The Foundation Fails To Pass A Budget

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[[include :scp-wiki:component:author-label-source start=--
|name=GreenWolf, ch00bakka, xexnoncores, & Anorrack]]
**SUGGESTED LISTENING**: [https://youtu.be/-0kcet4aPpQ?si=Xl8YcflNyLy7-sX0 "Money" by Pink Floyd]

Here's my **[[[greenwolf-s-author-page|Author Page]]]**.

-- GreenWolf

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i'm here too! hello. this was a lot of fun to write. light humor and wacky nonsense. 

-- [[[ch00bakka-personnel-file|ch00bakka]]]

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owo? wat’s dis, a cowwab????

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Overwatch Command
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Administrative Furlough
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ALL@Foundation (All Foundation Personnel)
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Greetings,

As many of you may have heard, the Overseer Council has been performing our annual review of the Foundation's Strategic Budget. The Strategic Budget is the normal mechanism by which Sites and Departments are allocated funding, which is then distributed to individual programs and projects via Site or Departmental Operating Budgets. Unfortunately, we have been unable to reach a consensus on next year's Strategic Budget. We are still attempting to negotiate a solution, but if none is forthcoming, then at midnight tonight, most Foundation operations will be **unfunded**.

What does this mean?

First, a small number of projects are funded directly by Overwatch via special appropriations. These projects will continue unaffected. If you are part of a project funded via a special appropriation, you should have received an email notifying you of your status when funding was approved. If you are unsure of your funding status, please contact your Site Director or Overwatch Coordinator.

Second, outside of special appropriations projects, **all non-essential activities not directly related to active containment efforts must cease immediately**. This includes all testing, research, and training. **Ongoing containment and monitoring operations shall continue without interruption**. If you are engaged in affected activities which you reasonably believe are necessary to support essential containment operations, you may petition your Site Director or Overwatch Coordinator for a waiver to continue these activities.

Third, personnel with no duties related to active containment are likewise designated as //non-essential//, and will be **placed on unpaid administrative leave** beginning tomorrow. Personnel involved in active containment are deemed //essential//, and are **expected to continue performing their duties without pay**. Rest assured that this is only a temporary measure, and that all personnel will eventually be fully compensated for their time and effort to the extent deemed appropriate by the Overseer Council. You will know if you are considered essential personnel if your employment geas compels your attendance at work. Please note that **attempts to circumvent your employment geas**, such as by engaging in work stoppage or misuse of leave, **will be considered treason** and disciplined accordingly. Additionally, all non-sick leave for essential personnel has been canceled; sick leave may only be exercised at the discretion of your Site Director or Overwatch Coordinator.

Finally, the Site Directors Committee has been directed to conduct an all-Sites audit to identify wasteful expenditures and avoidable losses; the Department Directors Coordinating Committee has been asked to perform a similar audit for all independent Departments. Full compliance with these audits is expected; non-compliance will be grounds for discipline, up to and including potential termination of employment. The results of these audits will help us develop an acceptable Strategic Budget.

Secure. Contain. Protect.

[[>]]
The Overseer Council
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[[span class="teamsTitle"]]hot dog with extra catsup[[/span]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Adrian Lopez, Craig Wilcox +5 others[[/span]]
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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]John Xavier[[/span]]

Did y'all just see the email about furlough?

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Linda Virgo[[/span]]

Yeah they sent it to everyone.

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]John Xavier[[/span]]

I didn't even know we had a budget tbh

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Steve Sitz[[/span]]

did u think they just grew the money on trees???

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]John Xavier[[/span]]

Maybe! It's a [[[scp-1147|legit possibility]]] given where we work

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Craig Wilcox[[/span]]

lmao this loser thinks we have a money tree in containment

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]John Xavier[[/span]]

Shutup Craig.

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]John Xavier[[/span]]

Someone (else) tell me why they can't just use the [[[scp-294|the vending machine]]] to print gold?

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Craig Wilcox[[/span]]

have u heard of this thing called inflation?

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Linda Virgo[[/span]]

Yea Craig's right, if we did that it would destroy the global economy.

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]John Xavier[[/span]]

Good to know that we're securing and protecting the value of the dollar.

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Steve Sitz[[/span]]

more like Save Cash on Payroll

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John renamed the chat "Save Cash on Payroll"
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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Craig Wilcox[[/span]]

we budget in the dark so u can spend in the light

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[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
From
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[[cell]]
Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
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Subject
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Health Insurance
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
To
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[[cell]]
Hannah Brown (Overwatch Coordinator, Rocky Mountain Region)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Hannah, 

I've been getting a lot of questions from my site staff about how the furlough will affect our health coverage. I'm hoping you might be able to shed some light on the matter. If this budget impasse lasts more than a month, are we going to have to worry about missed premiums?


Miami Ventura, MS, MLIS
Site Director, Site-157
Email: miami_a_ventura@site157.scp
External: +1 (719) 555 0157, x101 
Internal: 01-157-101
Cell: +1 (719) 555 1506

[[/div]]

[[div class="reply-thread"]]
[[div class="email-box"]]
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[[row]]
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From
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[[cell]]
Hannah Brown (Overwatch Coordinator, Rocky Mountain Region)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
Subject
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
AUTO: Out of Office
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
To
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Hi! I'm currently out of the office on unpaid leave as a result of the ongoing budget failure. If you have an urgent matter that requires immediate action, please contact Overseer 5 (or your supervising Overseer if that is not Overseer 5).


Hannah Brown MBA
Overwatch Coordinator, Rocky Mountain Region
Hannah_B_Brown@overwatch.scp
00-005-423 | +1-827-555-0005 ext. 423
[[span style="font-family: Brush Script MT, Brush Script Std, cursive; color:blue"]]"Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience." - Albert Einstein[[/span]]

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[[=]]
+ DAY TWO
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----

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[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
From
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[[cell]]
Maximus Carter (Commander, MTF Gamma-38 "Point Blanca Range")
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
Subject
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Task Force Operations
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
To
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Director Ventura,

Can you clarify whether Operation {{BLANK CANVAS}} is still authorized? It's not at all clear whether anti-GOI operations are considered essential containment activities, and we've gotten no guidance from Overwatch. My team has been preparing for this raid for months, and our window of opportunity will close within the next week. 

**COMMANDER MAXIMUS CARTER**
**MOBILE TASK FORCE Γ-38 - "POINT BLANCA RANGE"**
**MAXIMUS_CARTER@G38.MTF.SCP**
**1-713-555-4038-011 / 11-438-011**

[[/div]]

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[[div class="email-box"]]
[[table style="align:left"]]
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From
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[[cell]]
Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
Subject
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
RE: Task Force Operations
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
To
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Maximus Carter (Commander, MTF Gamma-38 "Point Blanca Range")
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Max,

I don't know if {{BLANK CANVAS}} is considered essential or not, but I'm giving you the greenlight anyways. Grab a random Safe-class out of low-security and bring it with you, then whatever you're doing will automatically count as containment-related.

Miami Ventura, MS, MLIS
Site Director, Site-157
Email: miami_a_ventura@site157.scp
External: +1 (719) 555 0157, x101 
Internal: 01-157-101
Cell: +1 (719) 555 1506

[[/div]]
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[[div class="teamsHeader"]]
[[span class="teamsTitle"]]Sleepy Custodian Panel[[/span]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Angelina Bove, Bob Lemmens, Jake Ripley[[/span]]
[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Bob Lemmens[[/span]]

I heard the budget crisis is actually the result of a Chaos Insurgency plot.

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Angelina Bove[[/span]]

Oh lord, not again.

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoReceiver"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Jake Ripley[[/span]]

Man, you think everything is a CI plot. They aren't even real!

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Angelina Bove[[/span]]

Yeah, everyone knows that Overwatch just uses them as a bogeyman. Task force killed in action? Chaos Insurgency did it. Skip breaches containment? Nobody fucked up, it was a CI plot. Breakroom coffee machine isn't working? Clearly the work of a Chaos Insurgent.

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Bob Lemmens[[/span]]

They absolutely are real. My friend at Site-170 swears he saw them once.

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Bob Lemmens[[/span]]

And for your information, there is no non-anomalous way that coffee machine could have ended up spread across five spatial dimensions. The Insurgency is clearly trying to sabotage our productivity, and this budget crisis is just the latest effort.

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoReceiver"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Jake Ripley[[/span]]

Do we even have a Site-170? Has anyone else met Bob's friend? Have we checked that he's not just a memetic effect?

[[/div]]

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[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
From
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
Subject
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Some questions for the Audit
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
To
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Andromeda Danforth (Senior Researcher, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Andy,

I've been reviewing our expense reports, and I've noticed some unusual items from your division. Can you explain why we're spending several thousand dollars a month on bird seed? As far as I'm aware, we don't even have any avian entities in containment right now. I'm assuming that this is just a clerical error, and we're not actually going through multiple tons of bird seed a month.

Miami Ventura, MS, MLIS
Site Director, Site-157
Email: miami_a_ventura@site157.scp
External: +1 (719) 555 0157, x101 
Internal: 01-157-101
Cell: +1 (719) 555 1506

[[/div]]

[[div class="reply-thread"]]
[[div class="email-box"]]
[[table style="align:left"]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
From
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Andromeda Danforth (Senior Researcher, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
Subject
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Bird seed
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
To
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Director Ventura,

I'm surprised you don't remember -- that's for Project Parallel Murder. My junior researchers have been working on training corvids -- mostly magpies -- to detect anomalies, to supplement our existing monitoring networks. We've made some remarkable progress, and I think we could see a real cost savings over normal embedded agents.

Andy Danforth, PhD
They/Them/She/Her
Senior Researcher, Site-157
Atypical Containment Methods Division
+1 (719) 555-0157, x304

[[/div]]

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[[div class="email-box"]]
[[table style="align:left"]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
From
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
Subject
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Re:Bird seed
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
To
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Andromeda Danforth (Senior Researcher, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Andy,

Are you fucking kidding me? Who the hell authorized such a stupid-ass project? I don't care if you're seeing results, I want it shut down now, before I have to explain to O5-5 that we're using our operational budget on //birds//.

Miami Ventura, MS, MLIS
Site Director, Site-157
Email: miami_a_ventura@site157.scp
External: +1 (719) 555 0157, x101 
Internal: 01-157-101
Cell: +1 (719) 555 1506

[[/div]]

[[div class="reply-thread"]]
[[div class="email-box"]]
[[table style="align:left"]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
From
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Andromeda Danforth (Senior Researcher, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
Subject
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Re:Re:Bird seed
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
To
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[[cell]]
Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Director Ventura,

I'm sorry sir, you're the one who authorized it. At the New Year's Eve Party. 

Andy Danforth, PhD
They/Them/She/Her
Senior Researcher, Site-157
Atypical Containment Methods Division
+1 (719) 555-0157, x304

[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[/div]]

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[[=]]
+ DAY THREE
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[[div class="teamsHeader"]]
[[span class="teamsTitle"]]USA-WEST Site Directors Social Group[[/span]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Agatha Drummond (Site-56), Clive Pollock (Site-170), +27 others[[/span]]
[[/div]]

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Ventura (Site-157)[[/span]]

Pietrykau asked me to help with the Independent Departments audit, I guess because they want a neutral perspective. 

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoReceiver"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Ventura (Site-157)[[/span]]

And I swear to God I've never heard of half of these before.

[[/div]]

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Ventura (Site-157)[[/span]]

Department of Geosophy? Theonomics Department?

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Randall House III (Site-666)[[/span]]

Theonomics is actually pretty important down here. We get a lot of prayer-energy trickling down from Vegas. It's gotta go somewhere. 

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoReceiver"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Ventura (Site-157)[[/span]]

[[[departments-complete-list|Look at all of these.]]]

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Hercules Sanchez (Site-304)[[/span]]

"Xenooology" that's gotta be a typo, right?

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Moses Feghoot (Site-169)[[/span]]

Nah, they study alien eggs. [[span class="textMention"]]@Miami[[/span]] you've got some contained at 157, right?

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoReceiver"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Ventura (Site-157)[[/span]]

Yeah, [[span style="color:red"]]**[AUTOMATICALLY REDACTED -- CLASSIFIED LEVEL 4-WEFT WEAVER]**[[/span]] since 2009.

[[/div]]

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Ventura (Site-157)[[/span]]

Oh. Guess there's still budget for that. 

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Molly Goodwin (Site-421)[[/span]]

"Department of Dentistry". Do we really have that many anomalous teeth?

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Hercules Sanchez (Site-304)[[/span]]

I think that's actually the employee dental provider

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Edgar Holman (Site-64)[[/span]]

It's both. They rotate the dentists between Containment and Employee Health. Too much attrition otherwise.

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Edgar Holman (Site-64)[[/span]]

Looking at the list now. What the hell is "Kataphysics"?

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Randall House III (Site-666)[[/span]]

It's what's below physics.

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Hercules Sanchez (Site-304)[[/span]]

So... Chemistry?

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Moses Feghoot (Site-169)[[/span]]

"Theoretical Anatomy"? "Theobotany"? Why do we have a "Department of Massage Therapy"?

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Randall House III (Site-666)[[/span]]

Oh, we work with Theobotany too. 

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Moses Feghoot (Site-169)[[/span]]

What do they do?

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Randall House III (Site-666)[[/span]]

They study plants that are also gods. It involves a surprising amount of psychedelics. Ayahuasca and peyote and mushrooms. Lot of overlap with Psychonautics. 

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoReceiver"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Ventura (Site-157)[[/span]]

Wait, are mushrooms even botany? They're fungi. 

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Randall House III (Site-666)[[/span]]

Theomycology is a sub-department. 

[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Molly Goodwin (Site-421)[[/span]]

OK, there is no way "Quantum Linguistics" is real. 

[[/div]]

[[/div]]

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From
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Lucas Monaco (External Acquisitions Manager)
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[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
Subject
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Your Funding Problem
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
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To
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
ALL@Foundation (All Foundation Personnel)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

[[div class="security-box"]]
= [[span style="color:red"]]**Email Security Alert**[[/span]]

This email originated from outside the Foundation. Do not click links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know that the content is safe. Do not view images unless they have been scanned for cognitohazardous content. The Foundation will never ask for user ID information via email.
[[/div]]

Salutations, good tidings, and all of those beautiful formalities I know you loathe in your emails. 

Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. has been made aware of your current deficit, and is offering to extend a hand to help you manage your current crisis. We understand that your organization considers us to be a pertinent and very impersonal threat, but fear not—there are many items in your possession we will pay handsomely for, including ones which you find troublesome—those are called Keter, yes? What a funny little classification. Why the fancy names and not something more mundane?

Oh well. Despite how much you’ve been a proper thorn in our side, you //are// the best at keeping the nastier bits of the universe in check (make sure they don’t get out, because you can’t afford the end-of-world bunkers we sell) so please consider our offer. Rest assured this is open to //all//, and will go straight into the bank accounts funding your operations. We are also willing to provide ample protection to anyone who steps forward—just for you, we will make sure this time that individualistic opportunists do not cannibalize your inventory just to become a millionaire, though we won’t mind a firebrand willing to relinquish their position for the betterment of the world. You have a plethora of departments all vying for funding regularly—I hope you give whoever steps up to the plate a medal instead of a termination of employment (or their life?) because we love to see go-getter leaders acknowledged.

Tata!

[[span style="color:red"]]**[EMAIL SIGNATURE REDACTED PER ORDER OF O5 COMMAND]**[[/span]]

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[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
From
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Andromeda Danforth (Senior Researcher, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
Subject
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
The magpie problem
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
To
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Director Ventura,

As instructed, we have stopped work on Project Parallel Murder. Unfortunately, we now have to contend with approximately 400 angry corvids who have been conditioned to expect food from Foundation personnel. They are now mobbing any staff members who leave the confines of the site, preferentially targeting staff members who are eating or carrying food.

Andy Danforth, PhD
They/Them/She/Her
Senior Researcher, Site-157
Atypical Containment Methods Division
+1 (719) 555-0157, x304

[[/div]]

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[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
From
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Maximus Carter (Commander, MTF Gamma-38 "Point Blanca Range")
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
Subject
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Containment Breach
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
To
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Director Ventura,

During a routine anti-GOI operation (classified under {{BLANK CANVAS}}) we brought along [[[SCP-3538]]] to justify the operation as an essential containment activity. Over the course of the raid on a suspected Serpent's Hand safehouse located within the Alamosa Pizza Hut, SCP-3538 disappeared from my belt. A thorough search of the scene did not reveal it, and I am forced to conclude that it was stolen by a Serpent's Hand member.

We are currently attempting to trace the exit vectors of the Serpent's Hand members who escaped the safehouse, but it is likely that SCP-3538 is permanently lost.


**COMMANDER MAXIMUS CARTER**
**MOBILE TASK FORCE Γ-38 - "POINT BLANCA RANGE"**
**MAXIMUS_CARTER@G38.MTF.SCP**
**1-713-555-4038-011 / 11-438-011**

[[/div]]

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[[=]]
+ DAY FOUR
[[/=]]
----

[[div class="email-box"]]
[[table style="align:left"]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
From
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Andromeda Danforth (Senior Researcher, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
Subject
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
An even bigger magpie problem
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
To
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Director Ventura,

While entering the site this morning, a magpie flew up to me and presented me with SCP-3538. Apparently, we were successful in teaching them to recognize anomalies, and now they are stealing anomalous objects from low-security storage in an attempt to get food from us. I don't know how they're getting into the mountain, but it is my urgent recommendation that we increase security across all containment wings.

Andy Danforth, PhD
They/Them/She/Her
Senior Researcher, Site-157
Atypical Containment Methods Division
+1 (719) 555-0157, x304

[[/div]]

[[div class="reply-thread"]]
[[div class="email-box"]]
[[table style="align:left"]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
From
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
Subject
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Re: An even bigger magpie problem
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
To
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Andromeda Danforth (Senior Researcher, Site-157)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Andy,

Don't worry, I know where that magpie got 3538 from, and it wasn't by breaking into the site. I actually think congratulations are in order -- it seems like your Project was a success, and we now have 400 magpies that are trained and conditioned to find anomalous objects. Which means we now have 400 extra agents who don't need a salary and can't be furloughed. Bird seed funding will be restored to your division as soon as we have any money.

In the meantime, try to keep the birds busy. Anything that touches containment operations is essential. Understood?

Miami Ventura, MS, MLIS
Site Director, Site-157
Email: miami_a_ventura@site157.scp
External: +1 (719) 555 0157, x101 
Internal: 01-157-101
Cell: +1 (719) 555 1506

[[/div]]
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[[div class="teamsHeader"]]
[[span class="teamsTitle"]]Save Cash on Payroll[[/span]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Adrian Lopez, Craig Wilcox +5 others[[/span]]
[[/div]]


[[div class="pseudoSender"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]John Xavier[[/span]]
Guys I'm pretty sure I just found an uncontained anomaly in my yard.
[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]John Xavier[[/span]]
[[image http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/the-foundation-fails-to-pass-a-budget/squirrel_1.jpeg width="250px"]]
[[/div]]


[[div class="pseudoReceiver"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Linda Virgo[[/span]]
The squirrel that keeps getting into your bird feeder is not anomalous, it's just smarter than you.
[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]John Xavier[[/span]]
No I'm serious. This thing just swore at me when I tried to chase it away from the feeder.
[[/div]]


[[div class="pseudoSender"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Craig Wilcox[[/span]]
what did it say
[[/div]]


[[div class="pseudoSender"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]John Xavier[[/span]]
"Dickhead"
[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoReceiver"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Linda Virgo[[/span]]
Lmao.
[[/div]]


[[div class="pseudoSender"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Craig Wilcox[[/span]]
u sure it wasnt just a squeak? 
[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]John Xavier[[/span]]
Listen
[[/div]]
[[div class="pseudoSender"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]John Xavier[[/span]]
►	|[[size 70%]]|||[[/size]]||[[size 70%]]|||||[[/size]]||||[[size 70%]]|[[/size]]|
[[div class="pseudoEmote"]]
2 😳
[[/div]]
[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Adrian Lopez[[/span]]
Yeah, sounds like speech to me
[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoReceiver"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Linda Virgo[[/span]]
Man, it really doesn't like you.
[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Craig Wilcox[[/span]]
still think it could b regular rodent noises. 
[[/div]]


[[div class="pseudoSender"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]John Xavier[[/span]]
Should i try to contain it?
[[/div]]


[[div class="pseudoReceiver"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Linda Virgo[[/span]]
Yeah, grab a butterfly net and they'll probably give you backpay for it.
[[/div]]

[[div class="pseudoSender"]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Adrian Lopez[[/span]]
make sure to videotape your containment efforts. yknow, for documentation. 
[[div class="pseudoEmote"]]
3 💯
[[/div]]
[[div class="pseudoEmote" style="transform:translate(-70px, -12px);"]]
2 🙏
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[div class="teamsRename"]]
Linda renamed the chat "Squirrel Containment Party"
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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Craig Wilcox[[/span]]
no way theyre giving u backpay for a freaking squirrel.
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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Craig Wilcox[[/span]]
but please share the video i want to see u fail
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RAISA
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Subject
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[[cell]]
Yesterday's Phishing Test
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To
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[[cell]]
ALL@Foundation (All Foundation Personnel)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Good afternoon all, 

Over the past twenty-four hours, RAISA has fielded several emails from concerned personnel regarding a recent email, allegedly from a representative of Marshall, Carter, and Dark. To those who alerted this issue to RAISA and their supervisors, congratulations. 

That email was a mock phishing test sent out by our team, to see how personnel would react to an actual scenario like this, and the results have been very heartening. The overwhelming majority of personnel did not rise to the offer, but instead correctly concluded that the offer was in bad faith and represented a threat to the Foundation. This shows that Foundation staff are well-trained to respond to suspected breaches of organizational security, and do not falter in a crisis.

To those members of staff that responded to the test email, you will be shortly assigned mandatory eight-hour Personnel Internet Safety Training (PIST), going through the dos and don'ts of utilizing Foundation accounts, with training seminars to be held once the current budgetary negotiations have concluded.  

We apologize for the disruption to your workflow. Have a pleasant rest of your day. 

RAISA Staff

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+ DAY FIVE
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[[span class="teamsTitle"]]SLV Normalcy Cooperation[[/span]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Faith Fairchild (UNGOC), Miami Ventura (SCPF), Nephi Smith (FBI-UIU)[[/span]]
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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Faith Fairchild (UNGOC)[[/span]]

Ventura, why are Foundation radio-tagged magpies attempting to steal small pieces of paratech from our UHEC maintenance bay?

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Ventura (SCPF)[[/span]]

I can explain.

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Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
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Subject
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[[cell]]
The magpie problem just got bigger
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Andromeda Danforth (Senior Researcher, Site-157)
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CC
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Maximus Carter (Commander, MTF Gamma-38 "Point Blanca Range")
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Andy,

I just got a very strongly worded complaint from my counterpart at Marstrand Station. Apparently the magpies have been trying to steal paratech from the UHEC hangar. We may not have fully considered the possible consequences of training them to indiscriminately find and collect anomalies. I'm provisionally classifying the magpie flock as an uncontained Thaumiel skip and ordering Gamma-38 to apprehend them. If we can't train them to avoid stealing from non-hostile GOIs, we may have to euthanize the entire flock.

P.S. How the hell can a bird tell whether a piece of technology is anomalous or not? I think we might need to examine them for ARad contamination, because I don't think we're dealing with fully mundane magpies anymore.

Miami Ventura, MS, MLIS
Site Director, Site-157
Email: miami_a_ventura@site157.scp
External: +1 (719) 555 0157, x101 
Internal: 01-157-101
Cell: +1 (719) 555 1506

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+ DAY SIX
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[[span class="teamsTitle"]]Stopping Corvid Pilferers[[/span]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Ventura, Max Carter, Andy Danforth[[/span]]
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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Max Carter[[/span]]

We've reached the site of the nest. No sign of any magpies.

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Andy Danforth[[/span]]

Are you sure? Your GPS marker is directly ontop of the largest mass of radio tags.

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Venture[[/span]]

Don't tell me the damn things can turn invisible too.

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Max Carter[[/span]]

No such luck, sir. I just found one of the radio tags on the ground.

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Max Carter[[/span]]

There's a whole pile of them here.

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Ventura[[/span]]

Fuck.

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Andy Danforth[[/span]]

They removed the trackers?

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[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Max Carter[[/span]]

Yeah. Clever birds.

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[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Max Carter[[/span]]

It looks like they left a note too.

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Ventura[[/span]]

You're kidding me.

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Andy Danforth[[/span]]

What does it say?

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[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Max Carter[[/span]]

"gIv bIRb sEEb."

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Ventura[[/span]]

O5-5 is gonna kill us.

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From
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[[cell]]
Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
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[[row]]
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Subject
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[[cell]]
URGENT: Imminent Containment Breach
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To
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[[cell]]
Overseer 5
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Overseer,

In an effort to reduce payroll costs for embedded agents, one of my research teams has been conducting experiments in training animals -- primarily corvids -- in identifying anomalies. To further reduce costs, we've been purchasing bird seed in bulk from the cheapest possible supplier.

Unfortunately, that supplier is a Factory front company.

To cut a very long story short (my full report is attached), the birds went rogue and escaped containment. We are now dealing with roughly 400 magpies (and 5 squirrels) with near-human intelligence, which are indiscriminately gathering anomalous objects and ransoming them for more bird seed. They have already stolen several pieces of paratech from the GOC's Marstrand Station, and there are concerns that they might breach containment here at Site-157.

My people here are overwhelmed -- we don't have the staff to handle this, and even if I call everyone who's been furloughed back to service, morale is in the toilet. I know you don't want to hear this, but we need a budget ASAP.

Respectfully,

Miami Ventura, MS, MLIS
Site Director, Site-157
Email: miami_a_ventura@site157.scp
External: +1 (719) 555 0157, x101 
Internal: 01-157-101
Cell: +1 (719) 555 1506

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[[div class="email-box"]]
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From
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[[cell]]
Miami Ventura (Director, Site-157)
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[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
Subject
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[[cell]]
URGENT: RE: URGENT: Imminent Containment Breach
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To
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[[cell]]
Overseer 5
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Overseer,

They broke into the site and stole our remaining bird seed. They used a laser stolen off a UHEC to drill through the mountain.

Miami Ventura, MS, MLIS
Site Director, Site-157
Email: miami_a_ventura@site157.scp
External: +1 (719) 555 0157, x101 
Internal: 01-157-101
Cell: +1 (719) 555 1506

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+ DAY SEVEN
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[[cell]]
Overwatch Command
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
Subject
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
Re:Administrative Furlough
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[row]]
[[hcell style="text-align:right"]]
To
[[/hcell]]
[[cell]]
ALL@Foundation (All Foundation Personnel)
[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
[[/table]]

Greetings,

We have good news and bad news for you all. The bad news is that Overseer 13 has been exposed as a Chaos Insurgency doppelganger who killed and replaced the real Overseer 13 for the sole purpose of orchestrating the ongoing budget crisis. He has been summarily executed by MTF Alpha-1 ("Red Right Hand"), and we are currently in the process of selecting a replacement.

The good news is that we have voted to adopt last year's Strategic Budget as an interim measure. Beginning tomorrow, funding for all Sites and Departments will be restored to what it was last week. If these funding levels are insufficient for your current needs, please submit an appropriations request to your supervising Overseer. We will be reviewing these requests, as well as the results of Site and Departmental audits, in order to craft a new Strategic Budget, which we hope to pass within the next month.

We appreciate your patience this last week. It has been a trying time for all of us, and the dedication and valor shown by all personnel while working without pay is truly commendable. Overwatch Command is currently computing the amount of back pay that is owed, which will be dispensed with the next budget.

Secure. Contain. Protect.

[[>]]
The Overseer Council
[[/>]]
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[[span class="teamsTitle"]]Sleepy Custodian Panel[[/span]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Angelina Bove, Bob Lemmens, Jake Ripley[[/span]]
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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Bob Lemmens[[/span]]

I FUCKING TOLD YOU GUYS!

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[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Angelina Bove[[/span]]

No fucking way.

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Jake Ripley[[/span]]

Holy shit, do you think he was right about the coffee machine too?

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[[div class="teamsHeader"]]
[[span class="teamsTitle"]]Stopping Corvid Pilferers[[/span]]
[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Ventura, Max Carter, Andy Danforth[[/span]]
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[[div class="pseudoSender"]]

[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Max Carter[[/span]]

So what are we going to do about the birds?

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[[span class="textIdentifier"]]Miami Ventura[[/span]]

🤷

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