The Kazlev Institute: Research the paranormal & protect mankind

I Mean Self assured destruction is a thing which all government's In Most SCP canons follow...
Just thinking about KETER Class objects being Used for geopolitical Interests By various governments is a Nightmare..
That's The reason foundation exists because someone has to save the world and Various nation states turns out are not the best candidates for this job..
Or otherwise The foundation can Just threaten them.. you know leaving a Keter or two would automatically Get The pants of Washington Moist..
Too bad governments don't pay attention to stories about the folly of their lust for power much
 

Scheduled vote count started by Donald Darf on Mar 31, 2024 at 12:29 AM, finished with 8 posts and 2 votes.

  • [X] Plan: basics
    - [X] Theodore Kazlev
    -- [X] Look for potential opportunities for stable funds
    - [X] "Magic Monroe"
    -- [X] Try to gather more information about potential Anomalies nearby
    - [X] The Bastards
    -- [X] Go look for weapons to arm the Institute
    - [X] The Circle Of Hidden Pasts
    -- [X] Try to think up secret code for your files
 
Results 1
Look for potential opportunities for stable funds
Theodore Kazlev
Rolled a 2 + 30 = 32

Theodore searched around online and met with multiple business adept associates, but currently there were no affordable enterprises he could use to fund the organization
There were some places that were almost viable like Zombi-Donuts, a donut place with a gimmick of all their donuts being filled with coloured green filling and little organ shaped candies that had a couple places in Ohio, but Kazlev would have to wait till they seemed more affordable, possibly on a slow month for them

Try to gather more information about potential Anomalies nearby
"Magic Monroe"
Rolled a 87 + 30 = 117

"Here you go daddy-o" Magic Monroe said as they placed a bunch of newly printed files on the warehouses roundtable, Kazlev scanned through the documents and said "Wait what did you just call m-"
"NEVERMIND THAT, I just said a rhyme that felt cool before actually thinking about it, anyway, here is information on 178 local rumours, folklore, and stories, some supposed to be burnt police reports on Anomalous events, and a recording of a man confessing to his mind being taken over by some weird 50s themed Anomaly"
"Impressive work Monroe"
"Yeah, yeah..... can I-"
Kazlev sighed "Yes, you can choose the next movies for the break room tv"
"Woohoo! Tonight we're watching Ted!"

Ohio's Paranormal Intel
- Bunch of valuable information that "Magic Monroe" found about Ohio involving the supernatural
- Will help a ton in hunts for Anomalies within the confines of Ohio or related to Ohio

Go look for weapons to arm the Institute
The Bastards
Rolled a 83 + 26 = 109

After all the Bastards spent awhile covertly looking around, they managed to find a pretty good deal on tne dark web, and it was nearby
But it got weird fast

"And you have all this, these military assault rifles, and you're selling them to me for 400 dollars?" Said the Bastard trying to make sense, of the crate of assault rifles that the hillbilly before them had underneath the folding table on the front porch
"Yeah"
"How did you even get these?"
"My brother collected them from the dead bodies of his comrades in Afghanistan, not even in a memorial way, he just liked collecting, don't even get me started on the collection of enemy soldier skulls"
"Okay, I'll stop asking questions, have a good day" The other Bastards in the van on the front lawn started acting more vigilant than before
"But don't you also wanna get ammo for those guns?"

The Bastard sighed cause they would have to stay a little longer for the info, and the other Bastards in the car kept their individual doors locked except one so their half-sibling could get in
"Who would supply the am-"
"My brother"
"FUUUU-"

Cletus' Sand-Camo Rifles & Ammo
- Some military assault rifles collected from Afghanistan by a crazy dude who just really likes taking morbid stuff
- Said crazy dude also supplies the bullets
- The crazy man's name is Cletus

Try to think up secret code for your files
The Circle Of Hidden Pasts
Rolled a 90 + 8 = 98

Kazlev looked at the files, which would've been assumed to be complete gibberish if he didn't know it was code, and said "Okay this is great, good work keeping our information guarded against potential spies and such, but you'll have to give me and other authorized personnel a crash course in this"
The Circle members smiled as they pulled out a projector prepared for a code crash course, and one of them said "We were hoping you would say that"

Magic Monroe, who was standing nearby easedropping in the darkness, panicked and started running off "I'm not going back to class!" But the Bastards easily tackled the former corrupt lawyer and dragged them over to some seats the Circle set up for the secret code lesson
Some of the Bastards even had food and drinks which they requested from the Waitress

Coded Files
- A form of secret code that all files in the Institute have been translated into
- Makes enemies getting info on you more difficult
 
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Planning 2
Magic Monroe was sitting down in the break corner watching the movie Ted with a couple Bastards and Circle members
Kazlev was there too, but writing down the next course of action for the organization

(Make a plan and give each of our Staff as many tasks as you desire, but know that giving them too much will spread their attention thin across multiple actions, maybe even making certain tasks far more difficult, or straight up making them fail across the board, it isn't much of a worry for groups of staff but it's still something to consider)

[] Write-In Plan Name

- [] Theodore Kazlev
-- [] Try to purchase ownership over Zombi-Donuts at its lowest potential price
-- [] Interview the Waitress
-- [] Go look for potential recruits
-- [] Write-In

- [] "Magic Monroe"
-- [] Go search for Anomalies
-- [] Go look for potential recruits
-- [] Try to get blackmail on local officials to be slightly less worried about the law
-- [] Write-In

- [] The Bastards
-- [] Do some extra tough training
-- [] Go search for Anomalies
-- [] Try to set up more holding cells
-- [] Write-In

- [] The Circle Of Hidden Pasts
-- [] Interview the Waitress
-- [] Search for documents on the paranormal
-- [] Try to find some good research equipment
-- [] Write-In
 
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PLAN : The foundations of falsifications
- [] Theodore Kazlev
- [] Try to purchase ownership over Zombi-Donuts at its lowest potential price
-[] "Magic Monroe"
-[] Try to get blackmail on local officials to be slightly less worried about the law
- [] The Bastards
-[] Go search for Anomalies
- [] The Circle Of Hidden Pasts
- [] Try to find some good research equipment
 
Results 2
Try to purchase ownership over Zombi-Donuts at its lowest potential price
Theodore Kazlev
Rolled a 55 + 30 = 85

Kazlev sat at the board meeting among the highest Zombi-Donuts shareholders, and the former majority shareholder of the company looking at him in contempt from across the meeting table, Theodore covertly managed to get ownership of a lot of the company via buying others share in low points right before the value rocketed up again
It was pretty risky, requiring some gambles and the manipulation of other shareholders, but he managed to buy out a vast majority of the company's shares
"So what are your plans for the company Boss?"
"Not much, I'll mostly take a back seat, you manage it however you want, just make sure I get my money and we're good"

The former founder was confused as Kazlev then abruptly exited the meeting, smiling

Zombi-Donuts Majority Share
- Tons of income from a rising star in the gimmicky fast food industry
- Sorta more reliable then the stock market money

Try to get blackmail on local officials to be slightly less worried about the law
"Magic Monroe"
Rolled a 57 + 30 = 87

The mayor looked nervous as he sat on the park bench, and beside him was "Magic Monroe" wearing some concealing clothes
"Okay, I got your message, what do you want?" The mayor was sweating, looking around, he doesn't want anyone watching
"Me and my associates need some camouflage from the law, can you provide that?"
"What for?"
"I'll know that, you won't, I'll call you when I want some strings pulled, or I let people see this" Monroe pulled out some photos and threw them on the mayor's lap

It was a photo of said mayor dressed like a clown-gimp, biting into his naked screaming nephew, blood falling from
"You're a sick fuck, also I've got more so don't think ripping these apart will do much"
The mayor sighed, grabbed the absolutely unholy photos, and ripped them apart

And then both parties went their separate ways for now, Magic Monroe smiled and ticked another official off his mental list of blackmail victims in positions of power
A surprising amount of them had the same dirty secret with the cannibal clown-gimp thing, including the nephew, like, the exact same nephew
What even were the logistics of that? Did they all eat little bites? Was he kidnapped? Why specifically that mayor's nephew?
Where the hell do the costumes fit in this weird... sex cult? Cannibal cuisine thing? Monroe shook their head, they were getting side tracked

Ohio String Pulling
- Couple officials in Ohio have been blackmailed by "Magic Monroe", and thus they're forced to pull a couple strings to help the Institute
- It'll be a bit less likely for the Ohio authorities to interrupt your work

Go search for Anomalies
The Bastards
Rolled a 35 + 35 + 10 + 10 = 90

Anomaly 1
From Monroe's intel they heard rumours of an old building with some SPOOOKY stuff going on inside, the Bastards prepared their assault rifles, got out of their van outside the dilapidated apartment called Sunny Heights, and entered
It was the usual stuff, dust, some more dust, graffiti, and some bugs

But as they went further into the building, they heard something, like disjointed sitcom laughter and aaawwws of adoration, they carefully went further and further in
A doorway at the end of a hall, pink light shining from something inside, the group stepped in with the safety off on their firearms

There was a rotting corpse on the ground, causing multiple Bastards to gag in disgust, but a far more resilient member of the squad leaned down to inspect the body, it seemed to be a homeless man, from the worn out dirty clothes and backpack full of very cheap supplies
Then he saw that his siblings were looking at something, entranced, he turned his head to a corner of the room, the source of the pink light was an old box-like television with pink love hearts painted onto it

It was currently showing a bunch of rapid romcom images with pink lighting despite being unplugged, the resilient Bastard immediately realized the problem when he started feeling a deep love for the shows on the television, he ran forward and covered the screen as much as possible with his body, his head leaning over the device
His brothers and sisters snapped out of it, and one of his sisters said "Damn, she was one Femme Fatale"
"The fuck are you talking about!? Get a cloth or something!"

The Looove Box will receive a file

Anomaly 2
They managed to find it at a garage sale that was being set up at a house just outside of a town, which luckily meant no witnesses
It is a sort of shrine constructed from a fish bowl with a shattered rim and murky water inside, above it was a mobile with multiple dead stuffed fish rotating above, written on the bowl in permanent marker is
"Temple To The Piscine-Deity-Exiled-From-The-Heavenly-Seas"

They saw the person setting up the garage sale touch the water, then immediately disappear, the Bastards immediately took the shrine, carefully extracting the anomly from the scene in their van, before driving off back to the warehouse

Exiled Fish God's Shrine will receive a file

Try to find some good research equipment
The Circle Of Hidden Pasts
Rolled a 95 + 25 = 120

The Circle scholars were looking around for some potential covert ways to find and or purchase some decent research equipment
But one, the individual who was carrying the cheque that Kazlev gave them came back with a box and dazed, talking about a "Very convincing salesman" while barely even lucid, and with the cheque missing

When the Bastards checked the box from far away in the middle of a field, using a toy grabber at the end of a polearm made of duct taped together brooms, the contents were revealed to be white cylindrical metal devices with 3 black dots in a straight line on one side, on the other is a large black capital A

After some testing was done it was revealed the device could be opened, revealing 2 separate scanners on the ends of long cords, 1 green, 1 red, the green scanner can analyze physical objects with incredible accuracy given enough time, the data is stored into main device and translated to be understandable to humans
The red scanner releases patterns of red light that somehow give the one viewing said light the gathered data

This... would be useful
As long as this doesn't come with any weird hidden drawbacks

The Alexandria Cylinders will receive a file

The Alexandria Cylinders

- White metal cylinders that can analyze physical objects with incredible accuracy, given enough time to scan with one of its scanners on a cord, translate it into something understandable to most human beings, and zap it into someones head with a scanner on a different cord
- Black capital A on the side, also 3 straight black dots
 
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We are creating the deep state arnt we ?
Reminds me of a SCP in which the foundation ended up putting Dr bright as the US president...

Sure as hell it would be easy ...with the evidence we have here to back our candidate for the position
Less evidence to get our candidate elected, more evidence to get the mayor convicted and then executed as is the right course of action
And who knows, a completely unrelated other candidate could show up and convince people in a way far better then revealing the former mayor's corruption
Or people would like to figure out how you got the photo
 
Okay, release the photo to the press, make up some elaborate lie that you confiscated it from someone else who was blackmailing the mayor
Make sure the Institutes candidate won't be figured out by the mayor as an associate of Monroe, him yelling "THAT BASTARD AND MY BLACKMAILER ARE IN CAHOOTS!" While being arrested would attract bad attention

If that doesn't work, throw rocks at people and stop when they make you the mayor
 
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So, what might the next options be for this quest? Since it isn't too late for me to reply and to maybe get my own votes into this thing.

Even if I feel horribly out of the loop.
 
Planning 3
Theodore and some of The Bastards were outside in lawn chairs eating jelly filled Zombi-Donuts as the Circle members were debating if vampires were real or not and it spiralling out of control until a pair of them started hate frenching
Magic Monroe was sitting in a lawn chair too trying to figure out what was up with nephew eaters thing

(Make a plan and give each of our Staff as many tasks as you desire, but know that giving them too much will spread their attention thin across multiple actions, maybe even making certain tasks far more difficult, or straight up making them fail across the board, it isn't much of a worry for groups of staff but it's still something to consider)

[] Write-In Plan Name

- [] Theodore Kazlev
-- [] Acquire better tools for containment
-- [] Attempt to recruit potential agents
-- [] Interview the Waitress
-- [] Write-In

- [] "Magic Monroe"
-- [] Watch Family instead of work
-- [] Fine, Ugh! Watch Family Guy AND look for any groups in the area related to anomalies
-- [] Attempt to recruit potential agents, and maybe laugh at car crash videos
-- [] Write-In

- [] The Bastards
-- [] Patrol for more anomalies
-- [] Start training up higher quality agents
-- [] Go look for potential combat vehicles
-- [] Write-In

- [] The Circle Of Hidden Pasts
-- [] Send in a strong willed agent to explore the contents of the Looove Box
-- [] Interview the Waitress
-- [] Do some tests with the Alexandria Cylinders to see if one could delete specific sets of data instead of the whole thing at once
-- [] Write-In
 
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Plan Name: Interrogation

- [X] Theodore Kazlev
-- [X] Acquire better tools for containment
-- [X] Write-In: Observe the Waitress' interview.
- [X] Magic Monroe
-- [X] Attempt to recruit potential agents, and maybe laugh at car crash videos
- [X] The Bastards
-- [X] Start training up higher quality agents
- [X] The Circle of Hidden Pasts
-- [X] Interview the Waitress
-- [X] Send in a strong willed agent to explore the contents of the Looove Box
 
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If XCOM has taught me anything, it's that we should investigate the strange to develop countermeasures.

And that we need more people.
 

Scheduled vote count started by Donald Darf on Apr 26, 2024 at 2:59 PM, finished with 2 posts and 1 votes.

  • - [X] Theodore Kazlev
    -- [X] Acquire better tools for containment
    -- [X] Write-In: Observe the Waitress' interview.
    - [X] Magic Monroe
    -- [X] Attempt to recruit potential agents, and maybe laugh at car crash videos
    - [X] The Bastards
    -- [X] Start training up higher quality agents
    - [X] The Circle of Hidden Pasts
    -- [X] Interview the Waitress
    -- [X] Send in a strong willed agent to explore the contents of the Looove Box
 
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