Agent Buggeman's Personnel File

SCP-XXXX is a standard [object]; except for [myriad list of deviations from the standard for such an object, to the point that it seems odd such a comparison even began this very same paragraph].

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Agent Ben Buggeman

Agent Ben Buggeman

Name: Benjamin C. Buggeman

SCPF ID#: 2362395

Personnel Classification: Class C

Security Clearance: Level 2 (Limited Level 3 priveleges)

Current Position: Field Agent (Undercover)

Profile: Agent Ben Buggeman is currently assigned to MTF Delta-88 ("The Townies"), acting as the Foundation's presence in River City. Under the guise of an independent private investigator, his main responsibilities are gathering information and maintaining awareness of anomalous activity (and parties involved in such) in River City and the surrounding region. Additional duties include providing support, when possible, for other Foundation operatives.

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Excerpt from recent Auxiliary Employee Evaluation by ███████ █████

Initial assessments at time of recruitment projected that Ben Buggeman had potential to be a valuable Foundation asset. However, a history of minor disciplinary incidents combined with an otherwise unremarkable record has forestalled any significant advancement of his career. Despite satisfactory performance through multiple assignments and inter-departmental transfers, common concensus among past supervisors is that he lacks the dedication or ambition required to excel.

Noted history of alcoholism and drug use precludes them from standard avenues of promotion available at this time. However, as performance evaluations and peer reviews have generally characterized them as a capable operative and loyal to the Foundation, termination protocols have been deferred. This decision may be reviewed at a later date.

His current assignment has been deemed adequately suitable, based on its relatively marginal importance and demands.

Agent Buggeman terminates an instance of SCP-████ encountered outside of containment.

Truncated Summary of Previous Assignments

Position	Role
Field Operative, MTF Gamma-6 "Deep Feeders" (MTF Dept.)	Deckhand, Diver.
Asst. Containment Technician - Trainee, (Engineering & Technical Services Dept.)	Marine Division: Mobile Unit.
Security Officer, (Security Dept.)	Alarm Monitor, Guard.
Agent, MTF Pi-1 "City Slickers" (MTF Dept.)	*Ejected from squad during preliminary induction period.
Agent, MTF Delta-88 "The Townies" (MTF Dept.)	Undercover Agent, Foundation local presence for River City.

Record of Contributions

Article	Rating	Comments	Created	Last Comment
'Little Draft Horses' (G2T67/L9VXC/WI3M3)	55	8	06 Mar 2016 05:27	13 Dec 2016 12:15
Cover Letter for After-Action Report: Operation Free Market	14	5	07 Mar 2016 04:01	08 Mar 2016 23:57
Application to Form MTF Mu-3	26	7	07 Mar 2016 04:18	05 Sep 2018 20:36
Application to Form MTF Mu-3: Documents	20	3	15 Apr 2016 10:54	30 Aug 2016 21:07
Blood, Sweat, and Beers	4	8	12 Aug 2016 11:07	21 Aug 2016 05:27
First Time's The Charm	8	3	13 Feb 2017 09:31	14 Feb 2017 02:18
Going In REDACTED	15	7	09 Sep 2017 06:23	22 Sep 2017 16:43
Charcoal	17	8	15 Nov 2017 12:20	17 Nov 2017 00:34
Agent Buggeman's Personnel File	31	1	02 Dec 2017 08:33	02 Dec 2017 08:34
Urine Too Deep	73	9	29 Jul 2019 06:12	19 Jun 2020 01:22
The S.E.C.R.A.T.	15	9	08 Dec 2019 16:42	09 Jan 2020 16:17
Quicker Experience	20	11	10 Mar 2020 12:11	19 Mar 2020 20:09
Bella Donna	7	4	20 Feb 2021 01:44	05 Mar 2021 08:41
A Barrel Load Of Work, A Barrel Load Of Fun (And That's No Bull!)	7	2	30 Mar 2021 11:59	30 Mar 2021 17:33

Record of Collaborative Contributions

Article	CoAuthor	Rating	Comments	Created	Last Comment
Cat And Mouse	Bolterpyre	11	4	06 Nov 2018 06:30	06 Nov 2018 23:37

Article	CoAuthor	Rating	Comments	Created	Last Comment
'Art By Oswaldo' (LB7RE/C9Y9A/ND5E3)	PatersonFerreted	26	5	30 Jun 2019 22:45	04 Jul 2019 04:26

Article	CoAuthor	Rating	Comments	Created	Last Comment
Creative Differences	PatersonFerreted	22	5	30 Jun 2019 22:52	07 Jul 2019 15:57

Article	CoAuthor	Rating	Comments	Created	Last Comment
The Rampart, the Rogue, and the Renegade	Simartar	31	5	17 Aug 2019 17:40	04 Nov 2019 14:02

Article	CoAuthor	Rating	Comments	Created	Last Comment
SCP-4601: Revenge of the Redd Mennace!	Nickthebrick1	65	19	25 Nov 2019 05:36	26 Feb 2020 19:02

Article	CoAuthor	Rating	Comments	Created	Last Comment
Recon And Revelations	TheManhattenProject	8	2	28 Apr 2020 03:04	29 Apr 2020 12:03

Article	CoAuthor	Rating	Comments	Created	Last Comment
SCP-106-J: The BBQ Man	Gojirasaur7	56	16	26 May 2020 03:41	24 Aug 2020 17:22

Boogey_Man23

Not Foundation standard-issue equipment.

In case anyone is more interested in me the writer, this will be the part where I try to offer some personal commentary on the things I've posted to the site. If I were a good author this would be insightful and interesting. Instead it's probably more like the written equivalent of a DVD commentary track where I just describe what's happening on the screen while it happens.

Sidenotes- I might be considered knowledgeable on: small marine vessel operation, SCUBA diving, radio communication protocols, and generally thinking out the tactical/practical and bureaucratic aspects of articles. If you're looking for a consult in any of those matters (or maybe just to generally enhance professionalism with word choice / phrasing in an article), I do like to be helpful.

If you want to contact me for anything, you can send a wikiPM to Boogey_Man23. Or look out for me on the #Site19 IRC/Chat as BoogeyMan23 (no underscore there).

Thanks for reading my work!!

COMMENTARY

MC&D: Little Draft Horses

Link: MC&D: Little Draft Horses

Notes: GOI-Format, 2016 MTF Contest

This is the first article I posted to the site, and was my major contribution to There's No Me In Team's effort in 2016's MTF Team Contest. Great team name.

The article is a GOI Format version of SCP-2463, which Dr Solo already had a draft of when I started. My aim was to take the facts as presented through the Foundation's scope, and expand on it from a business/history oriented perspective.

One of the things I liked most about writing as MC&D was trying to use a certain business-professional tone, a bit of a departure from the clinical tone of SCP articles. In my mind: MC&D employees, brokers especially, know the importance of phrasing and communicate almost as much by context and choice of words as the message itself. It's a world where an ambiguous implication can convey more than an explicit statement, where deceptions and veiled truths and are interpreted and responded to in kind.

Also made reference of a "Forum Tenebris", because I like to headcanon that GOI Marshall, Carter & Dark Ltd. has actually existed, in one form or another, throughout much of history.

Application to Form MTF Mu-3

Links: Application To Form MTF Mu-3

• Supplementary documents

Notes: Tale, 2016 MTF Contest

Fun fact: When I first joined the SCP Foundation wiki, I didn't really expect I would contribute content myself. If not for that team contest being held when it was, and me being drafted by team captain DrSinful, I maybe never would have. But I did make a sandbox page for myself, mostly for learning wiki syntax but also to practice writing in the SCP style. The application form document was an example of that, and when DrSinful pitched the concept of MTF Mu-3 I tried to plug that vision into my template. We ended up submitting it as an in-universe document to explain the Force's M.O. and set up the reader for the rest of the Operation: Free Market story.

The documents themselves came first, with a rough outline of a tale to accompany that I wouldn't have gotten done before contest deadline. Fortunately, my teammate DrStranger picked it up and ran with it. They turned the outline into a working draft of the tale, I made a few changes and edits, and we were able to include it in our submissions. After the contest was over I split the pages, so the paperwork is now seperate from the prose narrative.

Cover Letter for After-Action Report: Operation Free Market

Link: Cover Letter for After-Action Report: Operation Free Market

Notes: Tale, 2016 MTF Contest

Another contest entry I submitted on behalf of "There's No Me In Team", this is essentially a brief recap/review of the events which took place in the tale Broker-Bailer-Grifter-THIEF.

Looking back, I think my intention was to leave the future of MTF Mu-3 uncertain: whether they would be allowed to operate as envisioned at their conception, continue working with limited resources, or be disbanded entirely.

I'd like this MTF to see more action in the future. Though as of right now, I guess their status is undetermined.

Blood, Sweat, and Beers

Link: Blood, Sweat, and Beers

Notes: Tale

So I'm a big fan of mystery, noir, detective stories, etc. I'd been on a big reading kick of stuff in that style at the time, and wanted to try and merge some elements of those genres into the realm of the Foundation. I also thought it'd be a fitting and entertaining place to stick my own self-insert-kinda charcter.

This tale marks the debut of Agent Ben Buggeman himself. In hindsight, I feel I should have put more time and consideration into the characterization. He probably comes off more violent/homicidal than I'd intended him to be overall.

The more subtle, underlying characterization (which grew from feedback/ideas received during the review process for this tale) is that: while he admires and wants to be like the classic hard-boiled detective charcaters of that era, he really can't live up to the part. Even though he fits certain superficial aspects of the role, there are other more vital componenents he lacks.

I hope to develop them into a more rounded and potentially compelling character through future appearances.

First Time's The Charm

Link: First Time's The Charm

Notes: Tale

This tale began to develop while I was reading the SCP it's centred around, SCP-2454. Having properties that so greatly limited the Foundation's ability to work around it, I started to consider just what kind of measures that the personnel would have to take in order to do their job.

So I examined the obstacles to exploration and research, and thought of ways that each one could be overcome or worked around. After putting that thought and effort into designing a hypothetical operating procedure I decided I would come up with a way to build around it and make a story.

Ultimately it's just a kind of glimpse at a day at work in the Foundation, briefly visiting each of the characters involved. With an understated surprise sad ending.

Going In [REDACTED]

Link: Going In REDACTED

Notes: Tale

Here's me trying really hard to get something like a fridge-horror reaction from the reader when they realize what's happened. I read SCP-1087 and thought it would be great to use for the purpose of a misdirect. A couple challenges inherent to presenting it the way I wanted were inventing a scenario where the MTF would have to be in the area before finding out what they're there for, and in keeping the POV mainly limited to a character who is a step removed from the real action.

I originally wrote and posted this story something like a year prior, but it ended up deleted. I took those remains and kept them buried in my sandbox while focusing on other work to develop my writing ability. Eventually I pulled it back out to rewrite it, and just seemed to have better luck with addressing a bunch of the issues from the first time around. Maybe not all of them, but enough to improve the tale.

So don't always scrap your failed drafts, kids! With time and effort, they just might make it in the big time.

Charcoal

Link: Charcoal

Notes: Tale, Writing Challenge Response

This tale was written in response to the 'Westrin's Log of Anomalous Objects Writing Challenge'! I was originally thinking about doing a series of even briefer looks at several different objects, but then picked out a single one and focused on expanding it.

Most of this was written within a very short span of time, much different from my other work. I also posted it without feedback beforehand (Shame!), and in its original version Researcher Perez's conclusion of the assessment was more like an oversight caused by being exhausted/overworked. Responding to a suggestion in the comments led me to consider if maybe she had an inkling, but then intentionally overlooked the possibility. From there, maybe even if she had a bit of something to do with the creation of the situation from the start. If the original story conveyed a grave but understandable mistake, the updated version would call into question just how understandable or innocent such a mistake could have been.

While trying in part to preserve what was originally there, I made edits intending to subtly cast more suspicion on Perez. My intention being to leave a few possible interpretations, without fully committing to any one of them necessarily being the truth. Maybe she really didn't make any connection at all. But then again, she never liked Wren; maybe she figured it out at some point and kept it to herself. Or… Maybe it's no conincidence that she's taken on all of Wren's workfiles; and maybe those baseless rumours didn't just come from nowhere.

I'm really pleased with how it changed on-the-fly (and very grateful to have been able to make it happen).

Cat and Mouse

Link: Cat and Mouse

Notes: Tale, Co-Authored with Bolterpyre

This began with Bolterpyre and I both thinking it could be interesting to write about the Foundation agents that actually have to go out in the field and basically kidnap the anomalous humanoids and POIs out there. We decided to collaborate on designing this MTF and creating a story to showcase them in.

I think we initially came into it with some fairly different ideas, but managed to combine them well into the final product. MTF Omega-20, on one hand, can essentially be like small-arms-tactics action heroes. But I think they shine even more when tackling an obstacle with an unorthodox approach. This was a core element I wanted to get across in their debut.

I'd say Bolterpyre was the main creative source for elements like the characters and the initial plot of the tale, while I contributed mostly by writing edits and throughout the revising process. I felt like we each took advantage of our best strengths this way, and I enjoyed working the project with that dynamic.

MC&D: Art By Oswaldo

Link: MC&D: Art By Oswaldo

Notes: GOI Format, Co-authored with PatersonFerreted, CollabCon2019

This is one of two articles that I co-wrote with PatersonFerreted for the 2019 Collaboration Contest. That was a fun project to work on.

As we only formed our team one day before the entry deadline, we were left with just seven days to go from concept to completion. After a day or two of back-and-forth, we decided that MC&D and AWCY? would be our groups.

So we decided that an MC&D GOI Format would give us the best options to lay out some background details and set up the Tale portion of the story. Paterson did most of the work to come up with the AWCY? artists material, and I mainly wrote a bunch of the MC&D Broker's parts. I felt like we were on the same page with a lot of the general ideas for the article, which is surely how we were able to actually get it finished in time for the contest deadline.

Creative Differences

Link: Creative Differences

Notes: Tale, Co-authored with PatersonFerreted, CollabCon2019

This is the second of two articles that I co-wrote with PatersonFerreted for the 2019 Collaboration Contest. Good times, awesome co-author.

Whereas the connected article was about the relationship between AWCY? and MC&D forming and growing, this Tale was about that relationship coming to an end. I was excited for the opportunity to once again write a tale featuring MTF Mu-3. This mission showed them operating a little more discretely, in a bit of a lower-stakes affair.

Again, my partner and I were under the gun with a tight contest deadline to work with. We started out with rough and basic beats for action that would take place, then built them up into proper prose. Then we refined them and connected them to make a series of scenes that form the final product. Again, the way that we were naturally on the same page with a lot of the basics was a major factor in beating the deadline for the contest.

Urine Too Deep

Link: Urine Too Deep

Notes: Tale

This was just a silly tale about number one, I never thought it would be my #1.

Somehow, this rapidly became my highest rated tale article. I'm not sure what else to say about it right now.

The Rampart, the Rogue, and the Renegade

Link: The Rampart, the Rogue, and the Renegade

Notes: Tale, Co-authored with Simartar

This was originally an idea that Simartar came up with and drafted. Elements like the UIU and GOC running up against each other, and the Frank Whelan character, were there from the start. My impression of that early version was that it wasn't bad, but the events as they were presented didn't quite give a satisfying impression of conflict and resolution in the narrative sense.

But it had GOIs, and agents, and in-the-field action - all things I really like to write! - so I asked Simartar if they would care to work with a co-author on the article. Once they accepted me on board, we set to work on deconstructing all the main components (the smaller events taking place, the big-picture situation, the motivations of each faction and of individual characters, etc.) and reassembling them into a tight and efficient piece of good storytelling.

One of my personal favourite details in this piece is the downplaying/subverting of the UIUseless trope: the way that Harrison is able to achieve his own primary goal of saving Frank's life, and he pulls it off by taking advantage of the appearance of incompetence.

Simartar was consistently present and working hard throughout the process (especially implementing all the coding that made everything look so nice!) and was very pleasant to collaborate with. I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute in creating this story; I feel that it's one of the best I've helped produce.

SCP-4601: Revenge Of The Redd Mennace!

Link: SCP-4601

Notes: SCP, Co-Authored with Nickthebrick1

My first SCP article!

I completely adored this idea from the first time Nickthebrick1 talked to me about it in the chat. This was originally an article that they posted which didn't stick, and I was excited when they accepted my offer to collaborate on a rewrite.

I believe it began with the basic idea of a firetruck that comes alive and goes around fighting fires on its own. This brought to mind for me the image of those gritty, lone vigilante, anti-hero characters from media like comic books in the '90s - except for the amusing contrast of fighting fires instead of fighting crime. Committing extrajudicial assault and murder against other people who have broken the law has shades of being morally questionable; promptly stopping fires from causing additional property damage or danger to lives doesn't really have the same complications at all.

While there is still a degree of absurdity because of this premise, I think our final product actually ended up as more of a straight homage, only slightly lampshading those tropes. I thought it would be a neat idea to try and structure the Addenda part of the article to roughly mirror the plot of a superhero action film (Act 1: Action scene introduction to the hero; Act 2: Exploring the backstory and struggles of the hero; Act 3: Big climactic chase scene and then the hero meets their fate).

Nickthebrick1 brought some good content with their original version of the article that we made sure to keep in, and they were very good about accommodating my ideas for revisions in the structure of the piece. I felt like our particular writing abilities complemented each other's fairly well, and so we were able to work steadily on this and complete it rather quickly.

The S.E.C.R.A.T.

Link: The S.E.C.R.A.T.

Notes: Tale

This is based on a rough idea that I noted down for myself a while back, but in returning to it I decided on the form and wrote out the content fairly quick. It was a mostly spontaneous decision to try writing a second-person perspective, and in this case is more of a gimmick feature than a really meaningful component; but I found it to be a fun exercise.

What else this tale does is puts forward a bit of my headcanon on how the Ethics Committee finds out about many of the more secretive issues that they still have an obligation to address. I don't have any definite ideas at the time of writing, but maybe in the future there could be more to the EthCom Snitch Network.

Quicker Experience

Link: Quicker Experience

Notes: This was written for the 2020 JamCon. The first theme was 'Explosions'.

The dumb punchline came to my mind, then I went and actually wrote out the setup. I figured it may or may not actually stick, but it did. So there's another silly little tale with the same guys from Urine Too Deep.

Recon And Revelations

Link: Recon And Revelations

Notes: Tale, Co-authored with TheManhattenProject

I suppose the story of this article's writing goes back a ways: It begins around the end of 2018. Author TheManhattenProject began posting a handful of Tales which involved SCP-3502, that were connected as The Outback Series. I was a fan of the story that was unfolding there, and at the time I was eagerly looking to collaborate with other writers. TheManhattenProject graciously accepted my offer to co-author the next chapter of the Series with him.

We did a bunch of brainstorming together on where the overall plot was going next and how we could advance that agenda with whatever this next installment would be. This would have been over a year ago from when I'm writing this commentary now, so I don't recall any detailed insights off the top of my head as far as that process. Real-life circumstances caused the project to be put on hold for a long time.

Finally deciding to return to the long-buried work, we dug it up, dusted it off, and got it posted. I'm happy with the writing in this article, and was very pleased for the opportunity to contribute to the growing narrative of the series at large.

SCP-106-J

Link: SCP-106-J: The Barbecue Man

Notes: SCP-J, Co-Authored with Gojirasaur7

SCP-106-J: A parody of the original SCP-106; a caricature of the "grill dad" trope in popular media; an affectionate tribute to some of the real grill dad-types I've known in my life.

This premise is based on a joke among some of the off-site fan communities that calls SCP-106 "Barbecue Sauce Man" because he is looks like he might be covered in a thick brown saucy stuff in some pictures of him and his "corrosion effect". Gojirasaur7 wrote and posted an original version of the article, which ended up being deleted. I think that version went in a few different directions with it's humour, some of which perhaps didn't land with the audience, or maybe just didn't all work in harmony.

I still thought that it could be a fun idea to write though, so I reached out to Gojirasaur7 to collab on a rewrite. The biggest change was that we committed more fully to the "grill dad" gimmick, fitting in as many related gags as we could into a lampoon of 106. I respect that SCP-106 was written in the very early days of this wiki, but thoroughly scrutinizing it like I did in research for this piece, one can easily see some elements that wouldn't play well today. One of those things was a gratuitous amount of just ending sentences or paragraphs with [DATA EXPUNGED] for implied horror (or sometimes seemingly just because), and that was one of those things which I latched on to as quite funny and wanted to carry over to the joke version.

Fun fact: I think pulling off that DELICIOUS backronym is among the highlights of my writing on this site.

Bella Donna

Link: Bella Donna

Notes: Tale, CupidCon2021

If you'd asked me before to order writing prompts by my likelihood to produce for them, "Contest theme: Romance" might have been at the bottom of the list. But some small seed of this piece was planted in my mind at the time, and about a day before the posting deadline it sprouted.

I think the imagery of the action in the last scene was the root, and my planning phase was mostly consideration for how to set it up and lead things there. As is my method, I plotted it out in rough beats and then expanded each of those into section of prose. Once I got started on this though, I pretty much hammered it all out in one morning. Keeping the writing somewhat unrefined was a stylistic choice I made based on the character of the narrator, so I didn't polish too much before posting. I suppose if I'd tried harder I could have wrangled a reviewer or two in time for the contest deadline, but this was basically a coldpost from me.

A little bit of floral taxonomy trivia for you: Atropa belladonna is the name for the plant more commonly known as "deadly nightshade". Thus, I am quite pleased with myself for getting to work that little bit into a piece of my writing. So this piece has that going for it, if nothing else.

This is a pretty big departure from the type of material I usually go for. Maybe Boogey_Man23 should just stick to writing bureaucrats and field agents from now on.

[EMPTY]

Link: [link Article]

Notes: Blank template

This is where I'll comment on my next article.

Agent Ben Buggeman's Personnel File

Link: [REDUNDANT]

Notes: Author Page

The other tab on this same page.

The pictures of myself are just selfies. The one with the fire, I think I actually took the picture (so that's probably not me in it).

I gave Buggeman a background that includes MTF Gamma-6 because I used to work as a SCUBA diver myself. So, if you happen to need a consultant on writing something that involves boats, the ocean, or underwater activities and stuff then maybe I can help!

I made up MTF Delta-88 to basically be like a bush league version of MTF Pi-1; fulfilling a similar role in smaller cities that don't warrant the "City Slickers" attention, but still require some form of local Foundation presence. Putting the character in position for the series of tales I would eventually like to write about them.

Additional Content

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SCP voice-acting by me. Audio edited by ChrisAKAPiefish.

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SCP Idea: The Reverse-Chicken. So instead of a chicken that lays eggs, it's an egg that hatches into… oh.. never mind.

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There once was a Redd fire truck,
That came to life by some luck,
SCP-4601,
He went on the run,
And the Foundation said "Oh f- uhh, that sucks."

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Dear B_Man,

In certain articles, I see reality benders being referred to as "bixbies". Can you explain this nickname?

Bill Bixby was an actor, perhaps best known for his role playing Dr. David Banner on the television series The Incredible Hulk.

On that show, the Dr. Banner character would, in times of anger or stress, transform into the Hulk; a powerful green creature.

In a way, a Type Green Reality Bender might also be categorized as a powerful green creature; just like the Incredible Hulk, who was actually Dr. Banner, who was played by Bill Bixby.

Hence the reason why Reality Benders / Type Greens are called by the vernacular "Bixbies".

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SCP Idea: who would win: the beatles in their prime; or their equivalent combined weight in the beetles today?

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Don't you give me no D-Class looks
The Old Man's hip, he knows what cooks
Just tell those Researchers outside
My food's all grilled and not deep fried
(Yakety Yak, bbq snack)

~ SCP-106-J, referencing a song by The Coasters

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"Damn it Agent Buggeman! How many times do I have to tell you that the anomalous item which causes deja vu is missing and I need you to locate it!"

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"We need to recontain that SCP before anyone finds out we lost it. I think that doctor at Site-17 is already getting suspicious."

"What makes you think that?"

"She asked for a picture of the SCP with today's newspaper, to prove it was still in our custody."

"Crap. What did you do?"

"I sent the older picture and explained that we couldn't get a newspaper at the moment, but here he is listening to today's news on the radio. So I think I bought us some time."

"…"

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