You were lost from the moment you opened this file.
Interior of SCP-L790.
Special Containment Procedures: The door into the stairwell leading to SCP-3790 is to be padlocked at all times, and a single guard is to be posted nearby to ensure no individuals enter SCP-3790.
Special Containment Procedures: The door into the stairwell leading to SCP-L790 is to be ignored by those unauthorized to enter it. Foundation Staff are to be reminded that it remains inaccessible.
By order of the Overseer Council, entry into SCP-3790L790 is forbidden.
Description: SCP-3790 is a structure located beneath the abandoned Port Superior Canning Company warehouse in London, United Kingdom. The only access to this space is down a narrow stairwell that ends in a short black door. The door is free of identifying markings save for a small metal placard just above the door handle that reads "SCP Foundation Department of Abnormalities".
Access to SCP-L790 is obtained via flipping the placard to its other side, which reads "SCP Foundation Department of Disappearances".
-
- _
The interior of SCP-L790 consists of several descending levels, each consisting of a hallway containing four doors, two per side, and a grated freight elevator at the far end of the corridor leading to the lower levels. While there is evidence of prior human activity within SCP-L790, the structure appears to have been abandoned for a considerable amount of time.
Each of the doors is a solid, heavy metal door with a sliding panel covering a small glass viewport into the dimly lit chamber beyond. The doors, some of which are rusted but otherwise undamaged, have at some point in the past had their handles and unlocking mechanisms removed, and have been welded shut. The only distinguishing marks on these doors are small metal placards located just beneath the sliding panel. These placards usually bear what is believed to be the designation for the contents of the chamber, though in some cases the placards have been removed or are damaged.
Each of the doors leads to an office, wherein documentation is neatly organized. The doors, which remain uncorroded and undamaged, are visible only to certain individuals, apparently at random; these same individuals would invariably go missing within several weeks of visiting SCP-L790. The only distinguishing marks on these doors are small metal placards above the doorknob. These placards bear what seems to be the designation for the subject of inquiry of the office. None of these placards point to events, items, or persons the SCP Foundation is aware of.
A clipboard holding a legal pad hangs on the back of the main access door. Several pages appear to have been torn away from the pad. The frontmost intact piece of paper contains a list of names and a short note. The remainder of the pages are irrelevant.-
- _
Abandoning ship. Clear out the chaff before the new guys find it.
Tell Abnormalities to do a wipe.
1 -
2 -
3 -
4 -
5 -
6 -
7 -
8 -
9 -
10 -Facility successfully abandoned.
Bon voyage!
1 - CLEARED
2 - CLEARED
3 - CLEARED
4 - CLEARED
5 - DESTROYED
6 - CLEARED
7 - ABSENT
8 - [DELETED]
9 - CLEARED
10 - CLEARED
The elevator has access to seven levels of the structure.
No record of the SCP Foundation ever having a Department of Abnormalities exists. No information regarding the structure has been documented.
Addendum 3790.1: Chamber Contents
Addendum L790.1: Office ContentsThe following is a list of the rooms on each floor, the text on each door's placard, and a description of the documented subject.
Level One
-
- _
Room One
Placard Name: Vivaldi
Description: Chamber is empty aside from a violin propped in the far corner of the room. The bow is broken on the ground in front of it.Room One
Placard Name: Standard
Description: No documentation found within room. No table found within room. No stationery found within room. No researchers found within room.
Room Two
Placard Name: Montezuma's Face
Description: An ornate wooden chest with gold inlays and a large steel lock sits on a table in the middle of the chamber. A quiet clicking sound, like that of a clock, is barely audible from within the chamber.Room Two
Placard Name: Deity of Many Faces
Description: A conceptual being of gold and steel. Associated with clockwork. Disappeared following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. Circumstantial evidence suggests a blank hole in the accepted pantheon.
Room Three
Placard Name: No placard
Description: Chamber is empty.Room Three
Placard Name: Requisitioned by the Antimemetics Division
Description: No references located.
Room Four
Placard Name: Placard has been damaged and text is unreadable
Description: Chamber is empty. Long gashes cover the walls. Pieces of bone are visible across the chamber floor.
Level Two
-
- _
Room One
Placard Name: Ian
Description: A thin, pale man in a straitjacket wearing a blindfold sits in the corner of the chamber.Room One
Placard Name: Dr. Nkosinathi Neja
Description: A researcher who went missing in the late 1980s.
Room Two
Placard Name: The Crying Boy
Description: A canvas is set up in the room. A sheet is draped over it.Room Two
Placard Name: The Collected Works of Blaise Le Sourde
Description: A series of paintings depicting fae from 1843-1851. Disappeared in the Sixth Occult War.
Room Three
Placard Name: The Watchers
Description: Three vaguely humanoid figures are huddled in a far corner of the room, looking away from the door. The figures can be seen shifting slightly, but due to lighting conditions within the chamber, no other details can be made out.Room Three
Placard Name: CONNECTION
Description: A full account of a lost Foundation Department, one that was the precursor of a variety of other departments, aimed towards anomalies of vanishment, one that is going Hello? Testing… Hello?
Room Four
Placard Name: No placard
Description: Beyond the door appears to be another dark hallway.Room Four
Placard Name: COMMUNICATION ATTEMPT
Attempt: Hello? Are we connected?
Level Three
-
- _
Room One
Placard Name: The Infinite Cold
Description: The floor of the chamber is covered with a thin layer of water. The interior of the room seems to be considerably larger than its exterior physical dimensions would allow.Room One
Placard Name: COMMUNICATION ATTEMPT
Attempt: Dr. Cassandra Penelope Ing? Do you read us?
Room Two
Placard Name: Sorrow
Description: A pedestal rests in the middle of the chamber. Four parallel lines in the dust, consistent with finger marks, imply that whatever was upon it has recently been removed.Room Two
Placard Name: COMMUNICATION ESTABLISHMENT
Attempt: It seems you can. We urge you to take a seat. And keep reading, not that you have any particular choice in the matter.
Room Three
Placard Name: World Without Man
Description: Chamber is empty.Room Three
Placard Name: Apocalypse
Description: The collapse of the global conceptosphere in 2023. In reality, no collapse was observed.
Room Four
Placard Name: Adam's Hatred
Description: A billowing, indistinct black shape is visible in the back of the room.Room Four
Placard Name: Requisitioned by the Department of Deletions
Description:object reference not set to instance of object ; description.rtf does not exist
Level Four
-
- _
Room One
Placard Name: The Morning Star
Description: A rusted sword hangs on a rack in the back of the room. The door to the chamber feels warm.Room One
Placard Name: INTRODUCTION
Attempt: We do hope you're up for something new, Dr. Ing. And we also hope that you are not overly attached to your present reality.
Room Two
Placard Name: Wormwood
Description: Viewport is obscured.Room Two
Placard Name: Wormwood
Description: Office was sealed shut. Files within inaccessible.
Room Three
Placard Name: Harmonia's Necklace
Description: A simple golden necklace hangs on a post in the back of the room, which is lit by a single tall candle. The chamber does not appear to have a floor.Room Three
Placard Name: CONTINUATION
Attempt: You do not know us, but you know of the dualism inherent in this world. A breach for every successful containment, an end to every beginning. Antimatter to matter. We are similar.
Room Four
Placard Name: No placard
Description: Chamber is unlit. Individuals who look into this room feel a lingering sense of dread afterward.Room Four
Placard Name: CONTINUATION
Attempt: Our counterparts — you are more familiar with them — contain what shouldn't be real, but is. We, by contrast, locate what should be real, but somehow is not.
Level Five
-
- _
Room One
Placard Name: The Heart of Man
Description: Inside the chamber is a single, still-beating human heart suspended from the ceiling by a wire. The interior of the chamber appears distorted.Room One
Placard Name: COMMISSION
Attempt: You are wondering what this has to do with you. Unfortunately, Dr. Ing, you do not have a choice. You were lost from the moment you opened this file.
Room Two
Placard Name: Tool marks indicate that placard has been pried off. The word "hello" is scratched into the metal where the placard should be.
Description: Sliding panel is welded shut.Room Two
Placard Name: COMMISSION
Attempt: Our department sits among the vanished - it's the only way we can get close enough to our subjects. Congratulations; you have been hired.
Room Three
Placard Name: Channel 55
Description: A small, CRT television sits in the center of the room. Something is playing on the screen, but a dark cloth has been draped over the top of it.Room Three
Placard Name: COMMISSION
Attempt: This tenuous file describing our non-existent facility — it ended up like the rest of them — is our entryway into your plane, and you will be dragged back with us.We know that's difficult to process. We all were you, once.
Room Four
Placard Name: Living Nightmare
Description: A dirty twin mattress on a simple metal frame rests in the middle of the room. A figure is lying on the mattress with a sheet pulled up over them.Room Four
Placard Name: Requisitioned by the Department of 'Pataphysics
Description: A dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream.
Level Six
-
- _
Room One
Placard Name: Mr. Silence
Description: A tall, black, wooden box rests against the back wall. It is bound in chains and locks. A bright purple "W" is emblazoned on its front in gold trim.Room One
Placard Name: COMMISSION
Attempt: But these events are beyond our control. Your departure is inevitable. And when you do vanish, you must find your way to us.
Room Two
Placard Name: The Dead Man's Chair
Description: A wooden chair sits in the far corner of the room. A faint shadow can be seen 'sitting' in it, which disappears upon a second viewing.Room Two
Placard Name: COMMISSION
Attempt: Dr. Ing, that's just the nature of it. Manpower is tight, here, and if not you, some other RAISA worker will wipe this file from the database, soon enough. We must take what we can.
Room Three
Placard Name: Ötzi
Description: A layer of ice covers the viewport and obscures visibility. A dark shape can be seen in the middle of the room, although no details can be distinguished.Room Three
Placard Name: CONCLUSION
Attempt: If it's any comfort at all, you're not going to be deleted, or rewritten, or anything like that. You'll still be very, very whole, Dr. Ing. Just… somewhere else.
Room Four
Placard Name: Apollyon's Crown
Description: A silver lockbox rests on a table in the middle of the room. Notably, the exterior of the door is covered in scratch marks, as if by something trying to get into the chamber.Room Four
Placard Name: FELICITATIONS
Description: What else is there to say? We know we can't prepare you, there's no time. At least have some faith. You know what you must do.
We really do apologize. Everything will be better explained on the other side.Welcome to the Department of Disappearances.
Level Seven
Although the opening to the seventh level is visible through the grated floor of the elevator, the lift mechanism appears to have been modified and can no longer access that floor.
-
- _
The seventh floor contains no further offices. Instead, the entire floor is occupied by a vast monument composed of an unidentified material carved into an indiscernible structure.
At the base of the monument is a plaque.
SCP Foundation
Department of Disappearances
The Foundation thanks you for your sacrifice.
SCP Foundation
Department of Disappearances
The Foundation thanks you for your sacrifice.
Following a recent audit, the above description of the anomaly was found to be in error; no such underground structure has ever been located. For further information, contact your nearest RAISA liaison. Corrections will be issued as soon as possible.
