However, we estimate the specimen is able to perfectly filter a 
eliminating all native microscopic lifeforms and pollutants; that 
tendrils and turn them into a net which will clear all incoming wa 
filter must be used to feed and sustain the entity, since it seems 
the entity would make its filter feeders grow with this extra mas 
have no idea of the growth pattern its main body would follow if f 


Please note that the organism appears to be sapient and may | 
may not contain information. With regards to all parts involved ir 
to sedate it or try to communicate with it in a formal manner. 


Otherwise, | recommend we reclassify this Donation as an active 


Mr. Lin Jong, Mission Health and Prevention Research I 
Research Work Group, is a thirty-two year old biologi 
experience as a volunteer in the thirteenth Madagasca 
years of research experience as part of the European M 


COMMENTS: Comments disabled by MISSIONWATCH 


Maintenance and Operation: 


¢ MAINTENANCE: The First CETRes Donation resides ina 
tank filled with water. Until its operation may commence, the 
organism must be fed water samples with different normal 
organisms, toxic molecules and other substances for testing 
properties. 


¢ OPERATION: To maximize its efficiency, it is advised that the 
organism of the First CETRes Donation be placed in a 
specialized infrastructure which includes concentration pipes 
leading to an open space, collector chamber, or reservoir 
where the filtering process may occur. In case the entity grows 
larger than its current chamber after a dilated operation time, 
as projected by the Ruperts-2 Work Group, temporary 
cessation of water filtration and/or Programme operations is 
advised. 


Security Restrictions: As of 31/04/2008, Security 
Restrictions on the First CETRes Donation are to be as follows: 


* No public release is to be made of the First CETRes 
Donation's existence. All results of its implementation are to 
be reported as the result of other sustainable water 
purification schemes. 


¢ The First CETRes Donation cannot be released under any 
circumstances in rivers, lakes or other natural masses of 
waiter. 


Safety Concerns: Maintenance restricted to trained 


volunteers and experienced executive members. Otherwise safe for 
all. 


Assigned to: 


Programme Laascaanood (Somalia), in an Infrastructure-Health- 
Laascaanood considered critical due to Medium-High Health Co 
2008 Rupert's disease epidemic, with an estimated incidence of 
prospective increase in the number of cases well beyond 30% ir 
overall health in the area is severely deteriorated, and current he 
World Parahealth Organization personnel will join Work Group C 
operations and use the First CETRes Donation to produce: 


¢ Permanent water treatment plant. Local water supply pollt 
the Third Vesta and First CETRes Donations to create a ft 
implemented, this combination could ensure clean water s 


Marshall, Carter and Dark Hub 


Why do rich people care about making money? 


The poor, certainly, need to care about doing so. When one's 
resources are only enough to scrape by, money is all that matters. It 
is important for the middle class as well. Looking after their spouses, 
their children; there is a culture of dependence that weights them 
down. 


The rich want to make money because they can always become 
richer. There is always another echelon of wealth to rise above, 
some degree of opulence that is beyond their grasp. They drive to 
even further heights, seeking to slake their thirst for coin. They care 
about making money simply because they can. To do so, the rich 
exploit people far below them on the social ladder, the poorest of the 
poor. To the oil magnate, to the harsh dictator, to the kings and 
queens and lords and ladies, the common people are specks of dirt. 


To Marshall, Carter and Dark, the rich are unto ants. 


People, regardless of social standing, are all the same. The poor 
may spend their savings on worthless yet treasured trinkets, sold by 
the middle class. The salaryman may splurge on a pretty ring for his 
wife, the profits of which go into the pockets of a wealthy mining 
boss. In the same way, the gullible rich will burn millions of dollars 
on a single impossible object. Everyone is willing to waste their 
precious, precious money on something out of the ordinary. 


But value is artificial. The poor spend their pennies on mass- 
produced china, convinced that it has some worth to it. The rich 
convince the middle class that diamonds are rare and valuable, 
despite the stones being retrieved in Africa by the billion. Marshall, 
Carter and Dark convince the rich that the impossible is invaluable, 
while any anartist on a street can twist a die into a hypercube. 


The methodology of such a scheme is quite simple, but the critical 


step is to gain a market monopoly. If you are the only seller in town, 
you can set the price at any level you desire, so long as you can 
drum up demand. In this regard, Marshall, Carter and Dark have the 
advantage: for hundreds of years, they were the only peddlers of 
anomalous wares in the world. They had the time to gain the capital, 
and with that capital they can now outprice even the most 
competitive upstart. 


While organisations such as the Foundation, the GOC, and the 
Horizon Initiative resent the company's existence, they are unable to 
deal with such an unassailable economic powerhouse. With a 
glance, Marshall, Carter and Dark could level a city, bankrupt a 
country; with a single call, they could plunge the planet into a 
thermonuclear war. Yet, to the eternal relief of all, they are the least 
volatile players in the anomalous field. After all, if the veil of secrecy 
were to break, their trinkets would become worthless; their business 
would crumple and dissolve. 


While this may cause some to think of Marshall, Carter and Dark as 
a massive, faceless corporation, their workforce numbers at most in 
the order of one hundred personnel. Their operations are directed 
and streamlined, maximising efficiency and minimising cost. Further 
manpower, if necessary, is outsourced from other organisations. 
Those in the highest positions of power are perhaps the most 
mysterious. Wild stories abound on the subject: depending on the 
source, they may be ghosts or demons, old men sending messages 
from beyond the grave, faceless monsters from another world, or 
even shapeshifting lizardmen. 


A major part of their operations is establishing supply lines between 
various anomalous groups. Marshall, Carter and Dark purchase 
directly from groups such as Doctor Wondertainment and The 
Factory, reselling their goods at exorbitant markups. Prometheus 
Labs gladly supply the group with their latest research, in exchange 
for samples of exotic and complex anomalies. They often host anart 
exhibitions, exerting notable control of the artistic marketplace. 


Similarly, they host various social functions for the most rich and 
powerful people in the world. With hooks throughout Europe, 
America, Russia and China, there is never trouble finding a market 
for a given item. They are, of course, willing to sell to any buyer; 


groups such as the Chaos Insurgency are some of their most 
valuable clients. 


Perhaps the organisations most opposed to Marshall, Carter and 
Dark are the Manna Charitable Foundation and the Serpent's Hand. 
Manna Charitable often attempts to sabotage their operations, due 
to their restrictions of anomalous goods to the upper class. 
However, their limited range and resources makes them more 
irritating than threatening. The Serpent's Hand, meanwhile, are 
directly and openly antagonistic: caring neither for the veil of secrecy 
or the company's continuing practice of anomalous human 
trafficking, and impossible to economically intimidate, they represent 
the only pervasive threat to the group's operations. 


Without question, Marshall, Carter and Dark are one of the most 
important pieces on the chessboard of the anomalous world; 
occasionally putting other players into check, but never into mate. 
For Marshall, Carter and Dark, the planet is an intricate network they 
have secured safely beneath their thumb, where winning and losing 
are meaningless terms. There is no need to move pieces when you 
can move the board. When you can end the match at any time, 
there's only one reason to continue. 


It's all about playing the game. 


Wills and Ways 


1. Third Death 

2. Skitter Marshall 

3. Robert Carter 

4. Iris Dark 

5. Some Rational Inheritance 
6. Number Crunching 


A Darke Tale 


1. New Age 


Objects 


. 'Bloodbaths' (IWN45/N30S8/4IGI5) 

. ‘Rogue Al’ (NVEO4/YVN3E/PN6UG) 

. 'Little Draft Horses' (G2T67/L9VXC/WI3M3) 

. 'Hadrian's Well' (M4UDB/HF74T/JU2FA) 

. 'Osteotronic Cubes' (VXY33/F7RQ3/9XAD1) 

. 'Imperfectly Fossilized Eggs' (M4RHO-EDOPE- 
FO5LE) 

. ‘Unicorn Horn’ (HYTCH/8FNE6/B77KT) 

'The Dark Web' (DKE79/O2RG5/4JLW6) 

. ‘Lego MiniThinkers' (8Y9D5/2X4H7/S89M2) 

‘Kaiju Caviar’ (OCN39/T5FG6/7HUL2) 

. 'Schulman-NY Programmable Mnestic Device' 

(AC34D/NC770/95DCS) 
. 'Hypnotraline' (TR7K2/2UD9X/53GN8) 
. 'Fidget Winners' (FDG43/W1NR3/5SLA2) 


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SCP-3277 
SCP-3549 
SCP-678 

SCP-3303 
SCP-1058 
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SCP-384 

SCP-1634 
SCP-773 

SCP-102 

SCP-3613 


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SCP-1023 
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SCP-2042 
SCP-1150 
SCP-989 
SCP-418 
SCP-1969 
SCP-1418 
SCP-1571 
SCP-2600-J 
SCP-1725 
SCP-841 
SCP-446 
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SCP-1974-EX 
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SGP-2292 
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SCP-2201 
SCP-15/5 
SCP-1808 
SCP-982 
SCP-2635 
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SCP-865 
SCP-434 
SCP-576 
SCP-1989 
SCP-1007 
SOP-2987 
SCP-3484 
SCP-1005 
SCP-2000-J 
SCP-1600 
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SCP-604 


Old Kansas Sector ~ 13: | Was A Teenage Reality Bender 
Broker-Bailer-Grifter- THIEF 

A Place In The Back Of Your Mind 

Cover Letter for After-Action Report: Operation Free Market 
No Sooner Spoken Than Broken 

Occult Standards 

Application to Form MTF Mu-3 

Application to Form MTF Mu-3: Documents 
A Little Chat 

A Vale of Tears 

Thieves Come In Fives 

Skirmish at Crane's Pub 

1,001 Dark and Stormy Nights 

MC&D Agent Orientation 

Number Crunching 

In The Dark 

Fortunate Son 

Business As Usual 

Person of Interest - Mr. Dark 

Conspiracy 

Loose Ends 

Perfection 


Down by the River 

The King of Coins, in The Cups 

She Remembered Me 

Seven Vignettes From The Life Of Mackenzie Lee-Crook 
Rebranding 

Some Rational Inheritance 

Fuller's Fantastic Fun-Lover's Funhouse 
So They Called Him Darke 

Keeping With The Times 

Ex Nihilo Nihil 

A Question of Commerce 

Dark and Disquieting 

Point In Line 

An Average Life 

Discovered Attack 

From the desk of B. Dark: 

Settling Tabs 

| Double E 

Micky D's 

Nx-03 

A Working Lunch 

Figure and Ground 

Zeitgeist 

Transcript Found On Storage Level B 8 
Resale Value 

Freaky Commodities II: Freak Harder 
Work Journal 3 

Operation Cannery Row: Document 2013§451A3 
Taking Stock 

Tinker Tailor Soldier Huntsman 
Reflections 

Presence 

Former Assets 

A Circus for MC&D Ltd 

Thank You For Your Time 

Attacking The Darkness 

Job Opportunities 

Tales Of The Ethics Committee: 5 Reasons The Foundation 
Wants A Robot Army 

Angle of Attack 


¢ Back Alley Deals 

* Patronage 

© OK 

¢ We Got A Good Thing Here 

¢ A Wandsman in the Court of the Hanged King 

* Acquisitions - a Marshall, Carter & Dark Tale Act II 

¢ Finding The Machine 

¢ Acquisitions - a Marshall, Carter & Dark Tale Act III 

* Interlude - Excerpt From An Auction Catalog - Marshall Carter 
And Dark, 2012 

* Acquisitions - a Marshall, Carter & Dark Tale Act | 

Acquisitions - a Marshall, Carter & Dark Tale 

Operation "Camp Granada" 

Everyone Knows 

* Quiet Days 


General Notes 


When writing an item for Marshall, Carter and Dark, it is important to 
keep in mind the goals of doing so. For example, the goal of an SCP 
object is (typically) to spend the most time explaining, in precise and 
scientific detail, what the item appears to be, how it is anomalous, 
and so on. They spend the most time describing the item. To use 
another example, the AWCY object template is designed to explain 
the motivations behind the creation of a particular piece. 


For a Marshall, Carter and Dark object, the purpose is to tell a 
story. 


To MC&D, the most important part of an object is who has it: 
keeping track of every object as it changes hands. Unlike the 
Foundation, a lot of MC&D's files are on objects they don't currently 
own, and are instead keeping track of where they are and how they 
are being used. Perhaps most importantly, their documentation 
may include other GOI's object templates. To illustrate this, 
consider an anart piece from AWCY which was then bought by 
MC&D, sent off to Prometheus Labs for analysis, then sold to the 
Chaos Insurgency, and in turn lost in a skirmish to the GOC. The 


MC&D documentation may therefore contain all relevant information: 
the AWCY project proposal, a Prometheus Labs analysis report, 
reports of its purchase and subsequent sale, the Chaos 
Insurgency's plans for using the item, and then the GOC report on 
the conflict which resulted in its recovery, and its subsequent 
internal documentation from them. 


In an MC&D item, the description of the item is much smaller than in 
other objects. It should, in total, be under four sentences long, 
inclusive of any containment requirements. This does not need to be 
the only time that you describe it, though; there may also be a longer 
spiel on the object as a description for sale. 


MC&D humanoids are typically not kept in cells, as is often done in 
the Foundation, instead being kept in drug-induced comas and fed 
via tube. MC&D have no equivalent of the Foundation's Ethics 
Committee, and as a primarily results-oriented group, their handling 
of objects should reflect efficiency without regard for the self- 
determination of their sentient wares. On the other hand, they highly 
value both their own personnel and their customers, and take every 
step to ensure their safety. 


MC&D objects are always referred to as ‘items’ in documentation; 
pronouns such as ‘object’ or ‘subject’ are not to be used. 


Theme 


To use the MC&D custom theme, put the following at the top of your 
page: 


[ [module CSS] ] 
@import url (/component :MCD-theme/code/1) ; 
[[/module] ] 


Header 


Status In Reserve/Selling/Sold/Renting/ 
Acquirable/Unacquirable/ 


~ 3stroyed/Unknown 
= ~~ gh/Medium/Low/None 
Value (Price Range in USD and GBP)/ 
>t for Sale 
Availability None/Unique/Current Inventory 


(Numerical Value), Estimated 
(Numerical Value) Worldwide/ 
~ tablished Supply Chain 
~ 1 Identifying Name 

Description A brief description of the item, 
detailing only its physical 
properties. This should not be 
particularly long, and is more of 
an executive summary. A good 
rule of thumb is to make it four 

intences long. 
Marshall, Carter and Dark, LLP 


The above header should be used at the top of all objects. The 
following is a description of each criteria: