SCP-006 V1

**Item #:** SCP-006

**Object Class:** Safe

**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-006 is to be kept in a locked chamber with floor space size-appropriate for an average human male to lay flat in any given position. Only Level 3 or higher staff are permitted to engage in test studies. Only D-Class personnel are currently permitted to handle SCP-006 directly, and only under orders from a Level 3 or higher staff member.

Testing has been suspended as of 02/07/1994 while investigations continue regarding instances of SCP-006-1.

**Description:** SCP-006 is an 18cm tall sculpture of a stepped tower or ziggurat carved from near-black carnelian, and comprised of 6 concentric circles decreasing progressively in girth as the tower rises from a base circumference of 20cm. SCP-006 was unearthed during archaeological work performed by French excavation teams at the Royal Palace of Mari, Syria in 1971. An Amorite message is carved to circle around the base of the tower, translated in the archaeological journal of ██████ ████████ as a message describing SCP-006 as a gift from Warassa, king of Eshnunna, to Zimri-Adad, king of Mari who reigned c. 1775 to 1761 BCE.

SCP-006 is inert and unremarkable, its anomalous properties only becoming apparent in the moments before testing is due to begin. During nine test instances thus far between 1985 and 1994, upon being about to be grasped by an unprotected hand of a staff member, a sleeping person has appeared in clear sight of all testing staff, SCP-006 having moved from its place of rest to being held by the sleeper. One person (Classified as SCP-006-1-4) has also appeared within Site ██ outwith testing, and upon investigation, SCP-006 was found to have been removed from storage and transported to the floor of General Testing Room 6.

These people will be henceforth collectively referred to as SCP-006-1, differentiated by numbers 1 through 9, in order of their appearance at Site ██. Instances of SCP-006-1 differ physically, but all were wearing a variety of SCP Foundation uniform when they appeared. 1, 2 and 4 presented wearing a laboratory uniform, identical to that worn by official staff members apart from lacking a name badge. 3 presented wearing a uniform appropriate for general security staff, again identical save for a name badge. Entities 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 appeared wearing D-Class uniforms. The uniform worn by an instance of SCP-006-1 has thus far always matched the that of the personnel class scheduled to test SCP-006 before it appears.

Upon waking 1, 2, 3 and 4 displayed extensive knowledge of the layout of, and staff working at, Site ██, despite no one matching their names or physical descriptions ever being recorded to have worked there. D-Class instances 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 display less thorough knowledge, but can name the staff members they cite as their supervisors. Again, no D-Class personnel matching their names or descriptions have ever been assigned to Site ██.

None of 1 through 9 admit to any recollection of having grasped SCP-006, nor can any of them describe its appearance.

1, 2, 3 and 4 adhere to firm beliefs that they have worked at Site ██ for 2 years, 5 years, 7 months and 3.5 years respectively. 1, 2, and 4 are adamant that offices already belonging to long term staff members are in fact their own workplaces.

During early questioning, all instances of SCP-006-1 displayed confusion and aggression at being told they were unknown to all staff and apparent off-site family and friends. All continue to make numerous attempts to verify their identity, including attempts to find non-existent identification like Site ID cards, drivers licences and old family photographs when permitted to leave Site ██ under the protection of security staff. Further questioning reveals entire invented life histories complete with awareness of recent historical events, and in the case of instances 1 - 4, knowledge of other SCP items and entities.

## **Addendum:**

Attached is a transcript excerpt of the first interview with SCP-006-1-1.

```
**Dr. ████████** - What is your name?

**SCP-006-1-1** - (speaking slowly) I told you numerous times; Alastair Hamilton. And your name is ██████ ████████. And his name over there is ████████ ██████. Now that's enough of this joke ██████, I'm not exactly in the mood for it.

**Dr. ████████** - And how do you know our names?

**SCP-006-1-1** - Because. I. Work. Here. We've worked in the same office for almost 2 years now ██████, is your memory failing you? Is everyone's memory failing them today?!

**Dr. ████████** - And it's nothing to do with my name badge? That you know my name?

**SCP-006-1-1** - No, it isn't. It's also nothing to do with your badge that I know your middle name is ██████, or that you're forty-three! Or that your wifes name is ████! Or that you grew up in ██████, ████████████!! Wait! Wait a minute, I know...

[Movement is heard as the assigned security officer unholsters his firearm when  SCP-006-1-1 reaches into a pocket of his lab coat]

**SCP-006-1-1** - Don't joke around with that thing ████████. Only getting my wallet. Now. Ha! Here, I look forward to see- [pause] Where are my cards? My ID? In fact, where is everything? Who was in my wallet when I was asleep?!

**Dr. ████████** - I can assure you that you weren't disturbed at all, and nothing was removed from your person between your appearing before us in the Testing Room and right now as you sit before me.

[SCP-006-1-1 waves the wallet around]

**SCP-006-1-1** - Well evidently not! Wait... is this how it's done? Is this how the Foundation fires people? In stages? Today no one knows who I am, and tomorrow I wake up and my whole experience here was a dream, something like that? Is that it?

**Dr. ████████** - Please calm down. We've no ill intentions towards you, we want answers just as much as you do. And we can't fire you Mr. Hamilton, you were never an employee here, or, as far as we have been able to establish, anywhere.

```

## Footnotes:

1. ↑ This is considered a translation error, as historians agree that the king of Mari during this period (and contemporary of Warassa) was Zimri-Lim, noted in many tablets and artifacts regarding the ancient history of the site.
2. ↑ Medical tests performed on SCP-XXXX-1-1 through -9 revealed they are human, with no physical or mental abnormalities of note.