Interviewed: SCP-XXXX
Interviewer: Level 2 Researcher Mathias Beck Site 292 Director Augustus Charpentier
Foreward: The interview was initially led by Researcher Mathias Beck, however, SCP-XXXX would not talk upon learning that he was not "the head of the Foundation."
SCP-XXXX continually requested to speak to the most senior officer. After threatening with various expletives and warnings, Director Augustus Charpentier agreed to the interview. Two guards, John Brown and Weyr Kantu, accompanied the Site Director.
<Begin Log, May 18th, 12:32 pm>
Director Augustus Charpentier: Hello, Sarkalon. My name is Dr. Charpentier and I am the most senior officer here. Is this acceptable for you?
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Yes, thank you. And by the way, you can call me Sam.
Director Augustus Charpentier: No problem Sam. (flips through clipboard) Very interesting, few come to the Foundation so directly and…huh! Even admitting that you are anomalous.
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Yes, I wanted to talk to the head of the Foundation. But I doubt that any of you will actually let me.
Director Augustus Charpentier: What's so great about the "head of the Foundation?" What's wrong with me?
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: No, I think it'll be fine. You might know. Well, anyway, I'm going to end the world soon.
Director Augustus Charpentier: My God! You want to end the world? You don't seem like the type. Tell me, how will you end it?
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Well, I kinda don't know how it'll happen. I just know that if I close my eyes and really try then it will all just vanish. It might start all over again, I'm not sure.
Director Augustus Charpentier: Hmph, not really exciting is it?
Speaker (Sub-Director Sahadeva Chakarvarti): Director, please remain professional.
Director Augustus Charpentier: PLEASE LET ME DO MY JOB SUB-DIRECTOR!…Sorry, Sam. Nothing much happens around here so a lot of these men haven't encountered anything ever. It's inexperience, really. Back to what I was saying, pretty anti-climatic right? For the end of humanity and all.
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Well, I don't know what you expected.
Director Augustus Charpentier: I don't know…something momentous, like a demon invasion or aliens maybe?
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: I think I am half-demon actually.
Director Augustus Charpentier: Oh yeah, you have the horns and tail right?
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Yeah, I usually hide'em by wearing like a hoodie and baggie pants. I don't know how I got them to be honest with you.
Director Augustus Charpentier: Well, we have time don't we. At least tell me about yourself before you end it all. Like who are your parents?
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: I don't know that much about my early life. Sometimes I get nightmares about it though.
Director Augustus Charpentier: What are they about?
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: I'm stuck in a room. It's colorless and cold and cruel. Weird guys in white suits give me food through a door and do weird tests on me…I've really tried to repress that shit, it's probably why I'm like this now anyway.
Director Augustus Charpentier: Like what?
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Like really fucking awkward, just around everyone. I'm not afraid of my horns, you know. I think they're cool as hell, but some dumbass demon occultist halted my social and emotional growth when I was a kid, you get me and now just play games all day, nothin' else.
Director Augustus Charpentier: I mean with a power like that, it makes sense that there was an anomalous origin. How did you ever leave that place, supposing it was real?
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: I didn't really escape or anything like that I think. Somehow I ended up in an orphanage, you know St. Mark's, and I went back a few years ago and asked about how I got in and they had no records, nothin'. I was thinking like, "damn my own parents don't even want me to know about them."
Director Augustus Charpentier: Is that why you want to end the world?
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Mmm, not really, the reason is because…
(Security Guard John Brown leans forward and falls down. Out of surprise, Weyr Kantu also drops his weapon)
Director Augustus Charpentier: Are you both really that incompetent? Get out of here, both of you!
Speaker (Sub-Director Sahadeva Chakarvarti): Director, can you please follow procedure.
Director Augustus Charpentier: Sub-director…if we followed "normal procedure" then the world would have ended by now. Let me handle this case. Okay, continue Sam. Sorry for the interruption.
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Well I was just gonna say that that I decided to end the world after a few days of thinking. I was thinking about all the suffering in the world and how much pain people are in. Like starving children and slaves and…and…real scary stuff you know. And I have this amazing power and it could solve all these problems at once.
Director Augustus Charpentier: But what about people like me, you know normal guys who are just living. Wouldn't, through your own method, kill the millions of people like me who exist?
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Well, I thought about all that and I came to a conclusion. My act of ending the world would just be speeding up the natural way it'll all end anyway. You've heard about the heat death right? By that point, we will all be dead and nothing will mean anything anymore. If that'll happen anyway, what's wrong with me doing it now?
Director Augustus Charpentier: Okay, before you end the world, tell me this. Has anything good ever happened to you?
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Hmm…I can't think off the top of my head. Literally just today I failed a chem final.
Director Augustus Charpentier: Just think.
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Ughh, maybe one thing is that I just ranked up in Overwatch yesterday.
Director Augustus Charpentier: Um, okay whatever that is, it granted you happiness, correct? Think that for the next few billion years, or as long as we have left, there will be moments like that happening in everyone's lives.
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: What about all the suffering in the world? What can justify it? I read Nietzsche before and he was on point.
Director Augustus Charpentier: I don't anything about that but in my opinion, suffering is a means to an end. It cannot be that happiness exists by itself without suffering, because what is happiness other than the absence of suffering and suffering other than the absence of happiness.
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Hmm, maybe you're right…By the way, do you what the time is?
Security Guard Weyr Kantu: It's around 1'o clock.
Director Augustus Charpentier: Why are you still here?
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Doctor, thanks for the pep talk but I have to go soon. I have class in 30 minutes.
Director Augustus Charpentier: Sam…You know enough about the Foundation, surely you understand you can't just leave.
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Even you know that I wouldn't want to spend the rest of my life in a cage. If I have to redo my childhood, you are correct in assuming it would all end.
Director Augustus Charpentier: (fidgets) Well…uhh…okay, fine. I'll let you go but you must understand we are going to take measures to make sure you don't do anything drastic.
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Yeah, you can do whatever you want. I knew the risks coming to you guys. Just don't lock me up.
Director Augustus Charpentier: John, Kantu. Please escort him out. Blindfolded as usual…One more thing Sam. I'm a little curious, why did you need Foundation and the "head" for this. Come to think, why do you know so much about us?
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Oh shit, your're right, I was meaning to ask. I learned about my dad's from…
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Director Augustus Charpentier: Interesting, that a name contains such a title. I don't know about that individual I'm sorry.
Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan: Thanks anyway, I guess.
(John Brown, Weyr Kantu, and Sarkalon A. Mazzaxan leave the room.)
Speaker (Sub-Director Sahadeva Chakarvarti): Director, you understand you will be reprimanded for letting the SCP go free.
Director Augustus Charpentier: What else could I have done, Deva? I had to make up some bullshit before he snapped the world out of existence. I had to be delicate with this. Something this interesting makes up for being assigned to this worthless trash of a site. By the way, James did you ever hear of that person he mentioned?
Speaker (Sub-Director Sahadeva Chakarvarti): I have not. On to the more important aspect, what is your plan now?
Director Augustus Charpentier: Hmm…Tell Beck to write up some simple conproc. Make sure it involves around mostly tracking. Nothing with personnel, we barely have 4 guards in this whole place. Tell him to use the drones…the cloaking ones.
Speaker (Sub-Director Sahadeva Chakarvarti): All the cloaking drones were sent to Site 291.
Director Augustus Charpentier: Then have Beck tail him until we get some. Order them from the regional site.
Speaker (Sub-Director Sahadeva Chakarvarti): He is not trained, sir.
Director Augustus Charpentier: Just do it. And I want you to draft up a document and send it to the Regional Director. Send it with priority Omega-5 and make sure you list the object class as "Archon."
Speaker (Sub-Director Sahadeva Chakarvarti): But sir…
Director Augustus Charpentier: Yes I know he'll get pissed off, but its an easy way to cover our ass for just discharging him. Oh, and please for godsakes cut out what I'm saying from the "interview." It'll make us look incompetent and that's why we're here anyway. And, one last thing, search the directory for…
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<End Log, May 19th, 1:11 pm>
Conclusion: Approximately 35 minutes later, Sub-Director of Site 292 Sahadeva Chakarvarti sent an emergency notification and draft of SCP-XXXX to Regional Director Markael Townsend.