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Director Aaliyah Prescott with researcher David Karlovac.


Prescott: David, the monitoring staff tell me you've been in to see SCP-D38813 for 8 consecutive days. I'll cut to the chase: are you still in control?

David: I… yes, I think I am. It takes time to solve the cyphers, and without solving them, we can't catalog its contents.

Prescott: And you aren't delegating, because?

David: The other two are afraid, frankly. They're spooked by it.

Prescott: And you're not?

David: I'm not spooked. Troubled, yes, spooked not really.

Prescott: What's troubling you about it?

David: It's impossible. None of this should work. I had Chayne write down letter for letter the article I was working on. He tried to decipher it, manually and with computer assistance, while I did the same. Mine resolved into an article, his is still gibberish.

Prescott: David, we have a warehouse full of impossible things.

David: Right, but holes into other dimensions and eldrich horrors that look like vending machines… they break the laws of physics. In ways that we can't understand, but that maybe hint at the existence of other physics.

Prescott: And you don't think you're dealing with that here?

David: I think that 1+1=2 isn't physics, it's logic. Incrementing the letters in "WORD" until they become "DAMN" is just a logical step by step process. It's not... it's not right that you can repeat the same steps and arrive at two different outcomes.

Prescott: But that's empirically what's happening here.

David: We must be making a mistake somewhere. I'm developing new protocols to observe the process, remote cameras, double blind observers. We'll find out how it's making us think this is happening.

Prescott: Or if it's just happening.

David: It is not. The universe can't operate on… on… narrative whim, Aaliyah! We dig through a lot of weird here, but there has to be bedrock underneath it. There has to be some logical consistency, or we'd just see chaos.

Prescott: I'm worried about you David. And by extension the rest of the facility. What do we lose if we lock this in the vault and forget about it?

David: I don't know. That's the problem, isn't it? If it's just some sort of local effect, then sure, decide whether you want to use it for sensitive data storage, or bury it in a hole. But if it's fundamentally tinkering with causality?

Prescott: Then it's automatically K-class

David: Then it's automatically K-class

Prescott: OK. Keep going. But you're going to start seeing Dr. Prasad for daily baselining.

David: Sure, I'll fit that into the schedule too.

Prescott: David.

David: No, no, you're right, sorry. It's just… a lot right now.

Prescott: You're doing a great job David, just stick to protocol, stay safe.

David: Sure.

