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SCP-7450, reclassified from Apollyon to Megiddo to distinguish between anomalies that will end the world, and ones that already have.
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- SCP-7034 "Æ is for Aerials"
is a pocket dimension entered from unknown places along the United States Interstate Highway System. The pocket dimension leads to an infinite highway covered in smog. That alone is not that of note but the majority of the article is a series of logs from a poor Foundation member named Battaglia who wound up in this pocket dimension without a way to get out and his steadily increasing horrific experience throughout it. Going from trying to organize with others to pool their resources to eventually having to steal from and even kill others just to survive as the road goes on for countless miles. Weeks pass, with Battaglia barely holding on to his sanity, describing how the traffic gets increasingly thin, replaced with massive pileups of car wrecks and corpses, until he finally reaches a mountain of broken cars that's so big he can't see the top through the smog, forcing him to abandon his vehicle and climb over it, badly cutting himself on metal scrap and broken glass in the process. Bizarrely, once he's past the mountain, traffic starts coming behind him again, allowing him to hijack another car, even though the road should be blocked. The climax of the article has a particularly malicious Hope Spot where Battaglia reaches an upward incline going for miles, with the smog slowly thinning out, and thinks finally he is reaching the end...only for the road to level out again and merge into an even thinner lane. And worse, there is a tunnel full of blaring cars in front of him and already a line of cars behind him, finally pushing him past the Despair Event Horizon. His next, and final recording has him eerily calm, his broken car just being pushed by the traffic behind him as he's accepted whatever the tunnel leads to will either be the way out or certain death. The last transmission the Foundation receives from him, 18 hours after his last intelligible one, is just car horns blaring, screaming, and metal smashing against metal, implying that he got crushed to death. The Foundation has no idea how to access this dimension to rescue anyone there despite people going missing on the Interstate Highway System each year. Even the air is almost impossible to breathe inside the anomaly, being filled with fumes and gas exhaust. While it's not enough to cause asphyxiation, it makes just leaving your car an ordeal, and while the article doesn't bring this up, would almost certainly cause brain damage after a while. There's nothing beneath the highway, or at least nothing that can be seen through the smog. At one point, Battaglia is lowered down with a rope by some other survivors, going about three-hundred feet, to no avail. If anything, the smog is even thicker down there than on top of the road. Unlike SCP-1401, the Lost Highway, another car and road-themed SCP, there's nothing about SCP-7034 that keeps your vehicle in working condition. If you run out of gas or your car breaks down, both of which will happen eventually, you'll be stranded unless you're willing to steal from someone else. - SCP-7115 "American Meat", though thankfully Neutralized since the early 20th century, is basically The Jungle, with an added dose of Body Horror and the Nausea Fuel taken even higher. Centered around the Molson & Company pork manufacturing plant in Chicago, it wasn't originally any different from other factories of the era (brutal working conditions, low pay, employees treated like slaves, etc.) until the arrival of a strange old man known only as Antanas. Antanas led the workers into forming a bizarre and horrifying cult where the members would volunteer to sacrifice themselves, with the old man somehow producing live pigs from their bodies, which the other workers would butcher for food, allowing them to have meat they couldn't possibly afford otherwise. While originally the sacrifices were all volunteers, the cult soon began kidnapping other people, starting with the factory foreman and his son, then moving on to beggars and drifters. Then, things went From Bad to Worse with the first appearance of SCP-7115-1 - monstrous, cannibalistic pig men, hybrids created by Antanas to serve as his henchmen. In December, 1908, a massive horde of SCP-7715-1 rampaged through Chicago's meat-packing district, butchering anyone they could find to produce more of themselves, which was only stopped when the workers performed a Heroic Sacrifice to blow up the factory with dynamite, taking Antanas with them.
- SCP-7179 "E is for Eternity", is noted by the author as being inspired by SCP-2718. The anomaly is that, on death, a human being will end up on an island paradise fit to serve any vice imaginable, offering all the food, sex, and drugs one could ever want. The documentation of Paul Hiddleston's experience on the island showcases that this "paradise" is pure hell. The logs show that while the first few years are a blast, the problem is that the island offers no evolution; it is completely stagnant with no sentient company, and because death and escape are impossible, anyone who goes there is inevitably doomed to an endless, unstimulating existence. Hiddleston himself, over the course of over one billion years, ends up resorting to excruciating methods of self-torture just to feel something (including burning himself to ashes) before surrendering to the island's stillness. He also starts torturing the three women constructs the island gave him. When a number equal to the factorial of one googol in years* passes on the island, the documentation simply drops a bone-chilling line.
- It’s worth noting that the article says "there are no known cases of human death where the consciousness does not appear in an SCP-7179," meaning this is the fate awaiting every human. This is in contrast to the other afterlife SCP, -2718, in which it was ambiguous if it really was the fate of the deceased.
- SCP-7427 "Fall Forever" is the third in a tale-esque apocalyptic Thematic Series by S.D. Locke along with SCP-001 S.D. Locke's Proposal and SCP-3280 "After the Storm", and like its two predecessors, tells a story about a horrific uncontained apocalypse:
- The SCP itself is a worldwide blizzard that causes Cessation of Existence to isolated persons, persons who lose line of sight from someone else, and, somehow, even the crew of the International Space Station. Large-population areas and culturally-significant structures are Reduced to Dust. And it can even destroy information too, like the Foundation's records. And speaking of which...
- The real meat and potatoes of the article is that it finally declassifies the final logs of three partially-declassified SCPs, to horrifying effect: Document 087-IV, SCP-783-L3, and SCP-610-L6, which the protagonist reads in a final bid to protect Foundation records from SCP-7427, since its information erosion effects cannot destroy human memory. The ends of Document 087-IV and SCP-783-L3 transition into the next entry in creepy fourth-wall-breaking ways, while SCP-610-L6 features the assault team assigned to destroying SCP-610 pulled through an underground river and through previous exploration logs as they are driven to insanity and dismemberment, with the last survivor being smashed through the article itself before being revealed to be you, finally being confronted by the anafabula from SCP-2747. The entire SCP was all a trap laid by the anafabula to consume humanity itself.You open your mouth to scream, but sound has already been devoured. You try to get away, but distance has already been devoured. You try to despair, but thought has already been devoured.
The jaws of the maldeity snap shut.
- SCP-7450 "L is for Lamentations" opens to a level 1 unrestricted file of of an entity of the highest risk and disruption classes. The reason for this is that its containment class is Megiddo, a classification for an SCP that has already ended the world. Said SCPs are four gigantic Angelic Abominations that Walk the Earth, causing people with their extremely powerful cognitohazards to follow them and mutate into similar undying beings. This is bad enough, but what makes this even more horrifying is the origins of said entities. Before the Foundation created SCP-2000, they sealed four immortal children with godlike powers in Deepwell sites across the Earth where they would steadily accumulate power in a coma-like state. When a being only known as the AJAX entity appeared and decimated the Foundation, including destroying SCP-2000, in desperation the Foundation unsealed these children. Due to desire from the entire world for a savior they quickly destroyed AJAX, but after this self-defense response, the godlike entities with the minds of children became overcome with horror about what they had become and enthralled humanity as a fear response, to never be alone again.
- SCP-7785 "Mr. Lengthwise and Mr. Longways" tells a poem of a duo of predatory anomalies that are characters from a children's book who one day came alive and killed their creator. They get more powerful as more people learn about them, and can manifest to those who read about them and kill their victims in their sleep, which includes the reader of the poem as the containment procedures warns. Oh yeah the article also ends in an illustration of the two staring right at the viewer and grinning. Sweet dreams...
- SCP-7898 "W is for Walls" is a double hit combo of arachnophobia and Backstory Horror. It's a species of giant spiders, that live in walls or dark corners and infect people with their eggs, making them try to cover their head until they just put it through a hole in the wall and let the new adult spider burst through their skull. Bad on its own, but there is also a number of odd things in the article. The species was first discovered in a town located in "formerly West Virginia". It seems scared of light, but can survive in a "non-predatory UV light" and is similarly burned by regular water, which is seen as normal. Several anomalous events are mentioned as common knowledge, merely noting 7898's weird interactions with them, like how its hosts do not feel pain during "megadental events". At one point the Foundation just kills one of the hosts, has a D-Class eat it and once the D-Class dies, classifies corpses of 7898's victims as "nonedible". The spiders are also noted to be the same size as the "Horse-eater spider", which is not considered anomalous. Finally, the SCP is noted to be so relatively harmless and mundane that working on it is selected for a project of reassigning traumatized personnel to less stressful duties. The position is so coveted the current wait time for a transfer to 7898 duty is over three years. Just how much of an utter hell the world of this version of Foundation is, if dealing with this is apparently seen as going to therapy or on paid vacation?
