Chapter 54: 106 and Scranton
After Guan Li watched several tragedies of SCP massacres and human cannibalism, and successfully added several more corpses to the ground through micro-manipulation, the game finally entered the next stage.
"The Chaos Insurgency has finally come out, it's not easy......"
After all, this is only the first test, and players are neither familiar with the map nor the operation, and their first reaction when they meet is mostly to negotiate rather than to move.
It's understandable that the previous pace was dragged so slowly.
Not anymore, though.
The D-class had no problem cooperating with Foundation members within the facility, and their goal was to escape from the facility, and there was no conflict.
However, the Chaos Insurgency's own stance doomed them to kill all Foundation-owned humans in order to win the game.
- Seems like there's a mechanic that helps all D-class escape from the facility and win directly?
I also know with my ass that this condition will definitely not be achieved.
Is it possible for a D-class to escape without dying?
Winning on this is an almost impossible task.
"I don't know if the mixed score will win, but Administrator, if it goes on like this, the SCPs will fail miserably. β
Seeing that Guan Li had locked one of his companions, SCP-106-Horror Old Man, in a hallway with a mixed team that had just broken into the facility, and was forced to go head-to-head, the system felt some sympathy for them.
This trapped SCP-106 has the highest Keter rating in the game.
In Foundation archives, SCP-106 is a humanoid anomaly, usually in the form of an elderly humanoid with a high degree of decay.
SCP-106 causes a "corrosive" effect on the solids it touches, passing through all solids and leaving behind a large amount of corrosive liquid in the path it passes.
It will prey on humans, taking their poor victims into its own "pocket dimension"βan indescribable and unobservable alien dimension.
Due to its ability to use the "Pocket Dimension" to penetrate barrier layers, it is difficult for the Foundation to effectively contain SCP-106, and can only confuse it based on its discovered properties.
"Ongoing research has shown that SCP-106 will be "disrupted" when confronted with complex/randomly arranged structures, and will become noticeably hesitant to enter or exit these structures.
SCP-106 also displays an aversion to sudden bright lights. This will not cause any physical damage to SCP-106, but will cause him to quickly return to the "pocket dimension" that has been carved out of the solid surface.
These observations, including its aversion to lead and confusion about liquids, have reduced the chance of breaching containment to 43%. β
- SCP-106 - The Scary Old Man
This is a project that was written about in the early days of the Foundation, and it's hard to say how it has anything to do with the many Foundation settings that came out later.
However, in some of the archives and peripheral stories that were added later, it is theorized that 106 is Dr. Scranton.
It was Dr. Robert Scranton, who invented the Scranton Reality Anchor (SRA) that extracts other cosmic realities to stabilize this universe.
In SCP-3001-Red Reality, Dr. Scranton fell into a different dimension with the SRA's prototype, the Ron Scranton Stabilizer (LSS), which had an extremely low Hume level.
In that alien world, where there is no time, no space, and no concept of everything, he barely maintains his existence by relying on the prototype named "Red".
The extremely low intensity of reality allows Dr. Scranton's body to "survive" without additional maintenance, but his mental state gradually crumbles in never-ending darkness.
"Red" records the whole process of his mental collapse, from panic, confusion, anger, suicide attempt but unable to die, to the end of the recollection of his wife, Dr. Anna Lang, to maintain a little thinking, and even his own existence is crushed by a long period of despair.
After arriving in "Red Reality", LSS returned to its original world due to some kind of sudden transient wormhole, taking Dr. Scranton's ...... with him Part of the body?
In the event of a collapse of reality, the pile of things that are almost integrated with the shell of the LSS body, and which is presumed to be human organic tissue, may be called a part of the body.
Others discovered the records left in the LSS, but did not find Dr. Robert Scranton's mind, and he was presumed dead by the Foundation.
In some peripheral settings, SCP-106 is believed to be a monster that was spawned in this world by Dr. Scranton who had lost human consciousness and combined with the "Red Reality" world.
He had forgotten who he was, that he had been a human being, that he no longer possessed even basic thinking and will, and that he had just followed some kind of internal and anomalous logic, so much so that he became a threat to human civilization and was contained by the Foundation.
Such a great researcher who contributed to all mankind and loved his wife dearly, ended up as an SCP.
- The story is indeed quite in line with the Foundation's pessimistic aesthetic, dramatic enough and brutal enough.
As for whether 106 is Dr. Scranton or not, it is a matter of opinion.
Every reader has a foundation in mind.
There are always countless explanations in the world, and it is up to one's heart to believe in one, to choose multiple possibilities, to create other answers.
To follow nothing is to abandon the limited framework and exile the infinite possibilities.
- All in all, it's good to know that there is such a possibility, and it is no problem to use it when writing, believe it or not.
In the SCP Foundation, there are a bunch of conjectures like this that are difficult to distinguish between true and false.
SCP-001's deliberate confusion of truth and falsehood is routine.
In the peripheral setting, SCP-166-Succubus is still the daughter of Dr. Clef and a powerful reality bender!
Dr. Clef also defected from the GOC after being tasked with killing his wife, and turned to the Foundation at the cost of protecting his wife and daughter!
SCP-336 - "Lilith" is said to be Dr. Clef's wife wanted by the GOC!
Some people even speculate that Dr. Clef is Satan, yes, the king of hell in the Bible, the one who fought against God.
There are quite a few doctors in the Foundation who have specific settings, but being able to mix up to the level of being called the head of the "Four Doctors of the Apocalypse", Dr. Clef is also considered otherworldly in the world of the Foundation.
In a sense, this man makes a higher impression on Foundation readers than the O5s who are nominally supreme rulers.
- I've heard that chanting "Clef the Almighty" in an anomalous crisis can do wonders.
The various peripheral settings, and the identity speculation that always digs out some seemingly plausible corners and corners, form the intricate relationships between the characters in the Foundation.
That's probably one of the charms.