I’m In Charge of SCP

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The following text is excerpted from SCP087's Vth Exploration Log, with redactions.

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The exploration team is composed of 5 people, all of whom are of Chinese descent. They are randomly selected from the MTF Hongying team of the CN branch of the SCP Foundation, numbered H1-H5, and H1 serves as the leader of the exploration team.

The exploration team is equipped with five 500-watt searchlights that can maintain power for 72 hours, two hand-held camcorders, a 50-meter-long rope, a small hydraulic forceps, and some wound and antidote drugs.

Each team member is also equipped with a backpack containing two bottles of water, 10 nutritional products, and 10 small LED lights. In addition, each team member carries a Colt pistol, an MP5 submachine gun, and a headset that can communicate with the command room .

Record:

Advisor ██: Are you ready?

H1: No problem, advisor.

██ Consultant: Remember, your mission is to rescue, if you see someone, just pick it up and run away without saying a word, don't worry about the others.

H1: Understood.

H1 led his team through the iron gate and onto the first staircase. Although there was a 500-watt searchlight, the light could only illuminate a few steps on the first floor, and the next floor was completely invisible.

The exploration team adopts the strategy of five people in series, with H2 leading the way to explore, after H5 is cut off, H1 is in the second place to command.

Go to the first platform.

H1: Advisor, we found a pool of blood.

██ Advisor: I see, keep going until you come across something else out of the ordinary.

Continue to go down, and stop after reaching the sixth or so platform.

H1: Counselor, we have heard voices calling for help.

██ Advisor: Please describe the sound.

H1: It seems to be a child, yelling come down and save me, intermittent and inaudible.

██ Advisor: Got it, let's continue down.

H1: Yes!

The team continued to move down to the twentieth platform.

H1: Report, I think there is something wrong with this sound. When I first heard it, it was about 200 meters away from us. Up to now, we don’t seem to be close to it. It seems that every time we go down a step, it also goes down.

██ Advisor: It's normal, don't make a fuss about it.

Whisper to the people next to you: Don’t your team members do their homework?

Dr. ██: The principle of need to know, they have not read the relevant materials of SCP087 before.

██ Consultant: Bullshit notice, it’s too late to read when you use it—hey, don’t hit someone, who the hell, keep going!

H1: Yes!

Go to the forty-eighth platform.

H1: According to the report, one of the four strings of bloody footprints is getting weaker and weaker.

Turn the screen down and focus, and you can see that, as H1 said, there are a series of footprints that are about to disappear.

Consultant ██: If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, pay attention to vigilance, and move on.

Go to the fifty-first platform.

H1: Report, there is a groove on the wall here, which looks like it was cut out by something. The first step below has been broken. The cut looks very smooth, and the first series of bloody footprints have completely disappeared.

The image shows a circular pothole on the wall, estimated to be 50 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide, and the first step down from the platform was knocked into pieces, and the bloody footprints disappeared at the edge of the steps .

██ Advisor: Kind of weird, slow down and move on.

There was a sudden cry in the audio.

Dr. ██: What's wrong? What happened?

H5: Report, I saw a face flashing from behind.

Advisor ██: Please describe what that face looks like.

H5: It was a face without pupils, nostrils and mouth, gray and white, floating in mid-air, when I saw it, it was hidden backwards into the darkness.

██ Advisor: That should be SCP-087-1.

H1: Do you want to track it up?

██ Advisor: No need, our purpose is to save people, that thing is dangerous, everyone is on alert, ready weapons, shooting is allowed in critical situations, everyone be careful, please move on.

H1: Yes!

Go down to the seventieth platform.

H5: Report, I feel a little bad.

██ Advisor: Why not, describe it.

H5: After seeing SCP-087-1, my heart beats faster and my blood pressure increases. My current pulse rate should be 120 beats per minute.

Counselor ██: This may be due to fear or nervousness.

Dr. ██ (whispering): MTF members are all specially trained not to feel fear even in the most desperate moments.

Consultant ██: That's what SCP-087-1 did——H5, if you still have any symptoms, please bring it up in time, the current situation of H1 and H5 is no longer suitable for the break, please replace the personnel.

H1: Yes!

H5 came to the position of H3, and H4 was in charge of breaking the back.

The team continued to descend until they reached the eighty-first platform. At this time, the distance between them and the ground was about 300 meters.

H1: Report, there is a big hole on the platform here, and the second string of bloody footprints disappeared at the hole.

The picture gradually goes down, and you can see that there is a hole with a diameter of about one meter on the platform of this floor. The second series of bloody footprints disappear at the hole, as if someone fell into it. The hole is so deep that you don’t know if it’s an illusion .

██ Advisor: Throw an LED down there.

H3 opened the backpack, took out an LED light to light it up, and threw it into the hole. The light disappeared after about 3 seconds, and the inside was indeed very deep.

H2: From this angle, I seem to see something.

Dr. ██: Please describe what you saw.

H2: It seems that there is a person hanging below, but I can't be sure.

Advisor ██: Throw another lamp down.

H3 threw another LED light into the cave, and this time the camera was held by H2. From the screen, it can be seen that a vague figure hangs not far from the cave, and the space inside the cave seems to be larger than imagined.

H1: Do you want to go down and have a look?

██ Advisor: Okay, please be careful.

H4 was in charge of guarding, H5 fixed the rope on the handrail of the stairs, H3 tied the other end of the rope to his body as the last insurance, H2 fastened the safety lock, fixed the searchlight on the side of the helmet, held the camera, and leaned into the cave.

H1 turns on another backup camera so that the monitoring room can see both inside and outside the cave at the same time.

Like the stairwell, the cave was completely dark all around.

H2 slid down the rope all the way, and when it reached 30 meters, it was already at the same level as the unknown object.

It can be seen that it is indeed a human-shaped object with its head lowered, as if being hung in the air by invisible ropes, about five meters away from H2.

H2: Consultant, can I see it?

██ Advisor: Yes, but I can't see clearly.

H2: I'll think of a way.

H2 slid down another few meters and began to shake his body. With the sway of the rope, the distance between him and the human-shaped object gradually narrowed. The most recent time, the human-shaped object had long hair.

██ Advisor: No, H2, stop!

The reverberating power has exceeded the controllable range of H2. Hearing the consultant's order, he tried to twist his body, but because of too much inertia, he still drifted towards the humanoid object involuntarily.

Just when H2 was closest to it, the humanoid object suddenly raised its head, behind the loose long hair, a face without a face was revealed.

H3 quickly pulled the rope upwards, and H2 was carried away by the rope when he was only 20 cm away from the humanoid creature.

The humanoid object did not chase after H2, it raised its head and watched H2 leave the cave.

Dr. ██: What is that.

H2: No face, like a puppet.

Consultant ██: No matter what it is, it’s a bit evil. Next, reduce unnecessary exploration and save people with all your strength.

The exploration team put away the rope and continued to move forward.

This time they walked for more than an hour and went down nearly 200 steps. The exploration team stopped at the platform on the 280th floor to rest for a while. At this time, the straight-line distance between them and the ground was more than one kilometer.

There was a faint cry for help, and it seemed that they were more than 200 meters below. They were still unable to approach, and the two rows of bloody footprints on the ground were getting weaker and weaker.

Several people took turns to drink some water and eat some nutritional supplements. Moving forward in the dark required more physical and energy than usual.

Ten minutes later, the exploration team set off again. After the breakup, the personnel were replaced by H3, and H1 took the lead in person.

Go down to the 301st floor platform.

H1: Advisor, I found a wallet

H1 lowered his head, and picked up a purse-shaped thing from the steps. There were some blood stains on it, which had dried.

██ Advisor: Open it up and take a look.

H1 hands the camera to H2 and is about to open the wallet.

H4 (slight tremolo): Here it comes, up front!

The picture shakes, H2 points the camera at the stairs below, a face without mouth, nose and pupils appears in the darkness, only two meters away from the exploration team, it is SCP-087-1, I do not know when it appeared over there.

H1 quickly drew the Colt and fired three shots, each hitting the gray face without hurting it a bit.

SCP-087-1 looked at the camera in H1's hand. It didn't seem to be looking at the members of the exploration team, but was looking at the people in the monitoring room through the camera.

After a few seconds, it faded into darkness again.

██ Advisor: Did you see, it seemed to be looking at me just now, but it dared to look at me, hey——I'm a little grumpy, I [DATA EXPUNGED]!

Dr. ██: Counselor, please calm down, H1, if there is nothing else unusual, please move on.

The exploration team went down for another two hours. They have walked more than 500 steps. It is conservatively estimated that they are already 2 kilometers underground.

This is already beyond the height that a normal building should have, but they are still not in the end.

The cry for help still sounded faintly.

During this period, they conducted another replenishment.

What is worrying is that all five players have symptoms of heart palpitations.

Among them, H5 is the most serious, and it is necessary to hold on to the handrail of the stairs to move on.

██ Advisor: Possibly affected by SCP-087-1, return?

H5: No need.

██ Advisor: I trust your judgment, please request return at any time you deem appropriate.

H5: Yes!

The exploration team went down another three steps.

H3: Report, I feel the sound source approaching! The distance between us and it has been shortened, within 150 meters!

Counselor ██: Very good, stay alert and move on.

After advancing for another 30 minutes, the exploration team came to the 610th floor, which was about 2.5 kilometers from the ground.

H1 (slightly excited): report, we seem to have reached the end! There is a door ahead, and the remaining two bloody footprints disappeared at the door. The cry for help came from behind the door. Shall we open that door?

In the picture, there is a wooden door at the end of the stairwell, and there are no more stairs to go down. Obviously, the downward part of SCP087 has ended.

The edge of the wooden door is a bit corrupted, but the main body is intact. There are many scratches in the center, like fingernails. There are bloodstains on the edge of the scratches, which is very old. It is speculated that it should be left by D9981 during exploration.

The door was locked with a bronze lock, and the surface of the copper lock was covered with green patina, and I don't know how many years it has gone through.

██ Consultant: H1, now I would like to trouble you and your team members to repair on the spot and turn on the safety of the firearms. Next, you may not have time to rest.

The exploration team rested for five minutes, and all the team members drank some water, but did not eat.

H1: Report, all staff have finished trimming.

██ Advisor: Stay alert, open the door.

H1, H2, H4, and H5 took a few steps back, used the handrail of the stairs as a cover, held submachine guns, and aimed at the door.

H3 took out the small hydraulic pliers and cut off the copper lock.

After the copper lock was broken, there was a sound of 呲—— behind the door, and white mist emerged from the gap in the door. At the same time, the cry for help inside disappeared.

H3 paused for a few seconds, confirmed that there was no other danger, pulled the handle, and opened the door.

The inside of the door was pitch black, and the lighting equipment could not illuminate farther. It should be made of the same light-absorbing material as the stairwell. H3 took out a small LED light and threw it in.

The LED lights can only illuminate a range of a few meters, and the space inside does not know how big it is.

H1: Counselor, application for entry into exploration.

██ Advisor: Agreed, please be careful and play by ear.

The exploration team took cover alternately and entered the door one by one. Inside the door was a corridor with a width of about five meters.

There are ropes hanging from above on both sides of the corridor. Most of the ropes are rotten, and there are puppets hanging there.

The poses of those puppets are the same as the humanoid objects in the cave, with their backs facing the sky, and they have no facial features.

██ Advisor: It seems to be some kind of ritual, everyone be careful.

The exploration team advanced about 50 meters in the corridor.

H2: Look! what is that?

In the picture, two people are hung in the air and mixed with other puppets. The only difference is that they are wearing clothes.

H3 and H4 untie them from the rope, and they are two of the four missing students.

H3: Report, they are still alive!

Dr. ██: Well done.

██ Advisor: Stay safe.

Bang, bang, three gunshots sounded off the screen.

H2: Here it comes, SCP-087-01, that face, it has been following us!

H1: Alert!

Several team members stood back to back and surrounded the two students.

H5: The puppets around seem to be moving!

The camera shakes sharply, H5 sweeps around with the camera, and the puppets that were originally suspended by ropes float up one by one.

██ Advisor: Stop exploring, retreat now!

【DATA EXPUNGED】

H2: That face, here it comes!

bang bang bang—

Gunshots continued.

██ Advisor: Throw away all loads, including the video camera, and only keep the headset and flashlight! You can't fight them!

H1: H5 opens the way, H3 and H4 bring two students, and H2 follows me!

Countless puppets rushed forward.

The earphone of H5 fell in the confusion, and the little boy's cry for help came again. The sound was very close, as if it was at the other end of the corridor.

The camera was thrown on the ground, and SCP-087-01, that is, the face, came to the front of the camera, and he stared straight at the camera, as if he could see the person behind the lens.

The screen is interrupted.

【DATA EXPUNGED】

Consultant ██ (whispering softly): Hiss—how did I feel like I heard that little boy's voice before.

Dr. ██: What?

██ Advisor: Nothing, I said that face is so arrogant, always looking at me, I will beat it up sooner or later.

【DATA EXPUNGED】

appendix:

Ten hours later, with the help of the responders, five exploration team members walked out of SCP-087 with two survivors.

During the battle with the puppets, H1 suffered severe chest and abdomen injuries, H2 suffered a broken leg, and H5 suffered from catatonia, which lasted for a month.

Two survivors suffered severe brain damage and ended up in a vegetable state with no way of knowing what happened to them.

The Foundation has updated information regarding SCP-087.

SCP-087 has a total of 610 platforms and is about 2.5 kilometers deep. There is a door at the bottom of it.

The length of the corridor behind the door cannot be estimated. It is unknown whether there is a larger space connected thereafter, and the purpose of the puppet is unknown.

The source of the call for help is still unknown.

A week later, the SCP Foundation again sealed off the entrance to SCP-087.

Appendix 2:

This was not the last time the Foundation explored SCP087, the ██ consultant entered again the next day and destroyed the exploration records for unknown reasons - Dr. ██.

I just went in, you bite me - Counselor ██.