Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: [Paragraphs explaining the procedures]
Description:
Addendum:
Interviewed: Dr. Alvarez
Interviewer: Dr. ████████
Foreword: Dr. Alvarez and Dr. ████████ are seated at at table. In this first interview, Dr. Alvarez will relate to Dr. ████████ an account of Dr. Johnson's demise. Alvarez and Johnson were the two archaeologists who unearthed the Wari tomb.
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Interviewer:
Person:
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Closing Statement: [Small summary and passage on what transpired afterward]
When the retrieval team went down to Huari to retrieve the mantle, they chanced across a middle aged man in the vicinity of the tomb.
"Identify yourself!"
"My name is Dr. Hjelmstad from █████████ University. I am a colleague of Dr. Johnson. Is this tomb ███? I didn't want to enter alone unless I was sure. This is where the mantle is, right?"
The task force exchange confused looks. "Come with us."
After safely retrieving the mantle, the task force take both it and Dr. Hjelmstad with them back to containment site ██.
Interviewed: Dr. Hjelmstad
Interviewer: Dr. ████████
Foreword: Dr. ████████ and an armed guard enter Dr. Hjelmstad's detainment room. Dr. ████████ takes a seat.
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Dr. Hjelmstad: [Gesturing at the armed guard] Is all this really necessary?
Dr. ████████: You'll have to excuse us. You see, we find it very strange that you knew exactly where to go to find an ancient artifact in the middle of the Andes that had been unearthed no more than 3 days earlier.
Dr. Hjelmstad: Strange!? There's nothing strange about it! Johnson sent me an email with a picture of the mantle and the coordinates of the tomb!
Dr. ████████: What? Show me the email.
Dr. Hjelmstad: I would love to, but your goons confiscated my phone!
Dr. ████████: Security! Please bring in Dr. Hjelmstad's phone!
[An armed guard shortly enters, handing Dr. ████████ the phone.]
Dr. ████████: Right, like I know the password? Give it to Dr. Hjelmstad!
Dr. Hjelmstad: [Accepts his phone from the guard] Thank you. Now, one second, right here! Take a look!
Dr. ████████: Given what we know about the mantle, I'd rather not, but could you please read me the time and date it was sent?
Dr. Hjelmstad: Suit yourself. Let's see, Johnson sent it at [time and date redacted].
Dr. ████████: [pauses to consider] Well that certainly checks out. Thank you for your time. [Dr. ████████ stands up, and motions for the guard to confiscate Dr. Hjelmstad's cell phone.]
Dr. Hjelmstad: So can we go see the mantle now? [guard takes phone] Hey! What is this?!
Dr. ████████: I'm afraid not. There seems to be more to that mantle than meets the eye.
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Closing Statement: [Small summary and passage on what transpired afterward]
Experiment report:
Out of curiosity, and also to keep Dr. Hjelmstad occupied, we temporarily gave him back his phone a second time, along with pencil and paper, instructing him to draw the mantle. Per the advice given by our on-site psychological therapist, we had him do this in 30 minute intervals separated 3 hours of rest, therapy, and activities related to his field of study. Dr. Hjelmstad expressed dissatisfaction at his result, but Dr. Alvarez has later confirmed it is a near perfect rendering of the mantle's design.
We showed the drawing to a group of three D-class personnel, none of them being of Andean descent. Other than mild expressions of interest and appreciation, the drawing of the mantle appeared to have no noticeable effect on the subjects. At one point, subject #2 exclaimed, "Who knew that some tribals living in the mountains could make something like this?" The subject was reminded that the Wari were actually a pre-Incan kingdom capable of terraforming mountains and constructing near perfect geometric city grids on steep inclines. Subject #2 remained silent for most of the remainder of the proceedings.
Interviewed: Dr. Alvarez
Interviewer: Dr. ████████
Foreword: Dr. Alvarez is let into Dr. ████████'s office by an armed guard.
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Dr. ████████: Dr. Alvarez, thank you for coming on such short notice.
Dr. Alvarez: I was still in the area anyway. Say, how did you obtain an artist's rendering of the mantle?
Dr. ████████: It was drawn by a colleague of Dr. Johnson, which brings me to why I asked you to come here. I'll get straight to it, Alvarez. When you and Dr. Johnson found the mantle, how many pictures did he take of the mantle, and who might he have sent them to?
Dr. Alvarez: [Confused] How many pictures? Sent? We were in a dark tomb. You don't use your smartphone's flash to take pictures of ancient artifacts. It's a more involved process than that. Even if he did take pictures of it, we were hundreds of meters deep in a hole in the ground in the middle of the Andes, he couldn't have sent them to anyone.
Dr. ████████: Wait, so you're telling me… [Dr. ████████'s grows quiet. For roughly half a minute, there is silence.] Shit.
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Closing Statement: [Dr. Alvarez is instructed to wait in Dr. ████████'s office, while the latter issues a code yellow memetic virus outbreak.]
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