#experimentation log

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Minta: I just saw something at the edge of the big rock.

Minta: I couldn't get a picture of it but I think it might be humanoid.

Cader: Please don't try these sorts of pranks on me. Also, that "rock" is officially known as "Boulder 01".

Minta: It's the only big rock around that isn't flying.

Minta: We don't really need a designation for it.

Minta: Also this isn't a prank.

Cader: So it's a hallucination then. Remember to see a psychologist when you're done with your analysis of EBS-01.

Minta: I've just spotted the first living thing to be on the other side of the barrier and you think it has to be either a prank or a hallucination.

Minta: We barely know anything about this world.

Minta: There could totally be native life and I discovered it.

Minta: That's a lot of typing you're doing.

Cader: We weren't even born yet when this ship landed here. You would think that if this place had native life, we would have seen it by now or noticed some preceding change that would justify that native life coming out of hiding. What we have had different since then is a person with a job closely monitoring something at the edge of the barrier. It's much more likely that the barrier, which we also barely know anything about, is giving off something that is affecting your mental state, and it's built up into something noticeable just now. I doubt that it will reach an irreversible state by the time you finish your analysis of EBS-01, but if you start feeling woozy, do try to put some distance between yourself and the barrier and get checked out immediately.

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Cader: Can I get some confirmation that you will get checked out once you finish your tasks or if you start feeling woozy?

Minta: I'll get checked out.

-16:32-

Minta: *Picture of humanoid form with sections made out of slime standing next to a cliff face*

Minta: Got a picture this time.

Minta: I'm going to try and communicate with it.

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EBS-02.txt

Designation: External Biological Specimen-02 (EBS-02)

Discovery by: Lecter, Minta (Exobiology Department)

Assigned Researcher: Pending confirmation

Classification (tentative): Humanoid Entity, partial slime conversion

Physical Description:

EBS-02 resembles a young, prepubescent human female. Estimated age is 6 Earth years.

Physiological markers and garment remnants match those of old dimension planet Neo Tokyo 3.

Observed deviances from human baseline include:

*Green hair. Unsure if result of dying or side effect of slime conversion.

*Orange cohesive slime has replaced portions of limbs, torso, and facial tissue.

*Slime regions form approximation of lost anatomy.

*Slime sections occasionally drip before quickly reforming. Reformation seems tied to EBS-02's awareness.

Possibility of internal conversion. Extent unknown. Apparent malnourishment.

Observed Behavior:

EBS-02 is nonverbal but responsive to vocal tone, gesture, and positioning. Cognitive assessment inconclusive; responses indicate comprehension but inconsistent executive function. Variability may result from:

*neurological conversion (brain tissue affected)

*trauma-induced regression

*incomplete developmental trajectory pre-conversion

*nonhuman neurobiology (see Origin Hypothesis “B”)

EBS-02 demonstrates a strong proximity preference to EBS-01 (magnolia tree) and a consistent approach preference toward discoverer (Lecter).

EBS-02 refuses to pass through the boundary, showing pained reactions and retreating from it.

Subject responds reliably to the spoken identifier “Magnolia.”

Origin Hypotheses (Unconfirmed):

A-Human Survivor (partial conversion):

*Subject exited an EDS, passed through the boundary, and significant portions managed to avoid conversion.

*Clothing & phenotype match expectations for an inhabitant of EDS 29, supporting this possibility.

*If true, would imply some factor that may allow safe passage through the boundary.

B-Native Lifeform Mimicking Human Morphology:

*Slime portions may not be the result of conversion, but instead the natural body of EBS-02.

*Humanoid features may be adaptive camouflage.

*If true, would be first native life we've found. Clothing & phenotype would suggest that it had encountered EDS 29.

Recommendations:

*Assign single consistent point of contact.

*Noninvasive monitoring only. No retrieval attempts.

*Investigate possibility of replicating avoidance of slime conversion suggested by origin hypothesis "A".

*Investigate possibility of passing caloric matter through the boundary.

*Compile list of experiments that EBS-02 may be able to assist with due to position outside of the boundary.

Report filed by: Exobiologist Minta Lecter - EDS Svalbard

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To: Director Thistle

From: Minta Lecter

Subject: Expansion of Duties Request

As it may have come to your attention, I have recently discovered an anomaly that has been designated as EBS-02. I am requesting that my duty of monitoring and caring for EBS-01 be expanded to cover the same of EBS-02.

EBS-02 has shown a fondness of EBS-01 and a desire to stay near it. EBS-02 has also exhibited a favoritism towards me over other researchers. I feel these factors will make it easier for me to monitor EBS-02.

Also, I have given her a name, Magnolia.

Relevant files are attached for review.

> EBS-02.txt > EncounterReportChatlog.png > CommunicationAttempt.vid

I will assume responsibility for this child until ordered otherwise.

-Minta Lecter

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About a human scientist figuring out Warclema's physics.

A story that I really should have planned more of.

A significant portion will be instructing a child.

Going to be told from the perspective of Minta Lecter.

Now let's get this started.

Warclema Tales - Experimentation Log 1

EDS Svalbard

Transcript of Audio Log 001 - External Biological Specimen Oversight

Recorder: Exobiologist Minta Lecter

Audio Log 001 - External Biological Specimen Oversight

I've been assigned to External Biological Specimen 01, a magnolia tree. For archival purposes, I've been asked to append my first growth report with a recording of my baseline understanding of EBS-01.

When I was studying for a specialty in exobiology, this tree was a big deal. It was the first thing we've gotten to grow outside of the ship. The first thing we've gotten to grow in this planet's, no, this dimension's soil. It's also the only thing we've gotten to grow in this soil. That would be so exciting if we hadn't figured out why.

Our ship is surrounded by what we've been calling the slime bubble, an invisible boundary that liquefies anything that passes through it into some sort of orange slime. As a seed, EBS-01 managed to land in a patch of soil outside the ship but within the bubble, so it was able to survive. Other vegetative growth outside the ship has been hampered by the slime, which seems unable to support vegetable life.

I'm pretty much in charge of jotting down notes about EBS-01's growth and development. How much taller has it gotten? How many leaves have shown up? How is being at the edge of an invisible bubble that turns whatever passes through it into slime affecting it?

It would be nice if it grew in a spot with something interesting in the background like that giant purple whirlwind, the flying rocks and water balls, or one of the other EDS units. It'd be nice to be doing this with the hope that I might be the first one to notice a communication attempt from one of those EDS units. Instead, the view of what lies beyond the specimen I'm stuck with is a boring, unmoving, rock that sits on the ground. It's big, sure, but utterly uninteresting.

I'm not even allowed to physically interact with EBS-01 and have to fertilize and water it through some slots installed in the glass wall between me and it. I understand that the wall is there to make sure none of my fingers get lost from going through the slime bubble, but it'd be nice to be able to get a leaf or blossom sample from it, or just... touch the thing.

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Experiment Director: Dr. Bezruk

Date: ||||||||||||

Experiment Subjects: SCP-||||||| and SCP-999

Foreword:

Dr. Taylor is on a mandatory sabbatical due to insubordination during the request (or, as Bezruk put it, ‘demand’) of performing this test and, while this test has been approved, Taylor is being punished by not being allowed to be involved.

Begin log:

After Bezruk is briefed on both the containment procedures and the experimentation request Taylor outlined, a collection of D-Class and personnel are gathered in preparation.

two D-Class are tasked with setting up the lighting to avoid a containment breach due to the containment cell needing to be open for easy extraction of SCP-999 in case of emergencies. Preemptively, exterior containment measures are already in place in case ||||||| leaves its cell.

999 is released into |||||||’s cell. It appears confused. More than likely that was due to the lack of anyone within the cell. ||||||| is still within its sleeping space, though soon leaves to show itself. 999, while momentarily startled by |||||||’s sudden appearance, soon settles down and begins to approach. ||||||| is visibly agitated by 999 being within its cell. It moves to swipe 999 with its fore-claws once 999 is within range. 999, of course, is unharmed by the action and instead envolopes |||||||’s claws. ||||||| hisses and growls, gnashing its teeth against its own limb in an attempt to sever it. Halfway through, though, 999 begins to apply its anomalous properties by nuzzling its pseudopods against |||||||. ||||||| freezes in place, then immediately sits down. All violent action ceases and ||||||| begins releasing sounds which can only be described as ‘content’. Once ||||||| appears fully calm, two D-Class are sent into |||||||’s cell. They are instructed to attempt physical contact with |||||||. |||||||, upon being ‘pet’ as D-28647 put it, leans much like a dog into the touch. 999 continues to nuzzle ||||||| and soon has climbed onto the subject’s neck.

Conclusion:

This test has been a total success and this log is ending here. 999 will be removed and ||||||| is to be given more space to sleep.

Addendum (audio log made by Dr. Bezruk):

That son of a bitch! I am never working with that bastard again. I went to remove 999 from its cell. Upon removing the SCP, ||||||| BIT ME. Thankfully, the medical team on standby were able to remove me and 999 from its containment and it didn’t attempt escape. Little [DATA EXPUNGED] took my arms.

Addendum two (2) (written by Dr. Taylor):

AUDIO LOG

-Static-

H---o?

Hello, can you hear me?

Good, the comms are functioning again.

This is Commander Farzaneh Pollard Sadiq broadcasting from Exploratory Vessel XR-59308. We are roughly [REDACTED] minutes away from the destination.

The devices have been armed, and we are readying deployment of the -static-.

We should be able to see the targe-- 

[A second voice, identified as Mission Specialist Leos]

Leos: What in the flying fuck is that?

Sadiq: What is what? What do you see, Leos?

Leos: It’s more like.. What I don’t see. There’s no stars over there... Other than.. That one.

[Supposedly, Leos is pointing out the ‘there’ and ‘that one’ in question to Commander Sadiq]

-Static, metallic crunching. The beeping of the [REDACTED] being armed. Silence-

EXPERIMENTATION LOG

Experiment: Attempted eradication of the anomalous being which had been spotted a year prior near MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1. 

Experiment head scientist: Dr. [REDACTED] Taylor

Experiment procedures:

A spacecraft had been dispatched to intercept the anomaly and deliver multiple singularity devices into the area around it. These would, hypothetically, create multiple non-anomalous black holes around the entity and pull it inside out to collapse in on itself. Tests upon other singularities have been considered a success.

Experiment results: