Podcast / Find Us Alive

Escape efforts are ongoing.

"That’s all for now, Overwatch Command. This is Dr. Harley at Site-107, over and out. And to anybody else who might be listening in... find us alive."

—Dr. Harley

Find Us Alive is a New Weird Dramedy Audio Drama podcast set in the SCP Foundation universe detailing the tale of Site-107 after Incident 6320-A, a dimensional shift which trapped the entirety of the site inside of SCP-6320's associated Pocket Dimension. Narrated by the smooth-talking Head of— er, Communications Officer Dr. Harley as he desperately tries to reach Overwatch Command for help regarding their plight, the narrative centers on a group of five personnel with Psychic Resistance Index 14B as they deal with the fallout of the shift. The voiced mainstays of the cast are Dr. Lancaster, the head of Psychology, Dr. Klein, former head of Research and current acting Site Director, Officer Raddagher, a surveillance officer, Agent Love, a field agent, and, of course, Dr. Harley himself.

After the shift, all seems lost. An entire wing of the site has collapsed, killing a large portion of the site's upper management. Food, water, and oxygen supplies dwindle. The facility blacks out, panic sets in, SCP-6320 is creating smaller rifts all over the site faster than they can be destroyed, and monsters are roaming the site and attacking its personnel. Then, thirty-two days, thirty-two minutes, and thirty-two seconds after the initial shift, time resets.

Site-107 must start from scratch, over and over and over, in order to escape the rift.

The podcast is available for listening on its webpage, along with transcripts and the crew's audio adaptation of the SCP Foundation tale Duke Till Dawn. Understanding the plot requires no preexisting knowledge of the SCP Foundation or any of its characters beyond an idea of the basic premise, making it easily accessible to series newcomers. New episodes release on the first Friday of every month.

While the podcast itself is not "canon" to the greater Foundation mythos due to being an offsite work, the ADMONITION canon confirms an alternate version of the story's events exists somewhere in The Multiverse.

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Find Us Alive contains examples of:

• The Alcoholic: Harley. He drinks heavily throughout the majority of Episode 00, risks his life by stealing a bottle of vodka, drunkenly rants at O5 Command for not coming to their rescue, passes out and has to be carried back to his room, and that's just in the first episode. He denies that he has a problem—"a dependency, maybe", but hides his drinking habits from his psychologist despite Lancaster's protests.
  Harley: Okay, maybe it does cause some problems with my social relationships, but that's only because Lancaster won’t stop bothering me about it.
  (beat)
  Harley: ...Where's the bottle?
• Arc Number: 32. The loop lasts 32 days, 32 minutes and 32 seconds, and effects of SCP-6320 such as the formation of Dash Ones and Twos always take "32 something" units of time to complete.
• Attack of the Killer Whatever: Dash Twos, which mutate from harmless plants or insects.
• Badass Normal: The entire cast, especially Klein, Love, and Raddagher. Everyone is a non-anomalous human fighting against mutant plant/bug monsters.
• Bait-and-Switch Comment: From Harley, in Episode 01:
  Something tells me Dr. Lancaster never really liked being down here.
  (beat)
  It was him, he was what told me. All the time. 90% of what he'd talk about at staff drinks.
• Beach Episode: Episode 24, aptly named "The Beach Episode". Subverted in that, since the cast is obviously stuck in the building and can't leave to go to a real beach, the site inexplicably floods with two feet of water instead. They take advantage of the end of the cycle to relax and goof off by building makeshift boats, having singalongs, and generally taking a chance to relax and enjoy the Breather Episode. The only shade of drama is Raddagher's paranoia as to what caused the flood, and the final line from Lancaster, who cryptically references something he did that "worked".
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Deconstructed. Raddagher is quiet and reserved because she's isolating and overworking herself due to trauma, and her isolation leads to paranoia and a tendency to lash out when pressed.
• Blunt "Yes": Makes up a large portion of Raddagher's dialogue, owing to her flat affect.
• Boxed Crook: D-8379834, as is standard for Foundation D-Class personnel, is a convicted murderer who's been granted amnesty as long as he agrees to be a test subject.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Klein, the intrepid site director who carries around a flare gun, participates in office chair races, gets really into the sitewide Capture the Flag game, and constantly advocates for flagrant disregard of protocol in favor of the site's survival.
• Cannot Tell a Joke: Harley, who can be funny unintentionally, but never on purpose. All his "jokes" peter out as he seems to realize how dumb he sounds before he finishes speaking. For just a few examples:
  • Episode 00:
    Overwatch Command? More like Overwatch... DUMBmand...! HEH. ...fuck...
  • Episode 06:
    Communications Department? More like... fire... department...
  • Episode 10:
    Lancaster: Hey! Hey. I’m late. I'm so sorry.
    Harley: After my job, I see.
    Lancaster: What?
    Harley: Of... being late- nevermind.
  • Episode 15:
    Harley: Well, aren't you just the perfect Foundation employee then?
    Raddagher: (no response)
    Harley: Because- you don't trust anybody, and you're… paranoi- nevermind.
• Cast Full of Gay: Every member of the main five is LGBT in some manner; Klein and Love are lesbians, Lancaster is gay, and Harley and Raddagher are bisexual.
• Claustrophobia: Love, uncharacteristically for her brash exterior, has a panic attack when forced to remain in Harley's tiny office with four other people.
• The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: As is common for this trope, Lancaster is a psychiatrist who has a very hard time taking his own advice. In a slight Deconstruction, this is treated as an outright dangerous and hypocritical trait at the worst of times, even once resulting in him lashing out at Harley and nearly passing out from exhaustion. From the way Harley responds, it seems that it's unfortunately common for him to snap at his friends when he's stressed. It also severely undermines his credibility as he nags Harley about his drinking habits, seeing as he has a pretty nasty caffeine addiction himself.
  Lancaster: Maybe that's how- maybe that's what it takes to get through to you!
  Harley: Get through to me?! What about you?! You can’t just keep telling everybody else to do things you don't do yourself! You look like shit, when was the last time you slept?!
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: Most of the characters are used to and accept the idea of death because of their jobs at the Foundation, where dwelling on such things is a one-way ticket to losing your mind. After the Shift kills around a hundred personnel in Site-107, the site quickly recovers and sets up a "new normal". Once another death occurs in Episode 28, it's revealed that everyone isn't handling it as well as they think they are, with the repressed grief causing arguments, self-doubt, and isolation. Love, the only one who seems particularly affected by the deaths (despite her posturing otherwise), calls them out on this:
  Love: I thought by now it would be different than the Shift! When a hundred fucking people got killed and everybody just went "that's the Foundation" like it's no big deal! [...] Do you forget people just like that? Do they just disappear for you as soon as they’re gone?! Because that's "how it works?!" Fuck you!
• Danger Deadpan: Played for Laughs and Invoked by Harley in Episode 13 as he cheerfully instructs the site to start lighting things on fire. It's even denoted in the script as an "airline pilot voice".
  Personnel of Site-107, we are beginning our descent into anarchy, please be advised. Around the site, you'll find every Dash One instance that Security has sectioned off after we failed to stop its completion. These instances present a danger to our workplace, and are not compliant with modern OSHA regulations.
• Derailed Train of Thought: SCP-6320 weaponizes this, with a memetic effect that prevents the cast from telling anyone about the memetic effect. Harley rambles about Mandarin grammatical structure, Lancaster gets distracted by a stain on his shirt, Klein starts trying to explain Rohan Kishibe's Stand, and Raddagher gives up trying to explain with a blunt "This isn't working".
• Dissonant Serenity: Lancaster speaks very casually and assuredly during Episode 27 as he actively puts other characters in danger.
  Harley: Lancaster, was that a knife?
  Lancaster: It's a scalpel.
  Harley: (panicked negotiating) Okay, waitwaitwait. What are you doing with that?
  Lancaster: I just have to try something out. It's gonna confirm my theory.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The podcast is being written and produced during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and it shows in its themes. Its premise—being trapped and having to cope with a new way of living—is especially resonant post-2020. Harley summarizes it neatly:
  How did we as a species get so good at turning everything mundane? I mean- look at me. I'm sitting here longing for the days of my previous status quo. You know, the status quo where I worked for a secret shadow-government organization that contains and studies things that literally break every law known to science. That was my normal. For years. It's amazing, the things you can... get used to.
• The Dreaded: The Medical department is described with a sense of biblical awe and terror akin to how one would describe an Eldritch Abomination. The entire site is terrified of them, especially the department head Dr. Gravett, who teaches herself brain surgery from a textbook and issues "cold, terrifying demands" to ensure the site's health.
  Harley: Engineering?
  Love: Worse.
  Harley: (dread.wav) ...worse?
  Love: Medical.
• Dumb Muscle: Love is a Rare Female Example, the most physically capable member of the cast who also thinks having your appendix removed means you're diabetic, attempts to tame a vine monster that just trapped her inside a wall by throwing away her only weapon, tries to waterboard someone who's standing up, and can't remember how to pronounce "suspected".
• Episode Zero: The Beginning: The first episode Please Respond (distinct from the pilot) is Episode 00.
• Face–Monster Turn: Lancaster becomes one of the very 6320-corrupted monsters the cast is fighting. His transformation isn't clear until Episode 27, in a highly tense dialogue exchange:
  Harley: (referring to the filing cabinet crushing his lungs) I can’t move it- it’s too heavy- can you help get it off?
  Lancaster: [NO RESPONSE]
• Fauxlosophic Narration: Harley is prone to lapsing into this. In a particularly funny in-universe acknowledgement, it turns out to be something he tends to do when he's drunk.
  Harley: You really can see it all from here. A dozen little worlds on a dozen little screens. A hundred little places where anything and everything can go wrong. And very likely will. But maybe not right now. Maybe right now it will stay just this quiet. With any luck we can keep it this quiet for-
  Raddagher: What are you doing.
• Five Temperament Ensemble: With the laid-back Harley as the Phlegmatic, the sociable, upbeat Lancaster as the Sanguine, the Hot-Blooded Love as the Choleric, the withdrawn, paranoid Raddagher as the Melancholic, and the outwardly-confident, inwardly-conflicted Klein as the Leukine.
• First-Episode Twist: The "Groundhog Day" Loop that forms the premise (and keeps food, water, and oxygen supplies from being a problem) isn't revealed until Episode 07, aptly named "Reset".
• Fluffy the Terrible: Downplayed with Holland, the spider Dash Two monster who Harley named before it went, well, Dash Two.
• Hated by All: Simmons from Records. Nobody likes him, for a reason that's never specified.
• The Ghost: Simmons, Officer Haldi, and Drs. Alves, Shao, Gravett, and Masterson are frequently mentioned, discussed, described, quoted, and heard in one-sided conversations, but never appear "in voice".
• Giant Spider: Holland, the "large brown spider"-turned-Dash Two monster from episode 5. He's described as being about the size of a large dog.
• Given Name Reveal: Raddagher reveals her first name to Love in Episode 27. It's Ingrid.
• The GM Is a Cheating Bastard: Klein fudges her rolls to keep Love's wolf companion Balto alive during the group's game of Outer Kingdoms. When forced to reveal the number she actually rolled, it's a killing blow to Balto.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: An unusual, complex example: The loop lasts just over 32 days, with the BC2 wing re-collapsing every time the loop resets. However, the loop doesn't affect organic matter (or SCP-6320-related effects); plants continue to grow, memories and injuries persist over resets, and all deaths are final. Later, Harley discovers that tattoos persist across resets too.
• I Have Brothers: Love describes having a family of only brothers in Episode 14, who "toughened [her] up" for ROTC and her subsequent hire by the Foundation as a field agent.
• Hates Being Touched: Raddagher harshly rebukes Love for attempting to touch her during their first meeting, and no one has dared since.
• In and Out of Character: In-Universe, during their Outer Kingdoms game, the gang spends more time arguing over mechanics, goofing off, and pulling things out of their ass than actually playing. Special mention goes to Lancaster, who gives Harley's character his bard bonus by plucking the main riff of Smoke on the Water on his real life acoustic guitar.
• In My Language, That Sounds Like...: Love invokes this as an excuse to name her Outer Kingdoms character Skunkass, saying it "means something different in the goblin language".
• Last-Name Basis: Most characters address each other by their surnames except in times of distress, owing to the professional setting.
• Let's Get Dangerous!:
  • Gloriously applied in Episode 13, with the entire site descending into chaotic, joyful violence after Harley's request to "instigate large-scale property damage" and his subsequent Rousing Speech. Personnel incinerate Dash Ones left and right and break victims of the vine monster Dash Two out of the walls, and Harley narrates the chaos like a sports commentator over the site comms.
    Harley: Site-107, I have been advised by our fearless leader to impart the following message to all unoccupied staff:
    (Dramatic Pause)
    Light these fuckers up.
  • And again in Episode 18, when the Night Game is interrupted by an entire colony of Dash Two ants.
    Harley: I'm out in the field, it's chaos the likes of which I've never seen! This is Foundation personnel on a completely new level! The madness! The violence! The pure, unhinged EUPHORIA!
• Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: Raddagher becomes noticeably more open, patient, and willing to relax after interacting with the rest of the 14Bs, and especially Love.
• Loophole Abuse: Harley's Body Code, a method he comes up with to transfer data between resets. The reset affects all inorganic matter, meaning that anything written or recorded is lost every thirty days, but as Harley discovers, tattoos aren't considered "inorganic" by the rules 6320 operates on.
• Malaproper: Love is full of these: "sensory overhaul" instead of sensory overload and "portable water" instead of potable water, among others.
• Mister Strangenoun: Dumptruck the potato Dash Two and Skunkass, Love's Outer Kingdoms character. Knowing Love's the one who named both, she probably thinks they're cool.
• Mood Whiplash: All over the place, given the podcast's tendency to intercut clinical narration with snippets of wild action, but especially noticeable in Episode 00, during Harley's drunken lament to Overwatch Command.
  Harley: I miss the sun. Is it too much- (leaning away from the mic) Is it too much to ask to get a copy of the sun in here?!
  ...oh, shit. I just realized there are people working here who have kids on the outside. Oof.
• Morality Pet: Dumptruck, Love's pet potato monster. Both Klein and Lancaster observe that she's much calmer and starts fewer fights after creating him, calling him her "emotional support potato".
• My Greatest Failure: Implied to be what happened at Klein's previous site. Whatever happened, it resulted in her Level 4 clearance being stripped, and she suspects she was reassigned to Site-107 as punishment.
• No Indoor Voice: Love can regularly be heard shouting so loudly that it's audible through walkie-talkies held at arm's length from the listener. It's especially noticeable when she's in scenes with Raddagher, The Quiet One of the cast.
• The Nondescript: The entire cast, by virtue of the format. No physical description is given for any character beyond Love being short and having "shiny hair".
• Noodle Incident: Episode 25 is one long barrage of Noodle Incidents. Among the ones mentioned are "the Mushroom Incident", something involving a hundred pounds of upholstery foam, "cafeteria table pyramid incident", the "Ice Microchip War", and "the dead fish thing".
• Not Himself: Lancaster, after a Dash One forms on his leg. His normally upbeat personality became neurotic, obsessive, and prone to harsh outbursts, and whatever he's doing in his office, he is intensely secretive about it, snapping at everyone who innocently asks if he needs help organizing. Up until Episode 26, Raddagher is the only one who notices that something is severely wrong. It all comes to a head in Episode 27, where it's revealed that he's been making an anamorphic Dash One in his office, and he tries to carve a dash one into Harley's leg.
• Not So Stoic: Raddagher breaks her quiet demeanor in Episode 09 after Love betrays her trust, snapping at Harley.
  Raddagher: NO- I don't want to be a 14B with YOU. You all. I just want to be ALONE. I just want everyone to LEAVE ME ALONE. I want Love GONE, I want to be LEFT ALONE.
  Harley: Hey, are you okay-
  Raddagher: NO!
• Occidental Otaku: Klein, who keeps an "extensive anime collection" with (as mentioned so far) at least a few seasons of Dragon Ball Z and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and probably more.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Lancaster would like to remind everyone that the fact that he was in a single play in tenth grade does not make him a "theatre kid". Naturally, it's (jokingly) lobbed at him as an insult a few times.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The normally near-nonverbal Raddagher occasionally has angry meltdowns, and every time it occurs, it indicates that something has gone severely wrong. It's especially evident with her aggressive confrontation with Lancaster at the end of Episode 26.
• Our Monsters Are Weird: The Dash Twos, with their bizarre mammalian biology, blood like quicksilver, and the apparent desire to immobilize people rather than kill them. Every time one is described, no one seems to know which part counts as the head.
  Harley: -mouth was just teeth. Rows and rows and rows of-
  Lancaster: -broken glass, just stuck all over its head. I don’t know much about spiders, but I know their eyes are usually round and NOT supposed to look like-
  Love: -Mercury, or something, dripping out from where she shot it.
• Overly Long Name: D-8379834's designation is understandably shortened to D-1 in official correspondence and casual conversation.
• Parental Abandonment: Lancaster talks in Episode 14 about having to work and couchsurf his way through college without support from his family. Later on, he explicitly admits he was kicked out as a kid, but doesn't elaborate on why.
  Lancaster: Didn't, um- didn't really have the support of- ...I was kinda on my own, in a lot of ways.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: The shortest member of the cast, Love, is also the strongest, being a field agent.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Love, feisty as she is, is a fan of these. They're... not exactly as eloquent as some other examples, but she still manages to get in some good lines:
  • Episode 00:
    SIMMONS! I KNOW YOU TOOK MY MATCHES! BOB AND WEAVE, YOU LITTLE RAT! (gunshots)
  • Episode 18:
    (brandishing a flamethrower) DUMPTRUCK WOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOU ALL!
  • Even the soft-spoken Raddagher gets one, in Episode 13:
    Our hell dimension now.
• Precision F-Strike: Lancaster swears fairly often, but seems to reserve "fuck" for particularly climactic moments; notably, he closes his interview with the D-Class who tried to strangle him with a blunt "Fuck you."
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: PRI is predetermined by each person's individual psyche, so the people who ended up being immune to SCP-6320's primary memetic effect ended up being this; five people who were at best work friends and at worst total strangers. Their skillsets and attitudes differ wildly.
• Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Largely averted by the use of natural-sounding dialogue, especially by Lancaster, who tends to stutter slightly and reword his sentences halfway through.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Love and Raddagher respectively, with shades of both Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo and Ham and Deadpan Duo. Love is loud, brash, impulsive, and prone to violence and Suddenly Shouting; Raddagher is The Quiet One (to the point of becoming nonverbal occasionally), reserved, methodical, and often the first to notice when something seems off. As it turns out, Opposites Attract.
• Sarcasm Mode: Lancaster lapses into this during his interview with D-8379834, with the script itself denoting it as "(tonal shift)". Unsurprisingly, this is a very bad idea when you're a psychologist interviewing an unstable murder convict, and it immediately backfires as D-8379834 grabs him by the collar and tries to strangle him.
  You're right, a crazy person would never hide dead bodies in a crawlspace.
• Science Cocktail: The Botany department steals grains from the food supply and uses them to distill moonshine in their eyewash sink. As Raddagher also confirms, Records has toilet wine.
• Self-Deprecation: Harley is prone to this, but it's especially apparent in Episode 28.
  Harley: Let's be honest with ourselves, there are few things at which I do not suck.
  Love: Don't say that.
  Harley: Handling injuries...
  Love: Oh, shut up.
  Harley: ...being a decent friend...
  Love: Are you fishing for compliments or something? Do you want me to tell you all about how great you are?
  Harley: No.
  (Beat)
  Harley: I wouldn't want to make a liar out of you.
• Some Call Me "Tim": D-8379834's designation is understandably shortened to "D-1" when spoken aloud.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Klein is especially fond of mixing her typical casual, profanity-laden speech with rote clinical tone. Episode 01 exemplifies this:
  Klein: I’ve had it noted in Research's report that, as former Head of Research, the Records Department can eat my shorts, over.
  Harley: ...requesting permission to expunge the previous statement from the record, over...
  Klein: Permission denied, over.
• Squee: Love in Episode 27, after her and Raddagher kiss:
  [Love covers her mouth and squeals, stomps feet on floor]
• Tele-Frag: The vine monster Dash Two weaponizes this, by grabbing people, phasing through walls, and leaving them trapped inside.
• Twisted Echo Cut: An incredibly common mainstay, often used during particularly action-packed scenes in order to emphasize the disorganization and chaos.
  Love: Five bullets. There were FIVE BULLETS in my FUCKING GUN. I was NOT-
  Klein: -completely prepared for what happened. I’ve got this in the bag. Hell, I’ve been doing this shit for-
  Lancaster: -two whole minutes, before anyone actually reacted to what we saw.
• Two Scenes, One Dialogue: Another frequently used device. In the script of Episode 06, it's noted as "[Each character speaks over different background noise, all in separate locations. Their interviews feed into each others']".
  Lancaster: I had figured out a possible third effect of the skip,
  Love: I know that I voluntarily joined the Foundation,
  Lancaster: A possibility of a mind-altering memetic effect.
  Love: But I did NOT sign up for THIS SHIT.
  Klein: I certainly hadn’t predicted anything else the rift could have done, aside from-
  Harley: Self-replicating. And memetic, apparently.
• Unknown Rival: Harley harbors a barely-concealed seething hatred towards the Botany department just because he can't keep plants alive, and they seem to behave perfectly pleasantly towards him in return (minus a few wisecracks).
• Voice of the Legion: Full-blown Dash Threes apparently speak this way, denoted in the script as an "increasing distortion".
• What the Hell, Hero?: Love delivers a tearful speech to Klein, Raddagher, and Harley after they all start arguing and insulting one another instead of acknowleding their grief about the person who died earlier that day:
  Love: WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH ALL OF YOU?!
  (The others stop yelling.)
  Love: (choking back tears) Somebody fucking DIED! What’s the matter with you all?! You'll just throw her in the incinerator and act like it didn't happen? You keep going with your jobs and shit like we didn’t just LOSE one of us?! I thought by now it would be different than the Shift! When a hundred fucking people got killed and everybody just went "that's the Foundation" like it's no big deal! Are you out of your minds?! [...] What if it was one of us?! What if- what if it was Harley- was the one who fell down that hallway?! Would you all just keep on- would you all just pretend that- like none of it ever mattered?
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Invoked by Lancaster while attempting to voice his Outer Kingdoms character, which sends the entire room into hysterical laughter at the bizarre high-pitched voice he takes on. It's even noted in the script as an "awful, incomprehensible accent" and his "stupid character voice".
• Whole Episode Flashback: Episode 14, serving as a vehicle to deliver everyone's backstories. It's made up entirely of clips of the characters discussing how they got hired by the Foundation.
• Zombie Infectee: Lancaster gets bitten by a Dash Two during the Night Game, and the puncture formed a completed Dash One on his leg; he tells no one about it. As of Episode 27, he's gone fully Dash Three.

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"Site-107 is on high alert. Cracks in spacetime weave themselves together behind our backs. So for now, we watch. We stay focused, stay vigilant. We look out for ourselves, and for each other.
The Foundation excels at watching."

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