SCP-049

# SCP-049 - I Can Sense The Disease In You

## Essential Information

* Kills humans and resurrects dead bodies as SCP-049-2 instances.

## Description

SCP-049 is a humanoid entity, roughly 1.9 meters in height, which bears the appearance of a medieval plague doctor. While SCP-049 appears to be wearing the thick robes and the ceramic mask indicative of that profession, the garments instead seem to have grown out of SCP-049's body over time and are now nearly indistinguishable from whatever form is beneath them. X-rays indicate that despite this, SCP-049 does have a humanoid skeletal structure beneath its outer layer.

SCP-049 is capable of speech in a variety of languages, though tends to prefer English or medieval French. While SCP-049 is generally cordial and cooperative with Foundation staff, it can become especially irritated or at times outright aggressive if it feels that it is in the presence of what it calls the "Pestilence". Although the exact nature of this Pestilence is currently unknown to Foundation researchers, it does seem to be an issue of immense concern to SCP-049.

SCP-049 will become hostile with individuals it sees as being affected by the Pestilence, often having to be restrained should it encounter such. If left unchecked, SCP-049 will generally attempt to kill any such individual; SCP-049 is capable of causing all biological functions of an organism to cease through direct skin contact. How this occurs is currently unknown, and autopsies of SCP-049's victims have invariably been inconclusive. SCP-049 has expressed frustration or remorse after these killings, indicating that they have done little to kill "The Pestilence", though will usually seek to then perform a crude surgery on the corpse using the implements contained within a black doctor's bag it carries on its person at all times. While these surgeries are not always "successful", they often result in the creation of instances of SCP-049-2.

## SCP-049-2

SCP-049-2 instances are reanimated corpses that have been operated on by SCP-049. These instances do not seem to retain any of their prior memories or mental functions, having only basic motor skills and response mechanisms. While these instances are generally inactive, moving very little, and in a generally ambulatory fashion, they can become extremely aggressive if provoked, or if directed to by SCP-049. SCP-049-2 instances express active biological functions, though these are vastly different from currently understood human physiology. Despite these alterations, SCP-049 often remarks that the subjects have been "cured".

## Containment Procedures

SCP-049 is contained within a Standard Secure Humanoid Containment Cell in Research Sector-02 at Site-19. SCP-049 must be sedated before any attempts to transport it. During transport, SCP-049 must be secured within a Class III Humanoid Restriction Harness (including a locking collar and extension restraints) and monitored by no fewer than two armed guards.

While SCP-049 is generally cooperative with most Foundation personnel, outbursts or sudden changes in behavior are to be met with elevated force. Under no circumstances should any personnel come into direct contact with SCP-049 during these outbursts. In the event SCP-049 becomes aggressive, the application of lavender (*L. multifida*) has been shown to produce a calming effect on the entity. Once calmed, SCP-049 generally becomes compliant and will return to containment with little resistance.

To facilitate the ongoing containment of SCP-049, the entity is to be provided with the corpse of a recently deceased animal (typically a bovine or another large mammal) once every two weeks for study. Corpses that become instances of SCP-049-2 are to be removed from SCP-049's containment cell and incinerated. SCP-049 is only to be permitted interactions with human subjects for research purposes, and requests for human subjects are to be decided by O4 Council Member Jacobs.

### Temporary Containment Procedure Update

SCP-049 is no longer permitted to experiment on corpses for short time due to our supply of corpses running out.

### Addendum 049.1: Discovery

SCP-049 was discovered during the investigation of a series of unknown disappearances in the town of Montauban in southern France. During a raid on a local home, investigators found several instances of SCP-049-2, as well as SCP-049. While law enforcement personnel engaged the hostile 049-2 instances, SCP-049 was noted as watching the engagement and taking notes in its journal. After all of the 049-2 instances were dispatched, SCP-049 willingly entered Foundation custody.

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Foreword: SCP-049 randomly began speaking with no obvious provocation en route to a testing facility. Dr. [REDACTED] was recording notes at the time on a handheld microphone. Irrelevant data has been omitted.

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[BEGIN LOG]

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Date: [REDACTED]

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Interviewed: SCP-049

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Interviewer: Dr. [REDACTED]

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SCP-049: What is this place?

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Dr. [REDACTED]: What? It's a lab... *There is a loud crash from Dr. [REDACTED] dropping the recording device in shock*

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SCP-049: A laboratory? It is quite marvelous. I now find it no wonder I've seen so few victims of the disease here.

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Dr. [REDACTED]: You see, I'd thought you incapable of speech.  I'm somewhat startled you, uh, can.

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SCP-049: Oh, my, yes, Good sir. I simply prefer not to. Most victims of the disease are quite melancholy and do not react well to conversation. I have seen you several times now and have not detected the disease in you. Therefore, I assume you are also a doctor?

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Dr. [REDACTED]: Yes actually. Call me [REDACTED]. But, what disease are you talking about?

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SCP-049: Why, good doctor, the Great Pestilence. What else?

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Dr. [REDACTED]: Great pest- Oh, the plague! I should have seen that coming. But, no one here is infected and I can assure you.

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SCP-049: Good doctor, I can assure YOU, the pestilence IS here, and I can sense it. It is my duty in life to rid the world of it. My cure is most effective.

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Dr. [REDACTED]: Your "cure"? Your "Cure" has cost us hundreds of lives! Your cure is faulty!

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SCP-049: Good doctor, My cure is most effective.

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Dr. [REDACTED]: Explain how it is effective!

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SCP-049: *No Response*

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Dr. [REDACTED]: Answer me!

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Dr. [REDACTED: Dr. [DATA EXPUNGED] acknowledges authorized personnel to report to Lab 15A immediately. This interview is over. The subject refuses to speak and will now be placed back into containment.

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[END LOG]

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The following interview was conducted by Dr. Raymond Hamm during the initial investigation.

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Interviewer: Dr. Raymond Hamm, Site-85

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Interviewee: SCP-049

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[BEGIN LOG]

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SCP-049: (In French) So then, how should we begin? An introduction?

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Dr. Hamm: (Aside) Is that French? Can we get a translator-

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SCP-049: (In English) The King's English! No need for translation, sir, I can speak it well enough.

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Dr. Hamm: Good. My name is Dr. Raymond Hamm, and I-

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SCP-049: Ah! A doctor! A like-minded individual, no doubt. Wherein is your specialty, sir?

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Dr. Hamm: Cryptobiology, why-

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SCP-049: (Laughs) A medical man, such as myself. Wonders abound! And here I worried I had been abducted by common street thugs! (Looks around the room) This place, then. This is your laboratory? I had wondered, as clean as it is, and with such little trace of the Pestilence here.

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Dr. Hamm: The Pestilence? What do you mean?

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SCP-049: The Scourge! The Great Dying. Come now, you know, the, uh… (taps temple furiously) …what is it they call it, the… the… ah, no matter. The Pestilence, yes. It abounds outside these walls, you know. So many have succumbed, and many more will continue to until a perfect cure can be developed. (Leans back in its chair) Fortunately, I am very close. It is my duty in life to rid the world of it, you see. The Cure To End All Cures!

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Dr. Hamm: When you say "The Great Dying", are you talking about the bubonic plague?

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SCP-049: (Pauses) I don't know what that is.

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Dr. Hamm: I see. Right, well, the entities our agents encountered at that house, they were dead when you encountered them, yes? And you reanimated them?

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SCP-049: Hrmm. You see things too simply, doctor! Expand your horizons. Life and death, sickness and health, these are amateur terms for amateur physicians. There is only one ailment that exists in the world of men, and that is the Pestilence. And nothing else! Make no mistake, they were very ill, all of them.

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Dr. Hamm: You think you cured those people?

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SCP-049: Indeed. My cure is most effective.

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Dr. Hamm: The things we recovered were not human.

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SCP-049: (Pauses and glares at Dr. Hamm) Yes, well, it is not a perfect cure. But that will come with time. And further experimentation! I have spent a lifetime developing my methods, Dr. Hamm, and will spend a lifetime more, if necessary. Now, we have wasted too much time. There is work to do! I will require a laboratory of my own, one where I can continue my research unimpeded. And assistants, of course, though I can provide those on my own, in time. (Laughs)

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Dr. Hamm: I don't think our organization will be willing to-

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SCP-049: Nonsense. We are all men of science. Fetch your coat and show me to my quarters, doctor. (Gestures with pointed stick) Our work begins now!

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[END LOG]

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*Interviewer's Note: While SCP-049 is capable of communicating in a very human way, there is a strange sense of unease that one experiences when in its presence. Make no mistake, there is something very uncanny about this entity indeed.*

*Additionally, we've confiscated that pointed stick that SCP-049 keeps waving around. Part of this was due to standard confiscation protocols for the possessions of anomalies, and part because 049 is a menace swinging it around as he does. The entity was displeased at first, but after we made some concessions in providing it with "test subjects" (which are, admittedly, more for the benefit of our research) it warmed up to the idea.*

### Addendum 049.2: Observation Log

While in containment at Site-19, SCP-049 has spent a considerable amount of time studying and performing surgery on the various mammalian corpses it has been provided. SCP-049 will routinely spend several days performing surgery, and then (regardless of whether or not the corpse becomes an instance of SCP-049-2) spending several more days documenting its findings in a thick leather journal stored within its doctor's bag. SCP-049 will often seek to share its findings with members of Foundation staff.

The following is a log of several occasions during which SCP-049 was observed operating on a mammalian corpse.

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Observational Log 049. OL.1 SUMMARY

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Subject: SCP-049

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Preface: A test subject (D-85123) was introduced into SCP-049's containment cell. The entity expressed sincere gratitude towards all members of the containment and research staff.

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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. Afterward, SCP-049 made several 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.

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The resulting 049-2 instance became animated, flailing and grasping at the walls of the chamber with several 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.

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Observational Log 049. OL.2 SUMMARY

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Subject: SCP-049

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

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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."

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Observational Log 049. OL.3 SUMMARY

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Subject: SCP-049

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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.

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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 "I have learned so much from this, though I fear my early optimism was misplaced. I hadn’t yet come across such… a stumbling block on my road to the cure. More subjects like this would do a great deal in advancing my research."

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Observational Log 049.OL.7 FULL

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Subject: SCP-049

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Preface: SCP-049 was provided the corpse of a recently deceased bovine. SCP-049 expressed mild annoyance at the provision, though accepted it nonetheless.

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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 several long syringes from its bag, each containing a different dark, viscous fluid. SCP-049 described these fluids as "essences of the humor", 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 humor in balance, or the body will reject the cure."

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Over the next few days, SCP-049 spent a considerable amount of time adjusting the organs of the bovine corpse with several 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.
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Follow Up Interview

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[BEGIN LOG]

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

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SCP-049: Oh goodness no, the process is most intensive. As I said to your assistant, the best instruction you will find about my methods are here in my journals, as I have kept exhaustive records of my work7 there.

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Dr. Hamm: I see. My concern, doctor, is that we still don't understand what you're seeking to cure, how it manifests, or how turning these creatures into quasi-living, mindless drones helps in that effort.

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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. I 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 judgment, I fear, to be at the mercy of a disease you cannot fully comprehend!

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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. I 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. I think the entity may be more aware of the reality of these outcomes than it would like us to think.

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### Addendum 049.3: 04/16/2017 Incident

Starting shortly after SCP-049's initial containment, Dr. Hamm conducted several 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 several months, during which SCP-049 never exhibited any aggressive behaviors.

behaviors6th, 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.

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Interviewer: Dr. Theron Sherman, Site-42

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Interviewee: SCP-049

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[BEGIN LOG]

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Dr. Sherman: I need you to explain yourself.

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

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

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

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

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Dr. Sherman: Cured? Cured of what?

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

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Dr. Sherman: (Interrupting) 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?

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SCP-049: He… (pauses) 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 I did to him. He is cured.

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Dr. Sherman: He is a vegetable!

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

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Dr. Sherman: Your cure cost Ray his life!

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

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

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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 I… (breath catches) I cured him. I am the only one who can do this. My work must continue, there is so much still to learn, so much to-

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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.

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SCP-049: -do, and others can be saved! Even you, though you do not deserve it, might be saved! I can save them all! I can cast down this plague, once and for all. I can do this! Only me! I… I… (labored breathing) I saved… I saved him… Dr. Hamm, I… I cured him… he was sick, I know he was sick, I know he was, and I… you are all sick, but I… I can save you. I can save all of you because I… I am the cure.

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### 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.

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Interviewer: Dr. Elijah Itkin

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Interviewee: SCP-049

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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?

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SCP-049: Only that I look forward to the day when you will allow me to resume my work! I 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 I nearly couldn't detect it.

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

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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.

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

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

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Dr. Itkin: I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed.

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SCP-049: (Laughs) Oh doctor, I wouldn't be so sure.

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The following interviews (1-2) are classified as Level 5 and above. Upon clarification, of the SCP Foundation, clearance has been given to personnel of Level 5 or higher to ask it a question. For reasons, the purpose of this project is to understand more about its understanding of the plague and its objective. Inquiry of subject-related personnel of Level 5 to the disclosure of information from SCP-049 has been authorized.

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[REDACTED]: What did you say to 035 and why?

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SCP-049: 035? Is that what you call him? Well... What is it you say when you interact with any old friend of yours? Idle chat. He makes for better conversation than my patients or that stuffed bear. Anyhow, I've been around for a long while, and so has he. It's hard to find someone you can communicate with intellectually, especially with the isolation of my current situation. He's a friend. I have those, believe it or not.

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[REDACTED]: Have you interacted with other SCPs?

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SCP-049: Not to any extent. I think you are quite aware of the lack of conversation they all share.

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[REDACTED]: Explain this "Pestilence" and the "Cure" you claim to have...

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SCP-049: So many questions about the "Pestilence..." so many assumptions of the relevance to the 'Black Plague...' You inquire so often of the beast that you've spent your entire life staring down. The snarling and snapping jaws that could leap and steal your breath at any given instance... The "Pestilence" I examine is human mortality. The fleshy weakness of your skin. The cure I provide lends this fragile shell to the eternity of life after death. Safe from the poor decisions, humanity is prone to. But in its ignorance, humanity is much like a child, cringing away from the sting of a needle's breach, and the curing vaccine it provides. Like a child, humanity fears the sting of my cure, and would rather wither and decay at the hands of an unpredictable contagion. To fear a disease is simple enough, but to fear its cure is ignorance... and fear is a pestilence even I cannot cure.

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[REDACTED]: Is the "Great Pestilence" of which you are referring to the Bubonic Plague or Death in general?

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SCP-049: By my knowledge, you know the plague very well. The one you call bubonic is merely a symptom of a much larger pestilence. For me to answer a question you know the answer to all too well... would be merely gratuitous.

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[REDACTED]: What are the symptoms of the 'Plague' as you call it?

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SCP-049: It seems a symptom of almost pure irony would be ignorance. You're counterintuitive behavior slotted against your overwhelming fears. It's a strange phenomenon I've grown great enjoyment out of observing.

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[REDACTED]: When did the plague start?

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SCP-049: It's always been here... I've always been here, alongside it... fighting a battle long since misunderstood. I wouldn't expect you to understand.

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[REDACTED]: Who was your first test subject?

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SCP-049: There was no first... It's all an endless cycle of time and existence, doctor... I urge you, to do your research on the theory of an oscillatory universe, I'm sure you will find it very intriguing

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[REDACTED]: There's a certain type of disease that is quarantined in our facilities known as SCP008 or the 'Zombie Plague' It seems to be something you've been using to animate people there are some doubts. Is this the 'Great Pestilence' you were talking about?

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SCP-049: (Pauses) Hardly, The Great Pestilence has taken the breath from the lungs of many more.

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[REDACTED]: Does your cure work on, or help other SCPS?

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SCP-049: The SCPS as you call them? are something beyond your understanding... But that's what humans do, isn't it? 'Secure' is something they don't even begin to understand.

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[REDACTED]: Is the 'Great Pestilence' you secretly speak of 'Ebola'?

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SCP-049: (Pauses again) I would say yes... but I'm afraid the sarcasm would surpass you.

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[REDACTED]: What do you think of the other Doctors?

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SCP-049: The only other doctor I've seen as of late is you. But in my past... I suppose I've had my share of intelligent interaction with men of science. Nothing too relatable, but it helps to pass the time.

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[REDACTED]: What's the connection between you and SCP610?

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SCP-049: There's no connection... I'm well aware that it exists.

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[REDACTED]: What lies under the mask?

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SCP-049: What lies under your mask, Doctor? The plastered being you present yourself to others as. The facade you cloak yourself in... afraid of the monster within... your inner beast. One of many... some aren't afraid to show. (It is assumed this is a form of bluntness.)

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[REDACTED]: Are you able to remove the Plague mask?

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SCP-049: I could. But I've come to enjoy this form... I might keep it.

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[REDACTED]: Where did you come from?

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SCP-049: I come from the beginning and the end...

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[REDACTED]: How were you captured?

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SCP-049: (Doesn't respond for a few seconds) Captured? Implying that I was captured is to also imply I was trying to evade. I was curious upon arrival in this place, Yes. But no longer. I feel the pestilence surge like the pulse of a giant beast... yes... the wave of it. Like a crashing tide... I digress... To say I was captured would be to imply I'm being detained. I might play along, but I can roam as I please, shall the urge arise... As I've made very apparent.

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[REDACTED]: Do you speak any other languages?

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SCP-049: I communicate how your human brain assumes I will sound. Beyond that, my native tongue is beyond your comprehension.

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[REDACTED]: Are there any other SCP doctors like you?

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SCP-049: There is no one like me, Doctor. (Chuckles Slightly)

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[REDACTED]: Studies indicate that you don't sleep or indeed eat. How?

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SCP-049: My body isn't frail and needy like yours. My existence is merely what I allow you to perceive. Nothing less... nothing more.

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[REDACTED]: What are you afraid of? If anything.

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SCP-049: I have little time for fear. Its primitive nature provides nothing but a distraction to my work...

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[REDACTED]: What are your thoughts on Penicillin?

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SCP-049: Penicillin? Mmmm... I guess it's useful.

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[REDACTED]: What is your name?

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SCP-049: Oh Doctor, call me what you like. I've had many names. In many, many languages.

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[REDACTED]: Are you immortal?

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SCP-049: (Chuckles loudly then gasps) Don't be silly Doctor...

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[REDACTED]: How old are you?

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SCP-049: [Doesn't Respond]

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[END LOG]

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AFTERMATH

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O4 Member Jacobs: So... What do you think?

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Dr. Fox: I don't know... a lot of it just doesn't feel right to me...

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O4 Member Jacobs: What do you mean?

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Dr. Fox: Think about it. The black robes... The polite eloquence of his speech... His touch... I know... It all sounds... familiar to me...

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O4 Member Jacobs: You aren't saying what I think you're saying... are you?

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Dr. Fox: Like I said... I don't know.

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[SCP-049 Looks Up and Stares Through The Window Where Fox and Jacobs are located. It is assumed it overheard their conversation.]

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Jacobs was not satisfied with the results the previous interview has given The Foundation to work with. Another interview was conducted exactly 98 hours after the results were given.

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BEFORE INTERVIEW

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Jacobs: I don't know how I'm going to do this without you. Their eyes are on me now. You were my greatest ally. I must admit... I have a newfound respect for the position you were in. I'll tell you everything you need to know once you... if... if you return. (WHISPERING) I wish there was some way-

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[DOOR OPENS]

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Jacobs: Sir! you are never to enter my office without announcing your!-

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GUARD: I'm sorry sir! But you asked me to inform you when we're ready! And... well... It is awaiting your presence.

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Jacobs: You informed him I was coming?

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GUARD: He REQUESTED you, sir.

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Jacobs: Quite right. Thank you.

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[GUARD LEAVES]

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Jacobs: What was your secret? [Picks up the security access card and clipboard, then gets up and leaves to 049's cell]

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Jacobs: Looks like your next.

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[SCP-049 looks at Jacobs]

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# Memo for eyes of O5 Members Only

Interviewing guidelines surrounding SCP-049 have been temporarily nullified. O4 Council Member Jacobs at the Bridge Site has been granted special permission to carry out a one-on-one interview with 049 given a prior history between the pair. As a result of Foundation resources being utilized in the transport to and functioning of Site - C2, security personnel will be reduced and must not respond to priority calls not about Site-C2's establishment. Sites that will have personnel cut are as follows: - Bridge Site

End Transmission

Note: During the time of the following interview, the subtitle writer had been killed during an escape attempt/containment breach of SCP-682 twenty-nine (29) hours before the interview. This log does not have subtitles.

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049\_05\_Access\_Log\_02.mp3

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SCP-049 along with other Safe-Euclid-Keter SCPs in Bridge Site were transported to Site C2 at 0900 hours on July 28th, 2018. D-Class personnel rostered for use at the new Site were transported at 1400 hours. Final containment procedures for subjects and prisoners began at 1200 hours on July 29th, 2018. At approximately 1842 hours, a containment breach was reported at Site C-2. Nuclear countermeasures could not be activated. MTF units were dispatched to secure the perimeter of Site C-2 until the emergency threat level has lowered. Subtitle writer of all previous 049 logs killed by 682. No contact within the structure has been made. Incursion threat: possible. The time is currently 0210 hours, July 30th, 2016.

## Notes

1. Due to his ability to create new SCPs (049-2), object 049 can reverse the SCP Foundation: Anomaly Termination Board, sometimes into the negatives.
2. 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.
3. The entity claims to have originated in 15th century France, though admits that it is "particularly well-traveled".
4. 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 to operate on deceased subjects.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. SCP-049 added to this statement by saying "This is, of course, elementary knowledge for the practicing physician. I would have thought you would have learned this during your education!"
8. Notably, SCP-049's journals are not written in any known language, and attempts by linguists and attempts to decipher them have been unsuccessful.