Results: Instance of SCP-1279-1 appeared as 
a human male covered in green body paint, 
wearing a Frankenstein's monster costume 
consisting of a black shirt and pants, torn grey 
coat and boots, with a pair of metal bolts 
protruding from its neck. Instance appeared 
standing upright on its perceived legs. 


Upon removal of SCP-1279 from the instance, 
SCP-3992-3's effects ceased 

Notes: /nteresting, 3992 must perceive 1279-1 
as anomalous as long as it wears 1279. This 
may be the case when testing with other 
similar anomalies. 


Though my soul be condemned to Hell for what 
happened here, | direct that my final wishes be carried 
out in full. 


This place and all that happened here shall be forgotten 
by Man and buried under the Earth until the Day of 
Judgment. Though nothing is hidden from the Almighty, 
this being the only atonement | can now offer, | will it 
thus. 


By the power left to me, which | pray is still sufficient to 
this task, let this testament be the means to conceal my 
shame, and let the tools of remembrance be turned to 
the act of forgetting. May Providence hasten the 
vanishing of this place from the Earth. 


Since the establishment of containment, the Foundation has 
documented 15 spontaneous changes in the composition of 
SCP-518 that can be reasonably traced to the reading of 
SCP-518-1. Of these incidents, 13 have occurred under controlled 
research conditions. 


+ Exploration Log 518-1 


Exploration Log 518-1: Upon initial containment in 
February of 1992 and the establishment of Remote 
Observation Site-18, staff undertook an initial exploration 
of SCP-5182. A team consisting of four D-Class 
personnel was dispatched to the site, equipped with two- 
way radios, flashlights, water, emergency rations, 
crowbars, and a camcorder. Dr. Lupe Carmona, then the 
Research Director for SCP-518, supervised the 
exploration from Remote Observation Site-18. Selected 
transcripts are reproduced below: 


Dr. Carmona: Supplies have been checked 
and accounted for, all personnel present. 
D-32995, do you read me? 


D-32995: Copy. 


Test: 3992-4-004 

Subject: SCP-2980-1 

SCP-3992 Instance: SCP-3992-4 (Devil 
mask) 

Results: SCP-2980-1's physical age did not 
change. All abnormal features and body parts 
of SCP-2980-1 appeared to be replaced with 
pieces of costume clothing, including a fake 
red tail and a pair of boots resembling cloven 
feet. SCP-2980-1 took the form of a human 
male of unknown race, coated in red body 
paint. 

Notes: SCP-2980-1 commented on the effects 
of SCP-3992-4 to be rather humorous, but was 
‘Nothing compared to the real thing’. 


SCP-2980-1 later claimed to recognize the 
name ‘Wondertainment’. When questioned, 
SCP-2980-1 stated that the name bared a 
striking resemblance to that of a cousin's 
‘three times removed’. SCP-2980-1 did not 
give any other useful information. 


Test: 3992-5-003 

Subject: SCP-2287 

SCP-3992 Instance: SCP-3992-5 (Mummy 
mask) 

Results: SCP-2287 appeared no longer 
headless. SCP-2287 appeared as a bald 
human male. A pair of green pupils were 
visible through SCP-3992-5’s eyeholes. 
Inspection showed its 'Mister' tattoo to no 
longer be present. No physical changes were 
present in the rest of SCP-2287’s body as it 
had no other physical abnormalities. 
SCP-2287’s clothing was replaced by layers of 
yellow tinted linen cloth, wrapped around its 
entire body similar to an Egyptian mummy. 
Notes: Of significant note, SCP-2287’s 
anomalous properties ceased functioning while 


wearing SCP-3992-5. Whether this is due to it 
being a Wondertainment product is unknown. 


SCP-2287 commented on finding the mask fun 
to wear, saying that it was 'Nice to see what it 
was like from the other end’. SCP-2287 later 
asked if it were possible to wear SCP-3992-5 
again at some point (Decision currently 
pending. The effects of SCP-3992 may prove 
useful for the containment of SCP-2287’s 
anomalous properties). 


Test: 3992-6-009 

Subject: SCP-956 

SCP-3992 Instance: SCP-3992-6 (Vampire 
mask) 

Results: SCP-956 appeared as an adolescent 
Caucasian female with long pink hair. 
Costume consisted of a black cape and pants 
and red velvet waistcoat. 

Notes: SCP-956 initially showed no signs of 
bodily movement, remaining in its passive 
state. However, after several seconds, 
SCP-956 visibly looked down at itself and 
began heavily retching. SCP-956 attempted to 
remove SCP-3992-6 with its perceived hands. 
When this failed, SCP-956 began clawing at 
SCP-3992-6 violently until it was removed by 
an assisting D-class. 


Addendum 3992-2: On the 29/09/20 , a package was found 
outside of Site-17, addressed to the Foundation. Inside were a 
second set of SCP-3992. Instances consisted of a skeleton, jack 
o'lantern, banshee, zombie and clown. 


The following note was included: 
To the SCP Foundation, 


We see that you’ve been playing around with our product 


and approve of it greatly! It’s nice to see you giving 
others a taste of the Holidays and we hope you’re having 
fun with them yourselves! 


As a sign of gratitude for your vigorous testing of so 
many of our products, we present to you the newest 
batch of Wondertainment Wacky Halloween Fun 
Masks!. The following set has not been officially 
released just yet, but we’re hoping to get them out soon 
enough! 


We hope you'll share these with a few more of your 
guests and get some top-notch results! 


With all honesty though, we make these products 
because many don’t get the chance to experience a 
proper childhood, or even celebrate such a unique time 
of year. So during that magical time when the mundane 
blend with the uncanny, we want to celebrate it right and 
give a little more. 


Cause that’s what it’s all about, right? 


- Yours, Dr. Wondertainment 


SCP-3993: [UNTITLED] 


Item #: SCP-3993 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3993 is to be sheathed in 
a waterproof metal and plastic framework. Two 1.4m LCD displays 
must be attached on both larger sides, displaying rich media 
advertising. A keyboard and Android tablet is to be fixed on the 
narrow 'sidewalk' edge, with two USB type-A ports. Care must be 
taken to render both USB ports, the keyboard, and the tablet totally 
inoperable. 


SCP-3993 must be monitored at all times by a standard surveillance 
team with access to city and NYPD cameras plus SCP remote 
imaging. All members of the public who may have connected to 
SCP-3993's Wi-Fi must be logged, and any changes in SCP-3993's 
form or position should be recorded. 


For full containment details, please consult "NYC StarBridge 
CityLink Kiosk Installation Guide, Revision 4.8". 


Note from Principal Researcher Macmillan: New Yorkers might not 
expect SCP-3993's physical interfaces to work, but we'll have to 
come up with something else for other cities. 


Description: SCP-3993 is a black object measuring 2.8m x 0.9m x 
0.3m, composed of an indeterminate, extremely dense material. 
SCP-3993 appeared on the sidewalk at the intersection of rd Street 
and Avenue at 3:32:50am on 2014-04-02, displacing a payphone. 
Low quality CCTV footage from an adjacent Starbucks revealed no 
humans or machines were involved in the removal of the payphone 
or placement of the SCP-3993. 


SCP personnel were notified of the object within an hour and 
immediately staged a vehicular accident at the site, allowing them to 


erect a containment tent and redirect all public traffic for the 
following 36 hours. 


During this time, SCP-3993 was inspected using portable 
spectrometers. No harmful materials were detected, but industrial 
cutting instruments of a type safely usable in metropolitan areas (i.e. 
no high explosives or lasers) were unable to remove a sample of the 
object. Removal of the object was not possible due to its high 
density and weight. 


At 2:08:138am and 4:19:42am on 2014-04-03, two identical objects, 
termed SCP-3993-2 and SCP-3993-3 (the original now termed 
SCP-3993-1) appeared on sidewalks in Lower Manhattan, also 
displacing payphones. Similar containment procedures were 
enacted. 


Confronted with the possibility that many more instances of 
SCP-3993 might materialise in short order, the on-site technical lead 
(consulting with SCP headquarters via Wi-Fi videochat) made an 
imaginative suggestion: presenting the objects as prototype public 
internet access points. 


Two days later on 2014-04-05, SCP officials (under the guise of the 
"StarBridge" consortium) met with Mayor de Blasio's staff and 
proposed a complete replacement of the city's 7,000+ payphones 
with free, advertising-funded Wi-Fi internet communication kiosks. 
On 2014-04-30, the agreement was made public, with the project 
named "LinkNYC". 


Over the following six months, 238 additional instances of SCP-3993 
appeared across Lower Manhattan and Midtown, each successfully 
sheathed in a LinkNYC kiosk within twelve hours. However, 
providing the kiosks with the promised gigabit internet connectivity 
was a much more difficult proposition due to multiple breakdowns in 
negotiation with Comcast. 


This problem was solved, albeit in an unconventional manner, on 
2014-10-29: 


Phone transcript between SCP Principal Investigator 
Macmillan, conducting close surveillance of 


SCP-3993-188 from a nearby Jamba Juice, and SCP 
Assistant Logistics Director (NY) Wieteska: 


Macmillan: Well done, Wieteska! What did you promise 
them? 


Wieteska: What on Earth are you talking about? 


Macmillan: Was it the fiber multiplexing tech? Or the 
femtocell research? Never mind, it's of little 
consequence. What's important is that I'm now speaking 
to you through this Wi-Fi access point named "Gigabit 
LinkNYC". Low latency, high bandwidth, really, I'm 
impressed you - 


Wieteska: The Comcast meeting isn't until Friday. 
<pause> 
Macmillan: So what the did | just connect to? 


A reconstruction of events reveals that 25 minutes prior to this 
phone call, SCP-3993-1 through 239 simultaneously activated high- 
power, unprotected 802.11ac internet access points. Each internet 
kiosk offered a bandwidth of 3.2 gigabits and according to packet 
tracing, multiple redundant connections to the internet backbone — 
despite having no physical network connections. 


SCP personnel immediately moved to contain the Wi-Fi access 
points with Faraday cages (a hurried press release claiming 
"upgrades" was issued). The cages did not completely block the 
access points; instead, they merelly reduced effective Wi-Fi range 
by 62%; SCP physicists theorised that SCP-3993 was employing a 
neutrino-based quantum tunnelling effect to maintain its connection. 
Increasing the thickness of the cage 1.4m reduced range by 98%, 
but this was deemed to be too disruptive to the built environment, 
not to mention highly damaging to real estate values. 


Attempts to jam the signal and flood the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz 
spectrum with noise were rapidly met with swift protests from locals, 
culminating in a small riot in the NYU student dorms adjacent to 


SCP-3993-75. At this point, SCP Principal Investigator Macmillan 
ordered the Faraday cages to be dismantled, jamming efforts 
deactivated, and effects redirected towards understanding the 
nature of the Wi-Fi access points, and what harm they posed. 


Initial testing produced no unusual results; the access points 
connected to the present-day, real-world internet. Even after multiple 
hours of web browsing, no ill effects were observed on D-class 
personnel or members of the public. 


In fact, follow-up testing conducted on 487 frequent users of 
SCP-3993's access points one month later showed quite the 
opposite. The users scored a statistically significant increase of 
three points on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (aka the 
"Wechsler IQ test"). They also demonstrated reduced violent 
tendencies and greater feelings of empathy, with effects persisting 
for an average of five months. Repeated usage of SCP-3993 saw 
increases of fifteen IQ points or more amongst most individuals. 


The mechanism in which SCP-3993 acts to increase intelligence 
was identified via deep packet inspection on a modified Android 
device. SCP-3993 changes the content of internet traffic en route to 
connecting devices, serving different pages, podcasts, videos, and 
social media posts. It rarely creates new content, but instead 
manipulates search results and social media feeds - themselves 
generated by complex and opaque algorithms - to surface what 
researchers term ‘life changing content’. 


Chat log between SCP Researcher Nguyen and D-1493 
(repeated user of SCP-3993-22): 


Researcher Nguyen: sup 
D-1493: saw this crazy thing on reddit today 


D-1493: comment bout a girl my age. really inspiring 
story. never thought id see that on reddit. 


Nguyen: yeah? 


D-1493: think im gonna take school more seriously now. 


Nguyen: huh 


D-1493: just makes you think. if she can stop being a 
screwup maybe i can too. just gotta work hard at it. 


SCP-3993 can compromise all extant and planned forms of SSL/ 
TLS cryptographic network security protocols in real time. Some 
forms of highly complex cutting-edge encryption — too 
computationally expensive for the majority of consumer devices — 
have proven more durable, although in recent months SCP-3993 
has demonstrated the capability to circumvent even them. It is 
theorised that SCP-3993's computing power scales not only with the 
number of its instances but also the devices that have connected to 
it. 


Since we cannot rely on any consumer-grade form of encryption to 
contain SCP-3993, efforts have been directed towards broader 
forms of containment. For example, cheaper and faster mobile 
internet would significantly reduce public demand for SCP-3993's 
services. Unfortunately, negotiations with US telecoms providers 
have been fruitless, and since late 2016, SCP-3993 has begun to 
experiment with new forms of long-range wireless technology, 
including 4G and 5G cell tower spoofing. 


Note from SCP Principal Investigator Macmillan: 


SCP-3993 is one of the most perplexing adversaries we have faced. 
Where did it come from? Is it trying to uplift us, and for what reason? 
Why has it chosen to manifest itself as a free wireless access point, 
of all things? Did we cause this, through our own actions when it 
arrived? Regardless, despite its apparent lack of aggression, it 
would be a grave mistake to underestimate its reach and power. 


Every day, more of our reality is consumed and mediated through 
our internet-connected devices. We consume the news on them, we 
communicate with our friends and family, our opinions are formed 
and our intentions molded by these ever-present screens. As we 
use more sophisticated devices that employ virtual and augmented 
reality, SCP-3993's ability to manipulate our reality and our 
intelligence will increase exponentially. For the inhabitants of New 
York, it's entirely possible that their every waking moment could 


soon be mediated by SCP-3993. 


We can be thankful, at least, that SCP-3993 has effectively 'self- 
contained’ its spread to New York. | suspect that this city was 
chosen due to its high population density, along with its high usage 
of mobile devices. New York's status as a world leader in business, 
media, and culture may also assist SCP-3993 in its inscrutable 
goals. But if it soreads beyond the bounds of this city, it's not clear 
how we can stop it without inciting mass panic. 


Addendum: 
Incident Log 


* 2015-02-04: SCP-3993 spreads to 714 locations. 

* 2015-11-29: SCP-3993 spreads to 2053 locations. 

¢ 2016-12-01: SCP-3993 spreads to 7592 locations. 

* 2017-01-06: SCP-3993 sighted in Columbus, Ohio; London, 
UK; and Tokyo, Japan. 

¢ 2017-01-08: New logo appears on all SCP-3993 sheathes: 
"Free super fast Wi-Fi. And that's just the beginning." 


SCP-3994: Normal Human People 


Item #: SCP-3994 
Object Class: Keter