Case File "Faultline"
Agent,
Review this file one page at a time, and take notes on each page with the provided cards. The file will be yours to keep, and the notes will be for you alone. Work out what you're looking at, then put the whole dossier in your safe when you're done and come see me in my office.
You won't need me to tell you not to talk about this with anyone else, but I'm telling you anyway.
— AD Marek
UIU File 1972-055: Case File "Faultline"
A self-censoring event of unknown magnitude and consequence occurring on 12/15/1972 within Sugar Grove, West Virginia. A facility designated 'Area-12' is established in the vicinity shortly thereafter by the SCP Foundation. Federal investigations into the event (which had occurred on U.S. soil and on what was previously federal land prior to the Foundation's abrupt acquisition of the location) are continually hampered by that organization over the following decades.
This is me, taking notes at fifty percent of baseline human speed. Am I being demoted to the secretarial pool? Is that how far I've fallen?
Questions
What is the Unusual Incidents Unit? Mentioned at the debriefing; sounds like pulp nonsense.
What is the SCP Foundation? See above.
What does “self-censoring” mean? Also see above.
| Report Author: ASAC Samuel E. Jacobs | Date Filed: 05/25/1973 |
| Irregularity Cross‑reference |
American, SCP Foundation, Unsecured, Self-classifying, Non-Human(?), Locale(?), Destructive(?) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Event Discovery: Details known, functionally impossible to record. Data is universally forgotten shortly after reading.
Locale Summary (Pre-Event): Sugar Grove, a small rural community with a population of ~500 within Pendleton County, WV. Situated centrally within the National Radio Quiet Zone1 and housing Sugar Grove Station, a National Security Agency (NSA) and Navy Information Operations Command (NAVIOCOM) communications site.
Locale Summary (Post-Event): Location secured by the SCP Foundation immediately following the event. Limited salvageable information (see — pg.2 on Evidence). NSA Sugar Grove Station is occupied by SCP Foundation personnel and re-designated "Outpost-12". Present use of the facility, if it has been altered at all from its original purpose, is unknown.
What minimal investigations covert UIU agents have successfully carried out have returned inconsistent and generally incomprehensible fragments of data and witness accounts. What few sources remain within the area suggest a tremendous increase in irregular occurrences throughout. The nature, cause, magnitude, or consequence of these ostensible occurrences are, likewise and consistently, unknown.
1 Established by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Docket No. 11745 (November 19, 1958) and by the Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC) in Document 3867/2 (March 26, 1958) to minimize possible harmful interference with the radio receiving facilities for the United States Navy in Sugar Grove, WV; presently responsible for intercepting all international communications entering the Eastern United States. Simultaneously shielding the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, WV, conducting civilian radio astronomy.
1
Apparently a report from some doubleplus top secret branch of the Bureau. Obviously I can buy that. What I can't buy is the quality of this reporting, it barely IS a report.
I can't imagine any section chief who'd be happy with the nonsense on this page. It's basically “something happened but we dunno” ten times over.
This is an admission of failure.
AFTER an admission of mental illness.
WHY AM I EVEN HERE
“Data is universally forgotten shortly after reading.” I can't find any record of a Sam Jacobs at the Bureau; did they unperson him for writing the single worst report in FBI history, or after his catastrophic nervous breakdown?
Evidence:
Exhibit A: A slightly translucent, light pinkish petal with a smooth texture. The object's material composition is abnormal, with a tensile strength of roughly 17.23GPa, yet still strangely pliable. Its edges are sharp, hazardous if mishandled. Discovered just north of the National Radio Quiet Zone boundary, believed to have been carried by the wind from Sugar Grove.
Exhibit B: Five (5) living concrete statues with a paranormal method of locomotion, representing various wildlife who had been exposed to and consumed an unidentified substance originating from Area-12.
Exhibit C: A chunk of dark, weathered basalt. Seemingly removed from a larger object. The outward-facing surface is covered in a regular pattern of neatly carved rectangles.
Exhibit D: Pages 3, 4, and 5 of this file. Records of the SCP Foundation's (primarily Area-12's) ceaseless unrequited hostility and antagonism towards, and disregard for, the integrity of the United States, her sovereignty, her Constitution, the safety of her general public, inter-normalcy organizational relationships, and the Veil.
Exhibit E: A forcefully severed thumb. Severed at the carpometacarpal joint by unknown means. Female, likely mid-adolescence. Discovered within hours of its severance.
2
Exhibit A: I'm not a metallurgist, so this doesn't mean a lot offhand, but it sounds it's saying that pieces of metal, possibly very strong metal, blew in on the breeze. Am I meant to accept or contest this?
Exhibit B: Living. Concrete. Statues.
Exhibit D: I take it these are the fuckers who cost me my tolerance for the smell of hospital disinfectant and my arm. If they're a civilian (foreign?) foundation, why are they able to operate with impunity?
Exhibit E: What is this meant to be evidence of…?
Bureau Record:
Current Status: Status quo. The SCP Foundation retains jurisdiction over Sugar Grove, Green Bank, and the greater National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ) under scrutiny of the Department of Defense. Direct investigations are discouraged by SecDef and POTUS. The UIU continues limited surveillance around the boundary of the NRQZ.
History of FBI UIU Action & Observation:
1973—1979: As per
, the Occult Branch of the Department of Defense (PENTAGRAM) permits ceding control of a large territory of Pendleton County to the SCP Foundation. The extent of the territory becomes defined by the county's south-eastern border with the state of Virginia, along with Routes 33 & 220 to the north-west.
On advice from POTUS and SecDef, FBI UIU involvement is restricted to external surveillance and limited third-party information gathering.
11/25/1979: Ten-year-old Silas Parker, Ezra Woods, Bezai Morrigan, Holden Inanna, and fifteen-year-old Quincy Ereshkigal, disappear within the forests of Sugar Grove. Unsatisfactory responses to federal inquiries both to and from the SCP Foundation culminate in an order from the Director of the FBI to deploy an unusual incidents response team into the area, breaking a precedent of non-interventionist surveillance.
The response team arrives at the last known location of the children, whereupon they discover Exhibit E. Shortly into their investigation a group of individuals approach, loudly ordering the response team to immediately vacate the area and identifying themselves as agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, presently participating in a U.S. Government Naval Operations drill. The ensuing confusion nearly results in lethal confrontation before the response team is forced to withdraw, outnumbered by the group of what have now been verified as agents of the SCP Foundation masquerading as an FBI squad for purposes unknown.
2 A majority of sources corroborate.
3
This is quite the Come to Jesus dossier, isn't it.
Implications:
1. A foreign power or cryptocracy is operating on American soil…;
2. Said body has been granted territorial concessions;
3. Said body does not fully respect, and can outright challenge the authority of the United States federal government;
4. Said government has abetted said body in its unconstitutional activities;
5. Said government employs agents and agencies themselves effectively constituting a shadow government in opposition;
6. Some form of accord exists between each above-mentioned party, relating to the maintenance of a facade of normalcy to cover up the existence of supernatural phenomena.
Conclusion:
If my takeaway from this document review does not meet with AD Marek's approval, and this isn't an elaborate prank or stealth psych assessment, my body will never be found.
Secondary Conclusion:
This is real…
Tertiary Conclusion:
They want me to join the Unusual Incidents Unit.
01/05/1980: See — Protocol Faultline.
04/0?/1981:
An unknown quantity of agents are dispatched. An unknown quantity return4. Medical services in the surrounding region are inundated over the coming days as civilians suffering a wide variety of adverse, largely paranormal conditions are admitted.11/08/1985: An unidentified substance with theorized metamorphic effects is found to have leaked into the South Fork South Branch Potomac River which flows adjacent to Area-12, likely as a result of the Election Day Floods. Hundreds of animals are known to have consumed the substance as it spread downstream (see — Exhibit B). The Director and Executive Assistant Director of the Science and Technology Branch of the FBI extend a request for forward-going annual environmental reports from within the NRQZ. No response is received.
3 Bounded by NAD-83 meridians of longitude at 78d 29m 59.0s W and 80d 29m 59.2s W and latitudes of 37d 30m 0.4s N and 39d 15m 0.4s N.
4 A majority of sources corroborate.
4
If I'm reading correctly, the extrajudicial cryptocrat bastards have been using their landholdings within the continental US to pollute the surrounding environment with paranormal waste, presumably resulting in those concrete wildlife statues from earlier. Is that what this says? Is there some poetic license involved?
SecDef and the UIU are at odds over how to handle this “SCP Foundation”. We don't even present a united front.
06/12/1986: A major operation is conducted by the SCP Foundation in a valley adjacent to Area-12. The location is tightly secured, with all lines of sight blocked off for ~14 miles. The nature of the operation remains indeterminate.
11/15/1988: The 300 Foot Radio Telescope in Green Bank collapses. The incident is declared by the SCP Foundation — using the public guise of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) — to have resulted from mechanical failure and a sudden loss of structural integrity. FBI sources, however, indicate either foul play or external sabotage; as an undercover UIU agent, disguised as a civilian contractor, recovers trace explosive residue from the site.
02/01/1991: With the monumental achievement that is the collapse of the USSR and its GRU Division "Psychotronics", the FBI UIU budget is unfortunately slashed in favor of investment in foreign intelligence services and defense. Surveillance of the NRQZ is, perforce, downscaled.
03/12/1993: Wide-spread civilian reports of "ghost sightings" south of the NRQZ are received as the 1993 "Storm of the Century" reaches West Virginia. While scarcely credible, FBI agents stationed south of the NRQZ for surveillance report being overcome by extra-sensory psychological phenomena, resulting in an advanced state of altered consciousness. All agents now reportedly suffer from one, several, or all of the following ailments: phonagnosia, ganser syndrome, pain disorder, onset sectoral heterochromia, and dyscalculia.
The cause of or relation between these reports or their coinciding with the Storm of the Century remains unclear and confounding.
1994—2012: Unknown; nonfunctionally documentable. Irrelevant conjecture is recalled long before recitation5. The ability of the FBI and its branches to perform in accordance to their mission statements is additionally impaired as a direct result of bolstered bureaucratic oversight and an invasive campaign of inquiry from the Senate Judiciary Committee following the 9/11 attacks.
04/04/2013: The Department of Defense's Chief of Naval Operations announces the decommissioning of the NAVIOCOM communications site supporting Sugar Grove Station, as "a result of the determination by the resource sponsor National Security Agency to relocate the command's mission." Independent UIU investigation determines that this action was in fact undertaken under the instruction of the SCP Foundation, as was the DoD's explanatory statement.
5 A minority of sources corroborate.
5
WHAT I THINK IS HAPPENING:
Project Blue Book type deal. The reference to the Russians clinches it for me. We've got secret government agencies responsible for handling things too weird to go on the official record, and we're not the only players in the game, and one of the players apparently holds all the cards somehow despite not being aligned with any state actor.
We're underfunded and undermined by our own side, and the other side barely notices us.
Judging by the fact that they're able to evade or redirect governmental scrutiny AND have their way on American soil, the Foundation must have some combination of money, unique non-reproducible advantages, and friends in high places. That's all consistent with the gang we busted in on. Apparently I barely even scratched the surface, and it sure as hell scratched me back twice as hard.
There's one more page in the dossier.
I have an inkling.
Candidate Review
Name: Nasrin Ghasemi
Nationality: American
Occupation: FBI Senior Special Agent
Age: 30
Personal History: Nasrin Ghasemi was born in 1982. Her father was a political science professor at the University of Tehran, and her mother worked as an agent for the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence. They emigrated to the United States before her birth due to an unspecified scandal that saw her mother retire in disgrace. Her parents raised her to believe that public education and selfless service are vital to the cause of international peace. Her mother disappeared in 2001 while attempting to turn whistleblower to the International Criminal Court; in hopes of discovering what had happened, Ghasemi attempted to join the Central Intelligence Agency but was denied for unspecified reasons. She instead joined the United States Armed Forces, hoping to achieve the same goal with a career in military intelligence, but was instead transferred into the American contingent of the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces due to a general shuffling of ethno-regionals out of direct combat in the Middle Eastern theater. By now, convinced that her efforts to discover her mother's fate represented intentional stonewalling by the governments of both Iran and the US, Ghasemi substituted globalist idealism for her lost national patriotism.
Service Record: As part of the 3rd Infantry Ghasemi was deployed with the American contingent to Namibia as part of UNAMSIL (the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone) in 2001. In February her peacekeeping unit picked up radio chatter from the Revolutionary United Front indicating an imminent raid on a clandestine government research facility. Moving to prevent the outbreak of open hostilities, they discovered an illegal prison conducting biological research on human subjects under the auspices of an unknown organization. The resulting conflict, subsequently known as Incident CARBON BANNER by the Global Occult Coalition, saw both Ghasemi's unit and the RUF sustain heavy casualties before the facility was secured by the UN. A joint taskforce of the Global Occult Coalition and SCP Foundation relieved both groups and administered amnestics after debriefing them, since the facility made extensive use of paratechnology in its research program.
I'm not surprised they have a file on me, and I'm not surprised it's included in this packet. I get the point they're making: the game is global. How big is the Foundation?
Love the “unspecified reasons” bit. As if they needed to specify, after 9/11.
Not a fan of the psychoanalysis, though. What does my family have to do with anything?
And what the hell are amnestics? =Amnesia? Medication? They told me I was in a coma for three days.
Service Record (Cont'd): Ghasemi was honorably discharged from UNAMSIL at its conclusion in 2006, whereupon she successfully applied to join the Bureau as a field agent. Her combat efficiency and dedication to teamwork and unit coherence resulted in a steady series of promotions, culminating in her commanding her own team by 2004. What followed was nearly a decade of successful field operations; her policy of total disclosure to her agents, as opposed to keeping them on a need-to-know basis, made her unit internally famed for the talented personnel it regularly turned out. Every mission was an opportunity to turn someone expendable into someone experienced.
In 2013 she accompanied a strike team into the field in order to investigate a human trafficking case. Due to severe misinformation promulgated by the SCP Foundation, and their direct intervention in the raid, Ghasemi’s unit was almost entirely wiped out by what turned out to be a small pack of SCP-939 instances. She alone survived, with the loss of her right arm and partial shoulder. This prompted her early retirement from the FBI.
Assessment: Due to her outstanding case closure record, personal accomplishments, and first-hand exposure to Veiled phenomena, Agent Ghasemi is a prime candidate for transfer to the Unusual Incidents Unit. She should be briefed on the nature of the SCP Foundation and provided additional documentation regarding their involvement in her personal history to facilitate the transfer.
Called it.
In the event that someone’s removed this from the safe while I walk to Marek's office: hi! I’m on my way to say “yes.”
Agent Ghasemi,
It's been a long time, but I've got a few more pages of classified information for your review. You remember the process: make notes for each page, then put it all in your safe with the files from your inaugural. This time, decide what you want to do about it before you come to my office. It'll be easier when you're alone with your thoughts.
- DDS Marek
TOP SECRET
TO BE KEPT UNDER LOCK AND KEY: NEVER TO BE REMOVED FROM THE OFFICE.
| Author: SecDef Donald H. Rumsfeld | Date Filed: 01/05/1977 | |
OFFICIAL PENTAGRAM DOCUMENTATION
SCP Foundation Biological Research & Containment Area-12
Located primarily underground in Sugar Grove, West Virginia — proximate to what was previously the National Security Administration and NAVIOCOM's Sugar Grove Station — the SCP Foundation's "Biological Research & Specialized Containment Area-12" has been granted jurisdiction of these facilities in exchange for their continued operation and data transfer to all relevant parties, along with containment of an undisclosable anomaly believed to have manifested in the area sometime in late December, 1972, both in continuum.
The SCP Foundation, in active communication with PENTAGRAM, is authorized full autonomy within Sugar Grove & Green Bank, with future plans for the benefaction of the Nation Radio Quiet Zone currently in the drafting stages, sought in exchange for the facilitation of a reciprocal biological eigenweaponry research program.
For access to data pertaining to specific communications with Area-12's administration, please consult pg. 5 of this file with authorization from your superior and The Pentagon's top floor, Ring E head secretary; please remember to bring appropriate (Menoetius) clearance.
And now we've got the smoking gun. The skippers are using that blacksite to make paranormal WMDs, and PENTAGRAM let them do it. Rummy thinks they'll let him play with the toys once they're done. Fucking idiot.
The SCP Foundation is a clear and present danger to the United States of America and the rest of human civilization.
We need to start figuring how to get out from under their bloody thumb. So to speak.
On 11 May 1978, through a coincidence of timing and opportunity, a mole embedded in the SCP Foundation Records and Information Security Administration’s low-clearance data uplink team sent an encrypted snapshot of a recently-updated file on SCiPnet — the Foundation's inter-facility computer system. The file was subsequently taken down and re-uploaded with the final paragraph absent just a few minutes later.
- Jakub Marek, CROW (Communications, Relay, and Overwatch)
Recovered File
Group of Interest Profile:
The Benthic Brotherhood (GoI-246)
Threat Level: 2 (KULDE)
Membership: ~30
Area of Operations: New England coast, United States of America
The Benthic Brotherhood was a white supremacist organization founded in Stonington, Maine in 1927. Under the auspices of local lobster fishermen, the Brotherhood seeded the Maine coast with occult artifacts sunken into the seabed within shipwrecks, natural crevices and preserved fish carcasses with the intent of gradually awakening a deific entity they termed "The Red Asteroid." According to their theology, this entity would aid in the ethnic cleansing of the United States before elevating the believers to a plane of existence they termed "The Upper Depths" wherein they would serve as "Fleet-Lords" over ships crewed by the enslaved slain. The Brotherhood was first founded by occultists worshipping a different deity, sharing only its sea star form with The Red Asteroid; the present theology was created after a number of deaths and disappearances within the group left an authority vacuum which was filled temporarily by horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who also introduced the racial elements of the Brotherhood's beliefs.
The Brotherhood was destroyed on 11 May 1978 when interference by parties unknown prevented Foundation agents from conducting their regular neutralization of the sunken artifacts, and a creature superficially resembling The Red Asteroid was summoned in Penobscot Bay. It immediately consumed the lobster fishing fleet with all hands, instantly killing (or precipitating the eventual digestive demise) of each Person of Interest in the cult, before turning its attentions to the port of Stonington. At this point the creature, dubbed LSA-Stonington-01 by the Global Occult Coalition, was promptly disposed of via the application of an industrial quantity of epsom salt deployed via cargo plane.
The Brotherhood was destroyed on 11 May 1978 via the execution of Neutralization Plan 346-Alpha: the activation of a cognitohazardous strobe concealed in the Deer Isle Thorofare Light during the group's weekly meeting in Penobscot Bay, interacting with memetics seeded into their religious literature by an embedded Foundation agent and precipitating their collective heart attacks. Cleanup details are TBA.
Two different explanations for the same event. What does that suggest?
A. All big newspapers have pre-written obituaries for famous people, and sometimes they accidentally publish them at the wrong time. The Foundation had a plan for killing off these fishermen, and accidentally published that as the explanation alongside what actually did it.
B. No, it's definitely just A.
The Foundation had a detailed plan, with measures already put in place, for disposing of a cult of lobster fishermen. With a low threat rating. And that plan had a specific designation, with the Group of Interest number included. What does that tell us?
It tells us the Foundation almost definitely has plans for neutralizing EVERY Group of Interest, and some of them are already partially in place.
We need to start acting on this yesterday. Maybe yesteryear.
Service Record (Cont'd): Subsequent to her transfer to the UIU, Agent Ghasemi's specialty became the surreptitious engagement of Foundation operatives without disrupting the official status quo of neutrality between the two groups. She had come to understand the UIU's relationship with both the Foundation and PENTAGRAM as a multi-front cold war, requiring the development of an educated body of agents capable of acting as long-term assets. Elevated beyond field deployment she instead engaged in operations control, continuing her long streak of successful missions with minimal casualties, though she repeatedly expressed frustration at her newfound inability to directly intervene. She channeled that frustration into providing as much aid to her operatives as humanly possibly, remaining one of the UIU's most prized hierarchical assets.
Service Record Excerpts (Selected):
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Prisoner transfer between SCP Foundation Area-06 and Paramax is interrupted when an electromagnetic pulse disables the armored troop carrier convoy, locking the UIU detail in their vehicle. Assailants of unknown origin attempt to commandeer the prison vehicle but are swiftly dispatched by Agent Ghasemi, who had escaped from her vehicle by compromising it from the inside. The attackers are never identified.
Agent's Testimony (Excerpt): "They never give up anything they don't think they can take back. I made them think again."
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A raid on an occult bookshop in Three Portlands uncovers a set of thaumaturgical grimoires sought by both the Wanderers' Library and the SCP Foundation. Agent Ghasemi contacts a representative of the Serpent's Hand and patriates the texts to the Library, unilaterally, against the express orders of her immediate superior. She is placed on mandatory leave for one month; after serving one week, she submits a personally assembled dossier to her section head, proving her former superior to be a Foundation mole. Her punishment is reduced to time served, and she is reinstated. UIU relations with the Library markedly improve.
Agent's Testimony (Excerpt): "They're like weeds, the Foundation. I figure if anyone knows how to handle the garden, it's the Serpent."
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The SCP Foundation informs the UIU that it has been operating a clandestine facility with access to Three Portlands, which has gone dark and become inaccessible except through the thaumaturgical Way leading into the free port. As the Foundation is not authorized to engage in operations in Three Portlands, Agent Ghasemi's team breaches the facility via the Way and clears it of a now hostile researcher and mobile task force population. The facility's contents are classified, but the Outpost's failure is formally tied to "reckless experimentation" on the part of the Foundation, and they are assessed a financial penalty for breaking the spirit of the Hoover Mandate. Receipt pending.
Agent's Testimony (Excerpt): "That's who they are, ultimately. That's what they do. And slaps on the wrist won't change it."
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Agents interfere with a lawful auction by Marshall, Carter & Dark Ltd. within Free Portlands under suspicion of human trafficking; five undocumentable immigrants from a territory wherein the authority of the Unusual Incidents Unit does not penetrate are detained for three hours before SCP Foundation representatives successfully negotiate for their release, citing irrevocable power of attorney granted to MC&D as one element of a tripartite arrangement with that strange and distant place.
Agent's Testimony (Excerpt): "Just because they're forgotten doesn't mean they're not people."
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Agent Ghasemi reports a senior Anderson Robotics representative to her supervisors; the representative attempted to bribe her with a prosthesis capable of fully replicating all natural functions in exchange for information on Bureau business.
Agent's Testimony (Excerpt): "What do you want me to say? No sane person takes this job for personal gratification."
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A prison riot at the United States Penitentiary, Paranormal Administrative Maximum Facility (Paramax) coincides with the transportation of a low-power Type Blue ("thaumaturge") to the facility by Agent Ghasemi’s unit. The riot, instigated by a spirit medium ostensibly possessed by eighteenth-century jurist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham, is successfully discontinued by the combined actions of Agent Ghasemi’s team, the Paramax Special Operations Response Team (SORT) under Correctional Manager Blythe Z. Souther, and the thaumaturge in custody, successfully exhorted into exorcizing the spirit by Agent Ghasemi.
Agent's Testimony (Excerpt): Souther was good at her job. I wish I knew what happened to her. We could’ve used someone like that at the Bureau.
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SCP-106 escapes containment, and a joint Foundation-UIU mission attempts its recapture. It instead captures one of the UIU agents, who is able to communicate sporadically from its pocket dimension via an enhanced radio link. Agent Ghasemi remains in contact with the agent for twenty-six hours as the anomaly hunts and gradually maims and dismembers him, staying on the line until his death is all but certain.
Agent's Testimony (Excerpt): Agent was unwilling to testify on this matter.
Yes, that is indeed the remainder of my service record. I didn't need a reminder.
I take it this is recruitment for an anti-Foundation taskforce.
They could have just asked me in person this time. Nostalgia or excessive caution on Marek's part?
Either way, it's a waste of vital time. I'm wasting it myself writing th
| Draftee: U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Unusual Incidents Unit |
Date Filed: 01/05/1980 |
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PROTOCOL FAULTLINE
"The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick,
and they are the surgeons to operate on it."
— Eric Hoffer, 1955
Drafted to safeguard the sovereignty and security of all members via political and military means. Collective bargaining and defense at the heart of the Protocol establishes and maintains solidarity and cohesion throughout the anomalous world and its members.
What? This doesn't exist. I would absolutely have heard by now if this existed.
They're already way ahead of me, aren't they.
Just once, I'd like to be on the leading edge without bleeding all over it.
But this doesn't sound nearly enough. An internal resolution isn't going to bring the Foundation down. We need large-scale collective action, and soon!
Founding Protocol
As the unknowable grows steadily more concrete and immaterial, so does the threat posed to mankind and normalcy. Before this threat, we stand united; not as governments, corporations, or ideologues. But as mankind, as representative parts of a whole.
The SCP Foundation — whether their every ideal stands to couple with ours has always come second to our collective goal of ensuring mankind's continued prosperity and ascension in a universe saturated in that which can eternal lie. For this we thank them. This organization has, on innumerable occasions diverted cataclysms sure to have led mankind toward extinction. For this we are eternally grateful. However, this organization has, too, over the centuries, in due to our thanks and graces for its great deeds, grown fat; inflated and assured in its righteous goal that only they know the path on which to tread, and dogmatic in when others might follow. In our blindness and desperation for safety and normalcy we've permitted its distention into a global fundamental force beholden not to mankind, but to a fascistic ruling council with vested interests to bear claim to the obligation.
It is for this reason that we draft the Faultline Protocol. The SCP Foundation has too long operated without supervision, with impunity, and with naught but their own isolated interpretation of the greater good, of the wishes of the many. Signatories herein represent all mankind, its vices and virtues, its distinct and divergent interpretations of culture, religion, kinship, science, and philosophy; of what it means to be human, and the implications therein. Signatories acknowledge and affirm the fundamental nature of individuality: the inalienable right to one's own life and ability to reason; and therefore agree to apportion disagreements of natures political externally to the columns herein for the betterment of mankind unapportioned by borders material or metaphysical.
For we have arrived at the dawn of a new era. The SCP Foundation will, from this day forward, answer to mankind; no longer to their self-imposed axiomatic interpretation. Each signatory will, with the collective bargaining of all, wield the human right and capacity for liberty.
The Signatories to this Protocol reaffirm their devotion to the principles of their collective desire to live in peace and prosperity with all peoples and all governments. They seek to promote stability and well-being of the Veiled and unVeiled worlds. They are resolved to unite their efforts for collective autonomy and for the eternal preservation of peace and normalcy. They therefore agree to this Faultline Protocol:
WHAT?
Column 1
Signatories herein agree to utilize this Protocol in conjunction and accordance with precedent agreements. Including, but not limited to the:
- Veil Protocol;
- Charter of the United Nations;
- Köln Agreement;
- Pangaea Agreement;
- Multilateral Agreement for Reality Preservation(1981);
- Hy-Brasil International Security Agreement(1992);
- Hoover Mandate & Howard-Grant Agreement;
- Boring Agreement.
Column 2
Signatories undertake to act within reason and, unless coerced otherwise, to settle violations peacefully in such a manner that international normalcy and security are not endangered.
Column 3
Signatories, by means of continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid, will maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist violations of territorial and political integrity or security.
Column 4
Signatories will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial and political integrity or security of any of the Signatories is threatened.
Column 5
Signatories agree that violations against one shall be considered a violation against them all and consequently they agree that, if such a violation occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence, will assist the Signatory or Signatories so violated by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Signatories, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the integrity of the Veiled world.
They can't be serious.
Nobody is going to sign this. It's like signing your own death warrant.
We're fucked.
PRINCIPAL SIGNATORIES
Faultline Accord
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FBI — United States Unusual Incidents Unit |
 UN — IGO Global Occult Coalition |
 SIS — United Kingdom British Occult Service (MI666) |
 警視庁公安部 — Japan Special Affairs Division |
 NI — Kingdom of Sweden Bureau of Anomaly Regulation |
 방재원 — Republic of Korea National Paranormal Emergency Service |
 ВАЗ СБУ — Ukraine Department of Abnormal Threats to the Security Service of Ukraine |
 SISMA — Italian Republic Anomalous Materials Information and Security System |
 SBP — Republic of Brazil Brazilian Superintendencefor the Paranormal |
 內政部 — ROC Taiwan National Paracivilian Agency |
 新茶嶺選區 — Hong Kong SAR New Cha Ling |
What’s the end game here? Collective defense, create our very own Veiled NATO? That kind of thing will take years, if it doesn’t kill us all first.
On the other hand, I do stand corrected.
And one long, strange trip later…
ANCILLARY SIGNATORIES
As of 01/01/2020
 LTD — Commercial Entity Marshall, Carter & Dark |
 LLC — Commercial Entity Anderson Robotics |
 NPO — Independent SAPPHIRE |
 Religious Institution Church of the Broken God |
 Religious Institution Cogwork Orthodox Church |
 سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی — Iran Organization for the Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts |
 GRU — Russian Federation Main Directorate General Staff of the Armed Forces Occult Branch |
 NGO — Mercenary Contractor PRIMORDIAL |
 NGO — Independent Institute for Human Educationand Development |
 NGO — Independent WWW |
 NGO — Remnant Cell Cuban Ministry of Anomalies |
DoD — United States Paranatural Warfare Command (PENTAGRAM) |
…we all stand together.
- Nuri Ghasemi, CROW (Communications, Relay, and Overwatch)
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