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When your data doesn't fit your model, your model is wrong. It's true of physics, and no less true of history. Of course, most models are a little bit wrong. Functionally wrong. Still right enough to be useful. 

I no longer believe that's the case with our model of history. 

We assumed that the brothers originated from an alternate timeline because that made the most sense with how we understand the universe. But it's no longer possible to sustain this interpretation. They have seen and done things which cannot have existed or happened in any known world, because only one known world has //them,// and their form of influence is perfectly unique. As is our world.

We know anomalies are a constant of all stable timelines. We don't know what causes them to exist. They are clearly a thing apart from the elements of reality which science can explain. 

I hypothesize first that a generating force on a higher level of existence than we can perceive is the cause. I further hypothesize that this force is the same force the Aphians appealed to in their attempt to control their world. A power of continuity and change. This is what they incarnated. This is what their failure divided: a force present at the moment human history begins. 

I hypothesize even further that this force was //already// responsive to the whims of humanity. That we drove its cycles, not the other way around. All our race cannot be turned on one wheel, but together we could turn our galaxy in spirals. As we spin out to the fringes of sense and morality, the madness is flung out before us as a vanguard. As we arc down the funnel of logic and reason, there is an ebb in the esoteric flow. It is like this in every member timeline of the Metafoundation. It is the way of every universe. 

But it is stronger, much stronger, here. 

No other world has this many SCP objects on file. No other world boasts so many Groups of Interest. No other Foundation is larger, better funded or more complex. Our world is the weirdest. We have in the past assumed that this is because it is a template, the uttermost baseline. I don't think that's the reason at all. 

I think the generating force still exists, and I think it's tied to these avatars. They are the iceberg-tip of it. That's why they can't be destroyed. They are part of a fundamental aspect of existence. Our collective unconscious fuels their dual unconscious, bringing our dreams and nightmares to life. Perhaps the fact that they are alive, that they have wants and fears almost alike to ours has something to do with the extra anomalous load our reality bears, but again, I don't think that's quite it. 

The brothers speak of surviving an apocalypse. So do the survivors of Aph. The brothers always seem to know how history is going to go before it happens. Where they can intervene for the most effect. But they seem to have lost this foresight around the time they encountered Vivian Scout. Why? 

There are doors in the Wanderers' Library leading to dead dimensions. There is a fragmented history in the files of the ICS which matches closely to our own, until it doesn't. A flourishing of the anomalous measurably tamer than what we faced, an uncertain response, a general calamity, then nothing. This matches no records from any of the Pact members. If that universe still existed, I think we would find it was the second-most thoroughly strange in the pack by now. And I think the one that came before it would have been the third. 

In short, though I am no temporal scientist, I believe I need to propose a new model for the multiverse. Not to replace, but to augment.

They aren't from another timeline. They aren't from a deadline, or an alternate dimension, or the future, or the past. They never went anywhere. They never changed. 

The baseline changed. 

The Unyielding and the Uncontained do not come from an alternate reality. They do not come from an alternate timeline. //They come from an alternate __iteration__ of __this__ reality, __this__ timeline.// An earlier draft of our world. And they have dragged with them the force for continuity and change from which they were incompletely ripped, and that same force from the next draft, and the next, for how many times they've sent our reality back to the drawing board. 

They haven't been destroying other worlds. They've been resetting this one. They found a way to break the world so fully and completely that it effectively regressed to chronological ooze, and reformulated. Not just once. Not just a few times. Potentially dozens, hundreds, //thousands// of times. 

SCP-001 has reiterated our world over and over and over, and every time that world has gotten stranger, stranger, stranger, because they've carried all the strangenesses of all the creations they've committed to oblivion with them, and the day of judgement has been pushed back farther, farther, //farther,// until finally something happened that has happened in every other reality which survives in our timeplane: the Foundation was formed. The most meaningful paradigm shift in human history, and they found themselves off script and in the wrong genre entirely.

And they don't know how to handle that. We're the first new thing under the sun they've seen in countless aeons. So now they're simply waiting to see what we do. How we change the formula. And when they punch the reset button again and everything we are is turned to stardust and reforged into the umpteenth Big Bang, they'll know how to beat us for next time. How to strangle us in the crib when the early days swing by again. 

So, there can't //be// a next time. 

In this life, the only life these versions of ourselves will ever have, we need to kill them.

Or we will never have the chance again.
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##white|» COMMAND: WAKE##

**Command prompt active. The date is 12 October 2024. It has been nine days, two hours since your last activity.**

##white|» COMMAND: .SEENDTBMH JVIDE##

**I last saw JVide at #:## in the Archives and Revision main workspace, sheltering in place.**

##white|» COMMAND: CHANNEL OPEN##

**Specify recipient(s).**

##white|» JVIDE##

**You have specified:**
* **Junior Researcher Jennifer Vide**
**Is this correct?**

##white|» Y##

**Channel open.**

##white|» "Are you okay?"##

**JVide wrote: "What's happening? The shutters all closed."**

##white|» "I don't know. Keep your head down and don't move."##

**MBradbury joined the channel.**

**MBradbury wrote: "Are you okay?"**

**JVide wrote: "I'm fine. I can't hear anything but the klaxons. What breached?"**

##white|» "Clio is hooking me up to the S&C autotranscript. Both of you stay put, okay?"##

**JVide wrote: "Yeah"**

**MBradbury wrote: "I don't think it's happening near me."**

**MBradbury wrote: "I'm not going anywhere."**

##white|» "You're in your office?"##

**MBradbury wrote: "Yes. You?"**

##white|» "Quarters."##
##white|» "I'll keep you posted."##
##white|» "Stay safe."##
##white|» TRACK L_LILLIHAMMER, K_ELSTROM, U_OKORIE, D_IBANEZ, A_MCINNIS, A_TOROSYAN, P_DEERING, W_WETTLE##

* **Dr. L. Lillihammer (Chair Emerita, Memetics and Countermemetics) is not present at Site-43.**
* **Dr. K.T. Elstrom (Chief, Administration and Oversight) is in the foyer of Habitation and Sustenance with B. Fellows (Chief, Identity and Technocryptography). They are in formal wear, and sheltering in the locked down topside elevator.**
* **Dr. U. Okorie (Chief, Applied Occultism) is sheltering in her quarters on the second sublevel.**
* **D. Ibanez (Chief, Pursuit and Suppression) is on the Inter-Sectional Subway System Blue Line from Acroamatic Abatement Facility AAF-A to the main facility. ETA: 5 minutes.**
* **A_McInnis (Director, Site-43) is sheltering in place in his office.**
* **A. Torosyan (Chief, Janitorial and Maintenance) and P. Deering (Deputy Chief, ditto) are sheltering in place in Computer Lab 3 in Identity and Technocryptogaphy.**
* **Dr.W. Wettle (Deputy Chair, Replication Studies) is asleep in his office in Habitation and Sustenance.**

##white|» COMMAND: CHECKFEED##

**You are being routed to the Security and Containment Section automated transcript feed.**
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//<Automated transcript follows.>//

**View: SCP-XXXX intake chamber**
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//<Dr. R. Astrauskas is standing at the back of the chamber. She is examining SCP-XXXX. S&C Agents J. O and P. Mescar stand at the door of the chamber.>//

**Dr. Astrauskas:** I don't know what I'm looking at here.

**Agent Mescar:** How many kinds of aura can there even be?

**Dr. Astrauskas:** A new one every time I look, these days. Wait, I think something's ch--

//<SCP-XXXX begins to shake violently. Its eyes roll back.>//

**Agent O:** <into radio> Subject is seizing!

**Dr. Astrauskas:** What happened? I didn't do anything!

//<Agent Mescar reaches for SCP-XXXX.>//

**Chief Kuroki:** <on radios> On my way!

//<Dr. Astrauskas attempts to restrain SCP-XXXX. She is unsuccessful.>//

**Agent Mescar:** <into radio> We need H&P!

**Chief Kuroki:** <on radios> No! Belay. This could be what he's been waiting for. Condition Orange!

//<Bulkheads seal across the Second Sublevel.>//

//<SCP-XXXX slumps and ceases motion.>//

**Agent Mescar:** Ji, look out!

//<Agent O looks around the room.>//

**Agent O:** What, Paul?

//<Agent Mescar draws his sidearm and fires on Agent O. She is struck in the torso, and falls. He fires on Dr. Astrauskas. She is struck in the head, and falls.>//

**Agent Mescar:** I'll get help, hang on!

//<Agent Mescar shoots SCP-XXXX, and exits the chamber.>//

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//<Dr. Okorie is sitting at her desk. Her head suddenly jerks back, and she appears to lose consciousness.>//

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//<Chief D. Ibanez is examining the main display as six technicians and agents conduct standard operational tasks from their terminals.>//

//<Topside interdiction zone perimeter alarm activates.>//

**Chief Ibanez:** Report!

**Technician Foster:** Infrared triggered. No visual contact.

**Chief Ibanez:** Send Tau-43.

**Technician Chau:** //En route.//

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//<Chief Kuroki runs for the chamber where SCP-XXXX was detained. His sidearm is drawn>//

**Chief Kuroki:** Report!

**Agent Mescar:** He shot Ji and Dr. Astrauskas!

**Chief Kuroki:** How? With what?

//<Agent Mescar raises his weapon to fire on Chief Kuroki. Both discharge their weapons simultaneously. Agent Mescar is struck in the left shoulder. Chief Kuroki's temple is grazed, and he falls.>//

**Agent Mescar:** I don't know!

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//<D.C. H. Yancy is leaning over Agent T. Pierce's shoulder. Agent Pierce is examining her console. She is frowning.>//

**Agent Pierce:** We've lost eyes on the ISSS Red Line.

**D.C. Yancy:** Why?

**Agent Pierce:** No idea, s--

**Cliometria.aic:** <on speakers> Altercation in Second Sublevel Security and Containment Detention Wing. Chief Kuroki down. Researcher down. Agent down. Lockdown in place. Agent Mescar presumed compromised.

**D.C. Yancy:** Deploy "Random Walks."

//<Agent Pierce types on her console.>//

**Agent Pierce:** "Random Walks" investigating.

**D.C. Yancy:** And clamp down the Red Line.

//<A klaxon sounds twice.>//

**D.C. Yancy:** Report!

**Agent Ngata:** Structural damage at Intake Point-94.

**D.C. Yancy:** Send a team.

**Agent Ngata:** Inside or outside?

**D.C. Yancy:** Inside. Call P&S, ask for divers. Send an armed team to the main station.

**Agent Ngata:** On it.

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**View: ISSS Central Station**
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//<Inbound train RL-02 arrives. S&C agents surround the train and conduct a visual inspection.>//

//<Visual inspection is concluded. Doors on RL-02 open. Personnel debark.>//

**Agent Kowalski:** Let me see your hands, people.

//<The passengers raise their hands. Symbols are printed on their palms.>//

//<The S&C agents collapse. The attackers collect their firearms, and proceed toward Health and Pathology.>//
 
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**View: SCP-XXXX intake chamber**
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//<Dr. Astrauskas begins to stir.>//

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**View: Office of the Chief, Applied Occultism**
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//<Dr. Okorie stirs awake. She groans, clutching at her temples.>//

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**View: Pursuit and Suppression Command Centre**
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**Chief Ibanez:** Status on Tau-43?

**Technician Chau:** Tau-43, report.

**Chief Ibanez:** Visual? Infrared?

**Technician Foster:** Nothing.

**Chief Ibanez:** Full mobo. Half available.

**Technician Foster:** Alpha, Beta, Gamma-43, waypoint alpha. Immediate.

//<Connection request tone sounds.>//

**Technician Chau:** Receiving from S&C.

**Chief Ibanez:** Patch it. P&S Actual, go.

**D.C. Yancy:** <on radio> Lords are hitting Intake 94. Cause unknown. Spare some divers?

//<Chief Ibanez taps Technician Foster's left shoulder.>//

**Chief Ibanez:** Ups-43.

**Technician Foster:** Upsilon-43, mobilize to Intake Point-94 for recon.

**Chief Ibanez:** We've lost Tau, Howard. Something's going on up there.

**D.C. Yancy:** And down here. We're on orange.

**Chief Ibanez:** I see that. Why?

**D.C. Yancy:** I don't know. But we've got insurgents headed for the hospital now.

**Chief Ibanez:** Where's Kuroki?

**D.C. Yancy:** I don't know! He won't answer. Paul Mescar shot him.

//<Chief Ibanez taps Technician Chau's right shoulder.>//

**Chief Ibanez:** Condition Black.

**Technician Chau:** Yes sir.

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**View: SCP-XXXX intake chamber**
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//<Dr. Astrauskas sits up, rubbing her forehead where a bruise is forming. She notices Agent O. She stands shakily, pulls an access card from her belt, and taps it against a wall. A panel opens, and Dr. Astrauskas removes a first aid kit from its niche.>//
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**View: Second Sublevel, Security and Containment Control Centre**
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//<Agents are responding to alerts, Officer-in-Charge Frew commanding.>//

**Agent MacDonald:** Bulkheads are opening.

**OIC Frew:** Override.

**Agent MacDonald:** Chief's credentials. Chief is still down. Camera feeds failing.

**OIC Frew:** <into radio> I&T, revoke Chief Kuroki.

**D.C. Gershwin:** <on radio> Say again?

**OIC Frew:** <into radio> Revoke Chief Kuroki!

**D.C. Gershwin:** <on radio> I need Chief or Deputy orders for that.

//<OIC Frew grabs Agent Sigmundsson's left shoulder.>//

**OIC Frew:** Get me the Bullpen.

**Agent Sigmundsson:** Comms to Bullpen are down.

**OIC Frew:** What?

//<Agent S. Fontainebleu enters, and takes up her station.>//

**Agent Sigmundsson:** And we've got hostiles moving through H&P. Sera, can you take that call from P&P?

**Agent Fontainebleu:** It's already on the board.

//<The other agents look toward the main screen.>//

//<Agent Fontainebleu fires. Agent Sigmundsson slumps in his chair. Agent Walsh turns and resumes fire. Agent Fontainebleu falls out of her chair.>//

**OIC Frew:** Agents down! Search her, get the keycard!

//<Agent Walsh approaches Agent Fontainebleu.>//

**Agent MacDonald:** Should we lift the lockdown?

//<Agent Walsh retrieves Chief Kuroki's access card.>//

**OIC Frew:** Not until we know what the hell is--

//<Agent Walsh turns, draws her sidearm, and fires. OIC Frew is struck in the neck, and falls. Agent MacDonald draws his sidearm. Agent Walsh fires. Agent MacDonald is struck in the chest. Agent Akter fires. Agent Walsh is struck in the chest.>//

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**View: Third Sublevel Security and Containment Bullpen**
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**D.C. Yancy:** Get Ibanez back.

**Agent Ngata:** No response!

**Cliometria.aic:** <on speakers> Observe contagion protocol. Subject is--
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**View: Office of the Chief, Applied Occultism**
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//<Dr. Okorie empties her reagents pouch onto her desk, and begins fanning// vim harenae //into her office ventilation grate. She then sits on the floor, cross-legged, and closes her eyes.>//	

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**View: Office of the Director**
**Present:** Director A.J. McInnis
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//<Dir. McInnis speaks into his redline telephone.>//

**Dir. McInnis:** Head for the topside elevator. Start moving immediately.

**Chief Torosyan:** <on telephone> Moving.

**Dir. McInnis:** You need to lock it down manually.

**Chief Torosyan:** <on telephone> You mean, physical? No circuitry?

**Dir. McInnis:** That's right. All systems are compromised.

**D.C. Deering:** <on telephone> We'll have to break it.

**Dir. McInnis:** Then break it, please.

**Chief Torosyan:** <on telephone> You got it.

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**View: Psychology and Parapsychology**
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//<Dr. Ngo is engaged in hand-to-hand combat with three of the attackers from train RL-02. They appear physically identical to Dr. A. Grogan, Dr. J. Beery and Technician B. Barrimore. Their combat skills are inconsistent with known capabilities.>//

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**View: Operations Control**
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//<The All-Sections Chief is coordinating disaster response, relaying orders to ten technicians sitting at their terminals.>//

**All-Sections Chief:** Keep trying to circumvent it.

**Technician Ruan:** There must be something wrong with the antennas. Nothing's getting through.

**Technician Smith:** Something's taking up a lot of memory. Response time is //very// sluggish.

**All-Sections Chief:** Contact Chief Vroom.

**Technician Smith:** He's scrambled. Can't make sense of it.

**Technician Deveraux:** Should we try sending someone?

**All-Sections Chief:** Nobody breaks lockdown. We're safe in here. Let's keep it that way, so we can keep everyone //else// safe, too.

**Technician Deveraux:** Understood, sir.

**All-Sections Chief:** This is our job. We're good at it.

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**View: Second Sublevel, Secondary Elevator Approach**
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//<Technician J. MacCrum meets Agent B. Akter at the elevator.>//

**Technician MacCrum:** What's happening?

//<Agent Akter hands Chief Kuroki's access card to Technician MacCrum.>//

**Agent Akter:** There's a breach. Everyone's in danger. Jessie, I love you.

//<Agent Akter raises his sidearm to his temple, and fires. He falls.>//

//<Technician MacCrum screams, and runs to the elevator.>//

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**View: Pursuit and Suppression Command Centre**
**Present:** Chief D. Ibanez, agents (various), technicians (various)
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**Chief Ibanez:** Talk to me!

**Technician Chau:** Inter-site comms are down. Transcription still active.

**Chief Ibanez:** Get the priority feed. We can piece this together.

**Technician Foster:** Lost the feed to S&C central.

**Chief Ibanez:** Alpha, Beta, Gamma?

**Technician Foster:** Approaching the site of the interdiction flag.

**Chief Ibanez:** Patch me in.

**Technician Foster:** You're go.

**Chief Ibanez:** <into radio> Raz, what's good?

**Agent Mataxas:** <on radio> There's nothing here. But the interdiction guns are raised.

**Chief Ibanez:** <into radio> Take cover!

**Technician Foster:** What?

**Agent Mataxas:** <on radio> Cover, ABC!

**Technician Chau:** She's right, S&C central is sending--

**Agent Mataxas:** <on radio> Take c--

//<Gunfire over radio.>//

**Chief Ibanez:** <into radio> Raz!

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**View: SCP-XXXX intake chamber**
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//<Agent O. is bandaged, and breathing. Dr. Astrauskas is pounding on the chamber door and shouting. No audio feed is available.>//

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**View: Third Sublevel, Habitation and Sustenance, Main Lobby**
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//<Three wall panels are removed and discarded. Chief Torosyan and Deputy Chief Deering are manually disabling the socketed electrics for the topside elevator.>//

//<SCP-5056 is present on a containment mirror. Its orifices are moving.>//

**D.C. Deering:** Can we cut the cable?

**Chief Torosyan:** Not from down here.

**D.C. Deering:** The hatch?

**Chief Torosyan:** Door's locked.

//<Chief Torosyan knocks on the door.>//

**Chief Torosyan:** Anybody in there?

//<The doors open. Dr. K. Elstrom and Dr. B. Fellows are within.>//

**Dr. Elstrom:** What are you doing?

**Chief Torosyan:** We need to kill the elevator.

//<D.C. Deering returns to working on the panels.>//

//<Dr. Elstrom and Dr. Fellows enter the lobby.>//

**Dr. Fellows:** Where's the nearest bunker?

**Dr. Elstrom:** We don't have bunkers. We're going to A&O.

//<Dr. Elstrom heads toward Administration and Oversight. Dr. Fellows follows her.>//

**D.C. Deering:** I've got the call circuit bypassed.

**Chief Torosyan:** That's a start. Pop the ladder panel.

//<Deputy Chief Deering raises a vertical wall panel.>//

**D.C. Deering:** Manual bulkhead?

**Chief Torosyan:** Yeah.

//<Chief Torosyan enters the panel and places her hands on a recessed ladder.>//

**Chief Torosyan:** It's only--

//<The eastern breach bulkhead raises.>//

**D.C. Deering:** Who's--

//<Technician MacCrum ducks under the bulkhead. She raises a Security and Containment service weapon.>//

**D.C. Deering:** Amy!

//<Technician Deering lunges forward. Technician MacCrum fires. Deputy Chief Deering is struck; angle obstructs point of entry. Deputy Chief Deering falls, colliding with Chief Torosyan. The panel falls back into place, separating Chief Torosyan and Deputy Chief Deering. Deputy Chief Deering slumps against the panel.>//

**Chief Torosyan:** <muted> PHIL!

//<SCP-5056 disappears from the mirror.>//

//<Agent MacCrum screams, clawing at her face and dropping the service weapon. She runs through the lobby towards Identity and Technocryptography, Chief Kuroki's access card raised.>//

//<A screech at 119 decibels sounds briefly.>//

//<SCP-5056 reappears in the mirror, facial orifices vibrating.>//

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**View: Pursuit and Suppression Command Centre, Acroamatic Abatement Facility AAF-A**
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//<Chief Ibanez moves to the door.>//

**Chief Ibanez:** Varma, take lead. I'm going to the subway.

**Agent Varma:** Aye sir.

**Chief Ibanez:** Chau, round up the off-shift. Teams of two. Secure all access.

**Agent Chau:** Yes sir.

//<Chief Ibanez exits at a run.>//

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**View: SCP-XXXX intake chamber**
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//<The door grinds open. Flecks of red fall from the door frame. Dr. Astrauskas picks up Agent O's sidearm, and heads into the corridor.>//

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**View: Habitation and Sustenance**
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//<Dr. Elstrom and Dr. Fellows approach Administration and Oversight. The shutters are down. They turn right, proceeding to an auxiliary washroom.>//

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**View: Operations Control**
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**Technician Ruan:** Particulate matter is present throughout the ventilation systems.

**All-Sections Chief:** Finally, some good news.

//<The main screen begins strobing. All present personnel, including the All-Sections Chief, fall to the floor and begin seizing.>//

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**View: Third Sublevel Security and Containment Bullpen**
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**Agent Ngata:** Intake-94 breached.

**D.C. Yancy:** Can we tell if the divers made it?

**Agent Ngata:** No visuals, no... no nothing.

**D.C. Yancy:** Pressure signals?

**Agent Ngata:** The dome is flooded.

//<D.C. Yancy moves to the weapons locker.>//

**D.C. Yancy:** Intrusion protocol.

//<D.C. Yancy begins removing large calibre weapons. The agents form an orderly line.>//

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**View: Psychology and Parapsychology**
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//<Dr. Ngo has defeated her initial attackers, but is now overwhelmed. Four enemies have pinned her to the ground. Her left leg is broken.>//

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**View:** Acroamatic Abatement Facility AAF-A Inter-Sectional Subway Station
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//<Chief Ibanez raises her access card at the turnstile.>//

//<A tone sounds.>//

//<Chief Ibanez approaches a parked subway train. The doors open to admit her.>//

**Chief Ibanez:** P&S ACTUAL! CLEAR THE TRACKS!

//<The train begins moving at double operating speed.>//

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**View: Third Sublevel, Habitation and Sustenance Section, Southern Dormitories**
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//<Technician MacCrum is on the floor. Dr. T. Wichman is standing behind a support arch, exchanging fire with a pair of S&C agents farther down the hall.>//

**Agent Kennedy:** Give up, doctor!

**Dr. Wichman:** Don't hurt me!

**Agent Tanaka:** We don't want to hurt you! Just put your weapon down!

//<Dr. Wichman tosses his weapon on the floor, and emerges from the arch with his hands raised.>//

**Agent Tanaka:** Oh, thank god.

//<Agent Tanaka moves to pick up Dr. Wichman's weapon. Agent Kennedy moves to secure Dr. Wichman.>//

**Dr. Wichman:** I didn't do anything!

**Agent Kennedy:** You sure tried, though!

//<Agent Kennedy handcuffs Dr. Wichman, and lowers him to sit on a closed floor hatch.>//

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**View: Inter-Sectional Subway System**
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//<Chief Ibanez paces back and forth in the subway train, service weapon drawn.>//

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**View: Identity and Technocryptography**
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//<Technician L. Angstrom emerges from a service crawlspace into the hall outside Chief Vroom's office. She swipes her identification card through the reader, opens the door, and enters the office.>//

//<Chief Vroom is within. He stands.>//

**Chief Vroom:** What's going on out there?

**Technician Angstrom:** I barely got away in time. We need to find you someplace safer. They've got control of the systems now.

//<She moves to Chief Vroom's terminal. He stands aside.>//

//<Camera feed is lost.>//

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**View: Third Sublevel Security and Containment Bullpen**
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**D.C. Yancy:** Can we get boots to F-A?

**Agent Ngata:** Negative. Bulkheads are still locked to the Chief's key. Subway is still moving, though.

**D.C. Yancy:** What feeds do we have?

**Technician Phillips:** Sporadic. Whoever got into the centre did some scrambling. It's hard to fix remotely, but I'm trying.

**D.C. Yancy:** We're on the back foot here. I want us //ahead.//

**Agent Ngata:** Systems monitoring still works. I'm scanning everything to see what I can see.

**D.C. Yancy:** How's the Intake Point?

**Agent Ngata:** Stabilized. It's still there, at least.

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**View: Inter-Sectional Subway System**
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//<The subway train halts suddenly. Chief Ibanez is thrown to the floor.>//

**Chief Ibanez:** FUCK!

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**View: Theology and Teleology**
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//<Chief Vroom jogs into view, examining his work tablet. He opens an equipment locker door; Technician Edward Simms is inside.>//

**Technician Simms:** Chief?

**Chief Vroom:** Eddie! We've got to stop meeting like this.

//<Technician Simms laughs.>//

//<Chief Vroom produces a Conducted Energy Device (CED) and presses it to the underside of Technician Simms' chin. He convulses. Chief Vroom holds the device in place for several seconds before withdrawing it. Technician Simms falls to the floor. Chief Vroom picks up his work tablet from a shelf, examines it, and nods before leaving the closet.>//

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**View: Inter-Sectional Subway System**
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//<Chief Ibanez is running down the subway tunnel. Lights can be seen approaching from behind.>//

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**View: Third Sublevel, Habitation and Sustenance, Main Lobby**
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//<Three individuals in close-fitting black garments exit the topside elevator, carrying climbing equipment and automatic weapons. Facial recognition indicates with 93%, 95% and 95% confidence that each are active members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Occult and Supernatural Activities Taskforce.>//

//<The OSAT agents sweep the empty foyer, then head toward Administration and Oversight.>//

//<Deputy Chief Deering groans. SCP-5056's facial orifices are vibrating rapidly.>//

//<The wall panel behind Deputy Chief Deering begins to move upward.>//

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**View: Arms and Equipment**
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//<Dr. Trevor Bremmel exits his laboratory, experimental energy weapon in hand. Researcher Joanna Bremmel attempts to follow him, but he presses her back and taps the door controls. She moves to the window to observe him as he scans the corridor, weapon raised.>//

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**View: Office of the Chief, Identity and Technocryptography**
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//<Camera view resumes.>//

//<Technician Angstrom is on the floor. SCP-5295 is active. A new external hard drive has been connected to the device. Upon booting, the cursor begins to move. An executable is run, and a file structure is displayed.>//

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**View: Inter-Sectional Subway System**
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//<Chief Ibanez is standing behind the frame of a breach door in the subway tunnel, exchanging fire with pursuers to the north. Automatic weaponry is decreasing her cover.>//

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**View: Habitation and Sustenance**
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//<Dr. Astrauskas emerges into Habitation and Sustenance, and moves west. She approaches the partly-raised breach bulkhead to the lobby, and halts when she hears the topside elevator descending ahead.>//

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**View: Third Sublevel, Habitation and Sustenance, Main Lobby**
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//<Chief Torosyan emerges from the half-opened panel, and moves to Deputy Chief Deering's side.>//

**Chief Torosyan:** Phil.

//<MTF Rho-43 emerge from the topside elevator in full riot gear. Agent R. Mataxas nods at Chief Torosyan.>//

**Agent Mataxas:** Comms are down. Can you reach Chief Kuroki?

//<Chief Torosyan is pressing her hand to a wound in Deputy Chief Deering's side.>//

**Agent Mataxas:** Chief Kuroki. It's important.

//<Chief Torosyan shakes her head.>//

**Chief Torosyan:** Redline.

//<Chief Torosyan removes her lapel microphone and passes it to Agent Mataxas.>//

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**View: Habitation and Sustenance**
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//<Dr. Astrauskas is typing into her pager.>//

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//<Agent Mataxas activates the radio.>//

**Agent Mataxas:** <to radio> Sir?

**Dir. McInnis:** <on radio> Yes?

**Agent Mataxas:** <to radio> This is Rho-43. We're in Habitation and Sustenance. Can you tell Chief Kuroki to expect us at the command post?

**Dir. McInnis:** <on radio> What's your call-sign?

**Agent Mataxas:** <to radio> //Ekht.//

**Dir. McInnis:** <on radio> I will pass it along.

//<Agent Mataxas signals his subordinates.>//

**Agent Mataxas:** Let's move.

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**View: Office of the Director**
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//<Director McInnis looks down from the painting behind his desk, and switches channels on his redline.>//

**Director McInnis:** Bullpen?

**Agent Ngata:** <on phone> Sir?

**Director McInnis:** Armed cryptomancers advancing on your location. Be advised.

**Agent Ngata:** Thank you, sir.

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**View: Habitation and Sustenance**
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//<Dr. Astrauskas smiles at her pager. She places it on her belt, and ducks under the breach bulkhead.>//

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**View: Office of the Chief, Identity and Technocryptography**
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//<SCP-5295 deactivates.>//

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**View: Third Sublevel, Habitation and Sustenance, Main Lobby**
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//<The elevator doors close, and the elevator begins to rise.>//

//<Chief Torosyan is sobbing. Deputy Chief Deering's eyes are closed.>//

//<Dr. Astrauskas is moving toward Health and Pathology at a run.>//

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//<The OSAT agents are passing the Administration and Oversight shutter, sweeping the corridor to the auxiliary washroom.>//

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//<Security and Containment agents are engaged in a firefight with the false MTF agents.>//

//<Dr. Bremmel appears behind the S&C line.>//

**Dr. Bremmel:** Mind if I help?

//<Agent Driscoll turns to Dr. Bremmel. She smiles.>//

**Agent Driscoll:** Never miss a breach, do you?

**Dr. Bremmel:** I've caused a fair few in my day.

//<He raises the weapon, and takes several steps back.>//

**Dr. Bremmel:** Press yourselves to the walls, please. Unless you want your atoms painting them.

//<The S&C agents press themselves to the walls.>//

//<Dr. Bremmel adjusts several dials on his weapon, then steps out into the hall.>//

//<Dr. Bremmel fires. His weapon extrudes a square of white light which expands to fill the space between the walls, ceiling and floor, stretching approximately fifty metres from the aperture.>//

//<The light vanishes. The S&C agents have also vanished. There are scorch marks on the wall.>//

//<Dr. Bremmel drops the weapon.>//

**Dr. Bremmel:** Ah.

//<The false MTF approaches, weapons drawn.>//

**Dr. Bremmel:** Don't take another step. I've got this entire corridor booby-trapped.

//<The Lead Agent signals. One of the subordinate agents approaches Dr. Bremmel.>//

//<Dr. Bremmel reaches down and removes the subordinate agent's pistol from its holster.>//

**Dr. Bremmel:** You're not going to believe my next trick.

//<Dr. Bremmel presses the barrel of the pistol to his chest, and fires three times.>//

//<Dr. Bremmel falls to the floor.>//

//<The agent retrieves his pistol, and walks past the other false MTF agents in the direction from which they came.>//

//<The lead agent signals, and the group moves toward the Security and Containment Command Post.>//

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//<The OSAT agents approach the auxiliary washroom. One reaches for the door handle.>//

//<The door opens, striking the first two agents and knocking them aside. Dr. Fellows runs out, striking the third agent and knocking him aside. He continues around the corner and down the hall. Dr. Elstrom follows.>//

//<A weapon is discharged. A wall tile beside Dr. Fellows shatters.>//

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//<Director McInnis activates a button on his console.>//

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//<The shutters begin to raise.>//

//<Dr. Fellows is visible outside the glass. He runs to the door, pulls it open, and enters the lobby.>//

//<The heel of Dr. Elstrom's shoe breaks, and she stumbles.>//

//<Dr. Fellows holds the door open.>//

**Dr. Fellows:** Come on!

//<Dr. Elstrom twists her ankle, and shouts.>//

**Dr. Elstrom:** Close the shutters!

//<Dr. Fellows steps into the corridor toward her.>//

//<The shutters begin to close.>//

//<Gunfire. Dr. Elstrom's back arcs, and bullets emerge from her torso. She falls onto Dr. Fellows, and the two of them fall back through the door.>//

//<The OSAT agents are visible beyond the glass. They open fire.>//

//<The camera is struck, and the feed terminates.>//

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//<The elevator doors open.>//

//<Three men in loose-fitting combat fatigues exit, followed by PoI-001 ("Elizabeth Crocker"). They approach SCP-001-UNCONTAINED's chamber.>//

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//<Director McInnis has his index finger extended over the ENTER key on his computer console.>//

//<He closes his eyes.>//

//<He presses the key.>//
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ERROR
ERROR
ERROR
CENTRAL SYSTEMS OFFLINE
BACKUP SYSTEMS OFFLINE

. . .

CHARGES 1-979 DETONATED SUCCESSFULLY

. . .

DAMAGE REPORT: SUBLEVEL 3
ALL STRUCTURAL MEMBERS DESTROYED
TELEKILL SHEATHE COMPROMISED
TOTAL COLLAPSE (PROJECTED)

ACROAMATIC ABATEMENT FACILITY AAF-B: DARK
ACROAMATIC ABATEMENT FACILITY AAF-C: DARK
ACROAMATIC ABATEMENT FACILITY AAF-D: DARK
ADMINISTRATION AND OVERSIGHT SECTION: DARK
ARCHIVES AND REVISION SECTION: DARK
ARMS AND EQUIPMENT SECTION: DARK
HABITATION AND SUSTENANCE SECTION: DARK
HEALTH AND PATHOLOGY SECTION: DARK
HIRING AND REGULATION SECTION: DARK
IDENTITY AND TECHNOCRYPTOGRAPHY SECTION: DARK
INTER-SECTIONAL SUBWAY SYSTEM: DARK
JANITORIAL AND MAINTENANCE SECTION: DARK
MEMETICS AND COUNTERMEMETICS SECTION: DARK
PSYCHOLOGY AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY SECTION: DARK
PROCUREMENT AND LIQUIDATION SECTION (DEPRECATED): DARK
QUANTUM SUPERMECHANICS SECTION: DARK
RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION SECTION: DARK
SECURITY AND CONTAINMENT SECTION ALPHA: DARK
SECURITY AND CONTAINMENT SECTION BETA: DARK
SECURITY AND CONTAINMENT SECTION GAMMA: DARK
THEOLOGY AND TELEOLOGY SECTION: DARK


DAMAGE REPORT: SUBLEVEL 2
FLOOR COLLAPSE (SUBSTANTIATED)

APPLIED OCCULTISM SECTION: SEVERE DAMAGE

DAMAGE REPORT: SUBLEVEL 1
STRUCTURALLY COMPROMISED

SECURITY AND CONTAINMENT SECTION: SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE
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RECONSTRUCTING TRANSCRIPTION
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**View: Third Sublevel Structural Members 1-979**
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//<Shaped charges destroy each structural member simultaneously. The surrounding area suffers immediate blast damage. The ceiling begins to fall in.>//

//<99% of structural member monitoring cameras fail.>//

//<The space previously occupied by each structural member still visible on camera is filled with a new structural member sculpted in the image of an// Ursus maritimus //(polar bear).>//
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= **-- The Obearwatch Command**
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//<Dr. Ngo is surrounded by bodies and rubble.>//

//<A man begins to groan beside her. She picks up a chunk of rubble, and strikes him in the head with it.>//

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**View: Health and Pathology**

//<Dr. Astrauskas is limping. She is carrying a medical kit under one arm.>//

//<The floor behind her is progressively collapsing.>//

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**View: Office of the Chief, Applied Occultism**

//<Dr. Okorie is sitting on her desk, three legs of which have sunken into the carpet. She is gritting her teeth, and gesturing with both hands. A ceiling tile falls beside her. She does not react.>//

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**View: Archives and Revision**
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//<Dr. Wettle is fleeing the AAF-D approach. There is smoke in the air. Large sections of wall, floor, and ceiling are absent. Machinery and architectural materials are falling from above. Overhead sprinklers are activating, with a high failure rate.>//

//<Gunfire. A fire extinguisher explodes as Dr. Wettle passes it, coating him with foam. He continues to run.>//

//<Two OSAT agents are visible behind Dr. Wettle. One is limping.>//

//<Dr. Wettle is screaming.>//

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**View: Third Sublevel, Security and Containment Command Post**
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//<All agents are down. Agent Yancy is struggling to rise. Gunfire continues.>//

//<Camera feed fails.>//

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**View: Office of the Director**
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//<Director McInnis is dialling each channel on his redline while he monitors the surviving cameras. No response.>//

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**View: Sublevel 4**
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//<PoI-001 examines the topside elevator.>//

**PoI-001:** Damn. 

//<PoI-001's escort emerges from SCP-001-UNCONTAINED's chamber. SCP-001-UNCONTAINED follows them. PoI-001 turns to face it.>//

**PoI-001:** Stretch your legs?

**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:** And some necks, I hope.

//<PoI-001 nods.>//

**PoI-001:** One slight problem, though.

//<The cavern wall to the elevator's right begins to glow. PoI-001 backs away.>//

//<The cavern wall beside the elevator disappears. The rock beyond glows briefly before returning to normal. The Lead Agent of the false MTF appears in the new aperture, and takes off his helmet.>//

**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:** Very slight.

//<The Lead Agent is Roger Pensak, former Chief of Security and Containment at Site-43.>//

**Pensak:** Random variable pays off.

**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:** No plan with nothing left to chance ever succeeds.

//<PoI-001 gestures at the aperture.>//

**PoI-001:** Let's not push our luck, though.

//<They begin to exit the space, PoI-6382 taking up the rear.>//

//<There is a displacement of air. Ceiling tiles fall in. PoI-6382 ("Keil Graf") appears, flanked by two individuals in robes. They are carrying a stretcher between them.>//

//<One of PoI-001's agents offers her a mock salute, and joins the incoming party. He opens his fist to reveal a small red stone, which he hands to PoI-6382.>//

//<PoI-6382 raises a matching stone, and shows it to PoI-001. The turncoat// giftschreiber //smiles apologetically at her.>//

**PoI-001:** No hard feelings. I've done worse.

//<PoI-6382 nods at PoI-001 as his escorts enter SCP-001-UNYIELDING's chamber.>//

**PoI-001:** Reverse-engineered it finally, did you.

**PoI-6382:** More or less. Wildly impractical, compared to the original.

**PoI-001:** Why not try pulling it out of the sun?

**PoI-6382:** I prefer not to repeat my own mistakes, let alone those of others.

//<PoI-001 nods.>//

**PoI-001:** Then you know better than to open a second front while the first is still moving.

//<She turns to follow her escort up the sloping tunnel. She does not look back.>//

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//<Pensak exits the new tunnel beside the elevator, consults a map on the wall, then raises Dr. Bremmel's energy weapon to point at the ceiling.>//

//<PoI-001 exits the tunnel, and places her left hand on his left arm.>//

**PoI-001:** We haven't got time.

**Pensak:** We've got computer control. I can activate INTERITAS.

**PoI-001:** That worked out so well for you last time.

**Pensak:** All the more reason to try again.

**PoI-001:** Get us to the boats, then you can do whatever you want.

//<Pensak hesitates, then nods and lowers the weapon.>//

//<PoI-6382 and his escorts exit the tunnel. SCP-001-UNYIELDING is prone on the stretcher.>//

**PoI-001:** Walk me out, Mr. Graf?

**PoI-6382:** It would be my pleasure, Ms. Crocker.

//<PoI-6382 extends his arm, and PoI-001 takes it. They head east through Habitation and Sustenance. Their escorts follow, with SCP-001-UNCONTAINED and SCP-001-UNYIELDING in tow.>//

//<The party reaches Dr. Astrauskas, Chief Torosyan, Deputy Chief Deering and SCP-5056. Deputy Chief Deering's head is resting in Chief Torosyan's lap, and she is running her fingers through his hair, sobbing. Dr. Astrauskas is closing the medical kit. SCP-5056 is staring at Deputy Chief Deering.>//

//<The party passes in silence.>//

//<As SCP-001-UNCONTAINED and SCP-001-UNYIELDING pass the mirror, SCP-5056 turns to watch them.>//

//<SCP-5056 disappears from its mirror.>//

//<Deputy Chief Deering gasps for air.>//

//<SCP-5056 does not return.>//

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//<Dr. Wettle is fleeing through the northern dorms. Gunfire is still audible.>//

**Dr. Wettle:** Shit shit shit shit shit shit!

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//<The// schriftsteller //party passes through the abandoned turnstiles.>//

**PoI-6382:** They will have closed all the bulkheads on the way to Grand Bend, of course.

//<He palms the red stones, smiling.>//

**PoI-6382:** But every piece of armour has its weak spot.

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

//<It smiles.>//

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**View: Inter-Sectional Subway System (Blue Line)**
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//<A section of wall disappears, glowing bright. When the glow subsides, the// giftschreiber //party emerges into the half-filled tunnel.>//

//<A boat is waiting, moored on the maintenance railing.>//

//<The party boards, except for Pensak.>//

**PoI-001:** Sure you want to finish the job?

**Pensak:** I'm not taking my chances with these people again. Four years in irons was enough.

**PoI-001:** Suit yourself.

**Pensak:** Save me a seat.

//<PoI-001 frowns. She glances at the half-empty boat.>//

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

//<A single shot is fired.>//

//<Pensak staggers back, dropping Dr. Bremmel's gun into the tunnel water. He strikes the wall, bleeding from his left shoulder.>//

//<SCP-001-UNCONTAINED turns, smile widening. It opens its arms wide.>//

**SCP-001-UNCONTAINED:** You couldn't save him then. You can't make up for that now.

//<The agents cast off the boat's moorings, and it begins to motor away. Three more shots are fired, striking one of the agents, the engine, and SCP-001-UNCONTAINED. The latter falls out of view, but remains in the boat as it escapes. The motor is smoking.>//

//<Chief Ibanez treads water on the far side of the tunnel, gripping a broken ladder with one hand, sidearm pointed at Pensak again.>//

//<Pensak clutches his wound. He sneers.>//

**Pensak:** Better not mess up my face this time, if you want me to t--

//<Chief Ibanez fires again, striking Pensak's front teeth. They shatter, and the bullet emerges from the back of his head. He falls into the tunnel, and immediately sinks.>//

//<Chief Ibanez collapses, and is carried south with the current.>//

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//<Director McInnis is monitoring Dr. Wettle, who is approaching the Administration and Oversight foyer. He taps a button, and the shutters raise.>//

//<Windows shatter as Dr. Wettle races into the lobby, screaming. The shutters lower again.>//

//<No camera view showing the interior of Administration and Oversight is available.>//

//<Director McInnis stands, adjusts his shirt cuffs, and walks to his office door. He opens it, and Dr. Wettle plunges in.>//

//<Dr. Wettle falls to the carpet as Director McInnis closes the door.>//

//<Dr. Wettle wheezes on the floor. Director McInnis walks back toward his desk.>//

**Dr. Wettle:** So... many... //bullets.//

**Dir. McInnis:** I daresay anyone else wouldn't have made it.

**Dr. Wettle:** Lucky... me.

//<Dir. McInnis extends a hand, and helps Dr. Wettle regain his feet.>//

**Dr. Wettle:** What... happened?

**Dir. McInnis:** What was always going to happen, I suppose. Though it's mostly over now.

**Dr. Wettle:** You're sure?

//<Dir. McInnis nods.>//

//<Dr. Wettle catches his breath, and staggers back to lean on the door. He strikes his head, and curses under his breath.>//

**Dir. McInnis:** The worst is over now.

**Dr. Wettle:** Thank god.

**Dir. McInnis:** There are no more gods here.

//<Dr. Wettle stares at Director McInnis.>//

**Dr. Wettle:** You don't mean.

**Dir. McInnis:** I'm afraid so. Both of them. We've failed.

//<Dir. McInnis grimaces.>//

**Dir. McInnis:** //I've// failed.

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

**Dr. Wettle:** You did the best you could.

**Dir. McInnis:** I've done //nothing.// I should have prepared them better.

**Dr. Wettle:** It wasn't your fault, and nobody blames you.

//<Dir. McInnis stiffens. He stares at Dr. Wettle for several seconds, then suddenly relaxes.>//

**Dir. McInnis:** I thought we would have more time. But I suppose that's always the way. //Ceci n'est pas une pipe,// eh?

//<He adjusts his collar, and smiles.>//

**Dir. McInnis:** I'm terribly sorry, William.

**Dr. Wettle:** We'll fix this together.

//<Dr. Wettle draws a sidearm from beneath his labcoat, and fires. The bullet passes through Dir. McInnis' forehead and occipital bone, embedding itself in the wall. He falls to the floor.>//

//<Dr. Wettle lowers his weapon, blinks, and begins to twitch.>//

**Dr. Wettle:** //Ceci... n'est pas...//?

//<Dr. Wettle's head jerks up to face the framed copy of// The Treachery of Images //hanging above the Director's desk. His eyes roll back in his skull, and he collapses.>//
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**Chairs and Chiefs Meeting Minutes**
**Date:** 12 October 2024
**Section Leads Present:** [[span class="nim"]]Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]], Nexus Affairs; [[span class="harry"]]Dr. H.R. Blank[[/span]], Archives and Revision; [[span class="mel"]]Dr. M. Bradbury[[/span]], Research and Experimentation; [[span class="xin"]]Dr. X. Du[[/span]], Quantum Supermechanics; [[span class="karen"]]Acting Chief D.S. Ferber[[/span]], Administration and Oversight; [[span class="billie"]]Deputy Chief W.P. Forsythe[[/span]], Health and Pathology; [[span class="eileen"]]Acting Chief R.O. Gershwin[[/span]], Identity and Technocryptography; [[span class="del"]]Chief D. Ibanez[[/span]], Pursuit and Suppression; [[span class="polly"]]Dr. P. Mataxas[[/span]], Spectrometry and Spectremetry; [[span class="mike"]]Dr. M.L. Nass[[/span]], Theology and Teleology; [[span class="udo"]]Dr. U.A. Okorie[[/span]], Applied Occultism; [[span class="ilse"]]Dr. I.D. Reynders[[/span]], Acroamatic Abatement; [[span class="daniil"]]Deputy Director Dr. D. Sokolsky[[/span]], Emergent Threat Tactical Response Authority; [[span class="howard"]]Acting Chief H.M. Yancy[[/span]], Security and Containment; [[span class="noor"]]Chief N. Zaman[[/span]], Hiring and Regulation/Habitation and Sustenance
**Section Leads Telepresent:** [[span class="lil"]]Dr. L.S. Lillihammer[[/span]], Memetics and Countermemetics; [[span class="nhung"]]Dr. N.T. Ngo[[/span]], Psychology and Parapsychology; [[span class="amy"]]Chief A.O. Torosyan[[/span]], Janitorial and Maintenance
**Visitors Present:** [[span class="roz"]]Dr. R. Astrauskas[[/span]], Applied Occultism
**Absent:** Chief of Arms and Equipment, position vacant; [[span class="eileen"]]Dr. E.K. Veiksaar[[/span]], Ethics Committee liaison

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//<Transcript begins.>//

//<The surviving Chairs and Chiefs take their seats at the table. Most are injured in some manner. Chief Gershwin sets up portable monitors at the far end of the table, and hooks up his work terminal to access several remote feeds.>//

//<Dr. Okorie's eyes are closed, and Dr. Astrauskas guides her to her chair. An orange glow is visible through Dr. Okorie's lids, and she is still moving her hands gently. Her lips are pursed and her neck muscles are straining.>//

//<When all present are sitting, Acting Director Nimkii stands.>//

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Director Allan McInnis is dead.

//<Muffled sounds on recording. Dr. Reynders, Dr. Okorie, and Deputy Chief Yancy are weeping.>//

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** I am acting in his stead now, as Director Pro-tem.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** How is Karen? 

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Dr. Forsythe is in surgery with her now.

//<Deputy Chief Forsythe seems to shake herself awake. A bandage is wrapped around her scalp.>//

[[span class="billie"]]**D.C. Forsythe[[/span]]:** We're... there's a lot. We lost a lot of people. Dr. Bremmel. Chief Vroom.

//<From the monitors, Dr. Lillihammer can be heard sucking in air through her teeth.>//

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** What about Phil?

[[span class="billie"]]**D.C. Forsythe[[/span]]:** Stable. Unconscious.

//<A throat is cleared on the monitor feed.>//

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Chief Torosyan is joining us remotely from the infirmary, so we can get a better picture of what we're dealing with right now.

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** I'm so sorry, Amelia.

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** He's going to be fine. 

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas[[/span]]:** Hang in there.

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** He'll be fine.

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** Shouldn't you be out fixing something, then?

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** Daniil.

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

[[span class="billie"]]**D.C. Forsythe[[/span]]:** She's only out of her own bed AMA right now. She inhaled a lot of bad stuff in that compartment. She probably can't even walk.

//<She shakes her head rapidly, wincing.>//

[[span class="billie"]]**D.C. Forsythe[[/span]]:** I'm only here because I can't work. Scrambled my egg salad on a doorframe when the shocks hit.

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Helena will be joining us as soon as possible with a medical update, and to help with certain procedural matters at the end of this meeting. 

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** And Willie?

//<Dr. Ngo's voice is tinny on the monitor. There is a great deal of dust in the air on her portion of the video feed.>//

[[span class="nhung"]]**Dr. Ngo[[/span]]:** From what Helena has wired me, he's in a vegetative state. 

//<Dr. Blank twitches, though he says nothing.>//

[[span class="nhung"]]**Dr. Ngo[[/span]]:** Brain waves are still about normal. Definitely in shock, probably also some sort of withdrawal.

//<Dr. Ngo coughs.>//

[[span class="howard"]]**Acting Chief Yancy[[/span]]:** He's in a Faraday cage under the Telekill sump, surrounded by SRAs.

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** That can't be healthy for him. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez:[[/span]]** He stays there until we know he's not gonna be unhealthy to the rest of us. 

[[span class="nhung"]]**Dr. Ngo[[/span]]:** There will absolutely be trauma. Reviewing the tapes suggests the anomaly functioned as a sort of malicious personality overlay. I don't think it was mimicking our people while controlling their bodies, I think it was just imprinting its will on top of who they already were. 

//<Dr. Ngo hisses.>//

[[span class="billie"]]**D.C. Forsythe[[/span]]:** You can take another tablet, doctor.

[[span class="nhung"]]**Dr. Ngo[[/span]]:** We might need them. Lot of people still trapped in here with me.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie:[[/span]]** Why didn't we know the cryptomancers had anything like this? 

//<Dr. Sokolsky shrugs.>//

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** If it were me, I'd have kept it a secret until it could do they most damage, or win me a serious advantage. And that's exactly what they did. 

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** How can we defend against this happening again? We have to assume it wasn't a one-off effect. 

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du:[[/span]]** QS has focus drugs in storage from when we still had 5616. I'll confer with Nhung about maybe handing them out. 

//<Dr. Ngo nods.>//

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du:[[/span]]** Hachiro... //Chief Kuroki// is going to be fine, by the way.

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez:[[/span]]** Second Site he's lost from under him. Gonna be pissed.

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** We are not lost. Not yet. But we do need to secure the barn door, and that starts with proactive measures.

[[span class="roz"]]**Dr. Astrauskas[[/span]]:** I'll keep long watch for //geistschreiber// and implement screening procedures.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** I'll implement Protocol NAZAR as soon as my chopper gets in.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Acting Chief Gershwin:[[/span]]** What's that? 

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Countermemetic ward against the evil eye, science style. Hope H&P is all stocked up on sumatriptan, this thing causes cluster headaches in nine out of ten people.

//<Deputy Chief Forsythe groans.>//

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** I'll keep managing our response from here. Got teams everywhere. Everyone who can walk.

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Preliminary report?

//<Chief Torosyan takes a deep breath, then blows it out.>//

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** Floor level has dropped across Sub 2 wherever the structural members blew; I don't see AO collapsing but it's completely unsafe for traffic right now. Topographically it looks like ocean waves. The entire third sublevel is heavily warped across the board, and I'd estimate no single section of wall, floor or ceiling is wholly intact. Every inch is in danger of collapse at any moment. We're held together with spit, baling wire, and red sand right now. P&P is severely damaged by falling bedrock; most of it is a write-off, and it's going to take hours to evac. The habs are variable. Southern dorms are ruined, barring north-south access to I&T. We lost maybe half of H&P. Damage to R&E was mostly in the halls, because that's where the most open space is. Rescuing trapped researchers is a race against time now. QS didn't fare as badly but the DUAL Core is toast. J&M and S&C took some bad hits in the bigger rooms, mostly shooting ranges, storage and manufacturing facilities, power plants. A lot of our systems will keep chugging along without maintenance for a while but we do need to check for damage, so we'll have to send drones in through the rubble. Half the geothermals are offline; we still have the feed from the [[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6622| beaver dams]]], thank god, or we'd have trouble keeping the lights on and the water out. The Admin lobby is flattened, but Operations Control survived mostly intact. Topside elevator is bent out of shape and inoperative, as is the secondary internal one. F-D is totally trashed but it should revert next September at least, assuming we don't need the Uns here for the Breach to breach. Next Breach might go bad, because there's no way we get all of this put back in shape before that. Or maybe ever; it's like 5243 happened everywhere, with nobody to stop it. Might need to prepare for a conprocs failure eleven months from now. F-B and -C are basically one big Superfund site, so AcroAbate is going to have to move fast to avoid contaminating the soil and water. The abatement systems themselves are largely intact, but services are heavily disrupted across the board with line breakages everywhere. Fire and flooding in too many places to count without Clio, so Eileen is working on getting her back online. We also have fifteen feet of lake water in the Blue Line, and most of our rolling stock is underwater, and there's a new waterfall dumping Lake Huron into F-W. If it hits the expanding foam from Dr. Rydderech's conprocs, F-A could very well collapse as well. Intake Point-94 is a total loss. 

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** In sum, Discidium did what it was supposed to, minus the ultimate result. I don't even want to speculate on total casualties right now. If it weren't for the bears, we'd all be dead. As it stands, every single sector of Site-43 is a unique and worsening disaster zone at this time.

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman:[[/span]]** Thanks, Allan.

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** He was right to do it. It took out most of the attackers, and disrupted Pensak's itinerary. If he hadn't had to divert to Sub 4 and save Crocker, he could have finished implementing INTERITAS. Losing Sub 1 would have finished off Sub 2, and then 3, and we'd be a sublevel sandwich with the Uns on the run and nobody to chase them.

[[span class="howard"]]**Acting Chief Yancy[[/span]]:** Any leads on that? 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez:[[/span]]** We found Crocker's skiff on Ipperwash Beach. That's where the trail ends. Assuming Keil got out at Grand Bend, nobody saw it. 

[[span class="howard"]]**Acting Chief Yancy[[/span]]:** So, we've failed. 

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

//<The intercom at the head of the table buzzes. Acting Director Nimkii presses the receive button.>//

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Go ahead.

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe:[[/span]]** Is everybody there?

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Yes, doctor. What do you have to report?

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

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Dr. Elstrom?

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** What about her? 

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

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe:[[/span]]** She's dead, Harry.

//<Silence on recording.>//

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

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe:[[/span]]** Karen is dead. We... I lost her.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** That's impossible. 

//<He looks back and forth between the other Chairs and Chiefs, and the intercom.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** I was watching. She was shot in the //shoulder!//

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe:[[/span]]** She was fifty-eight years old. And she lost a lot of blood. I'm sorry. 

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

//<He closes his eyes. Dr. Bradbury puts an arm around his shoulders.>//

//<Acting Chief Ferber cries softly.>//

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** I'm very, //very// sorry, but we have to get through this before we can grieve. Chief Ibanez, what's the status of Condition Black? 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez:[[/span]]** I...

//<She shakes her head, and sticks her jaw out.>//

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez:[[/span]]** No obvious hostiles remaining. We put down the last of the OSAT fuckers. I'm going to be asking for a GoI termination by the end of the day. Also got feelers out to Site-06 because I would //really// like to know how Roger fucking Pensak got out, and whether he's the only one. Because some of that tech fuckery has Rudy Marroquin written all over it.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Acting Chief Gershwin:[[/span]]** Oh, no. 5295. Yes. You're right.

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez:[[/span]]** For now I've stationed most of my agents on watch at the perimeter, and F-A. Raz is commanding topside, with what's left of 43-A, -B and -C.

//<Dr. Mataxas exhales heavily.>//

[[span class="howard"]]**Acting Chief Yancy[[/span]]:** Full lockdown inside, guards at every ingress and egress. 

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Can we track any of the attackers?

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez:[[/span]]** In brief, no.

[[span class="howard"]]**Acting Chief Yancy[[/span]]:** We've lost both 001s. -A and -B. And 5056. I'm down twenty-seven guards. 

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez:[[/span]]** Twenty-three agents.

[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman:[[/span]]** And at least fifty other members of personnel.

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** There's no hierarchy in Arms and Equipment; everyone was either named Bremmel or an assistant. 

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** Just elevate Joanna.

[[span class="eileen"]]**Acting Chief Gershwin:[[/span]]** She's young. 

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** And most of us are old. That's part of the problem. Young people could have outrun this. 

[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas:[[/span]]** That's in bad taste. 

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** I mean it. We fucked up. This is on all of us. If we'd done what Vivian wanted from the start...

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Recriminations must also wait. There still remains the matter of the Directorship. 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** What matter? You're the Director. 

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Pro-tem only.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Then let's vote you in. All in favour? 

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** I will not stand for the position. 

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

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Two reasons. One, my primary duty is to the peoples of Kettle Point. I am responsible for the Foundation's diplomacy with the Anishnaabe. I cannot fulfill that duty with the responsibilities of Directorship on my plate as well. 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** So, appoint someone else to the Nexus portfolio!

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** There is no one else.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** What do you mean? Just appoint someone from the res.

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** I am presently the only First Nations member of personnel at this facility. 

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** ...how is that possible? 

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Overwatch Command directive. There were questions of loyalty. 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** That's...

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** Harry.

//<Dr. Blank looks at her, shaking his head wordlessly.>//

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** That takes us to my second point. I do not believe I would have the confidence of Overwatch as the Site's permanent Director. 

//<Dr. Blank's attention snaps back to them.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** You have //our// confidence. 

[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** That isn't enough. 

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** And there is a third point, actually. I feel it would be inappropriate, disrespectful, borderline offensive for me to take on these duties as a representative of peoples who were evicted from the lands beneath which this facility sits.

//<Acting Director Nimkii takes a deep, shuddering breath.>//

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Allan McInnis is my... he //was// my best friend, and I will always love him. But to take up his position... It would be no greater honor to be the first Cuban warden of Guantanamo Bay. 

[[span class="mike"]]**Dr. Nass[[/span]]:** Jesus.

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** As I am both unwilling to serve and unlikely to successfully take on the role--

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Give it to Lillian, then.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** //Hell// no.

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

//<Dr. Bradbury is shaking her head.>//

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Protocol must be followed. When the Deputy Director cannot be promoted, we proceed down the hierarchy. 

[[span class="howard"]]**Acting Chief Yancy[[/span]]:** Right...

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** The hierarchy is set in terms of historical precedence. The heads of the facility's founding Sections are next in line, in chronological order. 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Oh. Oh, no. 

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Dr. Reynders. 

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

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Acroamatic Abatement is the oldest Section. As its Chief, you are next in line for the Directorship. What say you? 

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** I decline.

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** You can't decline! 

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** I have to. I... guys, you know I have to. I can't abandon AcroAbate right now. It's getting bad. Real bad. And they need me. 

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** She's too smart to promote. 

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** I... that's basically it. I'm sorry. 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** It has to be Applied Occultism next. Right? They had the keys to DISCIDIUM and INTERITAS.

[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Only while there was no Chief of AcroAbate, and I was doing both jobs. I'm way down in the hierarchy now. Magic came late to the flowchart. 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** S&C, then. When Kuroki gets better. Yancy in the meantime. You're a vet, Howard.

[[span class="howard"]]**Acting Chief Yancy[[/span]]:** S&C wasn't next. 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Sure you were. They were guarding the AAF-A construction against the Mishepeshu before the main facilities were more than a big hole in the ground. 

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** The precedent goes back much farther than 1942, Harry. Site-43 was, officially, the result of the union of Dr. Rydderech's Department of Acroamatic Abatement, and Dr. Scout's Historical Research Group CLIO-4.

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** The Chair of Archives and Revision is next in line, Dr. Blank. What say you? 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** I'm not qualified. No. No way. 

[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe[[/span]]:** How are you not qualified? You've been a Section Chair for almost thirty years. 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** I'm not an administrator. I'm an historian.

[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** You don't need to be a genius to do this job. You just need to be present. 

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

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Keep going down the list. There's no way. 

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** We can't. 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Come on. Sure you can. 

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** If the two founding Sections cannot produce a candidate, the matter is forwarded to Overwatch Command, and they will appoint a new Director themselves. 

[[span class="nhung"]]**Dr. Ngo[[/span]]:** Harry? If you need time...

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** I don't need time! I need someone else to do this!

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** There's got to be someone else.

[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** We'll help you.

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** We will.

[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez:[[/span]]** I need someone to sign off my kill order for OSAT.

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** You know we don't want an outsider doing this. You remember Falkirk.

[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** And you remember what Vivian wanted. What Allan wanted.

//<Silence on recording.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Vivian wanted to be left alone with Dr. Rydderech. That's all. And Allan...

//<He shakes his head.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** No, that isn't what matters right now. 

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

//<He nods at the monitor.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** It's fine. I get it. It's //fine.//

//<He turns to face Acting Chief Nimkii.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Ask me again. 

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** As Chair of Archives and Revision, you are next in line for the Directorship. What say you? 

[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** I say this is a horrible idea, and I will stand.

//<He gathers his labcoat, and stands.>//

[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** We have a candidate. I will call the vote in order of historical precedent.
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[[=]]
++ **__CHAIRS AND CHIEFS VOTING RECORD__**
**__THIRD PERMANENT DIRECTOR OF SITE-43__**
[[/=]]

**ACROAMATIC ABATEMENT**
[[span class="ilse"]]**Dr. Reynders[[/span]]:** Aye.

**ARCHIVES AND REVISION [Candidate, abstaining]**
[[span class="harry"]]**Dr. Blank[[/span]]:** Fuck. //Fuck.//

**PURSUIT AND SUPPRESSION**
[[span class="del"]]**Chief Ibanez[[/span]]:** Aye.

**NEXUS AFFAIRS**
[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Aye.

**SECURITY AND CONTAINMENT**
[[span class="howard"]]**Acting Chief Yancy[[/span]]:** Aye.

**JANITORIAL AND MAINTENANCE**
[[span class="amy"]]**Chief Torosyan[[/span]]:** Aye.

**ADMINISTRATION AND OVERSIGHT**
[[span class="karen"]]**Acting Chief Ferber:[[/span]]** Aye.

**RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION**
[[span class="mel"]]**Dr. Bradbury[[/span]]:** Aye.

**HIRING AND REGULATION/HABITATION AND SUSTENANCE**
[[span class="noor"]]**Chief Zaman:[[/span]]** Aye.

**HEALTH AND PATHOLOGY**
[[span class="helena"]]**Dr. Forsythe:[[/span]]**  Aye.

**PSYCHOLOGY AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY**
[[span class="nhung"]]**Dr. Ngo[[/span]]:** Aye.

**APPLIED OCCULTISM**
[[span class="udo"]]**Dr. Okorie[[/span]]:** Aye.

**THEOLOGY AND TELEOLOGY**
[[span class="mike"]]**Dr. Nass[[/span]]:** Aye.

**IDENTITY AND TECHNOCRYPTOGRAPHY**
[[span class="eileen"]]**Acting Chief Gershwin[[/span]]:** Aye.

**MEMETICS AND COUNTERMEMETICS**
[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** An aye for an eye.

**QUANTUM SUPERMECHANICS**
[[span class="xin"]]**Dr. Du[[/span]]:** Aye.

**ARMS AND EQUIPMENT**
[Absent]

**SPECTROMETRY AND SPECTREMETRY**
[[span class="polly"]]**Dr. Mataxas:[[/span]]** Aye.

**EMERGENT THREAT TACTICAL RESPONSE AUTHORITY**
[[span class="daniil"]]**Dr. Sokolsky[[/span]]:** Aye.

**ETHICS COMMITTEE**
[Absent]
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[[span class="nim"]]**Acting Director Nimkii[[/span]]:** Two absences, and candidate abstains. Seventeen of seventeen carries the motion. Harold Blank is duly elected third permanent Director of Site-43.

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

[[span class="lil"]]**Dr. Lillihammer[[/span]]:** Shut the fuck up. 

[[span class="nim"]]**All-Sections Chief[[/span]]:** The floor is yours, Director. 

//<Dr. Blank closes his eyes, and mutters under his breath. He clenches his hands into fists.>//

//<He opens his eyes.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dir. Blank[[/span]]:** If you can help us figure out what just happened, or help fix it, get back to work. If you can't, go get some rest. 

//<He looks at each member of personnel in turn.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dir. Blank[[/span]]:** They finally made a mistake. And we're going to make sure it costs them. More dearly than it cost us, if possible.

//<He takes a deep breath.>//
 
[[span class="harry"]]**Dir. Blank[[/span]]:** We're going to kick the wheels off this cycle.

//<He opens his hands, and presents them to the room, palms up.>//

[[span class="harry"]]**Dir. Blank[[/span]]:** Dismissed.

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**##546848|MOBILE C-AR-01: Chair of Archives and Revision, Site-43##**

**User:** Blank, Dr. Harold R. | **Period:** Today, 3:47 PM -- 11:37 PM inclusive
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