INTERVIEW LOG

DATE: 2006/09/19

INTERVIEWER: Dr. Jenner

SUBJECT: Jennifer Selwick (former GOC operative)

[BEGIN LOG.]

JENNER: What can you tell me about SCP-3117?

SUBJECT: You've got all our files on it. What do you want me to tell you?

JENNER: The files don't paint the whole picture. Several of them are incomplete, and show signs of damage —

SUBJECT: That's probably on account of my team destroying as much of it as we could.

JENNER: What — may I ask why? Were they —

SUBJECT: No.

JENNER: — cognitohazardous? No?

SUBJECT: No. They weren't dangerous in of themselves. Not directly.

JENNER: Could you elaborate?

SUBJECT: Look. UTE-2639 —

JENNER: SCP-3117.

SUBJECT: Right, whatever. 3117 — it isn't — it isn't whatever you think it is. There's a reason the GOC stopped looking into it and threw everything I didn't destroy over to you guys.

JENNER: And why is that?

SUBJECT: We've been investigating this thing for maybe ten, twenty years? And it's eaten its way through —

JENNER: 'Eaten'?

SUBJECT: — way through a lot of people. Some of our best. Some of our brightest, yeah. We originally thought it was some sort of entity, maybe a Type-Green or Type-Blue, but — no, it's nothing like that. It's... not even a monster, I don't think. It's just — it's just a trap. A monster-shaped hole.

JENNER: I'm not sure I —

SUBJECT: You try to work it out, because that's what you do when you're clever — you work things out. But with every piece you 'find', you're filling that hole up. You're reassembling a puzzle of your own creation, one you didn't even know you were solving. Until —

[Silence.]

JENNER: Until what?

SUBJECT: Until the hole isn't a hole anymore. Until it's staring back up at you.

JENNER: Are you saying SCP-3117 creates some sort of monster?

SUBJECT: We think we tell each other scary stories for fun, but maybe there's another reason. I think — I think some of these stories, when we tell them — they're not meant to be thrilling. They're meant to be warnings. A warning to stop. To not open that door — to not go down the stairs. To stop watching the movie, or listening to that story, or reading that article. But you don't realize it. Not until it's too late. Not until…

[Silence.]

JENNER: Jennifer?

[Silence.]

JENNER: What's wrong?

SUBJECT: It's too late.

JENNER: What's too late?

SUBJECT: She's found you. I'm sorry. She's found you.

JENNER: I don't — what?

SUBJECT: Don't think about it. Don't talk about it. Don't try to figure it out. When the dreams start to come, ignore them. Don't tell anyone. And whatever you do, don't look down. Don't look into the pit. She's found you, and if you keep trying to look, if you keep trying to solve this, she's going to —

JENNER: Stop. Please, I don't understand what you're —

SUBJECT: I'm not talking to you.

[END LOG.]