インタビュアー: エージェント ライアン・クライストチャーチ
対象: PoI-54112 (ボール・ヘーインスン)
日付: 2010年Liberary月45日
クライストチャーチ: よろしい、では始めましょう。ヘーインスンさん、あなたは過去にYou've actively resisted our attempts at making contact,
PoI-54112: ポールって呼んでくれよ、頼む。
クライストチャーチ: ーそれで、なぜ今になって我々との対話を求めてきたのですか？
PoI-54112: あんたらに俺を責められるのかな？ あんたらのしてきたことは公然の事実だ。People locked away, weird shit in secret black-sites 世界中で. I don't have much interest spending my time trapped in a cage. だが、I've grown tired of spending time I should be enjoying looking over my shoulder, and I've recently become aware of something that affords me a little… leverage.
クライストチャーチ: And what's that?
PoI-54112: まず、あんたに問いたい。俺についてどんなことを知ってる？
クライストチャーチ: You founded the Children of Liber during Liberary 1983 and have led them since. You've become known in certain circles for your somewhat extravagant parties, even considering the normal things that go on during Liberary. You've been tied to various anomalous goings-on almost every Liberary for the last 30 years.
PoI-54112: 他には？
少しの間沈黙
クライストチャーチ: いいえ。あなたは事象の外側に存在しているようには思えません。
PoI-54112: 前はそうだったね。あちら側にいたよ。
クライストチャーチ: あなたはどうやって基底時間から離脱したのですか？時空系のアノマリーを生成したのでしょうか？
PoI-54112: いいや、そんなもん作ってない。俺はごく普通の人間だよ。もとは金も権力もある男だった。Owned a giant, faceless corporation in the seventies.
クライストチャーチ: 何がきっかけだったのです？
PoI-54112: 癌だよ。もちろん、治療可能ではあったよ。さっき言った通り、金はあったからね。But you know how these things work. You're never really cured of cancer. You're just on a clock, waiting down the days until it rears its ugly head again. しかもその時点で俺はもう58歳だった。It's become a bit of a cliché, I know, but the whole affair made me aware of my own mortality. So I decided to do something about it.
クライストチャーチ: About mortality.
PoI-54112: Why not? You must have seen some unusual things working for your Foundation. You must know the kinds of shit you can find out there if you look hard enough.
クライストチャーチ: So what did you do?
PoI-54112: The same thing every rich asshole would do in my situation. I visited every hack, wack-job and voodoo magic man I could find who might have what I was looking for. Hey, it was the seventies. None of them did, of course. But I did catch wind of something. Do you believe in anything, Mr. Foundation? A God?
クライストチャーチ: No. No, not really.
PoI-54112: Ah, but you've seen things, haven't you? I can see it in your eyes. Things that claim to be gods, or as close enough to them as humans are ever likely to care about.
クライストチャーチ: あなたは神を見たというのですか？
PoI-54112: もしくはそれに限りなく近い何かだな。彼は年老いていた。死にかけていたのだと思う、神でも死ぬというのであればだがな。偉大なるリベル神。ワイン、fertility、そして自由を司る古代ローマの神だ。
PoI-54112が大きくジェスチャーをして見せる
PoI-54112: I don't know if he actually was what he claimed to be, but he certainly believed it. He was bitter, too. Angry about being forgotten. He ranted on about how his fellow gods were all immortalised by the calendar or how they had become pop-culture darlings. But not poor old Liber.
クライストチャーチ: You made a deal with a dying god.
PoI-54112: ビンゴだ。Ironically, I'd gone looking for something to try and solve the issue of my own mortality, only to find a dying god who couldn't solve his own. He couldn't make me immortal, but he could give me time. Endless time. A strange distinction, but there it is.
クライストチャーチ: この存在が余剰時間を作り出したと？
PoI-54112: あー、違う違う。俺はそうは思わない。No, 反復時間は元よりそこにあったんだと思う。おそらく自然現象だ。もちろん、誰もそんなこと覚えてはいなかったがね。It could have been happening for centuries. Millennia even, for all I know. No, he gave people memories. Turned me into an anchor of sorts, I guess. Put a little bit of whatever was left of him inside of me. As long as I exist, he exists, and people will remember what happened last Liberary. And since I'm now linked to it, I can't not exist. I had to give up my original life, obviously. Was all but forgotten by the world. But it was worth the price.
クライストチャーチ: And what did this Liber person get out of it?
PoI-54112: To be remembered, of course. To live on a little. All any being of great power ultimately wants. So I made sure the extra time would be named after him. Founded the Children. For 47 days out of the year, Liber is the biggest game in town.
クライストチャーチ: And you get to spend your time hosting orgies and eating enough food to feed a small country.
PoI-54112が笑い声を上げる
PoI-54112: Understand, from my perspective it's only been a few years since this all started. Whatever you consider normal time doesn't exist for me. But I'll admit, that aspect of it all has started to wear a little thin. That's not what we're here to talk about, though, is it.
クライストチャーチ: You mentioned something about leverage. I assume you're going to attempt to blackmail us now.
PoI-54112: Please, understand that I don't do this maliciously. It's actually out of my control. But as I said, I'm tired of having to look over my shoulder constantly in case some faceless Foundation goon grabs me and locks me in a box. So I'm hoping we can come to some sort of arrangement.
クライストチャーチ: I'm listening.
PoI-54112: Liberary is my entire existence. My impact on your world is limited, but it's not non-existent. You lose nothing by leaving me be. The world already knows about the Foundation and all the weird shit you deal with during Liberary. None of the "anomalous" stuff in my circle is harmful. Most of it is just side-effects from having part of Liber inside me, I think. The remnants of an old god amusing itself.
クライストチャーチ: We lose nothing by leaving you alone. What do we gain, then?
PoI-54112: As I said before, I'm something of an anchor now. While I'm here, I keep whatever this all is-
PoI-54112 gestures vaguely around the room.
PoI-54112: -pinned down. Solid. Whole. When I'm not here - for example when Foundation soldiers burst into one of my parties and shoot me dead. Well, things become a little less solid.
クライストチャーチ: What are you implying?
PoI-54112: I'll spell it out for you. Every time I've died, something bad has happened. Something big. I don't know why, maybe it's the result of that last piece of a god living inside of me actually dying. But they've started to bleed over into your time. The last time I died, that storm in Australia leaked over and caused all sorts of trouble. How many people died? Nine, ten thousand? That was the worst so far, but it wasn't the first.
クライストチャーチ: So you're holding the world hostage?
PoI-54112: Oh don't be so dramatic. Like I said, this isn't intentional. I felt terrible when I realised the connection. I've taken a lot less risks since then, just in case. But like I said, I also have little interest being hunted. So here's the deal. You leave me be, to go about my business at no cost to your self or your precious "normality" or whatever you call it. And in return, I won't kill myself every time I think you're even getting a little close.
クライストチャーチ: We could just keep you sedated. Put you under every time Liberary starts again.
PoI-54112: That would work once. 次のLiberary I'd wake up somewhere else. Certainly not in your little jail cells. And then you'd have to track me down all over again, and risk my getting killed. Why take the chance?
Following 当インタビュー, PoI-54112は was held until the conclusion of the SCP-3455 iteration, with their agreement. PoI-54112 was not present in his assigned cell in the following iteration, and his current whereabouts is unknown. The claim that their termination has a correlation with destructive disasters, which mirror disasters in baseline time, has been corroborated.
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