WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.719 --> 00:00:06.209 The High Priest, adorned in the finest purple ceremonial robes, stands before the great, 00:00:06.209 --> 00:00:09.760 bull-headed statue in the darkened belly of the castle. 00:00:09.760 --> 00:00:12.710 The year is 850 CE. 00:00:12.710 --> 00:00:16.830 Masked worshippers whisper chants of holy reverence on all sides. 00:00:16.830 --> 00:00:18.869 He is in his element. 00:00:18.869 --> 00:00:23.109 Everything they do, they do in service of the great god, Moloch. 00:00:23.109 --> 00:00:27.060 All around them, banners bearing the sigil of the Brazen Heart hang. 00:00:27.060 --> 00:00:29.410 It’s a celebration. 00:00:29.410 --> 00:00:33.480 Just a few hours earlier, their forces had invaded an enemy Church in the hills. 00:00:33.480 --> 00:00:38.220 They’d slaughtered most of the congregation in a sudden whirlwind of bloody violence, 00:00:38.220 --> 00:00:41.360 staining their swords in the great Moloch’s name. 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:45.550 But as the High Priest had ordered, some of these blaspheming Christian churchgoers were 00:00:45.550 --> 00:00:49.490 taken prisoner and brought back to the castle for “questioning.” 00:00:49.490 --> 00:00:53.190 Here, the High Priest would deal with them himself. 00:00:53.190 --> 00:00:59.030 A sadistic, tooth-bearing grin crosses his face at the very thought of it. 00:00:59.030 --> 00:01:03.320 Soon after the ceremony, the High Priest descends into the dungeon - Which he’d taken, with 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:07.380 a certain flourish, to calling the “Game Room.” 00:01:07.380 --> 00:01:11.190 Here, he keeps his private collection of torture tools from around the world, each of which 00:01:11.190 --> 00:01:15.820 he takes great pleasure in using against the worms who refused to bend the knee to his 00:01:15.820 --> 00:01:17.970 bloodthirsty god. 00:01:17.970 --> 00:01:21.850 In the Game Room, the air is suffused with the stink of blood and sweat. 00:01:21.850 --> 00:01:26.100 The prisoners who still have tongues start to scream when the High Priest enters, knowing 00:01:26.100 --> 00:01:29.040 that everything is about to get so much worse for them. 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:34.210 He’s cultivated a certain reputation as a man willing to do anything to ensure the 00:01:34.210 --> 00:01:38.159 superiority of his infamous cult, the Brazen Heart. 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:42.560 If ever you fell into his terrible clutches, escape was out of the question. 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:47.470 The very best you could possibly hope for was a mercifully quick death. 00:01:47.470 --> 00:01:51.979 In the corner of the room, one unfortunate captive was twisted and shattered against 00:01:51.979 --> 00:01:55.450 a Breaking Wheel, but still torturously alive. 00:01:55.450 --> 00:01:59.729 In the corner across from him, another prisoner bleeds from the inside of a grimacing Iron 00:01:59.729 --> 00:02:03.320 Maiden that the High Priest had overseen the construction of personally. 00:02:03.320 --> 00:02:09.770 But that was only the very beginning of the High Priest’s collection of terrible instruments. 00:02:09.770 --> 00:02:13.820 Prisoners teeter in agony on Judas Cradles and Spanish Donkeys. 00:02:13.820 --> 00:02:16.800 Skin is stretched and bones are cracked on racks. 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:21.720 Some are pierced as they sit on the monstrous Iron Chair while others simmer away in great 00:02:21.720 --> 00:02:23.490 vats of oil. 00:02:23.490 --> 00:02:26.780 Some scream as they hang from their wrists on the tenth round of Strappado. 00:02:26.780 --> 00:02:33.220 Lead sprinklers, Spanish Ticklers, Thumb Screws, Crocodile Shears, Choke Pears, Malay Boots, 00:02:33.220 --> 00:02:37.660 Heretics Forks, Bastinado Sticks, Scold’s Bridles, Scavenger's Daughters. 00:02:37.660 --> 00:02:42.210 The High Priest has all of them, and he’s adept at using them. 00:02:42.210 --> 00:02:47.830 But they all pale in comparison to his favorite piece, a prized possession, gifted from the 00:02:47.830 --> 00:02:52.020 bosom of Moloch himself: The Liars’ Cradle. 00:02:52.020 --> 00:02:55.840 Such a perfectly ingenious tool for physical pain and mental terror. 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:00.239 It’s positioned at the very center of the game room, just so every other prisoner in 00:03:00.239 --> 00:03:05.780 every other device can see him using it, and know that it’s their eventual fate. 00:03:05.780 --> 00:03:10.560 A mighty stone furnace with huge metal grates on either side. 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:14.550 As the High Priest approaches, he can see a terrified prisoner already writhing within 00:03:14.550 --> 00:03:15.780 the machine. 00:03:15.780 --> 00:03:19.110 When the prisoner sees him, the fear only gets worse. 00:03:19.110 --> 00:03:21.670 The High Priest would have no mercy for him. 00:03:21.670 --> 00:03:26.090 He’d spent ten hours on the breaking wheel before this, and that felt like a pleasant 00:03:26.090 --> 00:03:30.440 sleep in a comfy, king-sized bed compared to what he was about to endure. 00:03:30.440 --> 00:03:34.750 Two of the High Priest’s sadistic acolytes jab at him through the grates with red hot 00:03:34.750 --> 00:03:35.850 pokers. 00:03:35.850 --> 00:03:40.209 The High Priest grins and asks the prisoner what village he hails from. 00:03:40.209 --> 00:03:44.750 When the villager surrenders the information, the High Priest gives a sagely nod. 00:03:44.750 --> 00:03:48.780 He asks how old the prisoner is, and the prisoner says, 27. 00:03:48.780 --> 00:03:51.370 Again, the High Priest nods. 00:03:51.370 --> 00:03:55.210 He asks the prisoner whether he would like to leave and be with his family again. 00:03:55.210 --> 00:03:57.000 And of course, the prisoner replies, yes. 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:01.319 He has no idea that they’re all already dead. 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:06.959 The High Priest smiles, and says, “Just one more question then and you’ll be free 00:04:06.959 --> 00:04:08.550 to go… 00:04:08.550 --> 00:04:10.300 What is my true name?” 00:04:10.300 --> 00:04:14.600 The prisoner pauses for a moment, which earns them another job with the poker. 00:04:14.600 --> 00:04:17.329 He tells the High Priest that he doesn’t know. 00:04:17.329 --> 00:04:20.100 He’s jabbed again, and again, and again. 00:04:20.100 --> 00:04:22.830 He begins to cry and starts apologizing. 00:04:22.830 --> 00:04:24.660 He doesn’t know the High Priest’s true name. 00:04:24.660 --> 00:04:28.010 How could he possibly tell him, no matter how much he’s tormented? 00:04:28.010 --> 00:04:31.850 The High Priest says, “Well, just give me your best guess. 00:04:31.850 --> 00:04:35.580 Who knows, perhaps you’ll be lucky…” 00:04:35.580 --> 00:04:39.590 The Game Room falls silent, all eyes on the prisoner in the Liars’ Cradle. 00:04:39.590 --> 00:04:43.930 His lip trembles, knowing from the dark legends what will happen when he answers. 00:04:43.930 --> 00:04:48.810 He breathes a ragged sigh, accepts his fate, and guesses. 00:04:48.810 --> 00:04:49.889 Incorrectly. 00:04:49.889 --> 00:04:53.290 Suddenly, the prisoner screams as he catches fire. 00:04:53.290 --> 00:04:57.350 The High Priest watches with unrestrained glee as the prisoner burns. 00:04:57.350 --> 00:05:01.870 He does so for around a minute, the fire burning far more intensely than it possibly should 00:05:01.870 --> 00:05:02.949 have. 00:05:02.949 --> 00:05:07.520 By the time it’s done, the pile of ashes that was once the prisoner falls through the 00:05:07.520 --> 00:05:10.300 grate in the bottom of the Liars’ Cradle. 00:05:10.300 --> 00:05:15.720 The High Priest turns to the rest of the room and asks, “Who’s next?” 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:21.580 Of all the many adjectives you could use to describe SCP-2128, also known as The Liars’ 00:05:21.580 --> 00:05:24.590 Cradle, “Humane” certainly isn’t high on the list. 00:05:24.590 --> 00:05:29.479 This antique stone furnace was discovered deep in the dungeons of an undisclosed castle, 00:05:29.479 --> 00:05:33.840 believed to be a former refuge of a fringe occultic group known as the Brazen Heart - a 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:38.220 cult of worshippers of the Canaanite deity Moloch, an entity mentioned several times 00:05:38.220 --> 00:05:40.040 in the Hebrew Bible. 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:44.699 Among the deity’s most notable traits is its bull-like appearance and the fact it requests 00:05:44.699 --> 00:05:47.169 burned human sacrifices. 00:05:47.169 --> 00:05:51.020 This feels extremely relevant, given the fact that the Liars’ Cradle is all about giving 00:05:51.020 --> 00:05:53.639 its victims a fiery end. 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:57.600 While the thaumaturgic methods used by members of the Brazen Hand to create the Liars’ 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:03.580 Cradle is unknown, what is clear are the Cradle’s capabilities and functions: When a human being 00:06:03.580 --> 00:06:08.830 is placed within the Cradle, and asked questions, a single lie will lead to them being anomalously 00:06:08.830 --> 00:06:09.830 incinerated. 00:06:09.830 --> 00:06:15.000 And the device’s purview for a lie is frighteningly wide: A victim will be incinerated if something 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:19.110 they say is factually untrue, regardless of the victim’s personal knowledge. 00:06:19.110 --> 00:06:23.990 In other words, ignorance as an excuse will not save you. 00:06:23.990 --> 00:06:28.759 While the Brazen Heart was wiped out hundreds of years ago by soldiers of the Spanish Inquisition, 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:32.690 the SCP Foundation has been able to glean some background information about the Liars’ 00:06:32.690 --> 00:06:38.539 Cradle from a surviving document: A sheepskin scroll known as the “Ignis Manuscript.” 00:06:38.539 --> 00:06:42.729 This revealed that the Cradle was invented around the 9th Century CE, before being walled 00:06:42.729 --> 00:06:48.710 up in 1021 CE, and during its heyday, it was used as a torture device by Brazen Hand members 00:06:48.710 --> 00:06:50.050 against their enemies. 00:06:50.050 --> 00:06:54.669 While most torture is actually incredibly ineffective at getting information - studies 00:06:54.669 --> 00:06:58.670 have shown that under states of extreme duress, victims will simply say what they believe 00:06:58.670 --> 00:07:02.919 their captors want to hear in order to make the suffering stop - The Liars’ Cradle is 00:07:02.919 --> 00:07:05.900 an excellent method of wringing information out of captives. 00:07:05.900 --> 00:07:13.100 Well, aside from the fact that one lie means the captive is immediately reduced to ashes. 00:07:13.100 --> 00:07:17.319 You see, SCP-2128 works on a true or false binary operating system that seems to imply 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:20.310 an innate awareness of all knowledge. 00:07:20.310 --> 00:07:24.350 If you have enough captives to burn, and know the right deductive or inductive questions 00:07:24.350 --> 00:07:29.040 to ask, it’s possible to know almost anything in enough time. 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:33.720 It’s believed the Brazen Heart used the Liars’ Cradle both for practical purposes 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:36.270 and their own twisted amusement. 00:07:36.270 --> 00:07:40.000 Victims would be placed in the device and have their feet prodded with hot pokers while 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:44.880 they were asked a series of increasingly probing questions about their life, being forced to 00:07:44.880 --> 00:07:49.949 divulge extremely dark and personal secrets or meet their doom on the pyre. 00:07:49.949 --> 00:07:52.910 It was a depraved combination of physical and mental torture. 00:07:52.910 --> 00:07:57.259 If even hearing about all this makes you feel a little queasy, nobody could blame you for 00:07:57.259 --> 00:07:58.280 that. 00:07:58.280 --> 00:08:04.440 The SCP Foundation, however, looked at the Liar’s Cradle and saw incredible potential. 00:08:04.440 --> 00:08:08.960 As mentioned earlier, the Liars’ Cradle bases its judgment on raw factual knowledge, 00:08:08.960 --> 00:08:11.039 not the knowledge of its particular victims. 00:08:11.039 --> 00:08:15.900 So anyone with enough people to burn can conceivably work their way towards discovering any binary 00:08:15.900 --> 00:08:17.310 answer. 00:08:17.310 --> 00:08:21.620 And given that the SCP Foundation has an almost unlimited number of D-Class Personnel at their 00:08:21.620 --> 00:08:26.199 disposal, it didn’t take long for them to realize all the knowledge that was up for 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:27.199 grabs. 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:30.750 They’d just need to make a few sacrifices along the way, hoping to save more people 00:08:30.750 --> 00:08:32.260 in the long run. 00:08:32.260 --> 00:08:35.130 Moloch himself would probably be proud. 00:08:35.130 --> 00:08:39.810 It was this somewhat morally dubious chain of thought that led to the creation of Experimental 00:08:39.810 --> 00:08:44.939 Protocol 37-Sparafucile, the Foundation’s plan to utilize the Liars’ Cradle to discover 00:08:44.939 --> 00:08:48.930 more information that would assist in their mission to contain anomalies and protect the 00:08:48.930 --> 00:08:50.110 human race. 00:08:50.110 --> 00:08:54.519 The Protocol is outlined in a five-step procedure that is as follows: 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:55.660 1. 00:08:55.660 --> 00:09:01.160 One D-class employee, referred to as the "messenger," will be laid inside SCP-2128. 00:09:01.160 --> 00:09:02.699 2. 00:09:02.699 --> 00:09:06.989 The messenger will repeat statements as instructed from the prepared list. 00:09:06.989 --> 00:09:08.050 3. 00:09:08.050 --> 00:09:12.930 After each statement, if the messenger remains unharmed, the statement is to be marked as 00:09:12.930 --> 00:09:13.930 "true." 00:09:13.930 --> 00:09:14.930 4. 00:09:14.930 --> 00:09:18.380 As soon as the messenger is incinerated, a new messenger is to be provided. 00:09:18.380 --> 00:09:21.959 The statement that triggered the incineration is to be marked as "false." 00:09:21.959 --> 00:09:22.959 5. 00:09:22.959 --> 00:09:25.509 A new messenger will be assigned. 00:09:25.509 --> 00:09:27.199 Repeat as needed. 00:09:27.199 --> 00:09:32.720 While the total extent of these tests remains off the record, the official files on SCP-2128 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:36.600 have some fascinating supplementals about some of the results of Experimental Protocol 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:38.769 37-Sparafucile. 00:09:38.769 --> 00:09:46.190 The first set of tests was designated EP 37-Sparafucile-22 "Keter Checkup", and was conducted on January 00:09:46.190 --> 00:09:48.149 10th, 2014. 00:09:48.149 --> 00:09:51.550 The Messenger, in this case, was D-6238. 00:09:51.550 --> 00:09:56.379 The first statement this D-Class was fed was, “The human race is in danger of extinction 00:09:56.379 --> 00:09:57.589 right now.” 00:09:57.589 --> 00:10:03.029 Seeing as D-6238 didn’t immediately go up in flames, this was found to be true. 00:10:03.029 --> 00:10:07.029 The second statement was, “The danger comes from an item in Foundation custody.” 00:10:07.029 --> 00:10:11.649 Much to the relief of the D-Class, this was also found to be True, and he lived to make 00:10:11.649 --> 00:10:13.480 another statement. 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:17.699 This statement was, “The dangerous item in question is located at a site in North 00:10:17.699 --> 00:10:18.980 America.” 00:10:18.980 --> 00:10:23.410 This was, sadly, the D-Class’ last words, as this statement proved to be false and he 00:10:23.410 --> 00:10:26.410 was immediately burned to death for his troubles. 00:10:26.410 --> 00:10:31.259 The next Messenger brought in was a woman now known as D-6239, after she committed an 00:10:31.259 --> 00:10:34.819 armed robbery that killed several innocents and landed her on death row. 00:10:34.819 --> 00:10:39.910 Her statement was, “The dangerous item in question is located at a site in Europe.” 00:10:39.910 --> 00:10:42.889 This caused her to be immediately incinerated. 00:10:42.889 --> 00:10:47.329 The SCP Foundation then continued to narrow their focus on this matter over the next thirteen 00:10:47.329 --> 00:10:48.959 D-Classes. 00:10:48.959 --> 00:10:53.949 With the information they gained, they were able to narrow down that SCP-752, a subspecies 00:10:53.949 --> 00:10:58.420 of humans who are eager to displace and replace non-anomalous humanity, would be the cause 00:10:58.420 --> 00:11:03.399 of a containment breach that could potentially end the human race’s dominance if they weren’t 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:04.399 stopped. 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:09.449 D-6253 was given the statement, “SCP-752 will breach containment within the next month.” 00:11:09.449 --> 00:11:11.519 The answer was True. 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:15.329 Next came, “SCP-752 will breach containment within the next week.” 00:11:15.329 --> 00:11:17.670 Also, this proved to be true. 00:11:17.670 --> 00:11:23.470 D-6253 would finally meet their maker with the false statement, “SCP-752 will breach 00:11:23.470 --> 00:11:24.759 containment tomorrow.” 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:31.799 But this opened the door for the final correct answer, delivered to us by D-6254, that “SCP-752 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:34.489 will breach containment today.” 00:11:34.489 --> 00:11:39.110 Armed with this vital information in the nick of time, the Foundation dispatched MTF Nu-7 00:11:39.110 --> 00:11:43.489 - also known as Hammer Down, their largest and most well-armed Mobile Task Force - to 00:11:43.489 --> 00:11:44.950 the site in question. 00:11:44.950 --> 00:11:48.779 This quick thinking allowed them to quell the threat at the exact right time and save 00:11:48.779 --> 00:11:53.009 the world from an SK-Class Dominance Shift scenario that would have left humanity in 00:11:53.009 --> 00:11:54.239 the dust. 00:11:54.239 --> 00:11:58.460 Using the Liars’ Cradle, the SCP Foundation had just saved the world as we know it, and 00:11:58.460 --> 00:12:01.459 all it had taken was a handful of D-Class lives. 00:12:01.459 --> 00:12:06.399 So naturally, the tests with the Liars’ Cradle didn’t stop there… 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:10.559 Next came EP 37-Sparafucile-23 "Knowledge Measure.” 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:15.080 As the name suggests, this test hoped to ascertain the extent of the knowledge the Liars’ Cradle 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:19.799 possessed, seeing as it could continue to come in handy for Foundation purposes. 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:26.889 The first Messenger was D-7784, who was fed the statement, “SCP-2128 knows everything.” 00:12:26.889 --> 00:12:31.180 This turned out to be false, and led to the D-Class’ immediate incineration. 00:12:31.180 --> 00:12:34.939 However, the lead researcher on the case decided to take a different approach. 00:12:34.939 --> 00:12:39.369 Perhaps, he thought, the Liars’ Cradle didn’t accept the numerical designation that the 00:12:39.369 --> 00:12:41.350 Foundation had placed on it. 00:12:41.350 --> 00:12:47.179 The next Messenger, D-7785, led with the statement, “The Liars' Cradle knows everything.” 00:12:47.179 --> 00:12:51.290 Which proved true, because that allowed him to live long enough to be incinerated by his 00:12:51.290 --> 00:12:55.540 next statement: “The Liars' Cradle will tell us everything.” 00:12:55.540 --> 00:13:01.279 After his incineration, D-7786 stepped up to the metaphorical plate, first saying “The 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:03.689 Liars' Cradle will tell me everything I need to know.” 00:13:03.689 --> 00:13:06.149 The Cradle judged this to be true. 00:13:06.149 --> 00:13:10.430 It did not, however, take kindly to “The Liars' Cradle will tell the Foundation everything 00:13:10.430 --> 00:13:11.929 they need to know.” 00:13:11.929 --> 00:13:17.209 It declared this statement false by immediately incinerating the D-Class. 00:13:17.209 --> 00:13:22.509 After this incineration, the EP 37-Sparafucile project was out of its daily allotted D-Classes 00:13:22.509 --> 00:13:24.499 and decided to call it a night. 00:13:24.499 --> 00:13:31.459 Their next test was the mysterious and controversial EP 37-Sparafucile-24 "Sunday School Song", 00:13:31.459 --> 00:13:34.519 which utilized D-7891 as its messenger. 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:39.429 She was fed the statement “Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world.” 00:13:39.429 --> 00:13:45.290 The results of this particular test have been permanently expunged from SCP Foundation records. 00:13:45.290 --> 00:13:50.959 Next came EP 37-Sparafucile-25 "Pinocchio Paradox", which was an experiment intended 00:13:50.959 --> 00:13:54.369 to see how the Liars’ Cradle would react to logical paradoxes. 00:13:54.369 --> 00:13:58.790 Spoilers: It doesn’t involve as much incineration as you might expect. 00:13:58.790 --> 00:14:03.819 First came D-8232, who provided the statement, “Telling the Liars' Cradle a paradox is 00:14:03.819 --> 00:14:05.829 dangerous to Foundation personnel.” 00:14:05.829 --> 00:14:10.779 This was proven to be false, and, ironically, he was burned alive immediately. 00:14:10.779 --> 00:14:15.989 Next came D-8233, with the statement, “The Liars' Cradle is going to kill me right now.” 00:14:15.989 --> 00:14:19.990 The Liars’ Cradle bent its own rules by declaring this false, but only incerinating 00:14:19.990 --> 00:14:24.589 the D-Class enough to permanently disfigure him rather than killing him. 00:14:24.589 --> 00:14:29.250 D-8234 was shoved into the Cradle after that, making the statement, “The Liars' Cradle 00:14:29.250 --> 00:14:31.100 is going to burn me right now.” 00:14:31.100 --> 00:14:34.749 This was proven, through empirical observation, to be false. 00:14:34.749 --> 00:14:37.129 Ten seconds passed without incineration. 00:14:37.129 --> 00:14:42.320 However, when D-8234 exited the cradle, he complained about sustaining a small cut on 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:45.339 one of the rocks that made the Cradle while climbing out of it. 00:14:45.339 --> 00:14:50.730 This caused D-8234 to rapidly succumb to a previously undiscovered form of gangrene and 00:14:50.730 --> 00:14:52.639 pass away in minutes. 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:58.269 Finally, D-8235 entered and said, “The Liars' Cradle is going to inflict physical harm upon 00:14:58.269 --> 00:14:59.589 me right now.” 00:14:59.589 --> 00:15:04.519 This was proven false and D-8235 climbed out of the Liars’ Cradle unharmed. 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:09.360 At this point, however, he began to cry and scream out the word “Goodbye!” 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:13.399 before dying via altogether more unpleasant means that I don’t wish to discuss in great 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:15.040 detail here. 00:15:15.040 --> 00:15:21.290 The last experiment we have on record here is EP 37-Sparafucile-26 "Subjective Opinion", 00:15:21.290 --> 00:15:25.699 which intended to see if the Liars’ Cradle liked to turn logical gray areas into logical 00:15:25.699 --> 00:15:27.639 charred black areas. 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:33.049 Messenger one, D-9224, made the relatively uncontroversial statement, “Golden retrievers 00:15:33.049 --> 00:15:34.059 are cute.” 00:15:34.059 --> 00:15:37.369 The Cradle seemed to disagree, immediately incinerating him. 00:15:37.369 --> 00:15:42.829 The next Messenger, D-9225, delivered the counterpoint: “Golden retrievers are ugly.” 00:15:42.829 --> 00:15:45.869 And just like that, he was up in smoke. 00:15:45.869 --> 00:15:52.139 However, when Messenger three, D-9226, delivered the wild card statement, “Golden retrievers 00:15:52.139 --> 00:15:56.459 are tasty”, everyone in attendance was surprised to find the Liars’ Cradle completely agreed 00:15:56.459 --> 00:15:57.459 with this. 00:15:57.459 --> 00:16:01.399 When D-9226 delivered the completely understandable reaction, “Wait, what? 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:06.009 That's freakin' nasty”, he was immediately reduced to ashes by the Cradle’s flames. 00:16:06.009 --> 00:16:10.479 With this line of questioning concluded in the strangest manner possible, the new Messenger, 00:16:10.479 --> 00:16:12.479 D-9227, was brought in. 00:16:12.479 --> 00:16:16.800 Before becoming a member of D-Class personnel, his name was Steven Kemp, a cannibalistic 00:16:16.800 --> 00:16:21.839 serial killer who’d murdered and eaten fourteen women, before being captured, tried, and put 00:16:21.839 --> 00:16:24.119 on death row for his crimes. 00:16:24.119 --> 00:16:26.459 He delivered the statement, “I’m a good person.” 00:16:26.459 --> 00:16:30.540 Surprisingly, the Cradle felt this was true, and let him live. 00:16:30.540 --> 00:16:35.160 However, when Steven decided to get cocky, and chime in with, “Joke's on you, jackasses 00:16:35.160 --> 00:16:39.699 - apparently I'm Mother Teresa!” he was immediately incinerated, due to the fact that 00:16:39.699 --> 00:16:41.959 he was not, in fact, Mother Teresa. 00:16:41.959 --> 00:16:46.999 His ashes were soon accompanied by that of D-9228, who made the statement, “The Liars' 00:16:46.999 --> 00:16:50.919 Cradle is sometimes incorrect” before being burned to death. 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:55.639 Next came D-9229, who allowed for the longest streak of unbroken statements in the history 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:58.329 of tests performed on the Liars’ Cradle. 00:16:58.329 --> 00:17:02.249 He said, “The Liars' Cradle speaks only infallible empirical truth.” 00:17:02.249 --> 00:17:03.249 True. 00:17:03.249 --> 00:17:06.280 He said, “The Liars' Cradle is hungry.” 00:17:06.280 --> 00:17:07.280 True. 00:17:07.280 --> 00:17:13.389 He said, “The Liars' Cradle's hunger can never be satiated, no matter how full it becomes.” 00:17:13.389 --> 00:17:14.389 True. 00:17:14.389 --> 00:17:18.409 He said, “The Liars' Cradle would like to incinerate me right now.” 00:17:18.409 --> 00:17:19.409 True. 00:17:19.409 --> 00:17:23.540 He said, “The Liars' Cradle is growing impatient.” 00:17:23.540 --> 00:17:24.540 True. 00:17:24.540 --> 00:17:30.600 He said, “The Liars' Cradle sees delicious, warm meat on its plate and would very much 00:17:30.600 --> 00:17:32.090 like to be fed.” 00:17:32.090 --> 00:17:33.090 True. 00:17:33.090 --> 00:17:38.429 He said, “The Liars' Cradle is angry that it is continually denied its meat.” 00:17:38.429 --> 00:17:39.429 True. 00:17:39.429 --> 00:17:42.389 He said, “People meat is delicious.” 00:17:42.389 --> 00:17:43.389 True. 00:17:43.389 --> 00:17:46.570 He said, “I am delicious.” 00:17:46.570 --> 00:17:47.570 True. 00:17:47.570 --> 00:17:50.570 He said, “My skin is warm.” 00:17:50.570 --> 00:17:51.570 True. 00:17:51.570 --> 00:17:57.500 He said, “The crackling of fire upon boiling drips of fat and rapidly cauterizing flesh 00:17:57.500 --> 00:18:00.409 gives the Liars' Cradle pleasure.” 00:18:00.409 --> 00:18:01.730 True. 00:18:01.730 --> 00:18:05.080 After such an incredible streak, that also allowed for a frightening insight into the 00:18:05.080 --> 00:18:10.710 apparent personality of the Liars’ Cradle, D-9229 was withdrawn, alive. 00:18:10.710 --> 00:18:15.960 He was replaced by D-9230, who said, “The Earth is round” and was immediately incinerated. 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:20.039 It’s widely believed that this outcome came from the Liars’ Cradle maliciously interpreting 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:25.350 Earth as “dirt” rather than the Planet Earth, just so it could incinerate the subject. 00:18:25.350 --> 00:18:29.710 Just because the Liars Cradle is largely objective doesn’t mean it isn’t incredibly petty, 00:18:29.710 --> 00:18:31.159 it would seem. 00:18:31.159 --> 00:18:36.909 Because of the static nature of SCP-2128, it has been given the rare Safe Object Class. 00:18:36.909 --> 00:18:41.669 Containment Site-403 has been built around the castle that currently holds SCP-2128, 00:18:41.669 --> 00:18:47.340 and a healthy supply of D-Class personnel is regularly siphoned off for EP 37-Sparafucile. 00:18:47.340 --> 00:18:52.120 The sadistic sorcerers of the Brazen Heart may be long gone, but in a strange and disturbing 00:18:52.120 --> 00:18:56.179 twist of fate, the researchers of the SCP Foundation are keeping the spirit of their 00:18:56.179 --> 00:18:59.070 work alive even today… 00:18:59.070 --> 00:19:04.450 Now go and watch another entry from the files of Dr. Bob, like “SCP-987 The Gruesome Gallery”, 00:19:04.450 --> 00:19:08.590 for another terrifying anomalous object that reveals some terrifying truths. 00:19:08.590 --> 00:19:12.710 And make sure you subscribe and turn on notifications, so you don’t miss a single anomaly, as we 00:19:12.710 --> 00:19:16.499 delve further and further into the SCP Foundation’s classified archives.