WARNING: TEMPORARY LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE REQUIRED

A LOCAL COLLAPSE OF REALITY EVENT IS IN PROGRESS. ACCESS TO THIS FILE HAS BEEN RESTRICTED TO THOSE GIVEN EXPRESS PERMISSION BY THE EMERGENCY THREAT TACTICAL RESPONSE AUTHORITY.
ANY PERSONNEL NOT INVOLVED IN ONGOING CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES BY ETTRA SHOULD CEASE ALL ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THIS EVENT.

Item#: 9798

Level4

Containment Class:

euclid

Secondary Class:

none

Disruption Class:

keneq

Risk Class:

danger

link to memo

Special Containment Procedures

FOR UP TO DATE INFORMATION REGARDING CONTAINMENT OF SCP-9798, PLEASE ONLY REFER TO THE LATEST UPDATE TO THE TEMPORARY CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES

Original Containment:
Addendum-02:
Addendum-03:
Addendum-04:
Directors Note

OUTDATED

Item#: 9798

Level2

Containment Class:

safe

Secondary Class:

none

Disruption Class:

dark

Risk Class:

notice

link to memo

SPC-9798 is to be confined to the property of SCP-9798-A located at 16 ████████ ██████. At least one caregiver should be present at all times within the bounds of the property. Access to the property and interactions with SCP-9798-A are discouraged, but those with sufficient clearance levels may access the property and the SCP

Addendum-01: SCP-9798-B is to be contained in the same way as SCP-9798-A on the same property until a more permanent containment procedure can be devised.

OUTDATED

08/08/20██ - Updated Containment

SCP-9798-A and SCP-9798-B have been relocated to local Site 63 (GREENSTONE) for tighter temporary containment on account of a SCP-9798-C event that occurred at 16 ████████ ██████ on the morning of 08/08/20██. SCP-9798-A and SCP-9798-B have been placed in separate standard containment cells with two Scranton Reality Anchors (SRA) placed diagonally from each other inside the cells. Any and all human interaction with SCP-9798-A or -B is strictly forbidden for personnel below a clearance level of 4. Two ETTRA guards armed with standard-issue rifles will be posted out of the holding room entrance at all times. Additional SRA's will be placed around Site 63 to prevent spread and containment breach.

All material removed from SCP-9798 since the time of its discovery is to be kept within the same containment cell as -B.

12/08/20██ - Updated Containment

SCP-9798-A and -B have been moved to a purpose-built but still temporary containment cell on sub-basement level 2 of Site 63. The cell has been locally isolated from reality through the temporary modifications of a series of SRA’s. Only Dr. Wessels and Dr. Mavuso are permitted to interact with what has been dubbed a Scranton Reality Isolator (SRI) (see Addendum I.1). Only ETTRA and designated personnel may enter sub-basement level 2. No personnel may enter the field of the SRI or the containment cell for risk of destabilising the field and accelerating the event. Any interactions with the SCP are to be done through remotely operated equipment as electromagnetic waves can still penetrate the field.
It is important to note that the containment field is not a perfect solution and the event is still actively spreading.

16/08/20██ - Expanded Containment

Due to the power and security failure on the 15th, the event has spread beyond the main Site 63 building and onto the surrounding property, leading to a civilian at a nearby agricultural facility experiencing an SCP-9798-C event as well as multiple onsite staff and D-class personnel (see Addendum B.2).

ETTRA has therefore established a wider protection perimeter. Attached is a visual depiction of the widened perimeter and evacuation zone. Personnel not under direct ETTRA command are forbidden from entering this wider zone. Due to the D-Class riot caused by the power outage, basement level 1 is on lockdown for the foreseeable future.

All other containment procedures specified in Addendum-02 remain in place.

New Perimeter

Due to the events of August 15th, ██████ ██████████ has been replaced by Dr. Alan Wessels as site director.

SCP-9798-A has agreed to undergo surgery to expose the internal contents of his skull in the hopes of isolating the LDA. He has been moved to the medical wing, which has been isolated by a second SRI array. All containment procedures stated before remain in place. The surgery will be performed remotely by Dr. Ngluvo on the 18th.

SCP-9798-B is to remain in the containment cell on sub-basement level 2 for the duration of the surgery.
All non-vital staff should remain off property in case of another mass-C event.

- Dir. Wessels

Description:

SCP-9798 is a localized dimensional anomaly (LDA) located within the cranial cavity of a human male designated SCP-9798-A.

MRI scans indicate that the interior of SCP-9798-A’s skull contains no brain tissue, instead appearing as an empty void terminating at the spinal cord. Despite the lack of brain SCP-9798-A does not appear to be lacking in any cognitive function, able to engage fully in conversation, problem solving and motor skills that would be standard for a man of his age and education. Any attempts to gain access to the inside of SCP-9798-A’s skull by means of surgery have been vehemently objected to by SCP-9798-A. SCP-9798-A has since agreed to a surgery in which access to the contents of his skull will be accessed.

The anomaly manifests externally as a blue luminescent disc approximately 20 cm in diameter. This disc acts as a gateway into the LDA. It appears above SCP-9798-A’s forehead while the subject is asleep and believed to be dreaming. A localized, 20 cm magnetic field surrounds the disc. Any matter entering this field is instantaneously transferred into the LDA. An identical disc will be present within the LDA and will close upon SCP-9798-A waking up.

CLOSE TERMINAL

The following content relates to the internal geographical and biological makeup of the LDA. It has been temporarily archived due to lack of relevance to the ongoing event. Minimal descriptions have been kept accessible in case of future relevance.

Ontology

The most unique feature about the LDA is its ontology.. Baseline reality's ontological structure is particle-based, whereas the LDA is 'string’-based. These strings vibrate at different frequencies, and the frequencies at which they vibrate determine their physical properties in the same way electrons and protons do of elements in baseline reality. These strings can be 'woven' together to form larger and more complex structures resembling molecules.

ADDENDUM A.1 — SCP-9798-B INITIAL CONTACT INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW LOG • AUDIO

SCP-9798-B is a character from the Evergreen pentalogy known simply as the Knight. It is native to SCP-9798 and followed researchers Ndlovu and White through the gateway back into baseline reality, with no stated ill intention and has remained cooperative. It is noticeably more lucid than most other creatures from the LDA.

Interview between SCP-9798-B and Dr. Breytenbach, conducted approximately three hours after SCP-9798-B followed Doctors Ngluvo and White through the LDA Gateway. Subject displayed no visible injuries.

Interview Log — SCP-9798-B Initial Containment Interview

Interviewed: SCP-9798-B
Interviewer: Dr. Breytenbach
Location: 16 ████████ ██████
Date: 03/08/20██

⸻

« Audio Transcript Begin »

Dr. Breytenbach: Hello. You can understand me, yes?

SCP-9798-B: Yes.

Dr. Breytenbach: Good. I am Doctor Breytenbach. I would like to ask you some questions if you are willing.

SCP-9798-B: I am willing, Doctor.

<3 seconds silence>

Dr. Breytenbach: Can you tell me your name?

SCP-9798-B: You can call me the Knight.

Dr. Breytenbach: Is that a title or a name?

SCP-9798-B: Both in this case.

Dr. Breytenbach: Do you know where you are?

SCP-9798-B: Not precisely. Your world. A room in your world. That is enough for now.

Dr. Breytenbach: Does that not concern you? Not knowing where you are?

SCP-9798-B: I have known where I was for a very long time. It concerned me far more.

<4 seconds silence>

Dr. Breytenbach: You followed two of my researchers through a dimensional opening this morning. Why?

SCP-9798-B: Because they moved.

Dr. Breytenbach: Can you elaborate on that?

SCP-9798-B: In my world… things do not move forward. The same day happens again and again. The same conversations. The same orders. The same sunrise. The same sunset. No battle begins. No battle ends. Your researchers walked into my world and walked back out of it. That had never happened before.

Dr. Breytenbach: So you followed them on impulse.

SCP-9798-B: (quietly) No. I followed them because I had been waiting for something to follow for a very long time. That is not the same as impulse.

<3 seconds silence>

Dr. Breytenbach: How long has your world been this way?

SCP-9798-B: I could not tell you in your measurements. Long enough that I have stopped trying to count.

Dr. Breytenbach: And you are aware of it. The repetition?

SCP-9798-B: Yes.

Dr. Breytenbach: Are others?

SCP-9798-B: Some. The king. His daughter. A few others who were written with enough weight to feel it. But they do not seem troubled by it in the way I am. They question sometimes but they never break sequence. They circle back. Like water finding the same groove in stone.

Dr. Breytenbach: And you don’t.

SCP-9798-B: No. I notice. I have always noticed.

<5 seconds silence>

Dr. Breytenbach: When our team came through the opening. You said things moved. What did that feel like?

SCP-9798-B: Have you ever held your breath for so long that when you finally exhaled you had forgotten what breathing felt like?

Dr. Breytenbach: Something like that, yes.

SCP-9798-B: It was like that. The air changed when they stepped through. The world bent in a way it had never bent. And I felt something I had not felt in…

SCP-9798-B: Time. Moving. Forward. Not looping back on itself. Just… forward. It was very small. A few seconds of it. But it was enough to know it was real.

Dr. Breytenbach: And you decided to come through.

SCP-9798-B: I decided I could not let the door close without me. I… made that choice.

<3 seconds silence>

Dr. Breytenbach: You struck one of my researchers. Dr. White. The hilt of your sword, here (sound of papers) according to her report, across the shoulder. She has bruising.

SCP-9798-B: (without defensiveness) Yes, my apologies.

Dr. Breytenbach: You don’t deny it?

SCP-9798-B: Why would I deny something I did deliberately?

Dr. Breytenbach: Why did you do it?

SCP-9798-B: I could not let that door close. I would stay trapped there. I used the gentlest method available to me that would achieve that outcome. (a pause) I am a knight, Doctor. I know how to hurt someone seriously. I chose not to.

<5 seconds silence>

Dr. Breytenbach: Do you intend to harm anyone here?

SCP-9798-B: No.

Dr. Breytenbach: Quickly answered.

SCP-9798-B: It is a simple question.

Dr. Breytenbach: In my experience, simple questions about intent are rarely answered simply by people with complex intentions.

SCP-9798-B: Then perhaps I have simple intentions.

Dr. Breytenbach: Or you are very practiced at appearing to.

SCP-9798-B: You are trying to determine if I am dangerous.

Dr. Breytenbach: I am trying to determine a great many things.

SCP-9798-B: Then let me help you. I am dangerous in the way that any trained soldier is dangerous. I have fought wars, or at least I have been written to have fought wars, which may amount to the same thing. I have the instincts and the capability. But I have not come here to use them. I have come here because this is the only place where things move and I could not endure one more sunrise that I had already seen ten thousand times.

<4 seconds silence>

Dr. Breytenbach: You mentioned being written.

SCP-9798-B: Yes.

Dr. Breytenbach: So you know about the author?

SCP-9798-B: I know of him. I have never seen him. But sometimes the fabric of the sky in my world tears. Light comes through in fragments… thoughts, images, intentions. The world changes suddenly and without reason. People vanish and return in altered forms. Places shift. A forest that stood for years disappears overnight and returns a week later with different trees.

Dr. Breytenbach: Revisions?

SCP-9798-B: (slowly) Is that what they are called?

Dr. Breytenbach: I guess so, yes.

<5 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: He’s like our god, from inside. Not a benevolent one. Not a cruel one either, I think. Simply… absent. The way a god feels when they have moved on to other concerns and left the candles burning.

Dr. Breytenbach: And now that you are here. What do you want?

<8 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: I want to speak to him.

Dr. Breytenbach: The author?

SCP-9798-B: Yes.

Dr. Breytenbach: To what end?

SCP-9798-B: (simply) I don’t know yet. But I have been waiting to ask him something for longer than I can measure and I would like to find out what it is.

<6 seconds silence>

Dr. Breytenbach: I will consider it.

SCP-9798-B: Thank you, Doctor.

Dr. Breytenbach: Don’t thank me. I said I would consider it.

SCP-9798-B: I know. But you said it without dismissing it. That is more than I expected.

«Log Ends»

ADDENDUM A.2 — B QUESTIONS -A
INTERVIEW LOG • AUDIO

SCP-9798-B requested a one-on-one sit-down with SCP-9798-A. -A and -B have been increasingly hostile towards one another following their first encounter and the complex relationship between the two. A private, one-on-one discussion between the two was hoped to have allowed for some breakthroughs, but it appears to have only strained them more.
The following is an audio log of their interaction.

Interview Log — SCP-9798-B and SCP-9798-A Interaction

Location: 16 ████████ ██████
Date: 4/08/20██

« Audio Transcript Begin »

SCP-9798-A: Right, then. Let’s get this over with. What is it?

SCP-9798-B: Why did you create me?

SCP-9798-A: (audible exhale) Not this. Again. We have discussed this. At length. I didn’t create you. Whatever world you crawled out of created you. I only wrote down what it… apparently showed me. I was a vessel. A stenographer. Don’t hang that on me.

SCP-9798-B: And yet every word of my life passed through your hand.

SCP-9798-A: That doesn’t mean I made it happen.

SCP-9798-B: It means you stopped. And I stopped with it.

<2 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: Tell me my ending.

SCP-9798-A: I’m sorry?

SCP-9798-B: Tell me my ending.

SCP-9798-A: (short laugh) What? You want me to just… recite it? Like a bedtime story? If an ending matters so much to you, go find one yourself. Nothing’s stopping you.

<5 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: I cannot.

SCP-9798-A: Who told you that?

SCP-9798-B: You did.

SCP-9798-A: (scoffs) That’s absurd.

SCP-9798-B: I am a knight sworn to a king whose fate you never decided. My loyalty. My hatred. My betrayal. You walked everything to the cliff’s edge and dropped the pen. Every path I might have taken.. every choice that would have told me who I am.. is suspended there. Still. Waiting. I do not know who I became.

SCP-9798-A: That sounds like a personal problem, frankly.

SCP-9798-B: No. It is yours.

SCP-9798-A: I don’t even know you. You come from some — some impossible place that I apparently glimpsed in a dream and scribbled down between one life and the next. I didn’t sit down and architect your soul. So don’t come in here with that look on your face and act as though I—

SCP-9798-B: (quietly) Old man. Look at me. Whether you intended it or not, you had a hand in my making. In my choices. In the thing I have been locked inside ever since you put down your pen.

SCP-9798-A: …Locked inside.

SCP-9798-B: Have your captors, the ones watching us… have they described my world to you?

SCP-9798-A: (irritably) Captors. You said captors. I am here willingly, for the record. And yes, I asked questions. I was curious.

<3 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: And?

SCP-9798-A: (quieter) It’s… exactly as I wrote it. Obviously.

<3 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: The fields outside the capital stretch for miles. They should be full of soldiers marching. Banners burning. Arrows falling like rain. But nothing moves. Not truly. Only blades of grass, rustling against statues. The war never begins. The king never dies. The rebellion never rises. Because you never wrote the next page.

SCP-9798-A: That’s not—

SCP-9798-B: The farmers wake each morning. They fetch their water. They grind their grain. They bake their bread. They say the same words in the same order to the same faces and turn their heads at the same moment. Every day. Without fail. Without question. Because that is all you gave them.

SCP-9798-A: (stiffly) They were background characters. Atmosphere. You can’t expect—

SCP-9798-B: They are prisoners who don’t know their cell. The king still debates strategy in the council hall. The princess still pleads for mercy that will never come. The rebels still whisper in the forest, convinced the moment is almost right. None of them notice the repetition. None of them notice the years. Because you did not give them enough soul to notice.
(pause)
But you gave me enough. Enough to know something is missing. Enough to feel the edge of what should come next…just not enough to cross it.

<3 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-A: That is… unfortunate.

SCP-9798-B: …Unfortunate.

SCP-9798-A: (defensive, faster now) I never finished the manuscript. It happens. Writers leave things unfinished all the time. It is practically a tradition. Half the great works of literature are fragments. I don’t know what you want me to say.

SCP-9798-B: Say anything. Anything at all, as long as it isn’t another attempt to excuse yourself. For you, it was a manuscript. For me, it was my life.

SCP-9798-A: (muttering) God, you’re dramatic.

SCP-9798-B: And you’re a neglectful god.

<3 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-A: I just…
(long pause) I lost interest.

SCP-9798-B: (almost to himself) You lost interest.

<4 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: I have wandered those fields. Watched the same sunrise. Day after day after day.

<6 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: And now I am here. Where things move. Where choices are made and mean something. Where endings exist. And you sit there and tell me I should go make my own… I cannot. Because the man who decides whether I live or die… whether I betray or remain loyal, whether any of it was worth anything… is sitting across from me and pretending his hands are clean. And I cannot exist here, properly, not knowing who I became in that world…not knowing if any of it mattered.

<5 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: So I will ask you one final time.

(voice drops) Tell me how my story ends. Please. I just want to move on…

(barely audible) I am begging you.

<6 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-A: …No.

SCP-9798-B: Why?

SCP-9798-A: Because it doesn’t matter anymore.

SCP-9798-B: It matters to me.

SCP-9798-A: (flatly) And I don’t owe you anything.

<2 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-A: This conversation is finished. I won’t be spoken to like this in my own — (stops himself) I won’t be spoken to like this. We’re done.

« LOG ENDS »

ADDENDUM C.1 — INTERNAL CORRESPONDENCE
SITE 63 MAIL SERVER

Correspondence between Dr. Ngluvo, Dr. White and Dr. Breytenbach regarding disappearance of matter obtained from SCP-9798. Possibly the first recorded instance of a SCP-9798-C event. The lack of functional keycard readers is also mentioned in an official capacity and pertains relevance to the events of the 15th of August.

N
Dr. Ngluvo
05 Aug 20██ — 09:14

Good day,

Bio samples from SCP-9798 I placed in the lab refrigerator two weeks ago appear to have been removed. Those seeds will not survive long in a warm environment so if anyone knows where they have gone please either let me know or return them.

Dr. Ngluvo
Foundation Researcher

W
Dr. White
05 Aug 20██ — 10:02

As I mentioned last week, one of my quartz samples is also missing!!! Ive tried interrogating the cleaning staff but they are insistent they haven’t touched anything… nothing shows up the cameras either… Either someone’s paying a lame prank or we have a thief!!

Dr. White
Foundation Researcher

N
Dr. Ngluvo
06 Aug 20██ — 10:32

Following up from my previous email, more bio samples have gone missing. Including the graphite people samples.

I have spoken more with Dr. Visser and Dr. White and they both have some of their samples missing. In some cases the seal on the storage jars wasn’t even broken. Please can this be elevated to the site directors attention. Anomalous material getting stolen is a serious issue and the card scanners are still broken so we can’t lock down the lab in the meantime.

Dr. Ngluvo
Foundation Researcher

B
Dr. Breytenbach
06 Aug 20██ — 15:18

I am sorry all, but the director says there is nothing he can do. Apparently we are too financially restrained to investigate properly. Best I could convince him to do was give us some money to buy locks for the labs. Apparently we still don’t know when someone from HQ will be sent to fix the card scanners. Three months is ridiculously long to have these things not working. Couple of guards also complained about the card readers with the D-Class cells, apparently they are getting rowdy. Those temp locks are not looking so temporary. I’ll send a complaint in the morning, I am too tired to deal with this kak this week. For now just be vigilant.

Dr. Breytenbach
Site 63 Head Researcher

ADDENDUM B.1 — FIRST SCP-9798-C INCIDENT
EVENT REPORT • SITE-63 SECURITY

Unraveling is a phenomenon in which infected particle-based matter becomes unstable while transforming, during which the newly formed strings "fray", causing a chain reaction in which the larger lattice and fabric structures collapse and the object of which they composed cease to exist. This phenomenon has been dubbed SCP-9798-C.
At this point in time, it is unknown what triggers a -C event to occur. Exposure time does not appear to be relevant.

On 08/08/20██, the first known incident involving a SCP-9798-C event occurred. Following the event, SCP-9798-A and B have been moved to site 63 with updated containment procedures. Below is Dr. Wessels incident report recounting the event, a picture of the remains as well as small excerpt from an interaction between Dr. Wessels and a psychiatrist regarding the event.

Incident Report concerning SCP-9798-C event

Dr Wessels was encouraged to have an appointment with the site psychiatrist, to which he reluctantly agreed. Below is an expert of their conversation regarding the SCP-9798-C event.

Interview Log — Dr. Wessels psychiatric review.

Interviewed: Dr. Wessels
Interviewer: Dr. Mthemba
Location: Site 63
Date: 08/08/20██

« Approximately 8 minutes and 21 seconds into discussion »

Dr. Mthemba: I know this might be difficult to discuss but we need to talk about the incident that happened today.

Dr. Wessels: I figured as much. I don’t have long though so let’s make this quick.

Dr. Mthemba: That doesn’t sound like the healthiest way of approaching this.

Dr. Wessels: No, it probably isn’t but this is uncharted territory

Dr. Mthemba: Tell me about it.

Dr. Wessels: You read the incident report, not much more to tell.

Dr. Mthemba: <sigh> You have witnessed someone you knew experience a very gruesome death and you’re telling me you feel nothing?

Dr. Wessels: Of course I feel things. Don’t start that game. I just don’t have much to expand on what I have already written down. It was horrible to witness. I had to wipe her blood off my clothes, it was like a sprinkler the way they both were flailing their arms and legs. Rolling on the ground as they just… dissolved. The worst part might have been dash A’s reaction to his dog. I have never heard a scream so viscerally full of pain.

<2 seconds of silence>

Dr. Wessels: There you go are you happy? Do you want me to describe it in even more detail?

Dr. Mthemba: No thank you that was good enough… You seem very calm about it though.

Dr. Wessels: I have to be. I need to continue my work. As you say there has been an incident and we need to focus on containing whatever this could possibly be.

Dr. Mthemba: It’s just-

Dr. Wessels: Before you say anything, yes I will show emotion about this, just later and in the comfort of my own home. I will go home to my cat and scream and cry myself to sleep. But right now I have a job to do and I do not want anyone else to experience what they and I have experienced…

… so please just clear me for work so I can prevent your death too.

« LOG ENDS »

ADDENDUM D.1 — INTERNAL MEMO 1
ETTRA INVOLVEMENT

The following Memo was distributed to all Site 63 staff regarding the involvement of ETTRA. The sudden escalation of an anomaly as potentially serious as SCP-9798 was deemed to require additional support, especially for what is considered to be a small and remote facility, underequipped to handle a potential catastrophe on this scale.

Site 63 Internal Memo (07/08/20██)

ADDENDUM I.1 — TECHNICAL BRIEF AND SITE ADDITIONS
SITE-63 RESEARCH DIVISION

The following contains information relating to the technical details of the SRI machine as well updated signage and containmnet cell regarding SCP-9798. While not necessary information, access is still desired by Director Wessels in case of future reference.

CLOSE TERMINAL

ADDENDUM A.3 — ETTRA INTERNAL REVIEW
INTERVIEW LOG • SITE-63 VIDEO

The following log is from a meeting between ETTRA Director Nkosi and senior staff of site 63 regarding the mismanagement of the site. The meeting was interrupted by the power outage and containment breach incident of August 15th.

Interview Log — ETTRA Interview Drs on site issues

Location: Site 63 conference room 1
Date: 15/08/20██

«VIDEO LOG STARTS»

«All members are seated around a rectangular table in conference room 1. The room in brightly lit, the door to the room is shut and the blinds to the room are closed. »

Director Nkosi: Alright, as stated in my previous correspondence, I have called this meeting to discuss the future containment of SCP-9798 and the challenges your site has so far faced. It is unfortunate your director was unable to join us.
Firstly I would like to formally thank Doctor Wessels for his remarkably quick thinking in the development of the SRI. It has been instrumental in the containment of SCP-9798 so far. You have a bright future ahead of you. I could use a quick thinker like you in ETTRA.

Dr. Wessels: You flatter me director. I was just doing my job and I had plenty of help.

Director Nkosi: Don’t undersell yourself. This is a miracle given the circumstances. And speaking of, we need to discuss the organisation of this site. I know you guys are quite a local site and don’t deal with anomalies this extreme but the state of this site is a bit… shocking.

Dr. Breytenbach: Will these video logs be shown to Dir. ?

Director Nkosi: No probably not.

Dr. Breytenbach: Oh perfect. That man is a complete and utter [EXPLETIVE]. This place is a [EXPLETIVE] because of his complete lack of leadership. That man exemplifies everything wrong with this country, he is exactly like the corrupt politicians that are burning this place to the ground. I had a researcher. Talented. She was here four years and she left because the equipment in her lab hadn’t been functional since before she arrived and nothing was ever going to be done about it. I had nothing to offer her. Nothing. Because that man sat in his office and signed off on audits that bore no resemblance to the actual state of this building.

Director Nkosi: Woah okay slow down-

Dr. Ngluvo: No he is right. We have constantly brought up issues with Director but they never get resolved. In your own words, the state of this place is shocking. I’m sure you’ve noticed that the card readers for certain rooms do not work. Those have been non functional for five months. I have stuff go missing from a couple of the labs because of it.
The second floor bathroom has been out of commission for as long as I’ve worked here. So all of accounting and us in labs have to share ONE genderless bathroom. And even then that place is barely cleaned because we only have two janitors for the entire main building.

Dr. Wessels: The metal miller in lab 3 is also broken. The third basement level is also flooded thanks to a burst pipe.

Director Nkosi: Okay-

Dr. Breytenbach: Nah, we ain’t done. Because of that pipe, the site’s bore hole was contaminated with heavy metals so we have had to buy bottled water for the site. I tried to get Wessels to retrofit on a water purifier but Dir insisted we get HQ to deal with it and a year later we still have no bloody water.

Director Nkosi: Why did none of you file any reports?

Dr. Breytenbach: We have! They are probably all stacked up in that old [EXPLETIVE] office. I have even tried to contact HQ in Joburg for even just an increase in funding because apparently we have nothing but sticks and rocks in the bank.

Director Nkosi: <flipping through pile of documents in front of her> Do you know how much you are allocated? This site receives [REDACTED] USD from HQ, about [REDACTED] Rand.

Dr. Breytenbach: Excuse me?

Director Nkosi: And just doing a quick flip through the data base I do not see a record of any complaints from this site. In fact, based on this, this site’s audits and reputation is one of the best on the continent. Hence my surprise on the actual state of this place.

Dr. Breytenbach: Let’s circle back to that money allowance. [REDACTED] you say? We have not seen a cent of that.

«CONNECTION LOST»

Director Nkosi: (raising her voice over the noise) Everyone sit down. Sit. We are not leaving this room until we have a plan.

Dr. Breytenbach: With respect, Director, my researchers are out there—

Director Nkosi: Your researchers are ETTRA’s problem right now. Sit down, Doctor.

Dr. Wessels: How many events since the power went?

Director. Nkosi: (checking tablet) Three confirmed. One D-Class on level one, two support staff in the east corridor. There are reports of a fourth, but we have not been able to verify—

Dr. Breytenbach: What the [EXPLETIVE] was that?

Dr. Wessels: Nothing good. We need to get the power back on, or at least get the backup generators going because the SRI’s only have so much residual power—

Director Nkosi: Doctor Wessels. I need you present right now, not problem-listing. Can you get the main power back?

Dr. Wessels: Not from here. The generator switchover has to be done manually from the basement. Someone has to go down there.

Director Nkosi: (to the guard at the door) Dube, take Petersen and get down to the basement. Wessels will tell you what to do.

Dr. Wessels: (talking rapidly toward the door) Main board, third panel from the left, the red manual override lever — pull it down and hold it for five seconds—

Dr. Breytenbach: (quietly, almost to himself) This is what happens when you run a nuclear powered facility on a bent budget and a prayer.

Director Nkosi: (sharply) Doctor, not the time.

Dr. Breytenbach: I am just saying what everyone is thinking.

<4 seconds silence. The dripping in the corner continues.>

Director Nkosi: (measured, deliberate) We need to discuss the termination of SCP-9798-A and -B.

<Silence. Breytenbach looks up. Wessels turns from the door.>

Dr. Wessels: Excuse me?

Director Nkosi: The anomaly originates within -A. -B is an unknown variable from within the anomaly now loose in baseline reality. We have had four unraveling events in under an hour. We have a site in partial riot and we just don’t have resources to act fast enough.

Dr. Wessels: We don’t know the outcome. We don’t know what happens to the LDA if -A dies. For all we know it destabilises completely and—

Director Nkosi: Which is why it is a discussion, Doctor, not an order. We just aren’t equipped to handle this like normal and it will take too long to get all the necessary equipment. From my perspective, it’s at least worth considering as an option.

Dr. Breytenbach: (slowly, arms crossed) The old man’s getting worse anyway. We think he has Alzheimer’s, I’m sure you saw that on his report. It’s only going to complicate things further down the line.

Dr. Wessels: Harry—

Dr. Breytenbach: I’m not saying I want to. I’m saying it’s on the table and we should be honest about that.

Director Nkosi: And -B?

Dr. Breytenbach: -B is cooperative. But it is still an anomalous entity from an anomalous dimension walking around in our reality with a destructive ontology. Every second it exists out here is a vector.

Director Nkosi: (nodding slowly) Then we are in agreement that—

Dr. Wessels: That’s the SRI grid. Something’s disrupted the field—

Dr. Breytenbach: You are not going out there—

Dr. Wessels: If the SRI goes down the cell is open—

ETTRA Officer: We need a medic… Petersen just - his arm just…

Director Nkosi: (on her feet, moving toward them) Get him on the table—

<[CORRUPTED SECTOR — 00:14:32:08 to 00:14:55:21]>

<[FOOTAGE PARTIALLY RECONSTRUCTED FROM SECONDARY BACKUP — IMAGE QUALITY DEGRADED]>

Dr. Wessels: (audible, fragmented) — don’t touch it — don’t — anyone who touched her needs to report to—

Dr. Breytenbach: (inaudible)>

Dr. Wessels: Harry. Harry look at me. Are you… did she touch you?

Dr. Breytenbach: (shaking head, still not turning)>

Dr. Wessels: (to the corridor) This is Doctor Alan Wessels. I am assuming acting authority under ETTRA Emergency Protocol eight. I need all remaining personnel to seal the east and west corridors and all available security staff make your way to basement level 1. Someone go and get the director. No one enters or exits the building. If you have been in contact with any unraveled material you report to the medical bay immediately.

Dr. Wessels: And it is pronounced Vessels. With a V. (quieter) Get it together, Alan.

«VIDEO LOG ENDS»

ADDENDUM B.2 — SECOND MASS SCP-9798-C INCIDENT
EVENT REPORT • SITE-63 SECURITY

Below is an attachment of the internal memo distributed by Director Wessels the day he assumed the role, as well as a sub-document pertaining to incident report EDRAS-09, regarding the civilian casualty.

Dir. Wessels Internal Memo

ADDENDUM A.4 — CONTAINMENT CELL INTERACTION
OBSERVATION LOG • SITE-63 AUDIO

Below is an except taken from the containment cell footage of SCP-9798-A and -B following a breakthrough in their relationship and an easing of tensions that should make future containment easier.

Audio Log — SCP-9798-B and SCP-XXXX-A during shared containment

Location: Site 63 - SCP-9798 containment cell
Date: 13/08/20██

« Audio Transcript Begin »

SCP-9798-A: I never wanted to stop. You understand that? People always assume writers who abandon things simply ran out of care. That they got bored and moved on to something shinier. It was not like that.

SCP-9798-B: Then what was it like?

SCP-9798-A: (long exhale) I got… tangled. The plot had grown so large. So many threads. The rebellion, the succession, the — the betrayal arc, the prophecy underpinning all of it. I had laid so much groundwork and I just… couldn’t see how to bring it all together without ruining it. So I kept waiting for clarity that never came. And eventually waiting became… not writing. And not writing became stopping. And stopping became…

(quietly) …this.

<4 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-A: Those books. They are the best thing I ever did. The only thing I ever did that I was truly proud of. That is not nothing, you know. It is nothing to be ashamed of.

<3 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: (evenly) Then why could you not finish them.

SCP-9798-A: (sharply) I just told you why—

SCP-9798-B: You told me why you stopped. That is not the same thing. You could have started again. Any morning. Any year. You chose not to.

SCP-9798-A: You don’t know what you’re talking about.

SCP-9798-B: Then tell me I am wrong.

<6 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-A: (quietly, almost to himself) I couldn’t remember how it was supposed to go.

<3 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: What?

SCP-9798-A: (louder, defensive now) The outline. My notes. I had it all mapped. Hundreds of pages of planning. And then I would sit down to write and it would just… slip. Like trying to hold water. I thought it was stress. I thought it was age. I thought — (voice tightening) — I thought if I just rested, it would come back.

SCP-9798-B: But it did not come back.

SCP-9798-A: (long pause)

No.

<5 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-A: I forgot my wife’s birthday three years in a row. She thought I was being cruel. (short, humourless laugh) I forgot the name of the street I grew up on. I forgot — (stops)

<4 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: (slowly) You haven’t called me by my name. Not once. Not in any of our conversations.

<2 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-A: (carefully) There were a great many knights in the series. I cannot be expected to recall every—

SCP-9798-B: What is my name.

<7 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-A: (barely audible) I don’t know.

<3 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: (almost a whisper) You don’t know.

SCP-9798-A: (voice breaking now, the deflection finally gone) I used to. I swear to you, I used to know every single one of them. Every character. Every name, every arc, every small detail I had tucked into the margins. I knew your world better than I knew my own. I could close my eyes and walk its streets.

And now it is just… (a shaking breath)

It is going dark. Room by room. And I cannot stop it.

<4 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: (quietly) How long?

SCP-9798-A: The doctors think — (clears throat) A few years yet, probably. Before it is total. But the details go first, they said. The specific things. Names. Dates. The things you think you could never forget.
(bitterly)

It turns out there is no such thing as something you could never forget.

<5 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: (carefully, as though handling something fragile) Do you remember anything about me? Anything at all.

<8 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-A: (slowly) I remember… that you were loyal. Painfully so. That it was both your greatest virtue and the thing that was going to destroy you. I remember writing you and feeling… (trails off, something shifting in his voice)
I remember feeling like you were the most honest character I had ever made. Like I hadn’t invented you so much as just… recognised you.

<6 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-B: (voice very quiet) That is more than I expected.

SCP-9798-A: (a short, wet laugh) Don’t go getting sentimental on me now. I still don’t know your name.

SCP-9798-B: (a beat, then gently) Aion.

<3 seconds silence>

SCP-9798-A: (softly, as if testing the weight of it) Aion.

(pause)

Yes. Yes, that… that sounds right.

I’m so sorry Aion. I’m sorry I never finished your story.

SCP-9798-B: It’s okay. Even an unfinished song was heard by someone. Thank you for listening to me.

« LOG ENDS »

ADDENDUM D.3 — SCP-9798-A SURGERY
SITE-63 MEDICAL WING • ONGOING