Due to large number of copies of SCP-1085 acquired, authorization 
given on 19/02/ to begin experimental destruction of a limited 
number of redundant copies. D-class personnel chosen for this 
assignment disposed of the DVDs by physically crushing the disc 
and throwing the pieces into a garbage can. All D-class personnel 
who carried out the assignment began developing the symptoms of 
late-stage SCP-1085 exposure, without having actually viewed any 
of the workouts. Current research suggests that the entity portraying 

in SCP-1085 may be an actual organism rather than a 
hallucination on the parts of affected individuals. 


Addendum 1085-A: Description of SCP-1085 videos 


Week 1: Workout consists of a warmup session, followed by three 
six-minute circuits (three minutes of strength training, two minutes of 
cardio, one minute of abdominal exercise), and a cooldown session. 
Workouts will be unusual in composition but will not be seen as 
difficult, even for extremely out-of-shape individuals; such individuals 
will express surprise at their ability to complete the workout, along 
with a determination to complete the rest of the month's workouts. 
The workout will seem easier as the week proceeds due to general 
improvement of physical conditioning. The host and narrator will 
provide encouraging words throughout the workout and at the end, 
emphasizing the ability of the audience to change their lives through 
positive thinking. No anomalous qualities detected with this workout; 
individuals completing this workout once or even repeatedly have 
been able to stop the workout without negative side effects. A 
notable excerpt from this workout includes "This is not just a 
workout; this is the road map for the rest of your life. | know what 
you're capable of, and you will give it to me, and you will never stop 
giving. Not ever." 


Week 2: Similar workout structure as Week 1. However, the workout 
intensifies significantly in difficulty. Notably, the workout will 
demonstrate a slight variance depending on the physical ability and 
willingness of the individual to complete it; given their successes in 
Week 1, individuals will feel motivated to complete the workout in 
spite of the extensive physical discomfort required. Those more 
inclined to quit find the workout to be slightly less difficult, though the 
narration will be angrier and more negative in tone. Regardless, very 


few individuals ( %) opt to give up on the program at this point, even 
when such an option is provided, and even when the individuals did 
not feel strongly motivated to lose weight at the beginning of the 
program. Those abandoning the month-long program during Week 2 
report recurring nightmares for up to months, in which [DATA 
REDACTED] for what feels like days. These nightmares are most 
common after days in which such individuals eat excessive amounts 
of fatty foods. Those remaining in the program will report an 
increasing degree of platonic affection for the host and a desire to 
please her; meanwhile, the host will become increasingly agitated 
with the individual's progress regardless of the difficulty or degree of 
effort put forth. This agitation becomes evident when the host says 
"We are all weak, but you are here to bleed the weakness out. | 
want you to bleed if you have to, and | want you to thank me for the 
person you become." 


Week 3: Similar workout structure as Weeks 1 and 2, though 
workouts will vary in length from three to six circuits depending on 
the physical ability of the individual performing the workout. The 
host's commentary will now be overtly targeted towards the actions 
of the audience, directly critiquing the individual's efficiency, 
thoroughness, and form during each circuit. At no point will 
individuals watching Week 3's workout notice anything strange 
about the host watching them and responding to their behavior with 
further instructions. When individuals are not performing the 
workout, they will more acutely perceive their physical flaws and feel 
motivated to work out on their own, to the point of almost totally 
eschewing motor transportation in favor of running and doing 
calisthenic activities (such as push-ups and crunches) in as much of 
their spare time as possible. This effect will often endanger affected 
individuals’ social status as others will perceive marked irregularities 
and eccentricities in their behavior; affected individuals will 
increasingly ignore outside criticisms of their behavior in favor of 
"what wants." In spite of any degree of physical conditioning 
and devotion to the host's will, no circumstance has developed in 
testing in which any individual has been successful in placating the 
host, who will show only disgust with the individual's progress. At the 
end of the workout, the host will always say "I wanted so little from 
you, and you failed me. | will never be finished with you." 


Week 4: Once an individual begins to watch the Week 4 workout, 
they can be designated as SCP-1085-1. The workout consists of a 
video of the room in which all the other workouts took place; the 
room is empty and silent. Individuals who have carried out the 
workout regimen to this point will begin to display emotional distress, 
frequently begging the television screen to "bring her back" or 
something similar. SCP-1085-1 instances will then begin to exercise 
compulsively and without provocation in front of the screen, often 
while crying. The video will last as long as the individual remains in 
front of the television; however, SCP-1085-1 instances will 
eventually leave the vicinity of the television. 


After watching the video, all instances of SCP-1085-1 will 
experience a total psychotic break from reality. Individuals will begin 
exercising compulsively and without rest; this may involve running, 
calisthenic exercise, jumping rope, or any other exertive activity. 
Many will refuse to speak during the activity, or will repeat "Never 
stop" again and again, one of the host's mottos. This manic exercise 
regimen will continue until affected individuals are physically 
incapable of further movement; if not given sustenance, SCP-1085-1 
instances will starve or dehydrate. Such individuals must be 
physically restrained and immobilized to avoid death, though 
SCP-1085-1 instances thus restrained will claim to see the host 
screaming threats and obscenities at them. The resulting sleep 
deprivation is often fatal; antipsychotic medicine and sleep-inducing 
agents have no effect. 


Addendum 1085-B: Experiment carried out 12/02/ into potential 
treatments for late-stage SCP-1085 effects. One individual (D-5656) 
was exposed to all four weeks of SCP-1085 over the course of four 
days, developing symptoms along the expected schedule. After 
developing into the SCP-1085-1 stage, subject was given repeated 
Class A amnestic treatments. Upon waking, subject was determined 
not to recall his name, his crime, or the past seven years of his life to 
any extent. When asked to describe the individuals he saw in the 
room (with the head researchers and one nurse present), subject 
described Dr. _, Nurse , and "that angry-looking bitch who 
keeps glaring at me." Subject described an individual with 

‘Ss appearance, though with what he described as multiple open 
wounds on the limbs and a distorted face. Subject began to display 


agitation and fear, and requested that the third individual stop 
screaming at him. When told that there was nobody else in the 
room, subject rose from the bed and responded "Funny, that's what 
she says about you" before commencing a series of jumping jacks. 


Addendum 1085-C: SCP-1038 is currently being considered for 
possible crosstesting involving SCP-1085 and several other media 
based anomalies. Crosstesting is currently pending approval by Site 
38 Director Jones. 


« SCP-1084 | SCP-1085 | SCP-1086 » 


SCP-1086: Second-Brain Syndrome 


Item #: SCP-1086 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-1086-1 
are to be contained and quarantined until death. While no method of 
treating or curing SCP-1086 has been determined, it remains 
possible to prevent its spread so long as infected iterations are 
contained as quickly as possible. Due to the time-sensitive nature of 
containment, any Mobile Task Force not engaged in immediate 
actions may be activated for purposes of capture and transfer of 
SCP-1086-1 instances to the central containment area at Site 38. In 
the event of a widespread outbreak of SCP-1086, any facility, 
Foundation or otherwise, with a Biohazard Containment Chamber 
rated at Biosafety Level 3 or higher may be commandeered for 
containment purposes. 


So long as containment protocols are carried out in full, there should 
be one (1) instance of SCP-1086-1 at any given time. This iteration 
is to be kept alive at all costs until identification of the next victim is 
complete; use of any and all necessary medical supplies are 
preauthorized for this purpose. In the event of a containment breach 
resulting in more than one instance of SCP-1086-1, it is to be 
considered preferable that multiple infected individuals be kept alive 
for failsafe purposes, but the prevention of further spread of 
SCP-1086 is to take priority over this. However, under no 
circumstances are all iterations of SCP-1086-1 to be terminated; this 
will lead to further outbreak. 


Note: Some concerns have been raised regarding the 
extensive commitment of personnel and materiel 
required to the containment of a single individual. It 
should be remembered that the priority here is speed; 
SCP-1086-1 instances become contagious within six 
hours of initial infection, giving twenty-five hours total of 


advance warning to stop a potential epidemic. 
Additionally, containment may require seizing control of a 
specialized biocontainment lab in complete secrecy 
before administering amnestics to dozens or hundreds of 
witnesses. Budgetary concerns are secondary. —Dr. __, 
head researcher, SCP-1086 


Description: SCP-1086 is an immunosuppressive disorder brought 
on principally brought on by infection with a heretofore undiscovered 
species of bacteria. Infected individuals are designated SCP-1086-1. 
The disease has two primary effects on the human body. First, the 
disease causes the body to reroute 9 % of its leukocytes to a single 
location in the mediastinal lymph node, forming a translucent, 
gelatinous mass identified as SCP-1086-2. During the formation of 
this mass, white blood cells are converted into a mass of closely- 
interconnected neurons, glial cells, synapses, and circulatory tissue; 
the final mass will be composed principally of these cells and the 
bacteria responsible for transmitting SCP-1086, making SCP-1086-2 
especially dangerous. The bacteria responsible for SCP-1086 has 
shown a total immunity to bacteriostatic antibiotic agents, anda 
near-total immunity to bactericidic antibiotic agents; in those cases 
in which bactericidic treatments are effective, the bacteria's rapid 
rate of reproduction effectively nullifies the treatment's effect. 


Second, due to the sudden near-total suppression of the body's 
immune system, infected individuals will develop multiple 
opportunistic infections, leading to the victim's rapid death. The 
bacterial species responsible for SCP-1086 is found only in infected 
humans and in SCP-1086-2; it has not been located in any other 
environment or species. SCP-1086-2 is produced by affected 
individuals during the course of the disease, and is the principal 
vector one of the principal vectors for transmission of SCP-1086. 


A marked difference between SCP-1086 contamination and other 
immunosuppressive syndromes is the pattern displayed by the 
opportunistic infections that ultimately result in the patients' deaths. 
While other immune-suppressing disorders result in a wide variety of 
different infections, SCP-1086-1 iterations consistently contract 
infections in a particular pattern, detailed below. The course of 
SCP-1086 is included in Addendum 1086-1. 


Addendum 1086-1: SCP-1086 Infection Pattern 


Stage 1: Initial infection, either through contact with bacteria or 
through death of prior instance of SCP-1086-1. Patient will rapidly 
lose immune system protection and fall prey to any number of 
dermatological diseases. The full list is included in Document 
1086-32. However, regardless of the exact nature of the infection, all 
Stage 1 symptoms will be skin-related, and all will result specifically 
in severe pockmarking and blistering in geometric shapes across the 
patient's body. Without skin grafts, SCP-1086-1 iterations will die 
before entering Stage 2; as per containment procedures, this is to 
be avoided at all costs. SCP-1086-2 will begin to form in the upper 
chest of affected individuals, integrate itself into the nervous system, 
and begin sending messages to the brain. This process reverts the 
body's leukocytes to a pluripotent form and reassigns them as 
neuronal tissue; this process is very energy-taxing, and will burn 
through affected individuals' stored fat deposits quickly. Massive 
amounts of supplementary nutrition must be supplied to SCP-1086-1 
to avoid death at this stage. Infected individuals become contagious 
six (6) hours after initial infection. 


Stage 2: Beginning of neurological symptoms, eighteen (18) hours 
after initial infection. SCP-1086-1 iterations will become intensely 
feverish and lose the ability to form coherent sentences during most 
of their waking hours, speaking only mostly in rambling passages 
with no discernible meaning; the words will be clearly spoken, but 
the sentences will be incomprehensible in most instances. The only 
consistency in this stage is the insistence on the part of affected 
individuals that they are "lost," without any further explanation. Most 
patients will likewise contract conjunctivitis during this stage, though 
all other symptoms will be neurological in nature. SCP-1086-2 will 
begin sending increasingly complex signals to the brain, which 
affected individuals will perceive as droning music and mumbling 
voices. It is believed that the utterances from SCP-1086-1 are 
attempts to process or describe these sounds. The subject's brain 
and SCP-1086-2 will "battle" for control over infected subjects’ 
bodies, with the brain invariably losing. 


Stage 3: Total takeover by SCP-1086-2, forty-eight (48) hours after 
initial infection. Cerebral tissue in affected individuals will begin to 


decay to an unusable extent, giving SCP-1086-2 increased control 
over affected individuals’ bodies, particularly the speech centers of 
the brain. During this time, SCP-1086-1 iterations will begin uttering 
a name and a series of numbers; these numbers can be processed 
into rough coordinates describing a location somewhere on Earth. 
These messages will be interspersed with hysterical periods of 
unintelligible babbling, believed to be attempts on the part of 
SCP-1086-2 to request assistance. Individuals will repeat these 
phrases for one hour, at which point SCP-1086-1 will go into 
convulsions and expel SCP-1086-2 orally. All personnel nearby 
must wear Biohazard Level 4 "blue suits" during Stage 3; any 
violation will result in quarantine as a new iteration of SCP-1086-1, 
as infection is almost certain without total isolation from the 
contaminated environment. Infected individuals will enter a 
comatose state and die within six (6) hours after expulsion.