Acting through various shell corporations while 
impersonating the Department of Defense, 
interviews with SCP-2959 instances were 
made under Delta 5 secrecy. The individuals 
who conducted the interviews were not in 
Foundation employ and worked as 
interrogators on loan from the CIA. 
Interrogators were chosen based on extreme 
loyalty to the government of the United States 
and were informed that the interrogations were 
on human test subjects from a secret 
government project. Due to the unethical 
nature of the subject, only two interrogators 
could be used. All civilians involved were 
amnesticized shortly after the interviews 
concluded. All personnel infected by 
SCP-2959 who had knowledge of the Delta 5 


acquisition of SCP-2959 instances were also 
amnesticized. 


Due to the need for secrecy, only ten 
SCP-2959 instances were able to be 
interviewed. Of the ten, nine corresponded to 
current living persons. As theorized, all 
information, with exception to the events 
leading up to their reason for incarceration, 
remained identical to that of their counterpart 
currently serving in prison. The following is the 
interview with the remaining instance. 


In accordance with Delta 5 protocol, 
SCP-2959-10's answers have been filtered 
through LUKA-7. 


SCP-2959-10 Why'm | here, doc? Does this 
mean I'm free to go? 


Interviewer: Afraid not, ma'am. And I'm not 
actually a doctor. They told me your 
designation is D-4596G12. For the record, 
could you tell me your name? 


SCP-2959-10: Selina, doc. Selina Davis. You 
guys gonna start calling me that? 


Interviewer: Selina Davis, okay. And I'm not 
one of those guys, ma'am. (Here, the 
interviewer gestures upwards.) You don't need 
to call me doctor. Call me Agent Jones. 


SCP-2959-10: | don't understand. Who are 
you from then? (SCP-2959-10 noticeably 
begins to perspire.) 


Interviewer: Ma'am, you don't need to know 
who | work for. You just need to answer my 
questions, and we can get you right back. 


SCP-2959-10: Back? You can't put me back, 
doc. You can't. You just can't. Do you know 
what they do there? Do you know what they've 
done to me, doc? 


Interviewer: | don't question my orders. And 
I'm not a doctor. | don't know where you were, 
and | don't know what they did. Now, can you 
tell me where you were born? 


SCP-2959-10: You, you don't know? Not a 
doctor. (SCP-2959-10's speech slurs from this 
point forward.) 


Interviewer: No. Can you please tell me 
where were you born? 


SCP-2959-10: Nantucket. Nan-nan-nantucket. 
(SCP-2959-10 begins to sweat at an abnormal 
rate.) 


Interviewer: What was the crime that 
originally sent you to prison? 


SCP-2959-10: Crime. | don't question my 
orders, doc. | don't know where they were, 
doc. | don't know what they did, doc. 
(SCP-2959-10 appears extremely confused. A 
fluid, later found to be cerebrospinal and 
amniotic, drips from its nostrils, ears, and the 
corner of its mouth.) 


Interviewer: What are you telling me, ma'am? 


SCP-2959-10: What is ma'am, doc? You don't 
need to know. You just need to answer with 
crime, and you don't need to call your 
designation, Selina. Where were you born 
when I'm not a doctor? 


Interviewer: Do you want to play nice, or are 


you just gonna play the lunatic? 


SCP-2959-10: One of those guys could play 
nice, doc. | don't question my lunatics. What 
they did. What they were, doc. (SCP-2959-10 
repeats the latter two phrases as it slumps in 
its chair and closes its eyes.) 


Interviewer: (The interviewer reaches out to 
SCP-2959-10 and shakes its shoulders 
aggressively. The interviewer slaps 
SCP-2959-10 across its face with full force. 
SCP-2959-10 does not rouse but continues 
repeating the phrase. The interviewer begins 
to speak to the recording device.) | don't think 
I'm going to get anything out of this one with 
current allowable force. 


SCP-2959-10: What they did. Where they 
were, doc. (SCP-2959-10 continues repeating 
these phrases for several minutes at a 
progressively lower volume before passing into 
a coma.) 


Interviewer: Yeah, this one is definitely 
asleep. We're done here, everyone. 


SCP-2959-10's profuse sweating lead to 
extreme dehydration which necessitated a 
saline solution IV drip on the way to its first 
drop-off at point. Once in Foundation custody, 
SCP-2959-10's coma broke, and it was able to 
coherently communicate with Foundation 
personnel. SCP-2959-10 was given a thorough 
examination, and no complications were found 
to account for the accumulation of amniotic 
and cerebrospinal fluids, its apparent coma, or 
the unusual sweating. After a few hours in 
custody, the profuse sweating abated, and it 
was transferred back to the custody of Site 
Zia: 


Plans to locate and acquire further instances 
of SCP-2959 without counterparts are 
currently underway. 


And here's where we stand. Most of the O5s have been 
infected. They're being kept on, of course, but we're 
trying to steer them into retirement as soon as possible. 
We only have a handful of personnel that we could save 
when we saw things were going to hell. But we have a 
few researchers who were out sick and agents lucky 
enough to have been off the grid. It's only us now. 


It's a tall task, but we must end this plague. We have to 
bring it back to what it used to be. We were lucky enough 
to be spared, but we're cursed to see how far we've 
fallen. 


They've become something horrid, and we need to save 
them. We don't know if SCP-2959 represents an attempt 
to change the focus of the Foundation or if it's something 
using our resources for their own experiments, but the 
why doesn't matter. I've seen men and women | love 
doing things that would have made them vomit. Even if 
those things aren't real people, the infected think they 
are, and they're getting crueler by the day. We cannot let 
it continue. We absolutely cannot let them degrade the 
Foundation any further. 


Remember that we are here to secure, to contain, and to 
protect. Not cause unnecessary pain in the name of 
science. They need to remember what we did. They 
need to remember that they, like all of us, were the lights 
in the darkness. 


05-5 
« SCP-2958 | SCP-2959 | SCP-2960 » 


SCP-2960: The Show MUST Go On... 


Item #: SCP-2960 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: Due to the nature of SCP-2960, 
the object is to be contained on site in the former auditorium of 

High Schoolin —_, Oregon. The school has since been closed and 
the property purchased via a Foundation front organization. 


All instances of SCP-2960 are to be provided meals daily in 
accordance to a standard Foundation humanoid feeding schedule. 
Medical assistance is to be provided upon request, with physical 
exams scheduled to take place every two weeks. 


Following the suicide of five SCP-2960 instances on 11/4/2009, 
psychological evaluations of each instance of SCP-2960 are 
scheduled to take place on a weekly basis. Any instance of 
SCP-2960 deemed suicidal or unwilling to perform at the next show 
is to be immediately quarantined from all other instances so that 
counseling/psychological treatment may be provided. 


Instances of SCP-2960 are to be provided with the following forms 
of entertainment: 


* One library of 20 preapproved books with selection rotated on 
a monthly basis. 

Four preapproved board games with selection rotated on a 
quarterly basis 

* One television equipped with a DVD player. 

One library of 10 preapproved DVDs with selection rotated on 
a monthly basis. 


Description: SCP-2960 collectively designates the former cast, 
orchestra and crew of High School’s 2008 production of 
Urinetown. The anomalous properties of SCP-2960 become 


apparent when any instance attempts to leave the auditorium or the 
backstage area. During any such attempt the instance will be 
physically stopped by an invisible barrier of force preventing further 
egress. As of the time of writing, all attempts to physically force an 
SCP-2960 instance through this barrier has been met with failure 
and severe injury to the subject. Anyone who was not a member of 
the production’s cast, orchestra or crew by closing night of the 
show’s run is not affected by this barrier. Foundation personnel are 
freely capable of entering and leaving the stage and backstage area. 


At 19:00 PST every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night, a male 
voice will play over the auditorium’s intercom, informing the cast and 
crew to take their places. This voice has since been identified as 
belonging to Liam Schmidt, High School’s former drama teacher. 
Attempts to locate the source of the announcement have so far been 
met with failure. 


At 19:30 PST, lighting in the auditorium will dim and begin to run 
through the light and sound cues from the 2008 show of Urinetown, 
regardless as to whether power is supplied to any involved 
equipment. At this point, all instances of SCP-2960 must perform 
their roles in the production in full costume. Failure to do so will 
result in the noncompliant instance being killed via some form of 
accident, usually involving theatre equipment or props. Following the 
death of an SCP-2960 instance the lights will return to normal levels 
until the next show date. It is at this point that any damage done to 
the set will automatically repair itself. In the event that all instances 
successfully fill their role, and the show is allowed to run its course, 
the lights will return to normal levels following the play’s conclusion. 


Instances of SCP-2960 that have been killed due to inability to fulfill 
their role in the play, or due to suicide, reanimate at the beginning of 
the next show, provided their body has not been removed from the 
auditorium or backstage area. These instances will run through their 
lines and cues normally, but fall dead at the play’s conclusion. While 
their bodies remain within the auditorium or backstage area, 
deceased SCP-2960 instances do not show signs of decomposition 
despite several instances having been deceased for multiple years. 


Once an instance of SCP-2960 has been killed, it is possible to 
remove their body from the auditorium. If such an instance was a 


Exploratory Mission 354 Alpha 


Personal log of Dr. 

Our expedition to explore SCP-354, that gaping wound in the middle 
of Canada, has finally been accepted! The R&D boys have come up 
with what can only be described as a submarine with a drill on it. We 
know that the pool gets denser as you go down, so we suspect that 
at some point we won't be sinking, so much as digging. Hence the 
huge mining device built onto it. It's not hydrodynamic at all, but 
we're not really going swimming here. My gut tells me that there's 
something on the other side of the Red Pool, and just like digging 
down (up?) to China, all we have to do is dig down (up?) to it. 


Personal log of Dr. 

Had a nice long debate with O5- over who's allowed to come. | 
wanted MTFQ7 to come with us for protection, or at least SCP-076, 
but they won't allow it. Despite the massive damages he continues 
to cause, they still see him as too valuable to risk losing. Not that he 
isn't, y'know, IMMORTAL or anything. Maybe they just didn't have 
the guts to ask him to go exploring...? 


Ackler, that ass, wanted us to take SCP-__ with us, but | wouldn't 
allow it. The file says SCP-_ was just born before he came through, 
so he'd be useless as a guide. He might be of some use as security, 
but that's mostly canceled out by that fact that he's [DATA 
EXPUNGED]. He'd probably just anyway. 


The final crew complement apart from myself consists of three 
agents, two D-class personnel, one geologist, and some guy from 
R&D who's going to pilot the ship. | already forgot all of their names. 


Exploratory Team 354-alpha (ET354a) mission log, day 1: 
Rotten sort of day to begin a mission. Rumor has it that last night 
there was a total containment breach in some Area or other. Then it 
turns out that there's no coffee allowed anywhere inside of Area-354 
for some reason or another. And the whole mission almost ended in 
disaster when it turns out that they almost forgot to load the extra 


member of the cast, during the 19:00 announcement Liam Schmidt’s 
voice will announce that a member of the crew or orchestra will be 
playing the missing role. At this point in time, the SCP-2960 instance 
selected to fill the missing role will enter a fugue state and will 
attempt to either obtain the proper costume or assemble one from 
available materials. They will then act out the role they have been 
assigned for that night’s show. All lines spoken by a replacement 
instance are projected using the voice of the missing instance. 


Bodies of deceased instances of SCP-2960 that have been removed 
from the auditorium or backstage area will decompose normally. 
However, once these bodies are returned to the auditorium or 
backstage area, they will immediately regenerate all decomposed 
tissue and reanimate at the next show. Attempts to identify the 
source of this reanimation and regeneration have so far been 
inconclusive, as reanimated SCP-2960 instances are hostile to any 
personnel attempting to prevent completion of the show. 


Attempts at communication with reanimated instances by 
Foundation personnel have so far been met with failure. All 
reanimated instances do not acknowledge any verbal 
communication that does not originate from a member of the cast. 
When addressed by a cast member, reanimated instances will act 
and address the individual fully in character. As a result, attempts at 
communication with reanimated instances using a living cast 
member as a proxy have had limited success. 


Medical exams of living SCP-2960 instances by Foundation medical 
personnel have shown that these instances have stopped aging. 
Investigation into the cause of this phenomenon has so far been 
inconclusive. It is currently hypothesized that all instances of 
SCP-2960 can live indefinitely provided proper nutrition is met. 


Attempts at stopping a show through technical sabotage by the 
living SCP-2960 instances and Foundation personnel have had 
limited success. Should a given sabotage attempt disable a crucial 
piece of equipment on a show night, Liam Schmidt’s voice will 
immediately announce that the evening’s show has been cancelled 
due to technical difficulties. At the end of this announcement, all 
equipment damage will then repair itself. Attempts at sabotaging the 
same equipment in the same manner for a second time have been 


met with failure as the damaged equipment will immediately self- 


repair. 


Addendum 2960-A: Log of SCP-2960 Instance Termination 


Instance 
Number 


SCP-2960-1 William 


SCP-2960-? Eric 


SCP-2960-3 Cameron 


SCP-2960-8 Sarah 


SCP-2960- 1 2Lilly 


SCP-2960-14Howard 


SCP-2960-18Lilly 


SCP-2960- | 9James 


SCP-2960-21 Thomas 


Role in Date of 
Production Termination 
Joseph “Old 21/11/2008 
Man” Strong 


Senator Fipp 22/11/2008 


Orchestra | 22/11/2008 


member 


Soupy Sue| 22/11/2008 


Orchestra 13/2/2009 


member 
Sound Board 15/3/2009 
Run Crew | 29/3/2009 
Stage 11/4/2009 
Manager 


Asst. Stage 11/4/2009 
Manager 


Cause 


Crushed by 
lighting 
fixture. 
Electrocution 
from 
backstage 
lighting. 
Electrocution 
from 
backstage 
lighting. 
Electrocution 
from 
backstage 
lighting. 
Suicide. (Nail 
Gun wound 
to head.) 
Lacerations 
from 
technician’s 
booth 
windows 
shattering. 
Fall after 
catwalk 
collapsed 
Suicide. 
(Hung from 
power cord.) 
Suicide. 
(Hung from 
power cord.)