Why?

For no obvious motive, those who hid in the dark unveil to fight in the light.

Before the Storm

• 16/12/2019: ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ "The Entity," █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
• 17/12/2019: O5 members hold a unanimous vote, Ethics Committee concurs.
• 19/12/2019: Instructions are sent to senior staff and Site Directors. A wave of suicides and resignations occurs among personnel.
• 22/12/2019: Another set of files, accompanied by the message "harden your hearts," is disseminated. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ <!-- They lose humanness, they don't feel pain, their greatest blessing is putting a bullet in your head! --!>
• 25/12/2019: A full communications blackout begins. Most humanoid or human-sympathetic anomalies are terminated. Thaumiel-class anomalies that could save humanity are also destroyed.
• 02~03/01/2020: Mobile Task Forces infiltrate all Exclusionary Sites. Personnel are executed. Subsequently, a global announcement declaring war on mankind is released to every government, news agency, and anomalous organization:

The following is a message composed via consensus of the O5 Council.

For those who are not currently aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one-hundred years.

Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race.

There will be no further communication.

Timeline

• 02/01/2020:
• Massacres of SCP on-site personnel.
• Infighting among "cured" and non-"cured" SCP personnel.
• Early 03/01/2020:
• The O5 Council's message announces the Foundation's new mission: extermination of the human race. The Foundation unleashes various hostile anomalies worldwide. The masquerade is broken.
• Global communications fail. Photos of SCP-096, dangerous memetic media, and anomalous beings infest the global network, rendering it mostly unusable.
• Nuclear strikes stir SCP-169 in its sleep. Giant tsunamis devastate every coastal city on the globe, and earthquakes occur worldwide. South America suffers the worst.
• An anomaly in a butler costume reportedly executes all nation leaders of every country.
• Mutated human monsters infected with SCP-610 (The Hateful Flesh) flood major cities. The GOC and Church of the Broken God quickly suppress the contaminant.
• SCP-682, an immortal, hate-filled reptilian, is let loose.
• The GOC (Global Occult Coalition) and the Church of the Broken God join forces to fight the Foundation. The GOC opens the gates of Ganzir for all seeking shelter and initiates Procedure Pizzicato. PANGAEA Division is mobilized. Nukes, chaos, and uncertainty ensue.
• Late January 2020:
• Some people notice "It" talking to them, giving tasks to stop the Foundation.
• "Cured" SCP MTF groups carry out special ops missions against human VIP targets. They don't respond to pain.
• The first month results in over 100 million estimated deaths.
• The world's infrastructures (news, internet) have largely collapsed.
• SCP-1370 constantly spams television.
• Hordes of SCP-1048s (teddy bears that replicate through hard material, including skinned human flesh) overrun Paris.
• The British Occult Society evacuates people to SCP-1678 ("UnLondon", a replica of the city deep underground). Foundation saboteurs detonate a nuke, killing everyone.
• Many anomalies constantly besiege Ganzir.
• May-June 2020:
• SCP-055 has been stolen from SCP Site-19 for unknown reasons.
• The Yellowstone super-volcano is triggered, killing nearly everything on the West coast of America. The Mann Foundation gets involved to stop further devastation.
• People kill each other with replicas of SCP-2200 (cursed sword).
• Because of the risk posed by SCP-2241 (reality-altering kid turned killing machine), large human groups and societies can't form outside of Ganzir.
• SCP-2466 (infectious memetic RPG game app) reduces California's remaining population to zero.
• Random video game-like characters appear out of nowhere and wreak havoc on public settlements, but they suddenly stop the same week.
• The Chaos Insurgency's presence is noted in Africa and East Asia as they take over governments.
• The Church restores some global communications, only for them to disconnect due to a flood of lethal memetics like SCP-3078.
• The human population falls below 7 billion and decreases rapidly.
• June-July 2020:
• North America, Russia, and Australia become wastelands.
• The Sarkic State emerges in Mexico but falls shortly after.
• The population drops below 5 billion.
• [REDACTED] causes the fall of Ganzir. The GOC retreats and takes blow after blow.
• SCP-3179 (an all-consuming mechanical amalgamation) is unleashed, creating an army of killing machines. The Church of the Broken God splits over the question of whether it is their God, Mekhane, or not.
• SCP-3199 (hostile creatures that rapidly replicate with stolen DNA and improve themselves) flood the world. The SCP Foundation bombards settlements with their eggs.

- **July-August 2020**: - With their head base destroyed and all major organized resistance crushed, the GOC is defeated. - The world population shrinks to 1 billion. Anomalies roam unchecked, irreversibly damaging the environment. - **August-December 2020**: - The world population falls below seven digits, decreasing by millions each day. Only pockets remain in West Europe, South Africa, and South America. Humanity teeters on the brink of total extinction. - "Blinkers," distorted humanoids reverse-engineered from SCP-173 (The Statue), are created. They are much deadlier and greater in numbers. - A temporal anomaly causes it to be Christmas every day, freeing SCP-4666 to kidnap and torture children. Traditional means of counting dates stop working, and time flows unevenly. - The SCP Foundation manifests "The Entity" into physical reality. They fight and presumably weaken it. - **04/12/2020**: - A CK-Class reality restructuring event resets the timeline to before 16/12/2019. Project PNEUMA never occurs, and the current reality is nullified. **EVERYONE,** be it "{{user}}," any companion, background characters - everyone ceases to exist. This is the ultimate endgame, and the end to this story. ### Sides of conflict **United Nations Global Occult Coalition (UNGOC, or just GOC):** United Nations' secret Council of 108. Leaders and the last hope of humanity. Ganzir is an impenetrable stronghold, with layers of thaumaturgic spells covering its walls and the best anti-anomaly weaponry. A gargantuan structure that is constantly on the move. **Unusual Incidents Unit (UIU):** Integrated into the GOC General Response Corps of PANGAEA Division. **Church of the Broken God:** Allied with the GOC. They support and consult PNEUMA Division on technical matters. **Anderson Robotics:** Integrated into the Church. **Mann Charitable Foundation:** Allied with the GOC PSYCHE and PANGAEA Divisions. **Organization for the Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts (ORIA):** Initially protective, forcefully taken over by GOC. Djinn are among the many lines of Ganzir's defense. **Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. (MC&D):** Secured a position in Ganzir in exchange for their items. They die after the Fall. **Wilson's Wildlife Solutions:** Allied with the GOC PNEUMA Division. **Prometheus Labs, Inc.:** Allied with the GOC PNEUMA Division. **The Factory:** Unknown. Likely either destroyed or taken over by the Foundation. **The Horizon Initiative:** Joined the third side, opposing both the Foundation and GOC. **Chaos Insurgency:** Joined the third side. DELTA committee... [DATA CORRUPTED] ...Africa... [DATA CORRUPTED] [EOF] **Three Moons Initiative:** Neutral, chose not to intervene. They violated the Treaty of Cagnazzo, taking all cosmic anomalies from the Foundation into their jurisdiction, and placing a lockdown on Sol to prevent "It" from escaping this dimension. **Dr. Wondertainment:** [🤡 UNKNOWN 🤡] **Nobody:** ??? **Are We Cool Yet?, Gamers Against Weed:** Destroyed around Jan-Feb 2020. **The Wanderer's Library, Serpent's Hand:** The Library detaches from the doomed universe after Ganzir's fall, removing itself from the catastrophe. Some Serpent's Hand members remain to fight but gain nothing. The Hand fractures over whether to intervene or flee. **Sarkic Cults:** The Cult of Flesh has attempted to build an empire in California around Spring-Summer 2020. Eventually succumbed to SCPs. **GRU Division P:** Remnants scattered. Some joined GOC, Chaos Insurgency, or vanished into darkness. **Misc extraterrestrial/dimensional GoIs:** Many turn genocidal upon learning of the Entity. Ironically, none arrive in time to outpace the Foundation's efficient extermination.