With these changes to the structure will come changes in 
policy. No longer will we simply contain and study the 
miracles we have gathered; instead we shall use them, 
to subdue our enemies and to aid our allies. The objects 
under the control of the Foundation have the potential to 
usher in an age of wonders (M. C. Ater, "Possibilities for 
Global Societal Change using Anomalous Means", 
Scholia Procedendaque Romana 1 (2018), 15-55); it is 
our duty to see that age come to pass. | urge you to 
heed my words, lest drastic action need to be taken. 


Imperator Alexandrus Phillipbus Caesar Augustus of 
Rome 


Response to Proposal for Restructuring of Foundation 
Paramilitary Assets 
Presented to the Director of the IIS on 7 March 2018. 


Director Filipov, 


The Overseer Council has discussed and voted on your 
proposal. The official tally was 13 against. No further 
response will be given. 


05-2 


Order for Initiation of Succession Protocol W-18-CALIGULA 
Transmitted to MTF Psi-18 Commander Cassius Edwards on 14 
March 2018. 


Commander Edwards, 


Initiate protocol W-18-CALIGULA. Confirmation code ET 
TU BRUTE. 


5-2 


Response to Order for Initiation of Succession Protocol W-18- 


CALIGULA 
Submitted to the O5 Council by MTF Psi-18 Commander Cassius 
Edwards on 14 March 2018. 


| refuse to lift my hand against my Emperor. He has been 
informed of this treachery. 


Cassius Eduardus, Praetorian Prefect to the Emperor 


Declaration of Imperial Independence 
Submitted to the O5 Council and the SDECotW on 15 March 2018. 
Originally written in Latin. 


With the Foundation having repeatedly disrespected the 
sovereignty of Rome, and with the Overseer Council 
having attempted to forcibly depose the rightful emperor, 
the Roman Empire, no longer to be called the Institute of 
Imperial Studies, has declared its independence from the 
Foundation. My subjects and servants have sworn their 
allegiance to me, rejecting the false authority of the 
Overseer Council; my legions, trained and equipped by 
the Foundation, now are loyal only to their Emperor; the 
artifacts and servants bound by emperors past will no 
longer languish in prisons and vaults but will be put to 
use under the guidance of my Superintendent of Secrets, 
Manius Curius Ater, to expand the empire and grow the 
glory of the Emperor. 


Emperor Alexandrus Phillipus Caesar Augustus, Father 
of his Country, Greatest Ruler 


Footnotes 

1. An anomalous canid entity of probable extradimensional origin 
which manifested near the ancient city of Cumae, outside Naples; a 
tag on a metal collar around one of its necks indicated a prior 
encounter with SCP-3853A, and it was easily contained when 
commanded by Dr. Filipov over a live video feed. 

2. Individuals with this name held the title of Superintendent of 
Secrets—Curator Arcanorum—from therule of Caligulauntil the fall 
of the Western Roman Empire (see Person of Interest file POI-378 
for more information). It is believed that the individual referred to 


here is using the name of a historical figure as a pseudonym. 
3. "Pater Patriae, Optimus Princeps; both titles were used by Roman 
emperors with particularly notable achievements. 


SCP-3855: Antimemetic Speakeasy 


RAISA Notice 


The following document has not 
been revised since 13 Jan 1940. 
As such, it has been labeled archived 
by Foundation Records and Security. 
Information contained here may be 
significantly outdated. 


Item #: SCP-3855 (ARCHIVED) 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3855 is currently under 
Foundation control, and has been repurposed as a safehouse for 
local New York agents. Former patrons of The Secret Spirit have 
been issued amnesiacsjsic] - RAISA and remaining members of the 
Chicago Spirit associated with the bar have been apprehended. A 
guard detail is currently posted near the exterior entrance to prevent 
unauthorized access. 


Under no circumstances are non-Foundation personnel to be 
informed of the existence of SCP-3855 or its activation phrase. 


Description: SCP-3855 is a two-story building located in 
Manhattan's Lower East Side in New York City. From 1921 to 1930, 
SCP-3855 was a speakeasy run by the Chicago Spirit, an 
anomalous crime organization active throughout the early 20th 
century. Known as "The Secret Spirit", its owners served imported 
liquor and wine to well-connected members of American organized 
crime, including those who also dealt in anomalous artifacts. Much 
like the organization's original eponymous Chicago bar, The Secret 
Spirit also had a second floor that was used to sell anomalies to its 
patrons. 


SCP-3855 represents the first known usage of "anti-memes"/sic] - 
RAISA in the civilian sphere: specifically, the name, location, and 
purpose of SCP-3855 cannot be recalled without hearing or reading 
the trigger phrase "I heard about Chappell's Manhattan point." 
Absent this trigger, memories related to SCP-3855 will be made 
inaccessible, and persons visiting it will be unable to recall their 
location during the time spent there. Recordings and photographs of 
SCP-3855 can be made, but memory of their contents will also be 
lost without the trigger. 


History: SCP-3855 was opened as The Secret Spirit in February 
1921 at the instruction of Chicago Spirit leader Richard D. Chappell, 
representing the crime syndicate's first expansion into speakeasy 
management in the New York area. Wanting to avoid the attention of 
both law enforcement and rival organizations, Chappell gave 
SCP-3855 its anomalous properties via unknown means. The anti- 
meme capabilities of SCP-3855 were not replicated by any other 
known Spirit establishment, although records may be incomplete 
due to the inherent information redacting properties possibly 
associated with said establishments. 


Unlike speakeasies run by Chappell's organization in the Chicago 
area, The Secret Spirit was selective with its clientele and carefully 
screened all customers before giving them knowledge of the trigger 
phrase. During the initial opening phase, it was debated whether or 
not to open the first floor of the speakeasy to regular patrons, but 
this was ultimately deemed impractical. 


Owing to its anomalous properties, both the Foundation and the 
New York City Police Department were unable to learn of the 
existence of or locate SCP-3855. Although the owners wished to 
expand the business and the anti-meme properties of it to other 
parts of Manhattan, Chappell vetoed the idea, writing in a 1927 letter 
recovered after his capture: 


| didn't get as far as | did in the business by entertaining 
every damn fool idea someone brings up to me. | got 
here by being careful. If we fill New York with 
speakeasies nobody can remember, people are going to 
start noticing they can't figure out where they were every 
weekend night. We've got a golden goose, and just 


because the goose isn't studded with diamonds doesn't 
mean we need to go rob a jewellry store. 


Discovery: On November 23, 1930, Secret Spirit co-owner Albert 
Jones was arrested by the NYPD on burglary charges after his ex- 
wife reported that he had attempted to break into her Brooklyn 
apartment. After his Chicago Spirit affiliation was confirmed by 
police, prosecutors offered him a reduced sentence on his burglary 
charge and immunity from any charges related to other criminal 
activities he was involved in in exchange for knowledge of the 
Spirit's New York activities. Jones accepted, and soon after revealed 
the existence of The Secret Spirit. Once SCP-3855's anomalous 
nature and trigger phrase became known to police, Foundation 
agents embedded in the NYPD informed their superiors of the 
anomaly and the latter began formulating plans for a raid on The 
Secret Spirit. 


SCP-3855 was acquired by the Foundation on Christmas Day, 1930, 
when the speakeasy was raided and shut down after a tip from 
Jones that Richard Chappell would be present in it for Christmas 
celebrations. For uncertain reasons, Chappell learned of the raid 
ahead of time and returned to Chicago the previous day. After a 
thorough scan by medical personnel determined that SCP-2680 was 
not being manufactured at the location, SCP-3855 was repurposed 
as a safehouse and remains under Foundation control. 


Albert Jones was relocated to Maine by US federal authorities as 
part of a protective custody program, and lived in Bangor until 
October 27, 1932, when he disappeared while walking home from 
his job at a local grocery store. His hat and jacket were found 
approximately one kilometer from the store and there was no 
physical evidence of a struggle, nor any reports of another person 
following him by eyewitnesses. A note was found in the jacket 
pocket which read "Nice try. You can't hide, snitch." 


No records of Jones' fate were found following the 1933 shutdown of 
the Chicago Spirit, though he is presumed deceased at this time. 


SCP-3856: Researcher Lloyd, Destroyer of Worlds 


File photo of Researcher Lloyd, taken approximately 3 hours prior 


to an NK-Class ("Grey Goo") scenario 


Item #: SCP-3856 
Anomaly Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: Baseline Researcher Lloyd 
(SCP-3856-1) is to be housed in a self-sufficient maximum security 
bunker, restrained to avoid any potential acts of self-harm, and 
shielded from any possible detrimental influences. The death of 
SCP-3856 must be prevented at all costs, and any personnel acting 
in a way that may kill, maim, or otherwise damage SCP-3856-1 will 
be summarily terminated — note that attempting to gain access to 
SCP-3856-1's chamber without authorisation is considered an act of 
potential harm, and will be handled as such. As SCP-3856-1 has 
already been treated with all low-risk life-extending techniques 
currently available to the Foundation, no further efforts to extend 
SCP-3856-1's natural life are to be attempted without unanimous 
Level-5 approval. 


Should the probability of SCP-3856-1's imminent death rise above 
0.01% at any time, the instance is to be immediately ejected to the 
nearest inhabited universe. The handling of any non-native iterations 
of Researcher Lloyd will be undertaken on a case-by-case basis by 
staff with Level-4/3856 clearance or higher. 


Description: SCP-3856 is a probabilistic anomaly affecting all 
iterations of Foundation Researcher Samuel Lloyd across all known 
variants of the Foundation, in all known life-supporting universes. 
There is currently no known way to subvert, permanently delay, or 
otherwise prevent the effects of SCP-3856, though research is 
Ongoing. Cross-testing with other anomalies known to manipulate 
chance has yielded a null result in all cases, suggesting SCP-3856 
manifests as an intrinsic property of the metaphysical nature of 


Researcher Lloyd!. 


The full range of SCP-3856's effects are not known, but the primary 
element appears to be the fact that any iteration of Researcher 
Lloyd will inevitably? cease brain activity only following the 
elimination of every other extant humans from the universe in which 
they currently reside. In circumstances where Researcher Lloyd 
would ordinarily be killed before this event, SCP-3856 appears to 
have the secondary effect of hastening a large-scale K-Class End- 
of-the-world scenario. While this event is invariably caused by 
external forces, and is frequently predicted or registered long before 
the initial recognition of SCP-3856, attempts to prevent it have thus 
far met with failure in all cases. 


Observation of terminated universes containing an iteration of 
Researcher Lloyd reveals that the severity of the apocalyptic event 
caused by SCP-3856 is inversely proportional to the number of 
sapient individuals residing within the affected universe. To clarify: 
while a human population of several billion will result only in the 
worldwide extermination of said humans, the death of Researcher 
Lloyd within an uninhabited or sparsely populated universe risks a 
high-level Yggdrasil Severance Event, and the subsequent collapse 
of adjacent dimensional regions. 


SCP-3856 has led, indirectly, to the establishment of 
communications with a growing network of Foundation-positive 
universes, with the shared goal of minimising SCP-3856-related 
casualties. Despite the formation of a semi-informal regulatory body, 
no consensus has yet been made. 


Addendum.1: Event 3856-Alpha: On / / _, despite agreed-upon 
travel protocols, a single instance of Researcher Lloyd manifested 
within Site-54, equipped with standard Foundation provisions and 
equipment (circa 1880 AD). The entity was later determined to have 
originated from U-4046Y, and had been relocated via 
Ectodimensional Way Generation by SCP Foundation-4046Y. 
SCPF-4046Y refused to communicate with baseline Foundation 
personnel following this incident, and subsequent investigations 
revealed that the probability of their instance dying from natural 
causes had been steadily increasing for some months previously. 


The instance (designated SCP-3856-4046Y for clarity) was taken 
into custody and treated with standard life-extending techniques. A 
more permanent method of processing is currently in development. 


The following message was found attached to the instance upon 
manifestation: 


WE ARE SORRY TO BURDEN YOU AT THIS 
TIME. WE CANNOT RISK FURTHER DETRIMENT TO 
OUR CITIZENS. WE ARE SURE YOU WILL 
UNDERSTAND 


DUE TO THE POTENTIAL FOR RETALIATION 
FROM HOSTILE SOURCES WE WILL BE CLOSING 
DOWN ALL EXTERNAL TRANSFER CHANNELS. ALL 
EXISTING TRADE ROUTES WILL BE TERMINATED 


WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE 
CAUSED 


~ The Sovereign of Carallas-Pralwright 


Addendum.2: Update / /_ : Following the manifestation of a 
further six instances of Researcher Lloyd, of which two were shown 
to exhibit life-threatening wounds, the decision has been taken to 
transfer three instances (SCP-3856-03B54, -193FF, and -73E2M) to 
low-volume Floater Universes accessible via SCP-__. This is 
expected to act as a temporary buffer until a more permanent 
solution can be devised. 


All other instances have been housed in maximum-security bunkers 
at undisclosed locations, with the exception of SCP-3856-0PD31, 
who went into cardiac arrest shortly after manifestation. They were 
cryonically frozen using experimental techniques shortly after this, 
and are expected to survive for another months without medical 
intervention. Given U-B9PYB's attempt to conceal an instance of 
Researcher Lloyd in a scheduled shipment of precious metals, the 
decision has been made by the O5 Council to close all exo-universal 
trade routes. 


Talks with alternate Foundations are ongoing, but have been 


somewhat strained following the spontaneous collapse of 
Universes-03B54, V4L2K, OIO10, and 5FIVF. Exo-universal 
elections are due to be postponed until a practical solution to issue 
MU-3856-SCT-LLOYD can be found. 


Addendum.3: Log-3856-F: The following log is a severely abridged 
list of Researcher Lloyd instances currently known to the 
Foundation. Due to the situation's current rate of escalation, it is 
expected to undergo frequent changes. 


Instance Summary Current Status 
designation(s) 
SCP-3856-LPN4R Instance had Extant Deceased 


apparently been 
converted to a 
mechanised form, 
inline with Gol-004B 
(The Cogwork 
Orthodox Church)'s 
"standardisation" 
process. Due to a lack 
of ordinary 
senescence, it is 
believed the instance 
will be capable of 
surviving near- 
indefinitely. The 
instance has since 
been terminated via 
the addition of an 
irregular logical 
construct into their 
system. Foul play is 
suspected, but 
unconfirmed. 

SCP-3856-SMRC3 | Resided for four years Deceased 
in what is either a 
nonexistent fictional 
construct or region of 
the Anatolian 


Result: Won every hand until last, at which point subject "went all in" 
(wagered all winnings) and lost game.