Item:
SCP-6268

Object Class:
Neutralized

Special Containment Procedures:
The remains of SCP-6268 are stored in a LEVEL 5 - Anomalous Item Security Container at Site-54 indefinitely. Access to SCP-6268 is prohibited for all personnel.

Description:
SCP-6268 designates an anomalous entity, successfully terminated by Foundation forces on the 16th November 2009. The remains of SCP-6268 showcase no paranormal and/or thaumaturgical activity, and their liquidation was verified by Foundation scientists and parathanatologists1.

LEVEL 4 - Clearance Required For Inspection Of Records.

 KEYWORD ACCEPTED

The following information is classified under LEVEL 4 - clearance due to its confidential nature regarding the relationship between the SCP-Foundation and the Federal Republic of Germany.

S C P - D. E. C. O.

Department of Enhanced Containment Operations

SCP-6268 [07092008]:

Item:
SCP-6268

Object Class:
Uncontained

Special Containment Procedures:
As the acting mayor of Wilheim, SCP-6268 is not to be contained or encumbered otherwise. All operations that would hinder SCP-6268 in their role as mayor of Wilheim are precautionarily prohibited, unless a Broken Masquerade-Scenario has to be prevented or a change of status regarding the foreign-policy agenda of Wilheim is observed. If such events occur, SCP-6268 will be reclassified as an antagonistic Keter object, and further procedures will be compiled accordingly.

Description:
SCP-6268 designates the Erlkanzler2, a powerful sidhe entity born in the late 17th century in Northern Europe (presumably Norway). Between 1919 and 1920, in the aftermath of World War I, SCP-6268 and their following, likewise-minded sidhe and similar fae subjects, managed to take control of Wilheim, a massive aerial eigenweapon created by the German Empire between 1912 and 19173. Under the order of SCP-6268, Wilheim was rebuilt as a floating city-state, operating as a self-proclaimed sanctuary for paranormal beings and human subjects affiliated with the anomalous. Following several disputes between SCP-6268, the government of West Germany, the Global Occult Coalition and the Foundation, Wilheim was officially recognized as an allied and independent geopolitical entity in 1977.

ORDER 6268_05072009 of the O5 Council:

Per unanimous decision of the O5 Council, the containment procedures of the subject designated SCP-6268 were reassessed and evaluated as following:

SCP-6268 reclassified as an antagonistic Keter-object.
The termination of SCP-6268 before December 2009 is to be planned, conceptualized and executed by the Department of Enhanced Containment Operations.
[CLASSIFIED PER UPDATED SECURITY POLICIES]

Strategic Plan Discussion - Department of Enhanced Containment Operations 07.07.2009

Participant
Department
Position

Dermot Skolnik
Enhanced Containment Operations
Director

Aadrian Twentyman
Enhanced Containment Operations
Executive Vice-Director

Lizbeth Nedergaard
Enhanced Containment Operations
Secretary of the Planning Office

Sylvester Poindexter
Enhanced Containment Operations, Neurophysiological Research
Head Scientific Advisor

Start of Discussion: 11:01 AM, 07.07.2009

[EXTRANEOUS INFORMATION UNRELATED TO SCP-6268 REMOVED FOR BREVITY.]

Skolnik: The next point on our list are … the updated containment procedures of SCP-6268.

Poindexter: What object is that? I do not recall we ever dealt with this number before.

Skolnik: It's the Erlkanzler, Syl.

Poindexter: You … mean that fairy king? The one who rules over this giant zeppelin-city?

Skolnik: Exactly. And they are no fairy, Syl, it is called a sidhe.

Poindexter: But it is a fairy, right? Or fae or whatever?

Skolnik: Most researchers do call them fae nowadays. Don't they, Aadrian?

Twentyman: Maybe …

Nedergaard: Regardless what we call them - why are we talking about SCP-6268 now?

Skolnik: According to our superiors, we were tasked with the immediate liquidation of SCP-6268.

Nedergaard: Excuse me?

Twentyman: A liquidation? That is unexpected. SCP-6268 is an ally of our organization. Why was this order given?

Skolnik: I do not possess this information, Aadrian. But it is urgent, and they must perish before the end of this year.

Poindexter: Specifically this year?

Skolnik: Yes. So we have … four to five months to go.

Nedergaard: I do not understand - why is this necessary?

Skolnik: They will have their reasons, Lizzy.

Twentyman: Reasons you do not know or you cannot tell us?

Skolnik: I propose an assassination, carried out by a third party. This way -

Nedergaard: One moment, Dermot. Just to be clear - we are talking about killing an allied political leader right now, yes?

Skolnik: Liquidating, Lizzy.

Poindexter: You lot and your nice words.

Nedergaard: But why?

Skolnik: The reasoning behind this discussion will not be debated here. It was decided by the O5 council, all we have to do is working out the means of execution.

Poindexter: We sure do. I agree with the assassination proposal. If they want it to be done secretly, we can indeed commission someone who is specialized in the neutralization of such … beings. It would probably be much cheaper than doing it on our own, anyways. Wilheim is massive -

Nedergaard: Wilheim doesn't even possess weapons anymore! It - it is a pacifistic city state, it poses no threat to anyone!

Twentyman: Where is Wilheim positioned, right now?

Skolnik: Over the Baltic Sea.

Poindexter: Lizzy does have a point. Wilheim is tightly connected to the rest of the Veiled World. Deer College, Hy-Brasil - one of my neurologists lived there for over ten years. We must ensure that no-one else is going to be harmed in this operation. Best we maintain our good relationship to Wilheim. The city will survive an act like this - won't it, Aadrian?

Twentyman: The Erlkanzler has ruled for a long time. But there are suitable successors, many of whom have no illwill towards the Foundation … even after all the violence inflicted to their kin.

Nedergaard: And now we do it all over again!

Poindexter: It is just one fae, Lizzy.

Nedergaard: We don't even know why!

Twentyman: Agreeing with Lizzy, SCP-6268 has aided us in the neutralization of the geode. Ordering their assassination does appear to be … heartless of us.

Poindexter: The geode?

Skolnik: The hell heart4, Syl.

Poindexter: Oh really? He did that, eh?

Nedergaard: Am I the only one here who is appalled by this decision?

Skolnik: Please calm yourself, Lizzy. None of us feel any kind of pleasure, talking about something cruel like this.

Poindexter: If they concluded his death, then it must be of essential nature. More harm must come from letting him live.

Twentyman: Yes … probably, yes.

Skolnik: I propose we assign this task to the Azure Eyes.

Nedergaard: Dermot, you cannot be serious!

Poindexter: Azure Eyes? Why them?

Nedergaard: These - these monsters! Dermot, have you forgotten what they have done?

Skolnik: I didn't, Lizzy, and this is why I proposed them.

Poindexter: Dermot, we have no doubts in their … capabilities, surely we do not -

Nedergaard: Capabilities?! Rapists and murderers, this is who they are! The thought alone, to - to pay these wretches!

Poindexter: Aggravating.

Nedergaard: No! No, Dermot, this is unacceptable!

Twentyman: On the other hand, they always delivered. Azure Eyes have, so far, never failed before.

Poindexter: Before?

Nedergaard: Aadrian -

Twentyman: The Foundation commissioned Azure Eyes about two years ago, to eliminate a high-ranking member of the Chaos Insurgency.

Skolnik: We did? Aadrian, do you know who was -

Nedergaard: This just has to be joke!

Twentyman: It is not.

Poindexter: But when we already have a business connection with them, there surely must also be a bid?

Nedergaard: A … a bid?

Poindexter: This whole operation might become much cheaper if we use this old communication channel the Foundation has established. Do you know which department came into contact with Azure Eyes?

Twentyman: External Affairs.

Skolnik: Of course.

Poindexter: Excellent. We should reach out to them as soon as possible.

Skolnik: I actually intended to use one of our own contacts - we have a former middleman of Azure Eyes in our cells right now - but this seems to be the more constructive approach. I will finalize a draft proposal until tomorrow and send it to External Affairs - without any descriptions about our target, of course.

Twentyman: Very good.

Poindexter: Well, that was fast. Can we take a break, the motor for my exoskeleton legs needs an oil change5.

Skolnik: Syl, transferring your brain into this horrid machinery was one of the worst ideas anyone ever had.

Poindexter: Infidels, the lot of you. Infidels all together.

Twentyman: I could use a short break as well.

Skolnik: Fifteen minutes, then? Lizzy, what about you?

Nedergaard: I - yes, yes. Fifteen - fifteen minutes will be alright.

[EXTRANEOUS INFORMATION UNRLEATED TO SCP-6268 REMOVED FOR BREVITY.]

Lizbeth Nedergaard was, after several voiced complaints regarding the contract between GOI-22222 and the Foundation, transferred to the Telecommunications Monitoring Office.

Abstract of GOI-22222 AZURE EYES: A criminal organization specialised in the acquisition of valuable and often highly dangerous anomalous goods, as well as the liquidation of subjects immune to conventional means of violence. Azure Eyes was founded in 1999 and consists of no more than 30 members, all of which demonstrate thaumaturgically advanced abilities. The organization headquarters has been theorized to be located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, but its members operate on a global scale. Information about the employers of Azure Eyes are sparse, but it is suspected the organization is mainly commissioned by the Unusual Incidents Unit (UIU), the Factory and Marshall, Carter and Dark.

For further information, see CORPUS_GOI22222.

[Documentation of establishing contact between the Foundation and GOI-22222 expunded according to updated security policies.]

Meeting, Proposal and Confirmation of Order between the SCP-Foundation and GOI-22222 AZURE EYES - 15.07.2009

Negotiators: Aadrian Twentyman (Department of Enhanced Containment Operations), Getzel Rozencwaig (General Management)

Location: The basement floor of an abandonded railway building in Cologne, Germany.

Time point: 01:00 AM, 15.07.2009

Documentation:

Arrival of Foundation personnel at 0:46 AM. The railway building was completey surrounded and secured by specialized forces at 0:51 AM. Twentyman and Rozencwaig entered the meeting place at 0:54 AM, and entered the basement floor at 0:55 AM.

Twentyman: - on? Yes, it is working now.

Rozencwaig: A little nervous, are we?

Twentyman: I am not.

Rozencwaig: Only agitated by the prospect of following Skolnik as new director of DECO, right? You are cool as ice, Aadrian.

Twentyman: If you say so. Do you feel anything yet?

Rozencwaig: Nothing at all. Just the sense of abandonment. We used to live in places like this, back then. Old castles and ranches, forgotten by your kind.

Twentyman: Just like the Erlkanzler now resides in Wilheim?

Rozencwaig: I am not troubled by this decision, if you want to allude to some moral conflict.

Twentyman: Unlike Nedergaard.

Rozencwaig: Being a fae means living in a neverending state of transformation. When I took this name from the original Getzel Rozencwaig, the Foundation didn't even exist, and now look at me. Stabbing our own in the back is rooted deep in sidhe blood - although we normally utilize actual knives, and not such criminal folk.

Twentyman: Hm …

Rozencwaig: Forget Nedergaard. She is too emotional. Not suited for our work.

Twentyman: Emotional, maybe.

Rozencwaig: And - they are coming.

Two humanoids appear in the cellar. Both wear blue-coloured uniforms, blue helmets and suitcases. They hold hands at their arrival, but hastily move away from each other after they have fully materialized. The left humanoid is designated AE-014, the right is designated AE-015. The identities of both male subjects remain unknown.

AE-015: Oh what a dump! Just look at all this rotten shit in here.

AE-014: Quite feculent - password?

Twentyman: Heaven and hell, dark waters, deep well.6

AE-014: Correct. It is a pleasure.

AE-015: "Heaven and hell" - did you come up with that nonsense?

AE-014: No. It appears we are a bit late, please excuse our tardiness.

Twentyman: You are exactly on time.

AE-014: I assume we are being monitored by your men, good sirs?

Twentyman: We have this whole building surrounded, and we record and document every word you say and every movement you make.

AE-015: Did you hear this? They have us surrounded. Fucking jailors, my god.

AE-014: You must excuse my partner, his mouth is as foul as the dirt we are standing on. You contacted us last week, proclaiming that you have a … lucrative assignment for us. The assassination of a particular individual, a person of political importance?

Rozencwaig: This is correct.

AE-015: You also saw the fox in the suit talking, did you?

AE-014: He is a fae, no reason to panic.

Twentyman: We do hope so. Because your target is a fae as well.

AE-014: Our organization has liquidated faes before.

AE-015: Not that often, to tell the truth.

AE-014: - but it should be no problem.

AE-015: Depends on the fairy, though. And it will cost you.

AE-014: Who is it?

Twentyman: The Erlkanzler. You might know them as the alder-chancellor, the fae king of Wilheim.

AE-015: The mayor of the zeppelin city? That blue-skinned fae, one big eye, stitched-up mouth, no hands7?

Twentyman: According to our most recent information, this is how he should look like indeed.

Rozencwaig: They are a powerful fae, with deep knowledge of the nocturne arts and teachings. And we will pay you appropriately for their … neutralization.

AE-015: A fae king. That would be a first for us.

AE-014: Please wait a moment, okay?

AE-014 produces a blue-coloured smartphone and appears to communicate with an unknown individual via text messaging for about ten minutes.

AE-014: Fifty-five million €. Thirty in advance, twenty-five after it is done.

Twentyman: Might this be the appropriate price we just mentioned?

AE-014: Correct. We give you this -

- AE-014 hands his suitcase over to Twentyman. -

AE-014: - and inside you will find the respective forms.

Rozencwaig: Forms?

AE-014: We demand detailed instructions and conditions, about the target, their location and the means of execution. You will deposit the suitcase at the location disclosed in the respective note, and we will carry out the assignment. Understood?

Twentyman: And after the Erlkanzler has been liquidated?

AE-014: You will be contacted for the outstanding payment.

Rozencwaig: And … if you fail?

AE-015: Then you can keep the rest.

AE-014: We will not fail.

AE-015: We never fail.

Twentyman: Let us hope you are correct with this assumption.

AE-014: If we fail, you know where to complain.

AE-014 grabs the hand of AE-015 and both instantaneously vanish.

Rozencwaig Impressive. Any idea how he just did that?

Twentyman: No. Let's go back, Getzel, and bring this suitcase to Skolnik.

Rozencwaig: Fifty-five million, that is quite the number.

Twentyman: O5 demands the Erlkanzler to die. Like Poindexter noted, doing it ourselves will probably become even more expensive.

Rozencwaig: Your word, Aadrian.

Twentyman and Rozencwaig leave the building at 1:36 AM. The operation is terminated at 1:41 AM.

The instructions in the suitcase given by AE-014 were strictly followed. Per decision of former DECO-director Skolnik, these procedures were not documented in the file at hand.

Following the successful liquidation of SCP-6268, the received corpse was delivered by GOI-22222 members (designated AE-016 and AE-017) at Site-54 in a specialized container.

According to AE-016, the remains of SCP-6268 were "contaminated", and later examination via Foundation researchers revealed the presence of a noxious substance, causing rapid cellular death upon exposure.

Said substance has so far not been replicated or analyzed, and the corpse was transferred to a LEVEL 5 - Anomalous Item Security Container.

SCP-6268 was killed by seven shots: one to the head, one to the heart, two into the liver, one to the spleen, two to the kidneys. No ammunition remained.

Involved and participating personnel received total amnestic treatment.

Public knowledge about the truth of SCP-6268's assassination is, to date, not existent.

The populace of Wilheim believes in the misconception that SCP-6268 was abducted and murdered by a hostile fae tribe.

This popular theory was nourished by multiple desinformation campaigns carried out between 2010 and 20158 by Foundation forces and the Bundesministerium zur Überwachung und Eindämmung Widernatürlicher Phänomene9.

SCP-6268 was succeeded by Karl August Zimmermann as the new mayor of Wilheim, six months after their liquidation. Zimmermann was a former member of the Bundesministerium zur Überwachung und Eindämmung Widernatürlicher Phänomene until 2003, and an acting Wilheimian politician since 2006.

Footnotes
1. Comment by Dir. Twentyman: The science of parathanatology deals with the ceasing of existence regarding higher beings and lifeforms.
2. "Alder-chancellor."
3. The construction of Wilheim was mainly aided and supervised by the Magickademia Germanica, and was intended to function as a weather-manipulating mobile station, but, due to several installation errors, never saw actual deployment.
4. Comment by Dir. Twentyman: SCP-GEO-DE, a malignant subterranean, mineral object disturbing and hindering the coal mining industry in the economically important German Ruhr area, targeting miners and human mining activity specifically. Due to its hostile and bestial nature, SCP-GEO-DE was considered an EKHI-KETER-threat. As part of the contractual agreement between Wilheim and West Germany, SCP-6268 agreed to assist in the development and conceptualization of a termination attempt, and provided necessary ressources and knowledge to the Foundation. In 1989, the procedure was successfully conducted, neutralizing SCP-GEO-DE.
5. Comment by Dir. Twentyman: Professor Poindexter completed the transplantation of his neural system into an experimental advanced exoskeleton armor - prototype in early 2009.
6. Comment by Dir. Twentyman: Password received via communication channel established by the Department of External Affairs. Common British thaumaturge proverb, possible Arthurian origin.
7. Comment by Dir. Twentyman: SCP-6268 exhibited shape-shifting abilities and possessed no consistent appearance.
8. Comment by Dir. Twentyman: Details expunged per updated security policies.
9. Translated from German: Federal ministry of the Supervision and Containment of Unnatural Phenomena.

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