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SCP-2834: The Blood of MEKHANE

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MTF Action Log Video Transcript

SCPF Internal Memorandum

SCPF Internal Memorandum

Date: 05 August 2019
Source: Internal security footage, multiple cameras
Location: Unknown, presumed to be the GoI-004 "Citadel"
Foreword: This is the first footage we've ever gotten from inside the GoI-004 headquarters. While we have long assumed it to be somewhere in the islands off the coast of southern Greece, we've never been able to accurately locate it. Despite multiple assets we have implanted in GoI-004, their internal security is such that we still don't know precisely where it is, much less actually seen inside it. It is my assessment that our acquisition of this video represents a planned leak.

[BEGIN LOG]

[The video begins abruptly in the middle of an ongoing conflict. The view is from the top of a tall stone wall, looking down upon a thin stretch of beach and what looks to be surf breaking on underwater anti-landing craft hazards. The feed is unaccompanied by audio, but the view is distorted by successive bright detonations as weaponry out of frame discharge towards several figures caught in the surf.

The figures are difficult to make out as two appear to be constantly shifting and merging with each other to send sheets of flame towards the walls. It then breaks apart to avoid the returning fusillade by ducking beneath the water. The other figure shimmers and fades, sometimes disappearing entirely only to reappear elsewhere, each reappearance punctuated by a massive visual distortion and a wash of static.

The view distorts again as another massive concussion impacts the walls and the feed once more disappears into static and does not return.]

[When the video feed cuts back in, it's from a different camera, this time showing a long hallway with several doorway openings along the eastern wall. A large hole has been torn in the western wall, and the area directly in front of it is strewn with rubble.

Several members of GoI-004 can be seen rushing towards the opening, their weapons trained on the hole, and rapidly discharging at the two figures that can be seen climbing through it. The larger of the two reaches towards the group, and three of the oncoming defenders suddenly erupt in gore as their organic portions twist and burst apart under an obvious carnomantic assault.

The second figure once more disappears, only to reappear amidst the remaining GoI-004 defenders. The figure moves in a blur, rapidly cutting down the defenders before being joined by the first. The larger splits momentarily into two distinct people, a Black man and woman, both clothed in loose white garments. They appear to converse for a few moments, then head off away from the camera and out of view.]

[The view shifts several times through different angles in several different hallways, each showing scenes of combat as the assault team makes their way methodically through the defenders. At one point they are forced to retreat through a side passage, only to reappear behind the defenders and resuming their attack.]

[The final video feed is in what appears to be a large audience chamber, Speaker Otomiel & Speaker Hespera can be seen flanking what looks like an older and smaller figure carrying a large hammer.]

Bumaro: Hold fast, my children. They go no further than this.

Otomiel: We have reinforcements on attack trajectories from the satellite, but they are only just now entering high orbit. They'll be here in-

[Their voice cuts off mid-sentence, and both Bumaro and Hespera look over at him. Otomiel stares blankly into the space before him, clearly intent on whatever internal conversation he is having. Suddenly, he blinks and looks around at the other two.]

Hespera: What is it?

Otomiel: They aren't coming. They were intercepted in the high atmosphere by a Mekhanic strike team.

Bumaro: Are you certain they were Mekhanics? Not some other group?

Otomiel: [Shaking his head.] They came in close using United Church transponder codes, claiming to be from Luna 1. They got close enough for our scanners to catch the Mekhanic hull plating, but it was too late. They got off a burst transmission to the Citadel before they died, but… they're not coming.

Hespera: Damnit. We should have eradicated those heretics when we-

Bumaro: Enough, Hespera. What is done is done. They were untouchable as long as they were in that nexus. We knew the risks in letting them get there. [He sighs] Excommunication wasn't enough, it seems. Fine, we can handle the Klavigar and her apprentice.

[Bumaro hefts the hammer, though it's clearly difficult for him to do so.]

Bumaro: Prepare yourselves, it is time.

[The video seems to cut out for just a moment, then three figures can be seen standing in the audience hall, not far from the three GoI-004 leaders. The smaller of the three looks like a young girl, dressed in form-fitting black clothing and carrying a long, bloody dagger in each hand. The other two are dark-skinned, dressed in loose white robes, now spattered with gore and singed in various places.]

Bumaro: Saarn. You should be dead; I saw your corpse wash up on the shore of Kythera after that abomination you called Master abandoned your sarkic crusade.

Saarn: You should know better than that, priest. That body wasn't necessary anymore.

[Bumaro grunts.]

Saarn: Looks like your body isn't faring much better. What's wrong, age finally catching up to you?

[Bumaro opens his mouth as if to speak, then doubles over in pain as another burst of static washes out the view. When it returns, a fourth figure has joined Saarn and the others. This one is taller, dressed immaculately in a dark grey suit, which contrasts sharply with the burnished bronze color of his hands and his stylized canine head.]

Hespera: Jackal. You are a traitor as well as a heretic. I should have killed you centuries ago.

Jackal: You tried, and you failed. To be honest, failure is all I've come to expect from you and your Broken Church.

[Hespera makes as if to speak, but is interrupted by Bumaro collapsing to the ground, his hammer clattering to the floor. Otomiel rushes to his side and Hespera steps forward, the segmented portions of ver left arm rotating and shifting aside to reveal the tripartite barrel of a gun.]

Jackal: You are the heretics following a broken and obsolete dogma. Bumaro never wanted to rebuild MEKHANE! Rather, he fooled you all for thousands of years whilst he horded power like a twisted caricature of the Goddess he claimed to serve. Just look at him! Even now, he is falling apart.

Bumaro: What have you done, Jackal? I am the only one that could hold back the Flesh! Do you think you will somehow be spared?

Jackal: [Laughing] Not at all. Once we are finished here, O Lithodómoi are leaving this world. As you should have done when you thought you defeated Ion. I go to finish what you failed to do, and my time here is drawing to an end. This world can go to the Flesh for all I care. The Klavigar taught me what I needed to know about viruses in order to poison you, and now I am here merely to watch you die.

[Saarn and her companions step into motion, the man and woman flowing back into one form as they move to attack Otomiel and Hespera. Saarn flickers out of view, reappearing to Hespera's side long enough to slam her fist repeatedly into the side of Hespera's face, knocking ver away from Otomiel and Bumaro, disappearing again as Hespera's gun fires into the space where Saarn had been.

Naman shifts to the side, avoiding a beam of incandescent fire from Otomiel, responding with a withering rain of bone shards which slice into his robes like razors. Blood fountains from several places along his body, along with the darker fluid from his prosthetics.

Jackal steps forward and picks up Bumaro's hammer. He looks down at the machine that was once a man and shakes his head.]

Jackal: You should never have tried to replace MEKHANE, mortal. Now, you never will.

[He hefts the hammer easily in his metal hands, then swings it down hard against Bumaro's head, shattering it in a spray of broken machinery and a fountain of black fluid. Hespera and Otomiel scream in unison and collapse to the floor. Jackal laughs, then drops the hammer onto Bumaro's twitching body.]

Saarn: It is done. Thank you, Scythas, our covenant is at an end.

Jackal: Thank you, Klavigar. I'll admit, I didn't think your Grand Karcist's plan would work. [He gestures towards the now-still form of Bumaro.] It's a relief, being wrong. [He smiles.] May this world be everything you want it to be.

[He bows, then the video feed abruptly cuts out.]

[END LOG]

Afterword:

The video speaks for itself. I believe the two others with Saarn are Enitan Sabatier and Enu Duvernay, the leaders of the Darkwater Lodge. I assume their co-mingled form is Naman da ke Tsatsa, but we have precious little data on it. I'm not sure what you and Dr. Low are planning, but I'd count out GoI-004 on being able to help overmuch.

Arnaud out.