Several small flagella line the cell membrane, allowing SCP-532 to 
be carried by air currents into the upper stratosphere and lower 
mesosphere. Due to a lack of energy source, SCP-532 will enter into 
a state of hibernation for an indefinite amount of time while in the 
atmosphere. 


SCP-532 will leave its hibernating state once it detects warm air 
currents coming from the troposphere. SCP-532 will then retract 
several of its flagella and descend into the troposphere. The heat 
provided by the troposphere generally causes several instances of 
SCP-532 to turn into a "clump", similar in view to a snowflake. If the 
heat provided by the troposphere is above 0°C, SCP-532 will 
typically die before reaching the Earth's surface. Instances of 
SCP-532 reaching any inorganic material or a non-exothermic 
organism will spread their flagella and be carried by air currents 
back into the upper stratosphere. 


monitored within Nexus-18 (Sloth's Pit, Wisconsin) by researchers at 
Site-87's newly-founded patphysics department. 


In the event of a major SCP-001-X manifestation, Procedure 001- 
Pickman-B is to be carried out, as detailed in the file below. Any and 
all SCP-001-A techniques are allowed to be used in order to combat 
the spread of SCP-001-X. 


Testing done with SCP-001 is to be carried out only with permission 
from Dr. Johnathan West. 


Description: SCP-001 is a sentient, possibly sapient, universal 
constant first discovered by Foundation Archivist Isaiah Howard 
Pickman (1979-2017), and first described by Pike, West, Bailey, 
Sinclair et alin 2018. SCP-001 manifests itself as a force described 
as "Narrative Causality", wherein patterns observed in nature, 
history, technology, and anomalous phenomena and items conform 
to patterns observed in fictional narratives. This, combined with 
phenomena reported in S. Andrew Swann's SCP-001 proposal, has 
definitively proved that the baseline universe is at least partly 
fictional. 


SCP-001-A refers to narrative exploitation techniques that can be 
used to manipulate SCP-001, and conceivably any other narrative 
construct. SCP-001-A techniques include: 


¢ Invoking an ironic reaction by stating a phrase such as "What 
could possibly go wrong?" 

¢ Creating a solution to a problem by uttering a phrase such as 

"We're missing something, but what?", or by several people 

turning to look at a single individual who they believe is 

capable of solving this problem. 

Preventing disasters via awareness of the presence of certain 

phrases in conversation (i.e. "It's been boring lately" or 

"nothing ever happens here") or narrative patterns 

Minor probability manipulation using mass encouragement or 

belief. 


SCP-001-A techniques are not infallible; SCP-001 seems to be able 
to choose which techniques are capable of working at a given time. 


SCP-001-X refers to malignant pieces of narrative causality, either 
manifesting naturally as a result of an unsatisfying narrative event or 
created by excessive use of SCP-001-A. SCP-001-X instances are 
detrimental to the narrative around it, and have the potential to 
create massive flaws in reality that cause mass confusion, the 
manifestation of powerful and nonsensical entities and abilities, and 
an overall degradation in the surrounding consensus reality. 


SCP-001-X can be counteracted by use of a specific SCP-001-A 
technique, SCP-001-Pickman-B. SCP-001-Pickman-B is a procedure 
which involves the following steps: 


¢ Location: Use of a Pickman-Sinclair Narrative Fluctuation 
Detector to locate a pocket of SCP-001-X. 

Isolation: Creating an area of stable SCP-001 around the 
SCP-001-X instance through use of narrative manipulation 
techniques such as gathering a large crowd of people to 
observe the process being undertaken. 

Ridicule: The pocket of SCP-001-X is ridiculed by vocalizing 
observations regarding the nonsensical nature of how it 
manifested, and how SCP-001 should have occurred in 
absence of the SCP-001-X instance. It has been observed 
that ridiculing SCP-001-X instances at higher volumes is more 
effective. 

Neutralization: After approximately five minutes, smaller 
SCP-001-X instances can be neutralized; larger SCP-001-X 
instances can take up to half an hour or longer to completely 
render inert. 


Neutralization of SCP-001-X instances causes a pain response in 
SCP-001; this discovery has led to the conclusion that SCP-001 
possesses some degree of sentience. 


Discovery: SCP-001 was first observed in Sloth's Pit, Wisconsin 
(known as Nx-18 within the Foundation), an anomalous Nexus 
monitored by Site-87. Isaiah Howard Pickman, an archivist at 
Site-87, observed several patterns of narrative causality within 
Sloth's Pit, and cataloged them over the course of fifteen years. 


When his work was discovered posthumously in December 2017 by 
Dr. Cassandra Pike, she began attempting to corroborate his 


findings, which largely revolved around the manifestation of quasi- 
fictional entities in town being preceded or triggered by events which 
followed narrative conventions. 


Dr. Tristan Bailey, a member of the Department of Multi-Universal 
Affairs, corroborated Pickman and Pike's findings with records of 
fluctuations in local reality compiled over the course of thirty years. 
With the aid of Dr. Katherine Sinclair, a thaumatologist, and Dr. 
Johnathan West, an anomalous item researcher, they were able to 
re-create the scenarios outlined by Pickman and create a device to 
detect changes in SCP-001, tentatively dubbed the Pickman-Sinclair 
Narrative Fluctuation Detector. 


[NOT FINISHED] 


"Well, you did say a/most finalized," Verhoten shook his head. 
"We've known of the whole 'god is a bunch of horror writers’ idea for 
years. What makes this different?" 


"Simple," West says. "We can't control them," He pointed at the 
ceiling, "but we can control this." He waved his hand around to the 
surroundings. "There's a difference between the Narrative and the 
Narrator. The people writing us are Narrators, but so are we." He 
twisted his hand in the air. "Sinclair's actually been able to pinpoint 
instances in which the narrative focus shifts away, if only briefly. You 
know what happens?" 


"What?" Verhoten asked. 


"Absolutely nothing. We keep existing, going about our lives, having 
conversations, and just... developing. Going on. That means that 
God isn't always paying attention, but we're still here regardless." He 
opened his hands. "We're real, Phil. We just live in a world where 
the laws of fiction are more powerful than the laws of gravity." 


"That would mean..." Verhoten frowned. "| don't know what that 
would mean." 


"| think that your book is gonna help you understand." West reached 
into his briefcase and took out a manuscript. "My submission for 


your book; | thought I'd give it to you in person. | typed it up in a few 
hours, so if it needs editing..." 


"I'm sure it'll be fine." Philip Verhoten looked over the first line of the 
paper. 
October 24th 


"| hate this holiday." Dr. Johnathan West cleaned egg off 
of the card-reader... 


|S & C Plastics Hub| 


Footnotes 

1. Archon-class anomalies are anomalies that are theoretically 
capable of being contained, but are not to be, due to the potentially 
disastrous effects on the continued existence of humanity. 


The Great Hippo's Proposal (feat. PeppersGhost): A 
Good Boy 


NOTE: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS FOR HISTORICAL 
REFERENCE ONLY. 


This file has been locked and archived. Information 
contained within may be inaccurate or fail to reflect the most 
recently available data. 


If you wish to edit this file or have any questions regarding 
its status, please contact the Records and Information 
Security Administration (RAISA) or email your IntSCPFN 
server administrator. 


— Maria Jones, RAISA Director 


litem #: SCP-001-EX cLevet 0/001 
Object Class: Explained Declassified 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-001 is to remain ina 
TEMPEST-certified’ chamber at Site-5. Four or more IntSCPFN2 
technicians are to be available on-site to provide technical support 
and perform daily maintenance on all wireless transmission 
components connected to SCP-001. All major Foundation areas, 
sites, and administration buildings are to maintain a minimum of two 
teleprinters connected to the IntSCPFN network for the 
dissemination of emergency bulletins and/or instructions regarding 
the prevention of containment breaches. Under no circumstances is 
SCP-001 to be deactivated or otherwise disconnected from 
IntSCPFN servers. 


Predictive anomaly reports produced by SCP-001 are to be 


forwarded to RAISA for analysis and review. A Level-4 RAISA officer 
is to be assigned to each report; this officer is to be responsible for 
evaluating the immediate threat presented by the predicted 

anomaly, producing a credible cover story to explain its discovery by 
the Foundation, and assigning a Containment Director3 to 
investigate, devise, and execute a containment strategy. All 
containment procedures suggested or produced by SCP-001 must 
receive approval from the majority of the O5 council. 


Description: SCP-001 is the ERZATZ Type AK9 Computational 
Engine‘ constructed by the Foundation in 1955. It was built to 
provide predictive analysis regarding the location and properties of 
undiscovered anomalies. It accomplishes this via use of a multi-layer 
perceptron? relying upon training datasets derived from the location 
and properties of previous anomalies. This application of a multi- 
layer perceptron as an effective predictive model was only made 
possible by an advanced backpropagation algorithm developed by 
several ex-employees of Prometheus Labs (acquired by the 
Foundation's Department of Analytics in 1951). 


In 1959, it was hypothesized that SCP-001 could be used to assist 
in augmenting containment procedures for Euclid- and Keter-class 
anomalies via the production of predictive text. SCP-001 was trained 
with a dataset containing drafts for several thousand containment 
procedures (both previous and current iterations), which were 
weighted on the basis of their performance (particularly in how well 
they performed in comparison to their predecessors). When 
adopted, revisions to containment procedures "suggested" by 
SCP-001 consistently reduce the rate of breaches not only for the 
anomalies to which they apply, but for numerous unrelated 
anomalies. In many cases, these revisions have also resulted in the 
cessation of anomalous behavior. 


Addendum 001.1: Documentation 


315D27 


ERZATZ PROPOSAL SUMMARY 


INPUT: 


SCP-1773's containment procedures. 


OUTPUT: 

"Once per second week dust may be 
placed in the middle of them to donate more 
beautiful functions of the hallway.” 


PROPOSAL: 

"Amend SCP-1773's containment 
procedures to include the placement of ten 
grams of dust in its container every two 
weeks." (05-01) 


COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY: 


YEA NAY ABSTAIN 
05-01 05-02 05-03 
05-04 05-13 
05-05 
05-06 
05-07 
05-08 
05-09 
05-10 
O5-11 
05-12 

STATUS 
APPROVED 


NOTES: 

No changes were noted in SCP-1773's 
behavior or properties. However, 
researchers responsible for SCP-1384 
reported that it took three steps backwards 
on 3:22 PM 15 February (the time 
SCP-1773's documentation was updated). 


111H43 


ERZATZ PROPOSAL SUMMARY 


INPUT: 
SCP-3034's containment procedures. 


OUTPUT: 

"No person who is a small shape and is 
only a child will be given a level one 
security clearance regardless of apparent 
awareness of foundation mismanagement." 


PROPOSAL: 

"Amend SCP-3034's containment 
procedures to explicitly ban children from 
the site." (05-04) 


COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY: 


ABSTAIN 
05-01 
05-03 
05-13 


05-09 
05-10 
05-11 
05-12 


SIATUS 
APPROVED 


NOTES: 
No changes noted. 


672C91 
ERZATZ PROPOSAL SUMMARY 


INPUT: 
None. 


OUTPUT: 

"Site-13 is to appear someplace else on 
planet, encompassing white male 
counterparts that drawn to empty 
flagstones and the gun noises in their own 
blood." 


PROPOSAL: 

As there is no evidence of a Site-13 ever 
having been constructed by the 
Foundation, the O5 Council was unable to 
infer any proposed action from this output. 


STATUS 
DENIED 


NOTES: 
Five days after this proposal was provided, 
SCP-1730 manifested. 


954E36 


ERZATZ PROPOSAL SUMMARY 


INPUT: 
SCP-2170's containment procedures. 


OUTPUT: 

"Those who equip open heart to love red 
mouth men never know the hot surprise of 
tumorous consent. Clown love, always." 


PROPOSAL: 

"Amend SCP-2170's containment 
procedures to exclude all personnel who do 
not have strong affections for clowns and 
clown-based media from making contact 


with the anomaly." (05-01) 


COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY: 


YEA NAY ABSTAIN 
05-01 05-02 
05-03 05-04 
05-07 05-05 
05-09 05-06 
05-10 05-08 
05-12 05-11 
05-13 

STATUS 
APPROVED 
NOTES: 


Personnel who exhibit positive 
associations with clowns and clown-based 
media were discovered to have heightened 
resistance against SCP-2170's anomalous 
properties. Additional research into clown- 
based memetic inoculation is pending. 


149B22 


ERZATZ PROPOSAL SUMMARY 


INPUT: 
None. 


OUTPUT: 

"| saw those soldiers built with aluminum 
innards extruding from their mouths. | saw 
them effectively destroyed by the humans 
at Site Ninety Five (95) who had been 
studying them. | saw it was cold and all 
around the hallways they just watching 
their corpses show signs of sapience." 


SCP-532 is coated in a chemical that reacts with the lipids of an 
exothermic organism's cell membranes to create an endothermic 
reaction. This simultaneously kills nearby tissue and provides a 
suitable temperature for SCP-532 to reproduce. Victims of SCP-532 
describe this in a similar manner to the cold felt when a snowflake 
makes contact with human skin. 


SCP-532 shows a tendency to break down and ingest the dermis, 
and will not enter the body until the surrounding dermis has been 
covered. SCP-532 will then enter the bloodstream, causing major 
damage to the circulatory system due to the freezing and 
subsequent crystallization of water molecules. Typically the victim 
will die of blood loss. 


Following the death of a host victim, SCP-532 will migrate back into 
the upper stratosphere. 


SCP-532 shows a 98% mortality rate if left untreated, 100% if 
SCP-532 is "caught on the tongue”. Treatment of victims of 
SCP-532 may be conducted through exposure to water heated to 
20°C or more; however, this results in massive tissue damage to 
affected areas. Extreme cases of SCP-532 infection may require 
amputation of affected limbs. 


« SCP-531 | SCP-532 | SCP-533 » 


PROPOSAL: 

“Double the number of active security 
personnel at Site-95. Place all on-site MTF 
squads on immediate stand-by." (05-05) 


COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY: 


YEA NAY ABSTAIN 
05-01 05-02 
05-03 05-08 
05-04 05-13 
05-05 
05-06 
05-07 
05-09 
05-10 
O5-11 
05-12 

STATUS 
APPROVED 


NOTES: 

Three days after approval, a platoon of 
paratech-augmented soldiers led by 
Insurgency agents attacked Site-95. The 
presence of additional on-site security 
personnel proved critical in repelling the 
assault. 


05 COUNCIL PROPOSAL SUMMARY 


PROPOSAL: 

"Establish a multi-site early warning 
system based upon ERTZATZ Type AKQ's 
ability to predict threats and containment 
breaches prior to their occurrence." (05-05) 


COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY: 


YEA NAY ABSTAIN 
05-03 05-01 
05-05 05-02 
05-06 05-04 
05-07 05-08 
05-10 05-09 
05-12 O5-T1 
05-13 

STATUS 
APPROVED 
NOTES: 


Three months after approval, the Multi-site 
Automated emergency Dispatch 
Assignment sYstem (MAYDAY) was 
established. It relies upon human 
interpretations of ERTZATZ Type AK9's 
predictive outputs regarding upcoming 
containment breaches to formulate 
preventative actions. 


229K36 


ERZATZ PROPOSAL SUMMARY 


INPUT: 
None. 


OUTPUT: