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##C49039|As the kingdom grows old and the king has grown dry##
##C49039|There's a prince who must take on the role##
##C49039|Of removing the one who refuses to die##
##C49039|By entombing forever his soul##
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##C49039|With a layer of dirt and a layer of clay##
##C49039|and a layer of hardening stone##
##C49039|The cadaver will show every sign of decay##
##C49039|As it shatters the crust of its bones##
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[[include component:image-block | name=SummerRoad | caption=SCP-9924]]

**Special Containment Procedures:** Each SCP-9924 location is to be guarded at all times by Foundation agents. Public access to these locations has been restricted through a variety of explanations, including waste spills, nature preserves, and private property. If an individual enters an SCP-9924 location they are to be removed and given Class A amnestics. If the same individual attempts to enter an SCP-9924 location multiple times they are to be investigated for potential association with anomalous objects.

**Description:** SCP-9924 is a two-meter-wide road made of packed dirt that exists on every continent on Earth. The dimensions and material of SCP-9924 are identical in each instance, regardless of the local soil composition. Changes made to one SCP-9924 instance are not reflected on the others, however any removal or manipulation of the material of SCP-9924 will be reversed if it goes unobserved for more than thirty seconds.

If an individual walks along SCP-9924 for eight leagues (33.79 kilometers) on three sequential days, they will be transported to SCP-9924-1. SCP-9924-1 is a city built in a variety of architectural styles. People inside SCP-9924-1 will experience a few non-dangerous mental shifts, including vague hallucinations and the inability to keep track of time. These effects have no lasting impact after leaving. A full list of mental effects that have been documented can be found attached to this file.

Individuals are freely capable of exiting SCP-9924-1 through SCP-9924. Once they leave, SCP-9924-1 disappears, only reappearing when the initial requirements are met again.

SCP-9924-1 is populated by human-like individuals designated SCP-9924-2. Instances of SCP-9924-2 have no name or consistent appearance. Each individual looking at an instance of SCP-9924-2 will see a different person. Age is the primary way of identifying instances, as it will be consistent across all observers. Instances of SCP-9924-2 removed from SCP-9924-1 will lose their anomalous properties. A few instances of SCP-9924-2 have distinct, inhuman appearances. These appearances are visible from any observer. Whether these instances change when leaving SCP-9924-1 is uncertain.


**Exploration Logs:**
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**Exploration Log 9924-1:** 
**Agent:** Amanda Brown
**Researcher:** Henry Garcia

**<Begin Log>**

**Brown:** Connection still strong?

**Garcia:** Yes.

**Brown:** Good. I’ve reached the edge of the city. I’ll have to climb over the wall, but I’m ready to see how far this place goes.

**Garcia:** Be safe. We’re still not sure what you’ll find out there.

**Brown:** I’m aware.

//Agent Brown climbs to the other side of the stone wall surrounding SCP-9924-1.//

**Brown:** Wheat.

**Garcia:** I can see.

**Brown:** I didn’t expect a farm.

**Garcia:** Do you actually see one? I can only see fields through the camera.

**Brown:** You’re right, it’s best not to make assumptions. Just plants right now. I’ll see if there’s a building around.

**Garcia:** Keep an eye out, but our main priority is to keep going forward.

**Brown:** Just give me a second.

//She picks one of the stalks of wheat.//

**Brown:** The grain has a smooth break point. This isn’t domesticated wheat, it’s wild.

**Garcia:** Why do you know that?

**Brown:** I used to know a guy who worked on a farm. This is one of the few things that stuck with me.

**Garcia:** I see, well that means there’s probably no one out here tending to it.

**Brown:** Yeah. No point in sticking around.

//She starts walking.//

**Garcia:** You know, I would have assumed domesticated wheat would break more easily.

**Brown:** You’d think, but no. The farmers thresh the grain, so it’s actually more important that the seeds don’t fly away in the wind. But when left to its own devices, wheat wants to fly. It wants to be free.

//Pause.//

**Garcia:** Getting poetic, are you? It’s still a plant we’re talking about.

**Brown:** Sorry, force of habit. 

**Garcia:** Do you usually talk like this?

**Brown:** Something about this place brings it out in me.

**Garcia:** Interesting.

**Brown:** I can hear you taking notes.

**Garcia:** No you can’t.

**Brown:** Okay, but I still know you’re doing it.

**Garcia:** True. We need all the information we can get.

**Brown:** Most people would consider it rude to write comments on small talk.

**Garcia:** I am not most people.

**Brown:** I know. You wouldn’t be working here if you were.

//Extraneous material removed.//

**Brown:** There’s a hawk flying overhead.

**Garcia:** Good to know.

**Brown:** It’s the first animal I’ve seen here.

**Garcia:** Are you sure?

**Brown:** I feel I would have noticed if anything was moving. There haven’t even been bugs, and in this heat I was expecting swarms of them.

**Garcia:** How hot is it?

**Brown:** It’s noon in the middle of summer, how hot do you think?

**Garcia:** It’s not noon.

**Brown:** It’s not?

**Garcia:** You’ve been traveling for four hours.

**Brown:** The sun’s still directly overhead.

**Garcia:** Check your clock.

**Brown:** //(Pause.)// Well that’s frustrating.

**Garcia:** Your tent should block out enough light for you to sleep.

**Brown:** I’m aware, but I’m not fond of this place messing with my head any more than it already has been.

**Garcia:** You mentioned something like this before. Do you have any more information to give?

**Brown:** Not really. It just feels… off here. I guess the best way of describing it is intrusive thoughts. I keep getting these instincts without any clue where they’re coming from.

**Garcia:** What are you thinking right now?

**Brown:** I want to follow that bird.

**Garcia:** I think that may be a good idea.

**Brown:** Really?

**Garcia:** The past hours have been nothing but fields of wheat. I think the first out of place thing we see may be worth investigating.

**Brown:** It may be a substantial detour.

**Garcia:** I’ll contact you at the end of the day. If we don’t get any useful information, continue with the initial direction.

**Brown:** Got it.

//Extraneous material removed.//

//The feed from Agent Brown’s camera goes dark.//

**Garcia:** Brown, can you hear me? Your camera’s cut out.

**Brown:** I don’t think that’s a camera issue. Everything’s dark here.

**Garcia:** What do you mean? Did the sun go down?

**Brown:** It was up high just a second ago. Now, nothing. 

**Garcia:** Concerning. Can you describe what you saw the moments before this happened?

**Brown:** What do you expect? It was the same [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|wheat##[[/span]].

//As she says this, the vague outlines of wheat stalks are visible on screen.//

**Garcia:** Do you see this on your end?

**Brown:** The stalks? Yeah.

**Garcia:** Try describing more.

**Brown:** Okay. [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|There were stalks of wheat slightly pressed by a wind that followed the hawk overhead. Almost as if they were pointing the way. It was an ominous sign, but anything is better than an empty road. The sun was high above, with not a single cloud to block its glare. In the distance was the destination, a threshing floor where the hawk was returning to roost.##[[/span]]

//As she describes this, the video comes into focus.//

**Garcia:** It’s working.

**Brown:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|The traveller had left the Cobbled Cobbles, but the bones of the old king stretched farther than the walls. His influence was weak here, and the Ways of the World had finally found a guide…##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** What are you talking about?

**Brown:** I… I’m not sure.

**Garcia:** Don’t stop. This could be valuable.

**Brown:** I’m sorry, I think I’ve lost whatever I had.

**Garcia:** That’s fine. We’ll work with it. More importantly, you mentioned a threshing floor?

**Brown:** Yeah, I think I see one in the distance. The hawk’s circling it.

**Garcia:** That seems worthwhile.

**Brown:** Yeah.

//She starts walking towards the threshing floor.//

**Garcia:** You don’t see a farm anywhere nearby?

**Brown:** Still none. Want to know my theory?

**Garcia:** Sure.

**Brown:** I think it’s fallen out of use. Whoever managed it may have died or left. That would explain why there’s a building here but the grain’s wild. Domesticated plants have a pattern of going that way when they stop being farmed.

**Garcia:** But why is it abandoned?

**Brown:** Not sure of that yet.

**Garcia:** Whatever did this is likely the same reason we’ve only seen one animal.

**Brown:** Let’s take a look. I’d bet just about anything we can learn a lot from this place.

//Agent Brown walks onto the threshing floor.//

**Brown:** It’s… warm.

//The ground beneath her cracks and she falls through.//

//Extraneous material removed.//

**Garcia:** Agent Brown, can you hear me?

**Brown:** //(Stirring.)// Yeah, I think so. Unless I’m hallucinating.

**Garcia:** Finally.

**Brown:** How long was I out?

**Garcia:** About twenty minutes. It seems you hit your head when you fell. How are you doing?

//Agent Brown stands up, wincing.//

**Brown:** I’ll manage.

**Garcia:** More specific. I’m not asking to be nice, I want to know what injuries I have to accommodate.

**Brown:** That makes more sense. I have a headache that I assume is from a moderate concussion. I twisted my ankle when I fell. I’m still capable of walking, but anything faster isn’t really an option. Aside from that, just some bruising on my legs and arms.

**Garcia:** Got it.

**Brown:** Now for the more important part. Where am I?

**Garcia:** Below the threshing floor. That’s the extent of my knowledge. You’ve gone dark.

**Brown:** Well that’s a pain. It’s a pitch black cave of some sort, but my flashlight isn’t working. It may have broken when I fell.

**Garcia:** There’s an alternative.

**Brown:** You don’t mean…

**Garcia:** Try describing what’s around you.

**Brown:** But I never saw it in the first place.

**Garcia:** Just try.

**Brown:** Fine. [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|A tunnel that is not quite smooth and not quite rough, made of something that is not quite stone. The inside is coated with a substance just soft enough to notice. Marrow, partially petrified but entirely alive. The sun streaming through the cracks in the ceiling would not be enough to see if not for the faint flickers of firelight at the end.##[[/span]]

[[include component:image-block | name=SummerTemple | caption=The tunnels under the threshing floor.]]

//As she describes this, the footage shows a tunnel around her as described.//

**Garcia:** There we go.

**Brown:** Wow, it’s really hot in here.

**Garcia:** How hot?

**Brown:** Unnaturally. Remember when I mentioned my farmer ex?

**Garcia:** I didn’t know they were your ex.

**Brown:** Well he also baked, and he had a bad habit of leaving the oven door open. This feels like that. Like standing in front of a running oven.

**Garcia:** Was the story necessary? I know what an oven feels like.

**Brown:** Stories are always necessary.

**Garcia:** What?

**Brown:** They help us make sense of the world around us. They help us survive.

**Garcia:** Are you feeling okay?

**Brown:** Thriving.

**Garcia:** I’d say the concussion may be getting to you, but I fear something more is at play here. 

**Brown:** I see you’re worrying about me.

**Garcia:** You’re on a one-person mission. Your continued well-being is crucial.

**Brown:** Good, I thought you had gone soft.

**Garcia:** Try getting closer to the firelight.

**Brown:** I think that’s the only way I can go.

//She starts walking down the tunnel.//

**Garcia:** Now what do you see?

**Brown:** It’s a Wicker Man.

**Garcia:** Are you sure?

**Brown:** Maybe not. It might be more like a burning scarecrow.

//A burning humanoid figure is visible. It is approximately four meters tall and made of woven straw.//

**Garcia:** Are there any people around?

**Brown:** No, just this thing.

//The entity begins to move, turning towards Agent Brown.//

**Brown:** What is it doing?

//The entity, now identified as an instance of SCP-9924-2, speaks.//

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|You have travelled long. You have travelled far. Why have you travelled here?##[[/span]]

**Brown:** I didn’t mean to.

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|It does not help you to lie.##[[/span]]

**Brown:** Did it get hotter in here?

**Garcia:** You need to figure out what it wants to hear.

**Brown:** Or I could just tell the truth. I was trying to travel to the end of the wheat fields. I saw a hawk and followed it. I fell through the ground and walked here.

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|A dull answer, but a better one will come in time. Now, who are you?##[[/span]]

**Brown:** I am Amanda Brown. Agent of the SCP Foundation.

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|Another dull answer. What do you plan to do next?##[[/span]]

**Brown:** I will continue traveling to find the end of the fields.

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|Incorrect, but not a lie.##[[/span]]

**Brown:** You have asked me three of your questions. I believe it is only fair that I may now ask you three of my own.

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|I am nothing if not fair.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** We can’t afford to waste these. Do you have a plan?

**Brown:** Trust me.

**Garcia:** I don’t believe I have a better option.

**Brown:** First, who are you?

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|I am the being of journeys, of strength, and of persistence. I am straw and wheat and fire. I am the long days that drive the most crucial of labor, and I am the sweat that those who have purpose cannot avoid. I am Summer.##[[/span]]

**Brown:** Second, where is this place?

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|This is the domain of the Powers That Be. The City does not reach this place, but its will still creeps over. ##[[/span]]

**Brown:** Third, how can I complete my journey?

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|You will require a gift. The manifestation of travel itself. The long walk that leads where you need to go. The boots. ##[[/span]]

//It parts the straw making up its chest and reveals ##red|[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8124 SCP-8124]##.//[[footnote]] A pair of boots that make the wearer capable of instantaneous travel. [[/footnote]]

**Garcia:** I recognize those, they aren’t normal boots.

**Brown:** I’m aware.

**Garcia:** You’re not planning on grabbing them, are you?

//Pause.//

**Garcia:** They’re surrounded by fire.

**Brown:** It would only burn for a moment.

**Garcia:** You need to fall back. You cannot deal with this on a solo expedition. If you get hurt, there’s no one to help.

**Brown:** If I went back, we would walk the same path.

**Garcia:** Well, yes. Then we could examine this thing properly and return later.

**Brown:** I don’t want to fall victim to repetition.

**Garcia:** I won’t force you to be on the next expedition.

**Brown:** Then this chance won’t arise again. Am I right, Summer?

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|There is a time and a person for everything. ## [[/span]]

**Brown:** And that person is me.

**Garcia:** That time doesn’t have to be now.

//Agent Brown walks towards the entity.//

**Garcia:** Agent Brown, get away from there. That is an order.

//She reaches in and touches the boots. She cries out in pain when touching the fire.//

**Garcia:** Amanda!

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> **Filename:** SummerRoad
> **Name:** Hoklas Road, Gomersal 20250102-113938
> **Author:** RegionVisitor90
> **License:** CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
> **Source Link:** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoklas_Road,_Gomersal_20250102-113938.jpg

> **Filename:** SummerTemple
> **Name:** Phong Nha-Ke Bang cave3
> **Author:** Tycho
> **License:** Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
> **Source Link:** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phong_Nha-Ke_Bang_cave3.jpg
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