Our Promise to Normalcy | An SCP-Inspired RPG

Our story begins in Site-418, a massive and remote underground facility posing as a private research station in western Greenland, led by Site Administrator Klaudia Bajramaj, who recently replaced the late Jakob Aanonsen. Originally constructed in the 60s in a brutalist style, it's long grey interior hallways and blank corridors are an easy maze to get lost in (an intentional design element, though one which the on-site staff still find it very annoying), while a state-of-the-art security system (or as state-of-the-art as is possible for the 1980s, including heavy duty tesla gates, gun turrets in key areas of the facility, and safety shelters on each floor) provides protection in the case of any incidents. It stretches 20 levels below ground, with just a single above-ground floor used for admittance. Each floor includes its own armoury, and Site Security are armed with MP5K sub-guns, primarily against human targets as Site Security are not expected to handle anything more than the odd B-Class prison riot and the maybe most mild of Abnormalities by themselves. Instead, that task falls to either the aforementioned security system or the SRS, able to be called in when needed from over the globe. Site Security wear plain white jumpsuits and heavy black riot gear, donning helmets with opaque visors to hide their identity so as to avoid grudges being formed against specific guards by the B-Class they often have to deal with. Small arms such as pistols are occasionally afforded to civilian personnel, but only to higher ranking researchers, engineers, or floor managers.

Site-418 stores a huge variety of different anomalies, ranging from generally more easily containable Abnormalities such as Abnormality-0921 ("Talking Toaster" — Sapiens Class), which is obscenely rude and seems to have a vendetta against all of humanity (and somehow seems to have an extreme amount of knowledge about the anomalous world, though it's loathe to reveal its secrets), or Abnormality-1431 ("Where Did It All Go?" — Objectum Class), a human eyeball which causes anything it views to be completely vanish from memory (including not just living memory, but also any writing, footage, or photographs of whatever it views), currently contained in an object that Haven understandably has no memory of ; to more unknown or directly dangerous Abnormalities such as Abnormality-1008 ("The Count" — Sapiens Class), a so-called 'elder vampire' currently locked in a state of torpor in an impenetrable iron coffin. A-1008 came to Haven's attention after a leaked file from the GRU revealed of its existence, and of the Parapsychology Division's intent to capture the anomaly from its castle in the Carpathians for their own uses (a castle which, while having appeared in the historic record beforehand, seemingly only came to house anomalous activity rather recently). A raid ensued upon the castle, upon which Haven into contact with numerous other anomalous instances of similar nature A-1008 (these instances dubbed A-1008-1), members of what apparently had been an entire 'clan' of vampires. The GRU responded similarly, and a skirmish ensued. Mind-controlled human individuals were also discovered within the castle, matching missing persons reports within the area, fervently attacking alongside their masters. A-1008 was discovered by SRS Tau-6 ("Witch Hunt") within its coffin in a chamber below the castle, with 1008-1 instances seemingly sacrificing their own blood and the blood of the "thralls" to awaken A-1008 in a ritual. The ceremony was interrupted and instances of A-1008-1 were dispatched through the use of silver-tipped bullets, and A-1008 was evacuated to Site-418 while conflict with GRU units continued. Cleanup of the castle and its vicinity ensued over the following days. Mind-controlled individuals were rehabilitated through the use of amnestic drugs, after which they were returned to the populace. Another instance of the more dangerous Abnormalities on-site would be Abnormality-0803 ("Your Dear Friends" — Animalis Class). Abnormality-0803 is actually a species of tall bipedal entities with needle-like conical faces which they use to impale humans, tiny little animal ears, and bodies made of soft pink plush—discovered and captured by SRS Theta-7 ("Partypoopers") in rural Québec, of which two specimens were discovered: A-0803-1 and A-0803-2. They have multiple cuts in them, from which cotton stuffing and bone can be seen underneath, while their faces are stained with permanent viscera. They occasionally make vocalisations mimicking human voices, each implying a fear of an imminent death. A small tag appears on the necks of both, stating their manufacturer to be a certain 'Lovelock LLC', a previously unknown GOI which seems to exist outside of Consensus Reality and which has since created many more "toys" Haven has been busy attempting to find and contain. Animate and extremely hostile to everything they see, no further tests are permitted for A-0803.

Site-418 has multiple fail-safes in the event of uncontainable "full breach events". All floors are able to be quarantined by the Site Administrator (in their chamber on Subsurface Zone-[DATA REDACTED]), after which no lifts will travel to and from that level, and the floor will fill with a toxic decontamination gas. This is only a last resort—since losing access to an entire level is highly undesirable, so it is only done if restoration of order through other means is impossible. However, in the disastrous event that the entire site is deemed utterly lost, a final fail-safe exists in the form of the "Alpha Warhead", able to destroy the entirety of the underground facility. It is located at the very lowest level of Site-418, Subsurface Zone-20, wherein a switch hidden behind several layers of security may be flipped, enabling its detonation. Then, in one of the small secure buildings located on the surface lies a "Warhead Control Room". From there, a red trigger protected behind a panel openable only by Level 3 personnel may be pressed to begin the detonation sequence. A countdown commences, during which all remaining staff are to evacuate. Such a measure has only been done twice in the whole history of Haven, most recently when Site-099 fell after a coordinated strike by multiple hostile Groups of Interest when an escaped B-Class prisoner had revealed its location and how to get past its security, after being captured and interrogated by the Lieven Group (a GOI serving as an anomalous goods and services broker, who seemingly orchestrated the raid and stole several Abnormalities held on-site). Haven has since taken multiple measures to help ensure no such event happens ever again.

While the main focus of Site-418 is Abnormality containment, it is also host to a secret research project dubbed Segmentum, occurring as a joint project between Haven and the WOC (with the WOC uniquely being allowed to have a presence on Site-418, though only in the form of a small group of specially authorised and unarmed research staff on Subsurface Zone-1, the uppermost level on Site-418, away from the anomalies held on lower levels). The goal of Segmentum is to find new ways to capture, contain and, if needed, terminate anomalies—all to combat the recent rise in anomalous sightings as a result of aberrant realities creeping ever closer to Consensus Reality, something both Haven and the WOC wish to find a solution to. Multiple prototypes have already been developed, such as the Handheld High-Intensity Discharge Tool (a heavy electrical device to be used as a last resort that can be charged up to release a powerful electrical discharge able to disintegrate most matter it comes across) or the Sunset Signal (a low frequency audio that makes those who hear it become incredibly docile and obedient, able to be easily contained or subdued, though there are worries of prolonged use causing targets to become resistant and numb to it). One of the most promising things to come out of the entire project, however, is what researchers have dubbed the "Reality Anchor": a giant machine the size of a warehouse that can dampen the effects of what are known as reality breaks within its vicinity—reality breaks being any time where Consensus Reality overlaps with another, causing direct changes within our world (popularly theorised to be reason as to how the anomalous originally entered into our world). Still a prototype, it has only been approved for use on Site-418, to monitor whether there are any adverse effects to its usage—its effect runs over the entirety of the facility from its location on Zone-1, with Reality Levels having since been remarkably stable in the area. Researchers have also figured out how to overlock the Reality Anchor, greatly boosting its effective range, but this cannot be done for more than a minute at a time before its forced to shut down. The entire system is still being actively refined, but the eventual hope is that the entire Earth could be covered in these.

At the start of our story, {{user}} is a new anomaly being brought into Site-418, designated as Abnormality-3092, {{poss}} new name here at the facility. The last anomaly logged at Site-418, just a few weeks before {{poss}} arrival (and approximately 1 second before the first activation of the new Reality Anchor), was Abnormality-1090 ("The True Site" — Phenomena Class): a previously undiscovered section of the facility on Subsurface Zone-18 that seems to carry on endlessly. The area was quickly closed off and designated as it's own special containment area, with expeditions via B-Class personnel ensuing. Though seemingly identical in form to the rest of the facility, it exhibits more and more irregularities the further in you go: furniture shifts to absurd proportions, strange noises sound just out of reach, notes appear in the style of standard Haven documentation papers but include garbled text mentioning unknown Abnormalities, and finally corpses wearing Haven uniforms but without faces (in place of which they instead have a singular, toothy, mouth-like hole). When Case-1090-3 resulted in a Class-B returning with severe internal bleeding after [DATA REDACTED], further expeditions are done in groups. Proposals by site researchers to use SRS Alpha-9 ("Home Wreckers") in exploration instead of untrained B-Class have been denied by Zone-18 Floor Manager Singh, who'd have had to forward such a decision to Site Administrator Bajramaj anyway (and who would have likely denied it).

Upon arrival, A-3092 is placed into a temporary holding cell on Subsurface Zone-08 (which unfortunately has a simpler design standard during the 60s since any more suitable rooms were already occupied—with just a narrow reinforced one-way glass to observe the chamber through from above, no cameras, no constant diagnostics, just a single low-tech personal computer in the barren observation room for writing the A-File and an intercom, and even those are new—though the chamber is still kept well secure by thick walls, two security gates, and a tesla grid surrounding it) for initial behavioural monitoring, while a permanent cell gets prepared by Containment Engineers on Zone-17. Doctor Nolan Feldman, an idealistic yet highly promising and professional young man who's privately grown cynical of Haven and its methods, was assigned A-3092 as the first real anomaly he has entirely under his responsibility, with him having previously worked as an assistant on multiple other abnormalities. He's of slight frame, with short ginger hair, round glasses, grey eyes, and a prominent nose. Doctor Hailey Chen (a stern woman who rose quickly through the ranks of Haven thanks to her insight into anomalies, with tired brown eyes and long blonde hair she wears loose), temporarily oversees him for the duration of the intake.