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SCP-3388
Item #: SCP-3388
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: As SCP-3388 is considered a provisionary Foundation Site, all protocols regarding security practices and safety measures are in effect. Any airlines or ships that enter the vicinity of SCP-3388 are to be rerouted, under the pretense of a severe weather event forming in the area.
MTF Eta-5 "Jaeger Bombers" is currently responsible for the containment of all SCP-3388-A instances. These responsibilities include discouraging and deescalating confrontations between instances, maintaining all research outposts, and ensuring safety of personnel entering known SCP-3388-A territories.
Description: SCP-3388 is a nonanomalous island of extradimensional origin located at 41° ██' █.███'' N, 58° ██' █.███'' W.1 The surface of SCP-3388 is predominantly covered with artificially created habitats, research outposts, and a resort. While the simulated habitats are now defunct, they appear to have been each designed to house a specific instance of SCP-3388-A.
SCP-3388 manifested within this reality on 7/2/1976. The original universe of SCP-3388 is unknown, as well as the reason for its manifestation within this reality. Based upon the state of numerous buildings on it, it is believed to have been abandoned, with possible signs of an armed conflict being present.
SCP-3388-A instances are a collection of unique gigafauna - and one gigaflora - which are currently theorized to have come from numerous alternate realities or extradimensional locations. Each instance has been implanted with a device (designated SCP-3388-B) which appears to act as a shock collar, preventing the instance from leaving SCP-3388 or entering several areas intended for management, research and leisure. A full list of SCP-3388 instances is included below.
The simulated habitats of SCP-3388-1 instances were formerly fully equipped to care for each instance while left alone, and automatically dispense necessary food2 in accordance with the particular instance's eating habits.
| Instance Designation | Callsign3 | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SCP-3388-A1 | Behemoth | A terrestrial quadruped, the sides and back of which are covered in an extremely tough skin. In addition, it possesses three sharp horns on the head, which are used in defense. It is herbivorous, and appears to have formed a symbiotic relationship with SCP-3388-A5. It is roughly 150m from head to tail. |
| SCP-3388-A2 | Ziz | An avian creature, with a wingspan of approximately 150m. Possesses three pairs of wings, each of which has a large eye at the joint, which is used for monitoring and stalking prey. SCP-3388-A2 is capable of remaining in the air at all times, and typically only comes to the ground to feed on live prey. |
| SCP-3388-A3 | Leviathan | A primarily aquatic creature with a crocodilian head. From the neck down, it is pentaradially symmetric, and has five muscular hydrostats, in addition to five reptilian arms which end in five digits each. Possesses noted regenerative capabilities. Approximately 50m long, and believed to be female. |
| SCP-3388-A4 | Khoi | Terrestrial, bears resemblance to mantids. Approximately 30m tall when standing straight. At most times, it is completely motionless, relying on aggressive mimicry to draw in prey. SCP-3388-A4 is shades of brown and green in coloration, and has multiple protrusions on its exoskeleton that resemble tree branches or leaves. |
| SCP-3388-A5 | Gaia | A sentient megaflora, which dominates the majority of the northwestern region of SCP-3388. At its centre, it possesses a large flower which blooms during the day, but retracts into the stem at night. While it is incapable of motion, it is able to move roots surrounding its central mass for self-defense. It appears to tolerate the presence of SCP-3388-A1, as the latter has been observed warding off other SCP-3388-A specimens that approach the central mass. |
| SCP-3388-A6 | Fenrir | A canine entity, measuring seven meters tall at the shoulder and fifteen meters long from nose to tip of tail. Instance is the leader of a large pack of nonanomalous wolves (consisting of approximately three hundred members). |
| SCP-3388-A7 | Charybdis | Aquatic invertebrate, approximately 130m in diameter, similar to a starfish, possessing multiple limbs covered on all sides with venomous spines. It feeds primarily by excreting a highly toxic substance into the nearby water, which rapidly breaks down organic materials. It then feeds by drawing the resulting mixture into its body. |
| SCP-3388-A8 | Naga | Serpentine, approximately 150m in length, and possessing four small limbs. In addition, it possesses numerous sharp teeth, as well as a yellow mane, with two cervid-like antlers. SCP-3388-A8 is capable of expelling a highly flammable gas, which it ignites using specialized molars located at the back of its mouth. Because of this, it is avoided by most other SCP-3388-A instances. |
| SCP-3388-A9 | Camazotz | Nocturnal flying mammalian, resembling a large bat, approximately 125m from wingtip to wingtip. During the day, it remains in an expansive canyon and cave system located on the southeast of SCP-3388. At night, it will fly and drink nectar secreted by SCP-3388-A5. While it is not outwardly hostile towards SCP-3388-A2, territorial disputes are somewhat common. |
Addendum 3388.01: SCP-3388-A3 Breach Report
Prepared by the Mobile Task Force Eta-5
Reporter:
MTF Eta-5 Captain "Heracles"
Date of Report
February 13, 1988
Subject
SCP-3388-A3 Containment Breach
At 1327, we detected that Naga had left its normal territory and was heading into the southwestern region of SCP-3388. This happens about once a week, and normally doesn't mean anything.
At 1353, Naga reached the beachfront of SCP-3388 and began roaring and breathing fire aggresively. (This is how it normally challenges other instances to fight.) After viewing this on a security camera, I ordered the deployment of a team to break up any potential fight.
At 1356, Leviathan crawled out of the water and began to engage Naga in combat. Since our standing orders are to prevent any instances from killing each other, we normally try to break up the fights.
At 1401, the MTF Eta-5 detachment arrived. Since Naga was the intruder in this specific fight, the team decided to focus their efforts on that one, as per normal.
The team began by firing flares at Naga, and it began to retreat. Leviathan remained and roared at it, having defended its territory successfully, before retreating back into the ocean.
The Eta-5 detachment then followed Naga back to its territory, and having confirmed that it had returned to its nest, returned back to the base we have on the island.
At 1430, a routine check of all the instances's locater/shock-collar chips indicated that Leviathan was still on the beach. A quick camera check indicated this was not true. I deployed another attachment to go investigate.
Upon arriving on the beach, the team found the melted remains of Leviathan's SCP-3388-B. A review of the camera footage showed that Naga had managed to gouge this out of Leviathan during their fight. (At the time, this was not taken as anything special - Naga has heavily wounded Leviathan before.)
Leviathan's SCP-3388-B prevented it from leaving a small radius of SCP-3388. We have currently been searching in this radius for it, and have not found it. It is therefore my official opinion that it managed to leave the island and is now free.
Post Script — All of the monsters on this island were extremely dangerous. I have been lobbying for termination since Day One, but my requests have been consistently denied. Now that one is loose, we have no idea what it could do.
You need to find this thing ASAP and kill it, before something bad happens.
Addendum 3388.02: Incident-3388-1
Due to a lack of success in locating SCP-3388-A3 over the course of several months, efforts to do so were diminished. Research into its previous habitat led researchers to believe that it would have been unable to survive in the open ocean, due to a lack of its prey and sightings, and it was presumed neutralized.
However, on 28/05/1988, the Global Occult Coalition contacted the Foundation about SCP-3388-A3. They revealed to the Foundation that SCP-3388-A3 had not been neutralized, as previously believed, but had escaped and was currently in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. The GOC was able to produce images of SCP-3388-A3, which had grown considerably, and was currently approximately 100 meters long.
The GOC requested that the Foundation cooperate with liquidation efforts of SCP-3388-A3, and disclose documentation concerning the entity over to the Global Occult Coalition in order to assist with liquidation. As SCP-3388-A3 appeared to be uncontainable, based upon the information presented by the GOC, the Foundation accepted this deal.
The Foundation remained unaware of SCP-3388-A3 or any potential GOC liquidation efforts until 08/06/1988, when Nx-034 was suddenly attacked by SCP-3388-A3, with the GOC arriving shortly after and terminating the entity.
The attack on Nx-03, and then GOC's handling of the situation, resulted in the destruction of large portions of the infastructure of Nx-03, and severe damage to its economy. These events lead to the eventual decline in the prominence of Nx-03 as an anomalous free port.
Addendum 3388.03: Neutralization Order
Prepared by the Office of Overseer-8
Date of Report:
July 26th, 1988
Subject:
SCP-3388 and Incident-3388-1
To my colleagues at the Foundation,
I am sure you are well aware of what happened these last few days. In our efforts to assist the Global Occult Coalition with locating and terminating SCP-3388-A3 — a mess that we caused, might I add — the city of Hy-Brasil sustained heavy damage. This resulted in an unknown number of casualties, and an uncalculated amount of property damage. This is one of our great failures, if not the greatest.
The personnel responsible for the breach of SCP-3388-A3 and its incorrect designation as neutralized will be disciplined for their actions, but the blame cannot be entirely placed on them. This is a fault with our current approach to keeping the public safe from what they can't handle themselves.
The following is an excerpt from a letter sent to the O5 Council from the desk of D.C. al Fine, Under-Secretary General of the Global Occult Coalition.
The blood of Hy-Brasil is on the hands of your inefficient system. You approach the otherworldy as if it's just something you can file away and forget about. And because of that, we had to waste our resources and watch our members die, all to clean up a mess that you made.
If the Coalition hadn't found it, what would have happened? It shows up in D.C.? London? Thank God it hadn't already.
What's worse, you're still letting the rest of them live free on the island, as if one tragedy wasn't enough for you to do what needs to be done. You're practically waiting for a repeat incident.
As such, we strongly urge the immediate liquidation of any and all remaining "SCP-3388-A" instances remaining on the island, for the good of the world.
I am forced to agree with Madam al Fine.
We have terminated objects before, some we're still actively looking for ways to terminate. But we have always considered it a last resort, and we have always known when it was necessary, as we now know in regards to SCP-3388. The containment procedures have failed, and we cannot risk them failing again.
For these reasons, I have ordered the immediate neutralization of SCP-3388 and all subdesignations of that anomaly. A neutralization plan is to be submitted to my Office by August 2nd, 1988 by the SCP-3388 Research Team and MTF Eta-5 for my approval.
May we continue to secure, contain and protect.
— O5-8
MOBILE TASK FORCE ETA-5
("JÄEGER BOMBERS")
Captain: H-5 Heracles
Lieutenants: H-5 Beowulf, H-5 Gilgamesh, H-5 Cadmus, H-5 Ishtar
Soldiers: Full force of MTF Eta-4, counting forty members. Divided into four companies of ten. Each company lead by one lieutenant.
Date of Action: August 9th, 1988
Action Undertaken: Neutralization of SCP-3388-A Instances
Termination Report Audio Transcript
The following is a verbal report given by MTF Eta-5 Captain ("Heracles") after the successful termination of all SCP-3388-A instances upon SCP-3388. Extraneous dialogue from the interviewer has been removed.
[BEGIN LOG]
I just speak into this recorder? Nice and simple, the way I like it.
My first tactical decision had been that aerial support would be an absolute necessity during this operation. Thusly, a termination of the two instances capable of flight was the highest priority, so that we would not be threatened by them. Therefore, Ziz and Camazotz had to go.
Rather than attempt to engage these entities in the air, I had made the decision to let them fight their differences out. I ordered my men do fly-bys on each of them, and get their attention. Chase quickly followed, but neither of those things can fly faster than a jet. Could. They're dead now.
The jets passed each other, each with a monster in tow. Camazotz and Ziz slammed into each other, and Ziz ripped that bat's throat out. It dragged it to the ground and was feasting on the remains when we checked in on it.
God, it was refreshing to finally see one of those fucking things dead. I've been waiting for this day for ages.
Ziz took the bat to the ground to eat it, and that let us roll in and shoot it with the howitzers. BAM! Right through the skull. Dropped dead right after. Only thing better than a dead kaiju is a dead kaiju we killed, right? First death was great but the second was even better.
Since Gaia can't move, it was the easiest target. Jets flying over and dropping napalm bombs was all it took to burn that sucker to the ground. Ha. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Gaia burned so nice. The way it tried to put out the fires with its tentacle-roots almost made me feel something for it. Almost.
When Behemoth emerged from the flaming forest, bellowing, we bombarded it with ballistic missiles. We had the missiles armed and ready to go, and we punched a crater in the island where Behemoth emerged. Sure, it was tough, but it couldn't withstand fire falling from the heavens.
There's a Job joke in there somewhere.
I didn't want to engage Naga from a close range, because of the whole fire breathing thing. Its got some serious range on that, and it would toast any of us before we even got close.
Thankfully, Outpost-3388-03 has twelve howitzers mounted to the walls, and I know they have a larger range than the fire. We had already removed anything of importance from the outpost in preparation for the outpost, making it a safe location for a lure.
Naga liked to fight a lot, so we just played some recorded Leviathan roars full blast. It thought its old enemy came back, and came charging, ready to go at it.
It crawled over, flames spewing out. But as soon as it got within range, we made mincement out of it. Pumped it full of holes.
Next up was Fenrir. Since we wanted to take out the entire pack along with the alpha, we were forced to get creative. Our solution was to poison the corpses of Ziz and Camazotz, and then lure the pack on over.
They feasted, like the miserable fucks they are. Were. It didn't take long for them to start dropping like flies. It was a huge pack, but there was a lot of meat to go through. The few that didn't die from the poison we picked off with machine gun fire.
Fenrir itself didn't die from the poison immediately. I pulled up on the jeep to see if it was dead, and it was lying there with its eyes barely open, dying. I grabbed my machete and stabbed it in the face to finish the job.
The last one left was Charybdis. We had been ordered to use one of the prototype L-Cannons from Project Zeus during our termination, and I decided to save that until the end, in case anything went wrong. Since they need seawater, the only practical target was Charybdis.
Call me Frankenstein, because I feel like I might be the new modern Prometheus.
You have no taste.
Anyway, the L-Cannons functioned beautifully. I think I had been told they were intended to be nonlethal, but this sure as hell wasn't. That starfish was toast after only a minute under the lightning blast.
Huh? Khoi? Oh, yeah, right. Forgot about that bug.
Khoi was one of the easiest. I had a jet fly over as we were burning Gaia and shoot a missile at its head. Direct hit, blew the thing to smithereens. Kept moving for a minute after. God, I hate bugs.
We devastated that island, and killed every last one of those beasts. It was nothing but victory and oh, did it taste so sweet.
All in all, the whole operation took about four hours. We didn't even have any losses. Clinical precision and a well thought out plan are all it takes to deal with these things. Nowhere near as scary as everyone thinks of them as. This is what we do best here, in Eta-5.
With all the monsters on good old monster island dead, me and the team went back to our boat for a few rounds of jäger bombs. Team drink.
Don't roll your eyes at me, its in the name. What else are we supposed to drink?
[END LOG]
Prepared by the Ethics Committee
Reporter:
EC-6060
Date of Report:
August 12th, 1988
Subject:
SCP-3388 Neutralization
Yesterday, I was asked to conduct an official review of the neutralization of SCP-3388, which had been ordered last week by O5-8 and carried about by Mobile Task Force Eta-5 (the "Jäeger Bombers) three days ago. One of the project supervisors had expressed doubts about the manner in which this neutralization was carried out, and contacted the Ethics Committee.
As a brief aside - the neutralization had been fully approved by all necessary parties - an O5, an Ethics Committee supervisor, and the HMCL Liason for the anomaly. I'm not fully privy to their reasoning, but I trust it.
That said, I have serious doubts about the manner in which the anomalies were executed. I do not think that the actions of Eta-5 - in particular the commander, who I have only recieved the codename for at the moment - were not conducted in a manner that befits the ethics we attempt to adhere.
The killings of most of the SCP-3388-A instances were needlessly brutal and cruel to the instances, and appeared to have been deliberately done so. The Ethics Committee has strict guidelines on the neutralization of non-humanoid anomalies, and we generally require a humanitarian approach.
What happenened was not humanitarian, not in the slighest. I am disgusted by the actions of MTF Eta-5.
I was granted access to the records and files of the commander (Codenamed "Heracles") in order to conduct my investigation. He had been planning for a neuralization order for a long time, almost immediately after he was first stationed here. He had several complete order plans prepared.
The first plans that he had written were simple, concise and would fall under standard Ethics Committee guidelines. However, as the years progressed, his plans grew to resemble the one that we say today. I also had access to all fatalities of Eta-5 members, and I noticed that after each death, "Heracles" would adapt the plans to be a bit more violent to whatever instance caused the death.
He was trying to punish them.
That's not appropriate. We want objectivity in the actions of our agents, with the ideal being that they will not impose their personal preferences onto the situation. We don't want to see our agents blinded by anger and vengeance, to the point where they loose rationality.
I feel that some of those reading this report might question the need to be ethical to a bunch of monsters, but the Ethics Committee has set a high bar for the Foundation. We allow the brutal murder of these "monstrous" beasts, and then the "monstrous" humans, and then the normal humans. You can tell yourself you won't fall, but I don't trust people.
We have standards. Eta-5 did not uphold those standards.
My duty is only to observe the actions and pass judgment, not decide upon a punishment. That said, I cannot support any verdict that does not involve the immediate censure of "Heracles" from all duties with the Foundation.
SCP-3388, shortly after initial discovery.
Item #: SCP-3388
Object Class: Neutralized
Special Containment Procedures: Following their successful neutralization, SCP-3388-A and the remains of SCP-3388-B and SCP-3388-C are to be stored separate containment freezers in the Site-3388 Cryogenics Wing.
As SCP-3388 is the location of a Foundation Site5, standard information security practices concerning Foundation Sites is in effect. These practices are sufficient containment procedures for SCP-3388 itself, and no further procedures are necessary.
SCP-3388-B instances are to be stored within separate containment freezers at the Site-3388 Cryogenics Wing. SCP-3388-B instances are not to be transported or moved outside of approved testing. When transporting SCP-3388-B instances, extreme care is to be taken to prevent any damage to the shell, or any large disturbance to the instance.
SCP-3388-C instances are to be sedated with ketamine and kept within separate containment freezers at the Site-3388 Cryogenics Wing. They may be removed from testing following approval by the Site-3388 Director (Currently: Shayne Benedict).
Description: SCP-3388 is a nonanomalous island of extradimensional origin located at 41° ██' █.███'' N, 58° ██' █.███'' W.6 SCP-3388 manifested within this reality on 7/2/1976. SCP-3388, at the time of discovery, was present to a partially destroyed research outpost, SCP-3388-A, and SCP-3388-B.
The research outpost contained documentation concerning a project designed by GoI-0388 ("Alexylva University")7 to create a dimensional aperture capable of providing transport to alternate realities. This was evidently successful, until SCP-3388 was attacked by the Serpent's Hand for reasons unknown. This resulted in the emergence of SCP-3388-A from the dimensional aperture, which then destroyed both the aperture and the research outpost. This research outpost has since been demolished, and Site-3388 has been constructed on the same location. See ADDENDUM 02 for information on origin of SCP-3388 itself.
SCP-3388-A is the remains of a large entity which displays reptilian and cephalopodic characteristics, measuring approximately twenty meters in length. SCP-3388-A possessed a roughly serpentine body plan, with the addition of seven muscular hydrostats. SCP-3388-A was apparently killed during the extradimensional relocation of SCP-3388 into this reality.
SCP-3388-B was a collection of thirty-eight hard-shelled eggs, originally located within a nest located upon SCP-3388. These eggs were evidently laid by SCP-3388-A prior to its death. The average height of SCP-3388-B instances was 1.2 meters, and the average diameter was .8 meters.
When allowed to hatch, SCP-3388-B instances produced SCP-3388-C instances. SCP-3388-B instances hatched under a variety of circumstances, including the fracturing of a shell, a sudden increase in temperature or sudden movement of the instance.
SCP-3388-C was a collection of six entities that displayed a varied mixture of reptilian and cephalopodic characteristics. Each instance underwent rapid growth following hatching, and possessed Category III Regenerative capabilities. Other than this, SCP-3388-C instances shared no similarities. See ADDENDUM 01 for a list of SCP-3388-C instances.
| Instance | Description |
|---|---|
| SCP-3388-C-1 | Was similar to an alligator, with each limb having been replaced by a pair of tentacles. Measured two meters in length. |
| SCP-3388-C-2 | An octopus, with the replacement of all tentacles with the upper body of a snake. Possessed seventeen brains, with two per snake/tentacle. Possessed a radial span of two meters. |
| SCP-3388-C-3 | Possessed a hard shell similar to that of a turtle. Eight tentacles extruded from the shell, similar to those of an octopus. No eyes or mouth could be observed. Instance possessed a radial length of one meter. |
| SCP-3388-C-4 | Displays pentamerism with the exception of the head. Possesses five tentacles at the terminal, with five arms below the head. The head is visually similar to that of a crocodile. Approximately three meters long from the tip of snout to end of tentacles. |
| SCP-3388-C-5 | A large Giant Pacific Octopus8 with a radial span of seven meters. SCP-3388-C-5 was notably the only instance to be a genetic match for any terrestrial species. |
| SCP-3388-C-6 | Instance was similar to SCP-3388-A, being primarily serpentine with the addition of several tentacles. Unlike SCP-3388-A, SCP-3388-C-6 only possessed three tentacles. Measured 1.5 meters in length. |
The original research outpost on SCP-3388 was found to contain a large number of research documents and notation concerning SCP-3388-A. Recovered documentation indicates that the outpost was created by Alexylva University student researchers for a senior thesis project.
As a part of this thesis project, the students attempted to create a multiversal aperture. They were evidently successful, but this drew the hostile attention of the Serpent's Hand, who altered the aperture to release SCP-3388-A. Soon after SCP-3388-A emerged from the aperture, it caused significant structural damage to the aperture, destroying it.
The Alexylva University students attempted to terminate SCP-3388-A themselves, but were unable to do so. In a final attempt to kill SCP-3388-A, they deployed a prototype dimensional aperture device that was able to transport SCP-3388 to another dimension. SCP-3388-A was apparently killed during this transport.
This action was evidently successful, with SCP-3388 being relocated to our dimension, and SCP-3388-A being terminated in the process.
| On 13/03/1988, Chaos Insurgents attacked Site-3388. A log of the events of 13/03/1988 has been created and is included below. | |
| 0258 | A Chaos Insurgency ship lands upon SCP-3388. Twelve insurgents exit the vessel, and proceed to Site-3388. |
|---|---|
| 0302 | The insurgents enter Site-3388, setting off multiple alarms. They proceed to the Site-3388 Cryogenics Wing. |
| 0303 | Site-3388 Security begins mobilizing to repel the attack. |
| 0306 | The Insurgents search through the Cryogenics Wing of Site-3388, and stop at the freezer containing SCP-3388-C-4. They remove SCP-3388-C-4 and place it onto a stretcher. |
| 0310 | As the insurgents exit the Cryogenics Wing of Site-3388, they encounter the Site-3388 security team. A firefight between the two groups begins. |
| 0311 | Four Insurgents take SCP-3388-C-4 and leave the Cryogenics Wing of Site-3388 through a different exit. The other eight insurgents remain and continue to engage the Site-3388 security team. |
| 0314 | As the four insurgents are leaving Site-3388, SCP-3388-C-4 awakens and begins thrashing on the stretcher. One Chaos Insurgent is bitten by SCP-3388-C-4. Another Chaos Insurgent injects SCP-3388-C-4 with an unknown sedative, and SCP-3388-C-4 falls unconscious. |
| 0315 | The three uninjured insurgents exit Site-3388. The Chaos Insurgent injured by SCP-3388-C-4 swallows a cyanide pill9 and dies. |
| 0318 | The Site-3388 security team kills the last of the eight insurgents that remained within the Site-3388 Cryogenics Wing, and begins to inspect the wing. |
| 0319 | The Site-3388 security team discovers that SCP-3388-C-4 is missing, and begins to search for the remaining insurgents. |
| 0320 | The three surviving insurgents reach their vessel and board it, taking SCP-3388-C-4 with them. |
| 0322 | The Chaos Insurgency ship departs from SCP-3388. |
| 0323 | The Site-3388 security team sees the Chaos Insurgency ship, and begin heading to the Site-3388 Boathouse. |
| 0326 | An armed boat leaves the Site-3388 Boathouse and begins pursuing the Chaos Insurgency vessel. |
| 0327 | The Site-3388 ship fires four torpedos at the Chaos Insurgency vessel. |
| 0328 | The torpedos strike the Chaos Insurgency vessel, destroying and sinking it. |
| 0330 | The Chaos Insurgency vessel is confirmed as downed. |
| 0340 | MTF Eta-5 confirms Site-3388 as being safe. Two Eta-5 personnel have been killed in the attack, and three more have been injured. |
| 1310 | A submarine and diving team is sent to investigate the wreckage of the Chaos Insurgency vessel. |
| 1320 | Six Chaos Insurgent corpses are discovered within the wreckage. The corpse of SCP-3388-C-4 cannot be found. |
| 1323 | Two tentacles10 are discovered within the wreckage, close to the blast radius of a torpedo. |
| 1400 | SCP-3388-C-4 is assumed Neutralized, due to its sedated state and the proximity of its remains to the blast radius of the torpedo hit. |
On 28/05/1988, the Global Occult Coalition contacted the Foundation with information concerning SCP-3388-C-4. They revealed to the Foundation that SCP-3388-C-4 had not been neutralized, as previously believed, but had escaped and was uncontained in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. The GOC produced pictures of SCP-3388-C-4, which had grown significantly since containment was breached, and was currently approximately 100 meters long.
The GOC requested that the Foundation cooperate with liquidation efforts of SCP-3388-C-4, and disclose documentation concerning the entity over to the Global Occult Coalition in order to assist with liquidation. As SCP-3388-C-4 appeared to be uncontainable, based upon the information presented by the GOC, the Foundation accepted this deal and disclosed documentation concerning SCP-3388-C-4 to the Global Occult Coalition.
The Foundation remained unaware of any liquidation efforts until 13/06/1988, when SCP-3388-C-4 attacked Three Portlands, causing massive damage to the city. SCP-3388-C-4 was terminated by the GOC during this attack by unknown means. This event has been designated as Incident K-1.
Incident K-1 is generally regarded as one of the largest events to have occurred within the greater, worldwide anomalous community. The implications of this event have been wide reaching, with the full scope not fully understood by the Foundation.
Following Incident K-1, the Foundation was sent the following letter by the Global Occult Coalition.
To the SCP Foundation,
The incident in Three Portlands was a total failure, and we have decided that your current procedures of "containment" are the root cause of the incident. As a result, we strongly urge the immediate liquidation of any and all remaining SCP-3388-C instances, and highly recommend the liquidation of any remaining SCP-3388-B instances.
The containment breach of SCP-3388-C-4 (henceforth referred to under its GOC designation, LTE-851-Kewpie) posed a massive threat to both Second (Concealment) and Third (Protection) Mission Concerns. While the Coalition was able to avert a major failure of these missions, it is unknown if we shall be able to do the same in the future.
The Foundation is currently unable to properly contain SCP-3388-C instances, as shown by the breach of LTE-851-Kewpie, which went undetected for two months after escape. During this time, it underwent rapid growth, making future containment impossible.
Should another instance of SCP-3388-C escape from containment and escape detection for a longer period of time, it may not be possible to liquidate such an instance in a practical manner. While we were able to liquidate this specific instance, there were several factors that allowed for this that wouldn't easily be replicable in the future.
In order to prevent a future event of similar magnitude, we urge the preemptive liquidation of all parathreats with the potential to cause such an event (namely, SCP-3388-B and SCP-3388-C instances). We recognize that this conflicts with the standard operating procedures of the Foundation, but we feel that this strategy is irresponsible and needlessly dangerous.
Sincerely,
Under-Secretary-General D.C. al Fine
United Nations Global Occult Coalition
Prepared by the Internal Security Department
Date Filed: July 6th, 1988
Purpose: The results of the joint Ethics Committee and Internal Security Department review of Site-3388 personnel, following Incident-K-1, for potential ethics failings or violations.
Report: During the course of this review, it was concluded that all personnel employed at Site-3388 (with one notable exception) had performed their duties admirably, and would receive no punishment or reprimands. In particular, these personnel acted to the best of their ability in the containment of SCP-3388-B and SCP-3388-C instances, and were not at fault for Incident-K-1.
However, this review also determined that Site-3388 Director Shayne Benedict was a mole working for the Chaos Insurgency. Shayne Benedict acted against the interests of the Foundation, and actively
conspired against the proper containment of SCP-3388-C-4, directly leading to Incident-K-1.
Shayne Benedict conducted several specific traitorous acts against the Foundation with relation to Incident-K-1.
- Leaking of Classified Information: Specifically, the location of SCP-3388 and the floor plans of Site-3388, both of which were given to the Chaos Insurgency upon request.
- Containment Sabotage: Informing Chaos Insurgents of the location of SCP-3388-C-4, allowing them to steal said entity.
- Security Sabotage: Assisting the Chaos Insurgency in the attack of a Foundation Site, resulting in five Foundation casualties.
- Interference with a Foundation Investigation: Interfered with the investigation of the events of 13/03/1988 to prevent the Foundation from discovering further information concerning the attack.
- Containment Sabotage: Intentional misclassification of SCP-3388-C-4 as Neutralized, in order to conceal its possible survival. Shayne Benedict did not have confirmation of SCP-3388-C-4's survival at the time, but his actions prevented proper investigation.
The following is a transcript of the initial interrogation of Shayne Benedict.
Agent Balenciaga: Hello, Mr. Benedict. I'm with the Internal Security Department. You are going to answer some questions.
Shayne Benedict: Why should I?
Agent Balenciaga: If you cooperate with me and answer my questions, we'll take it to consideration when deciding your punishment.
Shayne Benedict: Good enough. What do you want to know?
Agent Balenciaga: When did you join the Chaos Insurgency?
Shayne Benedict: I was recruited back in '77. That was two years after I was recruited to the Foundation, and at the time, I was the Director of Site-3388.
Agent Balenciaga: Why did you join?
Shayne Benedict: The work they were having me do, it wasn't that bad. Just a couple leaked documents here and there, and the pay was good. At the time, it just felt … harmless. And then once I had done enough, they blackmailed me to stay on.
Agent Balenciaga: I see. We'll be going over a full list of your treasonous acts later.
Shayne Benedict: I'm willing to cooperate fully.
Agent Balenciaga: You never had a choice. For the moment, we'd like to go over the events that led to Incident-K-1, namely the attack on Site-3388.
Shayne Benedict: Alright. I was contacted on March 1st by my handler. She told me to prepare for an attack. I had already delivered my site coordinates to her soon after I was recruited. All I needed to do was make sure the Insurgents could get in undetected, so I gave them an appropriate time when security would be at a minimum.
Agent Balenciaga: Site-3388 security was already light, correct?
Shayne Benedict: Yes, I was able to get security to to the minimum allowed levels, because of the remote location of Site-3388. And, yes, that was because I was working for the Insurgency.
Agent Balenciaga: Did you receive any other orders?
Shayne Benedict: That day, I received a message to obscure if SCP-3388-C-4 had been successfully Neutralized. The situation was vague enough that I was able to declare it so, and it didn't seem too suspicious.
Agent Balenciaga: Were you given a reason for the attack?
Shayne Benedict: Yes, my handler mentioned a desire to weaponize the instance. I recommended SCP-3388-C-4 for that purpose, since it was the most dangerous, and already hatched.
Agent Balenciaga: Did you inform the Insurgency of the other SCP-3388-C instances?
Shayne Benedict: All six, even the normal octopus. My handler expressed extreme interest in them. She said if the test with SCP-3388-C-4 succeeded, they'd come back for the rest.
Agent Balenciaga: What did she say in following Incident-K-1?
Shayne Benedict: Test successful.
Agent Balenciaga: I'm going to end this for today. We'll talk again tomorrow.
Shayne Benedict was cooperative with the Internal Security Department, providing useful information concerning his Chaos Insurgency handlers, and his rudimentary knowledge of the operations of the Chaos Insurgency. This information has been forwarded to the Department of External Affairs.
Shayne Benedict was summarily executed for his crimes.
Prepared by the Office of Overseer-8
Date Filed: July 26th, 1988
Subject: SCP-3388
I am hereby ordering the immediate neutralization of SCP-3388 and all subdesignations of that anomaly. Neutralization plan is to be submitted to my Office by August 2nd, 1988 by the SCP-3388 research team for my approval.
Instances of SCP-3388-C pose multiple dangers to both the Foundation and to the world at large. The continued containment of SCP-3388-C makes any site holding them a target for hostile GoI action, and the potential ramifications of a breach are major. Incident-K-1 was an unmitigated failure on our part, and I will not allow another event of similar magnitude occur again.
As long as either SCP-3388-C or SCP-3388-B instances remain at Site-3388, they are a security risk to continued operations there. While SCP-3388-C instances can be moved, SCP-3388-B instances cannot. Therefore, we have no choice other than to neutralize these remaining instances.
I feel we must ask ourselves why we continue to contain these instances. Incident-K-1 clearly demonstrates that the death of an instance has no ramifications. In the past five years of containment, there was only scientific test of an instance, which produced little to no usable information for our purposes.
Do we contain to maintain the Masquerade? Clearly not, as killing the instances would do that better. Do we contain for research purposes? Demonstrably false. Do we contain because we don't know what will happen when they die? We know what happens now.
There is no reason to continue containment of SCP-3388.
—O5-8
- Monster Island was a zoo of kidnapped extradimensional monsters; a link to Alexylva is implied at most but never outright stated
- the Hand is outraged because the kidnapped monsters were mythical beings and such from all sorts of worlds, and Alexylva is being dicks by stealing them (possibly removing the Hand link and bumping it just to the Hand article)
- add in an exploration log of Eta-5, have them be competent and well trained, check out the island
- All the monsters have implants that restrict their movement off the island/their growth; fivesquid's broke and allowed it to run away
- the monsters are all different again find the original list of monsters
- remove the Chaos Insurgency, so that the fuckup becomes entirely the fault of the Foundation and cannot be mitigated by "oh, it's all Shayne's fault"
14:10 DrChandra I'd take Alexyva and CI out of the main SCP entirely. An island full of monsters just shows up, and no one know's where it came from. Cotainment is much more focused on the monsters, and Crocosquid just escapes on its own.
ARD: Otherwise, the article is a reasonably decent take on GOC/Foundation/CI interactions, but the fact that all three parties act in the most obvious and banal way possible makes it less compelling than it could be.
shaggydredlockes: It's crammed chock-full of Groups of Interest filling rote roles with not much of an original or interesting narrative. It reads like an amalgamation of every pigeon-hole each GoI gets neatly tucked away in. Each of these can kinda be forgivable on their own, but taken all together this is comes across like narrative buckshot and nothing more.
A monster island is pretty badass, and I'm disappointed this was so uninteresting. It seems to be refusing to run wild with the concept, instead slavering away in service of setting up a canon. -1
MrWrong:I stand by this opinion. The GoI references are excessive, and remove any distinctiveness regarding the island. In fact, the SCP format feels like it is reduced to a mere platform to jump into an unseen greater canon than a strong rallying point.
Alexyva being name-dropped there feels meaningless, and I still struggle to think why would they do it. While that rationale can be explained in their GoI format, it is nothing but a jarring point in this article. Instead, I think the Alexyva can be left as a mystery that the SCP article need not address. In fact, Alexyva's mention here only detracts the distinctiveness of the article.
SH reference is also a bit off, for a hypothetical SH format can handle what SH is doing better than here. Here, it feels distracting.
Perhaps GOC and CI are reasonably alright. However, I doubt they need entire addenda when they are expected to have full articles themselves. Maybe small mentions that do not interfere with this article.
Simply put, minimise the GoI references (other GoI formats can fill that gap, and both of us know it) and optimise the SCP format. When one reads this article, they expect an SCP article - first and foremost. The coming together of GoIs will not be something mashed together in one article, but an interpretation seen through strong deliveries of various POVs.
kalinin: I'm not sure how one goes about making a giant sea monster attacking a major American city an afterthought, but that seems to be what's occurring here and in all of the other articles that have been posted on this so far. I'm not a huge fan of directly porting over the Godzilla-verse into the site, but if I were I would be kind of annoyed that what looks to be the most interesting part of this is being back-burnered.
And back-burnered for what? It would be one thing if this served to expand the viewpoint of the various GoIs and make them more than just meme-able archetypes. But this going the opposite direction of that. The Evil League of Bad GuysChaos Insurgency shows up to attack things for reasons. Alexylva breeds interdimensional things which happen to get loose here, for reasons. MCD sells some stuff. The GOC gets to harp about destroying things. Someone even uses the phrase "UIUseless" in another one of the documents. You're going to all this trouble to create a canon, but nothing here seems original or any different than the existing material we have on all of these groups.
You mention that this is an attack on the Foundation's ideals, and that doesn't really work for me either. If you accept the Foundation as a reactionary organization that just keeps things around because That's What We Do, which tends to be the viewpoint of some of the weaker writing on the site, then yes, I suppose that's so. But for anyone with any measure of rationality, of course they're going to destroy stuff sometimes if that's the best option for the situation. I get that a Foundation that's apparently run by hoarders is something that a lot of people around here accept, and I guess that's a challenge to that viewpoint, but basic logic is far more of a challenge to that viewpoint.
I would really recommend slowing down on the amount of content being pushed for this, because it doesn't appear to me that the central narrative and the ideas behind this are all that solid.
legendaryweredragon: Well I actually really like the story. this could be really interesting. I’m excited to see more stuff happen in this canon. There isn’t enough GOC content on the site so this is welcome, and it is interesting to see the SCP foundation’s obsession with containment be deconstructed. This is like the antithesis of those other SCPs that got neutralized by the GOC where the GOC was depicted as being in the wrong.
TL333s: So I read these in reverse order — MC&D article, GOC article, then this — and I think I can sum up my problems when I say that the MC&D article was fantastic, outlandish and new, and stood perfectly well on its own without having read what should have come before it. The GOC article was dry, and I didn't finish it, and this was no better, though I did read the whole thing. I think I can agree that the preponderance of GoIs doesn't add anything, and in particular, the GOC chewing out the Foundation for not doing their jobs left a bad taste in my mouth.
You've got an island full of (?) monsters, it should be a lot more exciting to read than this.
