This video was obtained from a remote-controlled research drone launched from the Foundation vessel Euryale to survey the surface of a [REDACTED] fault exposed to SCP-1311. For convenience of viewing, the video transcript is divided according to the depths at which certain scenes were taken.
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0 m: Video captured during the device launch preparation. The drone is suspended on a crane at the side of the Euryale and ready to be launched into the water. The ship's crew is going on the bow in sight of one of the cameras. Most are smiling, some are gesturing reassuringly. The captain addresses the crew with a speech about the importance of the first detailed study of this anomaly. Then the crew disperses to their respective stations. Even from the surface there are visible accumulations of sea foam in the area of the anomaly and an abundance of green vegetation at the shore bottom.
3 m: The seabed in the coastal area is covered with dense thickets of meadow grasses, which are holding silt and sand together with their roots. Despite the large number of young shoots, mature trees and shrubs could not be found. Periodically, areas of 0,5 m radius free from vegetation are visible. A large number of small fish and two large 'ant hills' are found in the grass. Of the mammals, only small rodents were seen, occasionally attacking fish from ambush. The largest creature at this depth was a male raccoon recently affected by the anomaly, judging by its extreme confusion and regular attempts to resurface.
7 m: Start of the descent into the rift. The walls are completely overgrown with shrubs and deciduous trees characteristic of central Russia. Fruits and berries are mostly eaten by fish, with found samples being collected for analysis. Snakes appear several times in the cameras’ field of view, their morphological signs being that of common vipers. At the roots of one of the birches is a badger, digging small stones from the seabed and swallowing them, presumably to reduce buoyancy.
13 m: Among the bushes are several visible entrances to the recesses in the surface of the fault. After moving inside one, it becomes possible to determine that it is of artificial origin and, presumably, was dug by a large animal. At the bottom there are multiple shells from bivalvia, as well as fish and animal bones. However, the cave itself looks long abandoned, with partially collapsed walls.
Upon exiting the recess, the drone encounters a person. Appearance - boy, 10-12 years old, [PERSONAL DATA EXPUNGED], in striped swimming trunks, corresponds to the description of [REDACTED], at the time reported missing for two weeks in the nearest settlement [REDACTED]. He shows extreme agitation and is gesticulating frantically. Apparently, the boy is trying to say something, but fails due to the human vocal cords’ unsuitability in underwater conditions. He is also supposedly crying. By means of the manipulators, he is directed to the ship; the research drone, meanwhile, begins further descent. The boy looks extremely agitated, gesticulating and trying to prevent the descent, but after re-directing him to the ship, stops and quickly swims up
20 m: The way down turns out to be blocked by a dense cluster of huge coniferous “umbrellas” holding onto thin and flexible barkless trunks that go far down, mimicking waterlily leaves. While moving, using tools for clearing the path, loud clicks of unknown nature are registered to be emmenating from the surrounding branches.
26 m: On the bottom surface of the "umbrellas" there is a thick layer of organic substances (the composition is identical to the accumulations of foam on the surface of the anomaly), overgrown with a huge amount of normal forest fungi. On this surface, a herd of dwarf goats moves upside down. Their limbs are significantly shortened, their teeth are missing, and they lick off food by hypertrophied tongues, covered with sharp keratin growths.
Suddenly, a group of several ordinary goats rises from the depths and quickly approaches the grazing flock. They grab three dwarf goats with their teeth, pulling out from the herd, and then drag them down. The whole process remains unnoticed by the surrounding animals.
35 m: Becomes noticeable a warm stream rich in organic matter, rising from the bottom of the fault. Illumination under the "umbrellas" drops drastically, rare specks of light on the walls of the fault are filled with clusters of green branching earthworms, measuring approx. 2-3 m long. At the bottom, unknown lights sometimes faintly flicker.
55 m: The area from which most of the "umbrella" pines grow. Due to the nutrient-rich flow from below, the amount of fish is much higher than expected. Many fish have ulcers on their bodies, on which swarm clusters of flies with swollen abdomens and wings functioning as some form of oars.
75 m: From the depths rises a flock of jellyfish-like creatures. Detailed review allows to establish that these are actually hedgehogs that have lost most of their organs, except for the skin sack covered with needles, the digestive tract and long (up to 6 m) tongues, which are used as tentacles for catching flies and small fish. The flickering of lights below becomes more distinguishable.
150 m: The abundance of flies and fish hampers the movement of the drone. On the wall of the fault are six large creatures. They appear to look like cows deprived of extremities and hearing organs. The only hole in the skull is a wide-open mouth, from which several square meters of the digestive tract are periodically released into the water, outwardly digesting and absorbing flies and fish, that are sticking to the tract in large quantities. Spots on the skin are constantly moving and changing shape, observers note the similarity with the figures of the Rorschach test. No anomalous effect on the viewer is noted.
Between the horns of these organisms is a web with an unusual pattern (no effect on humans is noted). The fish that notices it swims up to the web and remains in front of it, without interrupting visual contact, for an indefinite time. Periodically, large spiders come to such fish and devour them (the trance state is not interrupted). Some fish look bloated and barely maintain their position in front of web. Spiders carefully wrap such fishes in webs and protect them from flies.
340 m: The drone is attacked by a large moray-like creature with bear arms, emerging from one of the holes in the rift wall. The use of protective mechanisms allows the drone to drive the organism away with electric shock. Loud clicks are heard from time to time, but their source is unclear. The flickering of lights below becomes clear enough to detect a clear pattern in it (see the attached video file).
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1025 m: Boars (25-33 m in length) swim through the water under the drone. They suck water into their mouths, which compose about one sixth of their body size, filtering nutrients out of it through large “humps” of lung tissue on their backs. Flies continuously emerge and float upward from these "humps". Around these organisms swarm flocks of large feathered cephalopods with eyeless bird heads and two tentacles, periodically pecking at parasitic groundhogs from the bodies of boars. As the research drone approached, the mollusks began to rapidly change the color of their plumage, [MEMETIC HAZARD EXPUNGED].
████ m: [DATA EXPUNGED] The creature is dressed in [DATA EXPUNGED] and holds a █████ ███████████ in it’s hands, with which it disables defense systems of the drone [DATA EXPUNGED]
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