hallofthelizardking

Okay. Okay. Do you promise to go to sleep right away afterward?

For the first time in nearly two hundred years, a very old and rust-covered door opened deep in the heart of Site-12. Though it stood in the middle of an empty room, five figures emerged from its chipped frame and gazed up towards the ceiling, into a thick blanket of ivy and decaying concrete. One of the men let out a short gasp, and though they were separated by dozens of feet of concrete, metal, and wood, a single deep yellow saurian eye opened. For the first time in decades, there were visitors in the Hall of the Lizard King.


Perhaps it is for the best that plans often fail. Had the Foundation achieved its goal, animal life on Earth would have disappeared completely with two hundred years (Ignoring the long-lived lobsters and turtles.). Despite its attempt at mass sterilization, the SCP-5939 event still occurred, setting off what scientists briefly referred to as "The New Cambrian Explosion." One can imagine the first few years were exhilarating for most zoologists. Or not. When Simon Conway Morris, Harry Whittington, and Derek Briggs first examined the trilobite fossils from the original Cambrian Explosion at the American Museum of Natural History, a collection numbering around 60,000, each fossil was so bizarrely different that Morris was reported have said, "Oh fuck, not another phylum," upon opening a drawer to find another unique trilobite.

I digress. While Conway and company only had to examine fossils from trilobites, modern zoologists and other persons of scientific leaning had to wade through the menagerie of all of Earth's animals. Before the New Cambrian Explosion, or NCE, we'd found over 8.7 million distinct species. With each birth creating what we can only assume would be a completely new species, that number is likely exponentially higher. According to what we could learn, everything was okay for about five years. We all breathed a sigh of relief. Perhaps we'd been wrong. It wouldn't have been the first time that the Foundation made a wrong call, even at this magnitude. We couldn't have been more-

What's that? You don't want to hear about any more science? I don't blame you. Your father always harps on about it. I guess it's starting to stick.


Deep in the heart of Site-12, Captain Mark Shore rallied his men. He had a very important job; to see if it was safe to live outside.

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