Object Class: Keter
Tags: Biological, Keter, Observational, Spacetime, Telepathic, Temporal
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| SCP-2764 Containment Zone (Red Circle) |
Day 9: Once again, the creature has disappeared. I am seriously worried about our safety. Not only is the anomaly a main issue, but the antarctic is a frigid, stark place. I feel as though we will not make any more progress toward the creature itself, and its eerie statement last night has seriously stricken terror in me after I've given it more thought.So we just got a bunch of exposition dumped on us on this one day. So at the beginning of the day, the creature disappears once again. Mann feels that his life is in danger, and wants to end the expedition already. Also, you can see that his writings are also getting more frantic. Previously, his name was always signed as "Signed, J. Mann," but now it simply says "Joseph Mann." To continue, he follows the tracks... back to the oldest encampment.
Joseph Mann
Day 9, Morning: The tracks have led us back to one of our oldest tents. I am thoroughly confused by this. I will continue to log events in this log to the best of my ability.
Joseph Mann
Day 9, Before Noon: Something has been following us this entire time, since Day 1. To be frank, I do not care about the thing out there any longer. Something has been following us, and explains the strange tracks in the snow. We were not following them forward. We were following them backward.
Joseph
Day 9, Afternoon: I have come to the realization that I am now alone. Where I once heard the comforting sound of human footsteps crunching the snow behind me, I now hear nothing but the hollow wind and emptiness.
Joseph
Leave
Day 9, Late Afternoon: I lost my log in the snow a few hours ago. It was a simple mishap, but I recovered it without any incident. It was a little wet, but otherwise untouched. I just took notice of the one word entry above. I am trying to work out at what point I entered this, but I can't recall the point at which I did this for the life of me.
Joseph
Day 9, Late Afternoon: It feels like it has been days since I last updated this log, but I know it cannot have been, as the sun has not set, and I've only eaten one meal during this time. To be frank,
Day 9, Late Afternoon: It was a requirement for me to abruptly end my last entry. I heard movement circling me, and upon closer inspection, I saw the beast. The beast itself was circling me. As fast as I could, I approached the thing and skinned a sample of tissue off of its torso before it could skitter off with its horrible spastic tentacles. The tissue analyzer came up as a zero, that is, the tissue analyzer recorded no difference between this creature's tissue and a human's tissue. I will have to run confidence tests on this, because I refuse to believe it until all evidence points to this thing being somehow related to humans.
Joseph
Day 9, Evening: I've set up a tent. I want to get my mind off of this situation for a small while. I've set up a lantern and strewn out a towel on which I will eat dinner and read a book. Then I will get back to the walk, and I will likely skip sleep tonight.
Joseph
Day 9, Midnight: The book seemed to quiet the voice. It was a peaceful hour, but I knew that I would have to leave as soon as I could. The sooner I get back to base, the sooner they can analyze all this data from the tissue analyzer and make a sound conclusion about the tissue. My personal belief is that my analyzer is broken, but I've stored the tissue in my pack, so the guys at the base should have no issue running it through again.
Joseph
To add to the tension, right before noon, he states that something has been following him. Once it reaches the afternoon however, he realizes that his teammates are gone. He is completely and utterly alone. Now here's the weird part of the story. "Leave." A one word entry with no signature. He even states that he doesn't recall writing this entry. How interesting.
The next entry ends abruptly, with the next one revealing that he was at that point being circled by the SCP-2764. He gathers his courage and gets a flesh sample of the beast. Now here's the kicker. There is no difference between SCP-2764's flesh and human flesh. No difference whatsoever. Completely identical. Obviously, Mann is terrified by this and believes that his tissue analyzer is broken. Why else would a lovecraftian eldritch monster in the antarctic be identical to humans? On to the final Investigation Log we go!
Investigation Log, Day [10-11]
Day 10: I am almost back at base, but I see some guys coming over the snow hill. I assume they are looking for me, so I need to warn them not to go any further inward.
Joseph
Day 10, Morning: These folks are approaching me awfully slowly. They've taken time to set up camp, which is strange, because if they are looking for me, which is undoubtedly the case, then they are taking an unnecessary break, as I am no more than half a mile away.This seems awfully familiar. What happened on Day 4 Morning?
Day 10, Before Noon: They made some slow but steady progress toward my location, and then they decided to turn back. I suspect that the spacial anomaly is affecting our distance, because as I stated previously, we are only about half a mile apart. Why they are turning back, I haven't got a clue.What's this? They turned back? Think about Day 5 Afternoon...
Day 10, Afternoon: A few things. The tracks in the snow have disappeared, as with the voice. I have gotten far enough away from the thing, I assume. And the beast has reappeared. About southeast, exactly where it should be. It is strangely comforting, but I still intend to return to base.The tracks are gone and the beast reappears. Day 7 Afternoon.
Day 10, Evening: The three guys are now approaching me again. They make frequent stops, which I suppose I don't blame them. I must seem to be miles away from their perspective. But it is certain, they are coming for me now. I know they can see me.Frequent stops? Consider Day 8. At this point you should realize what's happening.
Day 10, Midnight: At this point I have completely given up on traveling on my own. Progress is heavily stymied by this spacial anomaly. I can barely make it a few feet after a long day of travel. I'm very scared, and I hope these guys can make it to me before my supplies run out, which is now a concern.
Day 11: I am currently very frightened. I want these guys to turn back. I know what has happened. I don't know how it happened, but it did. I will write more on my suspicions once I recover sufficient evidence for them. But for now, for future reference, I do not know how it happened.Refer to Day 9 Afternoon
Day 11, Early Morning: I recovered a journal in the snow. I know my suspicion to be true at this point. What I discovered in the journal was horrible. I refuse to write any of its contents here. I scratched a warning in it as quickly as I could. I know who will find it.
Day 11, Late Morning: The travelers disappeared and then reappeared again. I tried to approach the lone wanderer in person to notify him to turn back, but this was to no avail, as he was hostile and proceeded to cut out a chunk of my back. I had no clue how to react to this. I just ran away.
This realization is too horrible for me to state plainly. My suspicions have been all but confirmed. It all adds up. The tissue analyzer as a zero. The transition of human tracks in the snow to those tentacular... things. Something occurred... The time and space is all messed up due to this beast. I will leave this to the consideration of the reader, whoever finds this log. I hope it is not me this time.There it is. The plot-twist of the century. Still not understanding the whole story? Here's the breakdown:
The investigation logs were based on a time loop. Actually, more of a time amalgamation, twisting here and there.
On Day 1, the team crosses the border or boundary of SCP-2764's abilities. The next few days, they hear voices. Voices coming from the beast, AKA Joseph Mann.
Now, they immediately find prints as they set off. How? The logical answer is that at that point, Mann had already "become" the beast due to temporal (time) looping. The prints had already been there, both before and during Mann's expedition, by Mann himself. To clarify, Mann created the footprints, but due to time looping, he also found the footprints before he created them. Getting a headache yet?
Now on Day 5, Mann realizes he forgot his analyzer so they go back. This is what he is seeing on Day 10.
Day 6 gets tricky. The tracks go missing and Mann no longer hears the voice. They don't give an explanation for this so I suspect that it's something abnormal happening to the time loop. However, it comes back, and with full force.
Day 7, Mann and his team keeps hearing the words "snow" and "back". That's Mann writing in the journal, wanting the team to head back. However, since he is the beast, anything he thinks of is transmitted to the team.
From this point on, everything falls apart. The beast Mann realizes that he's looking at himself and his team. He desperately wants his team to turn back, and that thought gets sent to his team. He also scribbles the word "leave" into his journal, in a fruitless attempt to stop himself from becoming the beast. However, he gets attacked... by himself. He runs away. At this point, he realizes what's going to happen. He'll keep turning into the beast until he relieves himself of his own role. Over, and over, and over, and over. Time loops are forcing it to happen. And guess what? He can't do anything to stop it.
That's the end of SCP-2764 and the Investigation Logs. Hopefully, the time loops didn't give you a migraine. Don't worry though! SCP: Uncovered will be back next week!
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