| felt bullets fly past, the glass separating the observation and 
containment rooms shattered. Its face was everywhere, everywhere. 
The blood that falls from my chest turns into the face of my dreams. 
Gunshots gunshots gunshots everywhere behind me they are all 
behind me. Researchers within the room screamed, worried, 
panicked. | stepped over the broken glass, into my future. 


A man, he falls into the containment cell. Bleeding, 
broken. Why? He crawls forward to it. No, he becomes 
closer to me. To me. He becomes closer to his dreams. 
He become closer to his god. God. God. Closer become 
god god god look at me LOOK AT ME AND SEE 


UNDERSTANDING. 


Don't know, what? own future. All of the men flood the room, all of 
them looked at me with their hate their fucking hate monsters. | see 
Claire, | see all the other doctors. | felt death pierce my lungs, my 
chest. | looked up, my arms outstretched to myself on the wall. 


Fucking headache. | lost my feeling, everything turned sideways as | 
fell onto the ground and my vision grows dark. Then before 
everything faded | saw them. | saw the monsters. And they all saw 
me. 


IN YOUR DEATH THEY WILL ALL REMEMBER ME. IN 
YOUR SACRIFICE THEY WILL ALL REMEMBER YOU. 


Oh | remember fuck | remember why 
| understand 
THEY WILL ALL DREAM THE SAME DREAMS. 


Addendum-2-5-1: On / /_ , Dr. Timothy Daveson breached the 
containment of SCP- . Security team ECHO- - engaged 
[REDACTED] report a glowing instance of SCP-__ briefly appearing 
on the corpse of Dr. Daveson. Shortly thereafter site personnel 
within 20 meters of SCP- lost consciousness for 340 seconds. 
Medical analysis of affected personnel showed eye movement 
consistent with REM sleep. After awaking, personnel showed [DATA 
EXPUNGED] SCP-_ covered 80% of the skin, including observers 
outside of the 20 meter [DATA EXPUNGED] escaped from 
security zones, and remain at large. 


Addendum 823-02: Re: Red Zone - As of this date, SCP-823 has 
undergone three realignment events requiring resurveying of 
affected zones. Apparent range of Red (No Entry) Zone has 
increased in size by 5% during that time. Rate of expansion appears 
to be accelerating at a linear rate (see Report 823-02-07, "Result of 
Seventh Survey of SCP-823"). Request upgrade to Keter. 


Addendum 823-03: Re: Upgrade to Keter - Denied by O5 council. 
Reason: insufficient data to justify reclassification. 


« SCP-822 | SCP-823 | SCP-824 » 


Corroded Relations 


Lin Zexu to Hong Tsu Zhou 

Peace be with you and may your family be blessed and 
honored for all time, in the light of His Majesty the 
Emperor. 


Disheartening as your words have been, | cannot but feel 
a sense of relief. My work in ridding Guangdong of opium 
fares better than could be anticipated. We have resorted 
to extreme measures at times, but no action has been 
contemptible, for the British merchants have seen the 
prudence of acquiescence to our demands to cease the 
opium trade. As a final measure, we have requested 
some 20,000 chests be surrendered to my men. While it 
is clear the British will likely falter when pressured by 
their merchants, they have nevertheless agreed to 
confiscate the remaining surplus, with promises of 
compensation for the merchants. 


Such a promise will doubtless be broken, but | am 
relieved by the appearance of an American gentlewoman 
whose heart has been filled to bursting with deep respect 
and love for the Celestial Empire and promises the 
merchants shall be recompensed by her own purse. 
Though she is a woman and a cripple, her exaltation of 
Tao Kuang Ti shows a wisdom beyond the menfolk of 
her barbarous people, and her own personal resources 
are not to be despised. 


| have included a copy of the letter she has recently sent 
me—you must forgive any oddities: the poor woman has 
lost her hands and feet to illness but has made 
astounding progress in using her prostheses to write. 
Unfortunately her handwriting is quite difficult and in 
some cases illegible without a master's eye but | know 


your vision is as sharp as mine, and your English 
comprehension far greater. Happily, English is 
significantly simpler than Chinese to render onto paper, 
so she may yet manage. 


Lin Zexu 
May your house be blessed to serve the Celestial Empire 
for all time and by Heaven's will. 


| sincerely appreciate all that you have written to me, and 
| look forward to meeting you and Mr. Hong as soon as 
this business with the product is concluded. From what | 
have witnessed in Guangzhou, the beauty of your land, 
even rapt in the poisonous vice of opium abuse, far 
outshines the pristine beauty of my own. Your Emperor 
truly encapsulates the divine blessings All Under Heaven 
has received. 


While your memorial to Queen Victoria is as striking as it 
is eloquent, regrettably | must advise you not to let your 
work fall into British hands. You must know how difficult it 
is for a simple man to achieve audience with the 
Emperor himself—and while Her Majesty Queen Victoria 
is undoubtedly a good and reasonable woman, though 
far removed from the authority and majesty of Tao 
Kuang, | have little doubt that your missive will be seen 
by half a hundred men long before it reaches Her 
Majesty's gaze, and the hearts of men are not always so 
good and reasonable. 


Keep your memorial to yourself for the time being. | will 
make my presence known in Guangzhou soon enough, 
and ensure order is kept among the barbarians and the 
locals. | do not wish to hijack your work, but my love for 
China is too great to allow even the slightest possibility 
that England may seek to squeeze down on the dragon's 
throat even for a moment. | know you would never 
openly declare it so, but you and others like you are not 
fools; the English are capable of utterly destroying all of 
China by virtue of their superior firepower. | do not 
presume to lecture one as exalted as you, merely to act 


as a source by which a wise man may continue to grow 
more wise. 


| know what is in the heart of white men, and while All 
Under Heaven has remained the steadfast beacon of 
humanity for millennia, the Earth does not discriminate 
whom is to reap its riches. As China has been blessed 
with silver, gold, tea, and cotton, the English have been 
cursed with a dreary land surrounded by cold ocean with 
nothing in the soil worth extracting save smoky black 
rock. 


| am well aware the Great Qing Empire has gunpowder 
as well. Simply consider this: it may seem foolish to tow 
absurdly massive guns upon frail wooden ships, but for a 
barbarous people as the English to have brought many 
frail ships across the whole world and to China and not 
lost any save to their own incompetence does not speak 
ill of them at all. Remember that there is wisdom to be 
learned even from fools. 


As a parting note, | would very much wish to know all 
that you and your friends know of cosmology, and if you 
are familiar with the concept of thermo-dynamics and 
entropy. | will neither resent nor despair if you have not; | 
merely wish to know. As well, | do not wish you to think 
me terribly dull; | am sending you a copy of some of my 
favorite works of historical literature. Have you heard of 
Xenophon? | think we shall find much pleasant 
discussion to be had over his book, The Anabasis. 


My love and blessings, 
Andrea Reyne 


CotBG Bible Fragments 


Note: The following are sections of text recovered from 
the body of what is assumed to be a member of “The 
Church of The Broken God.” It is assumed they are part 
of a larger document or “Bible”, but due to the situation of 
its recovery, the bulk of this work has been lost. No 
additional copies of this “bible” have been found on any 
“church” members captured by The Foundation, however 
it is safe to assume that these books were disposed of 
before or during capture, to prevent them from “falling 
into the hands of the infidel.” 


The following texts were among the personal effects of 
one “Amanda ”, a 24-year-old former college student. 
Records show that she had very slight involvement with 
SCP-_, however this interaction was deemed 
insignificant, precluding the need for memory alteration 
beyond that of the basic “plane crash” cover story. She 
withdrew from college several months later, and was 
listed as a “missing person” by her parents after three 
months of no contact. It is assumed that, for the next two 
years, she remained with the “Church”. On / / ,acar 
filled with gasoline canisters and other incendiary 
devices crashed into “ Motors”, the public fagade of 
Site . Amanda was at the wheel, and died in the 
resulting explosion. 


Site suffered no damage from the initial attack, 
however five Agents and the entirety of “ Motors” 
were lost in the explosion. The subsequent attack by 
“Church” members resulted in the total lockdown of Site 

for eight hours, with minor security failures at the two 
major access points. Investigation as to how the site’s 
location became known is ongoing. 


Editor’s Note: Fragments are presented in order of recovery. The 
original order of the documents and text is impossible to determine 
at this time. 


...And behold, The Lord spoke unto me, in a voice both soft and 
terrible, but was silent to the unbeliever. The Lord spoke “Come”, 
and | did, and | was afraid and fell to my knees, weeping. | rose my 
hands, and asked “O, mighty Lord, what has become of thy body? 
Why have you been undone?” The Lord said unto me “Go, and 
restore me to glory, and | shall restore you in turn”. The voice of God 
spoke to my heart, and | wept at both the Glory and the Shame of 
The Heart of our Lord. Thus | came... 


...not afraid of The Lord, for He is as we are, broken and scattered. 
As we restore the body of God, so we restore ourselves. To join with 
the Lord is good. As we give honor and worship to the Lord, so does 
He honor us. To serve the Lord is good. As we guard the Lord from 
harm, so does He... 


...-Holy, and do not speak of Him to The Unbeliever. To do so is to 
profane God. The Unbeliever trembles at the feet of The Lord, as we 
did in our ignorance, but will rise to shatter when we kneel to 
restore. To allow... 


Blessed is the one who frees the Body of God from bondage, for in 
so doing we free our spirit from bondage. As He calls to... 


...Not be consumed, as the Moth is to the Flame? Without our 
bodies, how will we serve the Lord?” | spoke unto him, holding to 
him a facet of the Spirit of God. “The Lord consumes the Wicked, 
and brings the Holy to him. To fear The Lord is to show the 
Wickedness of the heart. To be Wicked under the will of God is to 
delay his Resurrection. To delay His return is to join the Defilers in 
his eternal imprisonment.” Daniel then wept and cried out, and tore 
at his flesh as the Spirit of God entered him, and ate from him his 
evil. His Blasohemy was too great, and his wickedness too deep, 


and lo, The Lord did destroy all that he was, for all that he was 
Wicked. His rotten shell was... 


...very Body of The Lord, the home from which he was driven, the 
hollow shell to which the Broken God must be restored for his birth, 
as the seed is restored to the womb, and | cried out and wept with 
joy as | beheld the Glory. | and the Acolytes of the Lord did go 
forward, and drove out the Wicked who had Imprisoned the Lord, 
and they did wail and weep at the retribution of God, and poured 
their blood in vain against the coming of God. We tore down the wall 
that entombed the Lord, and found his flesh to be as that of a tomb, 
and called out for his direction and glory. | walked in the body of the 
Lord, and was struck by his glory and greatness. Great is the Broken 
God, and greater still will be his Restoration. As we drew to the 
center of God, we found the remains of Him still soft and untainted, 
and did rejoice in it. We worshiped in the Body of The Lord, and lo, 
His Spirit came to us and took from us three of our number and did 
consume them, and the others were afraid. | spoke unto them: “Be 
not afraid of the Embrace of God, for He wishes only... 


...iS not the far off Ghost: The Lord is with Us. The Lord is not the 
aloof Emptiness: The Lord hears Us. The Lord is not of Anger: The 
Lord welcomes Us. The Lord rewards our Sacrifice: The Lord is Fair. 
The Lord is Broken: The Lord is as We are. The... 


...of the Wicked, of the Unfaithful, of the Jailers of The Lord. To 
harm them is great, to bring them to the Lord is greater. Do not let 
trust cloud your fellowship, for the Wicked will hide among us, and 
harm us. Confess the Wicked to us, and bathe in the glory of... 


...loss of The Heart of The Lord, an acolyte was brought before It. 
He heard not the voice of God, and resisted enlightenment. The 
Faithful brought him again and again to the Heart, but still he 
rebelled, and fought the Voice of God. When he did hear the Voice, 
his rebellion and Wickedness would not allow him to embrace God, 
but drove him farther still, and lo, he came to injure and harm the 
Faithful. So it came to pass that he was given unto The Lord, and 


His Heart did accept him readily. Still he resisted, and did not pass 
in Glory, but with much wailing and gnashing of teeth, and his blood 
defiled the ground with his Wickedness. This is the nature of God: 
To resist Him is death, but to join Him is Life Everlasting. As is The 
Lord, so shall we be: To resist us is death, but to join will bring Life 
Everlasting. In this... 


...1S the Lord! Great is His Power, and wide is His Will! Praise be to 
all who care for The Lord in His exile, for they do the will of God! 
Though we may suffer in our Faith, God hears and cares for us, and 
drives... 


...came to me weeping, and begged of me, "What shall be done? 
My son is dead!" | went with her to her home, and found her son 
lying in bed, and it seemed his deathbed, for no sound came from 
his lips, nor movement from his breast. As | knelt next to him, | felt 
The Lord God well up inside me, and saw that his body was not 
broken, but had become changed. "Come and give praise!" | 
shouted to her, "For your son has passed from this place of trials, 
and joined with The Lord!" Trembling she came, and fell to her 
knees and praised The Lord with loud voice. Her son rose, and the 
flesh of his body fell away to show its perfect union with... 


...time when he left the People of God, and went forth to the 
Unbelievers. There he profaned the Name of God, and did try to turn 
their cruelty against us. Great is the Will of God, and far is His reach, 
for he did turn even the Unbeliever against him, and he was 
imprisoned as he wished to imprison The Lord. There he was found, 
and there he was shown the cost of his betrayal, for the People of 
God did go forth and take him from there, and did dash his head 
against the stone, and left his Corrupted and Traitorous shell to rot 
outside the body of God. 


Lo, behold and tremble, for this is the least terrible fate of the 
Betrayer. To betray The Lord is to bring wrath of both the People 
and the Body of God, and both will exact... 


[ADDITIONAL FRAGMENTS WAITING RESTORATION] 


Countdown 


Dr Anderson rubbed his bleary eyes, and rolled over in his bunk. He 
jolted awake when he saw the blinking light on his digital alarm 
clock. Why the hell didn’t anyone wake me up? 


“Come in, Bravo Two. Bravo Two, do you read me?” 


Dead static was his only answer. He jumped to the floor, grabbing 
his coat off the door and shoving it open in one fluid motion. 


“Bravo Two, come in, this is Bravo Three, radio check. | say again, 
radio check,” shouted Anderson, straining to get the words out in the 
howling Siberian wind.