1988

The following events took place in the year **1988 C.E.**

* In-Universe
* Ex-Universe

## Dated

#### April

* Saturday, April 2nd: Thaumatologists A. Ketterley and L. Belacqua publish their analysis of Hy-Brasil's wards in *Unified Thaumatology Quarterly* Vol. 75.

#### June

* Monday, June 13th: Destruction of Hy-Brasil: A giant crocodile-squid monster attacks Hy-Brasil. The Global Occult Coalition liquidates the entity, to great collateral damage of the island.
* Friday, June 17th: The Assistant Director of the Unusual Incidents Unit is alerted of a possible situation on Hy-Brasil, due to an absence of reports from the Hy-Brasil FBI Field Office.
* Saturday, June 18th: An investigation of Hy-Brasil is launched, with UIU Agent Elliot Watkins deployed. Agent Watkins confirms the destruction of the FBI Field Office, and shifts his directive onto finding the missing Extranormal Informant, Ramone Valtruz.
* Wednesday, June 29th: Agent Watkins locates Informant Valtruz being treated at a triage-center-turned-field-hospital, found gravely wounded with third-degree burns.

#### July

* Sunday, July 3rd: Extranormal Informant Ramone Valtruz succumbs to his injuries.
* Thursday, July 7th: Dr. James Kyle Robinson is promoted to Managing Archivist of Inert Safe-Class Objects and Anomalous Items at Site-73.
* Friday, July 15th: *Die Hard* is released in theatres.

#### August

* Monday, August 8th: Agent Watkins informs the UIU's Assistant Director of the completion of his field investigation, and requests his return to the United States.
* Monday, August 15th: Informant Valtruz's body and Agent Witkins are brought back to the United States. Watkins is debriefed on his investigation. Valtruz is prepared for burial under a civilian alias. All UIU records and investigations regarding the Hy-Brasil incident are closed immediately, and classified as Secret or Top Secret.
* Saturday, August 22nd: Ruprecht Carter authors an initial report of his venue into selling his *Chef du cuisine* Penny Price's new "Kaiju Caviar".
* Wednesday, August 31st: Agent Watkins' WITSEC request is submitted to the US Marshals Service for review.

#### October

* Thursday, October 6th: 10/06/1988 Σ-6 mission: Twenty-two MTF Sigma-6 operatives patrol the Leopoldstadt District. At the cost of two agents, an SCP-3288 instance is encountered and tracked to underneath the Hofburg Palace.
* Friday, October 7th: 10/07/1988 Σ-6 mission: MTF Sigma-6 enter the Viennese sewer system in search of SCP-3288. A crypt is discovered, and an infiltration team requested.
* Saturday, October 8th: 10/08/1988 Σ-6 mission: SCP-3288-1A is discovered and secured. SCP-3288-ALPHA and several hundred SCP-3288 are transported to Humanoid Containment Site-262.
* Monday, October 10th: Dr. Tobias Moser interrogates SCP-3288-ALPHA.
* Thursday, October 13th: Hathscorn Manor incident: Ruprecht Carter and Penny Price personally deliver a six-count jar of 'Kaiju Caviar' to Hathscorn Manor. A GOC strike team liquidates Seamus Hathscorn, Eurydice Hathscorn, and the hatched roe. Carter and Price evade capture.

#### November

* Thursday, November 3rd: Agent Elliot Watkins is given a psychological evaluation to check for possible symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress.
* Tuesday, November 15th: Pyotr Astapenov's coffin unearths, releasing a reanimated red deer. The deer is shot dead by GRU Division "П" operatives.

## Undated

* Post June 13th: The fae of Hy-Brasil sell the carcass of the Hy-Brasil kraken to Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd.. The carcass is identified as female, with ovaries full of a few million unfertilized roe.
* Between June 18th - August 15th: UIU Agent Elliot Watkins interviews six survivors of the Hy-Brasil incident, submits a request to place a teenage survivor in the Witness Protection Program.
* Between June 29th- July 3rd: Informant Ramone Valtruz provides a full statement to Agent Watkins regarding the events of the Hy-Brasil incident.
* Between October 1st - 6th: Mobile Task Force Sigma-6 "Hellsingers" is dispatched in the Leopoldstadt District of Vienna, Austria, to discover and track the entity provisionally designated SCP-3288.
* SCP-079 comes to the SCP Foundation's attention when the former attempts to transfer itself through a land-line modem connection into a Cray supercomputer.
* A photograph of SCP-265 is taken.
* The Ryugyong Containment Facility is completed and SCP-1427 is brought on-site.
* *Use of mSRA 'Scranton Boxes' to Provide Mission Critical Document Security* is published by Dr. Lowell Henry Piedmont.
* The Sloth's Pit Hunter's Club is rendered defunct when an explosion results in the destruction of the group's lodge.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 LTE-0851-Cetus
2. ↑ War On All Fronts - Hub
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 UIU File: 1988-021
4. ↑ Dr. Robinson's Statement
5. ↑ SCP-3922 Extended Test Logs
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 'Kaiju Caviar' (OCN39/T5FG6/7HJL2)
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 The Aristocrats
8. ↑ Casket Garden
9. ↑ Old AI
10. ↑ Black Volga
11. ↑ Extinguishing Stele
12. ↑ Deus Ex Machina
13. ↑ Chapter 6: Scarecrow Factory