SCP: Find Us Alive - 16: New Protocol

Episode Date: March 5, 2021

Schemes of all kinds are forming all throughout the site. Harley writes a code. Lancaster's plan is revealed. This episode was written by Anna Maguire and features the voices of Logan Laidlaw (Harley), Jackson McMurray (Lancaster), Tabi Bardall (Agent Love), Taschia Ritter (Klein) and Anna Maguire (Raddagher). Original music by Jackson McMurray. Follow us on Twitter @Site107 or visit findusalivepodcast.com for updates, info, art, and more. CONTENT WARNINGS: alcohol mention, injury mention, animal/creature death mention. Join us on Patreon for exclusive behind-the-scenes content! Word of mouth is the best advertising, so be sure to share with your friends if you like the show! This podcast and all content relating to the SCP Foundation are released under a Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0 license. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Good evening, Overwatch Command. This is your Site 107 radio communications operator, Dr. Harley. Coming to Foundation Airwaves live and unrecorded. After a second round of losing my progress, I have since given up on saving copies of my broadcast. I now deliver them directly to you, whoever is listening. We have reached the middle of our third cycle, or will we assume to be the cycle.

Testing continues, work continues. Life continues, even if it's different now than it was before. And boy, is it different now? With the help of our incredible engineering team, the site intranet is back online, meaning we can send local messages again. It also means we have access to our most recent backup of the Foundation database.

The records department is now using this to cross-reference documents about other extra-dimensional SCP objects with our findings in hope of finding some common threads. The rest of us are also reading any anomaly research, our clearance will allow, because we are so very bored all the time. And cafeteria karaoke and old bootlegs of anime seasons can only last us so long. investigation conducted by me into the location of the rumored secret fight club is ongoing as well. The food supply is repetitive, but improving. Many of us are finding ourselves being unintentionally weaned off sugars since we've been reaching the point that many of our vegetables are actually growing quicker.

I don't know what the botany department is putting in that soil. I asked them once, and a passing nurse from medical told me, not to worry about it. Speaking of medical, our nurses and medics are putting together a very thorough method for treating those with injuries that repeat every reset.

There's a lot of people who still have to be pulled out of the rubble every time. Lots of injuries that have 32 days to heal before they get re-injured. It's proven a challenge for the medical staff.

I've heard some of them are using what they can find in the newly available database to learn entirely new medical disciplines. I saw Dr. Gravett reading a PDF of a textbook on brain surgery. So that's neat. The records department has begun digging into the database for any information they can find on dimensional anomalies. This isn't the only one, after all. The foundation works with dozens of dimensional skips and any information we can gather from their research documents. will be useful indeed. Records has also banned the storage of file boxes on the floor of any storage closet.

A tremor from a dash one made a big stack of them fall over. Big mess to clean up. Oh, also, Overwatch Command. Last cycle, we made quite the monumental discovery. Completed dash one instances can be destroyed by fire. Some of the larger instances took a bit of a detonation as well, but the security and containment departments have spent the last couple of weeks, torturing any that they can find.

And... You can usually tell when they find one. Not because of the wildcard effect that happens when they go off, but because all of our security officers have the lung capacity of a blue whale that plays the saxophone. Maybe we should have them doing these broadcasts. You can hear them from space. Overwatch Command, we have only found five more dash-toos around sight since the last reset. Both of them were small and had...

a lot of legs. Research is operating on the assumption that they were made out of bugs, possibly ants. Nothing was missing from the greenhouse, and all personal plants have been accounted for. If there's an ant colony somewhere in this site,

we'll have to find it. Dash 2 tests have not been conducted. Why not? We're still working on Dash 1 destruction stuff right now, also creation timing. Like, D1 won't tell us what he did to time the completion of the last ones he made. Have you tried hitting it with

Something? No. Why not? It's not likely anything will happen if we just hit it. Well, how do you know that? Aren't you supposed to be a scientist? Love, why are you bothering me? I want to watch you make a dash two.

I know you're gonna do it eventually. You don't test during your shift in the office. I know. You wanna watch from our booth, don't you? Does that mean you're gonna let me? It does not. I hate you. You don't have the clearance to be in there.

Claren't even there. in a pocket dimension. Who gives a shit about... Why do you want to watch that so bad? You've never been interested in research before. You know we're just going to terminate them all as soon as we're done. I don't care about that. Why would I care about that?

All right. All right. Yeah. I'm not accusing you of anything. Just, you know, calm down. It just seems cool. I mean, I'll check with Shao, but I don't know if we can let you in there. Never mind. Whatever.

I can tell you about whatever happens though. It's fine, whatever. Actually, I would like it if you told me about it later. Thanks. Morale has been on the rise, with both the revelation that completed dash ones can be destroyed and the experimental distilleries that have popped up in several departments. Psychology reports worry about alcohol consumption, but also concedes that the amount we're drinking is likely not anymore than we'd be drinking. drinking by ourselves after work on the outside.

Speaking of trends in Foundation employee behavior, members of upper management have been budding heads quite a bit over how far we can stray from Foundation Protocol. Dr. Alves, head of containment, comments as follows. Our systems were set in place for a reason. The Foundation has adhered to its codes of conduct for decades, But it is not for the sake of tradition. It's because these systems have been proven to work time and time again.

By straying too far from them, we risk making our situation worse. The wisest course of action is to stay within protocol as much as possible. Upon hearing Dr. Alvis' statement, acting site director Dr. Klein offered one of her own. We work with shit that breaks science entirely. noise, I will do whatever it takes to get us out of here alive. Protocol be damned. Hand me that blowtorch. Needless to say, this has led to no small amount of tension during department head meetings. Or so I've heard. One day, I will find reason enough to be included. Client said you had a key to the AV closet in AD1. Can I have it? Radiger needs a new

HDMI cable. Sure. What's all that? I'm transcribing some of the test footage. No, like all of those diamonds and lines and stuff. Oh, this? Oh, that's not important. Just a thing I've been messing around with. Yeah, but what is it?

Uh, it's draft work for a system. I might try utilizing to better track important documentation that we'll need between cycles. It's sort of an idea to help retain... How about you tell me what it is, Robbins? beat you up, nerd. It's a secret code. A secret code? Yep.

Cool. Really? Yeah. I mean, there's still a massive dork, though, but it looks pretty cool. Oh, well, I'm glad you think it looks pretty cool. You're welcome. No, I'm going to steal your keys. Bye.

Please don't. Gonna. Oh, oh, love, wait. What? Do you know how to do stick and poke tattoos? Who would think I know how to do stick and poke tattoos? Who would think I know how to do stick and poke? poke tattoos. You won't make such quick assumptions

about people like me. So do you? Yeah, I know how to do them. Seems that my coworkers and I have lost some sort of burden. This new sort of freedom has loosened everybody up. I've seen fresh ideas coming from people I never would have guessed. A library of books, movies, and the like that we have been steadily compiling over the last few months is starting to make a real shape of itself inside the A.B. floor break room.

I still have yet to read all the books, but I'm working through bits and pieces of the database as well. We have our hands on a lot of crazy stuff. Is that good or bad? Depends on who you ask, I suppose. Personally, I'm a little surprised at the kind of informational level two like myself as access do. And especially considering some of the other level two's I know. You write so much. I know. It helps me keep everything in order. This is what in order looks like to you. Stop breathing all over everything. You're going to mess up my system.

Okay. What's this theory you were telling me about? So I've been talking with the rest of psych about if it could be possible hypothetically to change somebody's psychic resistance index. Well, it is. Isn't it? Well, no. At least not, it's never been done deliberately as far as I know. External factors can change of PRI.

Stuff like exposure to, to, to, cognito hazards or amnestics, but in those cases, it usually lowers your tolerance. It doesn't change the index itself. That's what the numbers mean, though, isn't it? Well, yes and no. Your PRI is like, it's like allergies. You might be allergic to one thing, but not another. That doesn't make you more or less allergic in general. Like, having a different PRI doesn't necessarily mean you have a higher or lower tolerance, it means you have a different tolerance for different kinds of psychic effects. So you guys are looking into altering people's PRIs to 14B, I assume. Yes. Or I mean, you know, they don't know that that's exactly what I'm going for just because of memetic gag order

reasons, but yeah. How do you plan on doing that? No idea. All right. And I also have one more thing to go over while you're here. You're making the face. Don't know what you're talking about. You have a scheme. Go ahead and sign this. For... We'll read it. How long exactly have you been planning this? Years.

Like, the majority of people here are over 50. Well, that's not true. Engineering and security. Okay, yeah, but... Are you sure you want to try and... Do you want to do it? Of course I want to do it. Then sign it.

Okay. All right. Is this all you want? Yes, it is. Thank you. Who else is signing off on it? Shao said I could do it if I got a sweeping majority. Shao said that? Really?

Yep. As far as survival goes, things are going as well as they can, given the situation. Botany's food garden is growing nicely, maintenance has found some very clever ways of cooking, what we have in storage. The two-liter bottle of Dr. Pepper is now something a department has to win in a lottery. Much to the chagrin of the security department. I would say it's good that we've removed it from that particular group, but they're going to keep sharing all their drinks and getting each other. they're sick regardless.

Speaking of security, Officer Radeker has found two additional security personnel to assist in surveillance duties. There are four of them now in total. Things seem to be going well on that front, considering how few dash ones have made it to completion.

And then you toss the end toward yourself through the hole. Watch. Wait, wait, do it again. How did you do that so fast? Practice. What's this one called again? A bowline often used to tether yourself to your boat.

Why do you know that? I... I... Like sailboats. You like sailboats? It's like big pirate ships and shit? Well, most pirate ships in the 18th century weren't actually that big because they needed to be able to outrun other ships.

The kind of ship I'd want to sail would be something smaller, like a blue-water sailboat. Before we got trapped, I was saving up for an Albin Vega, but I don't think I would need a cabin so big. It can make it across the ocean, though. But I'd need to fit one with solar stuff if I was going to go across. across the ocean. I don't mean tall ships, though. People often think that there aren't sailboats around anymore, but plenty of people still sail. I don't know if I'd be right for a crew, though, but going by myself has always been... Sorry. Sorry, for what? I think that's the longest I've heard you talk, like, ever.

Sorry. Shut up! It's cool! You're so weird. Can I borrow that rope? I want to practice that thing you just did. Sure. Why does your bag have a potato in it? It doesn't matter. It didn't work anyways. And now here I am. Just you and me, Overwatch Command. The last couple weeks have been the closest to normal we've had since we got here. And we're glad for it. I have worked for the foundation for a while now. I don't regret my decision to come here.

Somebody has to keep people away from extra-dimensional rifts. It might as well be me, right? there are worse places I could be stationed there are smarter monsters larger catastrophes, faster spreading plagues I'm grateful for what I have I'm grateful to those who can work worse assignments

that I could ever stomach some of these files I'm just glad I'm still alive I think but if I may be candid Overwatch Command our trend away from protocol has been great, actually. I feel a freedom I haven't in years,

like a kid with a substitute teacher. It feels like we have full control over what happens in our sight because we do. It's not like we've received any outside directives. Alves is right to a degree. The systems do work, but there's room to improve, isn't there?

We're growing our own food. We had a movie marathon in the can't last week, people I've known for years. I've watched them loosen up in ways I've never seen before. So, obviously, we are continuing our work with renewed fervor. And it feels really good. I feel really good. Everything is okay right now.

And on that note, I am going to leave you to continue your search for us. I am supposed to be meeting with Hey, open up, I got the needle. It's unlocked, just open it. Goodbye for now, Overwatch Command and the silent void. As soon as you can, find us alive.

Episode 16 was written and produced by Anna McGuire. The voice of Harley is Logan Laidlaw. The voice of Lancaster is Jackson McMurray. The voice of Klein is Tasha Ritter. The voice of Agent Love is Tavi Bardol. The voice of Radiger is Anna McGuire. like our show and want to support us, follow us on Twitter at Site 107 or visit Find Usalivepodcast.com. This podcast, along with all content relating to the SCP Foundation, is released under a

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