The following is a log of initial research conducted on SCP-5484 as done by Site-120's staff.
VIDEO LOG
DATE: 07/09/2003
»BEGIN LOG«
Both present parties are standing on the walls of the elevator shaft, protected by appropriate equipment, looking down into the pit of SCP-5484. Around them, inactive Foundation terrain scanners can be seen, with Micheals holding a small screen linked to them and an activation console.
Micheals: Y-Yep, that's Hell alright.
Bury: Well, this ain't good.
Micheals: Because we literally have Hell near our offices?
Bury: No, because we'll actually have to clean somethin' up for once.
Both pause for a second, during which Micheals activates the scanners. All beep with dim light, and three seconds later, the tablet he is holding lights up.
Micheals: Hmm… y-yeah. Wormhole type — dimensional portal, high Akiva, — though mainly focused around the worship of one entity — t-temperatures higher than 26 Celcius, and the constant hatred outputs and suffering filters. We got Hell on our hands, and it's not pretty.
Bury: Why's that, if I may?
Micheals looks directly into Bury's eyes.
Micheals: Well. Aside from the fact it's, y-you know, literally Hell, the pain scanners are… really, really bad. The sheer amount of suffering within is genuinely staggering, to the point my tech's overloading. Give me a moment though. I-I have to check something.
Micheals taps the screen twice.
Micheals: It will… take a while.
He pauses for a second.
Micheals: Though, if it's not a mistake, then Jesus. The amount of pain emitted from this would be able to literally power the human civilization for millennia if harvested well. I always imagined a theoretical Hell would be bad, but this… is just… no. No.
Bury: Is this much of a surprise, though? Haven't we discovered Hell already a while back? Heard a thing about it or two sometime ago.
Micheals: I, I mean, yes, we did, but 5572's an absurdly specific afterlife. Even that, it's just… an actual pleasure when compared to this. I… I'll have to bring this to the rest of the Directors. No one deserves this end to their story.
Both pause for a second.
Bury: If it's so horrible, then what cause even spawned this, actually? What's the Trumbiratee's — Trumbiratee's? — problem?
Micheals: Triumviraté's. Just general hatred, I imagine. If their goal is to bring back the lands we stole from them in their eyes, I don't think bringing Hell to someone for bringing Hell onto you is… fair, honestly. Hatred only breeds more hatred, and— oh!
The scanner beeps three times in a row, finishing the scanning.
Micheals: Oh, oh no.
Bury: What's going on?
Micheals: I… it's even worse.
Bury: Whatcha mean?
Micheals: [REDACTED]
Bury: W-what?
Micheals: Exactly what you heard me say.
Bury: J-Jesus fucking Christ. That… no. Just… no.
All pause for a moment.
Micheals: We will have to contact Overwatch about this, just to make sure this is real. Because if it is… Jesus Christ.
»END LOG«
In light of further information gathered from scans of the area SCP-5484 leads to as well as the log results, two days later, Overwatch Command issued the following:
Project Gratia Proposal
THE OFFICE OF O5-1
In light of all of the discoveries made following initial contact with SCP-5484, the entire SCP Foundation is to change its approach towards all subjects. In previous years, we valued coldness and objectivity over kindness and other human virtues, even after our policies had to change so many years ago after Esterberg's fall and Directive Alpha/1911.
However, in the light of newly acquired information, we can never let a single person be a victim of what most likely comes as a punishment for our sins after death.
We still do not know the exact nature of Hell presented to us by SCP-5484. It is, however, an afterlife different from all known descriptions of Hell in recorded human history. And, from what we have gathered, we can be certain that it is not an afterlife one would want to be stuck in.
As we have no other choice than to continue research on SCP-5484, we propose Project Gratia as a temporary containment strategy. We, as the Foundation, need to redeem our personnel as quickly as possible.