Winter

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[[=]]
##C49039|At the end of a road and the start of a page##
##C49039|Buried under a layer of sod##
##C49039|Underneath all the actors and scripts on the stage##
##C49039|Is a man once considered a god##
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[[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 22px;"]]
##C49039|He was put in a casket and hidden away##
##C49039|In a grave that nobody could find##
##C49039|Now he weeps in the night and he screams in the day##
##C49039|And the last thing he lost was his mind##
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|item-number= 9924
|clearance= 4
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[[include component:image-block | name=WinterRoad | 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 24 hours without stopping for more than one minute, 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.

If an individual falls asleep while inside SCP-9924-1, they will be transported to SCP-9924 and unable to reenter for 24 hours.

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:** 
**Researcher:** Henry Garcia

**<Begin Log>**

**Garcia:** This is Henry Garcia, beginning an… informal expedition of SCP-9924-1. Director Brown has disappeared after an unsanctioned entrance into the anomaly. The time is midnight. The weather is a light snow. I have completed the 24-hour walk and will ideally find the director before the stimulants wear off.

//Researcher Garcia enters SCP-9924-1 through the open gate.//

**Garcia:** It’s quiet. Whether that is because of the time or some other cause is uncertain. The snow is pristine and the buildings show no signs of recent use. I would investigate further if I didn't have a greater priority.

//He walks to a wall and notices a scratch running along it.//

**Garcia:** A trail. The next house has it too. It’s a surprisingly deep cut in a stone brick. It seems like it was made with a large blade. I’m not sure what Director Brown would have brought to create this. A -2 instance may have done it. Either way, following is my best bet.

//A clump of snow falls to the ground by the wall.//

**Garcia:** What on Earth?

//He looks up and sees an instance of SCP-9924-2-1, appearing as a young man, standing on the edge of the roof and holding ##red|[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7224-2 SCP-7224-1]##.[[footnote]] A sword that grants its wielder an anomalous capability and desire to decapitate any person wearing SCP-7224-1. [[/footnote]]//

**Garcia:** Sir, what are you doing up there?

//The instance leaps, landing on the ground unharmed.//

**Garcia:** I recommend you stay away.

//The instance points its weapon at Researcher Garcia.//

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|Give her back to me. ##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** You seem to be continuing a conversation that never started.

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|The Girl. She is here.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** I don’t know what you’re talking about. I am a scientist. I am studying this city. If you want to talk like civilized people, I would be happy to interview you. Otherwise, I will have to ask you to stay out of the way.

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|I could kill you where you stand.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** But you don’t, why?

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|You have information I want.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** There are two options here. Either I am telling the truth and do not know what you are talking about, or I am lying and willing to die to protect whatever secret I have. Both cases make me useless to you. So why am I still breathing?

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|You think I’m bluffing.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** I think you’re smarter than you let on. Now put the sword down.

//Pause.//

**Garcia:** Come on. Are you really going to kill a man in cold blood?

//Pause.//

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|What else are winter nights for?##[[/span]]

//The instance swings its sword at Researcher Garcia’s neck. The camera falls facedown on the ground.//

//Extraneous time removed.//

//The camera turns on to see Director Brown staring into it. Behind her is the inside of a stone building.//

**Brown:** You have a camera? You never could resist bringing your work with you.

**Garcia:** //(Coughing.)// Strange lack of urgency.

//The camera pans to see Researcher Garcia lying against the wall with a cut across his neck.//

**Brown:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|You’ll live, he’s not far enough gone to be able to kill you.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** I looked in his eyes. He meant it.

**Brown:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|I’m sure he wanted to, but this place won’t let him.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** How do you know any of this?

**Brown:** I’m trying not to think too hard about that. It gives me a headache.

**Garcia:** I think this place’s influence is getting to you. Ground yourself.

//Director Brown takes a breath.//

**Garcia:** Look around you, what do you see?

**Brown:** Stone. Marble, to be precise. It’s hand-carved. Clearly by someone who knew what they were doing.

**Garcia:** What do you feel?

**Brown:** It’s smooth, cold. But not nearly as cold as the snow outside.

**Garcia:** And the time?

**Brown:** It’s midnight.

**Garcia:** How long has it been midnight?

**Brown:** Two hours. I’m back to normal.

**Garcia:** That’s good, because I’m not sure if I can stand right now. //He coughs.// Stimulants have worn off.

**Brown:** I think you can.

**Garcia:** Bold assertion.

**Brown:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|The cut wasn’t deep enough to truly injure.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** //(Standing up.)// I’d rather you don’t do that.

**Brown:** I wasn’t going to just leave you here for when he inevitably comes back.

**Garcia:** Are we going to talk about who that man is?

**Brown:** It’s best if I don’t enter that fugue state again.

**Garcia:** I mean we work with the evidence. First clue: He knew about you.

**Brown:** A guard then? Someone who can detect intruders?

**Garcia:** That could explain how he found me, though with you it seemed personal. He told me to give you back

**Brown:** I’m your supervisor.

**Garcia:** Which implies he doesn’t know about your job. Current theory is he is someone you knew before working for the Foundation. You have forgotten him, either for mundane or anomalous reasons, and he resents you for it. As someone who was going after you, he saw me as a potential threat. 

**Brown:** Seems about right. Now let’s continue the expedition.

**Garcia:** This whole thing is unsanctioned. It’s a major breach of protocol.

**Brown:** We’re this far already. Don’t play games, I know you brought a camera for a reason.

**Garcia:** Fine, where to?

**Brown:** The lake.

//Extraneous time removed.//

[[include component:image-block | name=WinterTemple | caption=The lake at the end of it all.]]

**Garcia:** It’s unfrozen.

**Brown:** Hardly the oddest thing we’ve seen today.

**Garcia:** Take note of everything. It may be relevant.

**Brown:** Stay focused.

//She dips her hand into the lake.//

**Brown:** Come out!

//A carved wooden statue of a man in a king’s regalia rises out of the lake. The statue is missing its head. Between its shoulders is a slowly trickling pool of water.//

**Garcia:** What is that thing?

//The entity animates and speaks.//

**SCP-9924-2-2:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|I am the chill in the air and the snow on the ground. I am the darkness that brings you to the end of the story. I am North. I am water. I am wood. I am Winter.##[[/span]]

**Brown:** You will answer our questions.

**SCP-9924-2-2:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|I am also the First One’s mind, still living in this pool. Ask, and I will answer.##[[/span]]

**Brown:** Well? It’s all yours.

**Garcia:** Do you not have questions of your own?

**Brown:** You’re the researcher. Consider it a show of good faith.

**Garcia:** Fine. Where did this place come from?

**SCP-9924-2-2:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|When the Man With a Name and a Face for Each Star was buried, each facet he carried grew from his body and into this city. It is made of the tellings of those who reside in it, but it has been retold so many times that its structure is weakening.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** Next, who was the man who gave me this scar?

**SCP-9924-2-2:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|Once a farmhand, but he has since become so much more. The Ways of the World chose him, and he wrestled his destiny to achieve something greater. He is the Hero, and he will not be denied.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** How did I stay here after blacking out?

**SCP-9924-2-2:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|Your end is not here yet. You had not yet been given the potential to fail. The story therefore must continue.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** What about the time? Why does it stay midnight here?

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|A marvelous display of conversational gymnastics, but do you not feel it is time to ask the important question?##[[/span]]

//The camera pans around to see SCP-9924-2-1 standing in a snowbank. No footprints are visible around him.//

**Brown:** You.

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|Me.##[[/span]]

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

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|The one on your tongue, that refuses to leave despite pressing and proding. A cat in a tree perhaps. Or better yet, a puddle on a floor that has spread such that no actions can be taken without acknowledging it. To avoid wetting your feet is a greater burden than the mess you cause.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** Spare me the theatrics.

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|You have not asked who she is.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** There are more important things.

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|Like your asinine questions? You gave me two options before, now I give you two of your own. First, you already know the answer, and you are more concerned with efficiency than certainty.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** Quiet…

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|The second is that you do not wish for her to learn her role in this matter.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** You tell a good story, but this is speculation.

**Brown:** Then why don’t you ask?

**Garcia:** You know as well as I do that information can be dangerous. We both have plenty of matters we are not cleared to tell the other, for one reason or another.

**Brown:** I am aware. And if this is a matter of real safety, if this is some memetic effect that you can tolerate and I can not, tell me. Just know that you have never been a good liar.

//Pause.//

**Brown:** You didn’t come to this city to save me, did you?

**Garcia:** I did, but not in the way you mean.

**Brown:** Do you or do you not know who I am?

**Garcia:** I don’t.

**Brown:** You don’t even know what you’re trying to stop?

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|If he knew, he would let it happen.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** If I knew, it would already be over.

**Brown:** Make it make sense.

**Garcia:** Right now, I know who you are. You are Director Brown. You are my supervisor. You are prone to fugue states and hallucinations, but they do not stop you from doing your job. You are a person, maybe the only person, I can genuinely trust. I don’t think these things were true yesterday, and I’m worried they aren’t even true today. I don’t want to know what you truly are, because if I do, all the lies I’ve come to know will come to an end.

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|Touching, but I’m sorry to say it doesn’t work that way. We are in the dead of Winter, the stroke of midnight, the witching hour. This is where it all comes to an end. You cannot bring yourself to close the book without reading the last page.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** Then go ahead. I’m done fighting.

**Brown:** Winter, who am I?

**SCP-9924-2-2:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|Take the crown and learn.##[[/span]]

//A fountain rises out of the water. Placed on the top is ##red|[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7224-2 SCP-7224-2]##.[[footnote]] A crown that is the target of anyone holding SCP-7224-2. [[/footnote]] Director Brown steps towards it.//

**Brown:** //(To Researcher Garcia.)// No last attempt to stop me? Tell me to do something else?

**Garcia:** At this point, even I’m curious.

//Director Brown touches the crown.//

**SCP-9924-2-2:** [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|This story begins, as all good stories do, with once upon a time. This story follows, as all good stories must, a noble hero from a humble upbringing. This story will not end, as no good story shall, until the hero emerges triumphant and achieves an impossible goal. It follows every necessary pattern, but this is a terrible, terrible story.##[[/span]]

[[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|Once upon a time, there was a young farmhand who faced insurmountable odds to prove himself. He went to a man who was the son of a City and the Father of a Girl. The farmhand, or the Hero, as he is more often called, asked for the Girl’s hand in marriage. The father laughed, and sent him to perform impossible tasks. To die time and time again. But he succeeded at every step. He survived, he thrived, and when the Father ran out of quests to send him on, a marriage was scheduled. The Girl smiled on their wedding day, and they lived happily ever after.##[[/span]]

[[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|This is a bad story. It is short. It is boring. Worst of all, it is a lie. No good stories are true, but only the worst ones are false. Here is a better one that breaks all of the rules.##[[/span]]

[[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|It is Spring. A woman sits in an interview for a job no one knows about in a building no one can find. She has power, she has money, she has knowledge. She was born the princess of a city that sparkles like diamonds. Yesterday, she left that city to find a new one. Today, it has turned itself inside out looking for her.##[[/span]]

[[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|It is Summer. The woman is alone in her office. She got the job. Of course she did, she has worked here as long as anyone can remember. No one agrees on what position she holds. No one thinks twice about it. No one except for a scholar. He walks in to talk to her. The books do not add up, and he lives by the books. He asks her some questions about life, and about her. She does not know the answers. She is distracted by how much he looks like the corpse of a man she did not know was dead.##[[/span]]

[[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|It is Autumn. The woman is looking through an intake bin. She finds a keepsake from a man she wishes to forget. She gets her wish. She is not certain why she feels scared. She blames the keepsake. She is considered insane. The scholar looks at her with confusion and curiosity. He does not remember what she has forgotten, but he can trace a pen around the gaps that were left. The woman studies this art. It slips through her mind, but leaves cuts in the veil.##[[/span]]

[[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|It is Winter. The woman receives news. The king is dead, long live the king. He now is as he always will be. She does not remember the man who did this, but he is sitting on a throne. She is crying on a bench. The scholar is speaking to her. He has never been good with tears. He does not make her feel better.##[[/span]]

[[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|It is Autumn. The scholar finds the stranger’s keepsake. He measures it. It is not very large. He weighs it. It is not very heavy. He speaks to it, “good evening” he says. It is not very talkative. He is. He repeats himself until it speaks back. It shows him a road to a city he will never reach. When he gets there, it is full of people he will never meet. When he asks them about the keepsake, they tell him it is a relic he will never acquire. He laughs.##[[/span]]

[[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|It is Summer. The woman sets out to find her search party. They have not left the city, and she has not found it. The scholar can introduce them if he tells the right story. He tells a bad lie. He repeats it, and it is no less false the second time. This is the fourth. The fifth will be the truth. ##[[/span]]

[[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|It is Spring. The woman’s memories come rushing back. She is the daughter of the son of the City. She is the bedrock of one world, and the thorn in another. She is the friend of a##[[/span]] [[span style="font-family: 'Dancing Script' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##purple|thief##[[/span]] [[span style="font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|and a scholar. She was the trophy of the one once called the Hero. She is not a Hero, they do not exist anymore. But she is an Icon.##[[/span]]

**Brown:** I see.

**Garcia:** This doesn’t have to be the end.

**SCP-9924-2-1:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##C49039|The headless man is not the most reliable source.##[[/span]]

**Brown:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##purple|Leave. Both of you.##[[/span]]

//SCP-9924-2-1 dematerializes.//

**Garcia:** No.

**Brown:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##purple|That is a direct order. I am your superior.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** Then I am insubordinate.

**Brown:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##purple|I need to be alone.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** If I leave you alone now, I do not believe we will ever see each other again. Is that what you want?

**Brown:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##purple|If we see each other again, it will end with me in a cell.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** You would not be the first anomalous staff member.

**Brown:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##purple|But I would be the last. I am compromised. This world, what remains of it at least, it counts on me. I can’t go back to what I was. This is goodbye. It has to be.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** I choose to say see you later.

**Brown:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##purple|Your confidence is astounding.##[[/span]]

**Garcia:** You know, in another life, we could have been good friends.

**Brown:** [[span style="font-family: 'Quintessential' ;font-size: 16px;"]]##purple|In another story, we are.##[[/span]]

**<End Log>**
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