Observation Notes: SCP-049 began by asking D-85123 
several standard medical questions, as it began 
removing tools from its bag. Shortly after finishing its 
preparations, SCP-049 quickly closed the distance 
between the two, killing the subject with a touch to its 
throat. Afterwards, SCP-049 made a number of 
considerable alterations to the basic structure of the 
subject's corpse, often introducing fluids from within its 
bag into the subject by way of a hand powered pump 
and copper tubing. 


The resulting 049-2 instance became animated, flailing 
and grasping at the walls of the chamber with a number 
of manufactured limbs while moaning out of an oblong 
orifice now present in its sternum. During this time, 
SCP-049 was observed taking notes of the instance in its 
journal, and remarking to the watching research staff 
about the efficacy of its cure. Security personnel entered 
the chamber to move SCP-049 back to containment, and 
were attacked by the instance. The security team 
dispatched the 049-2 instance, and SCP-049 returned to 
containment with no resistance, stating that it was 
pleased with the results. 


Observational Log 049.0L.2 SUMMARY 


Subject: SCP-049 


Preface: SCP-049 was provided the corpse of a recently 
deceased goat. SCP-049 expressed gratitude at the 
provision. 


Observation Notes: SCP-049 operated on the goat 
corpse for several days, eventually resulting in an 
instance of SCP-049-2. SCP-049 expressed pleasure in 
this outcome, though admitted "the disease was still in its 
nascent stage. My veterinarian practice is rudimentary, 
but the patient responded well to the procedure." 


Observational Log 049.0L.3 SUMMARY 
Subject: SCP-049 


Preface: SCP-049 was provided the corpse of a recently 
deceased orangutan. SCP-049 expressed noted 
gratitude at the provision, due to the similarities between 
the orangutan and common human physiology. 


Observation Notes: SCP-049 spent several days 
operating on the orangutan, reanimating it several times. 
However, SCP-049 appeared to be discontent with the 
results it experienced, returning to the creature three 
times after its initial reanimation for additional work. After 
it was unable to reanimate the corpse a fifth time, 
SCP-049 turned the corpse over to Foundation staff for 
incineration, stating "| have learned so much from this, 
though | fear my early optimism was misplaced. | hadn’t 
yet come across such a... a stumbling block on my road 
to the cure. More subjects like this would do a great deal 
in advancing my research." 


Observational Log 049.0L.7 FULL 
Subject: SCP-049 


Preface: SCP-049 was provided the corpse of a recently 
deceased bovine. SCP-049 expressed mild annoyance 


at the provision, though accepted it nonetheless‘. 


Observation Notes: SCP-049 spent several days 
operating on the bovine corpse, breaking only to dine on 
a requested dinner of thin crackers, salted pork, and 
hard cheese®. Beginning first by embalming the corpse, 
SCP-049 was observed producing a number of long 
syringes from its bag, each containing a different dark, 
viscous fluid. SCP-049 described these fluids as 
"essences of the humors", and elaborated by saying "the 
Pestilence may bring about a systemic imbalance. In 
such a case, before true healing can begin, one must 
find the humors in balance or the body will reject the 
cure."6 


Over the next few days, SCP-049 spent a considerable 
amount of time adjusting the organs of the bovine corpse 
with a number of large metal instruments. After eight 
days, SCP-049 produced a lightning rod, which Dr. 
Hamm exchanged for an electric cattle prod attached to 
an extension cord, and struck the corpse in several 
locations. This action seemingly had the effect of 
reanimating the bovine, which once again became 
ambulatory, despite the inversion of the head and 
reorientation of its limbs. 


Follow Up Interview 
[BEGIN LOG] 


Dr. Hamm: We've watched you work for several weeks 
now, and honestly I'm not sure | understand what you're 
doing. Can you describe your process in detail? 


SCP-049: Oh goodness no, the process is most 
intensive. As | said to your assistant, the best instruction 
you will find about my methods are here in my journals, 
as | have kept exhaustive records of my work’ there. 


Dr. Hamm: | see. My concern, doctor, is that we still 


don't understand what you're seeking to cure, or how it 
manifests, or how turning these creatures into quasi- 
living, mindless drones helps in that effort. 


SCP-049: You do not understand the Pestilence? Even 
after all this time? Doctor, it is an unspeakable horror, 
one that has shown its true face many times before and 
will again. | find myself blessed with the wisdom and 
good senses needed to root it out and destroy it, but 
many like yourself cannot. It is a cruel judgement, | fear, 
to be at the mercy of a disease you cannot fully 
comprehend! 


Dr. Hamm: That still doesn't answer my question. How is 
your cure any kind of cure at all? 


SCP-049: (Growing suddenly agitated) It is a cure! You 
may laugh at my efforts if you please, but do not 
besmirch the good name of scientific progress that has 
developed this great mercy. What you so shortsightedly 
see here is a life better than any this creature could have 
hoped for, stricken as it was with Pestilence. This 
creature is now clean, unable to spread the Pestilence 
and free from the terror it would have experienced 
otherwise. 


Dr. Hamm: This is hardly a creature at all, doctor, it's not 
even- 


SCP-049: (Very agitated) Do not jape with me, sir! You 
and your colleagues are like so many others, unable to 
look past minor setbacks to see the salvation taking 
place before your very eyes. Do you wait to remove 
rotten timbers until the hall collapses on top of you? No. 
You find them and you pull them out and replace them 
with those untouched by rot! And most of all, you do not 
simply mock the structure because it now looks different 
to you. It is strong! It is free of disease. 


Dr. Hamm: I'm sorry. | didn't mean to agitate you. I'm 
just trying to understand. 


SCP-049: (Deep breath) Yes, well, do mind your words 
in the future, doctor. | am a professional, but even 
professionals may feel the bite of pride in dealing with 
criticism of their masterpiece. | will forgive this as an act 
of good faith between colleagues. 


Dr. Hamm: Is there anything else | can help you with? 


SCP-049: (Pauses, looking away from Dr. Hamm) No, 
that will be all. Another test subject, on the usual 
schedule. You know my preference of subjects with more 
human anatomies. 


[END LOG] 


Attending Researcher's Note: SCP-049 does seem to 
genuinely want to help other humans, though it has not 
yet been able to provide a concrete example of what 
exactly it is trying to save us all from. | have watched it 
now over several weeks, and while the outcomes do not 
seem to ever change, SCP-049 continues to claim that it 
is growing closer to its perfect cure. | think the entity may 
be more aware of the reality of these outcomes than it 
would like us to think. 


Addendum 049.3: 04/16/2017 Incident 


Starting shortly after SCP-049's initial containment, Dr. Hamm 
conducted a number of interviews with the subject regarding its 
anomalous properties, and over time began to note its displeasure 
with its subjects and the SCP-049-2 instances. This continued for a 
period of several months, during which SCP-049 never exhibited 
any aggressive behaviours. 


On April 16th, 2017, as Dr. Hamm was entering SCP-049's test 
chamber to conduct another routine interview, the entity began to 
grow anxious and asked Dr. Hamm if he was feeling well. Following 
protocol, Dr. Hamm reminded SCP-049 that the interview was 
required, after which the entity became hostile and attacked Dr. 
Hamm, killing him. Due to a lapse in security protocol, and because 
Dr. Hamm did not activate the in-chamber emergency system, Dr. 


Hamm's corpse was not discovered until three hours later, by which 
point SCP-049 had converted it into an instance of SCP-049-2. 


In the aftermath of this incident, SCP-049 was interviewed by Dr. 
Theron Sherman. 


Interviewer: Dr. Theron Sherman, Site-42 


Interviewee: SCP-049 


[BEGIN LOG] 
Dr. Sherman: | need you to explain yourself. 
(No response) 


Dr. Sherman: SCP-049, you are being directed to 
explain your actions, and | will remind you that failure to 
cooperate will result in further restrictions during your 
containment. 


SCP-049: (Pauses) My actions do not need to be 
explained. 


Dr. Sherman: You killed Raymond Hamm and then 
butchered him until he- 


SCP-049: (/nterrupting, angrily) Not dead! No! Not... not 
dead. He is... he is cured. 


Dr. Sherman: Cured? Cured of what? 


SCP-049: The Pestilence, sir! | had thought you, at least, 
would realize what luck it is | detected it before- 


Dr. Sherman: (/nterrupting) What pestilence? You keep 
going on and on about this pestilence but you have not 
once been able to properly identify this "disease". What 
could you have possibly seen in him today that you had 
not seen so many times before? That it would be worth 


his life? 


SCP-049: He... (oauses) The Pestilence presents and 
progresses in unforeseeable fashions, and has a queer 
way of- of creeping into the unprepared, and... 
(breathing becomes heavier) call it what you want, 
doctor. It was a mercy | did to him. He is cured. 


Dr. Sherman: He is a vegetable! 


SCP-049: (Pauses) |... | would not expect you to 
understand. You and your... your i/k have proven time 
and time again to be not men of science, but men of- of 
emotion. You cannot appreciate the horrors | have seen, 
those many millions who have succumbed to the 
Pestilence and been changed, who- 


Dr. Sherman: Your cure cost Ray his life! 


SCP-049: No good S/R| have saved it! You would allow 
this world to slip back into the, the- the despair of 
disease and death, ignoring that | have created a miracle 
and- 


Dr. Sherman: (Talking over SCP-049) What disease? 
What pestilence? He was a healthy man! He was a good 
doctor! 


SCP-049: -am offering it freely to the afflicted! You are 
not worth this argument, sir. You are shortsighted and 
foolish. Dr. Hamm was sick, and |... (breath catches) | 
cured him. | am the only one who can do this. My work 
must continue, there is so much still to learn, so much to- 


Dr. Sherman: I've had enough of this. Consider your 
allowances revoked. Welcome to containment, oh-four- 
nine. (Away from mic) We're done here. 


SCP-049: -do, and others can be saved! Even you, 
though you do not deserve it, might be saved! | can save 
them all! | can cast down this plague, once and for all. | 


can do this! Only me! I... |... (labored breathing) | 


saved... | saved him... Dr. Hamm, I... | cured him... he 
was sick, | know he was sick, | know he was, and I... you 
are all sick, but I... | can save you. | can save all of you, 
because I... | am the cure. 

[END LOG] 


Addendum 049.4: Post-Incident Report Interview 


The following interview is an excerpt from the 4/16/17 049 Incident 
Report. The interview was conducted by Dr. Elijah Itkin, and took 
place three weeks after the start of the initial investigation. 


Date: 5/7/17 

Interviewer: Dr. Elijah Itkin 
Interviewee: SCP-049 
[BEGIN LOG] 


Dr. Itkin: SCP-049, we are conducting this interview to 
close out our investigation of your actions taken on April 
16th that resulted in the death of a staff member. Do you 
have any comments to make? 


SCP-049: Only that | look forward to the day when you 
will allow me to resume my work! | have spent the last 
few weeks compiling my notes and constructing a new 
theory for how the Pestilence was able to infect someone 
in such an insidious manner that | nearly couldn't detect 
it. 


Dr. Itkin: Have you experienced any remorse for your 
actions? For the death of Dr. Hamm? 


SCP-049: (Waves his hand) Ah, yes. Well, the death of a 
colleague is always regrettable, but in the face of the 
Pestilence we must be swift, doctor, and act without 
hesitation. 


Dr. Itkin: Dr. Sherman noted in his report that you 
seemed to be mournful during your initial interview. 


SCP-049: Mourn- (Pauses) Perhaps. | had not thought 
that... It is lamentable that a fellow doctor became 
infected, but the work continues. Regrettable as... as it 
was, Dr. Hamm's death provided important insight. Living 
human subjects are the only way to proceed forward, | 
am decided. My cure is of little use on dead flesh, and | 
have gleaned all | can from your generous supply of 
corpses. My desires turn towards tending to those still 
living who suffer from the disease. 


Dr. Itkin: I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. 
SCP-049: (Laughs) Oh doctor, | wouldn't be so sure. 
[END LOG] 


Footnotes 

1. The robes and gloves are identical to a thick hide built up on the 
skin, while the mask is composed of a kind of chitin growing out of 
the bones of the face. 

2. The entity claims to have originated in 15th century France, 
though admits that it is "particularly well-traveled". 

3. The space within this bag is seemingly anomalously large, as 
SCP-049 has been observed pulling objects larger than the bag 
itself from within it in order to operate on deceased subjects. 

4. SCP-049 had stated its desire to work on human subjects several 
times between this occasion and the earlier provision of an 
orangutan, noting its discontentedness when they would not be 
provided. 

5. SCP-049 has expressed that it does not require sustenance, but 
enjoys it and feels that the food helps to put it in the right mind to 
operate. 

6. SCP-049 added to this statement by saying "This is, of course, 
elementary knowledge for the practical physician. | would have 
thought you would have learned this during your education!" 

7. Notably, SCP-049's journals are not written in any known 
language, and attempts by linguists and codebreakers to decipher 
them have been unsuccessful. 


« SCP-048 | SCP-049 | SCP-050 » 


SCP-050: To The Cleverest 


Item #: SCP-050 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: So far, all attempts to contain 
SCP-050 have proven fruitless’. At present, whoever has 
possession of SCP-050 is to leave it in an office they use with 
regularity?. 


Description: SCP-050 appears to be a statue of a monkey reading 
a book, approximately 1 foots tall. On the bottom of the statue are 
engraved the words "To The Cleverest" in cursive script. 


The statue has so far proven resistant to all forms of damage‘. As 
such, there is no accurate method to date the object. 


When left alone, SCP-050 has shown itself to be both useful and 
antagonistic to its current owner®. Although never seen to move, no 
matter the manner or amount of recordings, any room it is left in 
becomes very clean, to a polish whenever possible. Paperwork is 
filed, trash is emptied, and in general, clutter is removed. However, 
SCP-050 also has a tendency to leave traps for its owner, so current 
holders should carefully check their offices upon returning. 


Footnotes 

1. Testing to contain SCP-050 has been discontinued at this time. 

2. Attempts to leave SCP-050 in unused offices have resulted in it 
following its owner home. This is a violation of regulations and not to 
be allowed. 

3. One of the quirks of SCP-050 is that no matter what form of 
measurement is used, any record of said measurements will quickly 
be replaced by the Customary System measurements. 

4. Attempts to damage SCP-050 have resulted in increasingly lethal 
‘pranks.' As of this writing, destruction testing is discontinued. 


5. SeeDocument 050. 


« SCP-049 | SCP-050 | SCP-051 » 


Document 050 


Document 050 


"The Great Researcher Prank War of' "