Daily log, trooper Nanku of MTF Tau Five recording. Today, Captain Hughes and Dr. Pulaski asked myself and my squadmates to begin recording observations of our and our colleague's activities at Site-30. They say it is part of an intersectional psychological study of human and human-adjacent anomalies. Onru thought the idea was ridiculous, but Irantu managed to get her to go along with it.
Today started at 5:30 AM, with a surprise forced march for some of Site-30's off duty security personnel…
Daily log, trooper Nanku of MTF Tau Five recording. Dr. Pulaski has told me that I should prioritize the events of the day and only discuss the most significant and/or unique occurrences in each log.
At 5:23 PM, I overheard a marital dispute between…
Daily log, trooper Nanku of MTF Tau Five recording. Today's mission was a great success. We traveled to Detroit and eliminated a sect of Group of Interest 0102 "Pilgrims of the Father's Feast." The others won't be recording their logs today, since I was the only one to survive the mission. I wonder if Dr. Pulaski will make them record logs for today after their regrowth?
After all hostiles were eliminated, I assumed command and called for a containment convoy to recover their ritual components and any other anomalies. Site-7 was closest, so that's where I'm recording this from. I'm also going to be heading up security for the Site-7 project to analyze all their stuff.
The Pilgrims' ritual included an open pit cookfire, since destroyed, several dozen sets of antique silver and gold eating utensils from a variety of cultures, several hundred kilograms of various modern plastic and ceramic eating implements, several thaumatological grimoires of unknown origin, and various other items. It's not clear just how much progress they made in executing the ritual, but…
Daily log, trooper Nanku of MTF Tau Five recording. I suspect that something has gone wrong with my visual implant receptors. I've been experiencing visual artifacts since the morning after the mission. For several moments it seemed as though Sergeant Flannery's coffee cup was warping space. I had an… embarrassing time explaining my reaction to the Site Director.
I've tested all my spare eyepieces and tried a full systems reboot with no success. In an evening debriefing, I attempted to drink a soda that did not actually exist. I have messaged Dr. Pulaski for advice and have appointments in the Site-7 engineering labs and infirmary tomorrow morning.
Speaking of the infirmary, I suspect that Nurse Towyels is developing inappropriate feelings for me…
Daily log, trooper Nanku of MTF Tau Five recording. The Site-7 staff has been unable to help the visual glitches. In fact, they've begun to intensify, especially when I am around food. Several times, it's seemed almost like people are chewing straight through their food, onto their forks, and then onto their hands. I'm going to avoid the cafeteria until I leave.
On the bright side, a preliminary SCP file regarding the Pilgrims' ritual attempt has been created!
Location of GoI-0102's attempt to summon their deity.
Special Containment Procedures: The location where SCP-5901 was performed is pending demolition by Foundation front company "Safely Cut Properties." SCP-5901-1 are contained at Site-7 and pending examination and relocation. Further investigation into the persons responsible for SCP-5901 is pending.
Description: SCP-5901 refers to an attempt by an cult self-identified as the "Pilgrims of the Father's Feast" to summon a divine, demonic, or other variety of anomalous entity into non-anomalous space. The ritual components employed have been collectively designated SCP-5901-1 and are presently being cataloged.
Addendum 5899-1: Interview With Person Of Interest
Interviewer: τ-5/Nanku
Interviewed: Sally Promont
Foreword: Sally Promont was the sole civilian noncombatant rescued from GoI-0102, who had disappeared several weeks previously amid a rash of missing persons cases in the area. These disappearances have been confirmed by DNA evidence as coordinated abductions by GoI-0102 cultists.
Interviewed: Oh, it's you. The superhero girl.
Interviewer: Yeah, that's me! We need to learn more about the people we rescued you from, and Dr. Tanner said it'd be easier for you to talk with someone familiar!
Interviewed: Uh, okay. What do you want to know?
Interviewer: Anything you can tell us about the identities or motives of the cult members would be helpful.
Interviewed: I don't know anything about what they want. They just grabbed me walking to a bus stop one day after work. Bag over my head, like a movie. Then they just drove me over to that creepy house and locked me in a cage in the basement.
Interviewer: They never spoke to you at all?
Interviewed: No. Sometimes they would do these weird chants in another language. They did it for like two whole hours outside my cage on the night I arrived. I was begging them to stop but they never even flinched.
Interviewer: Did you recognize them?
Interviewed: Not a single one of them. You saw that they wore masks.
Interviewer: Did anything else happen?
Interviewed: Well… they never fed any of us. Ever. No water either.
Interviewer: Really? You were held captive for weeks.
Interviewed: Exactly. And I never got even hungry.
Interviewer: I'll have to discuss this with my coworkers, and we'll see about when we can release you.
Interviewed: Thanks… for saving me.
The interviewed bites off and swallows the fingers of their left hand and extends it to shake. The interviewer hesitantly reciprocates the gesture.
Interviewed: You're welcome… but why did you do that?
There is a warping distortion in the footage. When it clears, the interviewed's hand is intact.
Interviewer: Do what?
Interviewed: Oh. Never mind. I'll be going now.
The part that really makes me worried is that when I walked out of the interview room, I saw my reflection in a window. It was my fingers that were missing. On both hands.
Surveillance Log Excerpt: Site-7 Infirmary
τ-5/Nanku bursts into the room, accosting the receptionist, Ms. Welch. τ-5/Nanku insists upon seeing the attending physician, insisting that they are under the influence of a spatial anomaly. Nurse Towyels attempts to soothe τ-5/Nanku, but τ-5/Nanku becomes flustered and pokes her in the face, breaking her glasses and causing a shard to puncture her left eye. τ-5/Nanku reacts in shock, and tells Dr. Lense that they could not have harmed Nurse Towyels, as they did not possess any fingers. Dr. Lense calls for security to remote shutdown τ-5/Nanku, and she is confined to quarters.
Daily log. Nanku recording. The anomaly is getting worse. I see consumption everywhere. The bedposts are plastic straws. The sheets are what Agent Shamky had for dinner two nights ago.1 My fingers are back, but they're sticky, elastic red ropes. I've seen them once before, infiltrating a shopping mall. There are tongues in the walls. I tried to look in the bathroom mirror, but my reflection opened its mouth and swallowed its own head.
Surveillance Log Excerpt: Site-7 Conference Room
Security Director Tucker: So what's actually wrong with her?
Lense: Nothing. Everything checks out, mechanically and medically.
Assistant Director Olsen: Tau five faces up against the worst of what goes bump in the night on a weekly basis. Is there any chance this could be, I don't know, psychological?
Lense: [chuckles] No. Not in a Samsara trooper. I have a call scheduled with Dr. Pulaski at Site-30 in about five minutes. She may know what to try next. If you'll excuse me?
Nanku. Dr. Lense and researcher came one hour ago. Avoided biting them. Anesthetized me for surgery. Seems to be working.
Surveillance Log Excerpt: Site Director's Office
Site Director O'Brien: Oh, hello, Lense. How's the asset doing?
Lense: Oh, she's just splendid. She's on just about enough narcotics to subdue a small elephant, but splendid.
O'Brien: Narcotics? Is that really called for?
Lense: [shrugs] I was simply following Pulaski's advice. Nanku had to be unconscious for the procedure.
O'Brien: Mm… it still seems so tasteless. Drugging a billion dollar warrior senseless.
Lense: Oh, I think there's rather more taste to it then you can see on your own.
Lense opens his mouth, and his jaw appears to unhinge itself. A seam appears in his face, and his skin, muscle, and bones begin to splay backwards, exposing his brain.
O'Brien: [takes the brain in his hands] You make a compelling argument.
Daily log, trooper Nanku of MTF Tau Five recording. My hallucinations have cleared up, so I got released. I had another medical checkup. Dr. Stubhs was there. She began to tell me "gossip" about Dr. Lense. He has apparently not left the Site Director's office for several days now. She does not like having to take charge of all the "paperwork" in the infirmary. Strangely, I have not seen her write anything on paper at all…
Surveillance Log Excerpt: Site-7 Cafeteria
Site Director O'Brien enters the cafeteria. It is lunch hour. The majority of personnel (approximately 70), are present. Several personnel greet him as he walks between the tables.
O'Brien: I'm here to make some announcements, everybody!
Personnel quiet down.
O'Brien: There's going to be some changes around here.
O'Brien begins chewing off his left hand.
O'Brien: From now on, tacos will no longer be served on Tuesdays!
Some boos from the personnel.
O'Brien: I thought you might feel that way. Which is why I declared every day a CANNIBALISM day!
Raucous applause and cheering from the personnel.
O'Brien: Exactly! So let's get started in style!
Personnel continue eating their meals in silence as O'Brien disembowels Junior Researcher Enblat and begins to consume him.
O'Brien: [in between mouthfuls] You… humans… are just so… so… delic — [BANG]
Daily log, trooper Nanku of MTF Tau Five recording. Shot a hunger deity today. For future reference, its weak spot is the lower intestine!
Oh, yeah, and Assistant Director Olsen asked me to draft a new SCP file for it!
Description: SCP-5901-2 is an incorporeal entity referred to as the "Indulgent Father" by GoI-0102 "Pilgrims of the Father's Feast." SCP-5901-2 was summoned to the material plane in the form of Sally Promont, a civilian abducted by GoI 0102. However, due to the intervention of MTF Tau-5 ("Samsara") and their supporting detachment of MTF Nu-7 ("Hammer Down"), SCP-5901-2 was unable to fully metastasize.
SCP-5901-2 then assumed a guerrilla strategy against Site-7 personnel, possessing individual members of the staff while feeding on others, before being terminated by τ-5/Nanku. After action investigation suggests SCP-5901-2 was capable of excluding its anomalous attributes from the perception of human (and potentially non-human entities). This effect does not, however, appear to extend to artificial recording technology.