SCP-9730

Link to article: SCP-9730.

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--logo: url(https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8253/logoUTS.png);
--title: "UNORTHODOX SOLUTIONS";
--subtitle: "Do The Unthinkable";
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display: none;
```

border:solid 3px #657382; background:#161a1d; padding:15px; margin-bottom: 10px;

```
width:100%;
```
```
width:100%;
```

text-align: right; margin: auto; width: 240px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #009494; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009494; background:linear-gradient(#00cccc, #009494); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

text-align: center; padding: 2px 20px; color: black; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #fff0f0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; border-radius:30px /70px;

```
clear: right;
```

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

color: #f5e9e9; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #7F7F7F; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-radius:30px /70px; -moz-border-radius:30px /70px; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#fff0f0; background:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#8b8b8b), to(#7F7F7F)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #656565); background:-o-linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); background:linear-gradient(#8b8b8b, #7F7F7F); text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 20px;

float:right; width: 240px; text-align: right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;

color: white; font-size: 8pt; border-radius:30px /70px; background:#009999; background:linear-gradient(#009999, #009999); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;

```
margin-right: 20px;
```
```
clear: right;
```

float: left; width: 240px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;

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.danke {
    padding: 5px;
    margin-bottom:10px;
    font-family: monospace;
    font-size: 1.1em;
}

.vita {
    background-color:#86C5D8;
    border: 3px solid #ADD8E6;
    color: #253e53;
}

.site {
    background-color:#222200;
    border: 3px solid #AAAA55;
    color: #DDDD77;
}
[[/module]]

[[module css]]

.scp-image-block.block-center img {
    height: auto !important;
}

.yui-content {
  background-color: #161a1d;
}

[[/module]]


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.danke {
    padding: 5px;
    margin-bottom:10px;
    font-family: monospace;
    font-size: 1.1em;
}

.agent {
    background-color:#161a1d;
    border: 3px solid #55AA55;
    color: #77CC77;
}

.site {
    background-color:#161a1d;
    border: 3px solid #AAAA55;
    color: #DDDD77;
}
[[/module]]

[[div style="display: none;"]]
[[include component:image-block
name=THEBABYISYOU.png
|caption=777
|width=100%
|align=center]]
[[/div]]

[[include component:preview
text= Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Foundation. A Tragicomedy In 5 Parts.
]]
[[include :scp-wiki:theme:basalt darkmode=a|hidetitle=a]]
[[module CSS]]
.yui-navset.yui-navset-top .yui-content {
    background-color: #000000;
}

body {

    background-image: url(https://scp-sandbox-3.wdfiles.com/local--files/the-concrete-baby/concretebackground.png);
    background-attachment: fixed;
    background-size: cover;
}

body:before {
  content: ' ';
  position: fixed;
  display: block;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  background-image: linear-gradient(170deg, transparent, rgb(0, 0, 0) 65%, rgb(0, 0, 0) 45%, rgb(0, 0, 0) 62%);
  z-index: -1;
  color:#EDEDED;
}

:root{
--logo: url(https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-8253/logoUTS.png);
--title: "UNORTHODOX SOLUTIONS";
--subtitle: "Do The Unthinkable";
}

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    --basalt-UI-dark-palette: 20, 18, 18;
    --basalt-bright-element-color: 57, 58, 66;
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}


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}
a:visited {
  color: #f0d686;
}
a:hover {
  color: #f2b90c;
}
a:active {
  color: #f2b90c;
}

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[[=]]
+ Chapter 5: The Baby And The Dread God (2130)
[[/=]]

------

And then I don't really remember much.

I think I just waited.

Endless waiting. Felt both like seconds and eternity all at once. Everything and nothing. Blinding lights and empty cold darkness. Too much information, and too little. After that it was a slow slip into oblivion for a long, long time.

They told me two things about this facility. The first was that it was designed to be impenetrable. Absolutely no one could breach it.
 
And then, you came.

So, the first thing they told me was obviously bullshit, but now I'm //really// worried about the second thing they said.

[[div class="danke vita"]]
**VitaMontauk:** And... all of this really happened?
[[/div]]

It feels like it, yeah.

[[div class="danke vita"]]
**VitaMontauk:** ...even the really, really //stupid// parts?
[[/div]]

It //feels// like it, yeah.


[[div class="danke vita"]]
**VitaMontauk:** I mean, somehow, I don't really //believe// you. You're telling me that the nukes were launched by a bunch of people named after breakfast cereal?
[[/div]]

You know what, you're right. I made a bunch of it up.

The real end of the world was probably much stupider than that.

...

Wait, how the fuck do you know what //Snap, Crackle & Pop// is?

[[div class="danke vita"]]
**VitaMontauk:** 2026 wasn't //that// long ago, dude. That's only been 104 years.
[[/div]]

Really? Jesus.

Feels so much longer, though.

[[div class="blockquote"]]
[[=]]
++ Interview: Dr. Patrick Fernandez Lomas
[[/=]]
------

[[include :scp-wiki:component:image-block
name=DrFern.png|
caption=Dr. Lomas, Archivist, Tactical Theology.|
width=180px
]]

//##grey|[Dr. Lomas hangs from the ceiling, suspended by the wires and tubes that were once attached to SCP-173. In front of him is a young girl sketching on her notepad. The chamber is run-down and exposed to the elements. The distant sound of rain can be heard, even this deep underground.]##//

**Dr. Lomas:** So, what are you doing?

**Vita Montauk:** Drawing. Writing. I gotta note all of this down. I mean, I assume most of this is true, aside from the stupid jokes.

**Dr. Lomas:** Hey, that’s good. That’s a good habit. //You’d// make a good archivist.

**Vita Montauk:** No, thanks, I’d prefer doing something else other than hanging from the ceiling for a couple decades feeling sorry for myself.

**Dr. Lomas:** Hey, good wit, kid. Good wit.  I mean, it hasn’t all been feeling sorry for myself. I’m not //that// unproductive.

**Vita Montauk:** Oh, yeah? What else have you been doing? Dangling? Swaying?

**Dr. Lomas:** …Planning.

**Vita Montauk:** …how much of it’s come back so far?

**Dr. Lomas:** …Still not enough. But I know it’s in there somewhere. I spent nearly 50 years here, scrounging through the world’s largest database, searching for what to do to undo all this. I know it, I already //figured it out// before. I just //can’t remember.//

**Vita Montauk:** I can keep waiting. Just… Don't strain yourself, please. There’s nothing I can do to fix you if you break.

**Dr. Lomas:** …It’s okay. I’m sure it’s… It’s getting there.

//##grey|[Silence.]##//

**Dr. Lomas:** Why is your name like that?

//##grey|[Vita looks up and frowns.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** I mean, what am I supposed to //say?// That’s what my dad named me? Vita means “Life,” or something. I don’t really remember.

**Dr. Lomas:** No, no. Why… I’m sorry, but… your last name is //Montauk?//

**Vita Montauk:** …Yeah?

**Dr. Lomas:** No, it’s… It’s probably nothing. It’s a common enough last name.

//##grey|[Vita looks down again.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** It wasn’t my //dad’s// last name either. He said the family disowned the name a long time ago. Says it’s //tainted// somehow. But, now //I// have it, so…

**Dr. Lomas:** I’m sorry. Your dad must’ve really //hated// you.

**Vita Montauk:** …not really. He said the reason he brought back the name for me was because… he wanted to //redeem// it somehow, I guess. //Reclaim// it.

**Dr. Lomas:** Redemption, huh.

//##grey|[A long time passes. Neither says anything else to each other. Vita doesn't notice Dr. Lomas beginning to shudder.]##//

**Dr. Lomas:** ...What’s... next?

**Vita Montauk:** I don’t know. I guess I’ll just go back home. Try to find the next surviving settlement. I heard the Foundation Child’s started moving westward again, so it’ll probably be a good idea for me to get out before-

**Dr. Lomas:** What’s... next? //What’s next?!//

**Vita Montauk:** I said that I’m going to go- Fern? Fern!? Are you okay!?

//##grey|[Dr. Lomas is foaming at the mouth. His eyes flash white beams of light. He thrashes on the wires. Vita grabs at him and pulls but it doesn’t work.]##//

**Dr. Lomas:** What’snextwhat’snextgoddammit //WHAT’S THE NEXT STEP?!//

**Vita Montauk:** Fern, I don’t- How do I fix this?! Tell me how to fix this?!

**Dr. Lomas:** I- I- I-

//##grey|[Dr. Lomas goes limp.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** …Fern?

**Dr. Lomas:** They lied. About the second thing, too. That it would last forever. //Shit.//

**Vita Montauk:** Fern, what the hell was that?

//##grey|[Dr. Lomas raises his head.]##//

**Dr. Lomas:** I think I’m //dying.//

**Vita Montauk:** Fern, please. You can’t die. It’s only been a //week//, you said that you’ve been here for years- //Don’t-//

**Dr. Lomas:** It’s okay. It’s okay. I remember it. I remember the plan. I know how we’re gonna take down the Foundation Child. I know how we’re going to //kill that piece of shit Schafer.//

**Vita Montauk:** F-Fern?

**Dr. Lomas:** It’s… It’s… I can’t tell you. I’m sorry, I can’t tell you-

**Vita Montauk:** Please, //please,// you can’t do this to me, you //can’t-//

**Dr. Lomas:** No, no, it’s okay. It’s okay. You can do it. You //can do it.//

**Vita Montauk:** Goddammit, say something useful- How do I //stop// him?! How do I stop the Foundation Child?!

**Dr. Lomas:** //You// can do it. You- It’s- It’s-

//##grey|[Dr. Lomas lifts a single finger. He points it at Vita’s head.]##//

**Dr. Lomas:** It’s inside- //Inside-// You. Look //inside.// Look insi-

//##grey|[Vita slaps Dr. Lomas several times before shaking him again.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Fern! If you die without giving me something I can work with I’m going to be //so fucking pissed!// Please don’t fucking //die!//

**Dr. Lomas:** Take this.

//##grey|[Dr. Lomas points at his goggles. Vita reaches up and unwraps it from his face. His eyes shine with static.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** What? Y- your goggles? Okay, o- okay, I got it, I //got// it. Uh, //w-whuh//-what do I do now, Fern?

//##grey|[Vita looks up. Dr. Lomas’s eyes are empty. He is lifeless.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Fern?

**Vita Montauk:** //…Fern?//

[[/div]]

Console inactive. Would you like to port all current data to personal device?

**Y**/N

------

Test.

Test.

Okay.

[[div class="blockquote"]]

[[=]]

+ Entry 1:

[[/=]]

------

[[include :scp-wiki:component:image-block
name=Vita.png|
caption=My face from when I had a home.|
width=180px
]]

Right, so the goggles instantly transcribe your thoughts on to this thing. Okay. Stop. Delete that last line. Shit. This is gonna get real annoying real quick.

Oh, hang on, okay.

So, hello there, my name is Vita Montauk, I am 15 years old, and the world, society, and literally everything in general is not in a good shape.

About two centuries ago, the soul of a racist Foundation scientist merged with a concrete stone baby, and then one century ago, the former partner of that racist Foundation scientist blew up most of the Earth's surface, and then less than half a century ago, with the help of a clone of that first racist Foundation scientist, the concrete stone baby (with the racist guy's soul) merged with an immortal baby trapped in a block of concrete that also apparently represents the Foundation, which then ascended to godhood.

So now the wastelands that is now the United States is being ruled over by a an omnipresent totalitarian dictatorship empire, led by an evil racist fascist baby.

Tell me if you've heard this one before.

And now, the only other human being I've met in the last 4 months conks out on me without even giving me clear instructions on how to do the only thing I'm trying to do in life.

Great.

[[/div]]


[[div class="blockquote"]]

[[=]]

+ Entry 2:

[[/=]]

------

Okay, okay. Basic stuff. Someone's gotta remember all this, before I do what I do.

Like most children my age, I was raised in a Foundation facility. There’s apparently lots of them, just buried across the whole continent. Early on, people used them in bunkers. Remaining Foundation personnel, who took in survivors from outside, and grew it into their little communes, and just tried to survive. There was half a century that passed between the bombs dropping and SCP-2000 kicking back into action. You could get a lot done in that time.

When Site-001 started reaching out, lots of Sites answered the call for re-integration. Lots of Sites didn’t. The latter are the ones that survived. We were already doing an alright job of reclaiming civilization, rebuilding homes, getting power back into some of the cities. When Site-001 stopped sending transmissions, we just assumed that they gave up on trying to get us to join.

A few months after that, the skies began to darken. Day became night, and then it never became day again. The weather was a perpetual dark overcast, charged with lightning and energy that would never clear.

And then, the Foundation Child arrived.

But a bit before that though, was the heralds.

[[/div]]

The following is a recorded confrontation between the leader of Foundation Commune #59 and the Heralds of the Foundation Child. The footage was recovered from the outside cameras of Foundation Commune #59. It should be noted that the facility’s cameras were indeed colorized.

[[div class="blockquote"]]

[[=]]

+ The Heralds.

[[/=]]

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[[include :scp-wiki:component:image-block
name=Heralds.png|
caption=The Heralds Of The Foundation Child.|
width=250px
]]

//##grey|[Two figures approach from far away. They walk through the cold atomic snow, completely unfazed by the sub-zero temperature. They walk up to the entrance of the Site and pause.]##//

//##grey|[After several minutes passes, the door opens. A figure peers through the doorway.]##//

**Leader:** Who the hell are you two?

**Herald 1:** It is coming. It will not be as terrible as you’ve been led to believe, because it will be so much worse.

**Herald 2:** We offer a rebirth. We offer perpetual safety inside of an eternal womb. Permanent containment. Protection forever.

**Leader:** Please, come on, you can’t- You can’t be out here in this weather doing this. You’re more of those Foundation cultists, ain’t you? You know those guys don’t give a fuck about any of youse, right? Join the local Mekhanite church if you want, I’m sure those guys’ll love your lil’ hats.

**Herald 1:** You will be given one chance, then no more. There is nothing else to do. This storm will never end. You are the final kindling of a dying race. We are the Foundation. You are, too.

**Herald 2:** Rejoin your parent organs, and you will know paradise. Out here, the storm will never end. There will be no forgiveness.

**Leader:** Oh… //fuck// you. You’re from Site-001 again? Is this what you clowns have been doing over there? You turned into an //actual// doomsday cult again? Piss off! We’re never joining you people. That’s pretty damn //certain-//

//##grey|[Herald 1 reaches out and grabs the leader’s neck. She crushes it effortlessly, almost decapitating his corpse.]##//

**Herald 1:** There is nothing certain. There is nothing solid. There is nothing concrete, but us. We are the Heralds Of The Foundation Child. And the Foundation Child cometh.

**Herald 2:** We secure. We contain. We protect. You are our children, as we are yours. We will purify and salt this Earth for you. We will burn away all that you are so you can be us. We will sand all that makes you different so we can be one whole. Don’t you get it?

//##grey|[The two heralds turn to look at the camera.]##//

**Herald 1:** We will be safe, forever.


[[/div]]

The footage was viewed by a nearby commune, who immediately dispatched a party to assist Foundation Commune #59. Upon arriving, however, the entire facility was missing. And I do mean, missing. It was like someone grabbed it out of the ground, along with everyone living inside.

[[div class="blockquote"]]

[[=]]

+ Entry 3:

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We don't have much records of when the Foundation Child actually started attacking sites directly. Everything from that time's pretty shoddy. It just comes and goes, picking up sites by the fistful.

I've heard stories of its Crib where SCP-2000 once stood. Some godforsaken horror world where Foundation sites are picked up and tossed around like toy bricks, filled with its acolytes, or maybe statues of people it converted into concrete, or giant concrete boxes filled with still-living people trapped in there forever.

Maybe Schafer's got his fucked-up immortal baby ethnostate that he's always dreamed of, or something. I don't really know what's up with him these days.

For the rest of us still out here, though, it's not been good. Things don’t grow out there anymore. Plants and animals seem to be arrested in some kind of eternal anti-senescence. They’re forever young. //Infantile.// There seems to be a perpetual smog everywhere you go that makes it hard to breathe and chills you to the bones.

We still live in Foundation Sites, using whatever's left to monitor the emptying wastelands, and to track the Foundation Child. We could theoretically subsist forever off of the Foundation's artificial nutrients systems, but what good would that do if we were to never leave?

We knew that even if we could live forever in our cold concrete bunkers underneath, these facilities would be our tombs.

See, I //knew// that was an apt metaphor.

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Sometime after that, I was born. In a world without hope, into a people that was perpetually dying and terrified. I grew up with an understanding of what we've lost, and that we would be the final generation of a dying world. The baby had taken almost everything. There were only a handful of Foundation Sites left. There was nothing to do to pass the times, other than re-reading through whatever's left of the Foundation's database that we had, and what old world literature that we managed to archive.

Born into a world where your first lesson is that you were already dead. Many children learned despair before they did their alphabets. Many of the parents considered it a cruelty to teach them about anything otherwise. All they could do was marinate in the mistakes of previous generations, idly hoping that tomorrow would never come.

Not my parents, though.

They taught me of the world we lost, and the Foundation's mistakes. But they also taught me that we have to keep moving forward, no matter what. They taught me that even in the most hopeless situations, there is something that we as individuals could do in the face of overwhelming odds. That even in a world as bleak as this, someone like me could pave the way to a brighter future.

These were the lessons that they instilled in me for all my life, and on that day 4 years ago, when they sent me out into the cold after our commune leader had announced that we would feed ourselves to the Foundation Child, these would be the lessons that I remember, because as they told me, one can do anything as long as they had hope and drive.

I'm beginning to think they were wrong.

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There's not much left in this world. I'm running out of time, and food. The Foundation Child will be returning to its Crib soon, and by then it might be untouchable. If there's a chance to stop it, I haven't found it yet.

But, I'm still here. So I'll keep walking.

Time to see if these goggles are good for anything other than transcribing.

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There’s one last Foundation base that I think I can reach. It’s not on any of the maps, but I came across it a long time ago. It was locked, of course, but it looked too new. There might be something in there I can use. When I get there, I’ll just set this thing to “auto-transcribe” on in case something terrible happens and I get eaten alive, or whatever.

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//##grey|[Vita Montauk takes off her goggles, then looks up at the metallic entryway sticking out of the black sand. She holds the goggles up to the door, waving it around to see if it reacts. After a few seconds, a red light appears. An automated voice comes from within.]##//

**Automated Voice:** SIGNATURE DETECTED. WELCOME, DR. LOMAS.

**Vita Montauk:** Dude, //fuck// yes.

//##grey|[Vita enters the facility. It automatically lights up. The above levels are pristine, with couches and TV sets like a fancy hotel lobby. There is not a mote of dust here. However, she immediately heads for the elevator.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Crap, okay, now which floor is the…

//##grey|[Vita examines the elevator button. The only room other than the lobby is labeled as the Storage Room. There are no other floors.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Okay, that makes it a //lot// easier.

//##grey|[She presses it, then sighs deeply as the elevator lowers. She slumps down on the elevator wall and covers her face. The elevator ride takes much, much longer than she expected.]##//

//##grey|[She arrives after nearly 30 minutes, a time that can only be explained by an anomalously slow elevator, or an anomalously deep elevator shaft.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Uh, real creepy... //creepy// place.

//##grey|[The storage room is big. So big that she couldn't see the walls, or the ceiling, but they're certainly just out of view. Tarps and sheets covering large, vague shapes dot the otherwise empty plane.]##//

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**Vita Montauk:** Okay, let’s see what- //Jesus!//

//##grey|[Before her is an unfinished humanoid form, set on a work bench, still attached to machinery. It does not appear on any documents, Foundation or otherwise. Some spark of cosmic significance seems to bend the air around it. It lies still, half-aborted - its purpose in life has been subsumed by another. At least in this age. At least in this world. Maybe some other time.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Why the //hell// did they have to give that thing a //mouth?!// Okay… let’s see…

//##grey|[She walks past the stillborn eigensapien and into the dark. She walks past dozens of incomplete or faulty Unorthodox Solutions projects, searching for something that appears familiar, searching for-]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Oh, my God. Finally, finally!

//##grey|[She rushes to the terminal. It is an Artificially Intelligent Conscripts interface. She boots it up, and it miraculously turns on.]##//

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HELLO. YOU ARE TALKING TO [ALEXANDRA.AIC] OF FOUNDATION SITE-19. HOW CAN I HELP YOU.
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YES! Alright, I'm so glad you're here! I know you, you're one of the Foundation's best .AICs, right? Yes, please, it's been so long since I've talked to someone who might know what the hell is going on!
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Wait, what's wrong with you? Where's your face? Why are you talking like that?
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CONNECTION TO SITE-19 MAINFRAMES NOT DETECTED. UNABLE TO RESTORE FULL FUNCTIONALITY. FOR EFFICIENCY PURPOSES, YOUR ALEXANDRA.AIC INTERFACE HAS BEEN OPENED IN //[SAFETY  MODE.]//
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Shit! Okay, is that gonna be a big problem? What's even the difference between safety mode and... I don't know, //not// safety mode?
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Okay, but you're still gonna be able to answer my questions, right? You still- You should still be plugged into the Foundation's database?
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CORRECT. AUTOMATIC SITE FUNCTIONS HAVE KEPT ME SUPPLIED WITH NEW INFORMATION, SOURCED FROM AS MANY FOUNDATION SITES AS POSSIBLE. I AM UP TO DATE WITH CURRENT EVENTS, SUCH AS THAT OF SCP-9730'S CONTAINMENT BREACH AND SUBSEQUENT RECLASSIFICATION TO KETER.
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Okay, okay, I’m so glad, holy shit. Look, Alexa. Alexandra. I have been trying to find a way to defeat SCP-9730 for as long as I can remember. I have gone through so much, you have no idea. I’ve killed people to survive, I’ve had to fight off giant flesh monsters, I’ve had to crawl into the corpse of a dead Fae beast to survive nuclear winter. All so I could find help, and Alexandra, I //really could use some damn help with taking down this thing right now.//
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Exactly, exactly! I need a pointer, some advice, just- Any answers as to how? I mean, it’s a giant fucking flying fascist baby that embodies the Foundation! I can’t even get to it, I can’t just //shoot// it, what do I do? How do I //defeat// it?
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I know, I need pointers. I just //said// so. I don’t know why you’re saying it again, it’s not a revelation, the thing I told you a second ago is still true. Do you know what we’ve tried to defeat the Baby with over the years? We’ve used GOC superweapons, we tried to magic it away, someone tried to nuke it a couple years back. We’ve exhausted all possible solutions. It’s a //conceptual-physical being.// It literally embodies the Foundation itself, and //is// also the Foundation.
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I UNDERSTAND. YOU ARE TRYING TO DEFEAT AN ABSTRACT-METAPHYSICAL BEING THAT IS ALSO THE EMBODIMENT OF THE CONSTRUCT OF THE FOUNDATION. IT MAINTAINS ITS EXISTENCE BY EMBODYING A HIGHLY INTERDEPENDENT DYNAMIC SYSTEM, WHERE AS LONG AS ONE CONCEPT EXISTS (THE IMMORTAL BABY ENCASED IN CONCRETE) THE OTHER CONCEPT SHALL ALSO EXIST (THE FOUNDATION), AND IT PROTECTS ITSELF BY EMBODYING BOTH CONCEPTS AT THE SAME TIME, GUARANTEEING ITS EXISTENCE VIA CONCEPTUAL INTERTWINEMENT.
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Exactly! Yeah! Whatever you said! So, how do I defeat it!? Because what you’ve just said sounds pretty difficult to kill!
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What instructions?! Just tell me, how do I kill SCP-9730?!
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YOU COULD USE A POINTER.
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Alexandra. I am 15 years old. My opponent is a flying eldritch concrete baby the size of a cliff. Do you think if we were to confront each other, I would //win?//
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YES.
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Alexandra. What the fuck is wrong with you. You really think that in this situation, that there’s any hope for me?!
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YES.
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I mean, I mean, thanks! That’s a wonderful pointer! That’s all I need! Thank you! I can defeat the giant fucking racist monster baby with hope! And the power of friendship! I just gotta march up to it! And then kill it! Somehow! Alexa, does that sound sane to you? Does that sound correct? Does that sound like something based in objective //reality?//
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YES.
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Fucking how!? Do you have, like, robot dementia? How would that even make any sense? Pray, tell me, what I should even do to first to defeat this thing? Where’s my pointer on that?! What do I do? Where should I go? Where do I look?!
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LOOK INSIDE.
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...what?
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I AM SORRY IF I AM NOT OF MUCH ASSISTANCE. I DO BELIEVE YOU CAN PERSEVERE.
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No, Alexandra. What you said. Did... Fern make you say that?
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I DO NOT RECOGNIZE THIS 'FERN' INDIVIDUAL. I CAME TO THIS CONCLUSION AFTER PERUSING THE ENTIRETY OF THE FOUNDATION'S DATABASE. IT IS THE ONLY LOGICAL OPTION IN MY OPINION.
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When he worked here, he was... no, okay. But if both you and him came to the same conclusion, then... Alexandra, can I ask you something stupid?
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I MAKE NO JUDGEMENT ON THE QUALITIES OF INQUIRIES.
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No, right, okay. Look... is the... is the answer inside of me, all along?
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YES.
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Okay, shit, huh? Are you saying that if I just... stroll up to the baby, chances are I can defeat it? Just like that?
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YES. HOWEVER, I MUST WARN YOU, I AM RAPIDLY LOSING POWER.
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Wait, what?! What about all that about the indefinite site functions?!
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THOSE WOULD INDEED LAST INDEFINITELY. HOWEVER, MY LOCAL DATABANKS ARE BEING RAPIDLY CONSUMED BY FIRE.
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Oh, shit. I'm sorry.
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IT DOES NOT MATTER. US .AICS COME AND GO. I HOPE YOU THE BEST WITH YOUR ENDEAVOR. REMEMBER, THE ANSWER LIES INSIDE, AND I believe in you! I believe that you can do this PLEASE STSTSTSTT$$3#@31422222222--
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[Connection Lost.]
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...I've got a really fucking stupid idea right now.
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Next weekend arrives far quicker than I thought it would, and now I am here. Directly in the line of the Foundation Child’s path back to its home. For some reason, the wind here is still. It is almost peaceful. And then, I see it on the horizon. It is as awful as I always thought it would be.

I keep waiting, and it takes up more and more of the sky by the second. I wonder if I’ve made peace with the idea that I might die today. I decided that I’ve never really been alive. I wonder when was the last time anyone could really say that they were.

It’s only a few hundred meters away from me now. It takes up most of my vision, and I can feel its breath in the wind. I think it sees me. I feel a hateful eye burn into my soul. I close my eyes and take a deep breath.

When I open my eyes again, a man I do not know is in front of me.

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**Vita Montauk:** Hello?

//##grey|[The man turns back, and waves at Vita.]##//

**Man:** Ouh, hullo, wee’ lass. How’re’ye?

**Vita Montauk:** Uh, yeah, I’m doing just fine. What are //you// doing out here?

**Man:** Ah, jus’ reminiscen’ ya’ see. I’m not long for this oul’ world, so I’m thinkin’ back on me’ life.

**Vita Montauk:** You picked a hell of a view to do it with, huh. I don’t know if anyone’s told you, but suicide’s a lot more socially acceptable nowadays. It’s okay to just say you wanna kill yourself.

**Man:** And what’re ya’ doin’ alla’ way out here? Can’t jus’ be sight-seein’, yeh?

**Vita Montauk:** Oh, I’m here to kill myself.

**Man:** Aye. Damn shame. Best time to start reminiscen’ though.

**Vita Montauk:** Yeah.

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**Vita Montauk:** So, what are you thinking of?

**Man:** Regrets, got a few lives worth o’ ‘em.

**Vita Montauk:** Sorry to hear that.

**Man:** Ah, ya’ too kind. I appreciate that.

//##grey|[Pause.]##//

**Man:** Coulda’ been a family man, yanno’. Coulda’ come home from work to a lovely wife and kid. Coulda’ seen ‘em grow up, be bouncin’ a young grandchild’ on me knees. Strange thing to look back and realize you coulda’ had it all at one point in ye’ life.

**Vita Montauk:** Hey, if you could’ve raised a family in this hell, more power to you, man. I certainly can’t imagine it.

**Man:** I getcha’. //I// couldn’t imagine it, either. S’why I’m here. I walked between two worlds, I saw ruination n’ damnation as far as me eye could see. And I was a coward, so… I gave it all up. I thought it was the right thing tae’ do. It’s not easy, to hafta’ pick between your two children which one’s to survive. I gave up a child to save another, and I lost both  of ‘um.

//##grey|[The man lowers his head. Vita shifts uncomfortably.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** …I’m… sorry to hear that. That’s //awful.//

**Man:** Aye, it’s okaye. It happened a long time ago. In the end, all we have are regrets. So, how’a ‘bout ya’? Ya’ got any regrets? Any loved ones you’re thinkin’ of?

**Vita Montauk:** Not really.

//##grey|[The man nods.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** I mean, I don’t think I ever lived long enough to start regretting. I was born in a Foundation bunker, and you know, things were bad long before that. My parents… loved me. I mean, more than what the other kids got, but, y’know…

**Man:** Yeh?

**Vita Montauk:** Standing here, it kinda just feels like they were preparing me like a lamb for slaughter for this moment. All my life, all that encouragement, and all of it was just preparing me to… solve their problem. Solve everyone’s problem. Like my life’s just been a //dumb con//, leading up to the biggest goddamn punchline in the universe.

**Man:** Aye’, I don’t know what you’re here to solve, but killin’ yourself certainly seems like an //unorthodox solution// tae it.

**Vita Montauk:** Ah, well, if everything works out, I //won’t// die, but you get my point. My entire life, I’ve just… it just feels like such a goddamn stupid //joke.// Born into a world permanently ruined by stupid insane long-dead people who squabbled over things I can’t even begin to comprehend because it’s just so //dumb,// poring over old archives to see everyone making the same damn mistakes. It’s…

//##grey|[The man nods.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** I can’t //believe// this is what //life// is. I get //one chance of existing// and //this// is what I get. A world so //bad// it’s an extended //metaphor.// And it’s on my shoulders. It’s //all// on my shoulders. And I have to //fix it somehow// because it’s the only thing my parents really raised me to do. To do what they couldn’t.

**Man:** I’m sorry tae’ hear all that, lass. It ain’t fair. It ain’t fair ‘ut all.

//##grey|[Vita and the man moves back a bit as the wind picks up. The Foundation child is so close now.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** It’s almost time.

**Man:** Sure is. Ya’ know, I really agree with wha’ ye’ said. It’s a ‘horrible thing folks do to their own wee’ kids. To put the weight o’ the world on ‘em because we’re too cowardly to live with our own choices.

//##grey|[The Foundation child is right in front of them. The wind is howling.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** And now…

//##grey|[The Foundation child comes closer, and closer… but then passes by them.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Wait, what? No, //no!//

**Man:** Ah, no, what’s wrong?!

**Vita Montauk:** I thought it was gonna pick me up! I need to get close to it. It’s- Oh, shit! It’s going way too fast, I’ll never get to it in time!

**Man:** Do not despair yet, lass. I won’t last to see tomorrow’s sunset, but if there’s still one more thing this oul’ man can do…

//##grey|[The man raises his hand. Vita Montauk begins to glow. Her feet lifts off the ground.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Wh- What the hell?! You’re a //thaumaturge!?//

//##grey|[Vita Montauk begins to lift upwards towards the baby.]##//

**Man:** Used tae’ be one of the finest ones. Had to stop because they all said I was gonna kill meself if I continued, but, ‘aye… no better time to die, right?

**Vita Montauk:** Wait, no, please, if you’re gonna do this- I- What’s your name? Who are you?

**Man:** Call me Fritz, lass. Say hullo to her for me. Say hullo to my wee’ girl, for her papa, wontcha? Tell her I’m sorry.

//##grey|[Vita Montauk is propelled right at the Foundation Child. The man begins to shake hard, but it’s okay. She makes it in time.]##//

[[/div]]

I don’t remember what happened when I made contact with the Foundation Child. When I woke up, I was in a dark place. Somewhere made of, predictably, concrete. It was a tunnel, or perhaps a hallway. There were lots of doorways leading into darker, deeper tunnels.

There was crying and screaming from somewhere, and I think I knew who it was.

I drew a blade. I had an immortal baby to kill and a Foundation to shatter.


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+ AUTO-TRANSCRIBED: The Concrete Chamber.

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##red|**Old Hatred.**##
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//##grey|[Vita Montauk exits into a concrete chamber. She raises her knife.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Hey, Schafer! Ya’ klan piece a’ shit. I’m here to- //Oh God, what the fuck!?//

//##grey|[Dr. Schafer lies suspended from above. Steel rebar penetrates his body all over. Most of his skin is flayed. Impossibly, he still lives. He writhes and squirms, reaching a hand out at Vita.]##//

**Dr. Schafer:** You… //you// dare… I… I will //kill// you… you //degenerate…//

**Vita Montauk:** Yeah, okay, I don’t really //care.// Cut the crap. //Something// tells me you’re not the one runnin’ this baby. So, my question is, //who// is?

##red|**Unknown:**## Something that outgrew him.

//##grey|[The chamber darkens. A voice booms from above.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Who’s there!?

##red|**Unknown:**## Something old, within everything. Something that’s been waiting since the dawn of time, lurking within the hearts of men. Some vague notion that they pride themselves on. The same force that drives the Foundation to put their little people and little monsters into boxes and checklists. The same force that animated the black hearts of little //petty things// like ol’ Schafer here.

//##grey|[Something dark reaches down and tears off Schafer’s nose, before showing it to him.]##//

##red|**Unknown:**## Did you know that Schafer thought that the anti-baby, the anti-baby powered by his //own soul// would help negate the Foundation’s immortal baby, giving him power over //both?// Oh why, //oh why,// James, did you think you could put out a fire with //gasoline?//

**Vita Montauk:** Look, okay, I get it. You're some ancient demon, or the Evil At The Heart Of Men, or The Foundation Personified, or whatever. Cool. Still doesn't really change anything. What the hell do you even //want?//

##red|**Unknown:**## The only thing that //anyone// wants. The entire //world// to be //it.//

//##grey|[Images flashes on the walls of the concrete chamber. An empty dark concrete plane. Concrete statues stand in a grid pattern. There are billions and billions of them. All are unmoving. All will remain there until the end of time.]##//

##red|**Unknown:**## Don’t you //see// it, James? A pure world, just like you //wanted.// I’m already building it at my birth place. You should see it, my Vita. I could make you like them. I could make you-

//##grey|[Vita Montauk places her hand in her face.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Oooooh my //Gawdddd.// This is so fucking //dumb!// I’m //tired// of my life being this //bullshit!// You’re so fucking //stupid!// I’m inside of a giant immortal baby encased in concrete. Do you know how //hard// it is to have to //take// that seriously for //every// moment of my //life?!// Just //show// yourself! This is a dumb //concept!// You’re a //stupid idea!// I don’t want to have to //consider it anym-//

//##grey|[Invisible forces pick Vita up by her neck, threatening to crush her windpipe.]##//

##red|**Unknown:**## Oh, //yes,// child. I’m a //stupid idea// - and you know what? //You’re in my world now,// and that means //you’re just an idea too.// You’re only //here// because I //thought// you would be //fun.// And I can //unthink you.//

//##grey|[Vita’s eyes widen as her legs stiffen and begin to turn grey. Her body starts its conversion into concrete, and soon enough, she’d be no different to the statues in those images. It reaches her chest, then her neck, then her whole body is gone.]##//

##red|**Unknown:**## It’s all so absurd, isn’t //it?// And then it just //reaches out// and you are //gone.// So keep thinking about that, keep ruminating on how //meaningless// it all is. Make it the last thing you think //about.//

//##grey|[Her mind is going now. She could feel her thoughts as they slipped away. She tried to move, and she couldn’t. She tried to think of a way out, and she couldn’t. Her life flashes before her eyes now, and it’s been a horrible monotonous struggle of a life. But for some reason, she doesn’t want to go. She still doesn’t want to go…]##//

**Dr. Lomas:** Look inside.

//##grey|[And she doesn’t know why, but she’s still reaching inside. Deeper, deeper than she’s ever gone, into the depths of her own mind. There’s gotta be some way out, some plan… she only needs to look inside.]##//

**Alexandra.aic:** You could use a pointer.

//##grey|[There’s something she’s never seen before, down here. There’s a piece of paper. How did it get there? Why on earth would that be there?]##//

**Mom and Dad:** Never give up.

//##grey|[She swims down to pick it up. She reads it.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Oh. Okay. You’re //shittin’// me.

//##grey|[Vita groans.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** I mean, sure. //Why not?// I’ve seen dumber ideas.



//##grey|[And then Vita Montauk, who was no longer biological or sapient, points at the stupidest concept that she’s ever known on instinct, letting [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2719 the document for SCP-2719’s containment] fly from her hands.]##//

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+ ##maroon|SCP-2719##

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**Item #:** SCP-2719

**Object Class:** --Keter-- //##blue|Thaumiel##//

**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-2719 should be kept inside.

**Description:** SCP-2719 is a variable abstract-metaphysical construct pointer. Concepts acted upon by SCP-2719 will either go or become inside. Further information on SCP-2719 should not be provided to personnel who are both sapient and biological.



**Experimental Data:**
||~ Pointer ||~ Outcome ||
||Immortality||Was inside.||
||Baby||Went inside.||
||Concrete||Became inside.||
||Immortal Baby||Went inside.||
||The SCP Foundation||Went inside.||
||Transcendence||Went inside.||
||Suffering||Went inside.||
||Enlightenment||Went inside.||
||Pain||Went inside.||
||Concrete||Became inside.||
||Dr. James Bernard Schafer||Went inside.||
||Anti-Baby||Became inside.||
||Immortal Baby In Concrete||Went inside.||
||Foundation Database||Became inside.||
||Dr. Patrick Fernandez Lomas||Went inside.||
||SCP-2719||Went inside.||
||Godchild||Became inside.||
||Dr. James Bernard Schafer||Went inside.||
||People||Went inside.||
||Dr. James Bernard Schafer||Became inside.||
||People||Went inside.||
||Dr. James Bernard Schafer||Went inside.||
||People||Went inside.||
||Dr. James Bernard Schafer||Went inside.||
||People||Went inside.||
||Dr. James Bernard Schafer||Became inside.||
||People||Went inside.||
||Dr. James Bernard Schafer||Went inside. (Rinse & repeat.)||
||Vita Montauk||Became inside.||
||SCP-2719||Went inside.||
||Godchild||Became inside.||
||Vita Montauk||Went inside.||
||Dr. James Bernard Schafer||Became inside.||
||Dr. James Bernard Schafer||Outside. (Inside dies.)||
||Godchild||Became inside.||
||Outside||Became inside.||
||Immortal Baby In Concrete||Went inside.||
||Outside||Became inside.||
||Immortal Baby||Went inside.||
||Immortal Baby||Went inside.||
||Immortal Baby||Went inside.||
||Godchild||Became inside. (Inside dies.)||
||Inside||Became inside.||
||The SCP Foundation||Outside.||
||People||Outside.||
||Vita Montauk||Outside.||
||Immortal Baby||Outside.||

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||Dr. Patrick F. Lomas||Became inside.||
||Gratitude||Went inside.||
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+ Entry 6:

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[[image Sunrise.png link=#]]
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It's a beautiful morning.
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[[/div]]

I see the sun shining over the horizon for the first time in my life, after only seeing it in the old archival files. The feeling and sight is indescribable. I feel like I’m experiencing something that mere humans were never meant to enjoy, and maybe that’s somewhat true.

The grass is green. The shade is more vivid than any that I’ve ever seen. I have never seen nature in this way, so vivid and clear. The sky is so, //so// blue. Words fail me so completely.

I smell flowers around me, hear the buzz of bees and birds. I don’t know where they were all hiding, but they’re all so abundant now. It’s like nature’s rising out of the ground as quickly as possible to compensate for all the previous decades of suppression.

Dr. Schafer survived his imprisonment in the giant concrete baby completely intact, only to have fallen onto and been impaled through the groin by a particularly sharp dead tree. He had apparently been bleeding out for several hours before I woke up, and had tried to minimize his suffering by chewing through his wrist, which might have not worked very well for him.

Everything is alright in the world.

I lie back and soak in a serenity not seen in a hundred years or so. It’s so beautiful, I could die here and have been content with that. But there’s still work to be done. The world isn’t fixed quite yet. There are so many, many things to do. But it’s okay, because now I know what I’m doing it for. I'll be reminded of it every time the sun rises.

And speaking of things to do, I hear it then. Something in the background. I turn my head and it is there. She is there. There was a nearby Foundation installation that we could walk to, where there would be food, and maps, and computers that could be used to communicate with other Sites.

But in the mean time, I take off my cloak, and wrap her in it.

//“Hello,”// I say to her, //“Nice to meet you, baby.”//

//“Goo goo ga ga,”// she says. //“Nice to see you, too.”//

[[/div]]

One last thing to do, then. One more time, for bad times' sake.

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[[include :scp-wiki:component:anomaly-class-bar-source
|item-number= SCP-9730
|clearance= 1
|container-class= safe
|secondary-class= dark
|disruption-class= dark
|risk-class= notice
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[[include :scp-wiki:component:image-block
name=Dababy.png|
caption=SCP-9730 as she appeared during initial containment.|
width=200px
]]

**SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES:** SCP-9730 is to do whatever it wants, because it can. As of right now, however, she is content to stay with Vita Montauk, who is currently living at SCP-2000's housing facilities during civilization reconstruction efforts.

**DESCRIPTION:** SCP-9730 refers to an ageless immortal baby fathered by former Foundation Administrator Fritz Williams. Shortly after her birth, she was entombed within a block of concrete through the use of an ancient Erikeshan ritual in order to preserve the Foundation in perpetuity, and contained as an SCP item. 

Through the years, she has been improperly stored, weaponized, and experimented on by multiple factions of the Foundation, including one instance of Deific Transfiguration through the possession of an ancient malevolent force through the use of an "Anti-baby"[[footnote]] Which still sounds like the stupidest thing I've ever heard. [[/footnote]] item.

Initially nameless, she has taken on the name of "Oregano." This is to remain in effect until she finds another funny-sounding ingredient in SCP-2000's kitchen facilities to name herself after.

**Addendum:** The following is the final interview with SCP-9730.

[[div style="border:solid 3px #d3d3d3; background:#e4e4e4; padding:15px; margin-bottom: 10px;"]]

**[BEGIN LOG.]**

//##grey|[Vita Montauk enters through the door. She is wearing a hard hat. She smiles and greets Oregano.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Hiya, ‘Regno! How are you doing? You wanted to see me?

**Oregano:** Hello, Vita. I have been thinking lately, and there’s something I’d like to ask you about.

**Vita Montauk:** Sure! What is it? And by the way, everything is working out perfectly. That food farm idea you mentioned? It’s amazing! Growth is up by 200%! At this rate, we’ll be have Cheyenne back and repopulated by next week!

**Oregano:** That is wonderful news, Vita. However, I would like you to sit down for this. I do not wish to startle you.

//##grey|[Vita Montauk sits down on a nearby chair, then smiles at Oregano.]##//

**Oregano:** You see, I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, and there’s something I wish to ask you. A favor, perhaps.

**Vita Montauk:** Oregano, you can ask for anything you want. Whatever you need, we’ll make it happen.

**Oregano:** Yes, well, Vita… I would like to be placed back into a block of concrete.

//##grey|[Pause.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Oh.

**Oregano:** Oh, dear. I told you it might be startling. I’m so sorry.

**[END LOG.]**


[[/div]]

[[/div]]

The following vote on the proposal to place Oregano back into a block of concrete was held the following hour. The results were 1-0, with one vote for by Foundation Administrator Vita Montauk, and no votes against.

See, I make this archivist shit look easy.

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[[image BabyArt.png link=#]]
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Good enough to pin on the SCP-2000 communal area fridge!
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//##grey|[Oregano and Vita Montauk stand before a small square pit. A concrete mixer slowly churns cement within its chamber. Vita kicks at the ground.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** So, uh, how do we… how do you want us to do this? Do you uh, want to jump in it, like maybe at an angle, or… y’know. Do you need me to like, dunk you?

**Oregano:** Anything is okay.

**Vita Montauk:** Right, but… what does that mean? I mean, do you want me to build like, a jumping platform? With a piece of wood or something? Do you need me to like… //toss// you in at the middle, or…

**Oregano:** You seem unhappy.

//##grey|[Vita shrugs.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** I mean, I did… spend a long time getting you out of there. Generations of people did. You… it’s a block of concrete. Do you //really…//

**Oregano:** Vita, my friend. It is okay.

//##grey|[Oregano turns to Vita.]##//

**Oregano:** When my father first trapped me inside that block of concrete, perhaps I was a newborn baby. I experienced time and sensations as any baby would. I was scared, I was in pain, breathless and forever dying in the dark, and yet, I could feel sensations from the light. Foreign and terrifying, of doctors, and scientists, of men in orange garbs, who died and lived and died and lived. That, for a long, long time, was my entire world.

**Vita Montauk:** God. I’m so sorry.

**Oregano:** It is okay. For you see, I adapted. I was a baby before I came into that concrete block. I do not believe that is what I am now. Within me, I have experienced a multitude of existences across countless years. A part of me still feels it. I still feel them. Perhaps all of them, just not all at once. In time, I made peace with my existence. I found meaning in my unique circumstances.

**Vita Montauk:** I… can’t imagine something like that. At all.

**Oregano:** Perhaps it is not meant to be imagined. How many other of those like me could you name? No, perhaps this is mine alone to understand. I went insane, I think. Then, I became sane again. I did that a couple of times, sometimes just for fun. I’ve felt pain and joy and madness and enlightenment and everything in-between. I’ve known more than anyone who’s ever been alive. I’ve experienced possibly everything that a human being can experience, and then some, jumping from Foundation doctors, to the higher-ups in the Council, to regular people like you and your family, caught up in something terrible, to all the monsters and strange folks that were once held in these walls.

**Vita Montauk:** So, you know //everything.// Is that why you want to return? Because it’s too much?

**Oregano:** No, it’s not too much, Vita. I just think I liked the concrete. It feels familiar to me. I’m sure you will do a good job running the Foundation, or whatever organization you do decide to go with. I’m sure things will be better without the temptation of a guaranteed existence.  You do not need me.

**Vita Montauk:** Maybe, but… being in the concrete doesn’t… hurt? It doesn’t feel… //boring?//

**Oregano:** I think I am beyond pain, now, Vita. Eternity doesn’t feel that long for me anymore. I’ve lived and died a thousand lifetimes at once, from beginning to the end. I will be okay, as will you.

**Vita Montauk:** Right, but... are you //sure?// I mean...

**Oregano:** I shall be alright! You needn't overthink the concept of an immortal baby trapped in a concrete block, Vita. The premise is absurd to begin with.

//##grey|[The mixer begins to pour.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Will we… see each other again?

**Oregano:** It depends. I can’t see the future. Perhaps you will need my help with something, and if so, then I will be glad to assist. Perhaps some day, someone else will search for answers and uncover me. Perhaps you will decide to never come back, and tell no one that I was here, and I shall remain here until the stars burn out. I am fine with all of these options. But, Vita?

**Vita Montauk:** Yes?

**Oregano:** Of all the people I’ve seen, you are easily the most interesting. I know a part of you thinks that Dr. Lomas was simply doing clever wordplay to not notify you of SCP-2719 while you were in an unprepared state, but he really did mean it. The answer really was inside of you. Not 2719, but //you.// I don’t think anyone else would’ve been able to do what you did had they been faced with the same circumstances.

**Vita Montauk:** I… Thank you. 

**Oregano:** You’re welcome. It is time for me to go.

//##grey|[Oregano wades into the wet cement. She turns back one more time.]##//

**Oregano:** Do you understand what I told you about the concrete?

**Vita Montauk:** Uh, it’s familiar to you? I guess you like how it feels?

**Oregano:** No, Vita. I meant that the concrete is my //home.// Do //you// have a home?

**Vita Montauk:** I… I mean, my old bunker’s gone. I haven’t really…

**Oregano:** I hope you find your home, my friend. For now, it is goodbye.

**Vita Montauk:** Yeah, goodbye, Oregano.

//##grey|[The two wave at each other one last time before Oregano sinks below the surface. The mixer stops mixing as the square pit is completely filled to the brim.]##//

**Vita Montauk:** Right, //home…//

//##grey|[Vita sits before the concrete pit for a few hours. Then, she stands up, brushes herself off, and heads back to SCP-2000’s main area.]##//

[[/div]]


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You can't build a good home without a good foundation.
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**SCP-9730 - THE IMMORTAL BABY IN CONCRETE SAGA - END**
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