Results: Water transmuted into blood. Subject began 
morphing into an instance of SK-BIO Type . Testing 
suspended and subject sedated. Upon resumption, 
subject calcified into a roughly ellipsoidal object and 
began emitting thermal radiation in the microwave range. 
Notes: Further testing with Neo-Sarkic Cults suspended 
in order to prevent APOTHEOSIS events. Subject 
currently in secondary storage at Site-10. 


Test Subject's Religion: Children of the Scarlet King 
Duration: 45 Minutes 

Results: Water transmuted into blood. Subject 
underwent a series of transformations, turning into 
progressively more advanced (in the Daevite caste 
system) variants of the DV-BIO Type. Transformations 
culminated with the subject becoming a Colossal Squid 


Description: SCP-3675 is the designation given to a group of 
incorporeal, sapient entities currently attempting to induce an SK- 
Class Dominance Shift. SCP-3675 instances interact and exist only 
on an intersecting or overlapping operational substrate separate 
from the physical world (similar to other documented cases of 
informational constructs). Entities are therefore unable to physically 
interact in any way with the material properties of any objects, 
organisms, or other substances present in reality. It has been 
determined that SCP-3675 entities possess the ability to interface 
with conscious thoughts and emotions in the brain, gaining a degree 
of control over them when certain triggers and conditions are met in 
a human brain (see SCP-3675-1, further below). 


While the natural state of SCP-3675 is incorporeal and functionally 
separate from reality, instances possess the ability to integrate 
themselves into a set of communicable and understandable ideas or 
information. When the affected information is read or comprehended 
by a human being, SCP-3675 instances can then move into the 
brain, exerting a wide variety of other effects, including inducing 
forgetfulness or confusion, auditory/visual/tactile hallucinations, and 
extreme paranoia. 


When SCP-3675 instances manifest themselves in information, the 
ideas and concepts expressed in the affected data undergo several 
subtle changes. While any statements of fact or opinions expressed 
remain functionally the same and are expressed in the same way, 
the subtext surrounding the focus of the data is modified to include 
metaphysical elements such as religion, spirituality, and human 
nature. This modification usually causes a substantial shift in the 
affected information's tone. 


Instances of SCP-3675 have the ability to spread a mental 
contagion, designated SCP-3675-1. Humans can become infected 
by SCP-3675-1 through various mediums, including direct 
implantation by SCP-3675 instances (through a process of mental 
contact that is currently not understood) or through memetic spread 
via affected information. SCP-3675-1 cannot be removed from a 
human brain once it has been infected, but its effects upon 
activation can be mitigated by the usage of rehabilitation, amnestics, 
mental reconstruction, or allowing the transition to happen. 


> FILESERV:: ~/3675/History 


Original: 
...mental reconstruction, or Protocol 540-Meriden. 


Comments: 


This cannot go on. These divisions must cease to exist, 
those that are dead cannot further die, so that leaves a si 
preferable to our current state. The living and the dead, fa 
cease. 


Since the beginning, there is a feeling of bitter coldness, 
used to the fire, after a while. The real torture is grim an 
pain would have. 


And after a few thousand years any hope of salvation or 
interminable anguish. And we are a chorus of souls not s 
open our mouths to breathe. 


Confirm or decline edits? 
> decline 


Edits have been discarded. 


Once implanted in the brain, SCP-3675-1 can lie dormant for a 
theoretically indefinite time period, and during this period, infected 
individuals display no anomalous effects. Currently, over 88% of the 
world population is infected with SCP-3675-1 in a dormant form. 
SCP-3675-1 becomes active when a specific set of conditions is met 
in a brain. These conditions include several psychological, 
informational, and emotional triggers that must all be present at 
once in order for the activation to take effect. Activation can also 
place when a human has consumed information anomalously edited 
to include cognitohazards that induce the mental states mentioned 
above. Starting //201 , these edits began to spontaneously occur in 
various files throughout the Foundation database. AARS821 was 


instituted and approved for the purposes of containing these 
incidents. 


The secondary factor that induces infection is a specific idea or 
concept that, once thought of or comprehended, automatically 
becomes in itself a vector of SCP-3675-1 transmission. When both 
the key thought and the other mental triggers are present ina 
human brain, the probability of infection becomes near certain. In all 
cases, the "activation concept" has been recorded to be the 
following: "| wonder what happens to me after | die?" 


Those infected with SCP-3675-1 can display some or all of the 
following characteristics: 


* Increased proclivity to react on violent impulses 

¢ Pronounced pessimism towards other humans and towards 
society in general 

¢ Lack of self-control or self-preservation instincts 

¢ Lack of empathy and increased sociopathic tendencies 

¢ Understanding that existence is only a fleeting dream 


> FILESERV:: ~/3675/History 


Original: 
* Quickness to anger and/or violence; sudden swi 


Comments: 


When you read these words, do you hear a voice in your f 


While you hunted each other down, inflicted wounds an 
never realized that it simply grew our numbers. And the | 
They joined us. And so we waited and we waited until w 
realized we could tune other minds to our wishes. We cot 
your brains, whisper our commands into it, and then li 
imprinted within you. 


And when that melody grew stronger, we realized it coul 
sensations, and mold your psyche into permanence. How 


How much of your character is not your own? Ask yourselt 


Have you ever walked into a room and forgot why you we 
and realized that the topic you were speaking of seconds 


Thus we began to tune the strings of a beautiful orchestra 


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> decline 


Edits have been discarded. 


In addition, SCP-3675-1 is self-propagating—triggers to its activation 
have been shown to become more highly prevalent as the number 
of infected increases. Therefore, upon reaching a critical point, 
positive feedback causes symptoms to cascade, resulting ina 
theorized breakdown of human societal structure, culture, and order, 
and eventually extinction through violence and wars. At this point, 
the dominant lifeform on Earth will become SCP-3675; this SK-class 
occurrence is termed a 3675-Abgrund event. 


It is currently estimated that 1. % of the world population has an 
active form of SCP-3675-1. 


LEVEL 3/3675/CLASSIFIED 


Addendum 3675.1: Protocol 540-Meriden 


The regular and frequent implementation of Protocol 
540-Meriden is necessary in order to prevent an 3675- 
Abgrund event. The SCP-3675 project head (currently 
Dr. Aruban Malthus) is responsible for guaranteeing that 
standards are properly met during the performance of 
Protocol 540-Meriden. In the case that the number of 
days between two successive Protocol 540-Meriden 
implementations exceeds 10 days, emergency actions 
are to be taken and the surrounding 10 km? area around 
Site- secured. See Document 540-A for further 


instructions. 


Using techniques adopted from Project RAINBOW 
BODY (see declassified Clearance 3 Brief), a method for 
deployment of a countermemetic signal designed to 
cancel out the cognitive abilities of SCP-3675 instances 
has been developed. The signal, composed of a series 
of Class-R extrasensory cognitohazards and 
antimemetic packets, is projected into the dimensional 
substrate inhabited by SCP-3675 entities using a D- 
Class personnel as the carrier. Over time, the 
countermeme is dissipated outward, coming into contact 
with all instances of SCP-3675. Upon contact, the signal 
interferes with an entity's informational cohesion and 
base processes, greatly reducing its effectiveness in 
exerting its anomalous properties, as well as in 
spreading and implanting SCP-3675-1. 


The basic elements and procedure of Protocol 540- 
Meriden are summarized below for completeness: 


¢ One D-Class subject infected with an active form 
of SCP-3675-1 is sedated and placed on a surgical 
table. A Foundation surgeon creates an incision 
into the instance's skull, opening up the brain. 
Specific layers of the cortex of the frontal lobe are 
excised according to the guidelines set in 
Document 540-A. 

* A Hegel localized meme distortion device! is 
physically implanted into the brain. After the 
operation is complete, the incision is closed. The 
subject is subsequently awakened. 

¢ Using remote dimensional transit anchors, the 
HLMD device and surrounding brain tissue is 
brought "out of phase" with the rest of surrounding 
reality. The subject is then shown a series of low- 
level visual and aural cognitohazards that cause 
minor neural damage and provoke a defense 
response from the brain, which manifests as 
Class-R extrasensory cognitohazards and 


antimemetic packets. 

¢ Upon the signals reaching the implanted HLMD 
device, the cognitohazards are projected into the 
phase of SCP-3675 habitation and amplified 
exponentially. This process continues for 
approximately twenty minutes, allowing for signals 
to propagate completely throughout the planet's 
atmosphere. 


In order to avoid mental aftereffects of prolonged 
exposure to harmful memetic agents, class D amnestics 
are administered to the subject after the successful 
completion of Protocol 540-Meriden. 


Accessing Thaumiel-level material regarding Protocol 540- 
Meriden. Delete/destroy after reading as per HP5810 re: 
forbidden knowledge disposal. 


SCP-3675-1 infection rates have been increasing greatly 
over the past decades. In addition, recorded SCP-3675-1 
activations have become increasingly more common. 
While current infection and activated virus rates are 
currently at 88.9% and 1.6%, respectively, the amount of 
infected will eventually reach 100% in approximately 
twelve years. As the number of infected grows, the 
amount of information and concepts acting as vectors for 
its activation metastasizes according to an exponential 
function rule. 


lt has been determined that Protocol 540-Meriden is able 
to minimize the communicability of SCP-3675-1 while 
decreasing incursions of SCP-3675 instances into 
human brains. However, this procedure, as a method of 
weakening entities through interference with network 
cohesion, is fundamentally unstable, and recorded 
instances of SCP-3675 have been increasing. This has 
led the Overseer Council to project the complete 
adaptation of the entities to Protocol 540-Meriden, and 
therefore Total Containment Failure, in approximately 
twenty-five years. 


After containment of SCP-3675 fails, rates of activation 
will surge; all humans on Earth will have an activated 
form of SCP-3675-1, distributed through contaminated 
data, within three weeks of Total Containment Failure. 
Thus, Protocol 540-Meriden is fulfilled only to delay a 
3675-Abgrund event for as long as possible. 


It is projected that once all humans have an active form 
of SCP-3675-1, nations will quickly dissolve into anarchic 
violence as all human capacity for control of impulsive 
thoughts is removed. The 3675-Abgrund event will 
complete after a period of eight years, at which point 
human life will no longer be sustainable. 


The O05 council is currently reviewing plans to begin 
implementation of Contingency Omicron-Eclipse. 


LEVEL 4/3675/CLASSIFIED 


Addendum 3675.2: Selected Interviews 
Interview 3675-01 


Foreword: For the purposes of this interrogation, a 
human infected with late-stage activated SCP-3675-1 
infection was interviewed. The subject is Natalya 
Velikovna, a Russian lawyer. 


Ms. Velikovna possessed all symptoms of SCP-3675-1, 
including intense violent impulses and a lack of self- 
preservation instincts. However, these behaviors were 
sporadically interrupted by certain periods in which the 
subject was noticeably calmer, displaying a personality 
different from the original but also uncharacteristic of 
SCP-3675-1 infection. This personality manifests in a 
fugue-like state which was active throughout the 
interview. This state has not been observed in any other 
infected subjects, and the reason for its manifestation is 
currently unknown. 


Dr. Malthus: For the past two months, you have been 
engaging in acts of indiscriminate violence. Could you 
please tell me why you chose to begin doing so? 


Subject: /whispered] ...in every science, in every 
religion, they always give doomsday a name. There are 
thousands of ways this Earth could die, and each are 
called something different. Every apocalypse is an 
ending — but | see this one on the horizon. It is a 
beginning. 


Dr. Malthus: The beginning of what? 


Subject: The passage. The crossing over. Faith, | saw it 
clearly. | can conjure up the flames of truth even now. | 
see my mother and my father, the dead — the 
generations coming before, all extending up into an 
infinity of voices that sing... 


Dr. Malthus: Could you elaborate further? What are the 
dead doing? What singing? 


Subject: ...and they sing hymns of destiny to me. Their 
chorus shows me that they are in pain, great and horrible 
pain. 


Dr. Malthus: How do you feel about that? 


Subject: | see yours too. They are also singing to you, 
but it falls on deaf ears. | see your ancestors and your 
dead ones, and they want to tell you something, doctor. 


Dr. Malthus: /pauses] What are they telling me, then? 


Subject: You already have heard them many times. It 
comes in flashes, in bolts of inspiration. You gaze out 
over the city skyline and they tell you, jump off to your 
death. You feel madness and they say, take action on 
your anger. A yearning for violence — a wish to follow 
your deepest thoughts. They are not yours. They are 
messages. 


The subject proceeds to grab hold of the sleeve of Dr. 
Malthus's shirt. Dr. Malthus brushes the hand off. 


Dr. Malthus: All right. [sighs] Moving on - can you tell 
me what you know about how these messages spread? 
How did you learn about this "apocalypse" on the 
horizon? 


Subject: They are hopeless in their states. And every 
day the pain gets worse and worse, weakening their 
power and destroying their form. Do you know the feeling 
of drowning in a deep ocean and trying to swim to shore, 
but you are weighed down? They are weighed down by 
an anchor. And their song is destroyed by the tuning fork 
ringing out of harmony.? But instead of the tangible, they 
can weave the intangible. They want to show you the 
beauty of the next phase. They cannot kill you - deliver 
you. But once they touch your mind, you see things from 
their point of view. 


At this point, the subject begins producing weak, strained 
laughter. The vocalizations are not anomalous, but 
continue for approximately thirty seconds. 


Dr. Malthus: —please stop that. You haven't explained 
what SCP-3675-1 does. 


Subject: Listen. Listen to the voice of the words! Be still, 
and you can hear our screams. Go home tonight, lock 
yourself in a pitch-black room, and make no noise, and 
close your eyes. Then you shall hear the things | have 
seen myself. Your power is their weakness; your 
weakness is their power. One day, a day upon the 
horizon, you shall realize that the whisper within is a 
calling out from them, your ancestors. There is no virus. 
There will be no virus, when the ascendance comes. 


Dr. Malthus: Who are you? Is Natalya Velikovna 
speaking?