Agent Jason Suthers woke with a start, thinking that the only way he 
could feel this way would be if his face were on fire. From what he 
could tell, his head was covered in heavy bandages and he felt as if 
his whole face was disfigured, his nose swelled up and his mouth 
feeling like it had been torn open. Sitting up, his instincts screamed 
at him to get a good look at the surroundings and figure out where 
he was. 


Well, it looked so far like he was in an empty surgery room at the 
Site 18 Medical wing. It was completely empty save him, a some 
medical equipment, a briefcase on a nearby counter, and a dozen or 
so television monitors mounted on the far wall. Only one of these 
was actually turned on, and on it was a man in a similar room with 
bandages covering his head, much like Suthers. 


Peering closer at the one active screen, he realized suddenly that it 

was him. Glancing down at the rest of his body, Suthers saw that his 
whole body had went through some kind of surgery, he could barely 
recognize himself. What the hell had happened? 


Oh....right. The raid. 


Earlier that day, Suthers had been working on moving some of the 
more dangerous Items to new containment units with several other 
Agents, supervised by none other than the legendary Dr. Clef. 
Suthers had always idolized the infamous stories about the good 
doctor, and being one of the most senior Agents on site, jumped at 
the chance to actually be able to work under him. 


The move had started off so smoothly, too, right up until the hallway 
they were moving through exploded, blown apart with a monstrous 
clang. It was a Chaos Insurgency raid. The agents had tried to 
mobilize, but the terrorists came in like the hammer of god, tearing 
through them before absconding with a highly dangerous Item. 
Suthers and Clef were hit the hardest, both of them caught in the 


initial blast. 


Thanking his luck that he was still alive, Suthers tried pulling himself 
out of the bed, testing to see if he could stand on his two feet. As he 
got up, the other monitors that were on the wall flickered to life, each 
one with a barely visible figure covered in shadows. Suthers stared. 
He had seen the occasional glimpse of one or two before, whenever 
he had to report a particularly important mission or engagement. But 
never so many before, he counted ten...eleven...twelve. All twelve 
of them. 


O5s. The entire Overwatch Council had decided to speak with him. 


"Welcome back to the world of the living, Agent. You are very lucky 
to be alive today." From the way they were covered in shadows, 
Suthers couldn't tell which one of them was speaking, or if any of 
them were speaking at all. 


"Uh, sirs." He saluted, noting that he could barely hear his own voice 
from under the bandages. 


"No need for that, Agent, we're here to inform you that you've been 
promoted to a considerably unique position within the Foundation. 
You have an exemplary record, hundreds of successful missions 
under your belt, along with numerous Items captured and contained, 
and in light of the recent raid, it's been decided to give you a higher 
ranking position, namely, that of Dr. Clef." 


Suthers paused. "Excuse me?" 


"Dr. Clef was killed in the raid earlier today. You have been chosen 
to replace him." 


"That's impossible, Dr. Clef is a person, not a position." 


"Dr. Clef is a collection of stories and legends. His....antics....have 
often worked favorably towards the Foundation, giving us a certain 
image of employing people with seemingly super-human 
capabilities. The original Clef's savviness, cunning, and history for 
flagrant lies, such as claiming he was Satan, had a tendency to 
inspire others and awe those he worked with. Therefore, we decided 


to maintain the idea of certain personas under our employ to keep 
up the image Clef had given us. When the original Clef died fifteen 
years ago, it was decided that the best course of action was to cover 
up the death and find a way to continue the legends. So far, it has 
been successful. You are the fourth man in line to take over the 
position of Alto Clef." 


"l....l see." Suthers looked at the monitors. "| understand now, I'll be 
more than willing to take this position." 


"Excellent. In the briefcase before you are all the necessary 
documents needed to become Dr. Clef. From this point onward, 
Agent Jason Suthers died in an Insurgent raid. Remove the 
bandages, take the documents, read them, and destroy them 
afterward." 


Tearing at the bandages over his head, he looked at the monitor 
viewing his room. It was the same, except the man sitting in it had a 
bright red tomato where his head would normally be. He felt the 
bulbous nose and grinned, feeling the corners of his mouth reaching 
up towards his ears. And while it was Agent Suthers that was first 
brought into the room, out of it walked Dr. Alto H. Clef, Father of 
Lies. 


Fault 


Document F246-2 - recovered from the site of a suicide of 
Anomalous Humanoid F246's mother. SCP designation pending. An 
investigating officer read the note aloud, shooting himself in the 
head and continuing to read to the end despite the gunshot wound. 
His partner alerted their superiors, and the incident was then flagged 
by a Foundation program embedded in the computer system. 


Warning! Phasial Cognitohazard. Report to medical immediately if 
any symptoms are felt. Personnel suffering from abuse-caused 
conditions should not read this document. 


You have plenty of things. You have a lot of things. You 
are spoiled. It is your fault that you are spoiled. You did 
not ask for these things. It is your fault that you have 
them. You earned the money for them yourself. You are 
spoiled because you own things. | throw away all of your 
things. You manage to hide a shoebox of books and 
toys. You are spoiled. When | find the shoebox | take it 
away. You always wonder what happened to it. It is your 
fault. It is always your fault. 


You are in pain and it is your fault. It is always your fault. 
You became sick purposefully, to inconvenience me. 
You can stay sick. You will stay sick. You're not allowed 
to go to the doctor. You must go to school. You lie that 
you are in pain. You do this to hurt me. You pass out at 
the end of the week and miss Friday. This is your fault. It 
is always your fault. 


Effort does not matter. You can do well. You simply 
choose not to. You choose to do well sometimes. This 
only proves that it is choice. Clearly it is not competency. 
You are intelligent. You are stupid. You do not care. You 
choose not to care. You choose to be stupid because 


you hate me. You try to do better. You try not to hate me. 
You accept that it is your fault. It is always your fault. 


You need to stop eating. You eat too much. You need to 
eat your dinner. It was made for you and it is yours. You 
need to eat it. You need to not eat it. You may not have 
more. If you do not ask for more, you must not like it. 
You hate me. You choose to hurt me. You do not like it 
and so you hate me. You eat a chocolate bar. You are 
fat and it is your fault. You need to exercise. You are lazy 
and you need to exercise. You may not go outside. You 
must stay inside. You are lazy and you need to study. 
You may not exercise. It is your fault. It is always your 
fault. 


You tell the truth. You are lying. You always lie. You 
know it is the truth. You know you are lying. You were 
drinking. You know you were not. You were anyway. You 
are lying about it. You do this to hurt me. You are on 
drugs. You know you are not. You are anyway. You are 
lying about it. You do this to hurt me. You may not see 
your friends. You are planning to get drunk. You say you 
are not. You are lying. You say the sky is blue. It is not. 
You are lying. You say you are late because the bus was 
full. | say it was not. You say you need to get to school 
earlier. | say you do not. You tell me you are in trouble at 
school for being late. | say you are taking drugs before 
school. You know you are not. You tell me you are not. 
You are lying. You are lying to hurt me. | am hurt. It is 
your fault. It is always your fault. 


You have a room. It is your room. You can stop me from 
going in there. It is private. | allow you this. | go in there 
anyway. | make it different. You do not organise it 
correctly. It is perfectly clean but you still do not organise 
it correctly. You do not care about my feelings. My 
feelings may not influence your private space. It is your 
fault. You do not organise it correctly. You fear | may 
have taken something. This is because you are a thief. 
You steal and you accuse me of stealing. You wonder 


why | am organising your room. You wonder what private 
means. You do not know. You never did. It is your fault. 
It is always your fault. 


You are talking too loudly. You are talking too quietly. 
You must stop talking and answer me. You seize up. 
Why are you seizing up? Answer me. You hate me. This 
is your fault. You cannot stand the shouting. You cannot 
answer the shouting. You run away and hide. You know 
the shouting will find you. The shouting says that 
everything is your fault. It is your fault you were born. It is 
your fault that we had to move. It is your fault that we are 
not rich. It is your fault that a form has to be filled out. 
Your school is your fault. Your home is your fault. Your 
life is your fault. You know it is your fault. It is always 
your fault. 


You have nothing to be sad about. You have everything 
to be happy about. You are alive and your body works. 
You hate the disabled. You must hate the disabled. You 
would be worse off if you were disabled and yet you are 
depressed. You hate me. You are doing this because 
you hate me. You are trying to punish me. | am doing my 
best. | am giving you all the money | have. | have no 
money to go out. | am going out two nights a week. You 
use all the money | could have for luxuries. | have a 
bottle of wine every night. You are the reason we do not 
go on holidays. | go on holiday while you are at a camp 
you chose to go to. You chose not to go on the holiday 
you did not know about. You are the reason we do not 
have nice things. | buy myself a new television. You can 
never use it. You broke yours. It is older than you. You 
broke it. You should never have used it. Everything you 
touch breaks. It is your fault. It is always your fault. 


You will have internet access in the new house. Itis a 
promise made to you. It is two years since. You need 
internet access for school. You do not need internet 
access for school. | did not need internet access for 
school. You are lying to me. You want me to pay money 


just to make me poor. You know you are dependent on 
me and you still want to make me poor. You hate me and 
so you are lying to me. You may not go to the library for 
your school project. You are a liar and you may not go. 
You are in trouble at school. You did not get your project 
done. You are lazy and did not do it. It is another year 
since. You may have internet for your birthday. It is 
expensive and slow. This is your fault. You made me get 
it. It does not help me. | should cut it off. You lie that it is 
useful to you. You lie that you need it for school. | do not 
cut it off. | continually threaten to. It is your fault. It is 
always your fault. 


You want to join a club. You may not join a club. You 
know they are too expensive. You hate me. You ask to 
join a club because you hate me. You must join a club. 
You should not be in the house so much. You are lazy 
and so you must join a club. You are out of the house too 
much. Your friends are far away and you cannot walk 
that far. There are no buses and | will not bring you. You 
are too young to drive. It is your fault that | chose this 
house. It is your fault that everything is too far away. You 
cycle to your friends one day. You will cycle back. You 
will not cycle back. You will get in the car and come 
home. You did not know you were being picked up. It is 
your fault. You must leave your bike there. You know it 
will be stolen. You may not put it in your aunt's garage. 
The garage was just cleaned. You know this. You may 
not go back next week for your bike. Your bike is stolen. 
You are not allowed such a method of escape. You 
blame me. You blame me because you hate me. You 
have no bike. It is your fault. It is always your fault. 


You begin to realise you are right. You begin to realise it 
is not your fault. It never was. It never was your fault. 
You hand me a note. It has these words on it. | read. | 
am unable to stop reading. | shoot myself and the wall is 
painted with my brains and my blood. 


You are safe. You never have to see me again. | am 


gone. It is not your fault. It was never your fault. It will 
never be your fault. | cannot make it your fault anymore. | 
am gone. You are free. It is not your fault. It is not your 
fault. It will never be your fault. 


Initial analysis: Analysis indicates that this was a targeted 
cognitohazard created with the direct intent of causing F246's 
mother to kill herself. This would indicate a level of aggression F246 
has not shown towards the investigating police officers or any 
Foundation personnel. It is the belief of our team that the 
investigating officer's death was purely coincidental, and not 
intended by F246. Analyst Li speculates that F246's mother may 
have been anomalous herself, or simply abusive. Autopsy results 
pending. 


Based on initial reports of F246 and the content of F246-2, it is 
believed to be likely that F246-2's anomalous property will fade over 
time and become safe. Until then, it should not be handled by 
anyone suffering from depression or related conditions. 


kill the specimen, and will revert to its solid form if it is in extreme 
danger of this occurring. Its liquid state shows limited motility on 
land, but is extremely mobile underwater, capable of forming itself 
into complex hydrodynamic structures including fins and water-jets 
for use in hunting fish. Analysis of its liquid state is ongoing but has 
revealed the presence of fiber-like structures connecting nodules of 
[DATA EXPUNGED}]. 


Specimens of SCP-845 seem to seek out small contained spots for 
resting, including in their liquid state. Because of this, specimens are 
known to sometimes enter humans' canteens while on camping 
trips. If a human or other animal attempts to consume part of a 
specimen, the specimen will either attempt to retract itself from the 
subject's mouth, or may force the subject to consume it in its 
entirety. Both seem to be instinctual reactions attempting to remain 
in a single piece. Upon being deposited into the subject's stomach 
the specimen will enter an apparent state of confusion, switching 
rapidly between solid and liquid states. Shortly afterwards the 
specimen will re-solidify and initiate burrowing behavior in an 
attempt to escape. The subject will experience severe internal 
bleeding and acute peritonitis as the specimen tears through the 
walls of the stomach, muscle, and tissues of the abdominal cavity. 
Upon successfully breaching the surface of the subject's skin, the 
specimen will enter a liquid state and exit through the wound, before 
re-solidifying and attempting to return to its original habitat. 


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