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Your progression is most satisfactory. Dr. Lark has joined me and requested to observe your progress in person. However, his request was denied. It is imperative that you complete the orientation in isolation until an acceptable level of comprehension is observed.
I already anticipate you have many questions. However, all out-going communication is forbidden. As such, I can give you answers to a few common inquiries that other employees have had:
- What level of comprehension is deemed acceptable?: This is on a supervisor to supervisor basis. The Foundation has requested that we accept nothing but a perfect level of understanding. However, I tend to only require this if the Researcher will be directly involved in SCP-4485. As you will be directly involved, I will accept nothing but perfection.
- What will happen if I am found to fail the orientation?: You will be terminated.
- What does "comprehension" mean?: A depressingly common question. It means you must understand the risk and logical danger that SCP-4485 poses. If you need to ask this question, you likely will not pass.
That is all. I will be stepping away from the Terminal for a time and Dr. Lark will observe in my absence.
Please Continue.
Lloyd Michaelson
Director, Site-12
SCP-4485 DOCUMENT THREE | |
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GROUP OF INTEREST DATABASE ENTRY "HANSARP" |
Originally filed: |
- Southern Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
- Hungary
- Yugoslavia
- Czechoslovakia
- SE France
- Northern Italy
- Switzerland
- NE Spain
- Denmark
- Western Soviet Socialist Republic
- Greece
- Belgium
- United Kingdom
- Egypt
Group activity centers around the creation of anomalous art pieces and the creation of anomalous machines. While the style and structure of these pieces differs, all appear to serve the same purpose of altering reality.
What is most unusual, however, is the transient nature of these pieces and machines. In the case of nearly all recovered artifacts, the pieces have been placed in locations where they would be visible to a large number of civilians (typically at intersections, within shopping centers, on the sides of buildings, etc.) but do not remain long after they are noticed. In many cases, the pieces have self-removed by the time Foundation assets have moved to intercept them. To date, all pieces have been tagged with the word "HANSARP" in orange spray paint, and signed with a crude drawing of a vertical fish.
It is currently believed that "HANSARP" is a cultural evolution within a south German "Are We Cool Yet?" sect, designed to disrupt the tenuous peace within the civilian population in the area. Like many AWCY? sects, "HANSARP" creates pieces of obscene or provocative "art", which are then placed in areas where they would do the most harm and left to disturb population centers. The primary differentiation between the two groups, however, is that while artists within AWCY? sects tend to seek attention personally through the use of pseudonyms, "HANSARP" members do not identify themselves by any name other than "HANSARP".
Documents recovered from a coordinated information exchange with the Global Occult Coalition European Taskforce indicate that "HANSARP" has additional ties to high-ranking members of the Church of the Broken God. These connections are likely the source of the anomalous machinery often discovered at "HANSARP" activity sites, though their relation to the Church of the Broken God is still unknown. Analysis of these machines prior to their self-removal has resulted in no definitive answer to their purpose; the machines simply perform a function for a short period of time, and then disassemble afterwards. While it is assumed that they, like the anomalous art pieces attributed to "HANSARP", exist only to disrupt the public, this assumption is not conclusive.
SCP-4485 DOCUMENT FOUR | |
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Reported or Recovered "HANSARP" Artifacts |
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SCP-4485 DOCUMENT FIVE | |
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INTERNAL INTERVIEW | CONDUCTED 10 MAY, 1983 |
- Dr. Viktor JatesFoundation European Mathematical Studies Director
- Dr. Isaac HarmonFoundation European Department of Containment Director
- Dr. Leonard FitzwellEuropean GOI Liaison
Dr. Harmon, hello. Dr. Fitzwell, thank you both for taking my call.
Of course.
Isaac has seen our report?
On the ride over, but not in depth.
I was hoping you could, uh, illuminate him, on-
I'm just trying to wrap my head around what you're saying here, Fitz. About this whole art thing, it sounds like you're saying nothing we've done here has accomplished anything.
Well that's just it, Isaac. We've missed the forest for the trees on this one, and I think we're in dire trouble.
Explain.
Do you know when the last time we were contacted by an outside group to investigate itself?
I- what? That's never happened.
As of Tuesday, it has.
What?
The largest anom-art community in Europe is "Are We Cool Yet?" They're fairly fragmented, but bound by this sort of loose association with an individual called "The Critic".
That individual contacted one of our field agents on Tuesday to request that we look into the well-being of one of their studios near Munich.
I don't understand. Why would they try to contact us about that?
That was our question. The Critic claims that the studio in question, some hundred or so individuals, has just dropped off the face of the earth. Local authorities weren't able to help, and they were worried that contacting the Coalition would result in more deaths than recoveries.
So they contacted us instead.
And? What did we find?
Nothing, Isaac. We raided the studio and found nothing. Not that we didn't find signs of habitation-
Oh yes, we found plenty of that.
-it's that by all accounts the people who had been living there just got up one day and left.
Do we think this is some kind of anomalous influence, or something mundane? Maybe they ran out of money, or-
No, they wouldn't have just left all of their stuff there. Their equipment, belongings, it was all left untouched.
So what does this have to do with HANSARP?
When our field agent reported back to The Critic what we had found, he revealed some things about HANSARP we didn't know. He thinks HANSARP has been influencing a group of disillusioned members of Are We Cool Yet? over the last several months, and that influence might have resulted in their disappearance.
Influencing how?
There's a growing sentiment within that community that the effort to produce creatively is not worth the outcome, because they are no closer to self-actualization.
They call it wanting to become "cool", but it's just a desire to reach some state of synthesis with themselves and their artform. Their inability to unify the "self" and the "cool" is what we typically see as a motivating factor for the group.
The Critic poses that the most vocal voices of displeasure have come out of south Germany, where more and more of them are turning to violence and sadism in attempting to reach this state of "cool". The Critic says he's been able to moderate most of the more radical influences, but not HANSARP.
Something about HANSARP has really set these people off, and then they disappear suddenly.
I still- I don't understand this, Leonard. This HANSARP and Are We Cool Yet?, our documentation says that they're the same group, but you're suggesting they're separate? Where are you getting this information from?
Isaac, they have to be separate.
Aside from creating anomalous art pieces, they're totally different. Are We Cool Yet? seeks to make art pieces that establish the creator as an elevated member within the group - something closer to "cool" than others.
HANSARP doesn't care about creators, or about the art work at all. HANSARP's pieces aren't trying to create status or position, they're nothing. They don't mean anything. There's no linearity between them, and yet they continue to be created. More people are disappearing, specifically those who encountered these pieces.
That chapter of Are We Cool Yet? They were exposed to a piece the week before, hung right outside their studio. Now they're gone.
Alright, so… so what does this all mean? What does this mean for those kids who disappeared in Germany?
We, well…
We're beginning to think that they are HANSARP.
What?
They didn't used to be, but they are now.
HANSARP isn't like other outside groups, where you're recruited or sign up or just find yourself within their ranks. HANSARP is like… like a disease. Like a virus. You see it and it works its way into your soul and by the time you realize what has happened to you, you're HANSARP.
Which leads to our next point…
We don't think the pieces of art are anomalous.
What do you think about sideways eyes on █████ ██████ ██ ████?
Excuse me?
(Interrupting) Not in, not in the way we had originally believed, anyway.
Something else you need to understand - HANSARP is a dadaist movement.
Within dada, there is no meaning - reason and logic are considered detrimental to the human condition in favor of disorder. They don't have a set of beliefs that you could call consistent because they have given up on consistency.
It's not shocking that they would target groups who are at a growing risk of frustration due to the impossibility of their goals, because HANSARP's philosophy precludes the possibility of "goals" as a concept. You can't have "goals" when there is nothing to be gained.
But then by the same token, what is "cool" if there are no inherent rules governing what "cool" is? If there are no ideals or definite purpose, then who's to say that everything isn't cool?
So what… what does any of this have to do with the art pieces being anomalous?
Silence.
Viktor?
The pieces are anomalous, but not… not in the way we thought they were.
The book is the same way.
We thought the book was changing reality, but it's- the book hasn't done anything since we put it in containment.
The art pieces don't do anything when we put them in containment. We only see the sort of anomalous activity we associate with the book when other people are involved. People who see these art pieces, or who read SCP-4485, they're exposed to something that makes them question fundamental truths about their lives. It happened here, at Site-35.
What? What happened?
We had a group of our own researchers studying SCP-4485, reading it and trying to figure out some sort of pattern in the madness of it.
We eventually started to notice that some of them were growing… detached.
They stopped interacting with others around them, started to ask strange questions. Some of them started to become agitated, angry. They'd rant and rave about some- some ideology, or some position, something political.
Our staff psychologists spoke to them, and they looked at their background profiles. The ones who were becoming violent were those with a history of- of strong positions on certain issues, things they'd spoken up about in the past: political movements, workplace issues, that sort of thing.
The rest just- just hadn't. But they were all being changed, like HANSARP was crystallizing their apathy, or their zealotry. When they started to change, the site started to change.
How?
People began to see things that weren't there. Doors that didn't exist, impossible changes in geometry. HANSARP took credit for this in a local paper, but there had been no contact with these people and HANSARP, except by reading the book.
Over time, the same thing happened to the psychologists. Talking to these people changes the way you see the world, and once you've become like they are, the world changes to fit what you see. Madness.
Where are these researchers now?
Isolated. At different locked safehouses.
We can't change them, and they're still- they're changing. Keeping them apart helps mitigate some of the issues, but we keep finding more every day.
We're starting to see this everywhere, Isaac. All over Europe.
Any site that has ever housed a HANSARP artifact, or SCP-4485, or even… even someone who had read SCP-4485, or- or…
You cannot be serious…
Isaac, they're everywhere. We have affected researchers everywhere.
And it doesn't take much - they'll ask an innocuous question, maybe questioning a strongly held position. But something about HANSARP makes those questions stick, and then… then they become carriers for it. They become HANSARP.
This… the staff rotations… all of Europe, all of our sites…
The only people who weren't affected were people on my team. People who were trained to use formula and theory to discern truth. They saw the same things other people did, but they didn't succumb to it. They weren't changed.
We- we need to begin training, we need to get these individuals at- at every site, every site could be affected.
There aren't enough, Isaac. We would need an army of mathematicians, and that just- it doesn't exist.
I- (pauses) -alright.
I will discuss this with my team. We will work on taking the necessary steps to mitigate this issue.
(Pauses)
Leonard, we'll need to get you evacuated from Site-35; if what Viktor is saying is true, and you haven't had this sort of intensive training, then-
No, Isaac.
There is work that needs to be done here. We can still communicate with those affected. Another group went missing recently, Broken God faithful each, and the connection between the two is undeniable. We… I will know when it is too late for us to accomplish anything here, Isaac. Then I will leave.
Please do. We need you, Leonard. Now more than ever.
I'm going to report this to Director Bright and Director Quin. You are right. We have work to do. Be safe.
You as well, Isaac.
Dr. Harmon disconnects.
How much longer do you have, Leonard?
(Laughs)
Truthfully, I don't even know if you are real, Viktor.
Everything feels the same. This conversation feels the same. I will make do until I cannot make do any longer, and then… well.
Hopefully Isaac comes up with something before then.
The Broken God link, what do you see there?
That's who is building these machines, of course.
I think we're- the more I look into this crawling madness I know follows me wherever I go, the more I see the method. A god that cannot be rebuilt.
A state of cool that cannot be reached.
If you break down the structures that determine what "broken" is, or what "cool" is, what are you left with?
(Pauses)
We should've known sooner.
We couldn't have known.
We could have tried.
I kept that book in my study for a month, you know?
Just reading it.
Trying to see what in it could compel a man to remove his own face, just in order to see… to see something. We should have rules for that sort of thing.
I know.
Viktor, I- have I said anything to you yet? Anything that you- that you could see didn't make sense? Something out of place? I think, I've tried to think and see, if there would be anything.
Tell me truthfully, Viktor. Please.
Just once. Sideways eyes.
Ah. On shores of glass ████ ████ ████ █ ██████ ██ █████. I remember. (Pauses) Just now?
Yes.
Isaac?
We know. We'll take care of him.
Very good, very… very good. Thank you, Viktor. Your team does extraordinary… extraordinary work.
Thank you, Leonard.
(Pauses) I'm sorry, Viktor. I'm sorry.
It's alright, Leonard. It will be alright.
I'm sorry, I'm- goodnight, Viktor.
Dr. Fitzwell disconnects. Call ends.