Special Containment Procedures: The shed housing SCP-2298 is 
to be relocated to Site-162's Euclid Wing. The containment chamber 
is to be monitored via security cameras and motion detectors which, 
when triggered, will automatically set off a medium threat level 
alarm. Motion detectors must be turned off remotely prior to entering 
the containment chamber. 


Routine surveys of SCP-2298 are to be conducted on a bi-weekly 
basis, and any significant changes in behavior of SCP-2298-1 
instances is to be reported. 


Description: SCP-2298 is a city block which occupies the confines 
ofasmallshedin __, ltaly. The exterior of the shed, constructed of 
concrete, wood, and plaster, has a length of 3 m and a width of 

2.4 m. As one enters the shed, they will find themselves exiting a 
building within SCP-2298. The block in question consists of two 
roads (Planck Ave and Luminol Rd) which intersect at the center of 
the block, and 14 buildings of varying sizes and purposes. These 
include apartments, retail stores, a small supermarket, post office, 
and . All materials! in SCP-2298 are composed of plastic, 
rubber, latex, and/or resins. 


SCP-2298 covers a space of 94 m2, and appears to be "boxed in", 
as the edges of the city block lead to solid plastic walls painted to 
look like a skyline. Further analysis reveals that the sky directly 
above SCP-2298 is also a ceiling placed 2 km above ground level. 
When SCP-2298 is devoid of human activity, the sky has been 
noted to change based on the time of day. 


SCP-2298-1 instances designate the 37 sentient polyester resin 
mannequins which inhabit SCP-2298. SCP-2298-1 instances do not 


appear animate while humans or any recording devices are inside 
SCP-2298, but will change location at unknown intervals when the 
city is unobserved. The mannequins display only a vague 
awareness of human intervention within the city block (See 
Addendum). It is theorized that when the city is observed, time 
within SCP-2298 is paused2. 


Long term study of SCP-2298 and SCP-2298-1 instances have 
shown patterns within individual mannequin behavior, suggesting 
that each one has a unique personality and even interpersonal 
relationships. 


Addendum 2298a: On / / , contact with SCP-2298-1 instances 
was attempted through a survey by the Foundation front company 
S&C Plastics. Twenty-six copies of the survey were delivered; text is 
below. 


Hi. We're a research team at S&C Plastics conducting a 
product survey. We would greatly appreciate it if you 
answered our questions and returned this letter to your 
local post office. Doing so will allow us to provide a better 
experience with our products, and give you as the 
consumer more value with every purchase. 


Question 1: What is your full name? 

Question 2: Are you male or female? 

Question 3: How old are you? 

Question 4: Have you ever heard of S&C Plastics? 
Question 5: Would you consider buying S&C Plastics 
products in the near future? 

Question 6: What is your current town of residence? 
Question 7: On a rate from 1 to 10, how well do you rate 
your reaction to change? 

Question 8: Do you believe in the paranormal? Please 
explain why or why not. 


Only 3 of the 26 SCP-2298-1's filled out the survey and returned it to 
the post office. Upon collection, the surveys had changed from 
paper sheets to plastic ones. Transcripts of them can be found 
below: 


Survey 2298-1-12 


Question 1: What is your full name? A 
Question 2: Are you male or female? male 
Question 3: How old are you? 26 
Question 4: Have you ever heard of S&C 
Plastics? Nope, never. 
Question 5: Would you consider buying S&C 
Plastics products in the near future? Probably 
not. 
Question 6: What is your town of residence? 

, NH, USA. 
Question 7: On a rate from 1 to 10, how well 
do you rate your reaction to change? 6.5 
Question 8: Do you believe in the paranormal? 
Please explain why or why not. Yes. There 
was this one time a few years ago when 
everything in my friends house got moved 
around during the night. Spooky stuff. 


Survey 2298-1-22 


Question 1: What is your full name? E 
Question 2: Are you male or female? Female. 
Question 3: How old are you? 38 

Question 4: Have you ever heard of S&C 
Plastics? No. 

Question 5: Would you consider buying S&C 
Plastics products in the near future? Maybe?? 
I'm not really sure what you make. 

Question 6: What is your current town of 
residence? It's , New Hampshire. 

Question 7: On a rate from 1 to 10, how well 
do you rate your reaction to change? 2 
Question 8: Do you believe in the paranormal? 
Please explain why or why not. Yup. It kinda 
feels like everyone in town has a story 
about how something weird and 
unexplainable has happened to them. 


Survey 2298-1-36 


Question 1: What is your full name? Not 
comfortable sharing this with you. 

Question 2: Are you male or female? Male. 
Question 3: How old are you? 43 

Question 4: Have you ever heard of S&C 
Plastics? Yes. Nice acronym, btw. 

Question 5: Would you consider buying S&C 
Plastics products in the near future? No, 
‘cause that company doesn't exist. Of 
course, we both already know that, don't 
we? 

Question 6: What is your current town of 
residence? ,NH. Why do you need to 
know? 

Question 7: On a rate from 1 to 10, how well 
do you rate your reaction to change? depends 
on the kind. 

Question 8: Do you believe in the paranormal? 
Please explain why or why not. The door 
opens both ways. 


Following this, Containment Procedures were heavily 
revised. 


Footnotes 

1. Including both organic substances such as food, and technology 
such as personal computers. 

2. Relative to instances of SCP-2298-1. SCP-2298 and instances of 
SCP-2298-1 appear frozen in place, but time does not actually stop. 


« SCP-2297 | SCP-2298 | SCP-2299 » 


SCP-2299: Cephalensis-9 


Item #: SCP-2299 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: All cases of SCP-2299 infection 
are to be contained at Site-116, formerly the town of ‘ 
Washington. The town and all its residents are to be confined on- 
site, and all births and deaths are to be noted by on-site personnel. 
Should affected individuals make an attempt to approach 
Foundation personnel for any reason, they are to be turned away 
immediately. Personnel are not allowed to engage any affected 
individuals in any extended conversation. New additions are to be 
integrated in groups of four or more to ensure safety in the event of 
community rejection. 


MTF Upsilon-51 ("Red Hand") is to be dispatched to any incident of 
SCP-2299 and must consist of at least 3 separate teams alternating 
On active duty, to maintain a perpetual state of high alert. All social 
media outlets and digital forums including clear communication 
between users typing incoherent text should be noted and 
investigated. Any significant reports of large-scale violence atypical 
for the region or reporting unusual communication should be 
investigated as a potential outbreak. 


Extreme caution must be maintained, as confirmed instances of 
SCP-2299 are fully aware of outside observation and will take 
extreme measures to evade capture. If an individual is known to 
have been infected within a 24-hour period, they are to undergo 
Class-A amnestic treatment as quickly as possible. Cases that have 
persisted untreated for more than 30 hours are to be restrained and 
terminated if necessary. All remains are to be incinerated, including 
personal effects and clothing. 


Description: SCP-2299 is an unknown phenomenon which occurs 
seemingly at random, targeting groups of people between 4 and 


600,000 in number. Over the course of 30-36 hours SCP-2299 
significantly alters the host's mental faculties, causing damage to the 
hippocampus’, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex2, and an overall 
reduction in function of the frontal lobe. 


Affected individuals typically suffer severe mental degradation and 
physical damage consistent with traumatic encephalopathy. The 
most consistent symptoms exhibited by the host have been 
restricted blood flow to the anterior cingulate cortex and an 
increase in size and blood flow to the amygdala. The most 
prominent signs involve affected individuals holding fluid 
conversation despite suffering from severe aphasia. When 
manifesting digitally, individuals display severe grammatical errors 
and incoherent text indicative of improper hand placement while 


typing. 


Prior to SCP-2299's apparition, individuals have described a 30-40 
second period of sensory overload during which the individuals are 
said to feel momentarily panic-stricken, while having a very strong 
taste of blood or metal. Following this, SCP-2299's brain-altering 
effects begin to take place, accompanied by a strong odor of 
ammonia or formaldehyde, lasting up to two days following affliction. 


Discovery: SCP-2299 was first detected in the town of ; 
Washington, where residents reported witnessing what was 
described as a "giant ghostly octopus" encompassing much of the 
sky for 10-15 minutes. Photographs taken by the residents show the 
anomaly to be indistinct, but apparently resembling a disembodied 
spinal column, with the vertebrae extending into tendrils. Doppler 
radar did not detect anything unusual in the region beyond a brief 
spike in humidity which had begun to dissipate when the reported 
event occurred. 


The incident itself was connected to SCP-2299 when outbreaks 
matching the observed events in occurred in separate cities, 
preceded by the sudden apparition of the image in the sky. 


Interviews with affected individuals indicate most have never 
witnessed the event, while those who have describe it as having 
appeared and disappeared within a fraction of a second. Thus far, 
only the first reported sighting of the apparition has remained longer 


than a fraction of a second. 


Method of Action: Persons infected by SCP-2299 typically go 
through five discernible stages of "infection." 


6-20 minutes: Subjects begin to display symptoms such as 
poor motor control, trembling, sporadic instances of short-term 
memory loss, confabulation*, hypoxia, and in rare instances, 
potentially fatal temporal lobe epilepsy. Subjects are highly 
uncomfortable discussing their symptoms with anyone but 
close friends or family members. 


1-4 hours: Subjects will begin to experience spikes in blood 
flow to the amygdala, prompting abnormal growth of the 
amygdala, a process which has proven fatal in 1-2% of those 
infected. Further damage occurs to the anterior cingulate 
cortex, inducing a state of greatly exaggerated fear, anxiety, 
and paranoia. Subjects at this stage begin to seek out others, 
engaging either in like-minded discussion or arguments. 


4-6 hours: Adrenaline and dopamine flow is stimulated when 
the subject engages in a series of actions or activities which 
lead to violent encounters with others. Affected individuals 
begin to identify one another via shared symptoms and begin 
to cooperate with one another in committing violent acts 
usually directed against others who are not affected, although 
affected individuals have been noted assaulting one another. 


6-15 hours: Affected individuals taking part in larger groups 
will begin pushing for an escalation of violence against 
individuals not affected by SCP-2299. Subjects at this point 
tend to withdraw completely from friends and family members 
who are not affected. Those who remain in contact tend to 
steer all conversations towards socio-economic, political, and 
religious topics, or more often topics involving a supposedly 
hypothetical "invasion" by "trans-dimensional" humans. 


15-30 hours: Organized groups consisting of infected 
individuals tend towards more coordinated and organized acts 
of violence, including small acts of terrorism and rituals 
involving imitations of cannibalism. Groups will systematically 


single out unaffected individuals and subject them either to 
"liquidation" or "rectification", the former being a ritualized 
execution, the latter an apparent attempt to "spread" the 
condition via complete blood transfusion with several of the 
affected. 


After 30-36 hours, further alterations of the affected individual's brain 
caused by SCP-2299 cease. Adrenaline and dopamine levels 
stabilize, allowing for more complex thought and calculations. At this 
point, the affected individual appears to function normally within their 
community and in most cases is indistinguishable from an 
unaffected individual. 


Observation Log: An outbreak of SCP-2299 was reported in the 
town of ,some_ km from its reported point of origin, : 
Washington. Foundation personnel moved in to contain the site 
within 2 and a half hours of first report. Agents and Class-D 
personnel in various disguises were dispatched to the town to 
engage in conversation with affected personnel in 2-hour patrol 
intervals. All involved personnel were instructed not to contradict or 
antagonize the affected townspeople. 


Timestamp Recorded Incidents 

16:40 Personnel arrive on-site and enter 
a local bar. Subjects within are 
engaged in excited conversation 
of a political nature. Remarks 
contain a strong misogynistic 
leaning, with certain politicians 
denigrated for being "pussy- 
whipped", regardless of political 
party. D-Class are invited to 
participate in conversation. 
Cameras note several instances 
of spilled drinks and dropped 
glasses, as most individuals have 
their hands trembling and are 
blinking rapidly. Conversation 
briefly halted as one individual 
suffers an epileptic seizure and is 


18:00 


19:34 


23:11 


taken to the local clinic. Someone 
remarks that the victim must have 
been “an eight” or “an ape.” 
Personnel witness a man arguing 
with young woman in the street. 
The topic appears to involve the 
merits of grapes over saline 
capsules. Most individuals flee 
the scene, while a sizable group 
of men arrive and take up the 
argument, disseminating it along 
largely socio-economic lines. 
Another group, consisting largely 
of older men and women, begin to 
assault the others. All groups 
disband following arrival of police. 
Two females are included in D- 
Class group. Few of the subjects 
make note of them unless directly 
confronted. Conversations in the 
street begin to take on a strong 
nationalistic tone, while others 
explicitly involve the romanticizing 
of "Civil War genitals". Personnel 
are approached by aman anda 
woman asking if they saw 
someone "smiling too much, like 
a shark." The affected individuals 
express disbelief at the negative 
response, and dismiss the D- 
Class as “blind idiots.” 

Most of the residents are awake, 
as police officers arrest several 
individuals near the town square. 
An angry mob is protesting, and 
violence escalates as rocks and 
beer bottles are flung at the 
officers. Shots are fired, and D- 
Class personnel flee the scene. 
As they depart, they are stopped 


Item description: "Prangles". Item resembles in almost every way a 
standard tube of Pringles, Sour Cream and Onion flavour. The only 
difference in appearance is that the mascot on the box has red skin 
and takes on a vaguely demonic look. Item was given to a Class D 
subject. Once the lid of the Prangles is unsealed, or "popped", the 
subject was literally unable to prevent herself from eating the chips 
continuously. Moreover, the tube appears to be bottomless in 
nature, as the subject has been eating for several days at time of 
writing and shows no sign of slowing down. No difference between 
the chips and normal Pringles was found. This is the second subject 
to be tested; the first one continued eating even after termination, 
and the tube had to be forcibly removed from her grasp. 


Name: Doctor King 

Money entered: 300 yen 

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