Assessment SCP FoundationIts far too early to put Team Sparkplug back in the field. D. C. al Fine, the Undersecretary General of the Global Occult Coalition, stood in an expanse of empty blackness, surrounded by one hundred and eight points of light. Today, shed decided to look like Audrey Hepburn, complete with Givenchy dress, umbrella, and fancy hat. On the other hand, Audrey Hepburn never had cold, sinister eyes, or a haughty, domineering expression. D. C. al Fine wore the appearance of the famous actress well, but she could never shed the harsh edges that had given her the nickname, The Scary Lady. The first thing you have to understand is that Team Sparkplug is one of our best Assessment Teams, she explained. Between the three veterans, they have over thirty years of experience in the paranormal field. As a team, theyve had over a dozen successful missions. They were a finely tuned instrument and then they lost one of their essential components. 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The caption hovering at chest height identified the avatar as belonging to Lord Marcus Crowley, Antipope of the United Church of Satan, Scientist. Your concern for your operatives is commendable, Madam, the robed figure intoned, but unnecessary. Your operatives are ready. Do not let your mind be clouded by self deceit. The auguries concur with His Wickedness, said a young woman dressed in white gowns, holding a skein of threads between her hands. She was identified as the Speaker to Humans of the Silicon Nornir. Is this a true Concurrence, or simply a Majority Report al Fine asked. Concurrence, the Speaker to Humans said. Urthor, Verthandi, and Skuldr are all in agreement as to the correctness of this action. Personal feelings must be set aside. Action must be taken. The Council is in agreement upon this matter, Lord Marcus said. Do not allow yourself to sin in this matter by choosing stupidity over wisdom. All around her, one hundred and eight stars blinked and dipped themselves in wordless agreement. Then I will take the Councils advice under consideration, al Fine said. If there are no further matters, then I will consider this Conclave adjourned. One by one, the stars blinked out, leaving al Fine floating silent and alone in the void. She closed her eyes and opened them again slowly, finding herself in her office on the 4. UN Secretariat Building, overlooking Manhattan. She rubbed her forehead and took a moment to compose herself, waiting for the nausea of Convergence to fade. The Undersecretary General picked up her phone and dialed a number that didnt exist. The call went through before it had finished ringing once. Get me PHYSICS Division, she said. What do you know about The Foundation Bullfrog asked. Theyre one of if not the largest paranormal organization that is not a member of the Global Occult Coalition. They focus primarily on the capture and acquisition of paranormal objects. They maintain a large network of hidden containment sites across the world, making them one of the few non Coalition organizations that have a global presence, alongside the Serpents Hand and the so called Chaos Insurgency. Standing orders are to avoid engaging Foundation agents in the field, except in extreme emergencies. Response Level 3. All right. Bullfrog nodded. Youve proved that youve read the handbook. Now tell me what you really know about The Foundation. Spider sighed inwardly, taking a deep breath. Theyre hoarders, she said. Unlike some organizations, they dont seem to have any political or economic agenda for what they do. What little exploitation of parathreats they do seems primarily oriented towards funding their operations. They had a brief alliance with the U. S. governments Bowe Commission, but that fell through. Officially, theyre a rogue organization. Under the table, however, they seem to have a lot of support from national governments that dont want to deal with the Coalitions red tape and regulations. They also have an odd obsession with a particular three letter sequence. At first, we thought it had something to do with their official motto, but the current theory is that the linguistic sequence has occult significance to them, considering that it comes up in the names of their front companies as well as their internal documentation. Current directives regarding the three letter sequence is to avoid using it whenever possible, on the off chance that Principle of Contagion could be used to breach internal organization security. Our computers cant even use Secure Copy Protocol because of it. Not bad, Bullfrog said. Thats a pretty complete picture from the point of view of a desk worker. Now let me give you the field operatives version. The big man cracked his knuckles and leaned back in his seat as the small private plane continued its long flight above the clouds. The part of The Foundation that a field operative is most likely to run into are their Containment Teams. Theyre about equivalent to a PHYSICS Assessment Team. Theyre damn good. Were pretty much evenly matched in terms of training, equipment, and support. Where we differ, however, is in our mission and our goals. The Foundation is mostly interested in finding, capturing, and retrieving parathreats, Bullfrog went on. Their equipment reflects that a lot of nonlethal weaponry and capture gear. Whereas a Coalition team is primarily focused on the Fivefold Mission. Nowhere in that Mission does it say that we need to bring in every parathreat we find alive. More importantly, most of the Foundations assessment work is going to be done by conscripts D Class Personnel, they call them. Political undesirables and convicted criminals forced into dangerous situations where they dont want to send actual Task Force members. So morale among their teams tends to be low, given that about half their team doesnt want to be there and doesnt want to do the mission. Long story short, its very possible for a good GOC Assessment Team to sneak in past the Foundation, scoop out the find from under their noses, and get out of there before they even know we were there. Weve done it in the past, when the Foundation moved in after wed already scoped out a parathreat. Standing orders are to avoid contact with Foundation personnel whenever possible but that doesnt mean we have to sit idly by and let them pick up parathreats willy nilly, Bullfrog concluded. In fact, its probably a good idea to keep as many parathreats as possible out of their fucking hands, Skunkboy said. He sat on a seat across from Bullfrog, flipping through a pornographic magazine with bored detachment. We dont know what the fuck theyre doing with them but its probably best not to let them stockpile too big of what could be a paranormal arsenal. Of course, this all assumes that were running into a Foundation Containment Team, and not a Mobile Task Force, Bullfrog explained. Those are their varsity. Their elites. Think of them as Strike. If we run into an MTF, we let them take the parathreat, Skunkboy agreed. Shadow them, log the capture, try to gather as much information as we can, but dont get close to them. Got it, Spider said, mulling the information over. Do we have any diplomatic channels with them Any contacts, any agreementsThe Coalition does. We dont, Bullfrog explained. A few former GOC members have gone over to the Foundation, and vice versa. And there have been a few times when our organizations have been in agreement about a particular course of action and ended up working together. On the other hand, the Coalitions official stance is that the Foundation, as a rogue organization, gets no official recognition by the Council, and especially no invitation to join the Coalition itself. What Bull is trying to say is that we try to play nice, but never think were friends, Skunkboy said. Keep your allies close and your enemies closer. That sort of thing. Spider nodded in reply, jotting down a few notes into her notebook, using a fountain pen with beautiful ivory like inlays that were actually made from the femur of an executed murderer an ancient and crude but effective deterrent against magical spying.
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