 Addendum 1730.9 Extraction Log Transcripts Extraction Video Log Transcript Date ██ Recovery Team Mobile Task Force TAL-5, Sam Sera Exploration Team Mobile Task Force Apollo 3, Game Wardens Exploration Team Mobile Task Force Z-9, Mole Rats Subject, SCP-1730 Team Lead T-5 Arantu, Z-9 Hollis, AP-3 Ross Team Members T-5 Munru, T-5 Onru, T-5 Nanku, AP-3 Houston, AP-3 Vigo, AP-3 Ohalo, Z-9 Moros, Z-9 Willow Note, the following is an audio-video transcript of an Extraction Recovery Mission carried out by the members of Mobile Task Force TAL-5, Sam Sera, after having made contact with surviving members of MTF Apollo 3 and MTF Z-9. Aside from the members of the Mobile Task Forces, the team was tasked with recovering 27 surviving members of Site-13 staff, including Dr. Mohamed Scott, a Site-13 Assistant Director of Temporal Studies. Several of these individuals had sustained significant injuries, further increasing the difficulty of extraction efforts. Members of Mobile Task Force Alpha-20, Holy Divers, were stationed above ground and were prepared to move in to aid in extraction efforts once the recovery team had escaped the lower levels of the site. Begin log Mic's on. Are we really worried about recording all this? Hey, Vigo, shut the fuck up, do what he says. You're a lead power ranger. Thank you. As prepared in evacuation plan, I will let her explain it. Our travel paths from this position are compromised by the entity in the data center and the creature in the atrium. After speaking with Dr. Scott and his team, we had devised a route that leads as far away from the current major threats as possible. Unfortunately, our information on all threats is incomplete. Even Dr. Scott would not preview the information on all contained entities within the site. As such, we should still proceed with extreme caution. This is likely already well understood. Yeah, just a bit. Alright, so what's the route we're taking? T-5 on route produces a topographical map. Our entry routes are here and here. The largest obstacles we are experiencing currently are the spatial instabilities within the lower levels of the site. On the suggestion of Dr. Scott and Captain Hollis, our route will first travel to this section of the facility, or the thresher devices contained. This device is the cause of the instabilities, and while it is not possible to completely disable the device without risking our own lives or the lives of our above-ground personnel, we should be able to produce power to the device long enough for us to create a stable path to the surface, following this route here. I got lost once shortly after our insertion ended up in that room. I was attacked by a number of creatures that were difficult to perceive, likely due to some latent anti-mimetic effects. I was able to escape them, but there are no doubts still there. That machine draws a frankly impossible amount of energy from some energy source elsewhere in the site, and those creatures I saw feed off of it, so there's that. Why don't we send the team ahead to disable the machine, and then meet up with them before heading up? We will not have enough time, and the probability of our success drops dramatically if we split up our team. Once the device is powered down, it is likely we will have less than an hour to make our escape before it trips its fail-saves and powers back up again. We will just have to make our push from there, hoping that it buys us enough time. Alright, cool. Your assignments are as follows. T-5 will take point, Apollo 3 will take the right and left flanks, and Zeta-9 will take up the rear. The healthiest survivors will stay near the back, and those with more serious injuries will be near the front near TAL-5. In the event that we are flanked or assaulted, follow typical multi-force defensive assignments, while allowing TAL-5 to intercept the higher threats. Maintain clear lines of communication. TAL-5 and the Task Force captains have channel priority. Keep chatter to a minimum. You will have plenty of time to speak once we reach the surface. Our priority now is extracting these people, and staying alive, unless you're in Samsara in which case I guess you guys are free to do what you want. For the rest of us mortals, it doesn't help us to let the Power Rangers get mulched, since we're likely shit out of luck if they go belly up. Agreed. Does everyone understand our mission? All Task Force members are in agreement. Acceptable. I will take point. We need to move quickly. Gather your things. Prepare the civilians, and we will leave shortly. Teams break to assemble in their formation. Civilian survivors are briefed on the mission plan, and positioned in the middle of the block. Captured at the main door, there are leeches coming under the door. Shit around too. We need to roll. Agreed. Let's move out. Munru, Nanku, collapse the main door. We will exit expediently out the side. Gladly. The block moves out of a side door towards a side hallway. T5, Nanku, and Munru hang back to set explosive charges around the doorframe. Leeches are beginning to work their way under the doorframe and through cracks in the walls. As they step away from the door, Nanku opens her flamethrower on the leeches. I cannot say you're making a difference, Nanku. There are likely many more leeches elsewhere. This is very satisfying to me. As the burn leeches coming through the walls, it is delicious. Munru and Nanku move quickly to join the rest of the group, which has begun moving down the side hallway. As they pass through the first door, there is an explosion, and a building around them shakes. From beneath the group, a loud uncanny screaming sound is heard. They think they know we're moving? Undoubtedly. The group continues down a series of hallways towards a stairwell, stopping occasionally to check for hostile entities. After a short time, T-5 Munru calls a halt. My optics are pinging. Strange. Everyone back. I will scout ahead. T-5 Munru comes around the corner of the hallway, weapon drawn. His scramble optical implant highlights a dangerous meme on the wall. At the far end of the hallway, a vaguely humanoid entity, the same entity as seen during a previous remote drone exploration of SCP-1730, is seen drawing on a wall with a long curved finger. Munru projects an image of the entity to Nanku, who rounds the corner behind Munru. Hold. Suddenly, the entity turns towards Munru and Nanku and opens a single wide eye, which is immediately processed and blocked by the scramble units. The entity begins to move very quickly down the hallway, changing dramatically as it moves. The entity becomes considerably larger, and its long robe flares out to either side, exposing additional hazards that are blocked by the scramble units. Munru and Nanku raise their weapons and fire. The creature reels backwards as it is struck by bullets, with large holes opening across its flesh. Munru reloads, loading incendiary rounds and fires again, saying the creature on fire. As it staggered backwards, the entity begins to scratch madly against the wall to the right, seemingly attempting to dig through the wall away from the gunfire. Nanku takes one more shot, striking the entity in its eye and causing it to collapse onto the ground. Is everything alright? It appears so. We… Suddenly, the hallway shakes violently. The floor beneath the collapsed humanoid entity crumbles and falls away, revealing a large hole beneath the floor. Within the holes, a long, slick black creature covered in blood-red eyes, with a mouthful of many rows of long, sharp teeth. As it bursts through the floor, a cascade of small leeches are propelled into the hallway. The humanoid entity slips through the destroyed floor and falls into the mouth of the large creature, which lets out loud scream as it devours the entity. Long wet appendages snake into the hallway as Nanku and Munru begin to retreat. Nanku opens her flamethrower again, warding off the approaching smaller leeches. What's going on? We will need to find a different route quickly. Follow me. The group moves past the collapsed hallway as Munru and Nanku provide cover fire. They pass through a custodial dormitory and exit into a maintenance area behind it. Over there, we can take this path towards the machine. We are right behind you, but I begin to think this creature is far larger than we anticipated. Nanku, take the point, we will move now. Team moves down the long maintenance hallway. The hallway curves to the left, opening out into a large space full of loading equipment and machines. Several large loading docks are visible in the back of the room, though each one is collapsed and destroyed. Around two, the walls in here are seeping. We cannot stay here long. One moment. Munru. Where back are you? Silence. Munru, Nanku, please report. Around two, Nanku is damaged. We are not going to be able to- Rondevue would do immediately. Onru, do keep us updated in your position, and I will let you know when we can regroup. Understood. The group moves to the far end of the maintenance warehouse, exiting through a pair of doors leading into a staff break room. Black fluid seeps through the walls. The group has to stop briefly to bandage up a survivor whose wound has began bleeding again. A loud screeching sound is heard nearby, and the group begins moving again. They enter into another hallway leading in the direction of the thresher wing. As they move through the hall, Unruh hears a distinct sound. Arantu. Wings. How many? Many. More than I can count. They are very small, but they're the great multitude of them. You got anything else useful, Power Girl? A tankling sound, like crystal on crystal. Fuck. Crystal butterflies. It has to be that. We'll get shredded. Unlikely. The group moves towards the sound, which continues to grow louder until it becomes a cacophonous sound that seems to be right above them. God, where is that coming from? Steady now. Steady? Arantu, the vent. In front of them, a grate on a ceiling vent falls to the floor, and a cloud of sparkling crystal butterflies begin to fill the hallway. Arantu sees the butterflies and turns back to the group. Everybody down, please. As the group drops to the ground, Arantu runs towards the cloud of butterflies. He disappears briefly. After a short moment, there is a burst of flame that arcs upwards into the vent, and the sound of shattering crystal can be heard above them. As the smoke clears, Arantu becomes visible again. The majority of flesh has been shredded by the wings of the butterflies, and his entire body is scorched. Significant amounts of flesh hang loose from his body. The skin on his back is blackened and blistered, and a thick metal implement is now visible through the scorched flesh. Arantu stands and approaches him. Are you able to continue? Of course. Jesus fucking Christ, man. Are you alright? Yes. Why wouldn't I be? The group moves through another hall, seeping with black fluid, and then another, but the third hallway is clean and relatively untouched. They ascend a short staircase before coming to a stop before a thick vault door. The machine is behind this door. I came out this way, but the door is sealed behind me. I don't know how to unlock it. Dr. Scott, do you know how to open this door? Dr. Muhammad Scott, audible through Z-9 Hall's mic. No, I never had access to this chamber. I was hoping Munru would be here, I did not think I could open this door. Suddenly there is a resounding click, and the door in front of him slowly opens. A monitor next to the door illuminates, and a dark room is visible on it. In the back of the room, hidden in shadows, an indistict humanoid entity waves. A harsh electronic static sound, vaguely reminiscent of laughter, can be heard through an unseen loudspeaker. The scream powers off. That's a pretty fucked up clown. Come, hurry. The group enters the chamber beyond. The room is very dark, with a multitude of dim green lights visible on the walls of the room. Based on the luminescence of the lights and the apparent distance of them from each other, the room appears to be several hundred meters in diameter. Near the back of the room, a tower of circling green lights is visible. Hey, power rangers, can you see anything in here? You have dark vision or something, yeah? My visor is shot. Munru and I were forced to eject our implants after they were damaged by a powerful memetic entity. My visor works, hang on. Alright, so there's a… some kind of machine near the back of the room under those lights. I really can't make out anything from here, but it's there. I don't see… Oh shit, yeah I do, on the ceiling, there are… fuck. There are a lot of those things. What are they? They're whispering. I honestly don't know, I can't make them out. They're definitely fucking with perception. I don't… I don't think they've seen us. Seriously though, there might be five hundred of these things. That would be more than on-room and myself can deal with. We need to make a decision, either attempt to disable the machine without attracting their attention, or find a way to dispatch the creatures. I am, of course, willing to accept ideas. I mean, we could blow them up, Houston has explosives. There's a lot of them to try and get off, once though. Hang on, they're feeding on the power from this thing, aren't they? Why don't we try and get that machine to draw a lot of power to some unnecessary system first and shock them, like flexing when a mosquito bites you? Maybe, but it is more likely that… suddenly there is a massive disturbance beneath the chamber. To the left of a group roughly one hundred meters away, there is an explosion and the wall falls away. From within the wall emerges a long, slick black appendage covered in red eyes. The eyes open simultaneously. Fuck. There is a screeching sound, and from above the many hundreds of short, imperceptible entities fall from the ceiling. The black entity in the wall begins to lash out at the smaller entities, attempting to pull them in towards a mouth that has appeared on its front. The creatures fly towards the larger creature and begin to tear at it with claws. Though many are shoveled into the open mouth of the creature. Huh. That works as well. Enroute, get to the machine. The rest of you get back to the hallway. We will not have much time. The group retreats into the hallway outside of the large room. Enroute sprints across the chamber as more and more of the smaller entities fall from the ceiling and attack the black creature. Several of them begin to move towards Enroute, only to be dispatched by weapons fired from Arantu. As she reaches the manual control panel of the machine, Enroute imputs the information provided by her by members of Dr. Scott's team. Enroute's around the room illuminate, exposing an enormous, vastly complicated machine that encompasses the entire back wall of the room. More and more of the hostile entities peel off towards Enroute, who pauses to open fire on those who come too close. From beneath the room there is another disturbance, and the floor in the middle of the room falls away. Another long black entity emerges from the hole in the floor, and long tendrils snake out towards Enroute. From behind Arantu comes Gunfire, and the entire AP-3 team has emerged from the door and begun firing at the entity. The creature recalls, black fluid spilling from gunshot wounds. The tendrils rip around towards them, gripping AP-3 Vigo and tossing him into the air. He strikes the wall and his body falls to the ground, where the first black entity grabs it with a tendril and pulls it into the mouth. Suddenly small black leeches begin to pour from the hole in the floor and move quickly towards Arantu. Houston and O'Halo open fire on the leeches, and Ross moves to pull Arantu away from the hole. As he does, he tosses an incendiary grenade into the hole and pulls Arantu to the ground. There is an explosion and flamer reps around the black entity, which rears back and flails before collapsing into the hole. From deep below them the group can hear a very loud screaming sound, and suddenly the entire room is shaking. The other black entity retracts into its hole, collapsing the wall behind it as it does. The remaining creatures from the ceiling are dispatched by the AP-3 and Z-9 teams. As they do, and as the room begins to shake more violently, several lights affixed to the machine in the back begin to flash and in dim, and the sound of something winding down is heard over the gunfire. FUCK! GOD DAMMIT, Vigo! FUCK! T-5 Enry approaches from across the room. The loss of Vigo is disappointing. I'm sorry. We do not have a substantial amount of time to grieve. We must keep moving. Enry, Ross, Houston, O'Halo and Arantu leave from the chamber. More rumbling is felt beneath them, and occasional loud screeching sounds punctuate the machine noise from this section of the facility. They reach a stairwell and Houston throws the door open. —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— ——— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— pauses. The hallway in front of them is covered ankle high in water, as they begin to move slowly through the water, one of the researchers behind them screams. What is it? Bodies, look! Just below the surface of the water, pale human corpses are visible, appearing to be floating roughly a half meter down. Do not attempt to look at them, you do not recognize them, move quickly, come on! The team hurries from the hallway towards another set of doors at the end, where are written on the walls of the words, what happened to site 13, with the word what, covered by the word Emerson, and the words, have we become blasphemous beneath that. The group proceeds without incident for a short while longer, slowly ascending as safe routes become available. After roughly 8 minutes of travel, the group enters a large mechanical garage, where several pieces of large machinery is sent in various states of repair. They pause to secure one of the injured survivors, while Anru attempts to devise a new route. Only a loud banging sound is heard, and a piece of machinery flies across the room, narrowly missing AP-3 Ross, who shouts, well, fuck, where did that come from? In the corner of the room, a stack of mechanical parts is seen moving, rising up and self-assembling into a quasi-humanoid entity. Attached to the top of the large mechanical construct is a small, crudely constructed toy robot. The entity begins to move towards him, and a voice is heard from an unknown source within the entity. I am reborn to breathe devastation upon this feted earth. Pitiful humans, you will feel the dark sting of my never-ending torment. The small robot on top of the construct is seen waving its arms wildly. This is annoying. Anru, get these people out. Ross, to me. I am the herald of your destruction. Embrace death. T-5 Arantu, AP-3 Ross, Houston, and O'Hala open fire on the entity to little effect. The entity lifts another large piece of equipment and throws it towards the group, missing them wide. O'Halo throws a fragmentary grenade at the entity, which it catches in one of the outstretched hands and grips tightly. The grenade explodes, shattering the creature's hand and causing it to stagger sideways. How dare you? I will tread upon you like… T-5 Arantu is seen sprinting towards the entity. As she approaches it, she leaps into the air, sailing over the top of it in a tall arc. As she reaches the top of the arc, she reaches out and grabs the small toy robot on top of the construct, causing it to collapse. As she flips towards the ground, she tosses the robot towards the wall. No, I am the harbinger, I am. The toy robot strikes the wall and is shattered. Arantu, is that you? We just heard something crashing. You must be near. Stay where you are. We are en route. The group moves out of the garage and towards the large atrium section. From around the corner come T-5 Munru and Nanku. Munru appears to have sustained burns to his lower body, but is otherwise undamaged. Nanku is missing the lower half of her jaw, and black fluid covers the front of her body suit. She wades with her remaining hands as the group approaches. You look well. Admittedly, morale is increasing in the group since Nanku found herself unable to talk. T-5 Nanku points up Munru with her flamethrower, seemingly forgetting she is missing an arm on that side, realizing that she makes an obscene gesture towards Munru with her remaining hand. This is a cute reunion, but let's get back to this shit. How far are we from the entrance? This is the main atrium. If we follow this hallway here it will lead towards the processing station, and past that we should find access points to the surface. Exceptional, let's get the lead out then and… From below them there is a very loud crashing sound and more screaming. The floor beneath the group begins to buckle. Fuck run! The group fleece towards the hallway Munru had identified, but our stop when the floor there also collapses. A plume of smoke erupts from the destroyed floor, and one researcher slips onto collapsing ground and slides into it. T-5 Munru leads the group away from the atrium, as the floor there completely collapses. Arantu stops to turn and looks down inside the hole. Beneath the hole is an incredibly large chamber, appearing to have been dug through dozens of layers of subterranean floors. Within the chamber are many small lights around the outside, and at the bottom is a massive black mass, with several other large black masses extending from it. As he is pulled away, Arantu sees red eyes open across the entire mass of the creature, and hears more screaming. The group flees down a side hallway, but are pursued by long black tendrils snicking out of the hole. AP-3 Ross and Houston open fire on the tendrils, halting them momentarily, but they are quickly replaced by more. Xenia Amoros is seen slipping on a patch of black liquid and falling, before being consumed by the ends of one of the tendrils. There are the sounds of metal crashing and rock and concrete being crushed, as the structure around them heats violently. Black leeches begin to pour out of the walls around them, and Nanku opens her flamethrower at them. They round a corner to find a dead end, and turning back are confronted with another black tendril that has burst through a hole in the wall. Holy fuck, we're trapped. This is it. This is it. Holy fuck. Andrew, we need to weigh out. I-I am having difficulty. I-Wait, wait, I have an idea. I think I know where we are. I have an idea. Come on, you fuckers. We're not dying here. The group follows Hollis towards the descending stairwell and move quickly down it. Hollis tosses an incendiary grenade towards the encroaching tendrils, and slams the doors shut behind her as it explodes. The screens from below them intensify as they descend, and the stairwell begins to shake. Holes in the stairwell open, and more leeches begin to pour out of them. All Task Force members open fire as long tendrils snake through the holes as well. Upon reaching a landing, Hollis motions a group in the door. Here, get in here. Go, go, go! The group enters the hallway and sprints towards the other end. As they do, they pass a sign on the wall that reads, Stairs of Cryonics. Munru notices as they pass. Captain Hollis, what are you doing? You're going to have to trust me here, Blue Ranger. I've been doing this for a long time. I- Ha! Okay, I think this will work. The group exits the hallway into a large observation section. Including many large windows with blast protectors down across them. The team stops in front of one window, overlooking a massive chamber aligned with huge steel doors. Overhead of the words, Olympia Class Testing Observation. Hollis, what do you have in mind? Called a hunch. We need to get downstairs. Come on. The group runs towards the stairwell at the end of the room and quickly descend to the main level of the wing. As they exit onto the floor of the Olympia Class Containment Chamber, the wall behind them begins to buckle and leeches begin to pour out of it. Pink Ranger, that panel over there, you need to get that door open. What? What? I said open the goddamn door. Hurry. What the fuck are you waiting for? Go! T-5 Munru runs towards the control panel near one of the tall steel doors. The wall behind them continues to buckle. Munru, that one. Get that one open too. Yes, absolutely. T-5 Munru attempts to access the door controls. Xenon Hollis turns towards the group. Everyone else listen to me. You civilians need to get to the far end of this room. As far as it goes. Just keep running. There is an access point to the power station above this part of the facility. You need to just keep climbing until you get there. Once you're there, you need to blow a wall. That'll get you out, but you need to hurry. Shit is about to pop off on a pretty major way down here. Ross, you and your boys just fired anything that comes out of that wall. I'll tell you when we can go. Aronto, you stay with me. This is gonna get pretty messy. Understood. Alright. Fucking go. Come on. The group flees down the main pathway through the chamber, away from the buckling wall. Xenon the wall finally gives away and a gargantuan black slick entity pours into the chamber. It is at least 200 meters in height, covered in black tendrils and dark red eyes. When it sees the group, it opens a massive mouth full of rows of long yellow teeth. In the center of the mouth, a naked human woman is visibly conjoined in some way to a sort of prehensile tongue with the creature. As it opens its mouth, it lets out a piercing scream and begins to move towards the group. Every available Task Force member opens fire on the creature, emptying their remaining magazines and throwing every possible incendiary weapon towards it. The creature is deterred slightly, but for every place it is pierced by weapons fire, black fluid and more black leeches begin to pour from its body. Several long tendrils begin to snake towards the group of Task Force members. I have it. I have it, Captain Hollis. Come on in, girl. Throw the fucking thing. T-5 Henry steps away from the control panel and runs back towards the group in the middle of the chamber. As a loud groaning is heard behind her, the rest of the team sees the huge metal doors begin to slide open. A thick cloud of ice-cold fog rolls out of the chamber, obscuring the interior from view. What's in there? Munru, you got yours? Hang on. Yeah, I think that will do. Suddenly the door behind Munru begins to glow bright red, then white, then the center of it buckles and the door collapses. As Munru hurries away, a colossal motionless flaming humanoid entity floats out of the chamber. This unmoving hand is a huge sword. As it exits the collapsed doorway, enormous flaming wings unhurl from its back. The black creature screams as its tendrils begin to lash at this creature. As the tendrils come close, long streets of fire erupt from the sword toward them, rupturing them and sending black fluid and scorched leeches flying across the room. The massive black creature screams, and dozens of other tendrils fly towards the flaming humanoid. As the two engage, there is another sound, like a long whining, and then suddenly the room is silent. From within the cold, foggy room, a towering, vaguely-survying creature steps out into the main chamber. It is composed of a body covered in light green and cream-colored hair, a long, thin neck ending in a hairless, somewhat humanoid face, and vast intertwined white and black antlers that pulse with streaks of blue light. Floating above its head are nine concentric rings of glowing rotating crystals and metallic spears. The creature slowly steps out of the containment cell and turns to look at the team on the ground below. It opens its mouth, and a long, droning sound is heard through the room. Around its body, several large, metallic, cylindrical structures appear, followed by the stink-cracking sound. It begins to step towards the team of Task Force members, but it is struck from behind by three large black tendrils that wrap around its neck. The creature lets out another drone, and suddenly the sound returns to the chamber as long streets of fire arc across the space. The cylindrical constructs turn lengthwise and speed across the room towards the black creature, striking in its central mass. From all around a serving entity, more and more metallic spears appear and fly toward both the black creature and the flaming humanoid, which in turn begin to attack each other. Fuckin' yes, go get a big guy! To the team, time to fuckin' go kids, let's go! The team begins to sprint after the group of civilians towards the far wall, as jets of fire strike the ground around them. T-5 Nanku catches the end of the dismembered black tendril in her shoulder, throwing off her balance. She falls to the ground, firing opening with her weapon, as she is engulfed in fire. AP-3 Houston pauses briefly to turn towards her, but is grabbed by Arantu. We do not have time. As they near the group of survivors, all of whom are huddled near an exit door at the end of the chamber, there is a crashing sound, and they turn to see the surviving entity standing up from where it had been thrown across the room. The black creature whips at it as more metallic spirits appear and arc back towards it. There is an eruption of fire as the flaming humanoid is struck by another several tendrils, which try to pull the humanoid towards the mouth of the black entity. The team reaches the survivors, and quickly exits through the door. The group begins to quickly ascend the staircase within. Alright, just like I said, up. We need to go up. Over. A long, thin metallic cylinder crashes through the wall of the stairwell, narrowly missing one of the researchers in Dr. Scott. A second cylinder comes through the wall, striking Arantu and obliterating him as it contacts the wall behind him. As the group continues to ascend, fire fills the stairwell below them, and another long, loud, droning sound can be heard, followed by silence, and then followed by a thick, bursting sound that shakes the entire facility. The group reaches the landing, and begins to move towards another staircase at the end of the hallway. Z-9 Hollis hangs behind. What are you doing? Giving you more time, and… something else to think. Get these people out of here. Go. I can stay behind Hollis. Your life is finite. Yeah, yeah, I get the spele power ranger, but right now you need to get these people out of here. Let me do my thing, alright? I'll catch up with you later. I understood. Good looking out, Hollis. Heh. You almost sound like a person there for a second, Munru. Z-9 Hollis runs away from the group. Z-5 Munru catches up to the rest of the group, who reach another staircase and begin to ascend. For the next ten minutes, the group continues to ascend through the facility, several times nearly avoiding debris and falling rubble as the lower levels of the site begin to collapse. The sounds of the entities below continue to be heard, and several times the creatures become visible through large gaps in the walls or floors. At one point AP-3 Ross catches sight of the unmoving flaming humanoid, nearly completely covered in metal, as long streaks of fire burst through open seams in its encasement. Shortly afterwards, there are the two-minute break in all video footage, followed by a shot of the head of the surveyant creature smashing through a wall in front of the group. As they turn to run away from it, the head turns towards them, and two researchers are instantly transmuted into hexagonal columns of an unknown yellow-green material. After a short time longer, AP-3 Ross picks up a signal from Site Command. One lead is at Site Command. Do you read us? Holy fuck, yes. Yeah, I do. Do you hear me? We do. You have appeared on our geo-locating systems, Ross. You're not far from the exit. Where is Captain Hollis and Arantu? Arantu is dead. Hollis? She ran off a while back. We haven't seen her since then. Understood. What about the rest? We've suffered some casualties, some- F**k. We lost a few of the civilians, and Vigo and a few others. It's really bad in here right now, Command. We're gonna need all the help we can get. We- Munru. Where's Anru? She was behind us. Where is she? Don't worry about that now. We're marking an extraction point on your visor. The extraction team is waiting for you there. We're gonna get you all out. The group hurries towards the extraction point as the site continues to collapse around them. Above ground, aerial surveillance captured footage a large section of the site sliding into the ground, and smoke beginning to billow from the power station and nearby mechanical facilities. Plants of flame become visible as the Earth around SCP-1730 begins to give way. Mobile Task Force Alpha-20 Holy Divers enters the site near the crumbling power station. The group of survivors comes into view and are immediately moved towards the access point and then away from the site by members of Mobile Task Force A-20. As the rest of the Task Force members are pulled away from the site, a separate transmission reaches Site Command, originating from T-5 Anru. T-5 Anru and Z-9 Hollis are standing in front of the Thresher Device, which roars with activity behind them. They are firing their weapons at an encroaching black mass in front of them, which is punctured by streaks of fire. In the background, their certified entity can be seen tearing through black tendrils with its antlers, as long rods of flaming metal streak across the room towards the black entity. Hollis turns towards the camera and is visibly laughing, firing her weapons openly. She has removed her helmet. The hum of the machine behind them grows noticeably louder, eventually overtaking all other sounds in the room. Streaks of electricity arc across the ceiling above them. She smiles and turns towards Anru, who looks down to find her torso has been destroyed by a jet of flame. As Anru slumps to the side, the last shots of Z-9 Hollis, laughing hysterically of wildly firing her weapons as the enormous machine behind her begins to glow bright white. There is a flash and the transmission ends. Outside, as MTF-A-20 continues to move 1730 researchers and personnel to safety, there is a deafening crackling sound, and a loud hum fills the air. The area around the site begins to visibly distort, as if being seen through water, and then suddenly SCP-1730 is gone. In its place is an immense crater, over one kilometer in diameter. No other transmissions are received from within the site. No other anomalous activity is detected. End log. Note, in the wake of the advance detail in this log, SCP-1730 has been reclassified as neutralized. Further investigation is ongoing. Deep briefing reports will become available as soon as they are declassified.