Game Day: Imago - SCP Foundation

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quietwetsmall

twitch

wetsmallernotquiet

turn

smallestLOUDSHINE

stretch

tear

Clem Walsh was having a bad day.

Months ago, he had lucked out on a cushy assignment watching a giant cocoon do nothing for hours on end, giving him plenty of time to read. His coworkers teased him about his choices: "Why're you reading that crap fantasy shit when you're surrounded by so much weird shit?" But he enjoyed escaping into a world where he knew there'd be a happy ending. And hey! He had a pretty easy-going boss and he wasn't on the midnight shift like on his last assignment. So things were doing pretty good. Then the building shook and the klaxons went off.

turnpull

widenessOUTloudness

REDBRIGHTSHINE

rend

freedom

rend

drywetair

rend

stretch

stand

Clem knew the drill: lockdown the containment chamber first, lockdown the observation room second, contact security and bossman third. One was easy, just a matter of hitting a button, but when he went to lock the observation room door, the damn lock wouldn't engage. He propped a chair under the handle as a stop-gap and went to the phone to call the boss when it rang under his hand.

redloudfood

unfurl

looksmell

shakeshake

lookdowninfant

pace

smellnosmell

touch

airhardslick?

memory:gasgrassglass?

lookinfanttalk:lookme

Clem noticed a motion out of the corner of his eye and turned towards the large observation window.

"Jesus fuck me!"

Standing on the other side was a… thing that looked like the bastard child of an orgy involving a yellowjacket and an octopus, with a little extra ugly for good measure. It had one of its… appendages on the glass and he could swear the damn thing was looking at him despite the one-way mirror.

infantgoodfollow

push

hungeropeninfant

glasstalk:tastetouch

soften

goodsmellinfant

infant:stayfeed

Clem scrambled to clear the chair from the door when the glass began to bubble and warp under the thing's tentacle-claw-leg-thingie. He had just pulled it free when the softened glass broke with a "pop" that he barely heard over the klaxon, and then shattered in its pane. He looked behind him and took a deep breath to scream… then smiled.

stayfeedgood

tasteinfanttouch

caress

smellsweetsharp

twine

looktouchtaste

tighten

eatfoodcoppery

savor

satiatefullnessdone

curiosityknow:smellexplore

infantgoodsmell

foodseekknow

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