Miranda gets lost in an IKEA
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She calls Kyoya over to help her load up the cart.

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He comes over and helps her load them in.

"Anything else we should get today? There are probably microwaves, but I haven't seen any likely boxes yet."

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"I think I wouldn't expect them in this section since they don't lend themselves to flatpack."

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"The sheets won't be here either. It might be worth looking for studier screws, if we had the time, but we don't."

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"Dunno if 'sturdy' is customary in IKEA workmanship. Maybe the stuff they use to bolt things to the wall."

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He is able to quickly find a few bookcases and pull out the packages of materials used to bolt them to the wall.

"The sheets won't be here either."

He glances at his watch again.

"Anything else you can think of?"

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"Not off the top of my head, sorry."

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He nods and pulls the hardware out of a few more pieces of furniture. 

They head back. They make it with forty-five minutes to spare. 

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A nice comfortable margin. She helps herself to some more food and makes notes on her phone.

She writes on the back of Kyoya's failsafe note that she, a person who the person the failsafe belonged to met in the SCP IKEA, does not seem to be affected by some mental occlusion surrounding facts about the building that used to be a library, but lacks the ability to follow up on this eventuality.

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There's no noticeable effect. The note and pill remain within the capsule.

She continues to remember the failsafe exists.

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That night, the IKEA employees attack. 

There are at least a dozen of them. They tear at the walls, repeating, over and over again, "The store is now closed. Please exit the building."

The residents of the shelter fight back, with knives from the restaurants and handmade spears. There are holes in the walls of the shelter made for just this purpose. 

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Miranda hangs back, more of a liability than an asset in the fight, although she does halfheartedly try asking in a raised voice over the sounds of fighting, "Could you direct me to the exit, please?"

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The employees don't respond to her question.

The residents manage to keep the employees at bay until the morning comes. As soon as the store lights flick on, the remaining employees stop fighting and wander off. 

The residents begin dragging the bodies away. 

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They have carts, she can help.

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They take the bodies a fair distance away. It turns out that employees are drawn to the dead bodies of their kin. Another settlement was destroyed that way, a piece of an employee was hidden in one of their food storage boxes and, over the course of several days, drew in enough employees to completely wipe them out. 

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Yikes. She checks employees for missing pieces and tries to account for those.

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All of the employee body parts are accounted for. 

 

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Kyoya writes down as many details of this incident as the residents can remember.

He's already recorded the details of the other nearby settlements (two within a single days walking distance) but he records the rumors of other settlements as well. The residents of this settlement have heard of at least a dozen, three of which have been definitely wiped out, but are unsure of their exact location. 

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"Are you expecting this to be handy or is it just procedure to document everything you can think of?"

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"Both. If we can keep the door open, it's potentially useful. Even if we can't, you never know what piece of information will end up being vital later."

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"What are the expected obstacles in keeping the door open?"

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"I'm uncertain as to how the doors work here. If they vanish after a certain period of time, whether or not they are currently in use. If holding open a door attracts hostile attention from the employees, it might be necessary to close it. There seems to be an almost unlimited number of employees and we don't know what resources will be available to combat them on the other side. If it's just us, we won't be able to take on many."

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"No gratuitously destructive SCPs you can use as a pit trap against the employees?"

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He laughs, slightly taken aback. 

"That's a terrible idea on so many levels."

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"For all I know there are some that are safe as long as you feed them or something!"

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