SCP-5167-Z

## **`DESCRIPTION`**

SCP-5167-Z is an anomalous server hosting a copy of the popular online multiplayer game Among Us, which has had numerous modifications to its code, similar to that which is provided by the 'Town of Us' mod for the game. Like the mod, the anomalous server creates a number of new roles and abilities to the core game. However, unlike its non anomalous counterpart, no actual game host is ever able to be located. Instead, the game appears in place of the original, on a random player's system and can occur in any place where the game is able to be played.

Once booted up, SCP-5167-Z's second anomalous effect will take place. The original point of contact, as well as the fourteen other nearest players will be instantly translocated to the nearest area of at least 38.4 m x 38.4 m (126 ft x 126 ft) that is unobserved by human eyes at the moment of transportation.

Once the selected individuals have arrived at the location, they will take on a number of roles from a preset list, making up eleven 'crew' roles, two 'imposter' roles and two 'neutral roles'. The individuals will then gain the ability to utilize whatever skill corresponds to the in-game role, with a few minor differences, and an innate knowledge of how to use the skills.

The individuals will act in the service of their role regardless of moral or personal stances. Impostors seem able to identify each other innately, but no other role has a similar foreknowledge of others' standing. Only once a game has resolved, with either a greater number of impostors than any other role, a neutral role that has achieved its win condition, or no impostors remaining, do all survivors return to their original state. Only certain roles beside 'impostors' have the ability to kill.

The participants seem unwilling or unable to leave a set area mapped by the Foundation through trial and error. They can however be removed by force and, after being detained for approximately 48 hours, the effects subside. The participants are also able to call 'meetings', held in the center of the 'map'. Based on votes written on paper that itself materializes from an unknown place, one player will be 'voted out'. At which point, they vanish, except for in the case of an individual with the 'Jester' role. No individual who has vanished has ever been recovered. If a win condition is met while members of any opposing side still live, all remaining parties seem to remain alive with no ill effects.

SCP-5167-Z came to the Foundation's attention when reports of children disturbing the peace were reported and a local store's video feed showed the individuals materializing out of thin air. When the Foundation arrived, there was only one survivor, who was in a state of shock. They reported playing 'Among Us', before being teleported from their home and forced to carry out a very real version of the game. The individual committed {REDACTED} after being left alone for a few moments, before they could be amnesticized. A cover story was provided to the family of a runaway child and the body cremated.

The roles and their effects are listed below:

* CREWMATES
	+ Engineer: Improved electrical expertise.
	+ Medic: Can protect one person by rendering them indestructible, while the medic lives.
	+ Sheriff: Can kill outside of meetings. Dies if they kill an innocent person.
	+ Spy: Identified as Impostor by the true Impostors
	+ Swapper: Switch two people’s positions during a meeting.
	+ Detective: Can see people’s footprints in different colors.
	+ Bait: If killed, an alarm sounds, drawing everyone to the location.
	+ Medium: Knows when deaths occur.
	+ Vigilante: Can kill anyone once per game.
	+ Transporter: Can swap locations of two people.
	+ Mayor: Vote counts twice.
* IMPOSTORS
	+ Janitor: Vanish dead bodies.
	+ Morphling: Become other people.
	+ Swooper: Invisibility
	+ Escapist: Teleportation
	+ Bomber: Plant bombs.
	+ Traitor: A crewmate becomes the enemy after all but 1 other Impostor dies
	+ Blackmailer: Silence a nearby target
* NEUTRAL
	+ Glitch: Can mimic another person. Can prevent one person from doing anything but walk around. Prevents the imposters' win conditions while they still live.
	+ Jester: If they get voted out during a meeting, the game's over and the Jester wins.
	+ Vulture: The Vulture must eat a specified number of corpses.
	+ Executioner: Gets a target and wins if they get them voted out.
	+ Pestilence: Can infect others within their reach. If all are infected, they die all at once and Pestilence wins.

## **`CONTAINMENT`**

Foundation web-crawlers are to monitor online communities for mentions of potential SCP-5167-Z sightings. In cases where these sightings are confirmed, all direct witnesses are to be apprehended and all secondary evidence removed from the platform in question.

Apprehended witnesses are to be held until symptoms of SCP-5167-Z abate, and are then to be amnesticized and released under a standard 'mental breakdown' cover story.