins.</td>
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<td style="font-weight:bold;padding: .3em .7em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid black; background-color: silver; width: 20%;">Test M</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">1 human tooth.</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; border: 1px solid black">Results</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">No result.</td>
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<td style="font-weight:bold;padding: .3em .7em; text-align: center; border: 1px solid black; background-color: silver; width: 20%;">Test N</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">1 quarter.</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; border: 1px solid black">Results</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">No result.</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; padding: .3em .7em; border: 1px solid black">Object</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">1 pillow.</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: .3em .7em;">The Pillow Fairy manifests, taking both the object and SCP-8045 itself, leaving behind two quarter coins before flying away and de-manifesting alongside SCP-8045, which has not been recovered since.</td>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. For the purposes of SCP-8045, night starts at the point in which the sun is fully below the horizon at its location.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. Any piece of furniture made for the specific purpose of sleeping.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. The appearance of these fairies varies widely in size, shape, and appearance, but they all exhibit characteristics resembling the most popular modern form of mythical fairies from folklore in media: small humanoid creatures with butterfly-like wings.</div>
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<p><strong>SCP-8046:</strong> A Bedroom Without A House<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/pinoccappuccino" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(5378295); return false;"><img alt="Pinoccappuccino " class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=5378295&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1728876781" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=5378295)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/pinoccappuccino" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(5378295); return false;">Pinoccappuccino</a></span></p>
<p><strong>Sources of Research:</strong></p>
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<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Norwegian_feminine_given_names">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Norwegian_feminine_given_names</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Norwegian_masculine_given_names">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Norwegian_masculine_given_names</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Norwegian-language_surnames">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Norwegian-language_surnames</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_(given_name">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_(given_name</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buvika">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buvika</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbesen">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbesen</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frode">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frode</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagen_(surname">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagen_(surname</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_(given_name">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_(given_name</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isdal_Woman">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isdal_Woman</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kripos">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kripos</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahlum">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahlum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ola_Nordmann">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ola_Nordmann</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkanger">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkanger</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_abies">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_abies</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_coastal_conifer_forests">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_coastal_conifer_forests</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_family_name_etymology">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_family_name_etymology</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8r-Tr%C3%B8ndelag">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sør-Trøndelag</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8r-Tr%C3%B8ndelag_Police_District">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sør-Trøndelag_Police_District</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%B8ndelag">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trøndelag</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trondheim">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trondheim</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unni_(Norwegian_given_name">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unni_(Norwegian_given_name</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valebrokk">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valebrokk</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenche">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenche</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/du#Norwegian_Nynorsk">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/du#Norwegian_Nynorsk</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/er#Norwegian_Nynorsk">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/er#Norwegian_Nynorsk</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hvit#Norwegian_Nynorsk">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hvit#Norwegian_Nynorsk</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/min#Norwegian_Nynorsk">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/min#Norwegian_Nynorsk</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skau#Norwegian_Nynorsk">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skau#Norwegian_Nynorsk</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/veg#Norwegian_Nynorsk">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/veg#Norwegian_Nynorsk</a></li>
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<p><strong>SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES:</strong> Satellite Site-212(f) is solely dedicated to the containment of SCP-8046. The Hvitskauen forest has been enclosed by a chain-link fence with gates on the west and north, a cabin adjacent to the latter. Cabin-212(f)-A and -B<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> are provided as residential housing for personnel assigned watch over Site-212(f). Personnel currently residing are Agent Holger Valebrokk, Agent Venke Lahlum, and Senior Researcher Frode Lahlum. Site-212(f) staff are instructed to refer to 1 Hvitskaunvegen and 2 Hvitskaunvegen as their private property, and advised not to leave both cabins unattended. Perimeter of Site-212(f) is under remote surveillance, accessible to all personnel from computers on-site and at NOSTTH-Site-212.</p>
<p>As of 2006, non-compromising information of SCP-8046-B including facial reconstructions have been publicized to mainstream media with the intent of outsourcing the civilian population for potential identification. Authorized personnel discussing SCP-8046-B with civilians or unauthorized personnel must abide by Cover Stories Index Krypos§5.2 "Ola og Kari Nordmann", with attention to Subset 5.2.8046 "Hvitskausmannen" for case details.</p>
<p>Inventory of samples taken from SCP-8046 for research and physical records pertaining to the anomaly are kept in Storage Locker 6-10 at NOSTTH-Site-212.</p>
<p>If SCP-8046 is accessed from outside of the Site-212(f) enclosure, the event and location is to be reported to superiors immediately.</p>
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<p><strong>DESCRIPTION:</strong> SCP-8046 is a spatial anomaly centralized around a wooden door confined to the wilderness of the Hvitskauen forest outside of Buvika, Trøndelag Fylke, Norway.</p>
<p>The exact geographic location of SCP-8046 is inconsistent, and cannot be located with set directions, only with perseverance. Tracking of expedition members confirms that the location is extraplanar but coextensive with the baseline, as individuals within SCP-8046 cannot be located by those outside despite cross-referencing GPS coordinates, which are otherwise actuate in recording individuals' movements. Testing indicates SCP-8046 can be accessed unpredictably within an area of approximately 12 square kilometers, and can be traversed by multiple people at once, arriving via individual entrance points or a single access as a close group.</p>
<p>Physically, SCP-8046 is a small clearing with flora, fauna, and time of day corresponding with the baseline forest, but weather is consistently under -2℃, with several centimeters of snow always being present, regardless of season. Baseline can easily be returned to by walking into the forest away from the clearing. It is unknown at what distances from SCP-8046-A does a person disappear and reappear, as the shift between SCP-8046 and baseline has never been observed by a stationary outsider, and traversal is always perceived as a gradual transition, even in the event of weather extremes.</p>
<p>Erected within the center of SCP-8046 is SCP-8046-A. The door measures 204.15 × 75.57 × 3.8 centimeters, and is inset to a door frame that is a uniform 9.53 cm width and 14.6 cm depth. The foot of the door frame extends into a cement platform measuring 1 × 1 × 0.455 meters, present since the pouring of the cement. Analysis of samples taken confirm SCP-8046-A is constructed with non-anomalous materials that have been commonplace throughout Norway in the 20th century.</p>
<p>SCP-8046-A is always found in a closed state. Upon opening the door either inward or outward, the frame proceeds to a further coextensive location, designated SCP-8046-i. SCP-8046 and SCP-8046-i can only be perceived through the boundaries of SCP-8046-A, and attempts by more than one individual in viewing through the opposite side of an accessed SCP-8046-A while in the same iteration are unable to perceive one another through the door frame. All persons or objects in SCP-8046-i cannot be seen outside the boundaries of the frame or interacted with from SCP-8046, and vice versa for occupants of SCP-8046-i looking back at SCP-8046.</p>
<p>SCP-8046-A is the only known access point to and from SCP-8046-i, as walking away into the forest does not return an individual to either SCP-8046 or baseline, only continuing as a geographically unidentified expanse of forest.</p>
<p>Dismantling of SCP-8046-A disconnects from SCP-8046-i but produces a further spatial anomaly. While the door can be removed from its hinges without issue, all individuals inside SCP-8046-i relocate into SCP-8046 at the corresponding positions and GPS tracking immediately stops upon doing so. Attempting to leave SCP-8046 resulting in individuals walking several hundred meters before invariably returning to the clearing, in spite of directions taken. SCP-8046 can only be departed once the door is returned to the frame.</p>
<p>The clearing of SCP-8046-i is identical to the superlative iteration, aside from occasional blizzards and various furniture. Almost none of these objects found in the location exhibit any anomalous properties or known relevance to paranormal culture,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> and the manufacturer has been identified for half of all objects.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup> Furnishing are typical of a bedroom: including a nightstand, a bookcase, a dresser, and miscellaneous clothing and items, all covered in snow and faring various states of water damage.</p>
<p>The focal point of SCP-8046-i is a twin-sized bed with an adult male human's cadaver lying supine on the left-hand side, designated SCP-8046-B. At a cursory glance, SCP-8046-B's cause of death was knife-related homicide; a kitchen knife (SCP-8046-C) is embedded in the chest, with twelve (12) stab wounds being visible. SCP-8046-B had been stabbed through the covers with no signs of a struggle, presumably asleep. The cadaver has been naturally mummified by the weather of SCP-8046-i and encased in ice that has accumulated on it and under the covers; SCP-8046-B would require an extensive extraction effort to be removed from the mattress with minimal damage, but such a mission has not been approved.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup></p>
<p>It has not yet been identified who SCP-8046-B was in life. The right ring finger, prioritized due to the presence of a wedding ring, was successfully severed and transported to NOSTTH-Site-212 for study. SCP-8046-B was identified to be of A+ blood type and R1a haplotype, but no matches have been found in any DNA or fingerprint databases. Ring was inscribed on the interior with <em>14k Du er min<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup> 28-7-85</em>. Testing of dental records has not yet been approved.</p>
<p>All attempts at removing SCP-8046-C have been unsuccessful. Personnel who have grasped SCP-8046-C on both the handle or blade describe feeling a heat emanating from the object, which progressively increases in temperature when applying force in attempt to pull, push, or otherwise lever the blade. Thermal readings show that SCP-8046-C has an ambient temperature of 38.8℃, and readily heats beyond the point of inflicting burns through clothing and damaging apparatuses used to indirectly manipulate it; it proportionally heats by roughly 0.032℃ for every newton of force applied, and cools at a rate expected of a stainless-steel object of its dimensions. Despite this thermal activity, SCP-8046-C does not deform from the heat, nor has it moved under force applied to it, and SCP-8046-B has not thawed around the point of contact.</p>
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<p><strong>HISTORY:</strong> SCP-8046 came to the SCP Foundation's attention after a local from the municipality of Orkanger, Albert Hagen (22, M), disappeared in the Hvitskauen forest while exploring with friends and was reported missing by said friends on 1/1/2003. Hagen's friends told police and news outlets that Hagan had brought them to investigate a rumor he heard of a door out in the forest that "takes people places". Questioning for friends and family was unable to conclusively determine where Hagen heard the rumor, but it was their and staff's general assumption that it was from Unni Ebbesen (27, F): Hagen's cousin was known to hike in the region prior to her death in a boating accident on 14/7/2002.</p>
<p>SCP-8046 was located 8/1/2003 during search efforts for Hagen, concurrently by undercover Field Agent Valebrokk and a civilian volunteer. Foundation assets embedded in the Sør-Trøndelag Police District secured the Hvitskauen forest and exclusively continued the search for Hagen. SCP-8046 was given SCP designation as Euclid on 9/1/2003. Hagen's body was located outside of SCP-8046 on 13/1/2003; autopsy confirmed cause of death to be hypothermia, and Hagen's body was given to family without incident.</p>
<p>After attempts to dismantle and transport SCP-8046-A failed, NOSTTH-Site-212 administration decided to contain SCP-8046 on location as a satellite site. The land on which the Hvitskauen forest resides was chartered and purchased by a Foundation front company on 3/2/2003. Construction of Satellite Site-212(f) was completed 27/7/2003.</p>
<p>Due to risk posed to personnel and equipment from sub-zero temperatures, and fragility of SCP-8046-B, incursions into SCP-8046 have been limited over the years. Approved actions for analysis of SCP-8046 phenomena have included:</p>
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<li>GPS tracking of personnel entering and leaving SCP-8046,</li>
<li>Dismantling of SCP-8046 during occupation of SCP-8046-i,</li>
<li>Splinter samples taken from SCP-8046-A and furniture,</li>
<li>Removal of bedsheet segment for SCP-8046-B access and fiber analysis,</li>
<li>Severing of SCP-8046-B's right ring finger for forensics,</li>
<li>Facial reconstructions using photography and non-invasive forensics,</li>
<li>Removal of reading material from bookshelf,</li>
<li>Unmanned drone exploration into SCP-8046-i.</li>
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<p>On 22/4/2006, administration authorized dissemination of facial reconstructions made of SCP-8046-B to the Norwegian public under standard pretenses of an unidentified murder victim. Additional reconstructions using different art techniques have been released in 2010 and 2014. This outsourcing to civilians as well as cross-analysis with the national list of missing persons have been unsuccessful in identifying the "Hvitskau Man".</p>
<p>On 1/9/2013, SCP-8046 was denied reclassification as Safe, justified largely in part due to the unpredictability in accessing SCP-8046 and uncertainty where it can be accessed from. Concurrently, further long-term investigation of SCP-8046-i and its contents was postponed due to lack of productivity, and funding for SCP-8046 research was redirected to Site-212's other projects. Remaining personnel containment were granted authority to conduct independent investigations using existing samples and records, with possibility of future incursions into SCP-8046-i needing to be approved by Site Director or Assistant Site Director.</p>
<p>As of 10/6/2024, Site-212(f) personnel have not found conclusive evidence if SCP-8046's area of encounter has expanded, nor any evidence it has shifted outside of the Hvitskauen.</p>
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<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. Addresses: 1 & 2 Hvitskaunvegen, 7350 Buvika</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. The exception being a table lamp whose power cord extends and unknown into the permafrost and underground, and has not been observed to go out in the time since SCP-8046's discovery.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Nothing has been identified to have existed after May 1996.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. Portions of the duvet have been cut away to access SCP-8046-B for onsite forensics.</div>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8047</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Hazardous</p>
<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> Colonies of SCP-8047 instances are to be maintained inside the Biological Research Wing of Site-270. Sub-colonies are to be maintained throughout a number of other facilities, in accordance with the SOLID VOICE Directive. During experiments with SCP-8047, personnel are to wear proper safety equipment to minimize the risk of improper exposure. If these measures fail, the doors to the SCP-8047 enclosure are to be sealed with the subject still inside.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8047 designates a species of anomalous organisms vaguely resembling <em>enchytraeus albidus</em>, colloquially known as the "white worm". SCP-8047's anomalous properties become evident when an instance is presented with a living human subject, with a marked preference for subjects that are heavily injured and near death.</p>
<p>When this occurs, the SCP-8047 instances will burrow into the subject's flesh using its concealed teeth. During this process, the SCP-8047 instance will secrete a form of anesthetic, preventing a pain response. Once inside of the subject's body, it will rapidly move throughout the bloodstream before, approximately 32 minutes later, ceasing observable activity. No adverse effects have been reported during this stage.</p>
<p>The presence of SCP-8047 inside of a host organism has a number of beneficial and anomalous effects on the subject. These include:</p>
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<li>The anomalous reversal of biological senescence;</li>
<li>Rapid tissue regeneration;</li>
<li>Recovery from other anomalous conditions;</li>
<li>Reduced incidence of cancerous cell growth;</li>
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<p>No subject died following exposure to the anomaly, regardless of their prior injuries. Following a dormant phase of approximately 15 to 24 hours, the SCP-8047 instance will resume activity. It will travel rapidly throughout the host's body, laying an extremely large number of eggs as it does so. The rate of oviparity is believed to be anomalous as well. All attempts to arrest or delay this process have failed.</p>
<p>Within a period of no less than 16 hours, a single SCP-8047 instance will have been to able to lay as many as 62,000 eggs. Following this, the eggs will hatch simultaneously, releasing a large number of juvenile SCP-8047 instances. This is known as an PRENTISS Event. These subjects will secrete a caustic fluid from their mouths, aiding them in breaking down the body of the host organism as they consume it for nutrients. In all observed cases, this has resulted in the subject's death.</p>
<p><strong>Discovery:</strong> SCP-8047 was first discovered in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, USA after reports of one William Bates making a miraculous recovery following his accidental shooting at the hands of Henry Bates, his brother, during a deer hunt. MTF-Phi-81 ("Non-Specific Colitis") took Bates into Foundation custody, where the first known PRENTISS Event was observed.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Addendum — SOLID VOICE Proposal</strong></p>
<p>On 3/10/2022, Dr. Wilfred Eisen (PID-3982MQ) submitted a proposal for the use of SCP-8047 to the administration of the <a href="/fire-suppression-department-hub">Fire Suppression Department.</a> An excerpt of his proposal is attached below.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><tt><strong>[EXCERPT BEGINS]</strong></tt></p>
<p><strong>Form ID:</strong> FSD-048291GRQ</p>
<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> One of the greatest challenges of the Fire Suppression Department is the effect that fatal containment breaches on the psyche of the average staff member. Personnel who have lost a close colleague in the line of duty show an alarming tendency towards workplace dissatisfaction, undesirable mental conditions,<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup> and unproductivity. On average, a Foundation facility will experience 3.9 fatal containment breaches per year, resulting in a disastrous outcome for the interests of the Department.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, obvious methods of solving this issue are either impractical or inadequate. Widespread amnesticization of employees is prohibited both by the expense and Resolution EC #3948. Attempting to decrease the rate of breach-related fatalities via improved safety measures is not cost-efficient. Pre-existing protocols such as <a href="/scp-7726">LUCKY HARE</a>, due to their reliance on irreplicable anomalous objects, are insufficient.</p>
<p>Additionally, SCP-8047 is an anomalous species of worm that, when given access to a human subject, will burrow into their flesh and begin to lay eggs within their body. During this process, the subject's body will undergo rapid regeneration. Approximately two days later, SCP-8047 will kill its host subject via the spontaneous hatching of the eggs that it lays in the host's flesh.</p>
<p>The following proposal will outline a new procedure to be adopted by the Fire Suppression Department involving SCP-8047 and to be codenamed SOLID VOICE.</p>
<p><strong>Proposal:</strong> SOLID VOICE Protocol is to consist of the following:</p>
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<li>Under the guise of minimizing the risk of losing access to the anomalous object in the event of the destruction of its facility, SCP-8047 colonies are to be established in facilities with a high rate of containment failure;</li>
<li>Following a containment breach, if a subject is deemed to have a >95% chance of dying, SCP-8047 instances are to be covertly administered to the researcher;</li>
<li>They are to be attended by their colleagues and assured of their "miraculous" recovery;</li>
<li>If necessary, the presence of a Thaumiel-Class anomalous object with regenerative properties is to be fabricated;</li>
<li>The subject is to be allowed time to interact with and mingle with their colleagues, further impressing upon their colleagues that the subject survived;</li>
<li>Possible venues for this is the fabrication of a tradition of "after-breach" parties;</li>
<li>Before the beginning of the oviparity phase, under the guise of quarantine, the subject is to be detained further;</li>
<li>In reality, their body is to be locked inside of the SCP-8047 enclosure until the conclusion of the PRENTISS Event;</li>
<li>A cover story is to be disseminated that the researcher was transferred to another facility on a classified project;</li>
<li>This project is to be described as low risk, as a means of psychological recovery for personnel who just went through a near-death experience;</li>
<li>In the event of colleagues attempting to communicate with the deceased subject via email or snail mail, Artificially Intelligent Conscript Edison.aic is to fabricate responses;</li>
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<p>The protocol is estimated to be extremely cost effective, as the population of SCP-8047 instances is inherently self replenishing. In total, SOLID VOICE Protocol is expected to result in a 85% decrease in reported fatalities, with extreme benefits to workplace productivity and the aims of the Foundation.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><tt><strong>[EXCERPT ENDS]</strong></tt></p>
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<p>The proposal was approved for use in a 34-11 vote by the FSD administration. As of 5/12/2024, an 89% success rate has been observed.</p>
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<p><strong>Item #:</strong> SCP-8048</p>
<p><strong>Object Class:</strong> Safe</p>
<p><strong>Stellar Cartography Protocols:</strong> To be applied to RA ██h ██m ██s, Dec. -██° ██′ ██″, in accordance with the █████ system. No additional containment protocols are necessary for SCP-8048. SCP-8048 is currently in the Hypatian Index under ticket HI-522. Containment will be terminated no sooner than 2061, and its compliance with modern astronomy will be re-evaluated each decade.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8048 is the fourth exoplanet from the star MSS-████, designated █████ upon its discovery by the Mercurial Star Survey in 2007.</p>
<p>Remote sensing of SCP-8048 before Foundation involvement revealed that the planet is mostly composed of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and calcium, and has a dense atmosphere with high humidity. This, combined with its optimal distance from its sun, drew brief interest from the scientific community. However, its distance and atmosphere made further investigation difficult by mundane practices.</p>
<p>Pursuing Foundation interests in exobiology, stellar probe IX-809 approached and took images of SCP-8048's surface in 2011. Upon reception of these images, the planet was designated SCP-8048 and was immediately given a ticket in the Hypatian Index.</p>
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<p>Entrances to a connected cave system, explored by eXR-8048.</p>
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<p>SCP-8048 is entirely covered in organic materials of a similar composition to human skin, and has a pattern of topological features greatly reminiscent of human features, including extremities, calcium structures resembling exposed bones, and facial features. Water features along SCP-8048's surface include large quantities of iron, lending them a red coloration.</p>
<p>A follow-up investigation by Foundation rover eXR-8048 revealed further resemblance between SCP-8048's geologic features and human anatomy. eXR 8048 mapped several cave systems accessible from SCP-8048's surface with striking, though imperfect, correlation to internal human anatomical structures. Cave interiors were notably wet, their surfaces soft and porous, and their chambers alternated between smaller passages and larger chambers, some with pools of water mixed with hydrochloric acid.</p>
<p>Of note, samples of SCP-8048's crust composition collected by eXR-8048 did not reveal cellular structures or human DNA, nor any other DNA or microbiological structures. The termination of SCP-8048's containment is largely reliant on the Foundation's ability to justify SCP-8048's structure as a naturally occurring phenomenon.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum:</strong> An unidentified object, designated AAO-m324, caught Foundation attention when it was discovered to be travelling faster than light and was thus likely a spacecraft. Its priority was heightened once its calculated trajectory put it in Sol's orbit within four years.</p>
<p>AAO-m324 was intercepted by Foundation exodrone Wan Hu on 2/28/2023, prepared for a hostile encounter. However, although AAO-m324 was quickly identified as a small shuttle, proximity provoked no measurable reaction. Wan Hu attached onto AAO-m324 and released its interior unit to penetrate and investigate.</p>
<p>AAO-m324 was composed of a material made largely of calcium, unique for recorded alien spacecraft. Patterning on AAO-m324's exterior superficially resembled human eyes, repeatedly painted in a line along its meridian.</p>
<p>Penetration into AAO-m324 broke a pressurized system, destroying and agitating much of the interior, which consisted of a single chamber. After some scrutiny and communication with Command, Wan Hu retrieved the recently deceased remains of the two inhabitants, and redirected the object into the orbit of a nearby star.</p>
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<p>The remains are of roughly insectoid or arachnoid proportions, bearing six limbs and two distinct body segments. The bodies are 142 and 150 cm long, and are largely identical.</p>
<p>The bodies' exteriors bear striking resemblance to earth's soil, including thin and fibrous protrusions superficially resembling grass and denser, more matted green material resembling moss. Beneath a porous brown exterior, the bodies have a hard gray exoskeleton similar in composition to earth's sediment. Inside, the bodies are full of a clear liquid with a similar viscosity to water, and have multi-colored geometric organs resembling human buildings.</p>
<p>Of note, samples of these remains collected by Foundation scientists did reveal cellular structures, an analogue to DNA, and organelles. Calculation of AAO-m324's travel, assuming no major deviations, as well as assessment of AAO-m324's contents, suggests SCP-8048 as a likely origin.</p>
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<p>SUBTITLE: WELCOME TO THE PLAYERS, GAME.</p>
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<div class="level">Level1</div>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> As SCP-8049 is fully integrated with the Foundation in the form of MTF Sigma-68 ("The CorpseBallers"), no containment is necessary.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8049 is a game played exclusively between alternate timeline or dimension versions of the SCP Foundation.<span class="fnnum">.</span> <span class="fncon">Similar normalcy organizations, such as the <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8399">Control Institution</a>, the <a href="http://scp-int.wikidot.com/k-s-g-hub">Zhujihui</a> and on one occasion, The Shark Punching Centre, have been noted to play.</span> The game is played in 3 versus 3 matches, or 5 versus 5.</p>
<p>All matches are played in Interdimensional Area-66, which is a facility located outside of the universe, similar to the Wanderer's Library. It is accessible through a Way in the upper peninsula of Michigan, in the form of a door with a human shaped indent.</p>
<p>The game is played between two teams, each having one torso on their side. The torso cannot be stolen from a team. In the middle of the arena, there is a head, two arms, and two legs. The team with the most complete corpse after five minutes will win.</p>
<p>Every six months, the corpseball team of every universe will be transported to compete in a tournament. Though the rules may vary slightly in each timeline, the tournament only has two rules. The corpse must be assembled by hand, and it cannot be altered in any way by thaumaturgy, ontokinesis, or reality-bending. Any death or injuries will be reversed upon the conclusion of the match.</p>
<p>SCP-8049 appears to alter documentation of itself, resulting in the addition of episode numbers and titles, and arrangement of documentation in a narratively satisfying manner.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8049.1:</strong> THE PANDORA TOURNAMENT</p>
<p>On 8/14/24, a message was sent to every iteration of the SCP Foundation. It is attached below.</p>
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<p>WELCOME, SCP FOUNDATION OR NORMALCY ORGANIZATION OF THIS UNIVERSE.</p>
<p>IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE, YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO PLAY IN</p>
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<p><strong>THE PANDORA TOURNAMENT</strong></p>
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<p>UPON COMPLETION OF THE TOURNAMENT TOO COOL TO LIST THE NAME OF TWICE IN THIS DOCUMENT, THE VICTOR WILL BE REWARDED WITH</p>
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<p><strong>THE RULEBOOK</strong></p>
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<p>WHATEVER TEAM POSSESSES</p>
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<p>THE RULEBOOK</p>
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<p>WILL RULE THE SPORT AND BE UNBEATABLE.</p>
<p>YOU HAVE UNTIL 10/15/24 TO PREPARE YOUR TEAMS.</p>
<p>SEE YOU THEN.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:80%;">CORPSEBALL™© The PANDORA TOURNAMENT Arc™© is sponsored by Goldbaker-Reinz, your choice of healthcare and insurance in this crazy multiverse.</span></p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8049.2:</strong> The PANDORA TOURNAMENT Recruitment Process</p>
<p>Following the message sent in Addendum 8049.1, a special team was formed. Using various narrative measuring devices, the members of the team were selected from a catalogue of traditional "underdogs". The Department of Narrativistics has faith that utilizing certain tropes will increase the odds of victory.</p>
<p>Currently, the roster consists of:</p>
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<li>Doctor Francis Own, Head Researcher of the Department of Applied Horology.</li>
<li>Dr. Dino Draws, Junior Researcher of the Department of Geology.</li>
<li>Leon O'Sullivan, Assistant Director of Site-32, Thaumaturgy Consultant.</li>
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<p>Organized into the 419th iteration of MTF Sigma-68.</p>
<p><strong>Addendum 8049.3:</strong> GAME ONE of The PANDORA TOURNAMENT Arc™©</p>
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<p><strong>TEAM IN PLAY:</strong></p>
<p>Sigma-68, "The CorpseBallers" (UNIVERSE 110), vs Epsilon-25, "Losing Streak" (UNIVERSE B1145).</p>
<p><strong>SIGMA-68:</strong> Dr. Francis Own (Blood Alcohol Content Over 0.06%), Dr. Dino Draws (Strongest Physically), Leon O'Sullivan (Thaumaturgist)</p>
<p><strong>EPSILON-25:</strong> Sir Saylor Moto (Walrusman), D-644 (Thaumaturgist), Dr. Shippin Arsehowl (Has A Stomach Ache)</p>
<p><strong>SETTING:</strong> Begins in a pre-game arena with MTF Sigma-68 and Epsilon-25 conversing.</p>
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<p><strong>OWN:</strong> So… Uhm. Hello.</p>
<p><strong>ARSEHOWL:</strong> Are you nervous?</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Fuck yes I am. They put me on a team and tell me I need to win this thing so we can win tournaments forever. That's a big fuckin' ask. AND they take away my booze. How do they expect me to work like this?</p>
<p><strong>ARSEHOWL:</strong> Must be rough to have so much placed on you without your consent.</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> It is. It really, really is.</p>
<p><strong>ARSEHOWL:</strong> Not like I'd know anything about that.</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> … Right. Uh. I've gotta go, uh, Doctor.</p>
<p>(<em>Own walks away, walking toward Draws and O'Sullivan.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Who the fuck are these people?</p>
<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> I dunno. I was chatting a little bit with one of them. The jumpsuit. He was a bit of a jerk 'fore he skedaddled off to talk with the walrus guy.</p>
<p>(<em>O'Sullivan is staring blankly at the wall.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> O'Sullivan.</p>
<p>(<em>Pause.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> Leeeeoooon.</p>
<p>(<em>He snaps back to attention.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> Yeah?</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Cool. You're here.</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> Mhm.</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Can you stop my hangover? My head is killing me.</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> I don't want to do too much thaumaturgy beforehand.</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Why not? If you don't help the team, it's gonna be a bit hard to <em>not</em> get chewed out by the big guys when we get back.</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> The more EVE you use, the less stable the backlash. I thought you would understand the basics, being a head researcher.</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> It's not my area of expertise! I literally keep the clocks running!</p>
<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> Wellllllll. You guys excited?</p>
<p><strong>OWN / O'SULLIVAN:</strong> No.</p>
<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> … bizarring.</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> Don't even stress. We just have to win!</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> You're damn optimistic.</p>
<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> I can fly. So. I can mosey on over to the middle, take the corpse parts, and bring it to our end. Easy!</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Great idea. I don't have to do anything.</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> (<em>Harshly.</em>) Own.</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> I'll do my best, but I can't really promise anything. My arms are like noodles.</p>
<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> You two dopes can keep arguing. I'm gonna meet the D-Class they have over there.</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Watch out for an Arsehowl.</p>
<p>(<em>Pause.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> Have fun, Draws.</p>
<p>(<em>The sound of scraping against metal can be heard, as the SCP-8049 arena is formed. It is a flat concrete space. MTF Sigma-68 and Epsilon-25 are placed on opposite ends, each with one torso on their end. In the middle, there sit two arms, two legs, and a head.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Looks like it's time to start the game.</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> Yerp.</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> You can meet them while we play.</p>
<p>(<em>A gun goes off, signaling the start of the game. Around the arena, glass is formed, and things that look like people appear to fill the audience.</em>)</p>
<p>(<em>Dr. Arsehowl charges, trying to grab the head placed in the middle. O'Sullivan raises his hand, a torrent of stark blue fire engulfing her. When the smoke clears, only ash remains. Audience hoots.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> Get the parts, Draws.</p>
<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> Aye-aye!</p>
<p>(<em>Fi flies, picking up the head and an arm.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> It's good they don't have a thaumaturgist. I wore myself pretty thin—</p>
<p>(<em>D-644 snaps her fingers, the concrete of the room twisting, as a stone spike impales Francis Own through the shoulder.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Well, fuck me.</p>
<p>(<em>Two more spikes skewer his stomach. O'Sullivan raises an emerald-colored barrier of energy around Draws, sweat forming on his brow.</em>)</p>
<p>(<em>Sir Moto meanders toward the middle, grabbing an arm and the remaining two legs. Draws attaches the head and arm to fir team's torso. Fi rockets through the air toward Moto in an attempt to snatch him off the ground. The two collide, and Moto topples over.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>MOTO:</strong> AHOY! GET YE HANDS OFF ME, YE SCUM OF THE SKY!</p>
<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> WELL! (<em>Pause.</em>) FUCK YOU TOO! (<em>Fi takes fir cane, beginning to hit Moto over the head with it.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>MOTO:</strong> FIRE, LASSIE!</p>
<p>(<em>O'Sullivan pants, D-644 sending a firebolt toward Draws' wing. O'Sullivan and D-644 both manage to exercise some control over the firebolt, stopping it mid-path.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> DRAWS! RUN!</p>
<p>(<em>Fi looks at the magical fight, fir barrier slowly dissolving as O'Sullivan focuses on wrestling the firebolt, and manages to snatch one of the legs from Moto.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>D-644:</strong> Let go, old man! Let! Go!</p>
<p>(<em>D-644 pushes, the bolt inching towards closer and closer to the evacuating Draws. O'Sullivan, using the last of his strength, diverts it from its path. The firebolt hits him instead, and he falls.</em>)</p>
<p>(<em>Draws uses this time to attach the leg, securing their victory with 3/5 of the limbs.</em>)</p>
<p>(<em>All dead and harmed players are healed. Most sit up and pant.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> Holy shit! We did it!</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> You let me fucking die!!!</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> It's not like you did anything to really fight against the spike once it was in you. Or to make it worth saving you.</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Do you know what being dead is like?!</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> Dunno. Tell me.</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> A surprising amount of men, actually.</p>
<p>(<em>Pause.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> <em>… bizarring.</em></p>
<p>(<em>Pause.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> Yeah. Uhm. We did it.</p>
<p>(<em>The opposing team disappears in a flash of blue light.</em>)</p>
<p>(<em>Pause.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> I hope you two fucking—</p>
<p>(<em>The footage ends.</em>)</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8049.4:</strong> Interdimensional Area-66 Footage</p>
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<p><strong>PRESENT:</strong> Emily.aic<span class="fnnum">.</span> <span class="fncon">An .aic designed to train Corpseball teams between matches, with her speech capacities built off a Large Language Model for cost-efficiency.</span> , Interdimensional Area-66 Director Blade Young</p>
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<p><strong>YOUNG:</strong> Emily, status report.</p>
<p><strong>EMILY.AIC:</strong> stat tits</p>
<p>(<em>An audible sigh.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>YOUNG:</strong> Emily, who is currently in the training facility?</p>
<p><strong>EMILY.AIC:</strong> alcohol, liberal, irish</p>
<p><strong>YOUNG:</strong> Them? Really?</p>
<p><strong>EMILY.AIC:</strong> middle key there was italian</p>
<p><strong>YOUNG:</strong> I can't believe it. The <em>prophecy</em> might be coming true.</p>
<p><strong>EMILY.AIC:</strong> queer</p>
<p><strong>YOUNG:</strong> We've got to get you upgraded. Can you pull up documents about The Corpseball Prophet?</p>
<p><strong>EMILY.AIC:</strong> nah cant find im gonna jacking</p>
<p><strong>YOUNG:</strong> Fine. I'll do it myself. Can't even get good help these days.</p>
<p>(<em>Director Young pulls out a scroll, unfolding it to reveal a crudely drawn image of three people.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>YOUNG:</strong> This is the prophecy, Emily. This is the fate of the Pandora Tournament. Three heroes will claim the Corpseball Rules, and forever be the victors. But it <em>can't</em> be these three! According to legend, if <em>The Dead Three</em> claim these scrolls, Corpseball will be changed forever. <em>The Dead Three</em> are… Well, we don't know, but we sure damn know one of them is a weird dinosaur guy. The scrolls make this clear.</p>
<p><strong>EMILY.AIC:</strong> cock</p>
<p><strong>YOUNG:</strong> Now I just need to know what to do. What. Shall. We. Do.</p>
<p><strong>EMILY.AIC:</strong> Shoot them.</p>
<p><strong>YOUNG:</strong> Hmmm… no. I can't. People can't know I'm doing this— That would ruin my reputation! But Corpseball changing would ruin my shot at running this place, I hate learning new things.</p>
<p><strong>EMILY.AIC:</strong> bizzaring</p>
<p><strong>YOUNG:</strong> Who even said that??? It's not a fucking word! Whatever. Whatever. You're doing great, Emily.</p>
<p><strong>EMILY.AIC:</strong> blow me bbygirl</p>
<p><strong>YOUNG:</strong> Now… Make sure that team… (<em>Mutters, flipping through a list.</em>) Sigma-68. Them. Make sure they don't get the best training they can.</p>
<p><strong>EMILY.AIC:</strong> ill castrate bc they are real fr whole whores</p>
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<p><strong>Addendum 8049.5:</strong> GAME TWO OF THE PANDORA TOURNAMENT</p>
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<p>Sigma-68, "The CorpseBallers" (UNIVERSE 110), vs Icarus-01, "HUBRIS INCARNATE" (Universe 4755-AD-J)</p>
<p><strong>SIGMA-68:</strong> Dr. Francis Own (Blood Alcohol Content Over 0.06%), Dr. Dino Draws (Strongest Physically), Leon O'Sullivan (Thaumaturgist)</p>
<p><strong>ICARUS-01:</strong> <strong><span style="color: red">[DATA CORRUTPED]</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>SETTING:</strong> Begins pre-game with Dr. Own, Dr. Draws, and Assistant Director O'Sullivan.</p>
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<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> Well, that was lovely.</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Did <em>not</em> expect to get such a nice room.</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> Yeah. I guess you're right there. Don't expect this next team to be any easier, you know.</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Yeah, yeah. Stakes get higher and all. Really though, what could be worse than those last guys? One of them was a <em>pirate.</em></p>
<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> … Do you have something against pirates?</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> They're freaks. No pirate has ever felt the touch of a woman. Or a man, for the record.</p>
<p>(<em>Footsteps can be faintly heard.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> Shush.</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Don't tell me to shut—</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> Shut <em>up</em> Own.</p>
<p><strong>MCDOCTORATE:</strong> Hey.</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> … Who are you?</p>
<p><strong>MCDOCTORATE:</strong> Dr. McDoctorate. I <em>WOULD</em> like to introduce myself in a more proper fashion, but, you know. Curse on my name and all.</p>
<p>(<em>Draws' eyes widen, as fi unblinkingly stares at McDoctorate.</em>)</p>
<p>(<em>Pause.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Is… is Draws okay?</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> I have no idea.</p>
<p><strong>MCDOCTORATE:</strong> Sorry about all of this, I didn't necessarily have a choice in being drafted into the game, and I'd really rather prefer not to be completely obliterated from existence if I have a choice in the matter, you know?</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Huh?</p>
<p>(<em>A gun goes off, signaling the start of the game. Around the arena, glass is formed. Things of many shapes and sizes fill the audience, cheering and bleating and mooing and oinking.</em>)</p>
<p>(<em>The concrete walls fall away to reveal two large machines. <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6820">One is a large icosahedron</a>, rotating and being continually struck with red sparks of red electricity. The other is a <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6747">complicated series of mechanisms</a>, emanating a constant source of narrative potential.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>DRAWS:</strong> Oh.</p>
<p><strong>O'SULLIVAN:</strong> For God's sake.</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> Hey! Look! We can still win—</p>
<p>(<em>Own moves in front of the team, as each team's torso manifests. Two arms and two legs appear in the middle, and he speaks.</em>)</p>
<p><strong>OWN:</strong> With the power of teamwork, or whatever the kids are talking about, we can—</p>
<p>(<em>SCP-6820 erases Draws, O'Sullivan, and Own from existence.</em>)</p>
<p>(<em>Five minutes of McDoctorate meandering to collect the limbs from the center follow.</em>)</p>
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<p>After the game, MTF Sigma-68 was moved to the Loser's Bracket. The winner of the Loser's Bracket will get another chance at winning the tournament.</p>
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<p><tt>AS TENSIONS BEGIN TO BROIL OVER, YOU'RE ALL LEFT WITH ONE QUESTION.</tt></p>
<p><tt>WILL SIGMA-68 BE ABLE TO FIGHT THEIR WAY OUT OF THE LOSER'S BRACKET?</tt></p>
<p><tt>NOBODY KNOWS. YOU'LL HAVE TO TUNE INTO THE NEXT EPISODE OF—</tt></p>
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--page-font), var(--ui-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--page-font-size)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">440</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">strong</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">700</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">tt</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-source</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">pre</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-page-textarea</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--mono-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">ol</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">p</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-underline-offset:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">40</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
:</span><span class="hl-special">:selection</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Clicky</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">links</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a.newpage</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:visited</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:visited</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a.newpage</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:visited:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:visited:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-hover-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-decoration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.1</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">patch</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">for</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">sidebar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">media</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">collapsibles</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">ACS</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">info</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">and</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ayers</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">module</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">so</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">doesn</span><span class="hl-code">'</span><span class="hl-identifier">t</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">override</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-folded</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-unfolded-link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.fa-info</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.media</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.danger-diamond</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.info-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-folded</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.info-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--linkColour) !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">160</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--header-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">letter-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">900</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> -</span><span class="hl-number">0.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> fit-content</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--header-title)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--header-subtitle)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font) !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">700</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--misc-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">26</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.35</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">block</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">uppercase</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div#extra-div-1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">160</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">7</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">absolute</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--logo-img) </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">30</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">no-repeat</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">130</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-repeat:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">no-repeat</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">50</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">50</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">z-index:</span><span class="hl-code"> -</span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">opacity:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--logo-opacity)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Search</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">text</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-input</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">type</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">submit</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#efefef</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc(var(--page-font-size) - </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input.empty</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#999999</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#search-top-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">absolute</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">47</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">15</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">15</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">white</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li.sfhover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ul</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.83</span><span class="hl-code">) !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">230</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-indent:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">justify-content:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.mobile-top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">left:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Login</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Info</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#login-status</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">19</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#login-status</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#login-status</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 767</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.printuser</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.printuser</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.printuser</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">img.small</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">18</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">18</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-image:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 767</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.printuser</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">img.small</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> translate(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#my-account</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 767</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#account-topbutton</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MAIN</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Header</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Side</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#top-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.open-menu</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">white</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (min-width: 768</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.6</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.6</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">18.75</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">left</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">s ease-in-out</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">direction:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">rtl</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">left</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.resources</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.media</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#interwiki</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">direction:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">ltr</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.side-block.resources</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#side-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.heading</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--misc-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#cfcfcf</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">9</span><span class="hl-string">pt</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">800</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">uppercase</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Blockquotes</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">Custom</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Divs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.15</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#f7f7f7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">dashed</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#f7f7f7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">9</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.note</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#afafaf</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.round</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Headings</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">Titles</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-title</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.meta-title</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">800</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#3b3b3b</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> fit-content</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-title</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.meta-title</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#breadcrumbs</span><span class="hl-code">,
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">h6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#3b3b3b</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">h1</span><span class="hl-code">,
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">800</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.footnotes-footer</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.title</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#3b3b3b</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">800</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Rate</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Module</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.creditRate</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#bbb</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.fa-info</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.fa-info</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#bbb</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-points</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rateup</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.ratedown</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rateup</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.ratedown</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rateup</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.ratedown</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inline-block</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.cancel</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#fff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.rate-box-with-credit-button</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-rate-widget-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Rate</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Module</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Author</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Label</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
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/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Side</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anchor</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">8</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc((</span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-code">vw - </span><span class="hl-number">870</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">)/</span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc(</span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-code">vh - </span><span class="hl-number">18</span><span class="hl-code">rem)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">103.5</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">z-index:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 1290</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">visibility:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">hidden</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Image</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#f4f4f4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#3b3b3b</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.1</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">img</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.1</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.imagediv</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">right</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">15</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 540</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.imagediv</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.3</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">only</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">screen</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">and</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 600</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block.block-right</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">float:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tables</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Base</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">td</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">12</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#bfbfbf</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">td</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.sidebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.35</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tables</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Customization</span><span class="hl-code"> (</span><span class="hl-identifier">Table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Coloring</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">System</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tables</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Customization</span><span class="hl-code"> (</span><span class="hl-identifier">Table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Coloring</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">System</span><span class="hl-code">) > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Headings</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">Image</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Captions</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#E0FFD4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#D8ECF4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FDF6D7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFDFCD</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#FFCFCF</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">tr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">th</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-block</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.scp-image-caption</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">146</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.tableb</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.wiki-content-table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-collapse:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">separate</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-spacing:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tables</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Customization</span><span class="hl-code"> (</span><span class="hl-identifier">Table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Coloring</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">System</span><span class="hl-code">) > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Other</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colored</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Divs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table1</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">224</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">212</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table2</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">226</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">244</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table3</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">245</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">189</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table4</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">223</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">205</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table5</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table5</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">207</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">207</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">blockquote</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.blockquote.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.blockquote.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.jotting.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.notation.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.modal.table6</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.paper.table6</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(</span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">218</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tabs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Base</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-image:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-decoration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inherit</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tabs</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Customization</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-wrap:</span><span class="hl-code"> wrap</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> calc(</span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code"> - </span><span class="hl-number">.125</span><span class="hl-code">rem)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">auto</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Link</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">UNSELECTED</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#efefef</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">HOVER</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code">,
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Listitem</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">position:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">relative</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-grow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-bottom</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> flex</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">align-items:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">justify-content:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">li</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.35</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.75</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> ellipsis</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">overflow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">hidden</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">white-space:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">nowrap</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code">,
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Selection</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Modifier</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">flex-grow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">Tab</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Background</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Colour</span><span class="hl-code"> | [</span><span class="hl-identifier">SELECTED</span><span class="hl-code">] ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:focus</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-nav</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.selected</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-special">:active</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ffffff</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-navset-top</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.yui-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">WORDS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">NO</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">BROKEY</span><span class="hl-code">. </span><span class="hl-identifier">CROQ</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">HAS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">SPOKEY</span><span class="hl-code">. </span><span class="hl-identifier">and</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">other</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">things</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">word-break:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">normal</span><span class="hl-code"> !important
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.avatar-hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#main-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-tags</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">span</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">max-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Dustjacket</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Assets</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.fancyhr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">hr</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">vw </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(var(--bright-accent), </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-source:</span><span class="hl-code"> url('https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/local--files/component:dustjacket-theme/wl_hr.png')</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-repeat:</span><span class="hl-code"> round round</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-slice:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">500</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">500</span><span class="hl-code"> fill</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.fancyborder</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-sizing:</span><span class="hl-code"> border-box</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">vw </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image:</span><span class="hl-code"> url('https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/local--files/component:dustjacket-theme/wl_border.png') </span><span class="hl-number">600</span><span class="hl-code"> round</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-image-width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">vw</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Collapsibles</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-decoration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">underline</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--link-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-special">:not</span><span class="hl-code">(</span><span class="hl-identifier">.licensebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">.info-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">.default-col</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-decoration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">white</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">7</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">9</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgb(var(--accent))</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border-radius:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">6</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--base-font-size)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inset</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.4</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.4</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">inline-block</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-content</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-special">:not</span><span class="hl-code">(</span><span class="hl-identifier">.licensebox</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">.info-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">.default-col</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a.collapsible-block-link</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">background:</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(var(--accent), </span><span class="hl-number">0.7</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">ACS</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Adjustments</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.top-left-box</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">.item</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anom-bar-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.1</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anom-bar-container</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anom-bar-container</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), Inter, </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.acs-extra-1</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.acs-extra-2</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.acs-extra-3</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.acs-extra-4</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), Inter, </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.anom-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">.top-box</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-transform:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">CONTENT</span><span class="hl-code"> > </span><span class="hl-identifier">Woed</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Adjustments</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.scale</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">div.item1</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#333</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--misc-txt-color)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#page-tags-input</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--head-font), </span><span class="hl-string">sans-serif</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.edit-help-34</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">85</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">opacity:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">60</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> fit-content</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.edit-help-34</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">opacity:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">.edit-help-34</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">3</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-left:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">table.edit-page-bottomtable</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-page-comments</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">86</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">background-color:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">transparent</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.8</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.7</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">86</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#lock-info</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> "!"</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">12</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">110</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">opacity:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">60</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#lock-timer</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">115</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">5</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#lock-timer</span><span class="hl-code">:</span><span class="hl-special">:before</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">content:</span><span class="hl-code"> "⏲ "</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">opacity:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">80</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">textarea</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-page-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input.text</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">outline:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#ccc</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.3</span><span class="hl-code">s</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-property:</span><span class="hl-code"> box-shadow</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">textarea</span><span class="hl-special">:focus-visible</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-page-form</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input.text</span><span class="hl-special">:focus-visible</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#a3a3a3</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">solid</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">#a3a3a3</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#action-area</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">p</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">85</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">color:</span><span class="hl-code"> darkslategrey</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#action-area</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">p</span><span class="hl-special">:nth-child</span><span class="hl-code">(5)></span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">block</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">text-align:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">center</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">120</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#who-rated-page-area</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">column-count:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#who-rated-page-area</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 700</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#who-rated-page-area</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">column-count:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 540</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#who-rated-page-area</span><span class="hl-code">></span><span class="hl-identifier">div</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">column-count:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">8</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">21</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.preview-message</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">top:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> unset</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.7</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.owindow</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-var">@keyframes</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">fade</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
0% </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">opacity:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.owindow</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.button-bar</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.2</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.owindow</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">.table</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-bottom:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">cursor:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">default</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">display:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">block</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">width:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.5</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">margin-right:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.2</span><span class="hl-code">rem</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">div.buttons</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-code">,
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">cursor:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">pointer</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-diff-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-preview-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-draft-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-continue-button</span><span class="hl-code">,
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">padding:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0.5</span><span class="hl-code">rem </span><span class="hl-number">14</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-preview-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-continue-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-continue-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-save-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">#edit-cancel-button</span><span class="hl-special">:hover</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.fncon</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">line-height:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.hovertip</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">border:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">none</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">box-shadow:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">4</span><span class="hl-string">px</span><span class="hl-code"> rgba(</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0.2</span><span class="hl-code">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">.page-history</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#h-perpage</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">cursor:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">pointer</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">input</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">textarea</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#breadcrumbs</span><span class="hl-code">,
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-weight:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-string">bold</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-size:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">110</span><span class="hl-string">%</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">font-family:</span><span class="hl-code"> var(--ui-font)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">REDUCED</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">MOTION</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">ACCESSIBILITY</span><span class="hl-code"> ---- </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
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</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">::</span><span class="hl-identifier">before</span><span class="hl-code">,
</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">::</span><span class="hl-identifier">after</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">animation-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.001</span><span class="hl-code">s !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">animation-iteration-count:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-code"> !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">transition-duration:</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-number">.001</span><span class="hl-code">s !important</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
/</span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">@MEDIA</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">*</span><span class="hl-code">/
</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 850</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">#header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">h2:</span><span class="hl-code">:before {
font-size: </span><span class="hl-number">1.4</span><span class="hl-string">em</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
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</span><span class="hl-var">@media</span><span class="hl-code"> (max-width: 700</span><span class="hl-identifier">px</span><span class="hl-code">) </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
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<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> Vanguard was alerted to an unregulated spatial anomaly in a trailer park near Mercer, Wisconsin, reported to be centered around the trailer of one John Alger. Mobile Task Force Epsilon-6 (“Village Idiots”), alongside Thaumatologists Dr. Katherine Sinclair and Vera Keay<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-1" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-1')">1</a></sup>, were dispatched to ascertain the nature of the anomaly.</p>
<p><em><View is from the dashcam of MTF-Ε-6’s transport vehicle. Up ahead, a large, multi-storied home can be seen, dwarfing the trailers in the rest of the park. The perimeter of the house is clear; its lawn dominates the lot, carving out a perfect green circle which leaves little room for the trailers.></em></p>
<p><em><The transport arrives at the gate to the household. A man, presumably John Alger, is mowing the lawn. A woman is absentmindedly swinging a broom back and forth on the porch, a vacant smile on her face. A child can be seen from the window, nose pressed up against the glass, eyes fixed on Alger.></em></p>
<p><em><The view changes to Dr. Sinclair’s body camera as she exits the van with Keay in tow. She stumbles.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Whoa.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> You alright?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Nope. It's like something's got me by the heart.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Think it's the anomaly?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Got to be. Only one way to know for sure, though.</p>
<p><em><Dr. Sinclair approaches the gate. Upon stepping on the lawn, the grass becomes noticeably greener within its perimeter, the clouds seem fluffier, the sky more blue.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Good morning, Mr. Alger! May we have a moment of your time?</p>
<p><em><Dr. Sinclair waves to the man, who turns off the lawnmower and begins to walk towards the gate. He greets Sinclair with a friendly smile.></em></p>
<p><strong>John Alger:</strong> Good morning, missy! How are you…</p>
<p><em><Alger's eyes wander to the van, and the Vanguard logo on its side. For a moment, his smile falters. Then, resuming his smile, he continues.></em></p>
<p><strong>John Alger:</strong> …how are you doing?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> I'm alright, yourself?</p>
<p><em><Alger gives a belly laugh.></em></p>
<p><strong>John Alger:</strong> Just peachy, miss. Now, what can I do for you today?</p>
<p><em><As Alger laughs, Keay glances at the woman on the porch. Alger looks behind him, as if trying to see what's wrong.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Mind if we take this inside?</p>
<p><em><Alger's smile falters.></em></p>
<p><strong>Alger:</strong> Well. Well, I, uh…</p>
<p><em><Alger looks down. He scratches his nose, considering his feet.></em></p>
<p><strong>Alger:</strong> …are you sure we can't handle this out here?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Well, sure-</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> We would really rather take this inside.</p>
<p><em><Alger looks between the two, his mouth hanging open. Then, he sighs, throwing up his hands. A large gold ring is visible on his right.></em></p>
<p><strong>Alger:</strong> Well, sure. Not like I can stop you.</p>
<p><em><Alger opens the gate and leads the two across the lawn. As they approach the porch, Sinclair speaks.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Hello, Mrs. Alger! We're with Vanguard, we've just got a couple of questions for you and your husband.</p>
<p><em><Dr. Sinclair shows Mrs. Alger her badge as Mr. Alger unlocks the door. Mrs. Alger continues to sweep the porch, unresponsive.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Hello? Anyone in there?</p>
<p><em><Mr. Alger watches the development as he opens the front door. He discreetly flicks his finger, the one with the ring. Keay glances at him as he does so, but is interrupted by Mrs. Alger.></em></p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Alger:</strong> Oh, <em>hi!</em></p>
<p><em><Mrs. Alger looks up from her work with a smile.></em></p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Alger:</strong> I can't believe it! We <em>finally</em> have some visitors! We haven't had any since, well, since we got married!</p>
<p><em><Finished with the door, Mr. Alger walks over to share an embrace and a kiss with his wife.></em></p>
<p><strong>Mrs. Alger:</strong> Well, make yourselves at home, dears. I'll fix something up real quick!</p>
<p><em><Mrs. Alger shuffles into the now-open door, Mr. Alger following wordlessly behind.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Does anyone even <em>talk</em> like that anymore? She sounds like she was first recorded when VHS was still a thing. And that <em>lilt.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> You'd be surprised. There <em>are</em> people who choose to live like… that.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Yeah, if they're asleep. And ol' Johnny here's supposed to be divorced. No official record of remarriage, and he doesn't seem the live-in girlfriend type. Where'd the kid even-</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger (from inside):</strong> What are you two yakking about?</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Nothing!</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> Well, come on in! Let's get this over with.</p>
<p><em><Keay and Dr. Sinclair cross the threshold into the foyer.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Whoa.</p>
<p><em><The two are confronted with a tall but cramped foyer. Two straight, carpeted stairways, each uncomfortably narrow, lead up to a balcony from which five single doors diverge. The main hallway, below the balcony, is segmented by five windowed doors for no apparent reason. One of these doors is open. Paintings, clocks, and small shelves for trophies are haphazardly scattered all over the walls: Some are even blocking the doors.></em></p>
<p><em><The floor is a mosaic of rugs in different patterns and shades of red, as if this home's designer had thrown whatever onto the ground to cover as much square footage in as little time and money as possible. The wall behind is adorned with the only two windows in the whole room, and beside them, the child. He is quiet: The synchronized ticking of the many mechanical clocks is the only sound.></em></p>
<p><em><Dr. Sinclair stumbles to the nearest wall to support herself.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Hey, you alright?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Whatever it is, it's sinking deeper. It's like the Impasse, but… not. Like someone's sucking the magic out of me with a straw.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Yeah, I can feel it too. Here.</p>
<p><em><Keay helps her partner up. The child remains still.></em></p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger (from behind the five doors):</strong> Can you quit your lollygaggin'?!</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Coming!</p>
<p><em><Keay and Dr. Sinclair proceed through the five doors into another hallway, decorated with the same family portrait in different frames and on different backgrounds. Short corridors leading to dead ends branch out around them. Inside the hallway is an impatient Mr. Alger, already leading them into a study at the far end. The mages follow him in, and he shuts the door before facing them with a smile.></em></p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> I'm sorry for my outburst just now. I really shouldn't treat a guest like that.</p>
<p><em><Mr. Alger sits on a plush chair behind an ornate wooden desk, and beckons the agents to a pair of wooden seats on the other end of the desk. The agents sit down.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Do you know why we're here, Mr. Alger?</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> No, I can't imagine why.</p>
<p><em><Keay places a picture onto the desk.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> This is what the average trailer park looks like. And <em>this-</em></p>
<p><em><Keay takes out a satellite photo of Mr. Alger's house.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Is what <em>your</em> trailer park looks like. Notice the house.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> One of those immersive map vans was taking pictures here when they noticed that there was a house here that, not too long ago, simply wasn't there.</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> Can't imagine it's hard to miss, missy!</p>
<p><em><Mr. Alger laughs.></em></p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> Everyone's surprised by the fruits of my labor.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Yeah, money makes the world go 'round. It can even make houses spring up like duckweed!</p>
<p><em><Dr. Sinclair gives her partner a significant stare.></em></p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> Sure was a quick renov job, huh?</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Yeah. Impossibly quick. Some would say…</p>
<p><em><Keay leans in.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> …<em>anomalously</em> so.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Vera, please. Quit it with the implications.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> <em>Quit it?</em> Have you seen what he's done to-</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Mr. Alger, we're just here to find out what we can about the appearance of this household to see if there's anything useful to our mission of normalization.</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> Well, I'm sorry to say, there's nothing "anomalous" about it! Just worked hard at my job, saved some money… uh… well, maybe the construction firm was anomalous, I'd be the last to know. All I know is, they promised a quick job, and there's nothing anomalous about keepin' your promises!</p>
<p><em><Mr. Alger gives a belly laugh.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> What's the name of the firm?</p>
<p><em><Mr. Alger stops laughing.></em></p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> …I can't remember, you know? Not like it mattered-</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Do you have any proof of purchase?</p>
<p><em><Mr. Alger freezes.></em></p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> What part of these <em>financial minutiae</em> is so interestin' to you two ladies, anyway?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Mr. Alger. We just want to know-</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> You know what?</p>
<p><em><As he speaks, Mrs. Alger enters the room carrying a tray of mini-sandwiches, which she deposits on the desk. Her movements are stiff and absentminded.></em></p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> This is my property. Second Amendment. Look it up. No illegal search and seizure, and that includes <em>you</em> extrajudicial freaks.</p>
<p><em><Mr. Alger points an accusatory finger at the Vanguard pin on Keay's lapel.></em></p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> You sure did a good job keepin' your little witch's kitchens on the down low. Even got our finest American institutions in on it. But someone picks up a few stray utensils to make some freedom pie? You roll up with your black vans and rip it all away.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> We aren't here to take-</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> Of COURSE you aren't here to take my home! You're just here to "investigate," which'll turn into "confiscate," and then put me in with all the lazy criminals! For <em>what?</em> Workin' my ass off for years on end for a filthy trailer and an alimony debt? Never complaining? Finally getting what I deserve?</p>
<p><em><Mr. Alger's face reddens. The gemstone on his ring glows a faint red as well.></em></p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> I don't know what country your circus act comes from, but this is American soil. And American values will be respected here, whatever those Demo-rats in Congress say. So: Stay out of my lane, and I'll stay outta yours. You get the deal?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> …fine, as long as you tell us what your lane <em>is-</em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> And where that woman's lane is. Can you tell us that?</p>
<p><em><Mr. Alger fumes. He flicks his hand, and a shotgun manifests in it. The ring on his finger begins to glow gold.></em></p>
<p><strong>Mr. Alger:</strong> I'm gonna have to ask you to leave.</p>
<p><em><Dr. Sinclair throws her hands up to form a barrier, but clutches her chest. Faint sparks shoot out of her hands. Keay moves to strike first — but her own spell fails as well. Mr. Alger fires a glowing white projectile that sparks like a firework. It strikes Keay in the chest and sends her flying through the wall to an empty room with a window but no doors.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Vera!</p>
<p><em><Another firework strikes Dr. Sinclair, sending her flying as far as Keay. Alger steps through the hole to reload his shotgun, and the wall begins to reform behind him.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> <em>Dammit!</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> My barrier isn't working!</p>
<p><em><As Alger walks up to them, Sinclair starts muttering in Latin. A flame grows out from her left hand, and she blasts Alger with it. He recoils, but seems unharmed.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Retreat and regroup!</p>
<p><em><Keay pushes herself off the ground and jumps out of the way of the next blast — towards her left, towards the window. Sinclair sprints back to the foyer, narrowly avoiding another strange projectile as she escapes the building. Outside, agents of Mobile Task Force Epsilon-6 "Village Idiots") pour out of the transport, approaching the household. The mages reconvene with them, out of breath.></em></p>
<p><em><The roar of an engine is heard from behind the building. A truck rolls into view, with Alger in the driving seat and his wife sitting next to him. Alger aims the shotgun at the Task Force through the window of the door. When he pulls the trigger, a shockwave sends the Vanguard agents sprawling on the lawn. The truck speeds out of view.></em></p>
<p><strong>Afterword:</strong> All Vanguard personnel hit by the shockwave remained paralyzed until John Alger was more than 5 miles away. The United States Census Office lists Alger's status as single, with no children.</p>
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<p><strong>ITEM №:</strong> VNP-8050</p>
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<p><strong>Specification:</strong> VNP-8050 is a golden ring with a black gemstone attached to it. It is currently in the possession of John Alger, who wears it on the middle finger of his right hand.</p>
<p>The origin and intended use of VNP-8050 are currently unknown. Readings made in the field indicate that Hume and EVE levels fluctuate greatly around Alger, which is likely caused by the object. This has resulted in reality restructurings near Mercer, Wisconsin, Alger's current place of residence.</p>
<p><strong>Normalization Protocols:</strong> VNP-8050 is to be secured as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Details regarding the danger a wielder of VNP-8050 poses are being distributed to major American news networks alongside all small news outlets operating in Wisconsin. The next episode of <a href="/voice-of-vanguard">Voice of Vanguard</a><sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-2" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-2')">2</a></sup> will be focused on how the average citizen can protect themselves from VNP-8050's wearer and other unstable reality-bending individuals. Lighthouse receptionists are to be briefed on the object to answer queries from the public.</p>
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<p><strong>FOREWORD</strong>: MTF Epsilon-6 and the two thaumatologists regrouped at the Task Force's transport, where they established video contact with Dr. Dan Daniels, Director of ETTRA<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-3" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-3')">3</a></sup>.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> So, will somebody tell me what happened back there?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Mr. Alger is a powerful reality-bender, and also immune to our magic. I engulfed him in flames and he somehow absorbed it.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Did you have a reason to set him on fire? We aren't supposed to terminate anomalous people, we're supposed to help them.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> He did threaten us. And he seems to have kidnapped a couple of people using his abilities.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> I see. So this is like a small reality-bender testing what they can get away with. We get those fairly often. We're still drafting a protocol to deal with this issue, but these naturally occurring reality-benders are pretty easy to manage with a bit of diplomacy and understanding where their limits lie.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> I think this looks like an edge case. From what we just saw, his abilities were sourced from some kind of enchanted ring he was wearing.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> A ring? Seriously?</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Yeah, he didn’t seem like the type of guy who would wear jewelry, but he had this big golden ring on his middle finger. And every time we did something, it glowed and then immediately nullified our spells.</p>
<p><em>Dr. Dan sighs.</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> So, you’re telling me he had a ring that made him both unaffected by magic and gave him insane Ontokinesis?</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Does that sound like something on the database, Mr. Know-it-all?</p>
<p><em><Dr. Dan leans on the desk with one hand and uses the other to knock on his head.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> <em>Come on, come on, come on…</em> Nope. Doesn’t ring a bell. That adds a level of unpredictability to this. We normally know how type-greens work. But this is new. And I don't like it.</p>
<p><strong>E-1:</strong> What is the course of action?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Step one: <em>(Away from the microphone)</em> Get me another cup, now! Step two: Put this under ETTRA jurisdiction ASAP. Step three: We bring PANOPTICON<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-4" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-4')">4</a></sup> back online to track this guy. Step four: we catch him and his magic ring. Step five: We figure out how the object works and we give the guy a very stern look and tell him to not pull a stunt like this one ever again.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> You make it seem easy.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> It is easy! Our surveillance systems are already scanning every road in a hundred mile radius. We'll have him in no time.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Wait, I thought you - <em>we</em> weren't doing this authoritarian bullshit anymore.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> That's a discussion for later. Right now we need to get that ring before it hurts anyone else.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> This isn't what I signed up for.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Wait a second. The results are already coming in. <em>(unintelligible voices are heard from Dr. Dan’s side of the call)</em> What? Okay. This is bad. From what PANOPTICON tells us, he’s now on Interstate 39, going down towards Milwaukee.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> What did you sign up for? Our goals are to protect people from the anomalous and the anomalous from people. No matter how you shake it out, this man is a danger to everyone around him. I'm sorry, but in this case, we're going to have to do some authoritarian bullshit. Because otherwise, people are going to get hurt. <em>(to E-2)</em> Come on, let's go. We have to catch him.</p>
<p><strong>Dr Dan:</strong> That’s the thing, you can’t do that. He’s moving at an obscenely high speed, we're barely able to keep track of him as is. Thankfully the other cars on the road are moving away from his path, so there haven't been any accidents. Yet.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> So what do we do?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> We're trying to scramble our resources in Milwaukee to stop him. You can try to get there, but I highly doubt that you’ll arrive in time. Wait- Things just got more complicated. I'm sending you the feed.</p>
<p><em>(silence on recording)</em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> I'm gonna need more coffee.</p>
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<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> The following footage was captured by security cameras of a gas station on Interstate 39. It was sent by ETTRA to MTF-E-6 as they began to follow Alger's trail.</p>
<p><em><A silver car stands at the station, its driver glancing at the console while it refuels. A young teen, presumably his child, is crouched on the floor a few meters away, staring into their smartphone.></em></p>
<p><em><A truck veers into the gas station at high speed, careening into the car. The resulting explosion sends burning metal flying in every direction, grievously wounding the car's driver. For an instant, the truck appears unharmed, until a ring glowing gold bursts through the windshield. It falls next to the teen, who picks it up and dons it, watching their father in horror.></em></p>
<p><strong>Teen:</strong> You bastard! How dare you?!</p>
<p><em><Lightning flashes in the sky. The youth's hair stands up on end as it turns a bright yellow. An aura of yellow energy appears around them, the ring shining brighter still. John Alger stumbles out of the truck, seemingly unharmed.></em></p>
<p><strong>Alger:</strong> What- What's going on? Where am I?</p>
<p><strong>Teen:</strong> You'll pay!</p>
<p><em><The teen lunges at Alger, closing the gap between the two in an instant. They drive their fist into the man's abdomen, knocking his body into the truck. Alger slumps forewords before falling on the floor. They stare at their hands, flexing their fingers.></em></p>
<p><strong>Teen:</strong> Holy cow.</p>
<p><strong>Closing Statement:</strong> The youth, later identified as fourteen year-old Wisconsin resident Riley O'Connor, proceeded to take their wounded father in their arms and fly towards the nearest hospital. As he began to undergo intensive care, they took flight again and left the building.</p>
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<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Well, that's just peachy. Guess we're gonna have to fire up PANOPTICON again.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Yeah, you know, casually using a global surveillance system to find a minor. Does that sound okay to you? Moral? Good?</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> 'Moral' and 'good' aren't in our motto. Sheltering, Normalizing and Informing are! Listen, I was Hand too once, I understand-</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Ah, pulling the turncoat card. Convincing.</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Look Vera, we need to find this kid so we can keep them from hurting someone else or themselves. If you've got a better way to do that than what we have, you're welcome to propose it to the Board. But right now I'm asking you to postpone the idealist drama so we can do our jobs!</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> This 'idealist drama' is about the nature of this goddamned organization! If you're going to keep using Foundation leftovers, you're just going to be Jailors in green.</p>
<p><em><Silence on recording as Sinclair gives the other woman a hard look.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Fine, I'll write to the bloody Board. But if they bury me in paperwork, I'm going to show the whole world Big Brother Vanguard that's been watching them ever since they were born.</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Good luck.</p>
<p><em><Short pause.></em></p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> I'm sorry. I don't like the system either, believe me. Can you please just trust me?</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> I'll try.</p>
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<p>On the order of Dr. Dan, PANOPTICON was put to work to locate Riley O'Connor. They were tracked flying across the United States until reaching New York, from where they left towards Europe. They were seen cutting through clouds above London, standing on top of the Eiffel Tower, and hovering above the Colosseum of Rome.</p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-center" style="width:400px;"><img alt="CNN-Headline.png" class="image" src="https://scp-sandbox-3.wdfiles.com/local--files/collab%3Aone-to-rule-them-all/CNN-Headline.png"/>
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<p>Riley O'Connor portrayed on CNN</p>
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<p>Approximately four hours following their initial takeoff, they were detected touching down at their home address in Solon Springs, Wisconsin. As they were already nearby, MTF-E-6 and the two thaumatologists were dispatched to retrieve the artifact.</p>
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<p><strong>Foreword:</strong> Following these events, Watchtower-09, the main headquarters for ETTRA received a call from █████████<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-5" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-5')">5</a></sup> through an exclusive channel. This call was forwarded to Dr. Dan and Dr. Moose.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> We're in the middle of something, what do you want?</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> I saw the news and the new warnings you are putting out.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Yes, and?</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> I figured you might need some assistance.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> And how can you help? You're officially retired from this business.</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> Well, do you know what that ring is? Do you know what it does? What danger it poses?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> I have my theories. But I don’t know how accurate they are.</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> What about you, egghead? Do you know what this is?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Shut up.</p>
<p><em><silence on recording></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Ok. I concede. No, I don’t have a fucking idea about what this is. It isn’t on the database, it isn’t on any of the anomalous items logs, and it isn’t on the tons of other random documents I memorized when I was in prison.</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> <em>(lets out a chuckle)</em> That’s because it was some kind of weird specific Thaumiel clearance. Well beyond both of your pay grades. In fact, most of the Council didn't even know it existed. It was something that we kept between Ten, Eight and myself.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> That seems very serious. I don't like where this is going.</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> It was. You’ve already seen what it can do.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Did it have an SCP classification? Just so we know how to deal with it?</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> Yes. If you look up “SCP-8050” in the common database, it will come up as an empty slot. That’s because we had a couple of special deepwell databases within our neural implants before we removed them when the Council was dissolved. Well, some of us at least.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> God dammit I knew I missed <em>something</em>.</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> So, if you’re able to retrieve those, the SCP file should be in there.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> I think we have them stored in a locker somewhere.</p>
<p><strong>AFTERWORD:</strong> The SCP-8050 file was retrieved from the archived Overseer deepwells. It is reproduced below.</p>
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<div class="top-left-box"><span class="item">Item#:</span> <span class="number">SCP-8050</span></div>
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<div class="level">Level5</div>
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<div class="class-category">Containment Class:</div>
<div class="class-text">esoteric</div>
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<div class="class-text">radix</div>
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<div class="class-text">keneq</div>
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<div class="danger-diamond"><a href="/classification-committee-memo">link to memo</a><br/>
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<p><strong>Special Containment Procedures:</strong> When not in use, SCP-8050 is to be stored in a secure vault within Site-01. Knowledge and usage of SCP-8050 is to be restricted to O5-6, O5-8 and O5-10.</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SCP-8050 is a ring cast from an alloy made of gold, beryllium bronze, and a number of unidentified anomalous metals. Embedded in its center is a black, smooth gemstone of what is hypothesized to be condensed crystallized irrilite. Engraved upon the metal surface of SCP-8050 are a set of symbols of alchemical significance, alongside writing in an unknown language.</p>
<p>Studies from the Foundation-employed thaumatologists and the <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-alchemy-department-hub">Alchemy Department</a> suggest that the exact composition of metals and runes in SCP-8050 creates an alloy that can channel elemental forces into thaumaturgic and ontokinetic outbursts that seem to follow the wishes of the wearer.</p>
<p>SCP-8050 displays a mild compulsion effect on its holder to don and use it. Further research regarding the nature and extent of this effect is recommended. <em>~O5-6</em></p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Holy shit.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> This sounds familiar. I think I heard some rumors about this thing back when I frequented the Library.</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> As far as we know it was a powerful artifact from an ancient civilization. But we didn’t care about its origins. We cared about using it. And we used it a lot.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> I still don’t understand what it does, exactly.</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> It enables you. I’m still not sure how, but I distinctly remember wanting certain things and it helped me achieve them. Let’s say that I needed a concession to get my hands in more military-grade drones, or a new warship. I would just put on the ring, and everyone in the industry would bend to my will, to an extent. Sometimes, I needed to get to a meeting, and the car would just jump to the location. Or I needed to make a call, and a phone would manifest in my hand.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> Alger manifested a shotgun out of thin air.</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> That tracks. When you have that thing in your hands, you don't have to conform to the rules of the world, the world has to follow your rules.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> And that’s the reason you used the ring? To get stuff?</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> We used it to will the world into submission. More resources meant more power for the Foundation. And that translated into a firmer grip on the Veil.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> You've gotta be kidding me.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> Let me get this straight, you, who used to bury anyone who even thought of using anomalies in the field in mountains of red tape, you who aren't even supposed to be <em>near</em> anomalies in the first place, knowingly used an artifact you never bothered to fully understand on the daily? What the hell is wrong with you?!</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> You don’t seem to get it. You feel powerful when you wear that thing. It gets a hold over you, becomes addictive. Eight was obsessed with it; Ten and I had to physically restrain and wrestle it out of their hands more than once.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> So how does such a powerful artifact end in the house of a conspiracy nutjob in Bumfuck Wisconsin?</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> I actually don’t know. SCP-8050 started losing its effects during the <a href="/scp-6500">Impasse</a>. Eight got very worried. They were running tests on it daily, until one day they just said that it was "gone".</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> And what does that mean?</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> I didn't give it much thought at the time, either the ring had lost its powers or had crumbled to dust, and regardless we had bigger fish to fry back then. But now it’s back. Maybe it's the same ring. Maybe it's some sort of reincarnation. But I recognized the effects as very similar to what I had experienced.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> Well, thanks for the heads-up, this is honestly vital information.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> That's true. Now go back to your retirement home.</p>
<p><strong>█████████:</strong> I've done what I can to help you. That ring means bad news. I'm not proud of what we did with it. But watch out - if I could figure it out, you can be damn sure Eight will as well.</p>
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<p><em><The dash cam of the van shows the Task Force's surroundings as they drive through Solon Springs. They pull up to the O'Connor household.></em></p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> There's that feeling again. Like someone's pulling a needle that's stuck in my chest.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Ever get that feeling of déjà-vu?</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Did you just-</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Yes. Speaking of Overwatch, apparently Dan and Moose just got a call from an old overseer about this ring. Does that mean-</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> This is big, yeah. No new orders yet, but we should be even more careful. No magic if we can help it, and nothing that even resembles violence.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Obviously. Let's go then.</p>
<p><em><An equipment malfunction causes the feed to black out for several minutes before the connection is reestablished. Keay and Sinclair are interviewing Riley O'Connor in the living room.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> And what do you plan to do with this power?</p>
<p><strong>O’Connor:</strong> Crimefighting obviously. I’m going to become the world’s first real superhero! Right now I’m planning on how I’ll make my debut-</p>
<p><em><E-1 speaks in Sinclair and Keay’s earpieces.></em></p>
<p><strong>E-1:</strong> E-1 to Sinclair, multiple units just manifested outside, in front of the porch. Not apportation, some sort of cloaking tech by the looks of things.</p>
<p><em><O’Connor stops mid-sentence, likely by the change in the mages’ expressions. ></em></p>
<p><strong>O’Connor:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>E-1:</strong> Humanoid, armed, I count twelve. Look like MTF agents but there’s no insignia. Could be GOC or Insurgency. Permission to engage?</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Not yet. Riley, do you have a back door?</p>
<p><strong>O’Connor:</strong> Yeah. What’s going on?</p>
<p><em><Sinclair stands up. Keay follows her example.></em></p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> We need to leave now.</p>
<p><strong>O’Connor:</strong> Not happening.</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Some bad and dangerous people just showed up-</p>
<p><em><O’Connor stands up as well.></em></p>
<p><strong>O’Connor:</strong> Dangerous for you maybe. I'll take 'em out no problem.</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Riley-</p>
<p><em><They run towards the door, the ring beginning to glow with golden light. Their hair flickers from black to bright yellow before settling on the latter, standing up in large spikes. Both mages fall to their knees, gasping for breath.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> We’re not very good at this house visit thing, are we?</p>
<p><em><O’Connor opens the door and steps outside, out of the camera’s view. Sinclair puts her head in her hands.></em></p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> God damn it.</p>
<p><em><Feed shifts to the MTF transport’s dash cam. Riley O’Connor is seen exiting the house, an aura of yellow energy around them. They stare out at the half-circle of agents that surround the porch. One of them, armed only with a pistol on their hip, steps forward while the rest train their assault rifles on the teen.></em></p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> Hello child. You have something that belongs to me. I’d like you to return it.</p>
<p><strong>O’Connor:</strong> I’d like to see you try and take it, mister…</p>
<p><strong>Unknown:</strong> You can call me Eight. Fire!</p>
<p><em><O'Connor disappears just as the agents open fire, riddling the front porch with holes. They reappear midair behind one of the soldiers, delivering a roundhouse kick to the head that sends them careening into the ground. Dr. Sinclair speaks through E-1's earpiece.></em></p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Engage! Don't let anything happen to that kid!</p>
<p><em><O'Connor continues to battle the unknown militants, their arms becoming a blur as they deflect a rush of bullets. The MTF agents exit the van and open fire on the attackers, forcing a number to leap for cover. Amidst the chaos, 'Eight', presumed O5-8, approaches O'Connor calmly. ></em></p>
<p><strong>O5-8</strong>: Come child, I hope you're not afraid of a real challenge.</p>
<p><em><The teen enters a defensive stance, their golden aura growing in size and brightness. The ring blazes with light like a tiny sun on their finger.></em></p>
<p><strong>O'Connor:</strong> Come at me, villain!</p>
<p><em><The former Overseer rushes forward, closing the distance between them in an instant. O'Connor gasps as O5-8's fist connects with their jaw. They stagger for a split second, aura flickering, before the O5 grabs their arm and violently yanks the ring off their finger.></em></p>
<p><strong>O5-8:</strong> Thank you. Was that really so difficult?</p>
<p><em><O'Connor's hair turns brown, and they collapse on the grass. Camera feed switches to Vera Keay's body camera, which shows the two mages on the floor inside the house. She peeks through the broken window. Most of the hostile agents appear incapacitated, but O5-8 is seen donning VNP-8050.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Oh no. That fucker took the ring.</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> You're kidding me, there's no way they beat an actual anime prota-</p>
<p><em><Feed transitions to E-1's body camera. She is aiming her weapon at O5-8, and pulls the trigger. Immediately a dozen agents of MTF-A1 ("Red Right Hand") manifest in a circle around the overseer, one of them taking the shots to the chest and falling over. The rest attack the Vanguard agents, easily overwhelming them. E-3 and E-5 are incapacitated as the rest of the Task Force dives behind the van.></em></p>
<p><em><The roar of helicopter blades erupts from above them, drowning out the audio. Feed returns to Keay's body camera. She stands at the doorway, watching as O5-8 and their minions board the helicopter. Sinclair's voice calls out from behind her but she ignores it, whispering words of power while weaving her hands in intricate patterns.></em></p>
<p><em><Giant vines burst from the earth, grasping for the helicopter as it begins to take flight. It flashes suddenly with golden light, and the vines wither away to dust. Keay falls on her back and lies motionless. The camera shows the vehicle rising to the sky before flying out of sight.></em></p>
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<p>Following these events, the helicopter disappeared from Solon Springs without a trace. Vanguard began a more aggressive campaign to warn the public of VNP-8050's status. To this end, the Vanguard Outreach Team organized three press conferences to detail the current ways Vanguard is dealing with the ongoing situation.</p>
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<p>Example of a VNP-8050 information poster.</p>
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<p>Furthermore, informational posters were put up in all major population centers in Wisconsin and surrounding states alongside all Vanguard Lighthouses.</p>
<p>Additionally, descriptions and images of the individual currently identified as O5-8 were distributed among law enforcement. Multiple public posts on social media were made to attempt to explain the ongoing situation.</p>
<p>No developments related to VNP-8050 were made apparent during the next 36 hours.</p>
<p><strong>Related Incident Report:</strong> On 9/13/22, at 19:45 a group of armored vans entered Yellowstone National Park, moving directly towards Watchtower-θ<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" href="javascript:;" id="footnoteref-6" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnote-6')">6</a></sup>. National Park Service rangers confronted the incursion, but were unprepared to meet the force of the aggressors. They believed that some of the weapons used by the group were anomalous in nature and contacted Watchtower-θ for assistance. For unknown reasons, Watchtower-θ Command did not respond, nor did they contact Vanguard at large.</p>
<p>According to the National Park Service, the armed forces arrived at Watchtower-θ at 21:05. Security personnel offered minimal resistance, and the facility fell into enemy hands in minutes. Later, at 22:12, a military helicopter arrived onsite, delivering an unknown number of personnel.</p>
<p>At 22:15 the National Park Service contacted both a Vanguard outreach team member and a GOC representative from outside the jurisdiction of the Park to ask for assistance or guidance. Vanguard Outreach immediately forwarded the information to ETTRA, and asked that the Service await further instructions.</p>
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<p><strong>FOREWORD:</strong> Dr. Dan called for an emergency Board meeting at Watchtower-09.</p>
<p><em><Dr. Dan stands at the head of a round table, joined by various members of the <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-dan-goes-to-washington">Vanguard Board</a>. Behind him is a wide whiteboard, and he holds a sheaf of papers in his hands.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Hello, everyone, I'm glad most of you could make it despite having such short notice. I have very bad news. Something big is happening in Yellowstone; Watchtower-θ has fallen into an unknown hostile group's hands.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> Do we know if it’s related to the ring business?</p>
<p><em><Dan tosses the papers on the table.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Well, the ring disappears in O'Connor’s house, taken by some Alpha-one grunts and one former O5. Now a heavily armored band of merry men waltzes right into a previously black-ops Foundation Site. Doesn't sound like much of a coincidence to me.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Light:</strong> But what are they looking for in there? It’s been on a downsizing trend since an incident back in <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/resurrection-new-faces-hub">2020</a>. There’s nothing interesting in there anymore.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> Maybe it’s because of strategic value? It’s a big site, even if it’s mostly abandoned. And in a fairly central location of the country. Even facilities like these could be useful for all manner of hostile GoIs.</p>
<p><strong>Ms. Harada:</strong> Maybe the personnel stationed there are sympathetic to the old regime? Maybe the director was in kahoots with these miscreants.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Light:</strong> Who? Director Avery? He can be standoffish and uncooperative, sometimes, but I highly doubt that he’s a traitor.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> Traitor to who? He could hold true to the old ideals and think we are the traitors.</p>
<p><strong>Alison Chao:</strong> So, what else could there be in Watchtower-θ that would be important to a magic-ring-wielding-former autocrat?</p>
<p><em><Dr. Moose pickes up the files from the table, rifling through them until she finds the Watchtower's facility dossier.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> Ok, so it used to house a hundred nondescript anomalies. Around fifty of them were neutralized by the Impasse. Immediately after that, normalization protocols were drafted for the remaining ones. Thirty-four of them were released to the public, twelve were sent elsewhere, and the remaining ones are still on-site for security concerns.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Someone please remind me then why we're still keeping this thing around?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Light:</strong> Well it was for monitoring… Oh shit.</p>
<p><em><Dir. Light and Dr. Dan share a knowing look></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> What?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Light:</strong> Well.. Under dash-θ, there was an even bigger facility that was lost in a reality restructuring event at some point. In its place, we found a thing called “The Thorn”. I had to deal with it back in 2020, with Alpha-9.</p>
<p><strong>Alison Chao:</strong> "The Thorn"?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Light:</strong> Some kind of reality-altering phenomenon. Poorly understood. Pending an entry in the database. Possibly neutralized. But, as far as I know, Yellowstone still has an army of SRAs to keep it in check.</p>
<p><strong>Alison Chao:</strong> And just so we're clear. You think that they would be using VNP-8050 - God that's a mouthful - to rewrite reality to suit them?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Light:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><em><Silence on recording></em></p>
<p><strong>Alison Chao:</strong> And you didn't think to tell us anything about this?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Light:</strong> For all intents and purposes, it was dead. And we've had bigger fish to fry since then.</p>
<p><em><Ms. Harada chuckles></em></p>
<p><strong>Ms. Harada:</strong> So, what do we do?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> First, we need to know what's happening in there. Right now. I want a live feed of Watchtower-θ. See if we can grab some data from whatever systems we still have access to in the facility. And then, fire up PANOPTICON and keep track of everything that moves in there. If anything happens around the location, we will be the first ones to know.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> So that covers the outside. Do we have a way of looking inside?</p>
<p><strong>Aklerep:</strong> Yes. I have one. I think. I've checked and Watchtower-θ dropped off from VG.net the moment O5-8 took control of the facility. But there's still a way between that fortress's firewalls for me and other members of <a href="/basic-observations">the Compilation Layer</a> to sneak in and keep tabs on what's happening.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Great! What are you waiting for?</p>
<p><strong>Aklerep:</strong> A greenlight from the rest of the Board, I suppose.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Then you have it, unless there's any objections.</p>
<p><strong>Aklerep:</strong> I'll put my people on this.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> What else can we do?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Not much, I think. We could try to Hammer them Down, but with that ring, O5-8 was able to take over an entire site. Sending in a heavily armed Task Force could mean losing military assets we can't afford to lose. It pains me to say this, but we'll have to wait until we get more intel.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Light:</strong> We should warn some of our forces in the general area, and keep them on high alert in regards to anything that O5-8 might want to try. Also, the other members of the Board need to be briefed on the situation immediately.</p>
<p><strong>Ms. Harada:</strong> We need to evacuate civilians from the park, too. I'll contact the Park Service and get on with that.</p>
<p><strong>Alison Chao:</strong> And we should disseminate as much information as possible, ASAP. The public needs to be aware of the danger these people pose, and they should know that we're doing our best to deal with it.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Light:</strong> That's true. As for the rest, I don't think we can do anything else except sit and wait.</p>
<p><em><Dr. Dan lets out a long and drawn-out sigh. He sits down in his chair.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> I hate twiddling my thumbs.</p>
<p><strong>Alison Chao:</strong> I'm going into the Library. I want to learn more about the ring, and this "Thorn".</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> I'm going with you.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> I'm gonna keep monitoring the status of Watchtower-θ, and get Sinclair and Keay in here. Director Light, I will need your assistance as the only person here who has been onsite. I consider this meeting ended, we'll reconvene when we have more information, and more people.</p>
<p><strong>AFTERWORD:</strong> The Board dispersed to perform their various duties. The Compilation Layer successfully accessed the Watchtower-θ without detection and began to transmit information directly to ETTRA headquarters.</p>
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<p>The infiltration of Watchtower-θ by ten members of the Compilation Layer yielded the following information:</p>
<ul>
<li>O5-8 was the only O5 on site, with every other staff member seemingly under their complete control.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>They had focused all their attention on the lowest levels of the facility, looking for an entrance to “The Thorn”.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>On the 14th, at 06:59 (corroborated by PANOPTICON surveillance), a GOC heavy-strike team entered Yellowstone and attempted to breach the facility.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At 07:12, O5-8 traveled to the location of the strike team, just outside one of the secondary entrances to the Watchtower.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>O5-8 engaged in conversation with the GOC Captain. The situation quickly devolved into violence, as the GOC agents wished to take VNP-8050, while O5-8 took on a defensive stand.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At 07:21, a brief firefight broke out, with only one of the GOC agents surviving, teleporting away through unknown means.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Between 07:22 and 07:41 O5-8 examined the wreckage of the fight. Then looked directly at a camera, where Aklerep is transmitting from.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>O5-8 returned to the facility, ordering the entire intranet system of Watchtower-θ to be scrubbed. The Compilation Layer members were forced to exfiltrate out to the world-wide-web.</li>
</ul>
<p>Between 08:30 and 12:45 nine members of the Compilation Layer arrived at Cypher City. The last member to arrive, 01001101-00001010, informed that it had been caught, but had been allowed to leave if it transmitted a message back to Vanguard.</p>
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<p><em><O5-8 stands over the wreckage of the fight between them and the Coalition strike team. The camera focuses on them as they stare into the lens.></em></p>
<p><strong>O5-8:</strong> This is a message to Vanguard, their puny friends in the GOC, and the rest of the world. I am O5-8, the last of the O5 Council who still seems to care about Securing, Containing and Protecting. My life’s purpose was to keep the mundane and the anomalous worlds separated. But you had to tear it all down. Now, I, alone, intend to put the world back in its rightful place.</p>
<p><em><The camera zooms out, showing the entire scene. O5-8 is in one of the outer chambers of Watchtower-θ. Debris litters the floor, alongside burnt corpses in GOC attire.></em></p>
<p><strong>O5-8:</strong> Before we went on different ways, Ten told me about this facility. And what it stored. You see, before this madness, under this very volcano, the Foundation had one of its biggest facilities, capable of bringing the world back from the worst of catastrophes. But then it disappeared. And what remained was a Thorn wedged in reality. Still pulsating with potential. Still eager to remake the world.</p>
<p><em><O5-8 lifts their hand. The camera focuses on VNP-8050 as it glows on their index finger.></em></p>
<p><strong>O5-8:</strong> See this precious little thing? This is what gives me my power. This is what will help me in achieving my sacred mission. I still haven’t found the Thorn. But I'm close. And with this ring, SCP-8050, I'm going to bend it to my will. No one can stop me now. Not the Hand, not the Coalition, and certainly not this pathetic thing you call Vanguard.</p>
<p><em><They gesture at the bodies around them.></em></p>
<p><strong>O5-8:</strong> Pardon my lack of tact, but I want this message to be clear. These idiots thought they could stop me. They thought they could take away my power and keep it for themselves.</p>
<p><em><O5-8 points at the nearest mangled corpse></em></p>
<p><strong>O5-8:</strong> This was a Coalition battlemage. La crème de la crème of thaumaturges. But they have fallen all the same.</p>
<p><em><The camera zooms out again, showing the whole room.></em></p>
<p><strong>O5-8:</strong> The world has had enough of your insanity. It's time for things to return to normal. And if you think you can stop me…</p>
<p><em><O5-8 kicks the helmet of a Coalition agent, which dislodges itself from the rest of the body. O5-8 winces.></em></p>
<p><strong>O5-8:</strong> … look at what I did, and think twice.</p>
<p><em><Recording ends.></em></p>
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<p>The contents of the previous message were uploaded to the internet, spreading quickly through various social media outlets. In response, the Vanguard Outreach Team published the following message on the social media website Void, which started a chain of messages around the subject of VNP-8050 during the following hours and days.</p>
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<span class="vusermod" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">Vanguard</span><br/>
<span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">⁂VanguardOfficial</span><br/>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem">Hey folks. I'm sure you've already heard the deeply unsettling news coming from one of our facilities in Yellowstone. We, at Vanguard, condemn wholeheartedly the actions taken by this former SCP Foundation Overseer. We are in no way affiliated with them, and we intend to put a stop to this situation soon.</span>
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<li><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">ECHOES<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="vactivity" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold">5,104</span></li>
<li><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">HUMS<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="vactivity" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold">76,321</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">04:01 PM September 14 2022</span></p>
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<span class="vusermod" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">Allieme98</span><br/>
<span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">⁂amelieeee98</span><br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
<span style="font-size: 1.2rem">knowing the true face of the world changed my life for better. i've seen things i didn't believe were possible. and everyone i know has had similar experiences. i don't want all of this to go away.<br/>
<span class="vactivity">#stopyellowstone</span> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span>
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<li><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">ECHOES<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="vactivity" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold">12,012</span></li>
<li><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">HUMS<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="vactivity" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold">14,023</span></li>
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<p><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">05:10 PM September 14 2022</span></p>
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<span class="vusermod" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">Little_Lebowsky</span><br/>
<span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">⁂small-lebowsky</span><br/>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem"><span class="vactivity">⁂amelieeee98</span> Knowing about the anomalous altered my life forever. I'm a uni professor and it's staggering how much knowledge was hidden from our eyes. At my department, we have to change our fundamental understanding of science, and it's so exciting.<br/>
<span class="vactivity">#stopyellowstone</span> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span>
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<li><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">ECHOES<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="vactivity" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold">367</span></li>
<li><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">HUMS<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="vactivity" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold">956</span></li>
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<p><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">05:37 PM September 14 2022</span></p>
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<span class="vusermod" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">Alice Unchained</span><br/>
<span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">⁂flowersunderground</span><br/>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem"><span class="vactivity">⁂amelieeee98</span> omg same. I met my current SO while on a trip through the newly unveiled free ports. we have been together for over a year. my life would be shittier if I hadn't met them<br/>
<span class="vactivity">#stopyellowstone</span> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span>
<ul>
<li><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">ECHOES<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="vactivity" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold">1,621</span></li>
<li><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">HUMS<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="vactivity" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold">9,450</span></li>
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<p><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">06:56 PM September 14 2022</span></p>
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<span class="vusermod" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">antigamer aktion</span><br/>
<span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">⁂lesbian_gengar</span><br/>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem">This whole situation is horseshit. We just got the veil lifted and some crummy asshole with a god complex wants to put it back in place? They should go fuck themselves. <span class="vactivity">#stopyellowstone</span> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span>
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<li><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">ECHOES<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="vactivity" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold">4,954</span></li>
<li><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">HUMS<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="vactivity" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold">10,678</span></li>
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<p><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">10:02 PM September 14 2022</span></p>
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<span class="vusermod" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">John Alger</span><br/>
<span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">⁂LonewolfFreedomfighter</span><br/>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem">I had my doubts, but it's confirmed: I knew Vanguard was part of the deep state, but I never thought they'd come for me. Shame the state our country's fallen into.</span>
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<li><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">ECHOES<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="vactivity" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold">1</span></li>
<li><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">HUMS<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="vactivity" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold">4</span></li>
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<p><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">11:35 PM September 14 2022</span></p>
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<span class="vusermod" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">HOGSLICE</span><br/>
<span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">⁂HOGSLICE</span><br/>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem"><span class="vactivity">⁂LonewolfFreedomfighter</span> DON'T BE A CRYBABY. A REAL MAN DOESN'T LET OTHERS TELL HIM WHAT HE HAS TO DO. WORK ON YOUR PRESENT SELF SO YOU CAN CONQUER YOUR FUTURE! GO OUT THERE AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE<br/>
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<li><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">ECHOES<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="vactivity" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold">21</span></li>
<li><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">HUMS<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="vactivity" style="font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: bold">156</span></li>
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<p><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">11:36 PM September 14 2022</span></p>
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<span class="vusermod" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">Tony</span><br/>
<span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: 1.35rem">⁂skeptic-altruist</span><br/>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/>
<span style="font-size: 1.2rem">I think the world was better when we didn't know about these "anomalies". Before, there was peace and prosperity. Now, I have to be careful when I walk on the street because the boogeyman might want to steal my face.<br/>
I want the veil back. <span class="vactivity">#standwithyellowstone</span> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span>
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<p><span class="vui" style="color: hsl(0, 0%, 46%); font-size: .8rem">01:24 AM September 15 2022</span></p>
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<p>In addition, during the following week, various spontaneous protests began springing up in the United States, displaying discontent against the actions being taken in Watchtower-θ.</p>
<div class="scp-image-block block-right" style="width:300px;"><img alt="Protest.png" class="image" src="https://scp-sandbox-3.wdfiles.com/local--files/collab%3Aone-to-rule-them-all/Protest.png"/>
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<p>Protestors in Cheyenne, Wyoming</p>
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<p>On the 15th of September, Vanguard, with assistance from local police departments and the National Park Service, dissuaded peaceful protesters from marching up to Watchtower-θ for fear of violent retaliation by O5-8 and their forces.</p>
<p>No further expeditions into the occupied location were organized, but all methods of surveillance at Vanguard's disposal were used to monitor the developments around the park. Kant counters, VERITAS resonance imagers, Akiva radiation counters and Pickman-Sinclair Narrative Fluctuation Detectors were placed around the park to gauge any significant changes in local reality, aetheric fields and narrative stability. Meanwhile, the Vanguard Board of Directors reconvened in Watchtower-09.</p>
<div class="blockquote">
<p><strong>Board Members Present:</strong></p>
<p>Allan J. McInnis, Director of Lighthouse-43<br/>
Tilda Moose, Director of Watchtower-19<br/>
Dr. Dan Daniels, Director of ETTRA<br/>
Sophia Light, Director of Project Resurrection<br/>
Alison Chao, the Black Queen<br/>
Angelica Harada, Elder of House Kurinuka<br/>
Matt and Aklerep, Agents of the Compilation Layer</p>
<p><strong>Other Attendees:</strong><br/>
Dr. Katherine Sinclair, Lighthouse-87<br/>
Vera Keay</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan Daniels:</strong> Alright folks, this is as good of a full house as we’re gonna get. The Coalition’s done us a favor and shown us what won’t work, so now we better find out what will. Now.</p>
<p><em><Vera Keay stands up from her chair.></em></p>
<p><strong>Vera Keay:</strong> Before we start, I want to use this opportunity to address something very important. PANOPTICON.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> What about it?</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> It’s a downright dystopian system of mass surveillance that we should stop using immediately, if we ever really want the public to trust us.</p>
<p><strong>Dir. Sophia Light:</strong> It's a necessary evil, always has been. We need it to know our enemies’ moves, to detect threats before they cause harm.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> PANOPTICON is what makes my job possible. ETTRA uses it to save lives every day.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Tilda Moose:</strong> While I’m definitely not a fan of the system, we’ve yet to find a viable-</p>
<p><em><Keay slams her palms on the table.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> <em>Listen</em> to me. You’re all still thinking like Jailors. I joined this organization because I believe everyone deserves a second chance, even you. I joined because I believed in the cause you proposed.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> We don’t have time for this lecture! There are far more important things at stake!</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> What’s more important than the nature of our organization? We can’t let the shadow of the Foundation corrupt us, we can’t fall back on old solutions, and the time for change is <em>now</em>. The whole world’s holding its breath to see how we deal with this crisis. How will they react when they find out we’ve been tracking everyone without their consent?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Katherine Sinclair:</strong> She’s right about that. We <em>will</em> have to reveal this eventually, and that day will not be good for public opinion.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> So what’s your solution, oh ethical one?</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> We already have hotlines for reporting anomalies. Expand them, spread the word. We need to show the public we’re just as dependent on them as they are on us. That’s how you build trust and make allies, and make sure that next time the Park Service won’t even think of calling the GOC.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Yes, it will be less efficient. But without public support, Vanguard won’t be able to function at all. And most importantly, we won’t lose sight of our mission.</p>
<p><strong>Aklerep:</strong> Even the system’s name betrays its nature: to imprison the world. This isn't our way, I would be happy to see it go.</p>
<p><strong>Alison Chao:</strong> Well said Vera. I support this wholeheartedly, and I propose we go even further - make the recording of this Board meeting public, and do the same for future ones.</p>
<p><strong>Dir. Allan McInnis:</strong> I am in favor as well. We’ve taken steps in the right direction, but transparency is key.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> All in favor?</p>
<p><em><Murmurs of agreement echo around the room. All Board members raise their hands, barring Dan and Light.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dir. Light:</strong> Did you forget why we’re here? You want Eight to just open the internet and watch us plan to take them down?</p>
<p><strong>Chao:</strong> No more secrets, that’s what we agreed on. If that comes at a tactical disadvantage so be it. Besides, I doubt Eight sees us as a real threat. They probably won’t even bother.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Fine! We’ll shut down PANOPTICON and release the recordings. Now can we <em>please</em> start focusing on stopping reality being reshaped in a pompous asshole’s image?!</p>
<p><em><The room quietens down. Keay takes her seat while Dan stands up and steps towards the whiteboard.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Thank you. Now, before we can talk solutions we need to talk problems. O5-8, what do we know about them?</p>
<p><em><He writes “O5-8” on the board with a black marker.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dir. Light:</strong> Well for starters, they voted against Vanguard, but that should come as no surprise. I tried to see if we have any information about them anywhere, but the O5 anonymity protocols were thorough.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Do we know if what they said about Yellowstone was true? That the Foundation used to have something that could bring back everything hidden there?</p>
<p><strong>Dir. Light:</strong> I've tried to figure that out, but our databases are lacking here. There are vague mentions of a "reset button" for reality, but that could mean a lot of things and we have no idea how accurate those sources are anyway. Whatever it was it's gone, and the Thorn is in its place.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> Maybe Eight knows something we don't?</p>
<p><strong>Dir. Light:</strong> Maybe, but any details should have been obliterated with the rest of the restructuring.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Hm. What else do we know about our lovely former overlord?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> Six said they used to be obsessed with the ring. They used it all the time before the Impasse, and are definitely familiar with its abilities.</p>
<p><em><Dan picks up a red marker and writes ‘VNP-8050’ to the left of ‘O5-8’.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> I noticed that even before they got the ring, they weren't baseline.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> That’s right. When Eight attacked O’Connor, I could barely follow their movements.</p>
<p><strong>Chao:</strong> They could be a reality bender in their own right, or enhanced some other way.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> That’s what I assumed myself.</p>
<p><em><Underneath ‘O5-8’, Dan adds ‘Cyborg?’ and ‘Type green?’></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Anyways, this brings me to our next problem. The ring. How did Eight bypass its power when they hit the kid? What does it let them do now?</p>
<p><strong>Chao:</strong> Moose and I searched the Library with what little time we had. We couldn’t find anything concrete, mostly legends and rumors. This thing is downright ancient though, there’re records of it being used by the Daevites against Ion’s rebellion.</p>
<p><em><Dan writes ‘Ancient artifact’ under ‘VNP-8050’.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Moose:</strong> Which at least gives us a little hope, considering their fate.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> I think I’ve got that figured out, actually.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Feel free to share with the class.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> So first of all, we know it absorbs magic to fuel itself. I’ve had the folks at 120 do EVE scans in the areas where it was activated, and the readings look like whirlpools, thaumic energy being drained into a singular point. And it doesn’t just take it from full-on thaumaturges; it goes after everyone no matter how little talent they have.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> So that’s the ‘how’, but the ‘what’ is more important. Six claimed it fulfills your desires, but that doesn’t line up exactly. O’Connor definitely didn’t want to lose their duel, so why did the ring make them fast enough to deflect a dozen assault rifles’ worth of bullets but still let them take Eight’s punch?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Maybe we underestimated Eight’s physical abilities?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Maybe, but I think it’s something else. See I live in Sloth’s Pit, where every day is a rollercoaster of narrative tropes, and after a while you get a sense for them. Alger, O’Connor and even Eight have all spoken in cliches, and they all fit into archetypes you see in popular media. It doesn’t fulfill a desire, not really. It makes your dream into reality, lets you live your power fantasy in the real world.</p>
<p><strong>Dir. Light:</strong> I don’t follow. What’s the difference? How does this explain O’Connor getting hit?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> ‘Desire’ can just be hunger or thirst. What we <em>fantasize</em> about, however, is heavily shaped by the media and stories we consume.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> O’Connor’s power fantasy was being a character from shonen anime. That involves fighting your opponents and beating them, but more importantly - the battle is always hard, to keep the viewer on their toes. The bad guy gets a few hits, then the good guy, until one emerges victorious. Eight knew this, so they played along, set themself up as the antagonist, and surprised our hero with a quick hit.</p>
<p><em><Director Light groans.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dir. Light:</strong> I hate pataphysics.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> It’s not-</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Don’t start. So Alger was the family man, standing up to Evil Big Government. That tracks. Where does that leave Eight?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Exactly where they started. The person in control from the shadows. The mastermind, the one who pulls the strings. Lots of henchmen around - that’s why they could summon Alpha-1 agents - and your people obey you, which is why Yellowstone fell so quickly.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Then we just need to figure out the weakness of this particular fantasy.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Yeah, but well… That’s the thing. Part of it is being this untouchable person in power. I’m not sure how we can go around this.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> There’s got to be something. If they’ve turned themselves into a Bond villain, maybe we just need the right hero?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> But there’s no real place for a hero in Eight’s fantasy. Only soft resistance to be swept away.</p>
<p><strong>Dir. McInnis:</strong> Actually, I think Dr. Dan is right. We need a hero, precisely because of what you said.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Huh?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. McInnis:</strong> If there aren't any flaws to exploit in Eight's power fantasy, we simply need to bring a stronger one to the table. One that's fueled not by the desires of one Overseer, but by everyone's fantasy of being the hero in a story.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Any you have something like that just lying around?</p>
<p><strong>Dir. McInnis:</strong> Yes. I'm surprised you don't recall. It was only a few months ago.</p>
<p><em><Dan's eyes widen, and slaps his hand against his face gently.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dir. McInnis:</strong> The Leading Edge. The sword Delfina Ibanez used in the Library during the Impasse. It's an artifact of heroism. Isn't that exactly what we need?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> I'm not convinced. This feels like a shot in the dark, and we can't afford to miss.</p>
<p><strong>Dir. McInnis:</strong> That sword taught us that stories are magic. This ring seems to operate on the same principal. You said so yourself, even if you didn't realize it. It siphons magic from others for one person's story. The sword is its antithesis.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Anyone got any other ideas?</p>
<p><em><Silence on recording.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Then let's get cooking. McInnis, get the sword from forty-three over here.</p>
<p><strong>Dir. McInnis:</strong> Of course.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Who's gonna be holding the sword?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> Well it has to be either me or Keay, no?</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Wait what?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Sinclair:</strong> We've interacted with the ring and Eight the most. We're in the protagonist role whether we like it or not.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Uh, yeah I guess so. So we'll be leading the attack?</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Dan:</strong> Sounds like our only option. Go get some rest, we'll plan the rest of this operation and brief you in the morning.</p>
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<p><em><Dr. Sinclair is talking on the phone. Only her side of the call is audible.></em></p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Monty please, listen. I have to do this alone. We both know how that sword works. I'll be okay! Vera will have my back. What can I say, I guess I'm a magnet for this sort of thing. "But it's weird that it happened twice." Yeah, I know.</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> I promise. I love you. Just hold on, I'll be back for the two of you. Kiss Phoenix goodnight for me. Love you.</p>
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<p><strong>Alison Chao:</strong> Hey. Vera. Wake up.</p>
<p><strong>Vera Keay:</strong> Wha- who let you in my room?</p>
<p><strong>Chao:</strong> Everything’s alright. I just wanted to say something, before they snatch you for the briefings and whatnot.</p>
<p><em><Keay wipes the sleep from her eyes.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Go ahead.</p>
<p><strong>Chao:</strong> Last night, at the Board meeting, well. You left me kind of embarrassed. You shouldn’t have been the one to point out the hypocrisy of those idiots. I was- it was supposed to be my role, or at least that was what I thought a year ago. But I guess once you spend enough time in the system, those sorts of things fade into routine.</p>
<p><strong>Chao:</strong> Sorry for not making a lot of sense, I’m not good at this. I just want to thank you for what you said back there. And I want you to have this.</p>
<p><em><She gives Keay a <a href="/scp-268">tweed-wool newsboy cap.</a>></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Oh, thanks.</p>
<p><strong>Chao:</strong> Don’t wear it until you hear the briefing. Good luck Vera, you make the Hand proud.</p>
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<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> So this is the Leading Edge?</p>
<p><strong>Dan:</strong> Yeah. I want you two to hold it, see which one it likes better.</p>
<p><em><Sinclair takes the sword from Dan’s hands. It immediately begins to glow softly with white light. Her red hair stands up slightly, as if touched by static electricity.></em></p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Holy shit. This is like the Codex all over again. It’s a fountain of magic!</p>
<p><em><She hands it to Keay. The glow of the blade doesn’t waver.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Whoah. This is awesome.</p>
<p><em><She swings the sword a few times, practicing the weight.></em></p>
<p><strong>Dan:</strong> Huh. So this is going to be a two-woman operation after all.</p>
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<p>On September 16th, 2022, at 7:20 AM, a large force made up of Vanguard MTFs arrived at Yellowstone Park, joining ranks with agents of the National Park Service. The small army was ‘bolstered’ with illusory troops sustained by Vanguard thaumatologists from the Serpent’s Hand, led by Alison Chao, the Black Queen. Meanwhile, Vera Keay utilized VNP-268 to enter Watchtower-θ undetected.</p>
<p>As the joint forces breached the Park’s perimeter, agents of the defunct MTF-A1 (“Red Right Hand”) were observed leaving Watchtower-θ to meet them, outnumbering them four to one. O5-8 was not among the Alpha-1 agents, and they engaged Vanguard forces as they came in range, at 8:12 AM.</p>
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<p><em><View is from Vera Keay’s body camera. She is inside the Watchtower, passing through the lobby, the Black Queen’s hat keeping her invisible in more ways than one. A single security guard is present, staring aimlessly ahead. No other personnel can be seen.></em></p>
<p><em><Keay walks down a central corridor, and ducks inside a room to the left. It is a computer lab, and it is empty. She draws the sword from its scabbard, utters a word of power and makes a sweep in the air, cutting through reality like butter. An unstable Way opens for a few seconds, ejecting Dr. Katherine Sinclair, before closing behind the mage. Keay takes off VNP-268.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> And from the portal comes… Katherine Sinclair! You alright?</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> I’m glad you still have your sense of humor.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> It’s the sword. It’s making me <em>super</em> energetic.</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Come on, they know we’re here now. We need to move.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Right behind you. Let’s kick some fascist ass.</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Technically authoritarian, but who cares at this point.</p>
<p><em><Keay hands the sword to Sinclair. They begin to move quickly down the corridors, following the signs to Operations Control, the presumed location of O5-8. They encounter no resistance, though they do pass by several enthralled Watchtower personnel, who ignore them. They go down a flight of stairs, stepping through to the facility’s cafeteria. Five Alpha-1 agents await them with weapons drawn.></em></p>
<p><em><Keay raises her arms and a bubble of green energy manifests around the two. A hail of bullets slam against the sphere, ricocheting around the room. She groans in effort. Sinclair points the sword at one of the agents.></em></p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Ignis Calumen!</p>
<p><em><A pillar of flame erupts from the ground, turning the Red Right Hand to dust. Sinclair brings the sword around in an arc, and the inferno moves in kind, carving a black semicircle across the cafeteria. Keay drops the shield when the final agent disappears inside the fiery tornado. Her partner releases her own spell.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Oh how I’ve missed having my magic actually work. Nice job.</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> You too. Here, that must’ve taken a lot out of you.</p>
<p><em><Keay takes the sword, breathing a sigh of relief as her magic replenishes. She puts her hand to her heart.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> You feel it, right?</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Yeah. We’re close.</p>
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Despite O5-8’s forces possessing far greater numbers, the presence of capable mages within Vanguard ranks allowed them to hold their own. Red Right Hand reinforcements were en route from the volcano proper in the form of ten military helicopters when a third party entered Yellowstone National Park.
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<p><em><Alison Chao stands on top of an armored vehicle, surrounded by a protective barrier. She twists her fingers in a complex pattern, and a bolt of lightning bursts from her shield and connects with an enemy soldier, searing their flesh and arcing between four more. She releases her shield and jumps off the vehicle, narrowly avoiding an RPG rocket as it soars above her.></em></p>
<p><em><The rumbling of a large engine is suddenly heard, and the Black Queen looks in shock as a giant truck rolls into view, slamming into a platoon of Red Right Hand agents, while Judas Priest’s “Heading out to the Highway” plays on full volume. Driving the vehicle is John Alger, who draws a hunting rifle, leans out the window, and fires madly at the enemy agents. He misses every shot.></em></p>
<p><strong>John Alger:</strong> Give me my fucking ring back you deep-state motherfuckers!</p>
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<p><em><Sinclair and Keay enter Watchtower-θ Operations Control. The room is massive, far larger than it was before Eight’s occupation. Dozens of screens of varying sizes line the walls, the consoles attached to them glowing with LED green. On a heightened platform, sitting in a wheeled chair surrounded by computer monitors, is Overseer Eight. They are wearing an exquisite business suit. Behind them, the largest screen displays a black Thorn, stretching from top to bottom.></em></p>
<p><strong>O5-8:</strong> Ah, welcome. You’ve arrived just in time, little traitors. Just in time to witness the world placed once more on its correct path.</p>
<p><em><The Overseer presses a button. A synthesized voice speaks.></em></p>
<p><strong>Computer Voice:</strong> All systems operational. Ritual primed and ready for initiation.</p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Sorry, we’re gonna have to cut that monologue of yours short.</p>
<p><strong>O5-8:</strong> You can certainly try. But I’m afraid I’ve got one more Deus Ex Machina than you.</p>
<p><strong>Computer Voice:</strong> Commencing ritual.</p>
<p><em><Eight raises their hand, VNP-8050 begins to glow gold. Keay charges at the Overseer, sword burning with white fire. Sinclair follows in tow, biting her finger to prepare for a spell.></em></p>
<p><em><The floor warps and twists in its thrall to O5-8, rippling like a pool of water in a storm. The mages are flung backward by an invisible force, Sinclair's spell dying in her hands as a cry of pain escapes her mouth. They crash into the far wall.></em></p>
<p><strong>O5-8</strong> You can't touch me. You can't even go <em>near</em> me.</p>
<p><em><Keay stands shakily, leaning on the sword for support. Behind her, Sinclair struggles to rise from the floor.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Then we'll just kill you from afar!</p>
<p><em><She swings the sword at the air in front of her, each blow sending a bright disc of energy hurtling at the platform in the center of the room. But a flash of gold from the Overseer steers them off course, and they fly into the walls around them instead, detonating in a shower of glass and burning machinery.></em></p>
<p><strong>O5-8:</strong> Your resistance is pointless, though I must admit it's rather fun.</p>
<p><em><Keay helps Sinclair to her feet, handing her the sword. Before the other woman can grab it, however, the two are blasted apart in an explosion of raw force. They tumble down to opposite corners of the room, the Leading Edge clattering to the ground next to Keay.></em></p>
<p><strong>Computer Voice:</strong> Reality restructuring imminent.</p>
<p><strong>O5-8:</strong> Yes, very fun indeed. But all good things must come to an end.</p>
<p><em><Keay grabs the hilt. Eight snaps their fingers. Everything goes black.></em></p>
<p><em>A vast facility built within a massive cavern, rows upon rows of lifepods as far as the eye can see. A rose as red as blood, Blooming in the spring. A dark Thorn shrouded in mist, a needle of total blackness that encompasses all of existence.</em></p>
<p><em>Falling endlessly down a Bottomless Pit. Darkness quickly consumes the chromatic flames that blaze above. A newborn child’s cry echoes in her ears, drowning out all else.</em></p>
<p><em>Crying, alone within a twisting labyrinth of bookshelves that spreads in every direction. Her tears smear the book that is the floor, ruining the circle. A stranger’s shadow casts a deep primal fear that consumes every other thought.</em></p>
<p><em>A sword engulfed in white-hot fire.</em></p>
<p><em><And then they are all back within the room. The screens on the walls have turned to static.></em></p>
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<p>At 8:42, all thaumaturgy within a ten kilometer radius of Yellowstone Mountain ceased to function. The illusory forces dissipated, and Vanguard mages were left drained and exhausted. At the same time however, approximately half of the opposing force spontaneously disappeared in a flash of golden light, including the reinforcing helicopters.</p>
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<p><em><Yellowstone rumbles. The two mages shut their eyes as VNP-8050 glows brighter than ever before, bathing the room in pure gold for an instant before dying down. They rise to their feet.></em></p>
<p><strong>O5-8:</strong> What? How- you idiots! I’ll take that fucking sword from your dead bodies!</p>
<p><strong>Sinclair:</strong> Now, Vera!</p>
<p><em><With newfound strength Keay leaps across the room, gripping the sword with both hands. O5-8 draws a pistol from their belt and fires three shots, the bullets streaking through the air like golden shooting stars. Vera cuts the air once, twice, three times, slicing each of them to stardust.></em></p>
<p><em><Sinclair finishes a spell and lobs a fireball at the Overseer, who jumps off the platform. Vera dives after them as machinery explodes behind her. She thrusts the blade towards Eight who disappears, reappearing instantly on the other side of the room.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> Get them!</p>
<p><em><She throws the sword to Katherine, who grabs it from the air. She bites down on her left hand while swinging the sword in the upward arc. A colossal wall of fire climbs up from the floor and licks at the ceiling, forcing Eight backward, away from the exit and into the corner.></em></p>
<p><em><Katherine lets her blood drip onto the sword, the rush of power almost overwhelming. She slings spells like a madwoman, deadly lances of red fire homing on the Overseer as they duck and sidestep and roll away, desperately looking for a reprieve. She gives them no quarter.></em></p>
<p><em><Vera shouts something the other woman can’t make out, but the crackling spear of emerald lightning speaks for itself. O5-8 screams in pain, their suit burning away to ash. Beneath it, wires pulse inside metallic skin. Green sparks arc around their body, and they screech in a voice that’s still awfully human.></em></p>
<p><strong>O5-8:</strong> Your magic is mine by right. I’ll take it, along with your pathetic lives!</p>
<p><em><The ring lights up as they raise their cybernetic arm. It shifts, pieces sliding away until their hand becomes the mouth of a cannon. Vera breaks into a sprint towards them.></em></p>
<p><strong>Keay:</strong> This isn’t just <em>our</em> magic. Katherine!</p>
<p><em><Katherine tosses her the Leading Edge, and she catches it just as Eight fires. The beam of violet energy surges towards her, and she pours all of her strength and magic into one final swing. The beam splits in two, forking off into two separate blasts that streak into the walls, where they explode in a cloud of smoke. The whole room shakes violently.></em></p>
<p><em><O5-8 suddenly lurches forward, dropping to their knees. Katherine rushes to them and sees why. Rolling on the floor is VNP-8050, still attached to a piece of the Overseer. It had taken in too much, overheated with raw power, and melted the steel finger on which it rested clean off the rest of the hand.></em></p>
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<p>Coinciding with this exact moment, all Alpha-1 agents within Yellowstone lost consciousness. This is believed to be a result of their link to VNP-8050 being abruptly severed. Dr. Sinclair succeeded in opening a Way from within Watchtower-θ to Sloth’s Pit, where she collapsed alongside Vera Keay, the Leading Edge, and VNP-8050.</p>
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<p><strong>ITEM №:</strong> VNP-8050</p>
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<p><strong>Normalization Protocols:</strong> VNP-8050 is currently housed in the Arcane Artifacts Wing of the Museum for Parahistory in Three Portlands.</p>
<p>A team of archeologists is currently trying to discern the origin and intended use of VNP-8050 through cross-examination with sources from the Wanderer's Library and similar objects encountered throughout history. Any discoveries made by the team will be published by Vanguard.</p>
<p>Nobody is advised to approach VNP-8050 or wear it.</p>
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<p><strong>Filename:</strong> Ring MET DP356224.jpg<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/551292">https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/551292</a><br/>
<strong>License:</strong> Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong> <a href="https://openverse.org/image/06da9313-5ce6-49e4-bdb7-cd08720c0d73?q=Redneck">https://openverse.org/image/06da9313-5ce6-49e4-bdb7-cd08720c0d73?q=Redneck</a><br/>
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<p>** The image Vanguard-Informal-Poster includes a variation of these two images:<br/>
<strong>Filename:</strong> Greek_Ring_(OAW).png<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> Unknown artist<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> Public Domain<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_ring_(OAW).png">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_ring_(OAW).png</a><br/>
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<strong>Filename:</strong> Roman_Ring_(OAW).png<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> Unknown artist<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> Public Domain<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_ring_(OAW).png">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_ring_(OAW).png</a><br/>
<strong>Additional notes:</strong> Image edited by <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;"><img alt="WarriorofChaos" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=4246396&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1734431653" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=4246396)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;">WarriorofChaos</a></span></p>
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<p><strong>Filename</strong>: Vanguard logo<br/>
<strong>Author</strong>: <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/aethris" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(5158506); return false;"><img alt="Aethris" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=5158506&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1734431653" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=5158506)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/aethris" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(5158506); return false;">Aethris</a></span><br/>
<strong>License</strong>: CC BY-SA 3.0<br/>
<strong>Source</strong>: <a href="https://imgur.com/tslbdWm">https://imgur.com/tslbdWm</a></p>
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<p><strong>Filename:</strong> CNN-Headline.png<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> Argya Diptya<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> Public Domain<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianonline/8148885380">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianonline/8148885380</a><br/>
<strong>Additional notes:</strong> Image edited by <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;"><img alt="WarriorofChaos" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=4246396&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1734431653" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=4246396)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;">WarriorofChaos</a></span></p>
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<blockquote>
<p><strong>Filename:</strong> CNN-Headline.png<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;"><img alt="WarriorofChaos" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=4246396&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1734431653" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=4246396)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;">WarriorofChaos</a></span><br/>
<strong>License:</strong> Public Domain<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianonline/8148885380">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianonline/8148885380</a><br/>
<strong>Additional notes:</strong> Image edited by <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;"><img alt="WarriorofChaos" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=4246396&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1734431653" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=4246396)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;">WarriorofChaos</a></span></p>
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<p><strong>Name:</strong> Black_male_domestic_cat_004_02.jpg<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> Julián Monge Nájera<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> CC BY-SA 4.0<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_male_domestic_cat_004.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_male_domestic_cat_004.jpg</a></p>
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<p><strong>Filename:</strong> Void-Flower-Thumbnail.png<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;"><img alt="WarriorofChaos" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=4246396&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1734431653" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=4246396)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;">WarriorofChaos</a></span><br/>
<strong>License:</strong> CC BY-SA 3.0</p>
</blockquote>
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<p><strong>Name:</strong> 4777785759_5f7a3b5ceb_o.jpg<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> Tony Buser<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> CC BY-SA 2.0<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/45898880@N00/4777785759">Flickr</a></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Filename:</strong> Alger_Void_Profile_Pic.png<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/25598800@N02">https://www.flickr.com/photos/25598800@N02</a><br/>
<strong>License:</strong> Creative Commons CC BY SA 2.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ring_MET_DP356224.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ring_MET_DP356224.jpg</a><br/>
<strong>Additional notes:</strong> Image edited by <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;"><img alt="WarriorofChaos" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=4246396&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1734431653" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=4246396)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;">WarriorofChaos</a></span></p>
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<blockquote>
<p><strong>Filename</strong>: HOGSLICE PFP<br/>
<strong>Author</strong>: Brandon Oliver<br/>
<strong>License</strong>: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic<br/>
<strong>Source Link</strong>: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scott_Steiner_2018.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scott_Steiner_2018.jpg</a></p>
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<p><strong>Filename:</strong> lesbiangengar.png<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/ch00bakka" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(1238719); return false;"><img alt="ch00bakka" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=1238719&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1734431653" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=1238719)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/ch00bakka" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(1238719); return false;">ch00bakka</a></span>, MortyMOON<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> CC BY-SA 3.0<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong> <a href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/rainbow-crapitalism">SCP Foundation Wiki</a><br/>
<strong>Derivative Of:</strong></p>
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<blockquote>
<p><strong>Name:</strong> Gengar - Pokemon<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> MortyMOON<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> CC BY-SA 3.0<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong> <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/mortymoon/art/Gengar-Pokemon-567166751">DeviantArt</a></p>
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<p><strong>Name:</strong> Lesbian Pride pink flag.svg<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> N/A<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> Public Domain<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lesbian_Pride_pink_flag.svg">Wikimedia Commons</a></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Name:</strong> 4777785759_5f7a3b5ceb_o.jpg<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> argyadiptya<br/>
<strong>License:</strong> CC BY-SA 2.0<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/51912656@N02/9102202300">Flickr</a><br/>
<strong>Additional notes:</strong> Image edited by <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;"><img alt="WarriorofChaos" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=4246396&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1734431653" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=4246396)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;">WarriorofChaos</a></span></p>
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<blockquote>
<p><strong>Name:</strong> Museum-Exhibit.png<br/>
<strong>Author:</strong> <span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;"><img alt="WarriorofChaos" class="small" src="https://www.wikidot.com/avatar.php?userid=4246396&amp;size=small&amp;timestamp=1734431653" style="background-image:url(https://www.wikidot.com/userkarma.php?u=4246396)"/></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/warriorofchaos" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.listeners.userInfo(4246396); return false;">WarriorofChaos</a></span><br/>
<strong>License:</strong> Public Domain<br/>
<strong>Source Link:</strong><br/>
<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Museo_archeologico_nazionale_Napoli_-_050.jpg">Wikimedia Commons 1</a><br/>
<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pomp%C3%A9i_(N%C3%AEmes)_48.jpg">Wikimedia Commons 2</a></p>
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<div class="title">Footnotes</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-1')">1</a>. A Serpent's Hand battlemage who joined Vanguard shortly after its formation.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-2"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-2')">2</a>. A public-service podcast produced by Vanguard.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-3"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-3')">3</a>. Emergent Threat Tactical Response Authority.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-4"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-4')">4</a>. A global surveillance system inherited from the Vanguard precursor known as the SCP Foundation.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-5"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-5')">5</a>. The identity given to the individual formerly known as O5-6, currently under summary witness protection granted by the UN.</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-6"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="WIKIDOT.page.utils.scrollToReference('footnoteref-6')">6</a>. Formerly Site-θ, the Watchtower monitors a spatial anomaly thought to exist under Yellowstone.</div>
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