SCP 8888 8B 8B 8Ball Part 2

The SCP Foundation does not typically get robbed.

It's happened, of course, but typically the immense amount of protocols and security measures

that the Foundation employs, for anything that might be worth

stealing, deters any would-be criminals. That goes even further for the really secure stuff.

And with SCP-8888, we're informed about perhaps the most secure object the foundation possesses,

a miraculous device that they used to solve their problems

by essentially predicting the future.

SCP 8888 was practically impossible to steal, and by all accounts shouldn't have been capable of being stolen,

and yet stolen it was by unknown individuals.

Now, Dr. Sokolski has been granted authority by the O5 Council to put together a team to steal it back,

a decision that they certainly may come to regret. Let's continue.

We pick things up where we left off, with Sokolski about to

assemble his team in order to recover the eight ball. With that, he begins in Greece, descending

down the steps of an ancient Greek theater at night. On a stage constructed of warm wood

paneling, an eccentrically dressed woman is currently giving a lecture,

gesturing at a holographic display to her left, displaying a three-dimensional model of the fallen city around her in its prime.

She speaks to a drone hovering nearby, stating that the war between the mechanite empire and

classical Hellas is a moat in the corner of our eye. When we examine the sources straight on,

we can't so much as glimpse it. It is only perceptible as a faint irritation on the surface of our

lens.

The facts of this conflict can only be glimpsed peripherally,

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