Her thoughts wandered back to the day. Her researchers couldn't 
figure out anything either, besides the fact that it was a plant with 
something weird about it. What she wouldn't give for an American 
base right now, with the kind of equipment they had...certainly better 
than this castoff junk they got when the Americans or Europeans 
were done with it. 


She blinked through the rain, and shook her head, trying to clear her 
thoughts. She needed to relax a little. She had already chewed out a 
few terrified interns and containment team representatives. She 
didn’t need anything else to cloud her mind for the coming days. 


By the time she got home, the rain had picked up. Her drab 
apartment building looked even more drab than usual. She glanced 
at the potted plants lining the side of her apartment complex. They 
looked as silly as they usually did, little bushes in pots that had no 
business being there. 


Minori chuckled a little. She really must be going senile. She was 
getting furious at a potted plant, of all things. 


Minori opened the door to her first floor apartment carefully, as she 
did everyday. Sensing nothing wrong, she flicked the light on and 
entered her apartment. She closed the door behind her, and then let 
out a huge sigh, visibly deflating as her shoulders slumped and the 
coat slipped off of her. 


It had been a long day. She was done playing her part for now. 
Commander Minori lwata, the fiercely independent Foundation 
officer, shrugged off her carefully laid mask along with her coat, and 
simply became Minori Iwata, the very tired middle aged woman. 


She strode through her mostly spartan living room, and made her 
way to the kitchen. She opened the top cabinet on the left, and drew 
out a bottle of Taiwanese kaoliang liquor. She needed it today. 


She poured herself a glass, and settled on her small couch, deciding 
not to even take the effort to change. Idly, she flicked on the 
television, sipping her liquor, hoping that it might dull her senses 
enough to slip into sleep eventually. It burned as it went down, but 


with each sip, she could feel its magic work on her. 


Heh. Who needs Spirit Dust when the regular stuff works just as 
well? 


“...and we bring you more on the death of Councillor Takeda’s son. 
Latest reports from the county coroner’s office have revealed an 
unidentified plant substance within his body that is believed to be 
some form of narcotic. Sources believe that-” 


Minori didn’t hear the rest of the newscast. She was already on her 
phone, furiously texting, the haze of the alcohol already lifting. 


“MAJOR NEWS. REPORT TO DESIGNATED SPOT AT 1400 
HOURS TOMORROW. -MI” 


Then, she put the glass aside, once again put on the mask of 
Commander Minori lwata, Regional Containment Commander, and 
got back to work. 


She supposed that the work never really stopped. 


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WELCOME TO THE MISSION WATCH BULLETIN 
BOARD 


From the Manna Charitable Foundation Statutes, Articles | to IV.9. 


Article | - Name and Status 


The Manna Charitable Foundation, also called MCF or 
merely "the Charitable" is a not-for-profit association 
dedicated to humanitarian assistance in all its facets and 
fulfilling Health and Prevention, Infrastructure and 
Development, Training and Research, Rescue and 
Intervention and Logistics Missions and Programmes 
wherever and whenever they are necessary, organized 
in accordance with UNOCHA regulations and lawful 
restrictions in all countries its personnel may operate. 


Article Il - Headquarters 


There will exist no headquarters that may act as a single 
centralized office for the Manna Charitable Foundation. 
Instead, five continental head offices have been created: 
Toronto, Canada, as the American Headquarters; 
Barcelona, Spain, as the European Headquarters; Hong 
Kong, China, as the Asian Headquarters; Canberra, 
Australia, as the Oceanian Headquarters; and 
Johannesburg, South Africa, as the African 
Headquarters. These sites will gather and distribute local 
resources, donations and volunteers to address needs in 
their assigned area of operations as they become 
manifest. 


Article Ill - Goals 


As stated in the Grand Charter of the Manna Charitable 
Foundation and rubricated by the Founding Council, this 
Foundation swears to provide assistance to those in dire 
need due to conflict, natural disaster, environmental 
decay, supernatural harm or other events of calamitous 
effect on human life, means of subsistence and existing 
or future societies, until such a time when these services 
are neither required nor necessary. 


Those Members joining our ranks shall provide 
assistance to any human being that requires it to the 
best of their capacities, with the utmost dedication and 
no restriction on the resources they may use to fulfill this 
duty, including the usage of Abnormalities in all their 
varied aspects, for as long as they are part of this 
Foundation. They will do so without any consideration of 
gender, race, ideology, religion, social status or 
abnormality in those they assist. 


All Members of the Manna Charitable Foundation accept 
the Grand Charter as the core of our collective enterprise 
and the distilled form of its ambitions, therefore 
embracing its final goal as their own; that is, we, as an 
association, swear to Heal the World and its Denizens. 


Article IV - Activities 


1. The Manna Charitable Foundation will perform any 
and all activities that further its Goals, as related in the 
Grand Charter, with regards to Missions and 
Programmes elaborated by its Boards. 


2. However, the Manna Charitable Foundation shall not 
resort to violent means of interaction with human beings, 
nor will ever sanction such interactions when undertaken 
by its Members. 


3. The Manna Charitable Foundation may resort to 
Abnormal Assets in multiple forms, be it using esoterism, 
alter-scientific techniques and/or combinations thereof 


with Normal Assets, for as long as doing so does not 
cause greater harm than the absence of their use to its 
Members, the World or its Denizens. 


4. The Manna Charitable Foundation may research, bear 
witness and emit impartial denounces or useful 
information for all the world to hear. 


5. The Manna Charitable Foundation will ensure 
compliance by its Members with the principles outlined in 
the Grand Charter. This compliance may be enforced by 
associated or regulating organizations, to wnom MCF 
Members may be made accountable by the Laws of 
those countries and societies where they operate. 


6. The Manna Charitable Foundation will be legally 
responsible for the activities of its many associated 
Institutes, Organisations, Work Groups and free agents, 
and any and all activities performed by them that adhere 
to the Grand Charter will be considered adequate and 
protected to the best of the MCF's power. 


7. The Manna Charitable Foundation will ensure 
transparency to all its Donors, when possible, and its 
most trusted Benefactors, as they require it. 


8. The Manna Charitable Foundation will ensure the 
longest period of survival possible for the World and its 
Denizens; and if feasible, their perpetuation or their 
transplantation to other, safer locations. 


hall 


Reports: 


Change the World 

Who We Are 

Who Are You? 
Breaking It Down To Me 
Cubes On A Slope 


Bed, Breakfast, Plague 

Greenery 

Over the Bonfire 

Best as it Gets 

Land of Plenty 

Burden of Humanity 

The Hammer Falls 

Breaking It All Down On Me 

Taking a Break from All your Worries 


Manna - Remember Manna and their kindness. 


Donations: 


Sixteenth Wondertainment Donation - Safe For All asset. 
Operation restricted to assigned members. 

Fifth Global Occult Coalition Donation - Maintenance and 
operation Restricted to Specialists. 

Third Vesta Donation - Complex Maintenance and Operation 
indications noted. 

First CETRes Donation - Prospective member. 

First Locke Donation - Rhiannon Locke is a thirty year old 
member of the Mission Branch Committee for African 
Operations and the General Assets Administration of the 
Manna Charitable Foundation, to which she has belonged for 
six years. 

First Ivddy Donation - Food along with construction 
materials and medical supplies. 


Programmes: 


Programme Las Anod-1 - Includes Mission Watch Report 
on a Health and Prevention Concern, the Rupertine Disease. 


PROGRAMME KASHMIR-13 - CANCELLED DUE 
TO SECURITY CONCERNS. 


Memo: We have updated the Security Regulations for the 


Vesta Donations. Please check them out at once. - Deputy 
Director Lindsberg, Rescue and Intervention. 


PROGRAMME ASMARA-2 - CANCELLED DUE TO 
HEALTH CONCERNS. 


* Comment: Testing, testing, testing. Had we tested this on 
controlled lab conditions, those poor people would still be 
alive. This is why we need testing. - Research Executive 
Member Ruperts, Mission Work Group Ruperts-1. 


FIRST "THE FACTORY' DONATION - RETIRED 
DUE TO SECURITY CONCERNS. 


¢ Resolution: The Fish-2 Work Group has been disbanded. 'The 
Factory’ will enter the Former Benefactors Blacklist. - 
Resolution 34-1998 of the Manna Charitable Foundation 
International Board. 


PROGRAMME BENTIU-5 - CANCELLED DUE TO 
SECURITY CONCERNS. 


* Comment: / know it is a shame, but let this be a fairly benign 
warning for all of us. Had that crop reached the open market, 
the backlash on the food industry could have been huge, and | 
am not talking about the owners, | mean the workers that 
would be laid down world-wide. The bigger picture, people! 
We want to change the world, yes, but not if we destroy entire 
economies faster that we, or anyone, can rebuild them. And, 
for that matter, who warned the other Foundation? What is 
Mission Watch DOING? - Director Maxwell, Logistics. 


MCF INTERNAL NEWSLETTER ENTRY - 17/06/92 
- DIRECTOR MAXWELL CONVINCES 
WORLDTREE CORP TO DONATE GENEROUS 
SUM. 


* Comment: Director Maxwell continues to deny he had a hand 
in this meeting. I've been with him these past weeks, and | 
can assure you, he has never met the Worldtree Corporation. 
- Deputy Director Hildegaard, Logistics. 


MCF INTERNAL NEWSLETTER ENTRY - 10/08/94 
-'JOE BENEFACTOR' SIGHTED IN AFRICAN 
VILLAGE, VOLUNTEER NWOSU REPORTS. 


* Comment: We have no idea of how this man found the 
instructions he left Maria, but they correspond partially to Third 
Century Palacian Scriptures which, of course, should be 
impossible since all passages to Palacia have been closed for 
over three centuries. Also, how come the UN keeps covering 
for him and his pals and then forgetting about it? - Director 
Grendel, Research. 


About This FAQ 
++ What is this? 


You have reached the Mission Watch Bulletin, and thus 
are aware of the existence of something Other than 
Normal life, Normal happenings, Normal people and 
Normal problems. You are aware, be it by innate 
knowledge, unavoidable fate or mere coincidence, of the 
existence of the Abnormal; and you are also aware of the 
existence of our patron and mother organisation, the 
Manna Charitable Foundation. 


Welcome, and congratulations. 


This is your Mission Watch Hub. Indeed, a new one is 
generated in the terminal of every person that reaches 
us; this one Hub, however, contains a minuscule part of 
what the Charitable actually is and does. Normally, you'll 
get a small portion of our Statutes, some dossiers on 
what the MCF does with your money if you are a 
member, et cetera. 


depending on the context of the video. Fictional characters in a 
television show will react consistently within the established 
parameters of their setting, while firing into news reports or 
documentaries will produce a realistic reaction. Therefore, shooting 
at an actor in an interview will produce a different result than 
shooting at the same actor who is currently portraying an invincible 
cyborg in a science fiction movie. 


Animated cartoons can also be affected, although "cartoon logic" 
produces wildly unpredictable results ranging from causing a 
character to momentarily be obscured by a puff of smoke and be 
covered with soot afterward, to [DATA EXPUNGED] 


The most notable result of use of SCP-674 is that it is permanent 
and can lead to very unusual experiences for the viewer. If a subject 
uses the device to shoot a character in a television series, they will 
forever perceive that they have changed the continuity of the series. 
A character will remain wounded or dead, and other characters will 
respond in context. This will continue even if SCP-674 is only used 
once and the viewer is never exposed to it again. At a certain 
threshold, fictional characters will begin to make broadly expositional 
statements to each other or through the "fourth wall" regarding the 
actions of the viewer, potentially divulging sensitive information. See 
Addendum for details. 


Addendum: SCP-674 was recovered from the home of MS ‘ 
a reclusive 33-year-old Caucasian male. Mr. S came to the 
attention of the SCP through posts on his fringe political blog, in 
which he had claimed to have assassinated then-President 

and then-Vice President , along with half of Congress, four 
members of the Supreme Court, and a wide range of news anchors, 
talk show hosts and political commentators. Questioning of the 
subject revealed that he never left the house and honestly believed 
the news reports he was watching and using SCP-674 upon were 
real. Mr. S claimed that he was using SCP-674 to stave off a 
military police state; however, using the device to "assassinate" so 
many high profile figures had the opposite effect on the video reality 
he was experiencing. His final blog posts described an increasingly 
unstable global order, martial law, and detailed descriptions of 
catastrophes consistent with the hypothetical release of SCP- and 


For the most part, however, you must have come here 
because you: 

a) know you can't trust your government and/or those 
claiming to be doing what is best for you. 

b) can't live without answers to all of those questions you 
so desperately need because what you have learned is 
turning your world upside down. 

c) can't or couldn't assist those you desperately want to 
help. 


To those in a) and b), let us stop you right now. The MCF 
does not have answers for you. We only use what we 
have to help those in need. In profound need of food, 
water, stability, a way out of hell or a place to sleep at 
night. We deal in horrors and wonders, and work to 
make certain those of the lesser children of Earth receive 
at least a meager share of Her miracles. 


Every person who comes here has a reason, but only 
those who fall into c) actually want to join the MCF. It is 
hard work, usually unfulfilling and will probably go 
unnoticed in your home town. You won't get paid, 
although you will have food, trainers and tools to heal the 
world, one person at a time. You will expose yourself to 
danger, usually lethal. And, if our experience serves, we 
must warn you: you will never be the same. 


Do you still want to read on? 
Then read on, friend. Bless you. 


Mission Watch Office. 


About The Charitable 


++ What is the Manna Charitable Foundation? 


The Manna Charitable Foundation is, first and foremost, 
a humanitarian non-profit organisation conceived and 
directed by people with an innate or otherwise extensive 
knowledge of the anomalous, the strange, or, in our 


words, the abnormal, and confident enough in that 
knowledge as to use it to help humanity wherever and 
whenever we consider this help is necessary. 


++ Who works with the Manna Charitable Foundation?