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Item number SCP-7450

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Classified Level 1. Restricted.

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Containment Class. Esoteric.

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Secondary Class. Magido.

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Disruption Class. Amida.

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Risk Class. Critical.

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Special containment procedures. SCP-7450

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is not contained.

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The SCP Foundation, in its current

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iteration, no longer possesses

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the resources or personnel required to

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contain SCP-7450. It

4:47

is unlikely that any remaining third-party,

4:49

parent-natural classification and containment organizations are

4:51

capable of containing SCP-7450. Due

4:56

to the existential threat that SCP-7450 poses

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to sentient lifeforms, all

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Foundation personnel are subject to the

5:04

requirements of the Magog Protocol. The

5:07

four requirements can be found on the central

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Foundation data server. The primary

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tenets are as follows. Under

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no circumstances are any personnel permitted to

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leave the confines of their local Foundation

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site during a transient of SCP-7450. Under

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no circumstances are any personnel permitted to travel to

5:26

an area that will be in the path of

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an SCP-7450 transients within 72 hours. Under

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no circumstances are any personnel permitted

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to look at or listen to

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SCP-7450. By order

5:40

of the Foundation Overwatch Administrator, any

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personnel found to have purposefully or unintentionally

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violated one of these requirements is subject

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to a summary execution by any other

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member of the SCP Foundation. Adherence

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to these requirements is paramount to the survival

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of the human species. As

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a result, the SCP-7450 is a non-existent SCP-7450. The SCP Foundation's

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inability to contain SCP-7450

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and the resultant circumstances that arose following

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its ascension. The

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SCP Foundation Classification Committee has

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ruled unanimously to update SCP-7450's

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containment designation from the Apollyon

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class to the Megiddo class

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to distinguish between entities or anomalies that

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will inevitably result in the end of

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the world or those that

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already have. SCP-7450

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is a group designation for four massive

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humanoid eigenweapons that ascended to godhood on

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the 13th of December, 2028. The

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ascension of SCP-7450 was predicated by

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the arrival of celestial entity 981-Ajax

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on October 14th, 2025. 981-Ajax

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was annihilated by SCP-7450. The

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XK-Class End of the World event followed,

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caused by SCP-7450's

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cognitohazardous and ontokinetic

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influence on the Earth. SCP-7450

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entities range between 18.9 km and 23.5 km in height. Their

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humanoid in appearance, with six avian

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wings emerging from their upper and lower back.

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SCP-7450 entities have a single arm

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and hand on their right side,

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in which they carry a curved sickle. The

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entities have humanoid legs, which terminate

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at the ankles and are seemingly

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incapable of locomotion, instead

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moving by way of levitation, though

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the legs do move as if ambulating. Surviving

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descriptions of SCP-7450 indicate

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other possible animal characteristics,

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such as claws, feathers on the arms

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and legs, and serpentine tails.

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They are named Palace, Judith,

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Rachel, and Argyne, and

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descending order according to their size. Obtaining

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accurate depictions of their facial features

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is infeasible. It is

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currently impossible to obscure images of

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the entity's faces to the sufficient

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degree to permit visual assessment while

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also negating their cognitohazardous properties. Similarly,

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audio recordings of SCP-7450's

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vocalizations cannot be reviewed by

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sentient observers, including

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artificial general intelligence, without

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exposure to the anomaly's cognitohazardous

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influence. Since the moment of

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their ascension, each of the four instances

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of SCP-7450 have been in

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constant circumnavigation of the planet. Each

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of the four moves at slightly different speeds and

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at different altitudes. Rachel

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is the fastest, and transits the

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globe once every 416 days, whereas the slowest Paulus completes

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the passage in 468 days. Sentient

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creatures exposed to the visage or voice of

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any instance of SCP-7450 will immediately become

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compelled to follow it in its transit of

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the planet. Once an individual

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has been affected, they are unrecoverable.

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Subjects who fall under the effects of SCP-7450's

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compulsion will make every

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possible effort to avoid anything that would impede

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their ability to join in the mass falling

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of SCP-7450 and

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cannot be deterred short of the total destruction of

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their body. Effective

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persons undergo changes over time to their

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physiology. They cease to age, their

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bodies become more resistant to damage and decay,

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and their features slowly begin to resemble the

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SCP-7450 instance they follow.

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They will walk behind their instance of

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SCP-7450 until their feet wear down to

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their ankles, at which point

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they will begin levitating alongside other

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similar subjects. Lastly,

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these subjects mimic the vocalizations of

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SCP-7450. Social

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exposure to these vocalizations by non-effective

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persons does not have the same

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immediate compulsory effect as SCP-7450. They

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will nonetheless succumb after a short period of time. short period of

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time. Addendum

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7450.1, Foundation Overseer's Address, November 2nd,

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2025. Good

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evening. This is a

10:15

public notice from the Office of

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the SCP Foundation regarding the celestial

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entity appearing over the South Sky

10:21

on October 14th, 2025. My

10:26

name is Armand Cachaterian, an

10:28

overseer of the SCP Foundation.

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We are an organization that seeks

10:33

to categorize and contain anomalous entities

10:36

and phenomena in our world. We

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have operated in secrecy for the last 200

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years, maintaining the status quo.

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As of October 14th, we are

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no longer able to maintain the

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veil which permitted humanity to live

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fearlessly among the eldritch forces pervading

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our universe. The hostile

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entity that appeared over the southern sky

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is also known to us as 981-Ajax.

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It is an extraplanar power currently

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intersecting with our reality. The

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ongoing disaster in Johannesburg is evident

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of its catastrophic potential. There

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have been many questions about the tragic footage

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that has made the global news these last

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few weeks and about the

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person hanging in the sky now over that

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city. We cannot speak with

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full certainty of their fate, but they are

11:27

in our hearts. At this

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time, we are urging calm and

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caution. We understand you are afraid.

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Rest assured, we are cooperating

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with world governments and other

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organizations like to determine the

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best path forward. We

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have technology that is not available

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to the rest of mankind and

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capabilities beyond what is commonly accepted

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as feasible. We

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will, as we always have, stand

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as the stalwart shield between our

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world and the unknown. Thank

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7450.2 Foundation Overseer's Address. December

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11, 2028. Hello.

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My name is Reese Olsen, O5-1

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of the SCP Foundation. Over

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these past three years, my predecessors and

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I have made every attempt to be

13:29

as transparent as possible with you about

13:31

our efforts to defend mankind against the

13:33

ongoing threat of Ajax. This

13:36

will be our final communication.

13:40

We have exhausted every possibility and

13:42

every available resource. We

13:44

have opened our containment cells and released every

13:47

possible horror onto the world in the hopes of

13:49

somehow balancing the threat of Ajax. We

13:53

have failed. Ajax

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will soon open its final eye and we

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cannot... delay it any further. Take

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this time to be with your families. We

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have preparations in place that will, God

14:07

willing, ensure the survival of our species.

14:12

These preparations are buried deep within the

14:14

earth and may survive the eyes of

14:17

Ajax. Please pray

14:19

for their survival, these

14:21

last four mothers of humanity. Someday

14:26

they and their children might awaken and

14:28

walk again on an earth free from this

14:30

nightmare. I wish you

14:32

all peace. Good night. The

14:58

cognitohazardous itself, thankfully. A good

15:01

canary to see if a place is worth

15:03

visiting. Didn't

15:06

sleep well again. I've got Henderson locked

15:08

up in the cell floor below me,

15:10

but sometimes he just starts howling. Need

15:12

to go change out the gag I had on him.

15:14

I suspect he's chewed through it. Another

15:17

letter in today from Sophia. Blessings

15:20

are few and far between, but they're

15:22

still blessings. Says she's

15:24

down to twenty-three staff members, but

15:27

they're still working. Twenty-three.

15:29

Haven't had twenty-three in two years.

15:33

She's worried about us. I didn't tell

15:35

her about Henderson, but I told her

15:37

it's still too dangerous to come over here. Rachel

15:40

is crossing in three weeks and we

15:42

might catch Judith if she straightens back

15:44

out. There

15:47

are still some stragglers up there too. Months

15:50

who haven't caught up with the floaters. Maybe

15:53

in a few months. We'll see. It's

15:56

agonizing though. It's been a long few

15:59

months. I thought at first

16:01

having Henderson's voice would be enough to keep me sane,

16:03

but since I snipped him, he doesn't sound much like

16:05

a person anyway, and... ...and

16:07

even then, he's not saying anything that would be

16:09

a comfort. Just

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shrieking, and gnashing his teeth. Seeing

16:15

another person would be nice. June

16:20

3rd, 2032 We're

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holed up tight this week. Rachel is

16:26

passing right now. The

16:28

last week Henderson has been frothing at the mouth,

16:31

probably because she's the one who turned him. I

16:34

scoped him out week before last, just to make

16:36

sure he was still good and tied up in

16:38

there. Cell was a mess.

16:41

He got out of his straps at some point and started

16:43

scratching at the walls. He made

16:45

decent progress, and he turned his hands into stumps.

16:49

Maybe he thinks he'll be floating around on his wrists. Sound

16:54

cancellation is holding up. When

16:56

we lost sight 8, they were about 16 meters

16:59

lower than us, and Palace still got all of

17:01

them. That was a close

17:03

call. I was on the

17:05

phone with Harold Bates, and he just started crying. I

17:08

threw the phone across the room and stayed out of there for

17:10

a week. When I

17:12

came back, the phone was still on.

17:15

Total silence on the other end. All

17:19

this time buried down here has given

17:21

me time to work. Found

17:24

another one of the training satellites we used to use. It

17:27

won't give us much coverage. It's only two

17:29

working cameras. But we might be able to

17:31

get eyes on Argyne. Haven't seen her

17:33

since she passed Tokyo last year. Went

17:36

into the ocean. Computer

17:38

keeps reminding me to check my update requests.

17:41

Last time there were 8 sites reporting

17:43

back. I know there are probably

17:45

more than that, but even thinking about opening

17:47

that file makes me feel clammy. Need

17:50

to think about more productive things. I'll

17:53

check the update requests tomorrow. Only

18:01

three sites updating. I

18:03

shouldn't have checked. Rachel

18:06

has taken her fucking time. June

18:09

29th, 2032. I

18:12

let Anderson out early. I don't

18:14

think there's anything left to learn from him,

18:16

and he was a nice enough guy. He's

18:18

got a lot of walking to do until

18:21

he catches up with one of them, but

18:23

he seemed happier. Still writhing

18:25

and screaming, but in a more pleasant

18:27

way. First time I've been

18:29

outside in a while. It

18:31

was really nice out. Sun was

18:33

shining and it's starting to warm back up again. The

18:36

sky is mostly clear. If

18:38

I had to guess, most of whatever was

18:40

left of Ajax has hit the atmosphere

18:42

by now. There might be some bits left

18:45

up there, but I didn't see anything.

18:47

After I came back inside, I just sat around

18:49

a little. I've been trying to

18:51

keep busy, but I don't feel like it today.

18:55

Haven't heard from Zofia in a while. God

18:57

for Alto still sending me his daily

18:59

updates. Picture of his face once

19:02

a day, every day. Not

19:04

exciting, but it's something. September

19:07

2nd, 2032. Still

19:11

nothing from Zofia. December

19:14

14th, 2032. For

19:18

your anniversary. Nobody responding

19:20

to update requests anymore. We

19:23

must be near in the end. Went back and

19:26

read the rest of this file, hilariously

19:28

abridged. We had such high

19:30

hopes in the beginning, and then nothing. Planning

19:33

committees and emails of encouragement. We

19:36

made it out better than most. That first

19:38

day they started crying out. We

19:40

couldn't hear it from so deep underground. 64

19:45

sites. 47,000 personnel.

19:48

Why did it take us so long to learn how to

19:50

stay alive? We're paying

19:52

a price for Ajax. Ajax?

19:55

What's the point of the secrecy now? What's

19:58

the point of the updates and the status reports.

20:01

Who's left to read this? I'll

20:04

tell you what happened. If you're

20:06

reading this, there aren't many of us

20:08

now. If any at all, maybe

20:10

it'll be Alto. In

20:13

1996 we buried four girls

20:15

at four different Deepwell sites, a

20:18

preparation for the end of the world. They'd

20:20

had a close call with 239 and wanted

20:23

to make sure they had a contingency plan.

20:26

This is before we found 2000, so it

20:28

became moot after that point. The

20:30

project was more or less scrapped, but they didn't

20:33

dig those girls up. I

20:35

wonder sometimes if there was ever a

20:37

meeting about it, or if

20:39

they just forgot they were there. Anyway,

20:42

they were buried under a mountain of

20:44

sorcery and technology and given wounds that

20:46

would operate for a thousand years. For

20:50

three decades they were down there until Ajax

20:52

showed up and turned 2000 into

20:54

a smoking wreck. Suddenly we need

20:56

another option. And look at that, Cain

20:59

finds those four girls and starts the machines

21:01

back up. But then Armand

21:03

tells the entire world about them as he's letting everyone

21:05

know that we're going to die. All

21:08

our best laid plans, all our

21:10

world religions, suddenly only one thing

21:13

mattered. Mankind had seen us calling

21:15

real nightmares up from the bowels

21:17

of the earth, powers they had

21:19

never dreamed of, and suddenly we're

21:21

telling them it's all over. Except,

21:25

wait, there are these four

21:27

girls who can save us. What

21:30

did we think was going to happen? Had

21:32

we really not learned about what belief does?

21:35

So they woke up, and that was

21:37

it. Eight

21:40

billion humans crying out for a god

21:42

to save them. Eight

21:44

billion humans screaming, crying,

21:47

and begging. Our city

21:50

walls fallen and our idols smashed against

21:52

the ground. Ajax. I

21:55

don't even remember what Ajax looked like, to be honest.

21:58

Preparing to open his last eye. and

22:00

people were afraid. We

22:03

lamented our shared fate and our gods

22:05

woke up. But

22:08

they weren't built to be divine. They

22:10

didn't know what was going to happen to them. The

22:13

Foundation found them on a street corner

22:15

somewhere, cleaned them up, put

22:17

ten billion dollars of tech and magic into them,

22:20

and then sent them to bed. When

22:22

they woke up, they were gods.

22:25

They were thirteen years

22:28

old. Eight

22:30

hours. We had eight

22:33

hours, Alto. Eight

22:35

hours to plan before Pallas cracked

22:37

open her mouth and began screaming.

22:40

Were they scared too? Were they

22:42

afraid of what they'd become? Their

22:45

first action was a reaction. I'm

22:47

sure of it. Ajax came at

22:50

them and they scattered it across the atmosphere.

22:53

Their next action was fear. Gods

22:55

need warship, but it

22:58

didn't take long. They

23:00

blew through our cognitohazard defenses in

23:02

seconds. It was like rice paper

23:05

hit by a blowtorch. And

23:07

now it's been four years. Half

23:10

of us, we lost to the sisters, another

23:13

third to exhaustion. Tired,

23:15

scared, defeated. They

23:19

would put down their work, walk out

23:21

the door, and then wait for the sisters

23:23

to come calling. I

23:26

don't know what the point of this was. I

23:28

don't know what we accomplished here. Did

23:31

we succeed in our mission? Did

23:34

we plan enough? Did

23:36

we still have work to do? Did

23:39

we ensure the survival of our species? I

23:44

don't know. I'm tired, too.

23:47

We wept when skies opened up and

23:49

Ajax opened its first eye, and

23:52

all the eyes afterwards. We

23:54

lamented our grim misfortune and prayed for

23:56

an end to our suffering. gotten

24:00

the message yet. Now

24:03

there's nobody left to lament

24:05

but me. September

24:10

1st, 2035. I

24:14

hope it was easy for you, Sophia. I

24:16

hope you've found something like a new life out

24:18

there. I won't

24:20

be far behind. April

24:25

19th, 2036. My

24:32

last journal entry. Out

24:34

of food and the water doesn't work anymore.

24:38

Palace is getting close, but I can't wait

24:40

any longer. I'll die down

24:42

here if I don't leave. I

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can make it to Site 89 and then

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to Site 104. Now I'll

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have resources I can use and maybe

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research I overlooked. If

24:55

Palace catches me, then that's the

24:57

ballgame. I'm not willing to

24:59

give up yet, but I can't wager

25:01

the survival of our species against goggles

25:03

that might slip or earplugs that don't

25:05

work the way they should. I

25:08

thought burning out my eardrums would be the hardest

25:10

part, but with the benefit

25:12

of hindsight I should have foreseen how bad it would

25:14

be to take my own eyes out. Hindsight.

25:18

A dark joke. I never

25:20

truly appreciated the dark until now. I've

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spent too much time on

25:26

this dumb shit to give up now. I

25:29

don't care if it takes a life living

25:31

in darkness. I'll figure this out.

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And if you ever get around to reading this,

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Alto, you can

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kindly go fuck yourself. Two

25:43

years you had my heart leaping at the sight

25:45

of a cardboard cutout. Motherfucker.

25:53

No time to cry. Wish

25:56

me luck. This is Troy, signing

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narrator was John Grills. Troy

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