 So, the SCP Foundation loves to keep secrets, but they're also obsessed with uncovering many secrets about the world we live in. Now, imagine what the reaction might have been to discovering the existence of an IKEA furniture store whose interior is speculated to be infinitely large. Naturally, the Foundation sent in an MTF squad to sort of figure out what's going on with the anomaly when it was first discovered, and they immediately went MIA. From that point on, the perimeter of the store was locked down, and only the occasional drone was permitted to enter in order to scout out the expanse of the IKEA store. When staff were then assigned to this site, it sort of was a dead end for their careers. It sort of was just monitoring the store and making sure that nobody got too close. Too much risk for too large a loss of resources to send too much into the store itself. Containment was fairly easy to establish, just amnesticize anyone who walked up and turn them back the way they came. So employees were just left to be a bit curious about everything going on within, only getting enough information from the drones they sent in. Martha is one particular SCP employee who has been assigned to monitor SCP-3008, and Martha has been monitoring 3008 for about as long as anyone else who's been assigned here. Some of the junior researchers speculate she asked one too many questions and was given a promotion to a senior researcher here, or something along those lines. Others say she was just an IKEA employee they brought on as an informant when establishing containment. More and more rumors claim she is the lone survivor of the first squad sent into the IKEA, and there's even a few whisperings that she's one of the O5s or the administrator. Who knows which one is true though. She knows all about different tribes and sections of the IKEA just because of the information they'd be able to gather from different drones, so everyone just sort of assumes she must be some person of importance. Whatever she may be, no one can really figure out because they can't hold a conversation long enough with her to figure it out. She's just sort of weird. Tosh, would you like to describe Martha a little bit further for us? Absolutely. So Martha Redd is, I would say picture the neurotic, thin boned, sharp featured woman that you'd see working like a desk job her entire life, and just a mane of wild hair that she kind of ties back. It's just a big, curly, like, mess, and she has these huge round rimmed glasses. Dr. Octavia from Spiderverse I think is a good visual comparison, just like way more nervous, and less seemingly less confident in, you know, she's just a bit creepy to be around, I guess. Cool. So usually day to day there's not a whole lot going on here at SCP-3008's containment, but eventually there came a day when there was something that got to happen. Probably some immortal D-class idiot that lost his memory while inside of the Infinite Ikea while trying to retrieve a senior researcher's clipboard or something, also lost the teleporting staple gun that the Foundation gave to him. So now a few MTF researchers and Martha are prepping to send in a weaponized drone into the Infinite Ikea in order to cause D-class to reset his immortal powers so that he regains his memory and gets out of there. So at the warehouse entrance door, sort of like the loading dock area for the Ikea, there's a set of like garage-type doors that you can open there to get into the store itself, and it opens directly to the warehouse section of the Infinite Ikea where the D-class is supposedly located. Martha you're working on a tracker currently that has the last known location of the staple gun teleporter object thing as well as the last known location of the D-class, and it should theoretically also be able to allow the drone to backtrack should anything bad happen. So the drone will be able to return to the entrance and hopefully it won't have relocated by the time that the drone gets far enough away from it. So you are prepping to attach this to the drone when something happens that has not occurred for a very long time while the Infinite Ikea has been monitored. Someone exits the Infinite Ikea. The footage you've seen of the drones over the years that you sent into the store, you believe this tribes person to be from the checkout regions. They are running towards you all out here on the outside of the store. Your fellow employees are not allowed too much time to discuss and figure out what is going on with this person because they are quickly subdued before they are able to exit the store by several Ikea employees. But you've seen them before, these Ikea employees, you know that there's something wrong with them. They are not humans. They are either very small or very hulking creatures that wear the Ikea employee outfit but don't actually have faces or discernible features. How, sorry, how does this differ from actual Ikea? I'm not sure I'm kidding. I'm kidding. You're correct. But these employees are modified, actually, they are moving faster than you've seen in footage before and they have blades affixed to their arms. They're not saying their signature, the store is closed, go home when the lights are off inside of the Ikea and nighttime has set in. They are saying search and destroy. One is wearing a SCP foundation standard issue MTF bulletproof vest. OK. They are now exiting and hurrying towards the MTF that have started firing upon the employees that are rushing towards them. OK. You are off to the side in like a research tent that's been set up with a computer and everything so that you can get the tracker prepared. You have the tracker in hand and the drone is closer to the entrance and has not yet been released. What would you try to do in this situation? So, I mean, obviously, I mean, our job is to get the drone going. This is this is something new, certainly interesting and amusing, but we got a job to do here. So one other thing I'll say for you real quick, too, is about Martha. Martha's character is also a bit defined by what her superiors are like. She has very unnecessarily strict superiors who sort of try to push her around and do unnecessary tasks. She's been sort of forced into the desk position that she's in, not necessarily like wantingly to be doing what she's been doing. Yeah. And when you were sent to go do this, you hear the voice of your superiors echo in your head. Your top priority is the retrieval of the Lost Foundation property. Right. OK. Well, I mean, yeah, I think that Martha's just going to, like, kind of push her glasses up on her nose a little bit higher and just kind of like nod as she sees the chaos going down to them. Well, that's now. And then she's going to turn and continue attaching the tracker. They've they've got it. I'm sure they're fine. So the MTF, go ahead and start clashing with the employees there. A few of the Ikea employees go down and the MTF are able to pretty well hold them off, but they're starting to be pushed back a bit. And one of the Ikea employees is grabbing the drone. OK, that ain't happening. No, no, no, no, that's all right. So I'm assuming do I have like my weapons and equipment on me at this time? Or is it like? Sure, I would think that you're pretty familiar with the danger that the Ikea store can pose, even though the chances of anything coming out is extremely unlikely, it's not unheard of. OK, I feel like Martha just sees these. The Ikea employees, they're just they're part of the store. They're, you know, they're not necessarily I don't know how to put it. But like, yeah, how is this thing attacking the drone? Is it just like, you know, clawing at it, biting at it? Like, is it feral or so? It's not attacking it as you watch it run up to it. It actually grabs onto it and starts to double back into the store. OK, no, no, no, I need that. Shit, Martha's going to just kind of squint. This is surprising, I feel. And she's going to pull the axe off of her the back of her belt and take aim. All right, go ahead. I assume you're trying to check this at the Ikea employee then. I would like to throw an axe at the Ikea employee. Yes, perfect. Go ahead and roll to kick some ass then. OK, so you will add your tough, which is plus one. OK, so one D six, two D six. Oh, two D six. OK, well, that first one was a four and then a five. Damn, OK. Oh, OK. So that would be a 10. That's a complete success. You chuck this axe, it does several spins in the air. You got some professional axe throwing training from. I could plug in Eric here because he actually has worked at like an axe throwing place before you went to New York one time and went to this really cool axe throwing place, met this guy. He talked about like some weird store that he runs on Etsy called like Toad's King Studios or something. But yeah, you learn to throw some axes there. You hit it square in the back of the head. It was wearing a bulletproof vest, so you completely avoid it. And it falls to the ground defeated. The. MTF are trying to push back some of the other Ikea employees that have gone straight for them, they are starting to be pushed back further. And another one of the employees is now heading for the drone. Yeah, all right. So I was like, well, clearly I'm not getting any work done today. So and she's going to pull out her very she's yeah, she's going to start jumping into combat and assisting the rest of the team. OK. So she'll she'll do I have one throwing axe or two? I can't remember. But if I also have throwing knives, so she's just going to be readying herself and approaching that new employee that's coming her way. OK, I think as you prepare to start facing these employees here, it was that sort of a correct summation of the fact that Martha has been sort of stuck at a desk for a while and maybe wants a little bit more adventure. I mean, yeah, I think it's also as you said, bosses are pretty. They're kind of pains in the ass. So she's, you know, OK, OK, I have to follow these rules. You have to be so strict about it. I'm I'm just going to do my OK. Well, now if my the source of my job is trying to get drug into the store. Oh, dear. Yeah, if you are sort of like feeling some adventure, then I will say that that other IKEA employee, instead of trying to grab and take the drone, is going to just stab it. And now you don't have a drone to send into the store. Do have a tracker in your hand. And I mean, your bosses did say at any cost, you need to get the SEP Foundation's resources back. And I mean, you didn't necessarily say it needed to just be the drone in that you couldn't go in. Well, I mean, I guess I guess it's time to do things analog. She's going to stab that IKEA employee in the in the face with one of her knives. But then she will continue into that. I'll just say that you successfully do that. You don't even need to roll. All right. So yeah, you stab the IKEA employee in the face. You see just like the other one that was originally trying to grab the drone is dressed in some SEP garb as you get close enough, you see that there's like some wires connected throughout it. And it looks like someone's made some hefty modifications to it. But you see that the MTF squad has started successfully pushing the employees back. And if there's any time that Martha is going to do this, it's got to be now. She needs some excitement in her life. So you sprint off into the store. Oh, oh, no, what's that a new anomalous effect? It's just it's pulling me in for some reason. But someone better write that down. Oh, it's a researcher off on the side is like, I'm right. I'm writing it down. I got it. I'm writing it down. I feel like I'm maybe being pulled in too. No, no, my feet are. No, it's just her. I'm writing it down anyway. We'll get another drone. We will avenge you. So then Martha runs off into the store. Yeah. So as you're running into here, it is currently nighttime and from your research, you know that the IKEA employees become hostile towards people during the evenings. So you sort of are running into the store here. You're following the tracker. And as you get into the store, you realize, fortunately, the spot where you've been dropped into in the warehouse area of the infinite IKEA, you are nearby where the tracker is leading you to where the teleporting staple gun thing is. So you are heading into there and as you're heading that direction from the distance you're at, you're able to see that a flare shoots off into the air. Oh, I color me intrigued.