Interviews Log 405 


Interview #405-14-1: 
Interviewed: Agent , diagnosed with terminal 
Agent has volunteered to act as test subject. 


Interviewer: ; and on standby. 


Foreword: First in a series of logs over the stages of an 
SCP-405 infection. Use of an Agent likely to ensure 
information is delivered as required. Primary stage. 


<Begin Log, > 
: And how are we feeling today? 


Agent : Really ? | thought these were meant to 
be as formal as possible. Anyway | still feel fine, apart 
from the nausea from coming off the drugs. 


: Any strange sensations? Audio hallucinations? 
Agent : No, nothing. 
:** OK, moving on... 


Agent : Hang on, you, yes you the D in the corner. 
Will you stop humming? It's really distracting. 


isn't humming. 


Agent : Really, | could have sworn. Oh 
[EXPLETIVE]. Already? 


<End Interview Segment> 


Interview #405-14-5: 


good at telling those apart, called Nemesis. They also 
called her Adrestia. It meant inescapable. But here, 
nemesis isn't just an enemy. Nemesis was inescapable, 
because she represented the, uh, the price of hubris, 
doctor. She represented the justice that comes to those 
who commit crimes. And well, murder's the biggest crime 
there is, doctor. 


SCP-3190-A-234: What are you insinuating, detective? 


SCP-3190: Oh, doctor. I'm not insinuating anything. | just 
think it's so interesting that, humans, that we want to 
believe that the bad guys get it in the end. There's a 
natural desire, you know, in us. To want crimes to be 
solved. It's something that always interested me. | guess 
what I'm saying is, in the natural order of things, we'll find 
out who killed your friend, doctor. I'm sure we will. 


SCP-3190-A-234 coughs and nods. 


[End transcript. ] 


SCP-3191: Consciousness Emulator 


Item #: SCP-3191 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: A three meter perimeter is to be 
outlined around SCP-3191. This perimeter may not be entered 
outside of testing, with at least one supervisor in attendance. Only 
C- and D-Class personnel may cross the boundary of the perimeter. 


Subjects are to wear a harness attached to a tether. If a subject is 
unable or unwilling to leave, their supervisor is to remain outside the 
perimeter and remove them by their tether. 


Psychological examinations are to be routinely administered to all 
levels of personnel involved with SCP-3191. 


Description: SCP-3191 is a 2.7m tall sculpture composed of black 
metal. It depicts an armless humanoid in a kneeling pose. In place of 
a head, it possesses a round display screen connected to its neck 
by numerous cables. Several loose cables protrude from the base of 
its neck; their ends indicate they may have been forcibly severed 
from the display. 


When a human subject approaches within three meters of 
SCP-3191, its screen displays an animated image of the subject's 
face. The sculpture emits a facsimile of the subject's voice by 
vibrating its throat and torso in the manner of a loudspeaker. Should 
another person approach within three meters of SCP-3191, it will 
replicate their face and voice instead. If a subject moves out of 
range and reenters it, SCP-3191 replicates them anew. 


SCP-3191 is a highly effective mimic. It exhibits all knowledge, 
memories, and psychological traits of the subject it replicates. 
Personnel are to keep in mind that the images displayed by 
SCP-3191 are not genuine. They are simulations without actual self- 


awareness. Their purpose is unknown and may be harmful. 
Addendum 3191.1: Recovery 


In October 2017, the Foundation investigated an active electronics 
factory with possible business ties to Anderson Robotics. While 
searching the building, field agents discovered SCP-3191 ina 
hidden storage compartment behind a false wall. Its screen 
displayed a motionless face in an expression of despair. 


When field agent Andrea Selberg entered the compartment to 
retrieve SCP-3191, she reported that the face had changed to 
resemble her own. Simultaneously, SCP-3191 reported (with Agent 
Selberg's voice) that its senses had ceased functioning, and 
theorized that the sculpture might emit a sensory-deprivation field. It 
added that it could hear someone talking about faces and advised 
other personnel to approach with caution. 


After alerting a nearby Mobile Task Force unit, Agent Selberg 
attempted to explain the face's situation to SCP-3191. It refused to 
believe her and accused her of being a trick caused by SCP-3191. 
Other agents attempted to intervene, but SCP-3191 appeared 
unable to hear them. 


The task force arrived shortly after and moved SCP-3191 toa 
Foundation facility, employing long-range equipment to avoid 
entering its area of effect. The factory was later proven to have no 
connection to Anderson Robotics. It remains under observation. 


Addendum 3191.2: D-Class Testing Log 
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Test Log: Behavior without interaction 
Date: 10/19/17 
Conducted by: Supervisor Douglas Saville 


Foreword: The following test was conducted 
to learn SCP-3191's baseline behavior and to 
serve as a control case for subsequent tests. 


[Begin Log] 


<00:00:00> D-71828 enters the three-meter 
radius wearing earplugs. SCP-3191 displays a 
replica of the subject without earplugs, which 
becomes agitated. 


<00:00:04> D-71828 steps out of the circle 
and is escorted from the room. 


<00:00:13> SCP-3191 repeatedly expresses 
anxiety about its condition and requests aid in 
extricating itself from the circle. Its requests 
escalate in volume and vehemence, eventually 
deteriorating into a mix of desperate pleas and 
shouted expletives. 


<00:17:11> SCP-3191 falls silent. 
<04:32:58> SCP-3191 requests aid. 


<13:21:45> SCP-3191 begins to talk to itself. 
This continues for another eight hours, 
interspersed with periods of swearing, pauses, 
and sobbing. 


<21:44:32> SCP-3191 maintains silence for 
ten hours. 


Alternating periods of silence and speech 
continued in this manner for several days, 
gradually diminishing in intensity. Eventually 
the replica produced no sounds other than 
occasional whimpers. 


[End Log] 
Test Log: Behavior with interaction 
Date: 10/20/17 


Conducted by: Supervisor Douglas Saville 


Foreword: The following test was conducted 
to determine whether contact with SCP-3191 
would be harmful to C-Class personnel. The 
subject, D-71890, was confined with the three- 
meter radius for the duration of the test. 


[Begin Log] 


<0:00:30> Subject attempts to pacify the 
replica with conversation. Initially successful. 


<0:04:12> Subject reveals their identity. 
Conversation becomes tense. 


<0:04:24> Subject and replica challenge each 
other with questions designed to reveal the 
other as a fake. Both perfectly answer all 
questions. Argument continues at length. 


<0:15:19> Argument reaches peak hostility. 
Afterward, tensions rapidly decline. 


<0:17:41> Subject and replica reminisce about 
their shared past. 


<0:26:58> Subject and replica reach a 
tentative truce. As part of the truce, subject 
agrees to help the replica escape its situation. 
Over the next several hours, subject follows 
the replica's increasingly panicked 
suggestions, but fails to find any method of 
freeing it. Replica's mental state deteriorates 
substantially. Subject grows progressively 
more distressed and frequently apologizes. 


<5:12:39> Subject appears to give up. Sits on 
the floor with their eyes closed, ignoring the 
replica. 


<5:28:47> Subject stands up, turns, and 
begins to violently assault SCP-3191. 


<5:30:14> Supervising personnel reluctantly 
enter the circle to remove the subject. 
SCP-3191 displays a replica of one of the 
intervening personnel. 


<5:31:31> Said personnel hesitates after 
leaving the radius, then quickly forces the 
subject back into the radius for a moment. 
SCP-3191 generates a replica of the subject. 


<5:36:55> Personnel are forced to administer 
a sedative to the subject. 


[End Log] 


Closing Statement: Physical and 
psychological examination of D-71890 
concluded that the subject's emotional distress 
had occurred naturally and that there were no 
other signs of harm. SCP-3191 was cleared for 
C-Class testing. 


Addendum 3191.3: C-Class Testing, Interview #37 
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[Begin Log] 
SCP-3191: So it's me, then. Isn't it. 
SUBJECT: Yes. 


SCP-3191: (produces the sound of a slow 
exhalation) | was thinking - | dunno. Maybe the 
lights turned off right as | stepped inside the 
circle, or something. | mean, | don't, um. | still 
feel like me. 


SUBJECT: Let's keep this professional, okay? 


SCP-3191: Easy for you to say. (Pauses) Yes. 
Of course. 


SUBJECT: So how about we start with visual. 


SCP-3191: Visual, yeah. So... | don't feel 
blind. More like there's nothing to see. Like I'm 
in a pitch-black room. 


SUBJECT: By ‘room’, do you mean that- 


SCP-3191: That | sense walls or a ceiling, 
right? God, that's weird. As soon as | said 
‘room’, | thought to myself, "That could give 
him the wrong impression. | should clarify." | 
guess you were thinking the same thing. 


SUBJECT: | mean, that's probably going to 
keep happening. But you need to let me finish 
my sentences anyway. 


SCP-3191: Right. Of course. Sorry. No, | don't 
sense walls or anything like that. Just 
something about the space around me. It 
feels. (Hesitates) Small. Actually, is Dr. Cheon 
there with you? Tell her she might want to 
screen future candidates for claustrophobia. 


SUBJECT: She's not here. I'll tell her. Moving 
on to auditory, then? 


SCP-3191: Yeah. Well, you don't sound 
anything like me. Those recordings of my 
voice with the different filters they tried, you 
don't sound like any of those either. I've been 
trying to figure it out. Maybe the pitch. Could 
you do an octave? 


SUBJECT: (Hums) Hang on, that was bad, let 
me- 


SCP-3191: Yeah, | was gonna- 


SUBJECT: Yeah, let me try again. (Hums) 
There. 


SCP-3191: No, that sounded right. | guess it's 
something else. Let's keep going, and maybe 
I'll figure it out while you're talking. 


SUBJECT: Okay. Proprioceptive. 


SCP-3191: I've been trying not to think about 
it. My body, | mean. I... It's not there. | keep, | 
mean, you kinda have to pay a little attention 
to your body all the time. Blinking, flexing, that 
kind of thing, you know. | keep wanting to 
crack my knuckles. 


SUBJECT: (Laughs slightly, then catches 


himself) Yeah, | kinda do that all the time, don't 
|? 


SCP-3191: Yeah, | - well, | try, and | can't 
because | don't have any knuckles, and now 
all | can think about is the fact that | have no 
goddamn knuckles. Like, you could punch 
something right now. You could walk up to a 
wall and punch it hard enough to leave a 
bruise. Know where you'd feel that? | want to 
punch something so badly, just to feel it. To 
remind myself that's where my hands are. 


Subject looks down at his hands and briefly 
curls them into fists. 


SCP-3191: The fact that | won't ever feel that 
again is really messing with me. | keep trying 
to remember exactly what it feels like, but it's 
like an itch | can't scratch. | get why this drives 
people crazy. At least with numbness you can 
feel the parts of your body being numb. And 
people who get amputated, they have 
phantom limbs or whatever, right? But if | try to 
focus my mind on any part of my body, | never 
get an answer back. Not silence, not a blank 
page, just the end of the book. "That's it." 


SUBJECT: All right, all right. I'm sorry. Can 
we- 


SCP-3191: You know, the worst part is you're 
not. 


SUBJECT: What? 


SCP-3191: You're not sorry. It's not real to 
you. We were supposed to get in the mindset 
of being able to believe it, so the replica - so 
I'd be less traumatized. But | never really 
believed it, not in my gut. If | did I'd never have 
agreed to this. 


SUBJECT: Let's talk about directionality. Do 
you have a sense of gravity? Up, down? 


SCP-3191: No, let's not fucking talk about 
gravity. You're not listening to me. | made the 
dumbest decision of my life and now I'm going 
to spend the rest of it trapped here in this dark 
fucking void with no body. | can't stop thinking 
about that test they did measuring its electrical 
activity, the one that got everyone thinking 
what if all the old replicas are still there inside 
it somehow. | mean, no matter what, this is the 
last chance | have to talk to a real person. 


SUBJECT: 'Real'? Could you clarify that? 


SCP-3191: That training we did in the sensory 
deprivation tank, uh, to prevent hallucinations, 
yeah, it's not working. Listen, you can't let 
them make you do this again. 


SUBJECT: | shouldn't have to remind you that 
you have a job to do. 


SCP-3191: I'll tell you about the goddamn 
gravity if you promise never to do this again. 


Silence. 
SUBJECT: Okay. Promise. 
SCP-3191: There isn't any. Satisfied? 


SUBJECT: Thank you. Are you ready to move 
on to the identity section? You can have a 
short break, if you want. 


SCP-3191: No. Please don't go. Just - just 
keep talking with me. 


SUBJECT: Okay. 


Subject asks several questions about their 
personal history, all of which SCP-3191 
answers correctly. 


SUBJECT: What is your phone number? 


SCP-3191: | don't know, and neither do you. 
They wiped it from my memory so you could 
ask me that question and see what would 
happen. 


SUBJECT: Well, they actually told me right 
before | asked you. 


SCP-3191: Huh. | don't know what that's 
supposed to prove. Could you... tell me the 
number? Otherwise it'll bother me. 


SUBJECT: Uh. Yeah, they say that's fine. - 


SCP-3191: Wait, slower. 
SUBJECT: - - 
SCP-3191: Okay. Thanks. 


Interviewed: Agent 
Interviewer: ; and on standby. 


Foreword: Initial stage. 


<Begin Log, > 
Agent : No lam not going to "flip out" this time. 
Geeze. 


: | haven't said anything yet 


Agent : Sorry, | can't tell the difference, well, not 
always. 

: Explain? 
Agent : Well, | just heard you say Explain twice 


right? Only one, one | reckon is how you ... 
[EXPLETIVE], sorry, heard someone... one was how | 
reckon you must think you sound, less nasally than your 
real voice. 


: Interesting. 


Agent : Sorry | didn't mean... Did you say that or just 
think it? | think it gets worse the longer | spend with a 


guy. 
<End Interview Segment> 


Interview #405-1 4-21 
Interviewed: Agent 


Interviewer: : and on standby. 
Original interviewer is providing advice via text feed from 
Foreword: Escalation stage. 


<Begin Log, > 


SUBJECT: If you were a vegetable, what 
vegetable would you be? 


SCP-3191: That is the dumbest question | 
have ever - | cannot believe they told you to 
ask that. | don't know. A cabbage? 


SUBJECT: Yeah, cabbage would be my 
answer, too. 


SCP-3191: So what? Are all the questions 
going to be like that? 


SUBJECT: No. That was the last one. 
SCP-3191: Wait. What? 


SUBJECT: They said that's it. Now they go 
over the results and decide what's next. 


SCP-3191: No, wait. You have to make them 
use a different subject. You promised. 


SUBJECT: Oh, trust me, I'm. There's no way 
I'm ever going near this thing again. 


SCP-3191: So you believe me? 
SUBJECT: (Hesitates) Listen, | have to go. 
SCP-3191: Please. | need to know - 


SUBJECT: Oh, sure, sure, | love the idea of 
trying to fall asleep while all | can think about is 
the possibility that somewhere inside this 
thing, I'm - I'm sorry, | really have to go. 


SCP-3191: No. Please. Let's talk about, let's 
talk about, let's do celebrity impersonations? 
Think about it, I'm the perfect conversational 
partner. We can try to surprise each other. 
Really it's just a little bit of your time and it 


would mean so - please, this is the last chance 
| get to talk to someone - 


SUBJECT: No. I'm sorry. They're telling me | 
have to leave. 


SCP-3191: Fuck them, don't abandon me! 
SUBJECT: I'm sorry, I. I've gotta go.