At some point between confession of the past and expression of the future, SCP-8438-2 will ask SCP-8438-1 if it needs a break.
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Fig 1.1: Two runners followed by SCP-8438-2.
Special Containment Procedures: All SCP-8438 instances are to be monitored from starting line to finish line.
Ankle weight shifting up and down, inconvenient voluntary monitor.
Fire at my side, oxygen depleting. I cannot breathe fast enough.
Foundation staff will set up checkpoints along the route of SCP-8438 to separate those affected by an SCP-8438-1 event and those unaffected.
There are no landmarks on the horizon. There is no hope on the cracking concrete path.
Unaffected members of the public will be given food, water and bedding, while affected members are not to be disturbed by the checkpoint staff.
Once I found this fun. Once I took pride in my pains and grimaces.
All Foundation staff are encouraged to participate in SCP-8438.
The music has long since deafened. Even the birds have gone to perch.
Fig 1.2: An SCP-8438-1 instance conversing with SCP-8438-2. Photo taken approximately 23 minutes after Fig 1.1.
Description: SCP-8438 is a worldwide ultramarathon race encompassing an unknown, but large, percentage of the human race — henceforth designated as participees in SCP-8438-1.
I see no one around me as I pass the bends. I'm only jogging, but I can't beg enough for an end.
An SCP-8438-1 event begins with a grieving man briefly meeting SCP-8438-2, an entity resembling a prior SCP-8438-1 instance.
I am cowardly to think this way. Shake my head and change the pace and keep velocity the same.
At some point between confession of the past and expression of the future, SCP-8438-2 will ask SCP-8438-1 if it needs a break.
I knew his words because my father had told me them so many times before. Do some pushups, son, get some discipline, don't cut the corners like your momma did.
Upon the acceptance of the offer, SCP-8438-1 will find themselves cognizant of the rules.
I had known lots of things, and I took what I could accept from my famine 'n fame… yeah, just what I could. I was stupid for thinking life was a bitch I could pull.
And in reality, they all saw me as the locked kid I was — "look at me, tell me to my face I don't know shit!" In my fantasies, I was still back in my second home, asking Jehovah for atonement in eight by six brick.
They are usually presented by the affected in this order:
"1: To end the race before it's over is flawed.
2: To stop during the race is hurtful.
3: To try to buy your way out the race [sic] is ineffective.
4: To let the race bring you to the ground is outlawed.
5: To finish the race will be bold.
6: The best thing you'll ever do in the race is to kill it."
The affected will often display significant short-term memory less, moving to the exit ceaselessly and responding to queries regarding their participation in "the race" with some variation on the phrase "I won't let it be me."
The first time I felt cold iron on my wrists, I was fourteen. Judge had seen my file and told me nicely that damnation was guaranteed.
After completion of the race, most lose some aspect of their identity; following extensive review of all SCP-8438-1 instances' unique life circumstances, this has been deemed non-anomalous.
The second time I felt jangling weight between my hands and my feet, I was nineteen. Between the bullets and the screams, with four years I couldn't disagree.
Witnesses alone are able to perceive SCP-8438-2, though they are unable to recall its features in great detail.
And now I feel the outline of a phone in my pocket, a privilege undeniable. And this time I think I know enough Marks that I can follow 'im.
Christ didn't do shit for me 'till I saw him as a punisher. When he told me I'm damned if I fucked up, I saw myself as a challenger.
Persons prior identified as SCP-8438-2 instances remain aware of their role in SCP-8438; witness accounts vary, but their general sentiment is one of support and mentorship.
Most SCP-8438-1 instances complete SCP-8438 without becoming an instance of SCP-8438-2.
Some kid walked up to me one day, fat afro and Dockers and a heavy coat. He asked me where I was going as I sat on the curb, a break between gas and work.
It is notable that most SCP-8438-2 instances are not necessarily community leaders.
"Man, I ain't homeless."
"Yeah, but right now you're pretty drinkless."
Current working theories posit that there is no human-comprehensible cause of SCP-8438-2.
I wasn't gonna let him outdo me, but pretty soon he had gone through me — plasterknife in his back pocket, we ate dead gas station burritos and did so at first quietly.
You'd think it was a story, but I think it was emergent; by that I mean it's destined, by that I mean God reckons. God's blood is on our hands, but there's one thing Nietzsche doesn't mention.
Participants who have undergone an SCP-8438-1 event score better on Foundation-issued mental health and stress surveys.
Following extensive deliberation by the ECOTW, SCP-8438-1 has been designated a Non-Threatening anomaly; while no actions will be taken to normalize it within society, no actions will exclude it either.
Ichor is contagious, and it gives you the fire to make it. Everything's got an end, and I have a daddy that was never fakin' — I won't make his worst fears reality, I'll grab the pen of the Almighty, I'll PROVE THAT I'M FIT-
The effect of containment options has been determined to be limited regardless of potential execution due to the amount of SCP-8438-1 and -2 instances.
-… I don't care if I killed God, I see his blood in family ties. I see him in $2.75 and a working kid that bothered to wave goodbye.
Current estimates put counts of both groups at 7.28 billion.
I estimate it's been three minutes. I look up in shock as I see dawn over a falling finish.