But we did not know then why 682's abilities failed so suddenly, you 
see the source of the seemingly endless mass and energy that 
always supplied 682 was just that, Seemingly endless. Before being 
captured 682 had always been careful to only skim off the top and 
thus could pull immense quantities in emergencies. A variety of 
creative unpleasantness then years of bathing in hydrochloric acid 
drained enough that 682 just couldent regenerate fast enough to 
counter sudden damage like a bomb. What 682 had left lasted just 
long enough for us to become totally dependant. Society reacted to 
the loss much like a train reacts to a lack of tracks. Transatlantic 
commuters felt their jets shut down/wings feel heavy/ect., 
professional batteries were unable to keep up with demand and the 


electric grid failed almost completely. Few people bothered even to 
keep a digestive system with predictable results. 


Even for those who did and those who had enough spare biomass 
to cobble one together food had become a novelty item a long time 
ago with farmland covered with housing. Scavenging and fat stores 
lasted 24 hours and two meals. What constitutes food began to 
change over time from traditional foods to grass, trees and 
shrubbery... Herbivorism could only go so far for so many people. 
Fights broke out almost immediately when the survivors realised 
what was happening but it took time to spread, plans to make self 
sustaining farming communities were thwarted by the sheer number 
of people in the world, they were still founded but over time these 
places started turning away more people, becoming steadily more 
militaristic and many just disappear over time 


...to wild animals... Fields of grass became worth so, so much more 
than gold ever was and the battle over the ever dwindling biomass 
could only not be called a world war because that implies that the 
participants could be called sides and not tribes. It started out rather 
traditionally with mortars, huge chitinously armored quadrupedal 
people, fire and plagues. Then developed over time to the sort of 
interesting tactics that that interesting blend of intelligence, idiosy, 
knowledge of physics and engineering, biotechnology, stupidity, 
creativity and sheer evil that 682 first hated and that render miles of 
area uninhabitable, radioactive, poisonous, non breathable, molten, 
actively malevolent and in extreme cases non euclidean 


...to other people... And how were the Foundation doing through all 
this? Fairly well actually, cake farming became a respectable 
profession, getting them all eaten was a non issue, infact keeping 
some errant level 1s away for long enough for them to multiply was 
a bigger issue (You can get very inventive and short sighted if you 
have not eaten for 8 days and can spit acid.). Most skips were 
destroyed, put in other dimensions, eaten, thrown at irritating people 
or ignored, for the the rest the foundation continued remarkably 
similarly to normal normal despite them not so much running the 
containment sites as being them. How the situation went from there 
can be best summarized as the fact that around a decade later The 
Flesh That Hates disappeared quietly when someone beat it at it's 


own game. 


In any case | am in the light sail ship TFS (The Foundations Ship) 50 
shades of red on it's impractically slow journey to mars, they thought 
that since there was no need for life support or food it could be 
practical to launch a mission to mars. Even converting the entire 
solar sail to chlorophyll and only keeping enough power to operate 
higher brain functions there will be problems eventually, | have 
learnt this through modifying the long range sensors to look back at 
earth and that many people now speak in radio, | occasionally 
mediate as a neutral 3rd party to the foundation. May this probe find 
any passing ETs well and hope they leave before that changes. The 
launch of this probe may serve as a maneuvering thrust that may 
just get me to my destination within a quarter century. 


So that's what passes for sci-fi in the foundation, crazy shit, | mean 
blowing up 682 with a RPG? How do they come up with this stuff. 
"Hey steve, | got this neat idea for an antimatter reactor, and alien 
pod they have on the moon is made of the stuff, what was it... 
SCP-2226, that's it" "But wouldn't that be unethical?" 
"HAHAHAHAHAAaaaa, | needed that, but seriously." 


The idea passed overseer approval then was sent to the moon 
base. 14 months later the modifications were made and machines 
set up. A carefully shaped molecule was launched at the antimatter 
hull at a precise velocity, the molecule annihilates and chips off a 
tiny chip of the hull into a smaller magnetic bottle attached to the 
primary. It is transported on rails slowly to the new antimatter reactor 
nearby where it is used to make a considerable amount of energy, 
then it is done again and again and then the moon base has as 
much power as it needs. Mining, mass production, fuel synthesis 
and multilayered hydroponics all can be done easily when you have 
power. Years pass and the moon base can be legitimately called a 
city. 


So, We kept chipping away at this thing. Eventually we got to the 

cpu. Apparently breaking the computer fixed it, One of the higher 

ups said it was like a reset, | don't know. Atleast this removing the 
life sentence ting Keeps me away from all of it. 


to extend to indirect methods of scanning SCP-988's contents. All 
attempts at sonographic, electromagnetic, and passive imaging of 
emissions outside of the visual spectrum have failed due to similar 
circumstances. 


Comparison of the results of attempts to open SCP-988 with 
actuarial tables have demonstrated that outcomes correspond to 
normal probability, with the single exception that the possibility of the 
object being opened has been entirely removed. The mechanism by 
which SCP-988 prevents itself from being opened is currently 
unknown. 


« SCP-987 | SCP-988 | SCP-989 » 


Status:Escape pod computer:restored. 

Main computational research station:detonated. 
Scanning: (1) inferior part of ion detected. Status: Inside 
stasis chamber. 

Life form destroyed. 

External scan activated. 

Critically hight amounts of the god ion detected! 
(Type:human.) 

Repairing biological corruption. 


The Foundation decided to get rid of all the Gols, leading to a lot of 
deaths. Guess the UIU was important. Can't say | didn't like it when 
the Factory went down. I'm the last one left. They tried to come at 
me, so | left that universe. With all my toys. 


They'll see how important my whimsy is. 


The following text is a limited description of some of the recent 
events that | believe that you will consider important, that is, events 
in the last six standard years, plus or minus two months with 0.999 
confidence. | believe you will consider them important because if | 
were you, that is, if | had your experiences and was in your situation, 
| would consider them to be significant to my determination/decision 
process of what actions to take next to ensure my continued safety 
and happiness. The aforementioned text, which follows, may have 
relatively minor inaccuracies due to it being shortened for the 
purpose of brevity, because | believe that people will not want to 
read too much text. Some of the following aforementioned text is 
summarized, for the purpose described in the sentence prior to this 
one, assuming that you are reading these words in the standard 
fashion for the English alphabet (an assumption which is used 
throughout the following text). Some general and/or imprecise words 
and phrases are imprecisely defined or are not defined in the 
aforementioned text, for the purpose described in the sentence two 
sentences before this one. 


The specific event or events which directly caused the containment 
failure of that which was known as SCP-1082, are not known to me. 
Due to the lack of currently available information about that time and 


place, | believe the probability that | will never know what those 
events were, or any other information which | would consider 
relevant or interesting about them, to be more than 0.8. The fact 
which | consider much more important is that a containment failure 
occurred. 


In the period of time beginning immediately after the aforementioned 
containment failure and ending approximately 200 standard days 
later, there was considerable social and political turmoil. The 
meaning of "social and political turmoil" is several events which | will 
list. Firstly, large groups of people (defined as between one 
thousand and one hundred thousand) gathered in public places to 
express their anger at the actions and/or beliefs (these are not 
specified in order to increase brevity, for the reason described in the 
first paragraph above) of other persons whose existence and 
behavior were widely known (generally referred to as "politicians" 
and "celebrities"); at some of these gatherings, the people who had 
gathered, police forces, and other people attempted to cause bodily 
harm to other people and to objects considered to be valuable. 
Secondly, at least ten times as many people as were arrested on an 
average day before the aforementioned containment failure, were 
arrested on an average day during the period described at the 
beginning of this paragraph. The cause of this appeared to be that 
they could not conceal their previous crimes. Thirdly, at least twenty 
times as many divorce lawsuits were filed (that is, papers with 
written requests that judges grant divorces were submitted to those 
judges) as were filed on an average day before the aforementioned 
containment failure, were filed on an average day during the period 
described at the beginning of this paragraph. The cause of this 
appeared to be that many people who were married could not 
conceal from the people they had married that they had obtained 
sexual pleasure from those they had not married, while married, or 
that they could not conceal that they disliked being in the presence 
of the people they had married. As a result of the second and third 
items, judges and other legal officials could not perform the tasks 
which the law stated that they should do in as little time as they had 
done them before the aforementioned containment failure. Fourthly, 
many leaders of governments, corporations, and other organizations 
(the definition of an "organization" that is found in the English 
dictionary which | currently own is used in this text) left their 


leadership positions after more accurate knowledge of the actions 
and beliefs of those leaders became available to citizens and/or 
members. 


In the period of time beginning approximately 200 standard days 
after the aforementioned containment failure and ending 
approximately 1400 days after the aforementioned containment 
failure, | believe that the average level of happiness among the 
human population was much greater than it had been before the 
aformentioned containment failure; | cannot write how much greater 
it was because there is no quantitative measure of happiness. 
Approximately 4.38 million (plus or minus approximately 1.57 million 
with 0.90 confidence) people who had killed other people in 
situations other than self-defense or authorized warfare, taken items 
considered valuable from other people without their consent, forced 
other people to engage in sexual activity which they did not want to 
perform, and violated other laws and norms in their respective 
places of residence in other ways were punished for having done 
these things. The number of people who did the things described in 
the last sentence during this period, was less than one-one-hundreth 
the number who had done them in an average equal time period 
before the aforementioned containment failure. Because it was 
impossible for people to deceive, the processes of finding temporary 
or permanent mates, choosing leaders and government policies 
(such as, but not limited to, levels and structure of taxation and the 
regulation of potentially harmful substances that are voluntarily 
(commonly known as "drugs") or involuntarily (commonly known as 
"pollution") ingested), and carrying out mutually beneficial 
exchanges were significantly more rapid, and significantly more 
effecacious in producing desirable outcomes (the degrees of the 
increased rapidity and effecaciousness cannot be quantified). There 
were other results beneficial to humans and other life on this planet, 
which | will not describe to increase brevity, for the reason written 
above. However, the average degree of precision/accuracy of 
statements which people feel that they must use, in order to 
communicate (the definition of "communicate" that is found in the 
English dictionary which | currently own is used in this text), 
gradually increased during this time. 


Since approximately 1400 days after the aforementioned 


containment failure, the number of words required for statements 
people speak or write to be accurate has been sufficiently large to 
delay other activities, because of the time taken to say, write, and/or 
read those words, enough to cause negative consequences such as 
untimely death, bodily injuries, and containment breaches and 
failures. As you probably (approximately 0.987) know from the way | 
have written this text, | have experienced this process in my own 
communication activities. However, because | can get chemicals 
that cause me to not remember previous events, the severity of this 
process is significantly less (how much so cannot be quantified 
easily) for me, than for the average person. | know that some people 
forget what they were attempting to state while making a statement. 
The average number of airplanes in flight over the United States of 
America at a given time is less than one-tenth the number it was 
before the aforementioned containment breach because it is 
impossible for air traffic controllers (people who are paid to provide 
flight instructions to airplane pilots so as to prevent aircraft from 
colliding) to provide necessary information to prevent airplane 
collisions to pilots sufficiently rapidly. A similar phenomenon has 
occurred at commercial buildings, causing lines/queues of people 
which | would consider excessively long, to purchase or otherwise 
obtain food and other goods or services necessary for continued 
survival. What is generally known as "casual conversation" occurs 
much less frequently than was the case before the aforementioned 
containment failure, because it requires so much time as to prohibit 
engaging in other desirable activities (these activities vary among 
persons, and a full listing is omitted for brevity). | believe that the 
benefits described in the previous paragraph have been more than 
totally negated/cancelled out by the effects of being unable to 
discuss personal preferences (exemplified by, but not limited to, 
one's preferred foods, artistic works, and leisure activities), to 
debate governmental policies (Such as the ones described in the 
previous paragraph), or to cooperate to evaluate and solve what 
people believe are problems, as quickly as was the case before the 
aforementioned containment failure. It is likely that the phenomena 
described in this paragraph will continue to become what | believe is 
worse. 


Voice of Decay 


The house hadn't been wrecked. That at least was a blessing. She 
hadn't known Rhiannon to be a peaceful drunk, and it had been two 
days since Priss had punched her out. She'd left the lights on before 
leaving; they were out now, so either Rhie had finally come back 
home, or she was about to meet someone with brand new second- 
hand electronic appliances in hand. 


Rhiannon was seated backwards on a chair in the living room, hair 
half-covering her face, the only light being from the television.