SCP: Find Us Alive - 42: Probable Infighting

Episode Date: June 2, 2023

Only a few hours until the Reset, and Love is still comatose. Somebody breaches containment. This episode was written by Anna Maguire and features the voices of Logan Laidlaw (Harley), Jackson McMurray (Lancaster), Tasch Ritter (Klein), Anna Maguire (Raddagher). Original music by Jackson McMurray. Follow us on Twitter @Site107 or visit findusalivepodcast.com for updates, info, art, and more. Join us on Patreon for exclusive behind-the-scenes content! CONTENT WARNINGS: Violence, incarceration, hospitalization. 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

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Thank you for listening and enjoy the episode. Hello, hello, Overwatch Command. The reset will be happening shortly. It is one thing we can depend on in this pocket dimension of ours. Even in the strangest of circumstances, we've been able to count on our clock rolling back. The difference with this reset is that we have one coma patient in the infirmary. Agent Nari Love still has not woken up.

Considering the nature of her condition, resetting while unconscious could be disastrous. Even fatal. Gravid and the nurses worked extremely hard to stabilize her, and they did stabilize her. The incision where they sent the tubes into her arteries and beneath her skull is closed. She's healing But she's not awake And if she hits the ground She might not be able to take the hit

Concern for the agent's well-being Extend far beyond those closest to her She's become somewhat of a symbol around the site What happened to her could happen to any of us And for that reason her safety has become our largest concern Our largest concern Not necessarily upper management's largest concern Fortunately for our comatose agent, her reset point is in the middle of the AB floor,

the most densely populated area of the site when we turn over. Employees across many departments have worked to triangulate their exact positions and find who will be closest to her the moment we all reappear. I myself attended that meeting. I have the most immediate access to the site com, and many people were eager to coordinate an announcement of some kind. The majority want to hear if she's all right as soon as they can. I wish anybody on the outside cared as much about us as my peers care about Agent Love.

As you already know, Dr. Lancaster, head of psychology, has been cleared and released from containment. D1 is still contained as a dash 3, but research is near certain that they'll be able to reverse his anomalous behaviors as well. After all, fire worked on Lancaster. I still haven't had a chance to really speak with Landcaste. Lancaster. I suppose I don't know exactly what to say about what he went through. If Klein burning the dash one off is like reverse the anomaly, that means that he was ordinary the entire time he was in containment.

And how do you apologize for something like that? Why aren't you letting me go? Because you're fragile, Lancaster. What? I'm not even going to be the one fighting. You spent weeks wrongfully contained. Everybody's afraid you're going to shatter like glass if they look at you wrong. They know what I went through. I'm like I'm made a rubber now.

I can bounce back from anything. I can bounce back from any kind of look. It's not about the physical shit, Lank. A lot of them feel responsible for locking you up, especially research. And containment? Containment doesn't seem to care. I don't think they have a sense of guilt at all. Well, at least some people feel bad.

That, I'm sorry, that came out weird. I don't want people to feel bad. I just mean, I just mean I'm happy they don't all hate me any. We never hated you. Could have fooled me. We did what we had to, Lancaster. I don't think you had to. I don't think you had to do about 90% of what you did, to the D class either.

They're violent criminals. Yeah, and I guess that's all they're ever going to have the chance to be, huh? I'm sorry if I'm being short. It's just, it's been a really long cycle. Yeah, I get it. And I'm really, I'm not looking forward to getting buried again. Well, I have to go. I'm late.

Tell Rivera I said to keep her guard up. Her fist. Tell her to keep her fist up. Riveras not even fighting. She's just there to represent psychology. You should have let us in there earlier. Something tells me I should not have, actually. She'll be okay, I promise.

So many people showed up to plan. Comstock thinks he's closest, but if not, Millward and Agent Brown are going to be backup. There are a lot of people up in AB when we turn over. We planned out exactly how. how we're going to catch her. And you'll be the first to hear about her status. I have Deming from containment on communications duty up there.

You'll know before even I do. Do you trust me? I trust you. Then trust me when I say she'll be okay. We've got no distractions. Everybody's as focused as they can be. Great. Unrelated issue, the temporary surveillance people are reporting more camera outages recently.

Maintenance has them running around trying to get them fixed. Fight club? The fight club only has two out. There are other ones going dark, too. Engineering? Engineering is busy. Busy. They're scattered all over the site.

Klein thinks they're being difficult on purpose. Oh. Do you think you could give the surveillance people any advice? Do you know how to fix the outages? I'm not leaving. Right, yeah. Security can take care of it. As long as they're staying focused, too.

Because you need to stay focused. You too, you're cut off, both of you. Who ordered the moonshine Dr. Pepper? You? Yeah. You better finish the whole thing. It wasn't easy to get the two leader for this. Hey, you're not in the ring yet. Put him down.

You know what? I'm cutting you all off. Bars closed. Yeah, yeah, complain on you want. Big Fight hasn't even started, and I need the rest of you shot for the reset. Especially anybody on AB. We've got a life on the line here.

Don't get distracted. Call him. Just call him. It's not a difficult thing to do. Are you busy? No. Do you have anything to do until after the reset? No?

Well, that's good, right? Um, not really. Uh, sorry about that then. Maybe, um, try mine sweeper. Mine sweeper. How are you doing? Good as I can be, I think. Are you sugar-coating?

The spots where the darts went in still hurt a lot. And I haven't been sleeping very well. Yeah. I can imagine that's not easy after everything. I have to call you back. Why? Highway robbery just destroyed the cameras in his containment cell. On purpose?

On purpose. Incident report. That's hours before the recent. surveillance personnel witnessed Instance 2.2, nicknamed Highway Robbery, deliberately destroy both cameras in the containment cell, holding it and instance 2.1. This is not the first time Site 107 has observed Instance 2.2's intelligence. Apart from its initial erratic and hostile behavior at the beginning of the cycle, instance 2.2 has spent nearly the entire cycle in a lethargic state,

making it a low priority for active supervision by security. You couldn't have somebody outside the door? You were all busy. Security and containment personnel were dispatched immediately to sweep the building and recontain the instance. Gloria, I swear to God, if you authorized deadly force, I'll kill you. Acting site director Alves opted not to announce the nature of the breach to avoid causing panic. The breach alarm was shut off, and a standby message was issued to all staff. I'm on my way.

I'm not supposed to announce it yet. Alves told me not to. It's a breach. Yeah, news will probably spread soon anyways. security can keep a secret. Did they check his room? Briefly, according to security, they looked in through the viewing windows and didn't see him. Between that, the destroyed cameras and the breach alarm, they know he's out.

Don't let them kill him. We won't. I'm in contact with Klein, but we have to find him before containment does. You know how slippery he is. Overwatch Command. Alves has again assured me that alerting the rest of the site to the nature of the breach is not necessary. We could sweep the site faster if everyone was on the same. same page. Security hasn't seen hide nor hair of him. I worry he's learning, figuring out how to

avoid being caught again. I fear all this might use this as justification for terminating him. It's no secret that she's not happy we've kept them around at all. And I'm sure by not informing the rest of us, she's more likely to catch the fight club in the act, too. Bad news for all of us. Maybe I should announce something anyway. Give them a heads up. No, I can't do that. I can't do that. Whoa! Was that a one? Radiger, there's nobody in here. Your office is empty. Aldi ordered everyone to drop what they're doing and look for highway.

What? Surveillance is a pretty important part of finding him. She didn't tell me why. Whoa, I just felt a tremor up here. Down here, too. I hope that what they're doing includes sweeping for dash ones. Must be. Shouldn't we be doing that? Security's been slammed with it all cycle, and there are going to be bigger ones going off than that.

And why are half the feeds black? I thought maintenance fixed that. Well, it doesn't look like they have. Is there a yellow error message? No, just a blue circle in the bottom of the screen. Those aren't broken. Great. They've been turned off manually.

Shit. Think it was highway? No, he broken. I see a big dash one farther down. Tell me the camera boots. You're going to try turning them on while you're down there? Yes. Security, there's a dash one on the floor in AG2.

Can somebody go take care of it? Over. Gonna need a response from somebody? Over! Screw it. Lancaster. Still bored? Please give me something to do. Harley, does Haldy know about all the dash ones? I've stopped like three little ones just on my way down to BF1. Yes, but she says highway is a priority.

But isn't he just going to get reset into Love's room anyway? I don't know. She's been really weird about all of this. She and all this keeps sniping at each other, and I don't know what's happening. Do you know if research won the fight? I've had bigger things to worry about recently. I'm here. Can you get in?

One of the engineers gave me their master key card. Still don't know why we let them have those. He breaks you in the vent cover? No, still intact. There's nothing in... He's on the wall, right above the window. Out of view. Highway is?

He didn't even leave? He didn't leave. Then why did he destroy the cameras? Okay, there, okay. Klein, the dash one is taken care of. Great, one second. It was made out of sand from the lab. Is that something we're worried about?

Not any more worried than we are about what highway is doing. They still haven't found him? No, we found him. containment. Well, then what breach? Oh. Upon discovery that instance 2.2 was still in containment and seemingly never left. Dr. Alves advised security to refocus on breaking the numerous small dash ones around the site. Officer Haldi allegedly responded by pointedly asking Dr. Alves why she thought there were so many more dash ones than usual and why so many of the cameras had been manually shut off. Officer Haldi then ordered security person.

to continue the search for instance 2.1, nicknamed Dumbtruck, which had escaped from containment. It is currently a mystery as to how 2.1 got access to the ventilation shafts, as the cover over the vent in its containment chamber had not been moved. They're fighting. I don't know. Security's not helping get all the dash ones. I don't know why. Haldi's acting shady. I doubt it. It could be a possibility, but Haldi has seemed to... intentional about all of it. Either way, we'll find out when medical gets around to screening everybody tomorrow. Dr. Alves, I'm sorry in advance. Attention, site 107, due to a large number of very small dash ones.

Like that one, I am asking for everyone to please pause any pre-reset activities, allowed or unallowed, and come help us break them and get cameras turned back on. Thank you. And sorry, Alves. Well, there you go Love Hopefully we can get this mess Taking care of in enough time To get everybody focused up again But I'm sure Comstock and Millward

Will be on top of it I'm going to her Why? It's where she's going What? Like, like, look like, he's rolling, he's rolling Why do we have a haul that's a ram? Yeah, I'm not chasing him

We're gonna lose him He'll stop, he's too sticky Clyde you don't understand he's been rolling for ages Yeah, fine, let's move There's a really big one down in AG2. Someone really needs to get on that. Have you caught Dumbtruck yet? We lost him. How?

He took a turn in the vent that went through a wall. We couldn't follow him. We had to split up. He's in the vents? We don't know where he's going. How did he get in the vents? Radiger said the cover was still on. I hear him. Well, I hear him. I have to go. Harley, there's a fight happening. Isn't there supposed to be a fight happening? Not this one? Not in the hallways.

Harley, what if they don't get her in time? What? Sorry, I'm talking to a lot of people. What if they don't catch her? They will catch her. Uh, there are more fights. What do you want me to do about it? I don't know.

Sight Com about it? Site 107. Please. It's not working. Alves must have shut me off. Has anyone taken care of the Big Dash 1 yet? I don't know. I don't know where Comstock is.

Neither do I. Due to the sudden bout of physical infighting between members of different apartments. Comstock, Millward, and Deming were both briefly distracted from their designated duty to catch Agent Love. With only a delay of a few seconds, her fall could have been fatal, if instance SCP-632-2.1 had not suddenly appeared beneath her, preventing her head from hitting the ground. No further violence has broken out. Site 107 awaits its acting site director's ruling on the staff's violent and disobedient behavior. in the moments before the reset.

No further violence has broken out. Site 107 awaits its acting site director's ruling on the staff's violent and disobedient behavior in the moments before. Stop looking at me. I'm trying to hide. Me too. She's going to be pissed at me. She's already pissed at me.

Is Radiger still in the office? No. She went to help get love back to her bed. Oh, thank God she's okay. Gravitt still has to look at her, to make sure nothing got dislodged. I heard dump truck teleported her. something? Yeah. They don't know how he got up there. What about that big

dash one downstairs? The surveillance people said it went off right as we reset. I think that means we dodged a bullet. Perhaps. You think that's why the air feels, I don't know, this is staticky? What? You haven't noticed? When I moved my hand like this, the air feels tingly. Did you get another concussion? Klein? Klein! Episode 42 is written and produced by Anna McGuire. The voice of Harley is Logan Laidlaw. The voice of Klein is Tosh Ritter.

The voice of Lancaster is Jackson McMurray. The voice of Radiger is Anna McGuire. Original music by Jackson McMurray. If you like our show and want to support us, follow us on Twitter at Site 107, or visit Find Us Alivepodcast.com. This podcast, along with all content relating to the SCP Foundation, is released under a Creative Commons share-a-like 3.0 license.

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