On █/██/20██, D-21054 was sent into SCP-XXXX-1 through a portal made in a large container. Contact was maintained with command by a wireless reciever placed at the entrance to the portal.
Command: D-21054, do you read?
D-21054: Yeah. Dude, you're standing right there.
Command: Please stick to the procedure, D-21054.
D-21054: Whatever. I hear you loud and clear. Command.
Command: Good. Please proceed into SCP-XXXX-1.
(D-21054 enters SCP-XXXX-1 through the portal. He is still visible to researchers.)
Command: Okay, D-21054, please describe what you see.
D-21054: Look, it's ████, okay? And I see… all I see is… swirling red. Yeah. Swirling red. I'm definitely on something though.
Command: Please elaborate. Are you saying that you are standing on a surface?
D-21054: Yeah, like ground. Feels hard. Like packed dirt.
Command: Understood, D-21054, please continue.
(D-21054 continues into SCP-XXXX-1. Direct visual contact is lost, however, his camera continues to send feed.)
D-21054: It's… quiet in here. I can hear my own footsteps, nothing much else.
(Silence for approximately 9 seconds.)
D-21054: Wait… I think I just found something. It's… water. Yeah, it's water, but… it's red. Just like the air and such.
Command: Understood, D-21054, please collect a sample as instructed.
D-21054: Whatever.
(Silence for another 15 seconds.)
D-21054: Continuing on. Gee, I really wish you guys had let me take someone else in here with me. Maybe Marcy. Would've been nice to not be alone.
Command: Please refrain from unrelated comments, D-21054.
D-21054: Yeah, sure, whatever you say Boss. Not like you could do anything from there.
(The drone returns with the sample taken by D-21054.)
D-21054: I'm walking along the shoreline. Starting to see a little farther ahead of me, like it's not as dense. Kinda like fog in a video game, y'know? (pause) Still red. There's… a rock face up ahead of me. Also red. Everything is red. Steep, can't see how far up it goes. Stretches on both directions. Which way should I go, O Command?
Command: Proceed to your left for now, D-21054.
D-21054: Roger. Heading that way.
(Silence for another 1 minute 2 seconds. During this time D-21054's breathing can be heard, and the rock face visible to the right of his camera.)
D-21054: I'm startin' to feel a little short of breath, Doc. Like the air's too thin.
Command: Roger, D-21054, please begin returning the way you came to the portal.
D-21054: Finally. Can I get something to eat when we get back?
(Command does not reply. Silence for 1 minute 49 seconds.)
D-21054: Uh, Command? I should'a hit the water by now, right?
Command: You should be approaching it now, D-21054.
(Silence for another 20 seconds.)
D-21054: No, Command, I'm sure I should have passed it. It's not here, 'kay? It's not here.
Command: D-21054, do not deviate from instructions. Repeat, do not deviate from instructions.
(D-21054 is observed to double back again so that the rock is to his right again, and proceed forward.)
Command: D-21054, please return to the water.
D-21054: I tried, Doc. Remember—
(On D-21054's feed, the rock face is observed to suddenly disappear.)
D-21054: The rock's gone. It's totally gone.
Command: D-21054, confirm that the rock face is indeed absent physically.
D-21054: I'm waving my hand here, Doc, it's gone. (pause) I wanna go back, now, please. Back to the portal. (D-21054 raises his voice.) You hear me? I wanna go back!
Command: We're trying to retrieve you. Please proceed away from where… the rock face was.
D-21054: Roger.
(D-21054 proceeds another 4 minutes 20 seconds in the direction away from the rock face's position, without finding the portal. At this point he begins walking in a seemingly arbritary direction.)
D-21054: I'm gonna just walk and call out, 'kay? Tell me if you hear me.
(Silence for 12 seconds while Command deliberates.)
Command: Proceed as you indicated, D-21054.
(D-21054 calls out "Hello" repeatedly for another 1 minute and 20 seconds, then turns 90 degrees counterclockwise and continues another 1 minute, 19 seconds. He continues in a similar pattern for 13 minutes 4 seconds before researchers hear him through the portal to SCP-XXXX-1.)
Command: We hear you, D-21054.
D-21054: Oh thank God! Where? Where?
Command: Proceed 15 meters to your left.
(D-21054 proceeds as instructed towards the portal. He comes into view of the researchers and begins to run. As he is 5 meters from the portal, he abruptly falls through the 'ground' and a splashing sound is heard.)
D-21054: Oh h-
(D-21054's recording equipment malfunctions and contact is lost. On inspection, the 'ground' directly outside the portal is seen to have become a lake of aforementioned red water. Exploration terminated.)