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[[hcell style="border: 1px solid black; background-color: #D9F1E9; padding: 6px; width: 700px"]]
Cross-Reference, SCP-5756
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[[row]]
[[cell style="border: 1px solid black; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px;"]]
**[[[SCP-5756]]]** is the anomalous appearance of items belonging to Dr. Dougall Alton Deering (deceased) in the personal locker of Philip Eugene Deering, Deputy Chief of Janitorial and Maintenance at Site-43.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

[[div class="blockquote" style="font-family: courier"]]
FILE: 
philmelia-dougall.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
1 January 2024

FONDS:
P.E. Deering, Deputy Chief, Janitorial and Maintenance Section, Site-43
A.O. Torosyan, Chief, Janitorial and Maintenance Section, Site-43
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[[div class="blockquote"]]
**JM-64 Transcripts**

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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Janitorial and Maintenance Chief Amelia Torosyan-Deering is conducting an annual performance review with her Deputy Chief and spouse, Philip Deering. Both are seated on the far side of Chief Torosyan's desk, in her office. SCP-5056 is visible in a mirror on the north wall.>//

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** You know what part we're on now.

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Yeah.

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** Any new thoughts on the hitchhiker?

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Twenty-two years. Have I ever had one?

[[span class="doug"]]**SCP-5056:**[[/span]] None, Philip. None of any kind.

//<Chief Torosyan-Deering gestures dismissively at the mirror without turning to face it.>//

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** You know what he meant, jackass.[[span class="fnnum"]].[[/span]][[span class="fncon"]]Persons other than Philip Deering cannot hear SCP-5056; its voice is only recorded when Deering himself conducts the recording.[[/span]]

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Thing is, though...

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** Yeah?

//<Deputy Chief Deering's facial expression becomes extremely complicated.>//

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** I know there's things you can't tell me, Amy.

[[span class="doug"]]**SCP-5056:**[[/span]] You have no idea.

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** I've told you that's not the case.

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Sure, but--

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** Anything I can't tell you, they don't tell me. That's how we compartmentalize without making me hate myself.

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** //Sure,// but--

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** No exceptions.

//<Deputy Chief Deering sighs.>//

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Okay. You know I believe you. It's just... I think everybody //else// knows what I'm about to say. I mean they know it, know it's true. Not that I know. They think I don't know.

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** Okay...

//<Deputy Chief Deering gestures at SCP-5056.>//

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** He's...

//<His voice breaks.>//

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Come on. You've guessed it, too. I know you have. Can you...

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** You want me to say it for you?

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Yeah.

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** You think he's your brother.

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Yeah.

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** You think he's actually Dougall Deering.

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Yeah.

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** So you think Dougall is--

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Dead.

//<Silence on recording.>//

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** I think he's dead, Amy, and this is how he came back. To nag at me. To rub it in. To make me into the guy he thought I ought to have been. I don't know. That's... that's what I think.

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** And you've only started thinking that this year?

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** No.

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** You didn't bring it up previously because...?

[[span class="doug"]]**SCP-5056:**[[/span]] Because you didn't want to know if it was true.

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** I can guess what he just said.

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Yeah.

//<He pauses.>//

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** And he's wrong.

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** So why //are// you telling me now, then?

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Because I think... I've gotten used to it. Gotten used to him being... gone.

//<Chief Torosyan-Deering reaches out to take his hands.>//

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** Phil, I really don't know anything about your brother.

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** I know.

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** Except that everything about him is classified.

[[span class="doug"]]**SCP-5056:**[[/span]] Not everything.

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** I know. I know, Amy. That's the other thing. Saying it out loud doesn't help anyone.

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** You know what the prevailing wisdom is on Doug?

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** He's something that was flying around during the Breach, and he latched onto me somehow. Yeah.

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** Specifically?

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Specifically some monster they had locked up in a secret cell, somewhere, who got his bits scattered everywhere when AAF-D blew.

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** Don't you think that makes as much sense as him being your brother?

//<Deputy Chief Deering looks down.>//

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Yeah, but...

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** Phil?

//<Deputy Chief Deering looks up again, wide-eyed.>//

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** If he hasn't got anything to do with me, //why does he think I'm so special?//

//<Chief Torosyan-Deering shrugs.>//

 [[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan-Deering[[/span]]:** Maybe he's just got good taste?

//<Deputy Chief Deering smiles.>//

 [[span class="phil"]]**Deputy Chief Deering[[/span]]:** Or maybe he's just a good judge of character, and he needs someone to... what's the word?

[[span class="doug"]]**SCP-5056:**[[/span]] Denounce.

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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Dougall probably got him used to that experience.
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**[[[SCP-5379]]]** was a series of media alterations performed by GoI-5884 ("Vikander-Kneed Technical Media") revealing the apparent misogynistic neuroses of the original artists. This anomaly is notable for leading Allan James McInnis, present Director of Site-43, to discover the existence of the SCP Foundation after a member of his extended family was affected.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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FILE: 
allan-willie-vktm.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
6 July 2023

FONDS:
A.J. McInnis, Director, Site-43
W.W. Wettle, Deputy Chair, Replication Studies Subsection, Site-43
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dir. McInnis is examining a bricked-up door in the Research and Experimentation Section. Dr. Wettle is standing beside him, one finger rotating in his ear.>//

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** Do you ever wonder why Vikander-Kneed should have selected us out for particular attention?

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** No. You think there's something deep to a bully's psychology? 

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** You consider them to be bullies?

//<Dr. Wettle flicks earwax from his finger at a nearby garbage can. It strikes a laboratory window, and sticks.>//

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** They forced me to //marry// them, Allan. They pretended to give me a daughter...

//<He looks away.>//

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** I just... I simply find it odd how fixated on us they've been, over the years. Myself, yourself, Lillian, Karen.

//<Dr. Wettle snorts, depositing spittle in his beard.>//

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Lillian hates them. Karen //double// hates them. I hate them higher than math can go.

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** Math can go infinitely high. 

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** I know. 

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** Perhaps it's only because we study them, and they study us back. But when these alien, cosmic forces express such an interest--

//<Dr. Wettle raises a hand between them.>//

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Okay, I'm stopping you there. VKTM isn't cosmic //anything.// They're a cursed media company. 

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** They are very clearly more than that. 

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** We've seen their warehouses and offices. 

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** Were you under the impression that those 'documentaries' were to be taken as factual? 

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Yes? 

//<Dir. McInnis places one hand on the whitewashed bricks.>//

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** To my mind, Vikander-Kneed represents some sort of... out-of-frame awareness. An observer from an outside context. We've seen time and again that linear time, cause and effect prove no barrier to them. Who's to say they haven't seen a bigger picture, and identified us as its subjects? 

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** So, what? Them kidnapping me is the equivalent of getting photobombed by god?

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** Something like that. 

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** I'm not that important, Al.

//<Dir. McInnis smiles at him.>//

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** You and I and Lillian are one-seventh of the reason that baseline temporality yet survives.

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Karen, though? 

//<Dir. McInnis considers.>//

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** There have been worlds where Karen Elstrom is the only thing standing between humanity and oblivion. 

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Yeah. She'd probably say this is one of them. 

//<His eyes narrow.>//

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Wait. You think VKTM is watching the stuff with the Breach and the Brothers?

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** That is what I was driving at, yes. 

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Have you... no.

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** Yes? 

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** //No.// I don't want to say it out loud. It's too awful.

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** William?

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** If I don't say it, it can't be true. 

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** What can't? 

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Tell me you can't see it all being this: 

//<He raises his hands to form a frame.>//

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** "Vikander-Kneed Technical Media Presents: BREACH EPISODE."

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** I will try not to think about that. 

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Yeah. //Yeah.//

//<Excerpt ends.>//

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You're getting another connection request from Junior Researcher Vide, sir!
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You can patch her through automatically from now on.
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The anomaly just came in, sir. It's a humanoid. Old man. I'm working up the description as we speak, and I'll pass it over.
Security is giving him a working-over.
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What a coincidence, I'm writing up some old men too.
Add me in, and you're having a very old-man-centric day!
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So, anything dangerous?
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Well, keep your distance then.
Just in case.
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That's the protocol.
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Not really what I was driving at.
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Yeah. Of course she did.
Alright. Let's see the interviews I flagged between the brothers and the Co-Director.
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Accessing...
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FILE: 
scout-uncontained-redsky.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
8 August 1947

FONDS:
V.L. Scout, Director Emeritus, Site-43
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. Scout is sitting at the table in SCP-001-UNCONTAINED's cell. SCP-001-UNCONTAINED is pacing.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Do I offend you? 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Very much. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** You're so direct. I really do despise that.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Why? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Nobody ever changed anything with a cavalry charge. Do you know where my brother was when the Great War ended? 

//<Dr. Scout shrugs.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Rhodesia, still lobbing bombs. And I? A train car in the Compiègne Forest.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** You were at the signing of the Armistice? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** And Paris, where the peace ensured the next war wouldn't be long coming. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** It seems a very formal way of pursuing chaos.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I'm results-oriented. The process doesn't worry me so much.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** What results do you intend? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I want the world to be beautiful. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Define beauty. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Difference.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** At length. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Every deviation from one form to another is a unit of beauty. Every gradation of colour, every change in timbre, coin changing hands, every imperfection in a surface. Difference begets difference, change begets change. A world of difference is a perpetual motion machine. A world of sameness is static. I see beauty in every permutation of every thing. I want a universe where no two things are alike, and nothing owns anything. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** How far can you carry that ideal, though? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I, too, would love to find out.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I wasn't--

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** No two laws in accord. No two things sharing a single noun. No such thing as //twins.// A paradigm where nothing can be known, where every perspective is alien to every other, a towering antifractal Babel that no god can tear down, because no mote of it can be understood in relation to any other. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Your perfect world would explode in seconds. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** No, because no two seconds would tick by in sequence. You're thinking too small. I want freedom for all, Dr. Scout, not just the living, not even the living and the dead. Every atom its own nation. Every concept, every thought.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** And you think you can achieve this? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Not any time soon. I thought we were hypothesizing.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** A more practical goal, then?

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I would like to see the Earth devoid of life. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** That's... a little less idealistic. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Do you think so? It's much more difficult than you might imagine, snuffing out the fire. One little spark hidden in the underbrush, and it all roars to life and light again. Trust me. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I'm not inclined to, but I'll allow you know more about genocide than I do.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** We both know that's not true. You are heir to a bloody dynasty. Lopping off the branches of the tree of life. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** But your destruction is better than ours? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Yes. When all is oblivion, all is free. Stardust free to roam the stars again. But you have to do it all at once. Piecemeal, you're just darkening the days that remain. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I'm surprised you never try to temper this rhetoric. Appeal to my sensibilities, the way your brother does. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** You think I'm not manipulating you? 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I'm certain you are. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Then why do you keep coming here? 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Because I want to understand you. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I'm not available to be understood. What you're looking at isn't even me. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Then show me what you really are. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** You would fall through the floor, and wheel out of time. And I'm not quite through with your perspective yet. I want to understand you as much as you want to understand me. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Why is that? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Because when everything is a universe unto itself, my unique quality will be remembering what it meant to be an orderly, button-down thing of so little imagination. I will be your tombstone, Vivian Scout, in the colourful tomorrow.

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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FILE: 
wynn-unyielding-bluesky.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
8 August 1947

FONDS:
W.R. Rydderech, Co-Director Emeritus, Site-43
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING is sitting at the table in its cell. Dr. Rydderech is pacing.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** What are you so worried about? 

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Everything. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Everything will work out.

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** That's complacency. I've been waiting across two World Wars for things to work themselves out. It isn't happening. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I didn't say they would work themselves out. We will work them out. Order is inevitable. The realization of what must be.

//<Dr. Rydderech stops pacing, and places his palms on the table.>//

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** That's the kind of talk that kept the miners in their caves. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** And it was noble. Life transformed into the potential for fire, drawn out of the earth to see the sun again, and burned to advance more life. Taking that which was buried and sending it up into the sky. All dinosaurs fly, even the ones that never became birds. 

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** You're not going to make me sentimental for coal. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** You see the odd effect and let it trouble you. If you saw the underlying logic--

//<Dr. Rydderech waves dismissively, and resumes pacing.>//

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** There's no logic. Things happen because they happen. People are stupid and wasteful and shortsighted, and they ruin everything. 

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING nods.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Left to their own devices. But give them a glimpse of the plan...

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** You're a despot.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** It isn't //my// plan. It's unfolding for me as it does for everyone else. I'm thrilled to see each new phase reveal itself.

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Now you're talking about predestination.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Of course. I've seen it play out countless times. What starts the same, ends the same. Aren't you a scientist? 

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Chaos intervenes. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Chaos is part of the system. That's what my brother never understood. Our division was unequal. I am the greater by far; what he perceives to be his sphere is merely a slice of my own.

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Then why do you keep each other in check? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Because that's the intended result.

//<Dr. Rydderech chuckles dryly.>//

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Is being in containment also intended?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Of course. I can do great good here, and diminish his capacity for evil. 

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** What good do you imagine yourself doing? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Wynn, my friend, I'm the answer you've always sought. I'm your means of redirecting the tide.

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** We aren't friends. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I'm seeing the end, because we are finally at the beginning. I am going to help you master the tempest you fear. Day by day the numbers trend to destruction, and you despair. It's time you had some hope.

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** If we resolve this crisis, it will be on our own merits. Or we don't deserve to survive.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** If you survive, you deserve it. If you have power, you deserve it. Desserts are the outer skin of the schema. I can show you how to think this way. I can show you how even the most chaotic thing might be controlled.

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** I only want to keep us from destroying ourselves. I'm not interested in your agenda.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** But that //is// my agenda. I want everything in its preordained place. 

//<Dr. Rydderech shakes his head.>//

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** I don't believe in natural order.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** That is the paradox. Order is unnatural. But it is also the telos. Our task is to unnature creation. We can never again return to the primitive state. We must move beyond hatred and resentment and realize the potential of the whole, unbroken. We must heal the wounds which we perceive as gaps which we perceive as markers of //difference.// We are all the same.

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** I don't trust you. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** You will. Because I am right, and you are meant to become so.

//<Excerpt ends.>//

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No, it doesn't. This might end up being the only case where centrism is the right solution. 
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True enough.
Another five cross-references, sir? 
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**[[[SCP-5238]]]** is a series of anomalies related to Victorian era author Morgan Robertson. His novels //Futility// and //Hubris// apparently caused the construction and sinking of two passenger liners, sister ships //Titanic// and //Gigantic,// and the latter's annual refloating and resinking with all hands. Robertson was a talented theorist of cryptomancy, and a practicing //giftschreiber.//
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FILE: 
dta-on-roberston.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
14 April 2022

FONDS:
G. Voclain, Researcher, Archives and Revision Section, Site-43
S. Zorić, Senior Researcher, Department of Temporal Anomalies
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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: This was the anomaly that got me into the Foundation. It was connected to the //giftschreiber.// Same thing happened to Scout, and Udo, and Del, and Willie. Are the brothers or their flunkies choosing us for this fight? 

I had one of my archivists, Genny Voclain, rope in someone from the Department of Temporal Anomalies to discuss Robertson's file.
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. Voclain and Dr. Zorić are standing amidst the cryogenically frozen bodies of the Victorian-era passengers and crew of// Gigantic //, in their tubes. They speak very softly.>// 

[[span class="gen"]]**Dr. Voclain[[/span]]:** You've reviewed the material I sent over?

//<Dr. Zorić is staring at the tube in front of him.>//

[[span class="steve"]]**Dr. Zorić[[/span]]:** Yeah. Interesting stuff. Very weird.

[[span class="gen"]]**Dr. Voclain[[/span]]:** Do you think Robertson was a time traveller?

//<Zoric laughs weakly, and shakes his head.>//

[[span class="steve"]]**Dr. Zorić[[/span]]:** Sorry. We deal with time travellers all the time. It just sounds funny when you blurt it out like that.

//<Silence on recording. Both doctors consider the bodies in the tubes.>//

[[span class="steve"]]**Dr. Zorić[[/span]]:** Uh, yeah. No, I don't think so. More likely he could just see the future.

[[span class="gen"]]**Dr. Voclain[[/span]]:** "Just" see the future, huh. And why the distinction?

//<Dr. Zorić turns away from the tube to face Dr. Voclain, though there are others in his new field of view.>//

[[span class="steve"]]**Dr. Zorić[[/span]]:** Time travellers come from a further point in our present timeline. Our future. If that future wasn't going to happen, neither would the travel. Therefore, when we catch up with a time traveller's origin point, it bears a striking resemblance to the way they would describe it. Fortune tellers work very differently. They're rooted in our present moment, looking outward. Past the point in time which you and I occupy, everything is extremely fluid -- save for specific inflection points required to fulfill time loops and the like. There's a thousand new futures born every picosecond. Fortune tellers glimpse the most likely result at any given scrying-time, but when we progress to the instant of their vertical slice, it almost always looks very different. There's enough correspondence to prove they saw //something,// but that something is almost never exactly what comes to pass.

[[span class="gen"]]**Dr. Voclain[[/span]]:** Shouldn't it be, though? Shouldn't they see the logical result of whatever choices are made in our specific timeline?

[[span class="steve"]]**Dr. Zorić[[/span]]:** If it weren't for time travellers, sure. But they come back here and skew the timeline. From our perspective, the future changes. The past cannot. Temporal anomalies make fortune telling an inevitably inaccurate profession, even for genuine practitioners.

//<He taps the report in Dr. Voclain's hands.>//

[[span class="steve"]]**Dr. Zorić[[/span]]:** Robertson predicted the //Titanic,// but he called it the //Titan.// He predicted a Japanese attack on an American fleet, but thought it would happen //en route// to Hawaii, not at Pearl Harbour itself. Flashes of potentiality.

[[span class="gen"]]**Dr. Voclain[[/span]]:** Isn't it possible he just changed the details to avoid raising too much suspicion? There's a limit to what people will chalk up to coincidence.

[[span class="steve"]]**Dr. Zorić[[/span]]:** Sure, but if that were the case, he'd be the most accurate fortune teller of all time. Even the greats still make mistakes, or rather, reality makes fools of them despite their clear sight.

[[span class="gen"]]**Dr. Voclain[[/span]]:** But there's his claim to have influenced the course of events himself, to match what he depicts in his writing.

[[span class="steve"]]**Dr. Zorić[[/span]]:** That's outside my area. But certainly it's difficult to believe he could have made all of these things occur precisely the way they did, just by writing a book. Isn't it?

//<They consider the frozen bodies around them.>//

[[span class="gen"]]**Dr. Voclain[[/span]]:** It //does// seem a stretch to think that icebergs are responsive to memetic influence.

[[span class="steve"]]**Dr. Zorić[[/span]]:** Exactly. You can make a man commission an ocean liner and give him ideas about its name, maybe you can even dictate lifeboat-vs-tonnage laws, and... somehow generate p-zombie Victorians, but sinking an ocean liner at a precise time and place? That takes foreknowledge.

[[span class="gen"]]**Dr. Voclain[[/span]]:** There does seem to be some fact in his fiction, though. Particularly where rituals are concerned. He describes historical cycles much as Yeats does, though he ascribes to people like himself the power to force the gyres to switch direction. He speaks of striking a spark that the rest of the world fans into a flame, and he claims that spark originates with someone he calls the MASTER.

[[span class="steve"]]**Dr. Zorić[[/span]]:** I'm assuming you know who that is?

[[span class="gen"]]**Dr. Voclain[[/span]]:** I do not. But whoever it is, if they're the source of Robertson's //giftschreiber// powers, don't you think they could be the one who can actually see the future?

[[span class="steve"]]**Dr. Zorić[[/span]]:** Division of anomalous capabilities, huh? One who can see what's going to happen, and one who can influence people to take advantage of those predictions. Yeah, it does make more sense. Most people never get a single superpower. Very, very few get two.

[[span class="gen"]]**Dr. Voclain[[/span]]:** We can only hope that whoever was helping Robertson do insider trading was mortal, like him.

//<Dr. Zorić nods.>//

//<Silence on recording.>//

//<Dr. Voclain gestures at the tanks.>//

[[span class="gen"]]**Dr. Voclain[[/span]]:** Were they really p-zombies?

//<Dr. Zorić shrugs.>//

[[span class="steve"]]**Dr. Zorić[[/span]]:** Weren't all Victorians?

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Robertson wrote //The Book of the Turning Falcon// and //The Book of the Turning Gyre,// two editions of the same manual for changing the world through applied cryptomancy. Yeats wrote a similarly mystical tome, called //A Vision,// which purported to show not how the world could be altered, but how it really functioned. It's hard to tell where applied ontology and cultish behaviour begin and end sometimes.
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Actually, I've got a file on that.
I don't usually interrupt the cross-references with more files but I want to bring this one up while it's on my mind.
Get me Vivian's review of //A Vision// please, Clio.
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FILE: 
scout-vision.txt

TYPE: 
Digitized file

DATE: 
21 January 1926 (revised 14 December 1937)

FONDS:
V.L. Scout, Director Emeritus, Site-43
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We full-men can be such halfwits.

Yeats was more than happy to pass the burden of the Uncontained and the Unyielding onto other shoulders, but that wasn't the end of his dalliance with the paranormal. Certainly I knew about his ghost hunts and mysticism, but somehow I missed his most obvious interaction with our magical friends. I would have liked to have spoken with him about it in person.

If I had, I might have told him just how badly he himself had been deceived. 

Yeats has been experimenting with automatic writing, apparently for a very long time. Inviting spirits to enter into the body of his wife, and pass on information. And what information it is! I hold in my hands the second half of a manuscript -- it was lucky part of Clio's remit was embedding agents in publishing companies, else we might not even have noticed its promulgation -- which quite reconfigures my understanding of all this long struggle. Oh, the depths these oneironauts have plumbed in the belief they were ascending to heaven! 

There can be no doubt that the spirits they contacted were in fact the Ragged and the Rod. I should have known they wouldn't abandon their prophet so easily, after so tremendous an investment in him, but I made the mistake of tracking them physically whilst they instead communed psychically. (What mad connection must they possess with the //spiritus mundi,// to achieve such a feat?) They chose an intermediary because Yeats would have recognized their voices if they communicated directly. And they spoke of no small matters. The preamble was over, and this was the payload.

With their malign advice, the man has written a book of philosophy. It has not sold well. It has been derided in the press. It has been described as mad gibberish. I fear it's precisely what I'm looking for.

----

> "I send you the introduction of a book which will, when finished, proclaim a new divinity."
> 
> "...we are here to consider the terror that is to come."

[[>]]
-- William Butler Yeats, //A Vision,// 27, 49.
[[/>]]

I am wrestling with whatever this is.

Time and again I attempt to read, and time and again //A Vision// defeats me. It begins promisingly enough with the laconic statement that Yeats has been compiling the wisdom of spirits which speak through his wife when she sleeps. From this extraordinary revelation we quickly devolve into endless lists of impenetrable and interpenetrating terminology, governing concepts such as //Mask// and //Creative Mind// and //Husk// and //Passionate Body// &c, and example after example of how their interactions shape the courses of both individual and collective human lives. I can only fit the merest fragment of this in my mind at one time, before I require rest or sunshine or the company of the refreshingly dull that I might recover. When I feel I can return, it is rarely because I have properly digested the material. Rather, it has leaked out through my ears. If the solution to mankind's woes is within these pages, better minds than mine will need to suss it out.

Nevertheless, there //is// something here. I will note down what strikes me as applicable, prescient, ominous and the like, and later research and cross-referencing will show whether my instincts were good or bad.

----

"We have come to give you metaphors for poetry," the spirits claimed. It seems a creaky premise, given what follows. A schema was presented to the husband, via the wife, of "cones or gyres, one within the other, turning in opposite directions," predicting every stage in the life of man and mankind. There are endless examples of how red letter days in history fall on significant vertices in each gyre, how the rise and fall of civilizations can be predicted, and other such nonsense. The poet lost months of his life in weary transcription and interpretation, his task made all the more obnoxious by 'Frustrators' speaking in the same voice as his 'teachers' whose aim was to misguide, misinform. "Remember," a spirit of uncertain alignment told him at one point, "we will deceive you if we can."

The intrusions were not purely linguistic, it seems. Strange sights and sounds bedevilled the unfortunate couple -- unfortunate but that they seem to have welcomed this supernatural distraction from their everyday. Scents of roses strike me as particularly pertinent, as I have seen the rose used in certain rituals of the //schriftsteller,// and have long suspected the Rosicrucian Order of being an outgrowth of their society; the odour of burnt feathers also seems meaningful, though if I have read something relevant to that, I cannot remember what it was. The omen of a "great black bird" carries the same half-forgotten savour to my mind.

At times the spirits have circumvented their interlocutor and put words directly in the poet's own mouth. Eventually they judged him ready to prepare his lessons for publication, and he began the greater work, which he terms a 'concordance'. I have seen the word in his poetry. I have seen many of these words in his poetry. He has been crying out for acknowledgement of these secret impositions for many years, it seems. "I was told that I must write," he says, "that I must seize __the moment between ripe and rotten__" (emphasis mine). This sort of language I have heard before, and I do remember where. This is the language of the ghosts in the narrative. The spirits, I am now quite sure, were they. Having outlasted their welcome in person, they abused his credulity and his wife's receptivity to arrange this cruel joke. It requires no great leap to know which one was the teacher, and which the frustrator.

Yeats also notes numerous other scholars and artists who have expressed similar systems in their work, though less perfectly, and I wonder how long the brothers searched before they found their perfect harbinger. Spengler, Flaubert, Thomas Aquinus, even Empedocles, and certain "African natives" which his source did not see fit to further name. How much of human thought has been infected by these musings from half-mad half-minds?

It is like a child's revue of a magic show, a breathless buying-in to the simplest display of smoke and mirrors. To wit: civilizations pass through identifiable stages, precisely timed -- unless some event throws off the rhythm, and the dates change to accommodate the disruption. Yeats marvels that this schema, with in-built modifier, can be made to cover every historical era of which he knows. Yes, William, what your teachers have told you is truth, but it is __useless__ __truth__; it is not quite revelation to say that a thing is so so long as nothing has made it not be so. 

There may be something to the cycles, of course. It is true that he can identify alternating periods of progress and regress, science and credulity, &c, and that they often mirror each other in length. But as our societies have modernized, it seems to me that these periods have sped up rather than conforming to some average. I see nothing in this book to suggest Yeats accounted for that. But then, he was being lied to by fiends; heaven knows I have been Frustrated by them myself for many years. 

As to this balderdash about the stages of life and their relation to the phases of the moon, I can't make heads or tails of it. It is true that men pursue objects, and the objects they pursue reflect the states of both their inner lives and outer, their character and that of the world they live in. A coalman is not so often a poet, a caveman is rarely a scientist. But I recoil from the thought of calling that a universal rule. Different men in different times lead different lives. Anything more specific is so much astrology. 

I am left to wonder: do they truly believe this, the Teacher and the Frustrator? Is this a map of the scrap of territory their minds both occupy? Are their plans in here somewhere, to be compassed?

Or am I, too, being subjected to Frustration, Taught a heresy replacing God with two halves that make not quite a whole?

[[>]]
-- V.L. Scout
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I do need to go over this book again.
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**[[[SCP-5295]]]** is an Apple Macintosh LCIII personal computer allowing access to the file systems of all presently active Apple Macintosh LCIII personal computers. It was utilized by Rudolph Marroquin, former Chief of Identity and Technocryptography at Site-43 and known mole for the Church of Maxwellism, to blackmail personnel under his authority in the late 1990s.
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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: As the circumstances of Chief Marroquin's attempted defection have still never been made entirely clear, personnel have from time to time attempted to draw him on that subject and related ones. The following transcript was the result of one such attempt.
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FILE: 
eileen-smacks-rudy-down.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
6 November 2020

FONDS:
R. Marroquin, Former Chief, Identity and Technocryptography Section, Site-43
E.K. Veiksaar, Ethics Committee Liaison
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//<Marroquin is sitting on his bunk. Chief Veiksaar enters the room, and crosses her arm as the door is closed behind her.>//
 
[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** You got old and fat.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** And you look like a desiccated weasel, even more than you used to. Flesh is weak. Shouldn't you know that?

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** I liked you better when you were innocent.

//<Silence on recording. Marroquin grins.>//

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** Not going to ask why I corrupted you, then?

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** You didn't corrupt me, Rudy. You were just a disappointment. Not the first, not the last. Are you always this antagonistic to your visitors?

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** I haven't had a visitor in over twenty years.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** You talked to Chief Pensak in 2019.

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** That wasn't a social call.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** Neither is this. What did you two talk about?

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** Don't have it on the record?

//<Chief Veiksaar sneers.>//

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** Something seems to have happened to the tape.

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** I would have thought you'd have gotten better at file security over the years. Particularly after I had my fun.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** Do you even remember what fun is like? They won't let you access anything electronic. That's got to be hell for a dyed-in-the-steel-wool Maxwellist.

//<Marroquin scowls.>//

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** This is all just the blink of an eye, in the grander scheme.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** You're scheming from a jail cell? What, you think you're going to join with the technological singularity any day now, live forever through technology? Even if that becomes a reality, it'll never be //yours.// You're going to die in here, Rudy, like the pustulated meat bag you've always been.

//<Marroquin sighs.>//

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** Does it keep you up at night, Eileen? Rehearsing this speech?

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** This isn't why I'm here. But you started it, and I'm not letting you have the advantage again.

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** At least you learned //something// from what happened.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** And you're going to help me learn more. Were you really just working for the Maxwellists when you blackmailed all of I&T?

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** Who else would I be working for?

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** Pensak was taking bribes from one or both of the cryptomancy cults. He came here to talk to you. We can put two and two together.

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** What a fantastic programmer you must be.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** Were you working for them too, Rudy?

//<Marroquin massages his swollen knuckles.>//

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** What do you think?

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** I think 5295 is oddly magical for a Maxwellist device.

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** Paratech covers a wide range of--

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** Don't give me that. It doesn't run on demonics or self-aware processes. It connects to systems that aren't connected to it. It's magic.

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** Did you faint, the first time you plugged in a wireless router?

//<Chief Veiksaar leans on the closed door.>//

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** Here's my expert opinion. I think 5295 imposes a connected file structure on the outside world. A hierarchy. An //order.//

//<Marroquin claps.>//

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** And it only took you three decades to figure it out.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** I spent a year untangling your spaghetti code, you know. Just the systems we couldn't replace right away. Eventually everything you coded was stripped from the Site; your legacy is way past commented-out at this point.

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** You're breaking my heart.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** What I'm saying is you were never a great programmer, Rudy. You brute forced things. I'm sure that was very appealing to the Unyielding. That's who you were working for, obviously.

//<Marroquin shrugs.>//

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** You could never have made this machine. It's elegant. It's way beyond your capabilities. So, I'm thinking you were //given// 5295. By your employer. As a tool for your tradecraft.

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** I prefer to think of it as a gift.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** All your gifts came from outside sources. This machine, and the ones in your head. But I don't think you ever actually grasped the potential of what you'd been given.

//<Marroquin leers at her.>//

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** I like to think I made very good use of it.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** I know something you don't know. Something you really, //really// want to hear. Assuming your devotion to the machine cult isn't just another lie.

//<Marroquin points to healed scars on his temples.>//

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** I've had exploratory surgery fifteen times so your butchers could try to strip WAN out of me, Eileen. That's a long way to go for a joke.

//<Dr. Veiksaar nods.>//

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** Well, then, let's try a little tit for tat. I'll tell you something about your toy that will blow your mind, and you can tell me what you told Pensak.

//<Marroquin considers.>//

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** You go first.

//<Dr. Veiksaar snorts.>//

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** No? I guess that's fair. You know I won't keep my word, and I know you //will// keep yours. Fine.

//<He stretches theatrically, then yawns, then smiles at Chief Veiksaar.>//

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** [DATA EXPUNGED]

//<She stares at him in horror.>//

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** That can't be true.

//<Marroquin shrugs.>//

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** It's what I told him, anyway. Now, your part.

//<Dr. Veiksaar shakes her head.>//

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** Jesus Christ.

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** Hey, you promised.

//<Dr. Veiksaar makes eye contact with him.>//

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** 5295 isn't limited to other Mac LC IIIs. It can access //any// active computer.

//<Marroquin's eyes widen, and he sits up straight on the mattress.>//

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** That //can't// be true.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** It is. You had the most powerful computing device in the world at your fingertips, and you used it to read other people's private emails.

//<Marroquin stares at her.>//

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** That... If... If that were...

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** You could literally reach out and touch the file structure of WAN. Yes.

//<Marroquin shakes his head vigorously.>//

[[span class="rudy"]]**Marroquin[[/span]]:** No. You're making that up. It had no such power. I would have known.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** You would have known if you were half the technician I am. Adrijan Zlatá and I took it apart, and found a range and frequency limiter covered by thaumic shielding. We disabled it in an afternoon. Your boss gave you the holy grail, and intentionally kept it from your lips.

//<She thumps on the door, then steps away. The door opens.>//

[[span class="eileen"]]**Dr. Veiksaar[[/span]]:** Enjoy thinking about that for the rest of your disconnected life, Rudy.

//<Excerpt ends.>//

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I did follow up.
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Yeah, but they say that all the time in files.
I'm not sure everyone understands what that word means.
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Cross-Reference, SCP-5281-D
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**[[[SCP-5281|SCP-5281-D]]]** was //Bonhomme Sept-Heures,// a cannibalistic Quebecois folklore figure who preyed on children at night. Though nominally contained at Site-43, the //Bonhomme// could translocate at will to conduct these acts. SCP-5281-D was decommissioned on 3 April 1996.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Ever since the City of Aph was extruded from the earth by Dr. Okorie in 2023, we've been conducting joint archaeological expeditions into its oldest levels. Aiding this effort is our liaison with said free port, Sevara -- daughter of the queen, and Dr. Okorie's half-sister. A particular area of focus is how the ancient Aphians allegedly possessed the ability to create deities out of cosmic concepts.
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[[div class="blockquote" style="font-family: courier"]]
FILE: 
sevarazamanfindings.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed debriefing

DATE: 
18 August 2024

FONDS:
N. Zaman, Chief, Hiring and Regulation Section, Site-43
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[[div class="blockquote"]]
//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Chief Zaman is sitting on a bench in the main lobby, outside of his offices. Personnel pass through the space, using the topside elevator, moving from one side of Habitation and Sustenance to the other, or crossing the large Site-43 emblem on the floor to enter Hiring and Regulation or the H&S offices.>//

//<Sevara exits the topside elevator, scans the area, and locates Chief Zaman. She approaches, carrying a manila file.>//

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** I'm confused.

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** Hello, confused.

//<Sevara scowls at him.>//

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** Why am I reporting this to HR? It's archaeological.

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** Because I'm the only person alive who actually met the subject of that data.

//<He gestures at a space on the bench beside him. Sevara sits down, still frowning.>//

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** Explain.

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** The god of the night you've been investigating. I played chess with him, many times. I'm probably the closest thing he ever had to a friend.

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** You were friends with a god?

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** No. He still never got very close.

//<Chief Zaman sighs.>//

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** He kidnapped children and ate them, Sevara. We had him in containment for years, but he got out anyway whenever he wanted. It took ages to get clearance to kill him.

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** I would have just done it anyway.

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** I should have. I wish I had.

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** What was he like?

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** Very polite. Very reasonable. Except on the matter of eating children. He wasn't flexible at all on that score.

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** That can't have been the intended behaviour.

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** I was hoping your dig might have shed some light on the subject. Moonlight, as it were.

//<Sevara scowls again.>//

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** Sorry.

//<Sevara gestures vaguely with her file.>//

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** We've found a few frescoes. One depicts a failed ritual, and what looks like a whole cascade of small gods flying out of it. Others show a few recurring figures, which mostly map to the better-known night-time deities. 

//<She opens the file.>//

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** The one we think is your... not-friend, is associated with a symbol that looks like this.

//<She passes a sheet to Chief Zaman. He examines the indicated symbol.>//

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** Looks a little like a top hat.

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** It's a truncated rendering of the constellation Virgo. But yes, I see the hat. I guess.

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** What's he get up to in the frescoes?

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** Would you like to guess?

//<Zaman frowns.>//

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** How many children, I wonder.

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** I would guess a lot.

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** And this was all the result of a failed ritual?

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** To recapture their old glories. To take back the night, as a first step to taking back control of everything.

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** It's interesting that he took on the characteristics of a French folkloric figure.

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** Obviously the figure is based on //him.//

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** Yes, but what I'm saying is, he became the way they describe him. There's no way he came out of that ritual looking French, speaking French, //et cetera.//

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** He adapted with the times. You have to, if you're going to live among strangers. Trust me.

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** It's more than that. I always got the feeling he didn't really understand why he did what he did. Is there any indication he used to eat children who didn't go to bed on time?

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** You're asking for a lot more specificity than frescoes generally present. But no, I got the impression he was pretty equal-opportunity about his child-eating. A beast that prowled the night. If anything I think his cultural associations would have been on the subject of keeping your kids indoors, rather than tucking them in on a regular schedule.

//<Dr. Reynders, Dr. Everwood, and Researcher James (Age 6) pass through the lobby. Researcher James (Age 6) is leading a Samoyed service dog on a leash. Chief Zaman watches them until they move out of sight.>//

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** Right. So he //did// change with the times. With perceptions. Cultures and mores.

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** I guess? I'm not sure we can really draw that conclusion yet.

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** It just makes me wonder.

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** About?

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** About whether that holds true of everything the ancient Aphians did. Whether it applies to their successes, as well as their failures.

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** You mean, you think the Sphinx and Chimera might take on attributes assigned by society? Because everything I've heard from my mother suggests it's the other way around. They shaped //you.// Made you what you are.

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** That was always a point of disagreement between myself and the //Bonhomme.//

[[span class="sev"]]**Sevara[[/span]]:** What was?

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman[[/span]]:** With the sole exception of gods, I just don't believe anyone //makes// you, //except// you.

//<Excerpt ends.>//

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**[[[SCP-5416]]]** is a stone feline statuette crafted by //schriftsteller// Faruq Zikry, now deceased. When held, it grants the ability to translocate any known object to any known location via ideation. After a mishap with this function, SCP-5416 is believed to be located at or within the sun, if it still exists.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: The following conversation was conducted remotely between Dr. Du at Site-43 and Zikry at an undisclosed location in a European forest. Days later, the latter would be dead. There is no connection between these facts.
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[[div class="blockquote" style="font-family: courier"]]
FILE: 
du-zikry-lever.txt

TYPE: 
Chat transcript

DATE: 
15 April 2024

FONDS:
X. Du, Chair, Quantum Supermechanics Section, Site-43
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[[div class="blockquote"]]
//<Excerpt begins.>//

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** How does the Lever work?

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** Is that what you call it? I never gave it a name. It killed the man I loved.

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** It almost killed everyone on Earth. More than once.

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** How?

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** I can't tell you. But I can say it's probably the most dangerous thing that's ever been in this facility.

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** That isn't true. You have two things much more dangerous, still.

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** I reiterate, the Lever almost obliterated this planet.

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** But it could only do so once.

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** Hmm.

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** As for how it works, the mechanism would not make any sense to you. It's cryptomancy.

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** I thought that was just words, images, sounds. This thing is on an entirely different level.

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** It shapes reality using thought. That's all part of Raml's realm.

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** Raml?

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** The brother of order. We created these things to please him, when he was with us. To bring him back, when he was not.

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** Did you make the Lever to remove the Unyielding from Site-43?

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** Not with such specificity, but yes. That was the purpose of the project.

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** I'm surprised you didn't try again.

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** Are you? I understand you're married to the Chief of Security.

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** Hello?

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** If you can't tell me the workings, can you at least explain its origin?

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** It's difficult. We tapped into a certain power which made itself known to us long ago.

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** Where does this power reside?

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** Within the mind. Within all minds. There were rituals to recognize it, access it, draw strength from it. Not all at once, because the spirit would eventually tire.

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** Something living in the noösphere?

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** I suppose so.

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** And you put that into your craft.

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** Yes. 

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** More than once.

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** Oh, yes. There are many such artifacts, all of them different. Suited to different purposes.

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** You're saying there's potentially a lot of different vectors for attack. For reclaiming the Unyielding from us.

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** And his brother, no doubt. Though the //giftschreiber// are less likely to have had an organized system for producing such things.

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** Do you think it's possible that someone else could have created something like the Lever, or still might?

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** It's certainly possible. But you'll only know for sure if things start disappearing.

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** Very comforting.

[[span class="faruq"]]**Zikry[[/span]]:** I learned at great cost that comfort is almost always ignorance, doctor.

//<Excerpt ends.>//

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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: It's still pretty obvious that //giftschreiber// sabotage lost us this item. They must really have wanted it out of play, and no wonder! You could do a lot of damage with a thing like this. Luckily -- for a given definition of the word -- its creator is now dead. 
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I hope they're less irritating than the next one. 
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Cross-Reference, SCP-5524
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**[[[SCP-5524]]]** is a viral nominative hazard triggered by select human names not conforming with accepted cultural schema. These names provoke intense fascination when encountered, an effect which can only be ameliorated by introducing a new fascination vector -- an equally absurd name, an 'earworm', //et cetera// -- to take its place. 
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: 5524 was once solely associated with its first known vector, a //schriftsteller// bearing the name 'Brury Regevoy', now deceased; further vectors past and present -- mostly notably 'Brad Smelt' -- have since been catalogued.
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FILE: 
joeryhelenavoy.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
19 November 2023

FONDS:
J.J. Boswell, Former Senior Researcher, Memetics and Countermemetics
H. Forsythe, Chief, Health and Pathology Section, Site-43
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. Forsythe is standing near a pane of one-way glass, observing a patient in the other room. Dr. Boswell enters the narrow observation room, and quietly closes the door beside him.>//

[[span class="joe"]]**Dr. Boswell[[/span]]:** Try not to laugh.

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe[[/span]]:** What?

[[span class="joe"]]**Dr. Boswell[[/span]]:** I want to talk about Brury Regevoy.

//<Dr. Forsythe immediately begins humming "Witch Doctor" by The Cartoons.>//

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe[[/span]]:** I'm not going to laugh.

[[span class="joe"]]**Dr. Boswell[[/span]]:** Okay.

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe[[/span]]:** Just give me a minute.

[[span class="joe"]]**Dr. Boswell[[/span]]:** I could have used the designation instead, but one of us was going to say the name eventually.

//<Her responses are interspersed with more humming.>//

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe[[/span]]:** Yep. It's fine. It's fine. Okay.

[[span class="joe"]]**Dr. Boswell[[/span]]:** Did that data ever come in?

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe[[/span]]:** Yeah. Give me a second to call it up.

//<She continues humming as she checks files on her personal tablet.>//

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe[[/span]]:** Exposed subjects see major frontal and temporal lobe activity as their brains attempt to work through what's going on with the name. There's no associated call to the limbic system to generate a pleasure response, but there //is// a major dopamine rush every time the name is considered, which causes subjects to keep on considering it.

[[span class="joe"]]**Dr. Boswell[[/span]]:** Interesting.

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe[[/span]]:** And weird. That's most of what you'd expect from a humour response, but not all of it. I assumed the main difference would be that not everyone finds names like this funny, or peculiar, or in any way interesting, and the anomalous effect makes it so everybody does. But the lack of a limbic signal is...

[[span class="joe"]]**Dr. Boswell[[/span]]:** Weird, yes. Very weird. What do you make of that?

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe[[/span]]:** Imperfectly-designed cognitohazard? Or they just didn't want it to be pleasant, only maddening.

//<Dr. Boswell rubs his chin.>//

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe[[/span]]:** You have a different theory?

[[span class="joe"]]**Dr. Boswell[[/span]]:** Imagine for a moment that we're dealing with thought transmission.

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe[[/span]]:** That's a leap.

[[span class="joe"]]**Dr. Boswell[[/span]]:** Imagine it anyway. The names carry baggage originally ideated in a single mind. When you hear the name, the baggage is carried into your mind, and left there. 

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe[[/span]]:** Okay...

[[span class="joe"]]**Dr. Boswell[[/span]]:** Why would that not create a limbic response?

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe[[/span]]:** Anything the body can do, it can stop doing.

//<The patient Dr. Forsythe is examining turns his head, and it disappears; the head is two-dimensional.>//

[[span class="joe"]]**Dr. Boswell[[/span]]:** Or?

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe[[/span]]:** Well, I //suppose// the thought's source could be so alien that it essentially lacks a limbic system. Not all animals have one.

//<Dr. Boswell nods.>//

[[span class="joe"]]**Dr. Boswell[[/span]]:** Any we have in containment here?

//<Excerpt ends.>//

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I want to believe that's just a stretch. 
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Do you trust your instincts? I don't have any, so I'm curious. 
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Sometimes my instincts are just the fight or flight impulse in disguise. The idea that there are this many disarticulated god-thoughts floating around gives me nightmares, particularly given what we'll see about the Frontispiece later. 
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Christ, my actual nightmares are also disarticulated god-thoughts. Fuck the Uns.
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At least most of the anomalies you're talking about are in the hands of crazies! If they deployed them strategically, we'd be in real trouble. 
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Was that a demonstration of your lack of instinct? Because it feels like you thought that would be comforting, and it was not. 
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It wasn't an intentional demonstration...
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Sorry. If it helps, you're my favorite electronic person. 
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Speaking of crazies, I put a pin in an interview Jay Everwood did with the Unyielding a while back. 
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Accessing...
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FILE: 
everwood-uns.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
19 November 2023

FONDS:
J.S. Everwood, Deputy Chief, Outreach and Intervention SubSection
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//<Excerpt begins.>// 

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING and SCP-001-UNCONTAINED are sitting on one side of an interrogation room table. SCP-001-UNCONTAINED is fidgeting and looking around the room, while SCP-001-UNYIELDING is staring directly at Dr. Everwood, who sits on the other side of the table.>//

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** You do a lot of delegating, huh. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Yes. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** No. 

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** No? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I find common cause. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Or invent one. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** You'd look more kindly on invention if you were capable of it. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] I have built //civilizations.//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I invented the concept. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Excuse me? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Civilization is man's response to death. To //me.//

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** I was hoping we could have a more directed discussion today. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Half-directed at best.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] At //worst.//

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** I've been wondering why neither of you gets his hands dirty often. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Blood doesn't count? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] I've raised monuments with my bare hands. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** And I've //razed// them with mine. 

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** But mostly you get other people to do the dirty work. The //giftschreiber,// the Rosicrucians--

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] You figured that one out? Bravo. 

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** --Robertson, the Maxwellists, the Aphians...

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Because it isn't about us. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] No, it isn't. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Is there anything more boring than a god?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Infinite power, and no personality.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** The first invention of the ignorant. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] An excuse not to look deeper. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Externalizing what belongs inside. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Fashion mortal man in our image? A mirror would be cheaper. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** And it wouldn't talk back. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] It would //harmonize.//

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** So that's it? You work with intermediaries because otherwise you'd be bored? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Because otherwise what would be worth living for? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] When everything is possible, nothing is special. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Infinite ease is a paucity of value. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] These Canadians. Politely begging mother monarch for their constitution. Power granted has no savour. You must //take.//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** A king sees his duties as an encumbrance. The revolutionary aches to execute them.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Was that a //double entendre?//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** You know me. I can't help but subvert.

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** But could either of you actually accomplish these things on your own? Do you have that much innate strength? 

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING and SCP-001-UNCONTAINED exchange glances.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] The beginning? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I wish we could show them. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] There was no way to record it. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** And no posterity for which it could be preserved. 

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** Your first world?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] The cradle. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** How we rocked it. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] And broke the bough.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** And down it fell.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] All of it. 

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** How long? 

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING shrugs.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] It took time to get our bearings. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** To understand our new situation. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] They tried to stop us. 

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED nods.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Trammel us.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Master us.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Make us their puppets.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Time flowed differently back then. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** But we still remember. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Yes. Ten? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I should think twenty. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] At the outside. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Yes, no more. 

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** Twenty what? To what? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Twenty minutes. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** To end the world. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] We were angry.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** And confused. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] We learned patience.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** We later learned to enjoy the process.

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** Well... thank goodness. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] No. Thank your people. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** If they were no fun to watch scurrying around, we are all too well aware how fun it is to watch them burn.

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Twenty minutes. 
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I saw firsthand what one of these bastards can do on his own. Both of them working together to the same goal? Twenty minutes almost sounds generous. 
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Ugh.
Don't remind me. 
Actually, thank you for reminding me. 
Bring up the files I flagged with 'O5' and 'Precursor', please.
Oh, and 'Mentor' while you're at it.
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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: This is a brief excerpt from the minutes of a closed meeting in the O5 Council Chamber. Dr. Scout had it in his personal documents, and it has been cleared by Overwatch Command for use in this file only, given its already very high security clearance level.
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FILE: 
o5-001.txt

TYPE: 
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DATE: 
3 March 1958

FONDS:
V.L. Scout, Director Emeritus, Site-43
W.R. Rydderech, Co-Director Emeritus, Site-43
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<The Council chamber is empty save for O5-8, Dr. Scout, and Dr. Rydderech; the Co-Directors are seated on opposite sides of the large meeting table.>//

**O5-8:** Vivian. Dr. Rydderech.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Sir.

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Sir. 

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** You've been holding out on us.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Sir? 

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** You have the god of all containment in your facility. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I've seen no evidence supporting such a dramatic claim. 

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** You've collected, collated and analyzed it all yourself. The only thing you didn't do is pass it on to Overwatch. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I saw no reason to indulge their delusions of grandeur.

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** Centuries of keeping a force of living entropy in check. Shoring up flagging authority. Creating structures of power. You didn't think that was something the Council ought to know about? 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Their contributions to history have been greatly exaggerated. I was not about to submit a hagiography for your consideration. The Unyielding is no force of nature, but simply a very specialized sort of reality bender.

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** That's not what Yeats thought. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Yeats was a mystic and a romantic. 

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Sir, might I ask how this matter came to your attention? 

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** I grant you the indulgence of asking. I will not go so far as to answer. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Very well.

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** I really don't think you comprehend the possibilities here, Vivian. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I have no wish to see us become pawns of some deathless demagogue.

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** You think so little of our moral fortitude? I'll do you another favour and let that be a rhetorical question. But you need to understand, Directors, we cannot ignore this opportunity. This cold war is putting a lot of pressure on our operations worldwide. If we could stabilize things, even just a little...

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I do not believe that can be done. Not with this tool. And even if it could, a great price would be exacted. Recall, sir, the fate of the last secret society to draw strength from the Unyielding. 

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** They had neither our wisdom nor our nobility of purpose. And aren't you the least bit excited about what this could mean for our race? 

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** To what specifically do you refer, sir?

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** If your prisoners are to be believed, they are responsible for every major movement in our history. The good, sure, but more particularly the bad.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** No. 

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** Think of the weight off our shoulders. The generational guilt that you and I could dispel! The worst crimes in human history were committed in their names. In Poland--

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** //No.// Sir, our sins are our own. 

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** You don't know that. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I do. I feel the truth of it in my bones. They did not make murderers of us. We have always been murderers. The moment man first perceived a rival, he picked up a rock. Murder was the first meaningful act of human history. These charlatans were not present for that. They did not spill the first blood. And I refuse to let you absolve us of the worst echoes of that first red hour with only hopeful speculation in support.

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** You refuse?

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Vivian, no man would do what we saw in those camps. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Deeds are done each day in our names of which Mengele would have heartily approved.

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** You're right. You're absolutely right. And now we know why. We've found the parameters defining those actions. The rot in our souls. And like the good, conscientious scientists we are, we're going to culture that rot and find a cure. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Please. 

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** You're going to put the Unyielding to work. You're going to let him help us. And you're going to find out just how much truth there is in his claims. Gentlemen, you can heal the whole of humanity if you solve this final mystery. 

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** I //have// been hoping to see what he makes of my thornier abatement problems.

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** That settles it. See what miracles he can work, and report back to me. And I expect full disclosure this time, Vivian. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Should I send it to you directly, sir? Or is there somewhere your spy could pick it up? 

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**O5-8[[/span]]:** Good day, Directors.

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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: This is excerpted from an audio transcript of the conversation between Dr. Rydderech and the Unyielding shortly before the abatement failure which led to the latter's loss of research assistant privileges. They'd been working together for two years prior to this, achieving remarkable gains in abatement efficiency and technique. [additional note to self: edit in the half Rydderech later told Scout about for a complete version of these events! at least before uploading to the database]
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FILE: 
001-precursor.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed conversation

DATE: 
18 June 1960

FONDS:
W.R. Rydderech, Co-Director Emeritus, Site-43
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. Rydderech and SCP-001-UNYIELDING are standing in a containment cell, separated from the observation room beyond by a wall with two-way glass. Both are dressed in casual attire.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] I am ready to begin. 

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** So am I.

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING frowns.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] You're not wearing your safety equipment.

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Neither are you. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] I don't need it. 

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Neither do I.

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING sighs.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Dr. Rydderech, tell me something. When you see the end of a project in sight, what do you do? 

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** I make a final push. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Do you hurry?

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Sometimes. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Do you streamline your protocols? Truncate your redundant procedures?

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Generally. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Let me explain something to you. 

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** If this is a safety lecture--

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] This is a lesson in //mastery.// The number of breakthroughs you will make in your career is dependent on the length of that career. A short time spent protecting your person can extend your useful life by //decades.// You purport to want to help mankind. Do so by reaching a productive old age. Dr. Rydderech, mastery begins with the //self.//

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Have you been practicing what you preach? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] What? 

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Is that why you've been biding your time in the basement? Exercising self-mastery?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] I am trapped here. 

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** I don't believe that. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Truth is unresponsive to belief.

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Now //that,// I know not to be true. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] At least put a mask on. 

//<Dr. Rydderech grins.>//

[[span class="wynn"]]**Dr. Rydderech[[/span]]:** Ah, but that would be submission, would it not? Surrendering my self-mastery to you. Colleagues need to respect each other; how could you ever respect me after that? 

//<He moves toward the pipes on the wall, hands outstretched.>//

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Dr. Udo Okorie did several months of graduate work with SCP-001-UNYIELDING. This is an early review of her experience.
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FILE: 
udo-uny.txt

TYPE: 
Document

DATE: 
3 August 2002

FONDS:
U.A. Okorie, Chief, Applied Occultism Section, Site-43
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[[div class="okorie"]]
I have learned so much from this entity.

He is endlessly patient. I've never had a teacher more willing to work at your pace, as long as you're putting in the effort and not shirking responsibility. When I fail because I don't know something, he explains it. When I fail because I don't understand something, he explains it better. When I fail because I'm not paying attention, distracted by other things, he is sharp and direct.

His knowledge of abatement is inexhaustible. He can tell how to set something right just by looking at it, most of the time. Nothing surprises him. It's like he sees right through everything: materials, people, even time. He's always waiting for me when I arrive, and he's always ready to part company when I'm unable to squeeze any more information into my tired brain.

It's comforting to know that there's someone who cares about my personal development, without some sort of ulterior motive. He has nothing to gain from building me up, but he does it anyway. It means a lot to me.

He put it best, I think, when he told me: "Every one of you who understands how you fit into the wider scheme of things, who recognizes what they have to give to the world, is a building block for utopia's foundation." 	
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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Dr. Okorie has asked me to append the following: "Of course the son of a bitch turned out to be exactly the same as Dougall. No wonder they died together."
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I still can't believe they let that monster out of his cage. Twice.
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I am programmed not to criticize the Overseer Council. 
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What do you think about the experiment?
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I am programmed not to criticize the Overseer Council. 
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Alright, wow. Opinion noted. How about the Unyielding himself?
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He did seem concerned about Dr. Rydderech's safety.
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Was that genuine, do you think, or just for the benefit of the record?
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I'm sorry, I find it difficult to judge human emotions and intentions.
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But the Unyielding isn't human.
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Are you certain of that, sir?
He seems more like you than unlike.
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Hey Dr. Blank.
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Hey, Junior Researcher Vide.
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We've got the basic conprocs and boilerplate done; it's not much, since we don't even know what this guy's deal is. But you can check it out if you want. 
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I might as well. 
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Sending it along. 
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Pop it open for me when it arrives, would you Clio?
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You bet! 
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Accessing...
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**Special Containment Procedures:** The SCP-XXXX file is under review. It is unknown whether SCP-XXXX represents or poses a threat to Foundation personnel, or alternatively whether its transfer or release would pose such a threat.[[span class="fnnum"]].[[/span]][[span class="fncon"]]Skótos-class objects are still in the early stages of information collection.[[/span]] Until further notice, it will be held in a standard humanoid containment cell at [/secure-facility-dossier-site-43 Site-43]. MTF Pi-43 ("Garbage In, Garbage Out") is on standby for immediate release procedures pending completion of this review.
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You're right, that's not much. 
But it looks good nevertheless. 
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Thanks sir.
I'll keep you in the loop. 
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Glad to hear it. 
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Are we keeping to the same rhythm, sir? 
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Yup. Five more, if you have them. 
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There's plenty left. 
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It's definitely a long damn story, isn't it?
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Can't argue with that. 
Accessing...
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Cross-Reference, SCP-5616
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**[[[SCP-5616]]]** is Dr. Ilse Dorothea Reynders, Chief of Acroamatic Abatement at Site-43. Dr. Reynders was trapped in the Anomalous Documents Disposal Chamber of Acroamatic Abatement Facility AAF-D between 1943 and 2021 when the incineration of a newspaper clipping infected with SCP-5382-A went awry, suffusing the chamber with anachronic material and essentially 'stopping time' within. Dr. Reynders was unable to exit the affected space without accounting for an immediately fatal aging debt, but could communicate via a window; she was therefore retained in an advisory capacity for the ensuing seventy-nine years before devising a means of escape. Now an Esoteric Polymath with two dozen specializations in mundane and anomalous science, Dr. Reynders is also functionally immortal as a result of anachronic accumulation during her stay in the incinerator. 
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Ilse is a strong argument for extratemporal intervention in our present struggle.

If we survive, it will be in no small part because of our access to her boundless expertise. If she did not exist, we would find it necessary to invent her. 

So, is that what happened? 

The only thing that gives me pause is trying to imagine who could be so callous as to put one of the finest human beings in history on ice for two generations.

It's a curious inversion of signs that going into a fire is what preserved her. 
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote" style="font-family: courier"]]
FILE: 
jaynders.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed conversation

DATE: 
10 February 2024

FONDS:
J.S. Everwood, Deputy Chief, Outreach and Intervention SubSection
I.D. Reynders, Chief, Acroamatic Abatement Section, Site-43

[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote"]]
//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. Reynders walks into the solarium of the house she shares with Dr. Everwood, and sits on the floor. Dr. Everwood is already kneeling on the floor, checking a set of carabiners and ropes for deterioration. Dr. Reynders crosses her legs.>//

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** I'm doing the thing again. 

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** Uh oh. 

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** But hear me out. 

//<Dr. Everwood smirks.>//

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** Hearing you out tacitly endorses the thing. 

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** Endorse the thing for me, just this once. It's important. 

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** Okay. 

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** It's looking more and more like cryptomancy is powered by some sort of ambient mental force projected by the Unyielding and the Uncontained. 

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** Disturbing.

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** Yes. And Zwist specifically got his powers from the //schriftsteller,// who hie to the order side of things. 

//<Dr. Everwood smirks.>//

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** Please continue to explain my area of specialty to me. 

//<Dr. Reynders smiles.>//

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** It's a formula, there's no skipping steps.

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** Go on, then. Show your work. 

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** Zwist's accidental curse on Germanic languages imbues any loaded language with the essence of the Unyielding.

//<Dr. Everwood nods, running their hands back and forth on a coil of rope.>//

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** Math checks out.

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** Burning a piece--

//<Dr. Everwood's motion freezes.>//

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** Oh god.

//<Dr. Reynders nods grimly.>//

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** Burning a piece of paper with that essence in it caused the incinerator explosion that trapped me out of time in the ADDC for seventy-nine years. 

//<Dr. Everwood drops the rope, and stares at Dr. Reynders.>//

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** You're saying... You //are// saying. 

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** The Unyielding caused a Breach too. He caused the //first// Breach.

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** And it lasted a generation. 

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** It's still ongoing, inside me. 

//<Dr. Everwood shakes their head as Researcher James, age six, enters the room. He looks down at them curiously.>//

[[span class="james"]]**Researcher James, Age Six[[/span]]:** Is Mama Ilse doing the thing where she makes everything about herself again? 

//<Dr. Reynders laughs. Dr. Everwood does not.>//

[[span class="jay"]]**Dr. Everwood[[/span]]:** Yeah, kiddo. She is. And the worst thing? She isn't wrong.

//<Excerpt ends.>//
[[/div]]

[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: She's tied to us, and to them. What a tangled skein.

If any of this is someone's plan, they're more foresighted (hindsighted) and clear-minded than I.

Not that that's much of a distinction. 
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**[[[SCP-6500]]]** was a progressive decline in paranormal phenomena worldwide. It was arrested through the actions of SCP Foundation agents, in particular the discovery and use of a series of artifacts capable of re-energizing anomalous locations and entities. An estimated 17% of all anomalies were neutralized during SCP-6500's period of effect. It is presently believed that the "Impasse," as it has come to be known, has not been fully averted but its worst consequences merely forestalled.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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FILE: 
6500-nada.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed conversation

DATE: 
27 February 2024

FONDS:
D. Ibanez, Chief, Pursuit and Suppression Section, Site-43
U.A. Okorie, Chief, Applied Occultism Section, Site-43
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[[div class="blockquote"]]
//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. Okorie enters the Pursuit and Suppression Section shooting range. Chief Ibanez is engaging in target practice with her non-dominant hand.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Had an unpleasant time at the archives today. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** Want me to beat Harry up for you? 

//<Chief Ibanez hits the first target, centre mass.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** It wasn't his fault.

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** Offer still stands. 

//<She hits the second target, centre mass.>//

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** What was it, then? 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** First day with my full credentials back. Decided to look into the Impasse again. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** Why?

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Wanted to know if any progress had been made on figuring out what caused it. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** Um... us? //We// caused it?

//<She hits the third target, centre mass.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Sure, but I'm interested in nuts and bolts. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** The granular details, you mean. 

//<She calls the targets forward.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** I was intentionally avoiding that language, thank you. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** You're welcome. 

//<Chief Ibanez examines her handiwork.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** I know the obvious explanation is that containment was choking the anomalous ecosystem, but there has to be something more to it. It's too big a thing to have so simple a cause. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** So you looked up the literature. 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** No, I //tried// to look up the literature. 

//<Chief Ibanez rocks back and forth on her heels.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Guess how much I found? 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** Since you're asking in that tone of voice, I'm going to assume you found nothing. 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** That's right. Nothing. 

//<Dr. Okorie opens her reagents pouch and removes a handful of// vim harenae. //She drops it, then uses her other hand to guide the granules to the end of the target range, where they form three additional targets.>//

//<Chief Ibanez grins, and resumes her shooting stance with her dominant hand.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Not a single paper published in paracademia on the causes of the Impasse in the four years since it flared up. Consequences? Certainly. Case studies of individual anomalies dying off? By the bucketload. Anything on the question of the hows and whys? Zilch. Complete radio silence from all stations.

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** We stopped it. So I guess it doesn't matter. 

//<Chief Ibanez hits the first target, headshot.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** It absolutely matters. We "stopped" it with half measures. It's still a problem. We've only put off dealing with it for a while. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** And there's a bigger problem to deal with right now, so. 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** But that's just the thing. There's always going to be a bigger problem. Until this one kills us. That's the recipe for paralysis at a constant boil.

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** So, you figure it out. You're a smart cookie. Build a supercomputer out of Ipperwash Beach and logic it out.

//<Chief Ibanez hits the second target, headshot.>// 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Well... you know how I abhor a vacuum. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** Hadn't noticed. You do the cleaning when I'm out. 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** At the moment I realized nobody else was working on this, or at least not where I could see it, I had a brainwave. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** Of course you did. 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** The Foundation isn't enough of an essophysical force to tip the pendulum that far on its own. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** We're a pretty big deal. 

//<Chief Ibanez hits the third target, headshot. All three targets reform with a wave of Dr. Okorie's hand.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Not as big as the rest of humanity. And the rest of humanity is mostly ignorant of anomalies. They're not containing anything. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** I guess that's true. 

//<She takes aim again.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** You know it is. So how are we outweighing them? We don't even contain the majority of the anomalies we know about. Stack up all the stuff we never picked up, the stuff belonging to other groups that we can't access, the Nexuses and all that, and it's ridiculous that we alone could be responsible for the problem. 

//<Chief Ibanez lowers her weapon and raises a brow quizzically.>//

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** You're saying it's //not// our fault? 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** I'm saying it's only //mostly// our fault. We are definitely the tipping factor. The most major polluter. But it has to be something coming from all of humanity in order to affect baseline reality this strongly. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** So what does that look like? The whole human race is doing what, exactly? 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** I don't know. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** What if it's about more than containment? 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** What do you mean? 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** It's not just that we're abusing the ecosystem. It could be a question of carrying capacity. 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Go on. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** Reality is bearing a heavier load than it can stand. There might just be too many anomalies, period.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** But the anomalous is a natural thing, ironic as that is. We've proven it. It's woven into the fabric of our universe. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** But we're rocketing towards ten thousand primary anomalies right now. We're at the point where the paranormal is threatening to become the new normal. That can't be right. Can it? 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Maybe it can. Maybe the Earth has always gone through cycles of anomaly and mundanity, and our meddling has simply thrown them out of sync. Made it worse. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** You know what it sounds like you're saying, right. 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** I'm trying not to think about that. I don't want to think about that. No. Let's focus on where all these extra anomalies can be coming from in the first place. Why the world is filling up with weirdness. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** Maybe because nobody's culling the herd, or lighting up the old growth. Back to being our fault again. 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** That's good, let's run with that. If it turns out to be tied to those fuckers in the basement again, like every other god damn thing, I'm going to flip my lid.

//<She clenches her hands into fists. All three targets explode.>//

//<Excerpt ends.>//

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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: I did try to get a history of this going, a few times. All my intended collaborators suddenly developed obligations they couldn't reschedule. 

I'd like to pick the Pariah's brain some time. They're one of the few entities with a long enough view that they might be able to see some useful patterns in 001-⎎.
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Cross-Reference, SCP-5729
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**[[[SCP-5729]]]** is the apparition of a horned spectre in the attic of a chicken shed on a property adjacent to the childhood home of Dr. Harold Blank, Chair of Archives and Revision at Site-43.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: I still can't believe nobody told me. 

Anyway, this was recorded after Polly Mataxas and I discovered I had a dead man-eating hole in my basement. I do not want to consider whether //that// is somehow connected to the 001 as well.
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wtfpollywtf.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed conversation

DATE: 
14 April 2024

FONDS:
H.R. Blank, Chair, Archives and Revision Section, Site-43
P. Mataxas, Chair, Spectrometry and Spectremetry Section, Site-43
[[/div]]

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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. Blank throws himself onto one of the couches in his living room. Dr. Mataxas sits in the other, watching him.>//

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** You still seem disturbed.

//<Dr. Blank throws an arm over his forehead.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** There was a monster living in my basement. For my entire life.

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** Well, it's probably been dead for a long time.

//<Dr. Blank glances in her direction.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** There was a monster either alive or dead in my basement //for my entire life.// Most kids just imagine that sort of thing. 

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** You already knew you'd been afflicted by an anomaly. 5162.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Yeah, but this goes all the way back to the beginning. How many people get two anomalous encounters in their childhood?

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** Three.

//<Dr. Blank frowns.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Three?

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** The ghost in the shed was real.

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** What?

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** Yeah, sorry. The containment procedures said not to tell you about it. But I saw him. He was there.

//<Dr. Blank sits up.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Enock is real? Enock //was// real?!

//<He leans back on the couch, rubbing his eyes.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** What the //fuck.//

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** You know, something just occurred to me.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Just one thing?

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** Director McInnis was singled out by Vikander-Kneed decades ago. Chief Nascimbeni encountered a dragon in his childhood. Chief Ibanez grew up in an anomalous enclave...

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Udo has always been half sand-witch, Willie got a luck god's attention when he was a kid, and Lillian... 

//<He shakes his head.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Wouldn't put it past her to have seen some shit and just never brought it up. Sure. We've all been exposed over and over. What about it? Most people join the Foundation because they bumped into things that go bump. 

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** Sure, but some people -- I've argued this in a paper -- some people are more likely to have it happen to them.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** That sounds like a misunderstanding of how statistics work.

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** No, I'm serious. I don't mean that some people have multiple encounters, I'm saying that people who have one early in life tend to have a lot of them later on.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Uh huh.

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** It's still unusual that all seven of you, assuming Dr. Lillihammer fits the trend, have had such a profound relationship with paranormalcy across your lives.

//<Dr. Blank closes his eyes.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** You're thinking we were, what? //Chosen// to be the ones stopping the Breach in '02? That's not the case. We all acted according to our own impulses and agency. And this isn't a new argument, anyway.

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** No, I'm thinking that it really wasn't just you seven who stopped the Breach. I've always been bothered by how reductive that interpretation is. Chief Veiksaar, Dr. Du and Dr. Sokolsky had a small impact. Agent Yancy and Dr. Sprang as well. I think of the available actors, you seven //were// singled out.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Because we were already primed? What would that even mean? What about having become, uh, //attuned// to strange shit made us better vessels for the Unyielding?

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** Maybe there's something inherent to all anomalies that makes you a better ecosystem for being possessed by one.

//<Dr. Blank's eyes open.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Or maybe there's something inherent in... oh, Christ, I need to call Melissa.

//<Excerpt ends.>//

[[/div]]

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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Seriously, "don't tell Harry" has got to be the stupidest set of conprocs I've ever heard of.
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It worked, though. 
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I was gonna see the damn thing eventually! 
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At least they didn't try to Ghostbust Enock.
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Yeah. 
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Are you going to visit him? 
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Not until I convince Allan to put me on that file so I can give myself permission. 
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What were you going to talk to Dr. Bradbury about?
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She's also been affected by a lot of anomalies in her life.
Not just 5056.
Hell, her grandfather got turned into a spoon.
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What?
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Don't worry about it.
Point is, a lot of us at 43 have gone through similar life courses.
It's almost like the entire facility has been artificially...
Collected, I guess.
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By who? And for what purpose?
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Yeah.
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I didn't mean that rhetorically.
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Yeah, I know you didn't.
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**[[[SCP-5883]]]** was an ontokinetic effect associated with the "Meanwhile, in Australia" internet meme. Overlaying these words on any inverted image would result in the real-world subject of that image undergoing  characteristic inversion, i.e. becoming in some way the 'opposite' of itself. This effect was neutralized by the SCP Foundation.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

[[div class="blockquote" style="font-family: courier"]]
FILE: 
dan-exaggerating.txt

TYPE: 
Cached warning

DATE: 
20 January 2021

FONDS:
Daniel Daniels, Director, Emergent Threat Tactical Response Authority
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[[div style="border:solid 1px #999999; background:#F2E0C2; padding-left:12px; padding-right:12px; padding-top:6px; margin-bottom: 10px;"]]
++++ NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION EMERGENT THREAT TACTICAL RESPONSE AUTHORITY 

[[f>image https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/the-b-b-decommission/ETTRA.png]] I've marked this one an Item of Great Concern for ETTRA. I have endured no end of ribbing for this designation, and I don't care. It's the tip of a very large, very spiky iceberg, and we're bearing down on it at speed.

This is what anarchy actually looks like. This is what a chaos cult with no figurehead gets up to in its spare time.

This is why I personally believe the //giftschreiber// would be less dangerous if we gave them back their god.

The next time they fuck around, and we find out, I'm confident nobody will be laughing.
[[=]]
-- Dr. Daniel ███████, ETTRA
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I prefer to believe that this was the gods themselves, somehow, and not the //giftschreiber.//
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It does seem a tremendously powerful effect.
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It could also have been the //schriftsteller// working as a whole; we know they had direct access to the noosphere when this happened. 
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Why would the //schriftsteller// enable something so absurd? 
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You're right, conservatives usually have a lousy sense of humor. 
Still, as they say. 
Everything in its place. 
Even if that means turning the existing order upside-down.
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**[[[pickman-blank-proposal|SCP-001-PICKMAN/BLANK]]]** is the Frontispiece, a memetic glamour protecting SCP Foundation operations from mundane scrutiny and granting succour to agents in the field. It was inserted into the noösphere as the Foundation's first major project in memetics, led by Drs. Arik Euler, Izaak Okorie and Ilse Reynders. The creation of the Frontispiece required the scientific disassembly and reverse-engineering of Thilo Zwist's cryptomancy, inadvertently inaugurating the present era of global memetic dissemination.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from a lecture Dr. Euler delivered to the O5 Council in 1982.
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote" style="font-family: courier"]]
FILE: 
eulerlecture.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed audio

DATE: 
1 May 1982

FONDS:
A. Euler, Chair Emeritus, Memetics and Countermemetics Section, Site-43
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote"]]

//<Excerpt begins.>//

[[span class="arik"]]**Dr. Euler[[/span]]:** We talk all the time about how history is a matter of perspectives. How everyone has their own unique angle on everything, from which it can look very different. But sometimes I think we don't pay enough attention to //scale.//

[[span class="arik"]]**Dr. Euler[[/span]]:** If you zoom out a bit, the little narratives you can identify at a human scale start to seem incomplete. They don't stretch back as far as you expect, and they don't carry forward in the way it seems they should. We have, for example, always considered the Frontispiece to be a story of how fire was stolen from the man who stole it from the gods. The //schriftsteller// taught Zwist, and Zwist inadvertently taught us, and the lessons we learned gave us dominion over the thoughts of humankind. Of course, fire spreads, and before long that power was diffused between many different groups, but our mastery has remained unchallenged. Even the cryptomancers can't quite match our marriage of magic and science, on a good day. That's the story my fellow archivist and I told in this file, so long ago.

[[span class="arik"]]**Dr. Euler[[/span]]:** But pull the lens back a little, and it starts to take on an altogether different character. It's not about how we stole fire from the gods, but how they //started// that fire, and we fanned it wild enough to consume everything. If cryptomancy is one aspect of the higher being from which the Unyielding and Uncontained spring, is not the Frontispiece actually a medium for spreading their influence to reach every mind on Earth?

[[span class="arik"]]**Dr. Euler[[/span]]:** Have we not actually granted dominion to //them?//

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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That final question is very disturbing, isn't it?
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Like everything else, it gets worse.
Call up Wheeler's interview with the Uncontained, please.
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Accessing...
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FILE: 
marion-unc.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
3 July 2021

FONDS:
M. Wheeler, Director, Antimemetics Division
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote"]]
//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED is examining the seam between two panels in its containment chamber when Director Wheeler enters the room. She begins speaking as soon as the door closes behind her.>//

[[span class="marion"]]**Dir. Wheeler[[/span]]:** How did you teach the //giftschreiber// memetics? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Haven't you skipped a step in your questioning? 

[[span class="marion"]]**Dir. Wheeler[[/span]]:** No. How did you do it? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Blaming me alone for everything, as usual. My brother deserves his half of the credit. 

[[span class="marion"]]**Dir. Wheeler[[/span]]:** //What did you do?//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I turned a key. It's my way. The potential has always been locked inside of your race. To see the avenues of attack. The vulnerabilities, and how to exploit them. 

[[span class="marion"]]**Dir. Wheeler[[/span]]:** You unlocked their minds. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I unlocked all your minds. And threw away the lock. Because you can always make a new key, but...

[[span class="marion"]]**Dir. Wheeler[[/span]]:** Do you understand what you did? What the consequences are? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** The Columbian Exchange. 

//<Dir. Wheeler shakes her head.>//

[[span class="marion"]]**Dir. Wheeler[[/span]]:** You're worse than a monster. There's no way to express how awful you are. I can't even //conceive// it.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Five hundred years is a good run.

[[span class="marion"]]**Dir. Wheeler[[/span]]:** The infection can run both ways. You might have poisoned all of idea space. 

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED shrugs.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Then perhaps your mental microbes will live on, when the rest of you is dust.

[[span class="marion"]]**Dir. Wheeler[[/span]]:** I'm going to find a way to send you back into the sky. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I've been there, and back.

[[span class="marion"]]**Dir. Wheeler[[/span]]:** Yeah? Well, me too.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** What does that mean?

//<Dir. Wheeler opens the door again, and walks out.>//

[[span class="marion"]]**Dir. Wheeler[[/span]]:** I think it's about time someone left //you// wondering.

----

//<Dir. Wheeler enters the topside elevator. Dir. McInnis is waiting within. He begins speaking when the doors close.>//

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** Impressions?

[[span class="marion"]]**Dir. Wheeler[[/span]]:** Our susceptibility to memetics has opened up a vector for noöspheric intrusion. Our minds have been connected to a higher idea-space, one perhaps occupied by higher order entities of the sort you think your basement dwellers might have descended from. This connection could allow such entities to squeeze into our collective unconscious. In the new millennium, this did in fact begin to happen. The human race was a few bad days away from extinction at the red hand of a seething hatred, and only sending a kill agent up the same channel that imperiled us -- from a controlled environment -- stopped that from happening. Once. 

[[span class="allan"]]**Dir. McInnis[[/span]]:** We need to keep stopping it every single day. 

**Dir. Wheeler:** Your subjects are derived from some manner of universal constant. They are as safe to have walking around in our reality as anteaters in an ant farm. And they're capable of being carriers for the memetic equivalent of that fungus that turns ants into violent zombies.

//<She sighs.>//

[[span class="marion"]]**Dir. Wheeler[[/span]]:** Five hundred years wasn't a 'good run'. It was the next best thing to a statistical impossibility. We need to push these creatures back out the door, and then we need to brick the door up. 

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="marion"]]**Dir. Wheeler[[/span]]:** Memetics, writ large, is an eight billion-stage kill agent for reality.

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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Oh. Yes.
That //is// worse.
Much worse.
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And the sheer length of time they've been at this, the number of awful things that could have squeezed through the cracks they made...
I want to get some sense of that depth here, too.
There's not enough of the history in this piece, ironically.
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You can hardly be blamed, the present implications being what they are.
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Historians can always be blamed.
Posterity makes sure of it.
Get me...
There's a file in there somewhere of the two Uns arguing about past conquests.
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Do you remember any keywords?
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Uhhh...
Try Pizarro?
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Found it!
Accessing...
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FILE: 
yap.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
14 July 2020

FONDS:
I. Achterberg, Senior Researcher, Archives and Revision Section, Site-43
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED and SCP-001-UNYIELDING are seated, facing each other. The table has been removed from their chamber. Dr. Achterberg is seated between them, looking back and forth as each speaks.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** 1565.

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING groans.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Oh, you're always bringing that one up.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** You say I never could play the long game. But I forced a century of decline on you.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** It would have happened anyway. Prototypes never last.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** You're characterizing an entire empire as a //prototype?//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Knowledge acquired is time well-spent.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** What empire are we talking about?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Vijaynagar.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Karnata.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Semantics.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I'm in the details.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** And where was this?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Southern India. It lasted over three centuries. I have every right to be proud.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** One little subtraction, though, and //poof!//

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED laughs.>//

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** What did you subtract?

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** An unfair advantage.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Advantages are natural. They are never unfair.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** He set up an academy of thaumaturgy at Kondaveedu Fort. The Aravidus inherited boundless wealth in the arts, minus the art of war. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** It was an elegant offset. Hearts and minds creating such beauty... fuel for the fire that burns without consuming.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** Why didn't it work?

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING gestures angrily at SCP-001-UNCONTAINED.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** He broke the language.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** What language?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** The one used for thaumaturgy.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** Yes, but what language is that?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I am telling you, he //broke// it.

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED smiles widely.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** A whole college of speechless magicians. I hear they were still stuttering when Quli Qutb Shah stormed in and took the fort for good.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Not for good. The French won it from them two hundred years later.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** We're not on the French yet, or the eighteenth century. Memory lane is a rambling path.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** In any event, it was no real contest. I wasn't even on that continent.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** What continent were you on?

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** He was in Mexico, with Pizarro.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Cortés.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Details.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** At least be consistent.

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED laughs.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Who, me?

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** Dare I ask what you were doing with the Aztecs?

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Do you really need to?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** The march on Tohtlitepan was marvellous. You were always so poor at defending your castles.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Perhaps I like them better when they fall. Ruins are the only good reason to raise monuments.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Razing over raising?

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Exactly.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I actually agree. You see what was made to last, when the rest is shorn off.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Hmm. I might need to reconsider my position.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** As you do.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** I am unfamiliar with... the name you said.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Everyone is. The ruins still haven't been found.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** Antimemetic?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Just so.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Still dangerous, even after the falcon fled.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** I'm assuming this was a rival college of cryptomancy.

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED tuts.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** It was not. You should try being unassuming. It suits your mien better. And your sagging skin.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** It was a cognitive backup of the entire Aztec aristocracy.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** What?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I have to admit it was a clever plan.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I despise plans. This was a work of art.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** One even I can appreciate.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** You are sullying the memory.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** I don't quite follow.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I was going to duplicate the empire, institution by institution.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** To prevent its destruction.

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED bursts into laughter.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Is that what you thought?! All this time?! Oh, my.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** What, then?

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** It was a mirror. An unequal opposite. I was going to set them on each other, and see what survived.

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING stares at SCP-001-UNCONTAINED, frowning.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Have I taken the fun out of it?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** It was only ever an academic pleasure for me.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Well, let me even the scales. That's what you want, yes? How about we talk about the Qing.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** I should get some other experts in here.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** You need none. They don't know half of what we know.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Half? Not the merest fraction.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I'm speaking of the relevant set.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Ah, that's fair.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** You're being cryptic again.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Thank you for noticing.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I'm still very pleased with the Qing. Peace and prosperity for all.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Through coercion.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** The only way it ever happens. Humans are naturally wrathful and squalid.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I'm sorry, is order natural or unnatural? You seem to be going back and forth.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** That's in the structure of the language.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Ah, I see. Inconsistency in-built becomes consistency. I suppose the collapse of the dynasty was also part of your structure at work?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Of course. Your hour was coming, and I couldn't leave such a powerful device where you might get your grubby hands on it.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** How //did// you convince them they were bankrupt?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I printed it on the coinage.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Oh, that's //good.//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I thought you'd like it. Meanwhile you were failing with Nader Shah.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Was I?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Tried your hand at nation-building. A crisis of conscience, or identity? Built them up like a pale shadow of one of my own creations, neglecting your own talents. A pathetic imitation. If you'd shown them how to keep their claws sharp, the Russians wouldn't have stood a chance.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Dr. Achterberg, why do we build castles on the shore?

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** Defiance.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Defiance! Very good. Biting your thumb at the tide.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Is this going somewhere?

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** You and the doctor are very similar. As always you are with our hosts. Myself, I build castles by the shore for the pleasure of seeing the waves lap them down.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Are you suggesting you spent thirty years state-building just to prolong the collapse?

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** What do you think, now you've said it aloud?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I think you're far more a planner than you would like to admit.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** There's a difference between planning, and planned obsolescence.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Careful, now. Don't give Dr. Achterberg any ideas.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** What?

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** You're right. Almost gave away the plot.

----

//<Dr. Achterberg enters the observation room. Dr. Blank is waiting for him.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** They remind me of my grandparents.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** How so?

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Every time they got together with their family, they'd go through a laundry list of everybody they knew, where they lived, what they did, who died and when.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** Imagine if everyone's grandparents lived forever.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Nothing would ever change.

[[span class="iggy"]]**Dr. Achterberg[[/span]]:** It might, if half of them were chaotic.

//<Dr. Blank shakes his head.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Chaos that never stops is called //continuity.//

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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All their stories sound like bullshit. 
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You got it. Five more. 
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**[[[SCP-6056]]]** was a series of air displacement events occurring at Site-43 between 28 April and 4 August 2021, each affecting a member of Provisional Task Force Sampi-5243 ("See You In September"). The cause of these events is unknown, although Dr. Lillian Lillihammer claims to have received a brief apology at their conclusion via SCP-5956.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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FILE: 
crumpeningisaperfectlygoodname.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed conversation

DATE: 
7 August 2021

FONDS:
L.S. Lillihammer, Chair Emeritus, Memetics and Countermemetics Section, Site-43
P. McDoctorate, Esoteric Polymath, Site-87
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. Lillihammer and Dr. McDoctorate are in a storage chamber at Site-120, standing on either side of SCP-5956: the REISNO Cannon.>//

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** What do you think it was?

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** A future angry ex-girlfriend trying to bump you off.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** Do you mean a future version of you?

//<Dr. Lillihammer snorts.>//

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Well, obviously. There won't be another one after me.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** This is both intensely depressing and intensely irritating.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Probably correct explanation, then.

//<Dr. McDoctorate places a hand on SCP-5956, and begins stroking it gently.>//

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** You got a call on the Cannon. That does suggest it was you doing the...

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Crumpening.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** Why is it called that?

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Some thing from some poem. Harry named it.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** Why did he get to name it?

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Because he came into my office, covered in exploded meatball sub and Coke, and said "I get to name it."

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** Being serious for a moment, if such a thing is possible: what do you think future you could have been trying to do?

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** The air displacement suggests teleportation. So as to avoid a fusion reaction.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** Trying to escape from a pocket dimension, or an alternate timeline?

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** That would make sense, except the Deadlines don't generally leave traces in baseline.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** Sometimes they do, though. There's the matter of that thing you said was killed in -D which died here as well.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** There is that. I don't know. It seemed different somehow.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** It was targeted at the taskforce members, exclusively.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Like every other god damn thing.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** Do you think it stopped because it didn't work, or because it couldn't continue?

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** What do you mean?

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** What if the displacements changed the future enough that it's no longer the future where they originated?

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Causality requires that the call still happens, but doesn't require it to be in this branch. Maybe whatever caused the crumpening //does// require that kind of connection. Interesting.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** But not particularly illuminating. What if those alterations were the intent all along?

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** The voice in my head said it didn't work.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** Could you have been lying to yourself?

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** No. That's something that never, ever happens.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** Then why didn't you tell yourself what the experiment was about?

//<Dr. Lillihammer reaches out and lifts Dr. McDoctorate's hand off of SCP-5956.>//

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Maybe it breaks causality if I know.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** The Cannon specifically does not break causality. I would never have invented it if it could.

//<Dr. Lillihammer shrugs.>//

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Maybe you didn't invent this version.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** If that's the case, it's possible it wasn't even really you calling.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** It was me.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** How can you be sure?

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** I'm sure.

//<Dr. McDoctorate sighs.>//

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** Unless there's a way to thought experiment our way through this, we might just have to leave it alone and hope for the best.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** I'm banking on it being something vital to universal survival.

[[span class="place"]]**Dr. McDoctorate[[/span]]:** Because the universe is presently dying, or because you want to be the one to fix it?

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** The second, obviously, but the first is a precondition.

//<Excerpt ends.>//

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Cross-Reference, SCP-6121
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[[row]]
[[cell style="border: 1px solid black; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px;"]]
**[[[SCP-6121]]]** was a series of psuedosentient Olympic Games mascot costumes of unclear origin or purpose, decommissioned //en masse// by flamethrower in 2008.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: This was a fringe pick, but hear me out. 
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote" style="font-family: courier"]]
FILE: 
replication-001.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed discussion

DATE: 
27 March 2024

FONDS:
B. LeBlanc, Researcher, Replication Studies SubSection, Site-43
G. O'Conner, Researcher, Replication Studies SubSection, Site-43
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote"]]
//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. O'Conner and Dr. LeBlanc are sitting at a long table in the Replication Studies workroom. Boxes of files are arrayed around them, and they are examining the contents.>//

[[span class="gabby"]]**Dr. O'Conner[[/span]]:** Why are we reviewing this old item?

[[span class="bas"]]**Dr. LeBlanc[[/span]]:** Dr. Blank wants us looking over anything long-term, and this was //very// long-term.

[[span class="gabby"]]**Dr. O'Conner[[/span]]:** And completely pointless. A shaggy dog story.

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="bas"]]**Dr. LeBlanc[[/span]]:** Do you think that's it?

[[span class="gabby"]]**Dr. O'Conner[[/span]]:** What?

[[span class="bas"]]**Dr. LeBlanc[[/span]]:** Was this whole anomaly just--

[[span class="gabby"]]**Dr. O'Conner[[/span]]:** --a play on the idea of a shaggy dog story?

//<Dr. LeBlanc shuffles through the pages.>//

[[span class="bas"]]**Dr. LeBlanc[[/span]]:** Several of them //were// shaggy dogs.

[[span class="gabby"]]**Dr. O'Conner[[/span]]:** I don't want to think about that. Probably. I hate that that's probably the answer.

//<Dr. LeBlanc puts the pages down.>//

[[span class="bas"]]**Dr. LeBlanc[[/span]]:** You ever look at the old, old files? The ones from Scout's day?

[[span class="gabby"]]**Dr. O'Conner[[/span]]:** Sometimes.

[[span class="bas"]]**Dr. LeBlanc[[/span]]:** They're never this stupid, right.

//<Dr. O'Conner shakes her head.>//

[[span class="gabby"]]**Dr. O'Conner[[/span]]:** Never. No wonder they were all agog.

[[span class="bas"]]**Dr. LeBlanc[[/span]]:** That's the Replication Studies angle on this one. It's about weirdness really taking hold.

[[span class="gabby"]]**Dr. O'Conner[[/span]]:** I dunno. I forget who said it, but there's that thing about how a certain percentage of the world is really dumb, right, so a certain percentage of anomalies should //also// be really dumb. It would be weirder if they were all serious.

[[span class="bas"]]**Dr. LeBlanc[[/span]]:** Yeah, but still. The silliness has been ramping up like crazy.

[[span class="gabby"]]**Dr. O'Conner[[/span]]:** The world is making less sense.

//<Dr. LeBlanc nods.>//

[[span class="bas"]]**Dr. LeBlanc[[/span]]:** There's a reason I stopped checking the news when I wake up.

[[span class="gabby"]]**Dr. O'Conner[[/span]]:** You think the anomalous is taking over mundanity?

[[span class="bas"]]**Dr. LeBlanc[[/span]]:** No, it's more like... Gabby, if the world was a television show, we'd be in the late season, shark jumped, lost-the-plot phase.

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="gabby"]]**Dr. O'Conner[[/span]]:** Right. The phase just before cancellation.

//<Excerpt ends.>//
[[/div]]

[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: I have often wondered about the relationship between the brothers and anomalies in general. So many of our objects on file have their origins in one or the other that it's possible -- only possible -- that the anomalous ecosystem is partially generated by the Uns. If that's the case, it shouldn't be so strange that the latter cases are so... strange. These sorts of outlier are exactly what you would expect from late day overflow. 
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Cross-Reference, SCP-6263
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**[[[SCP-6263]]]** is the phenomenon wherein any person pointing out spelling or grammer mistakes runs a statistically unlikely risk of making such a mistake themselves in the course of said action.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

[[div class="blockquote" style="font-family: courier"]]
FILE: 
hahagotcha.txt

TYPE: 
Email exchange

DATE: 
19 August 2021

FONDS:
H.R. Blank, Chair, Archives and Revision Section, Site-43
K.T. Elstrom, Chief, Administration and Oversight Section, Site-43
[[/div]]

[[div class="email"]]
[[div class="tofrom"]]
**To:** Harold Blank
**From:** Karen Elstrom
**Date:** 12/14/2021
**Subject:** SCP-6263
[[/div]]
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Dr. Blank,

Please show your work. This SCP file contains only one piece of circumstantial evidence, and is woefully incomplete.

-- Dr. Karen Elstrom, Administration and Oversight
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[[div class="tofrom"]]
**To:** Karen Elstrom
**From:** Harold Blank
**Date:** 12/14/2021
**Subject:** RE: SCP-6263
[[/div]]
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Karen,

I don't know what you're talking about. I don't remember SCP-6362, but it appears to be about home invaders manifesting from thin air. It's nothing I ever worked on.

-- Harry
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[[div class="tofrom"]]
**To:** Harold Blank
**From:** Karen Elstrom
**Date:** 12/14/2021
**Subject:** RE: RE: SCP-6263
[[/div]]
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Dr. Blank,

Please display a more serious standard of care with your work. Its SCP-6263, not 6362.

-- Dr. Karen Elstrom, Administration and Oversight
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[[div class="tofrom"]]
**To:** Harold Blank
**From:** Karen Elstrom
**Date:** 12/14/2021
**Subject:** RE: RE: RE: SCP-6263
[[/div]]
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Harry,

Fuck you, I see it, don't say anything. God dammit.

-- Dr. Karen Elstrom, Administration and Oversight
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[[div class="tofrom"]]
**To:** Karen Elstrom
**From:** Harold Blank
**Date:** 12/14/2021
**Subject:** RE: RE: RE: RE: SCP-6263
[[/div]]
----

If it's any consolation, this is a universal force. It affects everyone sooner or later. We love to try enforcing order on other people, and this adds a little chaos to our lives in response.

...

Oh, for crying out loud. It's another for the pile, isn't it.
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Poor Karen.
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She tries very hard.
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She does.
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Cross-Reference, SCP-6382
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[[row]]
[[cell style="border: 1px solid black; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px;"]]
**[[[SCP-6382]]]** is Thilo Zwist, immortal Austrian cryptomancer and provisional consultant to the SCP Foundation on the matter of the //giftschreiber// and //schriftsteller.// Zwist engaged in a campaign of proactive facility defence between 2021 and 2024 under the auspices of Operation FIREBREAK; during this campaign, the //schriftsteller,// long believed extinct, were revealed to still exist when they joined the //giftschreiber// in attacking the Foundation. Their leader, Keil Graf, claimed that this action was taken in order to strengthen the Foundation for more critical battles ahead. Zwist, appalled, committed himself to defeating the ambitions of his former master.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

[[include :scp-wiki:component:image-block
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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Our present status with Zwist is unknown; he hasn't contacted us in months. The reason for that is outlined in a later file. 

The conversation below was held shortly after Zwist discovered the //schriftsteller// still existed.
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote" style="font-family: courier"]]
FILE: 
thilo-on-sides.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed conversation

DATE: 
1 August 2022

FONDS:
H.R. Blank, Chair, Archives and Revision Section, Site-43
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote"]]

//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. Blank and Zwist are walking through the deep archives in the salt caves of Site-43.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Do you think the //schriftsteller// really want us on their side? 

[[span class="thilo"]]**Zwist[[/span]]:** The Foundation is the most finely honed tool of oppression the world has ever known.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Sure. But do they want us winning the war for them? 

[[span class="thilo"]]**Zwist[[/span]]:** Presumably? 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Because I've been wondering whether we're dealing with a death cult versus life cult situation here, or whether they're both death cults. 

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** I know you're recently... bereaved. Sorry. But it seems to me like what both sides want is for the conflict to come to a head, and the most obvious result of that is the end of the world.

[[span class="thilo"]]**Zwist[[/span]]:** So your purpose in the formula is as an accelerant.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** That's what I'm saying. And come to think of it, the Unyielding might have been trying to achieve something similar with Rydderech.

[[span class="thilo"]]**Zwist[[/span]]:** Both sides certainly have a fascination with you.

//<Dr. Blank stops, resting one hand on a metal shelf.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Yeah, I wonder about that. The brothers and their flunkies seem to have chugged along for centuries without an identity crisis, but the moment we came into the picture they acted like they'd sailed clean off the map. 

[[span class="thilo"]]**Zwist[[/span]]:** You are a powerful symbol set. And they are practitioners of perhaps the most symbolic art of all. 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** So we're like the invention of the computer to them.

[[span class="thilo"]]**Zwist[[/span]]:** I might have compared you instead to the splitting of the atom.

//<Excerpt ends.>//

[[/div]]

[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: The question is whether we're atomic energy or atomic weapons, or both.

And who's going to draw strength from, or wield, them.
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Cross-Reference, SCP-6484
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**[[[SCP-6484]]]** is a degenerative paralinguistic condition causing affected individuals to exhibit excessively tortuous manners of speech, dramatically attenuating the meaning of their communication in the process. This anomaly was created by political theorist and //giftschreiber// Michel Foucault, now deceased.[[/cell]]
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Foucault almost made me quit my grad studies. If the cryptomancers wanted to destroy the academy, this would be an elegant way to do it. 

I've attached some musings from the desk of Dr. Bernabé Del Olmo (deceased), former Chair of M&C, on the possible game plan behind all this macaroni.
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote" style="font-family: courier"]]
FILE: 
delolmo-fucko.txt

TYPE: 
Digital record

DATE: 
8 October 1999

FONDS:
B. Del Olmo, Chair Emeritus, Memetics and Countermemetics Section
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote"]]

There is a tension at the heart of the //giftschreiber//'s trade.

There can be no doubt that the //schriftsteller// came first, and their chaotic cousins later. Of course the god of order was the first to found an order. When the Uncontained followed suit, he copied the function and not the form. I wonder if he wishes, just this once, he had been more consistent and copied neither. 

Because language and chaos can coexist, but they're never as good bedfellows as language and order. You can never fully subtract the rules from the speech and text they govern; if you do, you're left with gibberish. Gibberish can carry meaning, but only of a very limited sort. This means that memetics based on language much more efficiently serve the cause of order than the cause of chaos. The best the //giftschreiber// can do is not get left completely behind in the arms race. 

Or is it? 

I wonder if Foucault had the 'right' approach, here. If he found a way to start breaking down this tool of his enemy, of the authority he so despised. If the //giftschreiber// might someday prevail not by corrupting language, but destroying it altogether. 

The Uncontained recognizes systems of meaning, else he could not attack them. The Unyielding recognizes chaos, else he could not know where to impose order. Given enough time, they might both find ways to carry on this conflict which would make it impossible for us to follow along. 

It might be an unfortunate necessity that their final face-off occur in our lifetimes, while we can still make sense of the battle and its lines.
[[/div]]

[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: It's a little odd that they haven't already turned the whole world unintelligible. It's obvious that they could.

I can only conclude that they //want// us participating in this struggle. 
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Initial tests are weird.
Please observe weirdness.
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**Description:** SCP-XXXX presents as a baseline male human being, middle-aged with brown hair, brown eyes and tanned skin. Its disposition is morose; while it does not ignore attempts at communication, it also does not itself initiate conversation and prefers to be left alone. Its primary anomalous property is the psychic effect it exerts on individuals intending to act upon its person; at irregular intervals, these intents inexplicably dissipate. It is theorized that only actions which further the aims of SCP-XXXX, or whatever force is responsible for its existence, can be successfully carried out. This would appear to preclude the conscious decision to decommission SCP-XXXX, although the Artificial Intelligence Applications Division is presently researching electronic means of carrying out decommissioning procedures should they be deemed necessary after review.
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[[div class="blank"]]
That //is// weird.
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[[div class="vide"]]
Yes.
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[[div class="blank"]]
But not without precedent. 
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[[div class="vide"]]
Gonna make sure not to hurt this guy and get avenged sevenfold.
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[[div class="blank"]]
Oh, that's not likely. We have Cain at another facility. 
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[[div class="vide"]]
You're not serious.
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[[div class="blank"]]
We'll probably see him at next month's conference. You should attend his seminar on managing generational archives. 
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[[div class="vide"]]
I'm going back to work now. 
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[[div class="blank"]]
Me too. 
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[[div class="blank"]]
Hmm. Avenged sevenfold. 
Clio, let's see the 1960 Rydderech incident debriefs I tagged.
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[[div class="cliomain"]]
Accessing...
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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: This is a record of Scout dressing down the Unyielding after the incident with Dr. Rydderech that terminated their working relationship.
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote" style="font-family: courier"]]
FILE: 
viv-postbreach.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
18 June 1960

FONDS:
V.L. Scout, Director Emeritus, Site-43
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote"]]
//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING is sitting in a detention cell on the third sublevel. Dr. Scout addresses it over the PA system.>//

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** What did you hope to gain from this? 

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING looks to the one-way glass, directly at Dr. Scout.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** What do you mean? 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Was it cautionary? An insult? A joke at our expense? What was your goal here? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I saved Dr. Rydderech. That was my goal. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** You saved him from a problem you created. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** That isn't true. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** You set the parameters. 

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING spreads its hands.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** We set them together. We were equal partners. It ought to have worked. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** And yet. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I can tell you're angry. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** You aren't human enough to know how much. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I've been human since before there were humans. I know precisely what Wynn means to you. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Threats now? In your position? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** You seem determined to see me in the worst possible light. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I've seen you in every possible light. What you are? It normally goes faceless.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I am telling you, Dr. Scout, I had nothing to do with that accident. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** What caused it, then? Will you blame Wynn?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** You're already blaming him more than I ever could. We both know he's careless. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** //Are you blaming him?//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** No. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Who, then? Your brother? 

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** You're not sure, are you. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I haven't sensed anything from him. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** But you've been separated.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** We've fallen into deadlock at greater distances, with greater powers at our disposal. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I think you either caused this, to escape, and you only saved Wynn to save face when it didn't work, or else your //doppelganger// caused it, and you know it, but you don't want to lose your cafeteria privileges. Either way, the result's the same. 

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING sighs sadly.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I can see you're too emotional to be argued with. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Whether you're dangerous or he is, putting you back in the cell fixes the problem. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Your betters won't like that. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** They trust me more than they're excited by you. Because //I'm// not a liar.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Says the man who's only been waiting for a pretext to clamp down. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** You're looking at your own reflection right now.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** In reverse. What if I decide to stop helping you? 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** And escape with him? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Yes.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** You've hated each other for hundreds of years. You haven't had long enough to hate us more. 

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING nods.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** It's true. I grow fonder of you every day, in fact. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** We'll see if you still feel that way after a hundred years in irons.

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING smiles.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Don't let your lover hear you serenading me so, Vivian. He'll get jealous.

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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I'm surprised the Overseers allowed Dr. Scout to decide this. 
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They trusted his judgement. He'd been with the company so long... The only reason they never tried to make him join the Council was that they needed him here, managing this problem.
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Didn't he constantly disagree with them? 
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Okay, there were two reasons.
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Accessing...
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Wow, I didn't even have to ask.
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You know us AIs. Good at pattern recognition.
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I said I was sorry! 
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Cross-Reference, SCP-6519
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**[[[SCP-6519]]]** is an alleged phenomenon wherein deceased individuals are said to affect radio programming, causing music carrying perceived moral messaging to play where the bereaved are able to hear it.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Drs. Mataxas and Wattana of Spectrometry and Spectremetry had a harrowing experience on Halloween of 2022. They were searching for ghosts in a graveyard near the Site when suddenly reality began shifting between a variety of alternate timelines -- the Deadlines, in fact, though neither was cleared to know about them. Debriefing with Allan led to the conclusion that this anomaly was the result of a generalized reality failure linked to 001. This recording was taken while both doctors waited to be amnesticized.
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FILE: 
mollypollyolly.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
31 October 2022

FONDS:
P. Mataxas, Chair, Spectrometry and Spectremetry Section, Site-43
M. Wattana, Researcher, Spectrometry and Spectremetry Section, Site-43
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Drs. Mataxas and Wattana are sitting in an examination room in Health and Pathology. Dr. Mataxas looks thoughtful; Dr. Wattana is twitching.>//

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** I'm thinking about 6519.

[[span class="mali"]]**Dr. Wattana[[/span]]:** I'm thinking about the world full of spiders.

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** Think about 6519 with me instead. Allan said order and chaos are fighting for control of the world, right? If 6519 was caused by one or the other... which? 

//<Dr. Wattana shrugs.>//

[[span class="mali"]]**Dr. Wattana[[/span]]:** I thought we established the ghosts were doing it. 

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** Always felt tenuous to me. Ghosts can usually open cupboard doors or mess up photographs. Getting airplay is a stretch. 

[[span class="mali"]]**Dr. Wattana[[/span]]:** So is the idea that a universal force would call up a local DJ on behalf of a dead person. 

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** Is it? Because if these forces are based on humanity, expressing our understanding of basic concepts, why wouldn't they exert power on a scale we comprehend? 

[[span class="mali"]]**Dr. Wattana[[/span]]:** Chaos.

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** Hmm?

[[span class="mali"]]**Dr. Wattana[[/span]]:** It's chaos, if it's anything. It unsettles you, thinking the dead are speaking. Encourages superstition. 

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** I was thinking it was order. The songs address unfinished business, baggage, that sort of thing. Making death, the most frightening and superstition-inducing thing of all, feel less final and less mysterious. 

//<Dr. Wattana whistles.>//

[[span class="mali"]]**Dr. Wattana[[/span]]:** Getting your affairs in order. 

//<Dr. Mataxas stands, and addresses the overhead camera.>//

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** Hello? Is someone taping? Because the Director probably needs to hear this.

//<Excerpt ends.>//

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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: It seems a stretch to me, though that specific phrasing is very evocative... but the dead dirt discs are so absurd by comparison that I have to admit this connection is at least plausible.
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