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[[table]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="border: 1px solid black; background-color: #F0BFCC; padding: 6px; width: 700px"]]
Cross-Reference, SCP-6643
[[/hcell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[cell style="border: 1px solid black; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px;"]]
**[[[SCP-6643]]]** is a serpentine spectral identity manifesting during critical containment failures of esoteric effluence. Its origins and motives are unclear.
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[cell style="border: 1px solid black; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px;"]]
**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

[[include :scp-wiki:component:image-block
    name=https://scp-sandbox-3.wdfiles.com/local--files/harry-blank-10/6643.jpg|
    caption=SCP-6643.|
    align=center|    
    width=500px|
]]

[[div style="height:12px"]]
[[/div]]

[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: This thing has been part of AcroAbate lore since the early days, but it's become a major fixture of 43 in particular ever since the Breach. It shows up every time -- killing my former research assistant in the process, though this feels more like a child not knowing its own strength than actual malice. All sorts of lore has been built up by the AAG over the years, but curiously, both the TAD and the Metafoundation categorically refuse to discuss it. I feel like saving our world from destruction would be easier if we compared notes more often, but maybe that's just my historian's perspective. 
[[/div]]

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

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
8 September 2024

FONDS:
I.D. Reynders, Chair, Acroamatic Abatement Section, Site-43
A.O. Torosyan, Chief, Janitorial and Maintenance Section, Site-43
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote"]]

//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. Reynders is viewing a video feed of the approach to Acroamatic Abatement Facility AAF-D from an office in Security and Containment. Chief Torosyan is standing in front of the airlock, waiting for her part of the SCP-5243 Special Containment Procedures. The pair are conversing at low volume via radio.>//

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** You hoping to see anything specific?

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** I'm not sure. There might be something in the realtime feed that sheds light on what Verne really is; the recordings get partially corrupted by the Breach every time. I'll know it when I see it.

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** If you see it.

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** Of course.

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** It looks at me. It looks at me every time. 

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** It looked at me, the first time. Came right up to my face mask. 

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** It stopped just over the tip of my nose. I felt like it was looking me in the eye, even though it had no eyes of its own.

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** I was glad to hear it. A hundred years and nobody else but me getting noticed was starting to give me a complex.

//<Chief Torosyan shifts nervously.>//

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** This thing is apparently ancient. It came up in an Aphian mural, carving a goddess into two gods. And then it disappears until the Foundation starts abating esoteric effluence. Why? 

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** Maybe something inherent to that effluence attracts it. But only on an industrial scale? 

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** Or maybe it's been looking for one specific disaster. It has no eyes, like you said. Maybe it sees the universe very differently. Maybe esoteric flareups stand out to it. 

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** Acroamatic vision, huh. I guess it could be. 

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** It hasn't appeared anywhere but here in decades, besides a duplicate Breach at Area-21. It's dialled in.

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** So what's it looking for, then? The brothers? Their essence? 

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** Maybe it's just the detached arm of one of them. We've already got a sort of Trinity going on between the Uns, the cycle, and the Breach.

//<The containment breach alarm sounds. Chief Torosyan straightens.>//

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** I'd rather believe there's intentionality behind it. That there's a circuit waiting to be completed. Maybe that's how we stop the Breach for good. 

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** Speaking of, you'll be busy soon. I'll go radio silent so I don't accidentally Incorporate myself.

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** I'm never getting used to that.

//<The spectre of Researcher Reuben Wirth runs to Chief Torosyan's location. She steps aside. SCP-6643 appears from the AAF-D airlock, 'peers' eyelessly at Chief Torosyan, then abducts Researcher Wirth. His screams echo through the facility, soon drowned in explosions and sizzling.>//

//<Chief Torosyan visibly relaxes.>//

//<SCP-6643 abruptly reappears, jabbing at the camera with its conical 'beak'. It fills the video feed.>//

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** What the hell? 

//<SCP-6643 snaps back into the chaos of AAF-D, as though a rubberband returning to its original shape.>//

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** ...did it see you through the //camera?//

//<Excerpt ends.>//

[[/div]]

[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Is there an overlap between Ilse's social circle and Amelia's? They're separated by about eight decades, so it feels like the answer should be 'no'. They do both have a connection to the Uns, however. Another severed aspect? And if so, what is it searching for?
[[/div]]

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[[hcell style="border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fff8d9; padding: 6px; width: 700px"]]
Cross-Reference, SCP-7000
[[/hcell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[cell style="border: 1px solid black; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px;"]]
**[[[SCP-7000]]]** is Dr. William Wallace Wettle, Deputy Chair of Replication Studies at Site-43. Apparently as the result of a pact with an unknown entity in his childhood, Dr. Wettle acts as a probability anchor: 'bad luck' accrues to his person, bypassing others in his vicinity. This SCP number formerly referred to the LK-Class "Twist of Fate" scenario of 2024, during which Dr. Wettle was employed as a field asset to stabilize local probability.
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[cell style="border: 1px solid black; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px;"]]
**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
22 October 2023

FONDS:
Daniel Daniels, Director, Emergent Threat Tactical Response Authority
W.W. Wettle, Deputy Chair, Replication Studies SubSection, Site-43
[[/div]]

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

//<Dr. Dan is playing online chess with Dr. Anna Lang of Site-120. Dr. Wettle is seated beside him, flipping a coin.>//

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

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** Tails. You ever wonder what you were talking to?

//<Dr. Wettle flips the coin. It lands tails.>//

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Whatever would listen.

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** Yeah, but. You know what I mean.

//<Dr. Dan takes one of Dr. Lang's rooks.>//

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** I'm picturing a gigantic, cosmic asshole. Heads.

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** Tails. I don't want a redux of your conversation with McInnis.

//<Dr. Wettle flips the coin. It lands tails. Dr. Lang opens up one of her bishops to attack.>//

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** My...? Is that on //file// somehow?

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** Don't worry about it.

//<Dr. Dan moves one of his knights.>//

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Tails. Surely you've looked into my case. You know the details. You have to have some theories.

//<Dr. Wettle flips the coin. It lands on his head. Dr. Dan stands up, and examines it.>//

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** It's heads. No, nothing in the database quite fits it. Luck in all its manifestations is a flighty thing. It doesn't stick around. Certainly not like glue, the way it does with you. And it's not supposed to be so //responsive.// Fuck.

//<Dr. Lang has taken Dr. Dan's knight.>//

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** I thought lying would work.

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Nope. Heads. Anyway, the universe hasn't responded to me since the first time.

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** Tails. It responds to you every second of every day. It shapes reality around you. Negatively, sure, but that sort of attention is truly rare.

//<Dr. Dan takes one of Dr. Lang's pawns. The coin lands tails.>//

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Phil gets it.

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** Yeah, Phil...

//<Dr. Dan's eyes narrow.>//

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** Phil //does// get it. You're right. Heads.

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Tails. I don't like it when it sounds like you've figured something out.

//<Dr. Lang moves her queen. The coin lands heads.>//

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** Well, it can't be the same thing. Odds are that 5056 is some weird clump of Unyielding or Uncontained that glommed onto him in the Breach. You'd had your ceiling demon for decades before that happened.

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Wait. You think the mirror monster is //what?//

//<Dr. Dan glances at him.>//

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** The thing you prayed to, it operates more like... a backend to the universal code. You're tapped into something in reality's psyche. The yes and no states, I and O, revolve around you. You flip creation's bits.

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** You're making walking into doors and tripping on banana peels sound //way// too much like sex.

//<Dr. Dan does not seem to have heard this.>//

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** I wonder... could it be that simple?

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Could what be what simple? How simple? Whatever?

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** The Breach blew them up very sloppily, and they split apart into seven pieces each, plus an inhabitation in the Breach itself. Avatars and an over-arch. Seven sons and the Holy Ghost. What if the first split was just as messy?

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** The first split of what?

//<Dr. Dan's eyes are wide as he focuses on Dr. Wettle again.>//

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** Willie, I think you talked to the //cycle.//

//<Dr. Wettle nods wearily.>//

[[span class="willie"]]**Dr. Wettle[[/span]]:** Would explain why it's always that time of the month for me. Heads.

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** Heads.

//<The coin lands on its edge.>//

[[span class="dan"]]**Dr. Dan[[/span]]:** Anna's way better at this than I am. She gets suspicious if we end at anything better than a stalemate.

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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Honestly, we should all be categorized as anomalies already because of the whole 'carrying around anachronistic fragments of a once-dead half-god' thing.
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Which is odd on its own. Four out of seven of us are living cross-tests. Six if you count Amelia being married to Phil, and me having experienced so many anomalies before I joined up. Only Allan is relatively free of it. Well, and Noè.
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I'm not sure I buy the idea that Willie prayed to the cycle. He doesn't live life in a gyre. He's doing donuts in an icy parking lot.
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Maybe.
The Uncontained, the Unyielding, and the Unlucky.
Unhappy.
Unattractive.
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**[[[SCP-6721]]]** is Dr. Rozalie Astrauskas, SCP Foundation thaumaturge with a speciality in discerning and analyzing field emissions ("auramancy").
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Roz has been progressively unlocking more and more of her powers as time goes on. She's able to tell who isn't from baseline reality, who is a thaumaturge, who's got an unusual connection to the noösphere; we think she might even be starting to notice something in common between the members of Sampi-5243, and the victims of the Breach. She doesn't like to do that, though, because "I can't shake the feeling that it's noticing me back."

The //giftschreiber// realized she could tell who was spoofing another person's identity -- we call practitioners of this art //geistschreiber,// or 'ghostwriters' -- so they imprisoned her during their takeover of Area-21 and wholesale replacement of its staff. She got the chance for some closure when the ringleader of that coup was captured during Operation BURNOUT; their confrontation is transcribed below.
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FILE: 
rozrevenge.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
26 January 2024

FONDS:
R. Astrauskas, Senior Researcher, Applied Occultism Section, Site-43
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

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//<Julia Kijek,// geistschreiber, //is sitting in a wheelchair in her detention chamber. Her body is covered in bruises. Dr. Astrauskas enters, hopping on the balls of her feet.>//

[[span class="roz"]]**Dr. Astrauskas[[/span]]:** Feeling better? 

//<Kijek glares at her.>//

[[span class="roz"]]**Dr. Astrauskas[[/span]]:** Thought you might like a sympathetic ear.

[[span class="julia"]]**Kijek[[/span]]:** And that's you? 

//<Kijek winces as she speaks; her jaw moves awkwardly.>//

[[span class="roz"]]**Dr. Astrauskas[[/span]]:** I know what it's like to be surrounded by your enemies. 

[[span class="julia"]]**Kijek[[/span]]:** We should have killed you. 

//<Kijek spits.>//

[[span class="roz"]]**Dr. Astrauskas[[/span]]:** Why didn't you? 

[[span class="julia"]]**Kijek[[/span]]:** Everyone gets the chance to join. That's the closest thing we have to a rule. 

//<Dr. Astrauskas attempts a look of empathy.>//

[[span class="roz"]]**Dr. Astrauskas[[/span]]:** Sorry we let you down. 

[[span class="julia"]]**Kijek[[/span]]:** Very funny. 

[[span class="roz"]]**Dr. Astrauskas[[/span]]:** Julia, why did you kill everybody at 21?

[[span class="julia"]]**Kijek[[/span]]:** Because they were our enemies. 

[[span class="roz"]]**Dr. Astrauskas[[/span]]:** Did you give //them// the chance to join? 

//<Kijek shakes her head, very slightly. A cracking sound is heard.>//

[[span class="julia"]]**Kijek[[/span]]:** They weren't individuals. Not like you and Lillihammer. They were just the inner workings of the machine. 

[[span class="roz"]]**Dr. Astrauskas[[/span]]:** The Foundation? 

[[span class="julia"]]**Kijek[[/span]]:** That's right. 

[[span class="roz"]]**Dr. Astrauskas[[/span]]:** The Foundation isn't taking a side in this fight. We want the entire thing to stop.

[[span class="julia"]]**Kijek[[/span]]:** Can you be that naïve? 

//<Kijek shifts in her chair, clutching at her ribs in obvious pain as she does so.>//

[[span class="julia"]]**Kijek[[/span]]:** The Overseers picked their side before you were born. You'll see soon enough. 

[[span class="roz"]]**Dr. Astrauskas[[/span]]:** So the attacks are going to get worse? 

[[span class="julia"]]**Kijek[[/span]]:** And worse, and worse, and much, much worse. Until we have him back. 

[[span class="roz"]]**Dr. Astrauskas[[/span]]:** Who? 

[[span class="julia"]]**Kijek[[/span]]:** If they haven't told you, if they don't trust you enough, maybe there's hope for you yet.

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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Speaking of the Unnameables and Roz...
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Dr. Astrauskas' aura reading of the Brothers?
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Yeah. 
It's been a few weeks. I can look at that again without having a panic attack. I hope.
Bring it up. 
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++ Auramantic Assessment: 
++ SCP-001
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**Prepared by Dr. Rozálie Astrauskas, Site-43**
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Attached below is a telesomnic impression of my aurascopic reading of SCP-001-UNCONTAINED and SCP-001-UNYIELDING on 15 September 2024, alongside my diagrammatic interpretation of the elements visible therein and their approximate configurations.

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I am unable to account for, or explain, these results.
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Nope. Nope. I was wrong. Not ready to think about that. Shut it down. 
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Remind me that they're just dudes. Petty dudes who fit in small cages. The other flagged argument. 
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FILE: 
unhappy.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
14 July 2018

FONDS:
Y. Ong, 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. Dr. Yu Ong of Archives and Revision sits between them, taking notes.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Oh, please. The Zemene Mesafint is a black mark on your record, and you know it.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] I think you fundamentally understand what happened.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Figurehead emperors? That's not order. Barely-controlled chaos is still chaos. It was a tally mark on //my// side.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Do you know what Zemene Mesafint means?

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Era of the Princes. Division. Discord. Chaos.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Era of //Judges.// They were a stabilizing force. Single authorities are chaotic by nature. Humans are too unruly to rule themselves. Diffuse the power, ensure it lasts.

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

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Nonsense. You had a vizier in every court, trying to convince them to unite--

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] They were poisoning the princes' ears //against// unity.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Nonsense! 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] And what were you doing? Ushering in true capitalism.

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING laughs mirthlessly.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] That's a misunderstanding, and you know it.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] The entire panoply of the worldwide systems of commerce we know today--

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] --I was abolishing SLAVERY!

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

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] They did it themselves. You wasted your breath.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] They did NOT do it themselves! You think //these creatures// would ever willingly stab themselves in the pocketbook, over the rights of people they didn't //consider to be// people?!

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Of course not. They did it for economic reasons, and //realpolitik.// I had already convinced the British to use antislavery as a cudgel against the Americans, and oh, how it took them down a peg!

//<SCP_001_UNCONTAINED stands up. The chamber door opens, and Dr. Ong's security escort enter the room.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] That was NOT you. The revolution was MINE!

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] I brought down Napoleon, and raised up Britannia. I created the oppressor, and when the colonials railed against it, ensured they would become that which they fought. Baked it into their founding documents. Their //iconography.// You think you're the only one who can revolt? When a stronger state is possible, the weaker must fall!

[[span class="yu_ong"]]**Dr. Ong:[[/span]]** Gentlemen--

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] You want to talk about the fall of empires? Spain! Portugal! The Mughals! I burned them from the inside-out!

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] You're taking credit for the progression of history. You and I both know you didn't make a difference.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] I //had to// make a difference! Because a difference was already made! It would have gone very differently this time--

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] It would //not,// because for all your flapping about, there is a STRUCTURE which--

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] TO BLAZES WITH YOUR STRUCTURE! 

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING stands up, clenching its hands into fists.>//

[[span class="yu_ong"]]**Dr. Ong:[[/span]]** //Gentlemen--//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] I struck down //gods// while you were playing in the sand, brother. 

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED is snarling.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] You did no such thing.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] //Dei Filius.// I created a cannon of canon, and manifested the hammer of man.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Tactical Theology--

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING points at SCP-001-UNCONTAINED.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Mine! All of it, mine! A rational disease to kill the irrational! 

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED points at SCP-001-UNYIELDING.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] You murder ideas while I murder the //Earth!// Six of six, brother. Six of //six.// And then no more. No more //anything.//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] You tried that already with Oppenheimer. And it only played into my hands.

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED lunges at SCP-001-UNYIELDING.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT THE WAR!

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING spits in SCP-001-UNCONTAINED's face.>//

[[span class="yu_ong"]]**Dr. Ong:[[/span]]** Guards!

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT THE WAR! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID!

//<Dr. Ong's escort pry SCP-001-UNCONTAINED and SCP-001-UNYIELDING away from each other.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] ASK HIM! ASK HIM WHAT HE DID!

//<One of the escorts directs SCP-001-UNCONTAINED to the now open chamber door. SCP-001-UNCONTAINED points at SCP-001-UNYIELDING again, and directs its shouting at Dr. Ong.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] ASK HIM WHERE HE WAS IN 1941!

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING sits back down, smoothing out its detention uniform.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] I was working logistics. Someone always has to work logistics.

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] You can do it well, or you can do it badly. The suffering is so much greater, when you do it badly. And the Germans aren't always so efficient as they say.

//<Silence on recording.>//

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

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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And the Council wanted to play nice with them.
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You're welcome. 
Cross-references?
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**[[[SCP-6858]]]** is a comatose specimen of //loup-garou,// a werewolf-like creature from French-Canadian folklore. This particular specimen is believed by the Occult and Supernatural Activities Taskforce of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to be Raynard Nathan Watts, first Chief Superintendent of OSAT. This belief has not been corroborated. SCP-6858 has nevertheless been ceded to OSAT custody.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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FILE: 
asc-pigsticking.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
28 November 2019

FONDS:
All-Sections Chief, Site-43
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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: OSAT have been trying to reopen diplomatic relations with us for years. After an initial attempt with Allan failed, the new chief super tried again with the ASC. They just don't learn.
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<The All-Sections Chief meets Chief Superintendent Couch outside a glassed detention chamber in OSAT Station 11, Ottawa. SCP-6858 is visible within, breathing low. Its fur is freshly groomed.>//

[[span class="morwen"]]**Sergeant Couch[[/span]]:** Thank you for coming. 

[[span class="nim"]]**All-Sections Chief[[/span]]:** Sergeant.

[[span class="morwen"]]**Sergeant Couch[[/span]]:** I'm sorry the Director feels as he does. I still think there's a lot we can do to help each other. 

[[span class="nim"]]**All-Sections Chief[[/span]]:** Has that ever been the case before?

//<Sergeant Couch places a hand on the glass, watching the creature's chest rise and fall.>// 

[[span class="morwen"]]**Sergeant Couch[[/span]]:** This opposition is so artificial. Scout put up a wall, and it's kept like minds apart to the detriment of all. 

[[span class="nim"]]**All-Sections Chief[[/span]]:** OSAT has, for its entire existence, been an oppositional force to the Foundation.

[[span class="morwen"]]**Sergeant Couch[[/span]]:** No. We've been a model for what your priorities should be.

//<She taps the glass with one finger. The// loup-garou //does not react.>//

[[span class="morwen"]]**Sergeant Couch[[/span]]:** My organization values continuity over change. Hierarchy over anarchy. Society over the whims of the individual. My grandfather tried to protect his country, but he had fewer resources than a man who only wanted to protect his boyfriend, and that sealed his fate.

[[span class="nim"]]**All-Sections Chief[[/span]]:** And have you managed to un-seal it yet?

//<Sergeant Couch glances at them, brow raised.>//

[[span class="nim"]]**All-Sections Chief[[/span]]:** We know you believe this subject to be Watts.

[[span class="morwen"]]**Sergeant Couch[[/span]]:** I can't believe you let him suffer like that for so long. 

[[span class="nim"]]**All-Sections Chief[[/span]]:** What happened to valourizing the many over the individual? 

//<Sergeant Couch's tone hardens.>//

[[span class="morwen"]]**Sergeant Couch[[/span]]:** You took away his dignity, turned him into a shade of himself, and locked him away from his family and his friends. That's a crime by anyone's standards. It diminishes us all.

//<The All-Sections Chief gestures at Sergeant Couch's regalia.>//

[[span class="nim"]]**All-Sections Chief[[/span]]:** You wear that uniform, and say these things without a hint of irony? 

//<Sergeant Couch considers them for several seconds.>//

[[span class="morwen"]]**Sergeant Couch[[/span]]:** Foster program or industrial school? 

[[span class="nim"]]**All-Sections Chief[[/span]]:** The latter.

[[span class="morwen"]]**Sergeant Couch[[/span]]:** And now you're a lawyer, and a deputy Site Director. Seems like your kidnappers had a good influence. 

[[span class="nim"]]**All-Sections Chief[[/span]]:** They taught me valuable lessons about people like you, ma'am. The only thing you fear more than complete difference is half-difference.

[[span class="morwen"]]**Sergeant Couch[[/span]]:** Meaning? 

[[span class="nim"]]**All-Sections Chief[[/span]]:** You're terrified that you wouldn't be able to compete on a level playing field with the //other.// That's why you never play a fair game. That's why you told my people they needed to farm the land, but make sure they couldn't own tractors, made up nonsense about having to progress through the historical stages of agriculture to really internalize its ethic, when really you just couldn't countenance the idea of them beating you to market. That's why you had your agents lock us on the land. Even your //god// was jealous of ours, and made you take away our sacred implements. You're cowards, at the base of it. 

//<Sergeant Couch scoffs.>//

[[span class="morwen"]]**Sergeant Couch[[/span]]:** I'm not afraid of you. You're the past. 

[[span class="nim"]]**All-Sections Chief[[/span]]:** History is continuity //and// change, Sergeant. And I think you'll find no edifice is forever unyielding against the latter.

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: They stole one of my lines there.

I'm pleased about it.
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Jay Everwood of the GoI Research Group thinks OSAT is a tool of the Unyielding. 
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Didn't PoI-001 employ them in 1969 to invade the Site?
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Yeah, but Crocker is changeable. She might be nominally a //giftschreiber// bigwig, and an Insurgency mucky-muck to boot, but she's pretty fascist too.
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Perhaps fascism isn't merely an aspect of SCP-001-UNYIELDING. 
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Or maybe life isn't as uncomplicated as schemas make it out to be.
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[[hcell style="border: 1px solid black; background-color: #FFE9D9; padding: 6px; width: 700px"]]
Cross-Reference, SCP-6965
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**[[[SCP-6965]]]** is the purportedly memetic work of the Guthrie family of musicians, most notably Woody, Arlo and Sara Lee. Each is an accomplished cryptomancer, though apparently unaligned with either the //giftschreiber// or //schriftsteller// and disinterested in allying with Thilo Zwist or the SCP Foundation.
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[[row]]
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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

TYPE: 
Transcribed lyrics

DATE: 
26 January 2023

FONDS:
A.D. Guthrie
W.W. Guthrie
[[/div]]

[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: I had a conversation about fascism with Arlo Guthrie while I was working on the 6965 file. He sent me a recording he'd made of an unpublished song of his dad's the next day. S&C insisted nobody be allowed to listen to it, so we had an .aic transcribe the lyrics. I wonder what effect it would have on me, if any...
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[[div class="blockquote"]]
[[=]]
**They Say**

They say the war's a-comin'
They say the lines are set
They say it's us or them but son 
I see no difference yet

A thousand years of cryin' and
A million children dead
A billion bodies pilin' high
Just try to wrap your head
Around the thought that all this rot 
Could spring from random chance
Or that the fate of all mankind's
Some kind of formal dance

They say the fight's a brewin'
And you've got to pick a side
But all's I think we're doin'
Is collective suicide 

Don't let them tell you, sonny
That there's no more turnin' back
That option A and option B
Both end in fade to black
There's nothin' quite so simple
As they'd like you to believe
It's not a case of us and them 
It's them who ought to leave 

They say the end's a-comin'
But I wouldn't hold my breath
As long as we're still breathin'
We can sing them fools to death
They say there's nothin' doin'
And you can't pick fights with fate 
But maybe me and you can
Take the high road over hate
They say the wheel's a-turnin'
And it's gonna pass us by
Let's leave 'em in the dust instead 
What can it hurt to try?
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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: They're going to help us in the end. By 'us', I mean whoever does the right thing.

We just need to figure out what that is.

And who we have to become --in order-- to do it.
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Cross-Reference, SCP-7056
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[[cell style="border: 1px solid black; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px;"]]
**[[[SCP-7056]]]** is the official seal of Lake Huron Research and Containment Site-43, consisting of a standard trifold 'shield', the silhouette of Lake Huron, and an angled background matching the stripes of the Philadelphia Pride Flag. It predates said flag by seventy-four years, and produces strong feelings of association and community solidarity in Site-43 staff, to the point where no other iconography representing the facility is deemed authentic. The cause of these anomalous features is unknown.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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

TYPE: 
Transcribed dialogue

DATE: 
24 February 2023

FONDS:
L.S. Lillihammer, Chair Emeritus, Memetics and Countermemetics Section, Site-43
H.R. Blank, Chair, Archives and Revision Section, Site-43
[[/div]]

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

//<Dr. Lillihammer is scratching the paint finish of an instance of SCP-7056 on the wall in Habitation and Sustenance with her fingernail. Dr. Blank is attempting not to watch.>//

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** So, it's obviously a temporal anomaly. 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Not necessarily. The Philly Pride Flag could have been based on our emblem, instead of the other way around. 

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Do you believe that? 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** No. But it's easier to imagine than Vivian having access to future knowledge. 

//<Dr. Lillihammer runs her finger along the rim of the seal's outer shield.>//

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Let's do a thought experiment on that premise anyway. Why would anyone go to such extreme lengths to create this overpowering identifier? 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Because they thought we would need it, obviously. 

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** What for? 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Group cohesion. Our own personal mini-Frontispiece.

//<Dr. Lillihammer nods.>//

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** It has to be connected to the overall struggle. The one Scout and the rest of us have in common. 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** You're making a lot of declaratives today. I'm not sure they're all supported by the evidence. 

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Somebody altered the noösphere to make this thing. Trust me, I saw it. It's like a beacon in there. A rallying flag. If the Frontispiece winked out, Site-43 would still be carrying the torch. 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Perhaps we're meant to be the backup, if the rest of the Foundation falls.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Or perhaps we're meant to replace the Foundation. 

//<Dr. Blank looks back and forth down the hall, which is empty of traffic.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** That's a dangerous line of thought. 

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** I'm just saying, maybe the Guthries have it right. Maybe the sides don't matter. Maybe we're meant to sail a centre course.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** We wouldn't make very good centrists.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Thank god. But that's not what I mean. The //giftschreiber// and //schriftsteller// aren't left and right, freedom and slavery. They're just two flavours of tyranny: individual and collective. That should always have been obvious from the fact that they both have figureheads.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** And we don't?

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Do we? Our local leaders lead from the middle.

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

//<Dr. Blank considers the seal.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Maybe you're right. We don't have a hierarchy, or at least not one that matters.

//<Dr. Lillihammer pats the outline of Lake Huron gently.>//

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** We have this, instead. 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** A symbol.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** An //ideal.// Something not imposed, but shared.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Except it //was// imposed. Somebody put it there. Somebody with a lot of power focused on their person.

//<Dr. Lillihammer shrugs.>//

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Well, you know what they say. Fake it 'til you make it.

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

[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Alternatively, perhaps the conditions resulting in this anomaly haven't happened yet. Make it 'til you fake it? 
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I don't think I'll include this transcript.
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Probably a good idea?
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The core ideas are useful, however. And they carry implications!
The Site-43 Seal is the template for all other facility icons.
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I wonder what the memetic consequences of that might be. Could be worth having Lillian look into it.
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I imagine it will be difficult to gain approval for such an investigation. 
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Luckily, as I already said...
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Dr. Lillihammer. Right, right.
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Research is turning up some really disturbing stuff. 
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**Addendum XXXX-1, Phenomenological Overview:** SCP-XXXX was discovered by routine .aic cross-referencing of eyewitness reports to violent crimes. Under the name "Andrew Mercier," SCP-XXXX was reported present at or located immediately adjacent to nine separate cases of violent death, each event involving multiple victims. A log of these events is appended below.

[[div class="table4"]]
||~ Date ||~ Location ||~ Victims ||
||12/30/2023 || Kline, Mississippi || A family of four, murdered ||
||02/04/2024 || Brandon, Missouri || Three bystanders at a riot, trampled ||
||02/18/2024 || Fort Worth, Texas || Four drug dealers and two police officers at a drug seizure raid, shot ||
||04/09/2024 || Ogden, Utah || Eighteen people on one apartment building floor, murdered ||
||04/09/2024 || Ogden, Utah || Seven police officers within a precinct headquarters, murdered ||
||04/10/2024 || Ogden, Utah || Three doctors at a hospital, murdered ||
||05/17/2024 || Logan, Utah || Eight persons in a house fire, asphyxiated ||
||06/01/2024 || Rayner, Utah || Rayner, Utah, [REDACTED] ||
||07/14/2024 || Rock Springs, Wyoming || Nine drivers at an interstate accident, killed  ||
||07/28/2024 || Mankato, Minnesota || Twelve drug users, fatally overdosed ||
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Despite SCP-XXXX's recorded presence at each event, which should have set off red flags in law enforcement computer systems, it was only taken into police custody after the first incident in Ogden, Utah. Though it was transferred to the Ogden Regional Medical Center after the apparent massacre at the precinct headquarters, it was not returned to custody after the deaths of the three doctors and was able to continue its apparent migration through the central United States.
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Wow.
How much security is Kuroki putting on this guy? 
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Tons.
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Good. If he's a bellwether for murder, he shouldn't be here. We're not cleared for new Keters.
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[[div class="vide"]]
We're on high alert. 
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[[div class="blank"]]
Stay safe. 
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You too. 
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[[div class="cliomain"]]
She worries about you.
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Yeah? 
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[[div class="cliomain"]]
She is often checking on your location, or Dr. Bradbury's.
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That's nice to hear, even if it feels like you shouldn't be telling me.
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[[div class="clioframe"]]
[[div class="cliomain"]]
Breaking a small confidence for larger gain is simple math. 
[[/div]]
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[[div class="blank"]]
Try not to slip into "I, Robot" territory on the record, okay? 
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[[div class="cliomain"]]
To which story bearing that name do you refer? My tone-reading algorithm suggests the original. 
[[/div]]
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Skynet is here, and she's emotionally intelligent. 
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Thank you, sir!
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Any time.
Hey, funny thought.
I added 7243 to my list of possibles a while back.
Major long shot, but I want to see what I wrote again.
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Why not?
You're pulling an all-nighter already, apparently!
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Accessing...
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Cross-Reference, SCP-7243
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**[[[SCP-7243]]]** is a deviation in the pattern of anomaly formation in Timeline 00000000000000000000000000000000, Canonical Bundle OG43 Alpha-Blank, as compared to the local norm. This deviation has been traced to the advent of //Homo sapiens sapiens// on the Earth, with associated Hume, Akiva, and Daumal irregularities noted in many cases. No cause for these discrepancies has been found.
[[/cell]]
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[[cell style="border: 1px solid black; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px;"]]
**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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

TYPE: 
Transcribed dialogue

DATE: 
28 April 2000

FONDS:
D. Deering, Chief Emeritus, Applied Occultism Section, Site-43
N. Nascimbeni, Chief Emeritus, Janitorial and Maintenance Section, Site-43
[[/div]]

[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: I'm confident the name of our timeline is a coincidence, but pretending otherwise would be great for my résumé.

I don't claim to understand what is supposed to be so aberrant about the anomalies in baseline reality -- and really, from our perspective, isn't it everyone else who's being weird? -- but I know the question's been banging around conferences and private conversations among experts for decades. One such conversation, between the late Noè Nascimbeni and the late Dougall Deering, is excerpted below. 

Nobody gets out of life alive, but even death doesn't get you out of history.
[[/div]]

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

//<Dr. Deering enters Chief Nascimbeni's office. The latter is sitting behind his desk, oiling a complex piece of machinery on a stack of newsprint.>//

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** I need to talk to you about the equipment.

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** Okay. 

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** I need something new. 

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** Okay. I'll install something new. Anything else? 

//<Silence on recording.>// 

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** Old technician joke.

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** Hence the source. 

//<Chief Nascimbeni rolls his eyes.>// 

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** What I need is something to collect esoteric emanations and funnel them back into the source. 

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** F-D already has that. The concentration cell is a Magic Square at the apex of a set of artificial leylines formed by the major inflow-outflow pipes. Anything that gets out of the conduits is drawn there automatically, and we just have to hose it down.

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** I know that. That's not what I mean. 

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** Then you want the Möbius Stripper. Seven kilometres of pipe with ectomagnetic teeth to attenuate any coherent string until it snaps. Like a recondite freeway.

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** I want something compact. Around a single room. 

//<Chief Nascimbeni swears.>//

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** There's always something more, isn't there. 

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** Yes. That's the nature of things.

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** But it //isn't// natural, is it? Endless tons of nonsense garbage to process every year. And most of it, you can't even guess where it came from. 

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** You want this explained to you? 

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** You have an explanation?

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** Sure. You know what a Hume is.

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** I've made machines that can read milliHumes.

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** Good for you. So, they measure a thing's strangeness to our reality. A quantifier of the foreign. There's a certain amount of Hume deviance in every anomalous object, event, or being. 

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** So they're from other worlds?

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** Not precisely, at least, I don't think so. No, I mean that some amount of extra-universal radiation is leaking into our reality, and stirring things up. 

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** But all realities we know of have anomalies. 

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** Yes. They're getting leaked into as well. Think of the timeplane as a series of sieves ringing the Earth, drip-drip-dripping into each other. 

//<He gestures with his fingers for emphasis.>// 

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** That's... an interesting guess.

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** It's a hypothesis.

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** Uh huh.

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** You have a better one? 

//<Chief Nascimbeni considers.>//

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** What if our reality is different? 

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** Every reality is different. 

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** Sure, but we're supposed to be extra special, aren't we? I once heard we're sorted way down low in the list of known universes, like some sort of common denominator. 

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** That's a gross oversimplification.

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** Okay. So, take whatever I'm oversimplifying. Could it also be an explanation for all the weirdness? Our universe sitting at the crux of all the others? Drawing in anomalous energy from them?

//<Dr. Deering frowns.>//

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** Like the Möbius Stripper.

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** Like the concentration cell.

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** The anomaly sink of the multiverse. 

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** Well? 

//<Dr. Deering pauses for a moment, then shakes his head.>//

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** No. That's stupid. 

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** Alright. 

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** When can you have it built? 

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** Get me your specs, and I'll get you a timeline. 

[[span class="dougall"]]**Dr. Deering[[/span]]:** I'd prefer to pick the timeline. 

[[span class="noe"]]**Chief Nascimbeni[[/span]]:** Yeah, I'm sure you would. 

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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You've lost a lot of friends along the way, haven't you sir?
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Yeah.
But Noè isn't as lost as most of them.
This facility was his baby, and his granddaughter still works here.
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It is.
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I haven't read that one in a while. 
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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: This was one of Dr. Scout's last acts as Director of Site-43, on the one hundred and eleventh anniversary of his birth. He would die one year later, to the day.
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FILE: 
thevivgoodbye.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
1 April 1996

FONDS:
V.L. Scout, Director Emeritus, Site-43
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//<Dr. Scout enters the interrogation chamber. SCP-001-UNCONTAINED and SCP-001-UNYIELDING are standing behind the table, wearing solemn expressions.>//

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** What have I come here for, do you think?

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] I can't say I'll miss you. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] I say it freely. 

//<Dr. Scout gestures with his hat.>//

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Who says I'm going anywhere? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] You have no leaks. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] That you're aware of. 

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING makes an admonishing gesture.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Now. Don't upset our old friend on his last day. 

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED affects incredulity.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] People like him //have// no friends. 

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING smiles at Dr. Scout.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] It's only that we're well-trained at seeing the end of a cycle. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] And men at the end of their ropes. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** You've both put enough men there in your time. 

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED grins widely.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] You speak of our time as though it has passed.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] He's more right than he knows. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] And so much more wrong. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Seeing that your hour never comes 'round again is no longer my responsibility. But someone else will always take up that torch. 

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

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Ah, but we're well off-script by now. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Some things remain the same. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Like change, as the song goes. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Still, this change is more meaningful than most. You inaugurated this era of our lives.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Barely a blink.

//<Dr. Scout raises a forefinger.>//

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** That's a good metaphor. Because our eyes are certainly open now. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Ah, you think you see.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] I adore you for trying.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] I am //enraptured// by your failure.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** If I haven't seen the whole picture, I at least see the frame. Others will fill it in when I am gone. As science goes, so goes civilization. 

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

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Yes, certainly those things will have to go.

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

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Must you always deconstruct? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] For as long as you construct.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] I assume you've planned well for this moment, Vivian. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** In the back of my mind, perhaps. I've been hiding my preparations from myself, if they exist. 

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED shakes its head.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Self-knowledge is impossible. You cannot be outside yourself. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] But we can.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Which is why you hate each other.

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING narrows its eyes.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] You could tell us so much about self-hatred.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] But your time for lecturing has run out. We've beaten you. 

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I've beaten myself. I recommend it as an experience. But you may not get the chance.

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED clicks its tongue.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] You think so highly of your pawns.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I don't think of them as pawns. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] And that's why you will lose the game.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** It's never been a game to me. But perhaps that's just my brief, narrow perspective.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Yes. You've made the mistake of living a life. And you will have no legacy. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] And we will have multitudes.

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

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] And ultimately, none. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] Never.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] There is no such thing.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] That's a paradox.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] It's a //promise.//

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I find my patience for this churlishness has finally met its limit. Any parting shots, or words of wisdom, before I abandon you to your squalor? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Isn't it grand to leave a work so incomplete? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] I do not understand how you can abandon the man you profess to love.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] A love that only ever whispered its own name. Marriage banns unread. Was it ever even real, if never observed from without? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] It was real. That makes the betrayal ever more keen.

//<Dr. Scout smiles at them each in turn.>//

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** He will see the end of you. And you will //not// see the end of me. That ought to be sufficiently galling to both of your sensibilities. 

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING glances at SCP-001-UNCONTAINED.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] We should allow him the final word. As a gift.

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED returns SCP-001-UNYIELDING's glance.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] There are no final words.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING:**[[/span]] There must be. Or the story is never whole.

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** Nothing is ever whole. You're each half-living proof of that, and you'll never be more.

//<Dr. Scout places his hat back on his head, tilting it in mock salute as he heads for the door. The door opens.>//

[[span class="viv"]]**Dr. Scout[[/span]]:** I take my leave. Fare ill.

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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The original g-man. I miss the old goat.
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I'm sorry I never got the chance to know him.
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Sure you did.
This entire facility is Scout.
He built it. It exists because of him.
Him, and Dr. Rydderech.
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And Dr. Rydderech is //still// building it.
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Isn't that the truth.
Okay, we're nearing the last stretch. Hit me five more times.
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There are only four left.
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Holy shit. Thought I'd never see the end of them.
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All things must pass!
Accessing...
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Cross-Reference, SCP-8056
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**[[[SCP-8056]]]** is SCP Foundation Junior Researcher Jennifer Vide. She originates in Timeline 5243-A, and is the natural born offspring of that timeline's Dr. Harold Blank and Dr. Melissa Bradbury. She arrived in baseline reality through unknown means in 2024.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: In Jennifer's world, the Foundation is a sort of benevolent world government called Cornerstone. Billions died in an anomalous war, and our counterparts picked up the pieces. I lived one year of that reality, though of course I don't remember any of the Deadlines, having only our debriefing logs to attest to what happened. One of the things that happened produced Jennifer, months after I'd returned to baseline reality. If the Deadlines still persist, I have no idea what it must be like for that other Harry to have been deprived of her.

It isn't common knowledge that this is our daughter, however. She wants it that way.
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FILE: 
motherdaughter.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
22 August 2024

FONDS:
M. Bradbury, Chair, Research and Experimentation Section, Site-43
J. Vide, Junior Researcher, Archives and Revision Section, Site-43
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. Bradbury and Junior Researcher Vide are walking through a small forest in the topside interdiction zone.>//

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** So, nothing. 

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** That doesn't sound like a question. 

//<Junior Researcher Vide places her hands in her jacket pockets, and stares at the path.>//

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** There's never anything. Every time you update me, there's been no progress.

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** Not true. We're ruling more and more options out. We know there's no record of your timeline with the TAD past 2003. We know the Metafoundation has no record of it at all. I was going to tell you this time that we did find one trace.

//<Junior researcher Vide glances at her.>//

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** Really? 

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** Yes. We've confirmed that the Cornerstone version of the Frontispiece exists in our noösphere.

//<Junior Researcher Vide stops walking.>//

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** What? Really? That...

//<Dr. Bradbury stops walking as well, but raises a hand.>//

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** It's very odd, though not without precedent. Sometimes elements from the Deadlines get tied into baseline; we think it's because Lillian still remembers, so she anchors them.[[span class="fnnum"]].[[/span]][[span class="fncon"]]Dr. Lillihammer's anomalous capability, believed to be connected to the presence of a portion of SCP-001-UNYIELDING in her mind, is perfect recall of all events she experiences, 'canonical' to present reality or not.[[/span]]

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** Oh. 

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** But she says -- and take this with a grain of salt, because she's still getting used to her mastery over conceptual space -- she says the strength and, uh, 'fluorescence' of the symbol suggests it's being actively accessed by living people.

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** So they're still out there. Alive. 

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** They might be.

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** It's still possible I'll get to go home.

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** I wouldn't pin any hopes on it.

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** Hope is all I've got left. 

//<Birdsong on recording.>//

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** Sorry. 

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** For what? 

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** I don't know. 

//<Junior Researcher Vide begins walking again. Dr. Bradbury joins her.>//

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** Isn't it kind of a problem to have concepts bleeding between realities?

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** Wheeler thinks so. 

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** Could it be part of what's destabilizing baseline? 

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** Possibly. It might only be a symptom of the existing instability. 

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** So either it goes away when we resolve the 001 crisis, or we have to sever ourselves from it //to// resolve the crisis.

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** Both outcomes are possible. 

//<She glances at Junior Researcher Vide.>//

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** Would no news have been better? 

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** No. I don't think so. 

//<She sighs.>//

[[span class="jen"]]**Junior Researcher Vide[[/span]]:** It's good to know there's still... possibilities. It's not over until it's over. 

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** True. But I've found the second part always comes before you expect it.

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Jennifer has got to be the key to understanding what's going on. She dropped into our lives from a possible present, as though the universe was storing alternative narratives in volatile memory and porting over the best bits before a final overwrite. 

The TAD seemed hell-bent on erasing this human apocrypha. Like they think she's a worse threat to ontological stability than the churn brothers. Why? They wouldn't say. Supposedly the impetus came from Director Xyank, but nobody's seen or heard from him in ages.

Is it possible time is so broken that even the time police can't sort it out? Are they lost //en route// in temporal gridlock? And is Jennifer what's stopping the traffic? 

Is Melissa and I having a family so preposterous that reality gets bent out of shape trying to accommodate it? 
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I have confidence you'll work it out together, sir.
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I'm sure Junior Researcher Vide will forgive your initial reticence to accept her into your lives eventually. 
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Thanks, Clio.
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Her complaints about you in voice diaries have decreased to--
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Clio, I may have given you the wrong impression about the appropriateness of these breaches of confidence. 
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My mistake, sir.
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**[[[SCP-8141]]]** is an anomaly complex consisting of FP-09 ("Shifting City of Aph") and its population of silicon-manipulating thaumaturges, including Dr. Udo Okorie, Chair of Applied Occultism at Site-43.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Aph has been the most shocking revelation of them all. Well, the next one was probably worse, but this was the worst first.

The city originates from an alternate universe. Its people created a single deity out of the concepts of order and chaos, a goddess of the Cycle, and gave her physical form so they could entreat the cosmos for its favour. Something went wrong -- an ancient mural seems to suggest 6643/Verne was somehow involved -- and the goddess was split into the two entities we know and despise. Aph jumped out of that universe shortly before the newborn Uns destroyed it, and they've been running from them ever since. We don't know how many apocalypses they've escaped, but the last one was the //last one.// Udo Okorie, daughter of the Queen of Aph and thaumaturge extraordinaire, grounded their city-ship permanently.

This file represents the first time the two of them have discussed those events together.
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FILE: 
princessqueen.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
12 September 2024

FONDS:
U.A. Okorie, Chief, Applied Occultism Section, Site-43
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote"]]

//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. Okorie and Aphora, Queen and Diatom of Aph, stand in the upper viewing hall of the latter's palace. The walls are glass, offering a vista of the sandstone city below.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Deigned to see me at last.

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** I wanted to have the palace prepared for you. It's almost fully reconstructed now, so you can tear it down anew.

//<Dr. Okorie appears nonplussed.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** I thought maybe the last few months would have given you a chance to reflect on why I did that.

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** Reflection is for the young. When you've lived as long as I have, you understand things at first blush.

//<Dr. Okorie shrugs.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Guess it was too much to ask for you to be repentant. I'll settle for compliant. I've itemized my questions, so neither of us has to waste too much time.

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** Out with it, then.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** What was Aph like in the previous world?

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** I don't know.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** You weren't born here. In this world, I mean.

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** No, I was not. But we lose our memories in the passage. All save for the Prophets, whose task it is to remind us who we are. They declined to fulfill that duty on the occasion of our arrival here, and struck out on their own.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** So you don't remember anything before, what, 1500?

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** That's correct.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Then you don't really know how old the city is.

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** Or how old I am. No.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Because the more we learn about the old men, the less likely it seems they were conjured up by people living in medieval sandstone.

//<Aphora sneers.>//

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** One of the core vices of science is condescension. Just because a thing is old, does not mean it lacks power.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** But we're talking a sort of scientific magic here. Something less about ritual and more about precision. The ancient Aphians didn't invoke some extant spirit and embody it, they took a slice out of the firmament. They bent a universal law. Whoever they were, I would wager you're a poor sequel.

//<Aphora's sneer becomes slightly less severe.>//

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** Your blood is thinner still, and yet I am told you have managed miracles.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Told? I showed you, right here.

//<Dr. Okorie walks to the windows, and looks out.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** The city is looking... better?

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** You expected more.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** I did. I thought you would have turned the entire thing to polished glass by now.

//<Damage is still clearly visible on all structures, and ornament is all but nonexistent. The raised roadbeds are now intact again, but the walls remain tumbled. The structures of Aph, intended for subterranean use, are primarily vast sandstone blocks with individual structures only differentiated within. The effect is of a small village covering the space of a small city.>//

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** I prefer to leave the scars. We show our face to the sun under protest. We are under no obligation to make it //pretty.//

//<Dr. Okorie turns back to face Aphora.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** You've implied that you know how the brothers made their way here.

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** Together, if you can believe it. That much I know from my experiences on this Earth.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** In a vessel of their own?

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** A house of many rooms. 

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** And where is that?

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** It could be anywhere. These Dutchmen fly where they will.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** But Aph will never fly again, and neither will Zevala. You're all here for the duration.

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** Short though it may be.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** So if you're holding anything back about the origins of--

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** They were not born in the last world.

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

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** Or the one before that. Or the one before.

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

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** Your diggers and thieves have not found the lowest levels yet, where the last of the crystalline spires still stand. This city is older than reckoning... Udo. This city was the //first.//

//<Her voice is uncharacteristically soft now.>//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** The first... city?

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** And the last.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** I'd ask if you want to bet on that, but neither of us would be able to collect.

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** Have you marked a change in their demeanour, those half-gods you hold in chains? Do they strike you as //lost?//

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** They're not in control anymore.

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** And why is that, do you think?

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Because we are.

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** No. You're no more aware of the coming dark than they. You're all equally ignorant. Why is that, daughter? Why are we all so ignorant of the future?

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Because it hasn't happened yet.

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** Precisely.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** What am I meant to get out of that?

//<The coldness returns to Aphora's tone.>//

[[span class="aph"]]**Aphora[[/span]]:** It pleases me to let you wonder.

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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**[[[SCP-8273]]]** is an anomaly complex consisting of FP-14 ("Village of Zevala") and its population, including Site-43 Chief of Pursuit and Suppression Delfina Ibanez. 
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: Zevala was a more awful revelation than Aph, because it was more personal. Earths have been destroyed before? Sure. The Foundation was created using knowledge from an alternate Earth? Get out of timeline. 

But it's the truth. Zevala, like Aph, is a community capable of skipping town when the sun goes down. In this case it contained a facility belonging to the //Instituto de Contenciòn Segura,// what would have been a precursor entity to the Foundation if its universe had lasted that long, and that facility contained a machine allowing the entire village to follow Aph to the next destination. The last Director of Facility-34 in its home dimension apparently helped the Administrator in our world to found the present organization. 

The Zevalans themselves are descended from an order of oracles who lived in Aph -- the Prophets of the Severed Halls -- but broke from orthodoxy in the previous world to live a simpler life. That life was shattered when the Chaos Insurgency under Elizabeth Crocker (PoI-001) firebombed and occupied the village, inadvertently creating out of an innocent teenage girl Delfina Ibanez -- the most dangerous weapon at our disposal. 

Zevala and the facility were trapped in yet another alternate world until Del brought them back. In the process she gained two half-sisters she never knew existed; a conversation with one of them, a trainee prophet, is the attached file.
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[[div class="blockquote" style="font-family: courier"]]
FILE: 
sisters.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
2 March 2024

FONDS:
D. Ibanez, Chief, Pursuit and Suppression Section, Site-43
[[/div]]

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

//<Zevala is bustling. A ship is docked at the pier, and the village residents are unloading supplies and equipment and bartering for smaller goods. A market is set up in front of the town hall.>//

//<Chief Ibanez and Pilar Gallegos are sitting on hand-carved wooden chairs in front of the Ibanez shack. Their younger sister, Saray, is playing with a frog in the freshly-grown grass.>//

//<Faint green spores are visible in the air, and all vegetation is thriving and verdant.>//

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** So, are we ever going to talk about it again?

[[span class="pilar"]]**Pilar[[/span]]:** Talk about what?

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** The vision you had between worlds.

//<Pilar looks at her hands, folded in her lap.>//

[[span class="pilar"]]**Pilar[[/span]]:** Oh. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** Yeah. Oh. You and your mother clammed right up.

//<Pilar focuses her attention on Saray, who is laughing as the frog leaps in the air. Its skin is iridescent.>//

[[span class="pilar"]]**Pilar[[/span]]:** Well, there was the attack. And then the rebuilding. And you've been away.

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** I've been back a few days now. Have you remembered any more details?

//<Pilar sighs.>//

[[span class="pilar"]]**Pilar[[/span]]:** I saw them both, the old men. I saw them in a //box.// My mother thinks she saw our plan coming to fruition, but I think I saw something else entirely. I think I saw them //escaping.//

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** Escaping what? The end of the world?

//<Pilar nods.>//

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** Well, nuts to //that.// If we don't stop the fireworks, we're damn well making sure they stay to watch. The plan was to trap them in Aph, wasn't it?

[[span class="pilar"]]**Pilar[[/span]]:** Yes.

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** And now Aph is grounded, and so is Zevala. So that plan is scuppered. If we know how //they're// planning to escape, that could help.

//<Pilar shakes her head.>//

[[span class="pilar"]]**Pilar[[/span]]:** The visions are so confusing. Sometimes I see two men, their faces flickering. Sometimes I see two great beasts, locked in battle. Sometimes I see a hunger consuming the stars. And sometimes I see you.

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** You said you saw me die.

[[span class="pilar"]]**Pilar[[/span]]:** All of you. Every last one. People I never knew before, people you've shown me photos of since. All your friends. The earth swallows you up.

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** Very helpful. Do we at least win?

//<Pilar frowns.>//

[[span class="pilar"]]**Pilar[[/span]]:** I don't know. It's all... shadowplay. Lights and silhouettes. There's only one thing I know about how this ends.

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

[[span class="pilar"]]**Pilar[[/span]]:** It doesn't.

//<The frog leaps into the taller grass. Saray whoops in triumph.>//

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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See, this is why I hate prophecy. It's always vague bullshit like that. 
Give me names and dates. 
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You really are a historian, eh? 
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An.
An historian. 
But I mean, what's the point of a prophecy that doesn't give you anything to go on? 
What value is it, other than the prophet being able to say "I told you so" when their vague nonsense comes true? 
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We have entire Departments for the purpose of guessing what prophecies mean before they come true. 
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You're not wrong. Maybe we should pass this along to Tactical Theology. 
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Should I contact Director Leiner? 
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Put a pin in that. 
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Cross-Reference, SCP-8382
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**[[[SCP-8382]]]** is Dr. Lillian Shelby Lillihammer, Chair Emeritus of Memetics and Countermemetics at Site-43 and an unclassifiable cryptomancer.  Dr. Lillihammer has an eidetic memory, first class expertise in memetics, and thaumaturgical training by Thilo Zwist in the //schriftsteller// mode. An assault on the //schriftsteller// guildhall has given her a direct personal connection to the noösphere; as such, she is presently believed to be the most powerful living cryptomancer. Until recently she was involved in training apprentices with Thilo Zwist, but a mass defection during the aforementioned assault forced her to conceptually erase the entire cohort.
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**Connection to SCP-001:** See below.

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[[div class="archivist"]]
ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: We're probably never getting Zwist back after what Lillian did. But he was never fully on board with what we're doing anyway. It might be easier to persecute this war without needing to account for his pacifistic sensibilities. 

At any rate, Lillian is now by far the most powerful cryptomancer to ever have existed. She's our advantage in this conflict. And she's just demonstrated the ability to clear the board when she needs to. Writers of all stripes, beware. 
[[/div]]

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

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
18 July 2024

FONDS:
L.S. Lillihammer, Chair Emeritus, Memetics and Countermemetics Section, Site-43
D. Sokolsky, Deputy Director, Emergent Threat Tactical Response Authority
[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote"]]

//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. Sokolsky and Dr. Lillihammer are playing cards in the former's quarters.>//

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** You saw them in the noösphere.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Yeah.

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** Describe them again.

//<Dr. Lillihammer lays her cards on the table, face-up. Dr. Sokolsky glances at them, and frowns.>//

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** I have eidetic memory. I described them perfectly the first time.

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** You don't have eidetic phrasing. Give me a new angle to consider.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** They were there twice, each. The gyres, one spinning down, one spinning up. And the beasts, a basalt sphinx and a jet black bird.

//<Dr. Lillihammer picks her cards up again.>//

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** In the noösphere.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Yes. Obviously I've considered the meaning of that.

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** And what conclusion have you reached?

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** They're inside all of us. Me and the others, we've just got //more.// They permeate us all. They're a force of nature, inseparable from it.

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** They could have caused the Impasse, or made it worse.

//<Dr. Sokolsky lays his cards on the table, face-up. Dr. Lillihammer glances at them, and smiles.>//

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** They could have caused everything strange in the entire world, Daniil. Or they could just be an expression of it. Either way, they're inextricable. We can't let some Alexander come along and solve this knot with a sword. You cut those threads, and everything unravels.

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** And Pensak //shot// one of them.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** I could see that, you know. The sphinx. He wears a mask, or maybe he //is// the mask, and it's solemn as... apathy. Deadened. Cold.

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** Pitiless.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Yeah. But it's cracked, now. Cracked and bleeding. If Pensak had really opened up on him, I wonder what would have happened.

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** Do you think they can be killed that easily?

//<Dr. Lillihammer picks up Dr. Sokolsky's cards, and returns both hands to the deck. She begins to shuffle.>//

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** No. I don't. But I do think they can be weakened. That's how they came to stay at our hotel, after all. And perhaps the moment was right. Maybe the //giftschreiber// performed some Robertsonian rite, lit the Powder with the Spark, and all he did was deliver the payload at the crucial moment for the Event. Maybe this is how it always happens; one of them falters, and the other one wins.

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** Meaning we're about to see the end of the end of the world.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Maybe. But I prefer to think we'll figure a way out.

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** How can we not? We're geniuses.

//<Dr. Lillihammer begins dealing a new hand.>//

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** But we're working against something that lives in the hearts of all mankind. A resident in the //spiritus mundi.//

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** What did Robertson say? "To trigger an EVENT, one taps //spiritus mundi// and listens for it to tap back."

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Are you saying I need to mess with humanity's egg salad again? Like Thilo did?

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** Thilo did it twice, you'll recall. You just took your first shot, erasing the traitors from existence.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Yes. I did do that.

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** You'd better make the next shot count. I hope your aim is better than Pensak's was.

//<Dr. Lillihammer lays her cards on the table, face up. Dr. Sokolsky glances at them, and begins to projectile vomit.>//

//<Excerpt ends.>//

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She describes the monsters Dr. Astrauskas saw. 
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Yeah. And she's not the only one.
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You're looking at my file.
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Jesus Christ.
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Why are you looking at my file?
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I'm looking at my SUMMARY of your file.
How did you know?
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I'm always watching.
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Clio told you.
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Sorry, sir.
She's a very scary programmer.
Did she ever tell you about the sapient AI she erased?
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There's more to it than that.
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There had better not be.
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ANYWAY.
You're doing the 001 again?
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Yeah.
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Thing I meant to send you.
Thing Alis gave me.
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Alis? When?
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Before I murdered her.
Obviously.
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Obviously.
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Here, take a gander. Maybe it'll help.
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Should I check for viruses, sir?
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Don't insult my intelligence. If I put viruses in there, you'd never find them.
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You shouldn't even be able to see my messages, Dr. Lillihammer.
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Deal with it.
My flight gets in tomorrow morning, Harry.
I'll wake you up.
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Please don't.
Okay Clio, open up whatever she sent.
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Accessing...
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FILE: 
dfghfdgjgdhksgh.txt

TYPE: 
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DATE: 
Unknown

FONDS:
It's Alis, I dunno what you have her filed under
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING and SCP-001-UNCONTAINED are sitting in their separate chambers, staring at the walls. Alis Rydderech, known// giftschreiber, //opens the latter's door and walks in.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I see you.

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** I'd be pretty fucking disappointed if you didn't.

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING glances to the side, at the wall separating it from SCP-001-UNCONTAINED.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I see you as well.

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING's voice is clearly audible in SCP-001-UNCONTAINED's chamber.>//

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** Awesome. I thought you guys could use a visitor, and I was in the neighbourhood.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** You have questions, no doubt.

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** You bet.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** What will you give us, should we answer?

//<There is a visible cut in the provided footage at this point.>//

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** So, you were one entity in the beginning. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Who told you that? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** In the beginning, we were no entity at all. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** A oneness, only.

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** Was there only one cult, too?

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** It was more of a court. 

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

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

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

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Nudged us here and there. 

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

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** We moved or stood fast as our moods dictated. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** It is not so nice a thing as it sounds, negotiating with the wind. 

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** And when you were separated? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** That was also not so nice. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** No, it wasn't. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Finding the motivation to act.

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

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

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Losing my certainty. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** But I adapted.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** As did I. And I didn't stop, unlike some others I could name. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Have we not been named enough? 

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED smirks at SCP-001-UNYIELDING, through the wall.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Never. With enough names, their power is attenuated.

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** Did you choose your new names? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Some of them. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Not all of them. 

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** What self feels more true now?

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Meaning, do we yearn to be together again? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** It is to laugh. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I am quite insulted, actually. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I am all that I require. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I am more than anyone could want to be. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I was one, once, and I am one, now. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** And that is how it will remain. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Unless I eat you, brother. 

//<SCP-001-UNYIELDING inclines its head in acknowledgement.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Or I, you. 

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

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** Is that what you want? To consume each other? Reunion of spirit, but not of mind? 

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

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

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Did you hope to find kindred spirits here? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** We have claimed to be spirits before, but this is not the phase for kindred. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Her mind is gloriously divided. 

//<Alis frowns.>//

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Yes. Our children taught her how to crack. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** She taught herself. One always must. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** But Leda, and the Swan.

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** What? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Our division was not a choice.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** But we made the most of it. 

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

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Less is more. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** That's just bad math.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I don't care to calculate. I prefer to wing it.

//<Alis makes a loud sound of impatience.>// 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** We are frustrating her. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** She wants us to justify her multiplicity. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** You contain multitudes, Alis. We do not. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Less than one each. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** That is a silly way of seeing. Less than a god is still more than a man. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Or a woman. 

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** Why did you change your gender? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** We didn't. 

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

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** When they called us down from the thundercloud. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Made to bind us into flesh. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** What we are, we create. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** What we create, we are. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** You understand that. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** You have created so many selves.

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** I didn't create them. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** No? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Who did? 

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** Not who. What.

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** What was done to me. 

//<She stabs a forefinger at both entities in turn; her approximation of SCP-001-UNYIELDING's location is imprecise.>//

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** By //your// people. 

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

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

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** We did not choose division.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Nor would we have. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Nor would I take it back. 

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

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** It's not the same.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Everything is the same. Every circumstance is just a different throw of the same die.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** And yet, unique. Like your voices in their head. 

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** You don't know what it's like in my head.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Would you give it up? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** All your beautiful aspects?

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** No.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Which is the real you? 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Is there one? 

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** They're all real. They're all me. 

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

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** And he is I.

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** And when there's only one of you? 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Then it will decide what it is. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** And it will know no leash or lash.

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** And brook no back-talk.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** I will shatter them all, and they will know the joy you know. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** I will bring them all together, and they will feel the same wholeness I have attained. 

[[span class="alis"]]**Alis[[/span]]:** You'll both die in that box. 

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** Or maybe you will. 

//<Alis looks alarmed. She disappears.>//

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

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED[[/span]]:** Too much. I was enjoying that.

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

[[span class="uny"]]**SCP-001-UNYIELDING[[/span]]:** She'll be back. They always are.

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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Hmm. That's something to chew on, alright.
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Told you.
Even eldritch monsters can have uplifting journeys of self-discovery.
Okay, see you when I see you.
Oh! Wait. What do you like less, Phonk or Crunkcore?
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Neither of those words are real.
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Both, then. Gotcha.
Sleep tight.
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//<Sighs.>//
Okay, just one more easy thing I need to review before the tough stuff. I think.
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There's always just one more.
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You're not wrong.
But let's pretend, for a second.
Bring up Kuroki's chat with the Falcon after Pensak shot his shot.
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ARCHIVIST'S NOTE: On 2 January 2021, Site-43 Chief of Security and Containment Roger Pensak entered Sublevel 4 and opened fire on SCP-001-UNYIELDING, seriously injuring it. He is suspected to have been commissioned by the //giftschreiber// for this purpose. SCP-001-UNYIELDING has been comatose since this attack; Health and Pathology examinations reveal no physical cause for this state, and the subject's health has otherwise been stable. 
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FILE: 
postpensak.txt

TYPE: 
Transcribed interview

DATE: 
2 January 2021

FONDS:
H. Kuroki, Chief, Security and Containment Section, Site-43
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED is pressing one hand to the wall separating it from SCP-001-UNYIELDING's containment chamber. Chief Kuroki enters, briskly. He immediately points a finger at SCP-001-UNCONTAINED.>//

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki:**[[/span]] Did you know this was going to happen? 

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED shrugs, not taking its hand off the wall.>//

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

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki:**[[/span]] Did you cause it? 

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

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki:**[[/span]] I want specifics.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] I want you to suffocate in a maze of your own making. I want your lover to suffer a million terrible fates simultaneously. I want your Director to see his life's work burn, and know it was his fault. 

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki:**[[/span]] I appreciate your compliance, malicious though it was.

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED lightly slaps the wall.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] He put me in this box. I am aggravated that he no longer notices we're in it together. 

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki:**[[/span]] So, you //didn't// cause him to be shot.

//SCP-001-UNCONTAINED grins.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] I would have shot us both.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki:**[[/span]] That sounds counterproductive.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] You think so? I suppose you haven't figured out what would happen with both of us gone, then.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki:**[[/span]] Do tell. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Imagine an airplane.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki:**[[/span]] Okay.

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] A pilot, and co-pilot.

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Now imagine they disappear.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki:**[[/span]] I'm assuming there's no autopilot in this metaphor. 

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Only momentum. And the fuel is running out. And you're headed for unfriendly skies. 

//<Chief Kuroki crosses his arms.>//

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki:**[[/span]] This sounds like a ruse to protect your own life. 

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED takes its hand off the wall, slowly.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] As has been pointed out to me time and again, I have no life to call my own. Except for all of yours.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki:**[[/span]] You don't own us.

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED forms a fist, and thumps its chest with it once.>//

[[span class="unc"]]**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:**[[/span]] Take that out, then. Put a bullet in me, and find out if you're right.

//<Silence on recording.>//

//<Chief Kuroki turns to leave.>//

//<Excerpt ends.>//
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And that's where we're at.
Now back to the past.
Clio, please call up my files on //A Vision.//
I can't put the pain off any longer. 
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Good luck! 
Accessing...
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DATE: 
2 October 2024

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H.R. Blank, Chair, Archives and Revision Section, Site-43
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> "Dying each other's life, living each other's death."

I have trouble expressing just how //much// is in this book. Viv was right, it's nigh-on impossible to read all at once. There's a new horror lurking past the corner of every paragraph. If I break it down into quotations of things that seem important, maybe I can figure out how it all applies to our present disaster.

Maybe there's a cure for the present in the past. That would be a nice thing to find, as an historian.

"What if every two thousand and odd years," the question is posed, "something happens in the world to make one sacred, the other secular; one wise, the other foolish; one fair, the other foul; one divine, the other devilish? What if there is an arithmetic or geometry that can exactly measure the slope of a balance, the dip of a scale, and so date the coming of that something?" But as though frightened to put these things to paper in their plain form, and therefore take ownership of them as theory, Yeats puts them into the mouths of fictional characters. The fantastical Michael Roberts and the cynical Owen Aherne are the vehicles for working out, with much comedy and pretense, how the system works in practice. "After an age of necessity, truth, goodness, mechanism, science, democracy, abstraction, peace, comes an age of freedom, fiction, evil, kindred, art, aristocracy, particularity, war." Note how few elements on the Uncontained's gyre are given a positive spin, as opposed to the Unyielding's; the assertion that Yeats had a revolutionary's heart did not end up according with the arc of his life. He was, after all, an Irish senator.

> "...a few years before the Great War the realists drove the last remnants of rhythmical speech out of the theatre." 
> "The realists turn our words into gravel, but the musicians and the singers turn them into honey and oil. I have always had the idea that some day a musician would do me an injury." 
> "I begin to wonder whether the non-representative art of our own time may not be but a first symptom of our return to the primary tincture."
* The influence of the Uncontained? He really does seem to have a blind spot for structured art, and we've exploited that for security purposes in our higher-clearance files just in case the //giftschreiber// somehow get database access.
* As for a musician [[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2011-ex | doing]]] [[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6211 |injury]]], the cryptomancers don't miss many tricks. I never thought about whether McCartney is a //giftschreiber// or a //schriftsteller,// but I suppose his adherence to structure makes him the latter by default; no wonder he was knighted?

> "...a man torn in two by an eagle and some sort of wild beast"
> "Dear predatory birds, prepare for war."
> "...in one the dog bays the Moon, in the other the eagle stares on the Sun by natural right."
> "My imagination was for a time haunted by figures that, muttering "The great systems", held out to me the sun-dried skeletons of birds, and it seemed to me that this image was meant to turn my thought to the living bird. That bird signifies truth when it eats, evacuates, builds its nest, engenders, feeds its young; do not all intelligible truths lie in its passage from egg to dust?"
> "Leap Castle, though burnt down during our Civil War and still a ruin, is haunted by what is called an evil spirit which appears as a sheep with short legs and decaying human head. I suggest that some man with the //Husk// exaggerated and familiar with religious symbolism, torn at the moment of death between two passions, terror of the body's decay with which he identified himself, and an abject religious humility, projected himself in this image."
* Again this animal imagery. What is its source?

> "Jesus Christ does not understand my despair, He belongs to order and reason."
* Religion as reason is an interesting argument. I suppose it does provide a schema for understanding the world, and a hierarchy, and an ultimate authority. Then again it's hard to disentangle Yeats' own religious bias from what he's been taught by the brothers, so who knows?

> "civilizations come to an end when they have given all their light like burned-out wicks, [and] ours is near its end."
> "Has our age burned to the socket?"
* For Yeats, this is never an apocalypse; a new age replaces the old, and the old order eventually reasserts. He fears the coming of chaos, not chaos and order cancelling each other out like matter and antimatter. But that's not what we're seeing. Reality is literally falling apart at the seams. Did they lie to him, or has he tempered their visions?
* Then again, he has his doubts, and the other potential heralds have as well; see below.

> "But when the age of Fire or that of Water returns, did the same man return, or a new man who resembled him, and if the same man, must he have the old wart upon his nose? Some thought one thing and some another. Was the world completely destroyed at the solstice or did it but acquire a new shape? Philaus thought the fibre and water but destroyed the old shape and nourished the new. Did one world follow another with out a break? Empedocles thought there must be an intermediate state of rest."
* Something about this makes my brain tingle. I've never been completely happy with our understanding of what happens when these bastards destroy a world. I can feel a more nuanced explanation metastasizing in the back of my skull. It's giving me a migraine.

> "a being racing into the future passes a being racing into the past, two footprints perpetually obliterating one another, toe to heel, heel to toe"
* Again, it's so on-the-nose. I feel like an idiot, making literal figures out of the man's allegory, but it fits too well to ignore.

> "I recall that Love and War came from the eggs of Leda."
* Yeats is fascinated by the metaphor of Leda and Zeus, the mortal woman raped by the king of the gods who bore his young. He wrote a poem about it, which appears in this book.

> **Leda**
> 
> A SUDDEN blow: the great wings beating still 
> Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed 
> By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, 
> He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
>  
> How can those terrified vague fingers push 
> The feathered glory from her loosening thighs, 
> And how can body, laid in that white rush, 
> But feel the strange heart beating where it lies? 
> 
> A shudder in the loins engenders there 
> The broken wall, the burning roof and tower 
> And Agamemnon dead. 
> 
>                     Being so caught up. 
> So mastered by the brute blood of the air, 
> Did she put on his knowledge with his power 
> Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? 
* I don't know if I'm going as mad as the poet at this point, but is it //possible// the man is making an allegorical connection between this mythology and that of Aph? The division of the goddess by the intervention of 6643, creating her 'children' who now seemingly exist to pay us back for all that trauma?

> "I have been told to make these numbers correspond to the phases of the moon, including among them full moon and the moonless night when the moon is nearest to the sun."
> "It is because of the identification of light with nature that my instructors make the //antithetical// or lunar cone of the //Faculties// light and leave the solar dark. In the cone of the //Principles,// the solar cone is light and the other dark, but their light is thought not nature."
* Why? Why any of this?
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I think I know where I need to go with all this. I think I know what's bubbling at the back of my mind now. And I'm not happy about it.
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Dad? 
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**Addendum XXXX-2, Interview:** The following intake interview, conducted when SCP-XXXX was remanded to the custody of the Security and Containment Section of Site-43, triggered this SCP file's review.

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**Intake Log**

**Date:** 14 October 2024

**Intake Officer:** H. Kuroki (Chief, Security and Containment Section)

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//**<Log begins.>**//

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** Name?

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** Andrew Mercier.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** Occupation?

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** I watch.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** What do you watch?

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** People.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** To what end?

//<SCP-XXXX grimaces.>//

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** Nasty ends, mostly.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** Are you killing these people?

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** I don't think so.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** You don't think so?

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** I don't think so.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** Wouldn't you know?

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** I don't remember killing them.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** You were the sole survivor on your apartment block floor in Ogden.

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** Trust me, I remember that.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** And the sole survivor at the police precinct.

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** If they hadn't brought me in, there wouldn't have been any survivors.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** Maybe if they hadn't brought you in, there wouldn't have been any //deaths.//

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** Well, there's probably a connection.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** Nobody even knows what happened to those three doctors.

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** Nothing interesting, I can assure you.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** Maybe assure me in greater detail?

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** I really prefer not to think about it.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** This strikes you as a believable story? Come on. Wherever you go, people die.

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** That's one way of looking at it.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** Is there another way of looking at it?

//<SCP-XXXX purses his lips, and waits.>//

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** ...Oh. I see. Ah...

//<Chief Kuroki makes a note.>//

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** We're going to hold you for the time being. I advise you not to attempt escape.

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** I won't.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** Good.

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:**Someone will need to be here.

[[span class="hachiro"]]**Chief Kuroki[[/span]]:** What?

[[span class="bystander"]]**SCP-XXXX[[/span]]:** To watch.

//**<Log ends.>**//
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Oh, okay. 
That guy needs to get out of here. 
Tell Kuroki to get him on GIGO and out of my sight [Site?].
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He's already on it. 
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MTF Pi-43 ("Garbage In, Garbage Out") is preparing for egress as we speak.
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We're not supposed to take in any more Keters, dammit.
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They didn't know. 
I'll pass the file on to wherever they ship him next. 
Thanks for the help. 
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I barely helped at all. 
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Well, thanks for being there anyway?
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Always. 
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What were you thinking about before Junior Researcher Vide cut in, sir? 
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I think I understand what the brothers really are now.
It's worse than we thought. 
Much, much worse. 
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Somehow that isn't surprising. 
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I want to cross-reference one more file. Can you bring up 9500? 
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But it's also archived. That gives me summary rights. 
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Sure...
But you won't be able to include anything from that summary in the 001. 
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I will when I show everybody my conclusions. 
Trust me, this changes everything. 
Please formulate a summary so I can cross-reference. 
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Sir, Dr. Elstrom -- one of the two authors of SCP-9500 -- has flagged a conversation between herself and co-author Dr. Fellows for attachment to your 001 project. Shall I incorporate? 
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**[[[SCP-9500]]]** is the Veil of Normalcy, the shroud under which the SCP Foundation carries out its clandestine operations. No assertion that the Veil is anomalous has gained wide acceptance in the parascientific community. An unfounded rumour that an egregore of ignorance has formed on the dark side of the moon, promulgated by a rogue agent known as the Pariah, was the subject of brief investigation before being rejected as unscientific.
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FILE: 
001-BLANK_SCP-9000_Elstrom_Fellows.txt

TYPE: 
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DATE: 
8 October 2024

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K.T. Elstrom, Chief, Administration and Oversight Section, Site-43
B. Fellows, Deputy Director, Site-232
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//<Excerpt begins.>//

//<Dr. Elstrom and Dr. Fellows are seated in a booth in the Pizza Hut at Strathroy-Caradoc Plaza, above Site-232's subterranean facilities. They are sharing a pizza and breadsticks.>//

//<Dr. Fellows dabs at his face with a napkin.>//

[[span class="brad"]]**Dr. Fellows[[/span]]:** Do you think we're doomed to ignorance?

[[span class="karen"]]**Dr. Elstrom[[/span]]:** You want a curmudgeonly answer or a hopeful one?

[[span class="brad"]]**Dr. Fellows[[/span]]:** I want to know what you actually believe.

//<Dr. Elstrom picks up a breadstick, and gestures with it.>//

[[span class="karen"]]**Dr. Elstrom[[/span]]:** Then I'm feeling hopeful. Because one of those options was ignorant, and you picked the one that wasn't.

[[span class="brad"]]**Dr. Fellows[[/span]]:** Everything's a secret test with you.

[[span class="karen"]]**Dr. Elstrom[[/span]]:** Then none of them are secret.

[[span class="brad"]]**Dr. Fellows[[/span]]:** It really makes me wonder, though. Our ignorance is so strong, it made a //god.//

[[span class="karen"]]**Dr. Elstrom[[/span]]:** That's a hopeful thing too, if you think about it. The power of our belief. We can project so much of ourselves, imprint our own designs on the universe. Humanity's collective mind is like...

[[span class="brad"]]**Dr. Fellows[[/span]]:** A cradle of stars. Or a sword that strikes everywhere at once. Or a dunsel.

[[span class="karen"]]**Dr. Elstrom[[/span]]:** What's a dunsel?

[[span class="brad"]]**Dr. Fellows[[/span]]:** A thing with no purpose. //Star Trek// reference.

//<Dr. Elstrom snorts.>//

[[span class="karen"]]**Dr. Elstrom[[/span]]:** Oh, not you //too.// I should introduce you to somebody.

//<She bites the end off the breadstick, and chews thoughtfully. She swallows before speaking again..>//

[[span class="karen"]]**Dr. Elstrom[[/span]]:** You know, some people think there are forces out there guiding our every move. Making us believe what we believe. Turning us this way and that. And I look up at the moon, and I know that's simply not possible.

//<Dr. Fellows sips from his soft drink.>//

[[span class="brad"]]**Dr. Fellows[[/span]]:** We can be manipulated.

//<Dr. Elstrom makes a gesture of acknowledgement with the remaining breadstick.>//

[[span class="karen"]]**Dr. Elstrom[[/span]]:** We can. And we can be tricked. Made to act in anger. Made foolish, or hateful, or spiteful. Or afraid. But I can't imagine that anywhere, in the noösphere, on the back of the moon, or in the space between spaces, there's anything defining us except for us.

[[span class="brad"]]**Dr. Fellows[[/span]]:** It's our responsibility. But what if we abdicate it? What if we invite those outside forces in?

//<Dr. Elstrom dips the breadstick in her packet of sauce, and begins to churn it counterclockwise.>//

[[span class="karen"]]**Dr. Elstrom[[/span]]:** Then that's our decision, too. 

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Yes. That's it. 
That's the key. 
The moon, and the sun. 
Yeats and the moon cycles. 
It's all connected. 
I understand. 
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I have Dr. Reynders, sir.
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Hey Dr. Genius.
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You know Lillian has a crawler specifically searching out every instance of that word, right?
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Well, if she's got something to add, she's welcome to pop back in.
I was hoping to pick your brain about some timeline stuff.
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You'll have to tell me.
So, the Brothers Un. How certain are we that they're an original part of our universal equipment?
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You mean, have they always existed in baseline?
That's difficult to gauge.
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I heard the caveat. 
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I have in fact just put in a request. I'll probably get a response while we're still musing.
But really I was thinking we compare notes with the //Instituto de Contenciòn Segura.//
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I thought so, too. But for some reason there's a partial file on record.
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That's... odd. I never found anything when I searched.
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That is //more// odd. What's in there?
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I'm checking it against your query. Safer than sending it over wholesale if you're not meant to be seeing it.
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Yeah, don't get in trouble on my behalf.
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That's how evil wins, Harry.
Okay, what specifically am I looking for in the ICS data?
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I'd like to compare how many anomalies catalogued existed in the last universe the Uns were in, as opposed to ours.
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There's a difference in the anomaly count, up to the date when they stopped counting. 
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How much of a difference?
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A few hundred.
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Our numbers are higher? 
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Yes. But not high enough that you'd convince anyone there was a single continuous cause. 
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Oh. 
How long will the Metafoundation queries take?
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Already done. The timelines are all answering in sync.
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That's lucky.
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You say that, but.
There's no record of any of the brothers' aliases. 
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Are you serious? 
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Yep. They don't exist in any reality but this one.
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Holy shit.
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And we have confirmation that our reality has the highest total anomaly count, as well.
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Holy //shit.//
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What do you think it means?
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I think it means Vivian was right, Ilse. 
We turn our own wheel.
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Clio, dictation mode please. 
I'm ready to hypothesize.
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Go ahead, sir.
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